This is the second Bulletin for all FAI members concerning the 3^rd Junior and 4^th World Class World Gliding Championships. The first bulletin for Junior WGC has been published in November 2002. The first bulletin for World Class WGC have been published in January 2003.

The FAI Officials for the championships has been appointed by IGC on regular IGC plenary meeting in Prague. The appointed persons are as follows:

President Alfred Gai, GER

Member Jaroslav Vach, CZE

Member Tadeas Wala, SVK

Chief Steward Bob Bickers, GBR

Steward Denis Flament, FRA

• maximum number of gliders in the class - 50
• maximum number of gliders in all classes - 120

Aeroklub Nitra

Dlha 108

94907 Nitra

SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Tel.: +421 37 7334805, +421 37 6561251

Fax: +421 37 7334805

E-mail: info@nitra2003.sk

Please, note that according to FAI rules entries can be accepted only from the NAC on the official entry forms. Please send the final entries, using the form enclosed with this bulletin, to reach us by March 31, 2003. Please fill in the form with CAPITAL LETTERS only. Placing the Pilots/Team Captains name on our web site in the Competitors menu will mean the confirmation of acceptance of the entry. We kindly ask you for pointing out misspellings of your names if some occurs.

Each entry will be accepted after hard copy entry form has been received and the entry fee (see below) has been credited to the account of the Aeroklub Nitra.

The entry fee is 399 EUR (14% increase due to inflation) per participating glider and covers all operational costs during the Championships except aero tows.

The entry fee must be paid in full by bank transfer to:

Number of account: 0232058148

Bank Code: 0900

Swift Code: GIBASKBX

Aerotow fee is 22 EUR.

Landing fee for self-launching gliders is 5 EUR.

The organiser will require paying for 10 aerotows/landings in advance to the staff at the contest site. This payment together with all camping and accommodation fees (if applicable) have to be done by Friday 4^th of July 2003, 6 PM at the latest and before the start of first training flight. Aerotow/landing fees if unused will be refunded.

Camping fee is 150 EUR and it applies to the World Class only. Camping fee for junior pilots is free of charge.

The organiser is offering some simple kind accommodation at the airport. The rooms and bungalows have not any water installations and toilets. There will be enough toilets and showers available at the site in the main building and in the camping area. The accommodation possibilities at the airport are as follows:

Bungalow (up to 4 beds) 16 EUR per day

Room at the building (up to 4 beds) 24 EUR per day

For more comfort the list of hotels is attached to this bulletin. All accommodation possibilities are already available on the following web sites:

The FAI Sporting Code General Section and Section 3 with its Annexes will apply. Final version of the additional Local Regulations will be distributed in next bulletin.

Third party insurance not excluding competitions is required for each participating glider. In January 2003 this NEW third party coverage required has been introduced in the Slovak Republic. The insurance coverage is based on maximum take-off mass of the glider and is now as follows:

Max Take-off mass up to 500kg – coverage 500 000 SKK

Max Take-off mass up to 1000kg – coverage 1 000 000 SKK

The exchange rate is approximately 1 EUR/42 SKK and 1 USD/39 SKK.

Personal medical insurance is required for all team members, covering accidents and sickness, including any local hospital costs and the costs of transport back to the team member's home country.

Documentary proof of insurance shall be made available to the Organisers in Slovak or English.

The required insurance will be available for purchase at the contest site.

The organiser together with FAI hopes to have an extensive TV coverage of the Junior and World Class WGC at Nitra. Please note that it will therefore be necessary for competing pilots to sign appearance releases and in some cases to allow tiny cameras to be installed in their gliders. In the interest of promoting the sport of gliding, we count on you to inform your team members of this requirement and to encourage them to give every possible assistance to the TV programme makers who we hope will be present at the event.

The organiser will arrange the operation of the airport restaurant at the site. The meals at this restaurant will be possible to order on one-day prior basis from menu displayed in advance. The day menu meal will consist of the following:

Breakfast – Registered access to Swedish type breakfast with all kind of typical food and drinks.

Launch - Daily soup, outlanding bag (mainly for pilots) or hot meal with or without meat, drink

Dinner - Main meal of the day with or without meal, drink

- Outlanding bag will contain - salami, sausage or cheese; bread; fruit; drink; cake or chocolate

The daily menu at the site will cost 10 EUR per person.

We have contacted several owners of cars with towing hooks installed, whether they should be available to offer their cars or serve for some teams during the contest. For final arrangements we need response from the teams. Therefor we would like to ask you in case of an interest to rent car, crewmember or bungalow/room at the airport to fill the attached rent form and send it together with the entry form. Regarding the rent of the gliders, there are limited possibilities to rent Standard and World class gliders in Slovakia, but you can quite easy rent a Club class glider from local clubs. If any assistance in this required, please contact as by sending the rent form also.

Here you can find list with some contacts to car rental companies in Slovakia:

Avis +421 2 5341 6111 +421 2 5341 7404 www.avis.sk

Hertz +421 2 4363 6662 +421 2 4363 6661 www.hertz.sk

Europ Car +421 2 4926 2637 +421 2 4926 2707 www.europcar.sk

There is good coverage with cellular networks in our country. You can choose from two domestic GSM operators. It will be possible to buy prepaid cards for the GSM 900/1800 MHz system at the organisers info centre. Please note in the rent form, whether you will need this cards.

Links to the two Slovak operators are:

900/1800 MHz Orange - www.orange.sk

900/1800 MHz Eurotel - www.eurotel.sk

The countries interested in hosting the national evening are kindly asked to indicate this to the organiser in order to group all national evenings into one so called International Evening.

The organiser is going to arrange non stop internet access at site during the contest. We are planning to have at least two ISDN connections for laptops and two internet connected workstations for internet access.

The Organiser will be not providing an International Camp as this is not common practise at junior WGC.

- Reserve Pilots Final Entry Form (Appendix 4)