Yes, but a "sporting licence" is a bit moire like an "artistic licence" and a "driving licence" - it is evidence that a person has paid a "licence fee" to someone (in this case the FAI or its delegate) in order to be allowed to ENTER a competition organised and endorsed by the FAI. It may be used as evidence of nationality, though it does not require any proof of this, and only for the purpose of WHICH FAI affiliate the pilot claims the nationality for.
Further, you must be a member of the FAI affiliate for the country you claim to represent in order to be issued this "licence", so you cannot validly claim to represent more than one country - and the FAI will not recognise more than one affiliate per country, so perpetuating the monopolistic nature of international sport. [This is also the reason why there are more than one World Champion in sports such as boxing, where two bodies each claim to represent the sport at an international level. Presumably the Olympic movement only recognises one of these international bodies for each sport!] This does mean that a non-member of the IGC affiliate in each FAI (UN) country (since the FAI affiliated itself to the UN) is not eligible to represent his ort her country in international gliding competition, nor in FAI-recognised National Championships. This is where the SSA may fall foul of the international body, though most countries do not have the same legal nexus as we have in Australia between the body that nominally administers gliding for the aviation regulator in that country and the FAI member body that administers sporting aspects of gliding. Wombat At 13:04 13/06/2007, you wrote: >Tim Shirley wrote: > > When seeking to provide insurance cover to competition officials, GFA > > and OAMPS also made use of the existing Sporting Licence structure to > > make this possible without imposing a separate accreditation process for > > competition pilots. This saved competition pilots the cost and > > administrative burden of any approach that required extra paperwork. > > >I must admit to some issues with using the sporting licence for this - >as 'accreditation' seems (from the discussions I have had) to really >equate to pilot competency. Whilst the FAI licence implies a 'notional' >competency (you need to get the application signed by your CFI first >time around), there is absolutely no requirement to have the CFI >involved in any renewal. Furthermore, there are many CFIs out there who >rarely (if ever) fly in competitions - so how are they to judge competency? > >Given this, I really doubt that the requirement for an FAI licence >actually does much at all to guarantee pilot competency at the >competition level. > > >-- >Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] >+61 (0)438 385 533 http://www.hart.wattle.id.au > > >_______________________________________________ >Aus-soaring mailing list >[email protected] >To check or change subscription details, visit: >http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
