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In the Dutch gliding records list, I found a flight, conducted in South
Africa that landed after the local official daylight time. For ratification a flight must be conducted legaly, so I asked the Dutch NAC for explanation. The responsible officer told me that a flight that lands before 19:44:00 is still landing within the 43 th minute. Interesting to know that the officer who told me that, was a Dutch engineer working in a Dutch nuclear power station. So, if, all of a sudden you do not hear anything from Holland anymore, you have a option to think of. I waited a few months, and was surprised to see that the FAI ratified the record also as a African regional record. So I asked the responsible officer of the FAI for a explanation and I was told that the observation of the Official Observer regarding sunset time was leading. Of course this is not true. The country where the flight is conducted issues the official sunset time and the official daylight times. After a few emails and not getting any answers, I dropped the case. Then by coincidence, I met the responsible officer of the FAI at a glider site and brought up the problem. He told me that for just a few minutes to late, the FAI considered the flight as being still legal. So, not South Africa is telling what illegal is in there country but the FAI is. Why am I telling this story? The main reason is that if somebody claims a record and the Official Observer and the pilot himself sign the claim form, they state that the flight was conducted in a legal way.. In the mean time I spoke to a few OO's and none of them was prepared to sign for such a flight. That means that different pilots are are being treated unequally and that is, at least in my opinion, not fair. So I asked the FAI officer to confirm the FAI point of view in writing and he promised me to write me after he was in his office again. Unfortunately he did not keep this promise and did not react to any mails referring to our conversation. If anybody has trouble to have his badge/record ratified because he landed after official daylight time, he may refer to this posting and of course the ratified record of the illegal flight. The details a Registration 1-4-2016 PH-1340 Maxim Leenders CN: UFO. FAI record: 17793 I wish everyone a beautiful Christmas. |
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