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Proposal from
Barney TOWNSEND (GBR)
Proposal title
17 - Removal of paramotor slalom tasks from classic catalogue
Existing text
S.10 Annex 4:
3.C6 PRECISION CIRCUIT IN THE SHORTEST TIME ('Clover Leaf Slalom')
3.C7 PRECISION CIRCUIT IN THE SHORTEST TIME ('Japanese Slalom')
3.C8 PRECISION CIRCUIT IN THE SHORTEST TIME ('Chinese Slalom')
3.C10 ROUND THE TRIANGLE
3.C11 THE EIGHT
(titles only included here for brevity)
New text
3.C6 PRECISION CIRCUIT IN THE SHORTEST TIME ('Clover Leaf Slalom')
3.C7 PRECISION CIRCUIT IN THE SHORTEST TIME ('Japanese Slalom')
3.C8 PRECISION CIRCUIT IN THE SHORTEST TIME ('Chinese Slalom')
3.C10 ROUND THE TRIANGLE
3.C11 THE EIGHT
(removal of all of these tasks from the catalogue)
Reason
There were significant and valid concerns raised by a number of teams in advance of EPC2017 regarding flying of slalom tasks over land, with the result that the CIMA Paramotor Subcommittee and the Bureau made a recommendation to the organisers to remove these tasks from their catalogue.
It is clear that pilots do not want to fly these kind of tasks over land any more, using current highly specialised wings. An alternative solution that has been proposed is to mandate that these tasks to be flown over water only (as with pure slalom competitions), but this makes classic championships difficult to organise, and it still encourages pilots to train for these tasks over land at home, where water sites are not available, and so it does not really reduce the safety risk.
This proposal is for the temporary removal of these types of tasks from the catalogue until such time as new, safer precision tasks can be tested and proposed.