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| {color:#ff0000}S10 3.16.4 To be eligible as a World Record, the performance must have been recognized as a National record by the NAC concerned{color} |
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| World Microlight and Paramotor record claims from NACs have a particularly poor history of being rejected by FAI. The *only* check on this is the fact that all claims must be ratified as a national record first. If this requirement is removed then it essentially opens a floodgate of claims to FAI which won't have been checked properly, and they will either be accepted by FAI, potentially devaluing all records, or create a terrible lot of extra and unnecessary work for Secretariat in having to refer these unchecked claims back to the submitting NAC. |
| There are other, more subtle consequences too. It allows NACs to relax their checking of National record claims. This means that a pilot could have the record X ratified as a national record to some lesser standard which causes it to fail as a World claim, but it can safely still stand as a national record. |
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| In the first instance, if that national record exceeds the world record this won't stop the holder claiming 'world record' even though it is not (most people will still believe it is). This devalues FAI's authority as 'keeper of World records'. |
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| In the second instance, The same NAC can now file a later World claim less than national record X but exceeding the current World Record. This makes a real muddle of that NACs National and World records and was previously the 'check' which meant it couldn't be done at least without some embarrasment and back-peddaling internal to the NAC, now it can. |
| This proposal therefore moves the deleted section of the GS into S10 and the current integrity of microlight and paramotor World records is preserved. |