Events
Navigation Conferences
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NEWSLETTER SECTION 5
and the eventscedule
of the Royal Institute of Navigation
February 2009
11th 13th Hyderabad International Convention Center, Hyderabad India
Theme: Towards Collaborative Model"
Read
the pdf file on this event here.
March 2009
3rd - 5th The Munich Satellite Navigation Summit 2009
www.munich-satellite-navigation-summit.org
25th to 26th: CERGAL 2009 - International Symposium on Certification of GNSS
Systems & Services
dgon.bonn@t-online.de
April 2008
THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF NAVIGATION celebrates its 60th Anniversary. Contact
the President for details.
May
2009
25-27th:
16th Saint Petersburg International Conference on
INTEGRATED NAVIGATION SYSTEMS
Conference information is available on the 16th ICINS
2009 web site at:
http://www.elektropribor.spb.ru/cnf/icins09/enfrset.html
June 2009
17th to 19th TRANS-NAV
8th International Navigational Symposium
Gdynia, Poland
http://www.transnav.am.gdynia.pl
The full details are already in the Newsletter Section 5.
October 2009
27th to 30st 13th IAIN World Congress
Stockholm
The venue will be the Clarion Hotel Sign, which has a conference centre with
three halls; the Gala Dinner will be held at the Wasa. The Nordic Institute
of Navigation have formed an Organising Committee chaired by Dr Lars Magnusson
- the President of Nordic Institute of Navigation and Senior Vice-President
of IAIN (lars.magnusson@telia.com)
A Congress website is under construction at http://www.congrex.com/nnf/iain2009/
More details will be posted when available.
IAIN OFFICERS’ MEETING
TUESDAY, 22 APRIL 2008
CENTRE DE CONGRES – PIERRE BAUDIS
TOULOUSE
Present:
Officers:
| Dick Smith | (President) |
| Lars Magnusson | (Senior Vice President) |
| Bengt Stahl | (Immediate Past President) |
| Johan Rutten | (Treasurer) |
| Norman Bonnor | (Secretary General) |
Representatives:
| Elisabeth Klaffenboeck | (ICG) - also representing |
| Ludovik Garzik | (Vice President) and OVN |
| Rein van Gooswilligen | (IMO and NIN) |
| Jac Spaans | (IHO) |
Observers
| Carl Andren | (ION) |
| Moritz Askildt | (NNF) |
| Maarten Bethem | (NIN) |
| Bruno Blachier | (IFN) |
| David Broughton | (RIN) |
| Vincenzo Sciubba Caniglia | (IIN) |
| Yves Desnoës | (IFN) |
| Andrzej Felski | (PNF) |
| David Last | (RIN) |
| Mario Vultaggio | (IIN) |
Apologies:
| Ludovik Garzik | (Vice President) |
| Refaat Rashad | (Vice President) |
| Boris Rivkin | (Small Members Representative) |
Secretary’s Note:
Appointments in Bold Italics below indicate action items.
1. The minutes of the last Officers’ Meeting held at CICG
Geneva on 28 May
2007 were approved.
2. The Treasurer reported that the final balance sheet for
2007 (Annex A)
showed a surplus of €1,773 and assets carried forward of €26,612. The 2008
budget (Annex B) was reviewed and approved.
3. The Treasurer had requested all institutes to report their
membership
numbers to assist in raising invoices for annual fees; however, only two had
responded. It was proposed and agreed that, as the invoices show the fee levels
and associated membership bands, institutes should determine the fee
appropriate to them when responding to requests for payment.
4. The nomination forms for awards had been sent to all members
and are also
available on the website; no nominations had been received to date. The
Secretary General will remind members of the need
for award nominations in
time for Congress 2009, and will arrange for pictures of the John Harrison
and
Necko Awards to be shown on the website.
5. The Representatives had provided annual reports prior
to the meeting which
are reproduced at Section 3 below. The four Representatives who were present
summarised their reports and further aspects were raised as follows:
ICG: The Nordic Institute agreed
to include a presentation by the ICG
Representative on ICG activities at the IAIN World Congress in Stockholm.
It was
agreed that continuity of attendance at ICG meetings was essential and that,
therefore, the ICG Representative should plan to
attend the 3rd ICG Meeting in
Pasadena.
IHO: The IHO Representative stated that the 17th International
Hydrographic
Conference had taken two very positive decisions; firstly to have adequate
worldwide coverage of ENCs by 2010, and secondly to strongly support the efforts
by IMO to introduce mandatory carriage of ECDIS. Jac Spaans confirmed that
IAIN, as a recognised NGIO, holds passwords for access to the restricted side
of
the IHO website.
Secretary’s Note: Since the meeting, Jac Spaans has approached Yves Desnoës
(the former French Hydrographer) regarding IHO representation and Yves has
agreed to take on this role.
IMO: The IMO Representative had attended three main IMO meetings
in the past
year: Nav 53, MSC 83 and STW 39. At Nav 53, a proposal from Italy to amend
the colregs had been discussed and IAIN (after consultation with ISAF) had
jointly
submitted paper countering the proposal. The Secretary General
agreed to
make arrangements for the paper to be made available on the IAIN website.
STW 39 had received a proposal from Norway to delete coverage of celestial
navigation from navigation courses; the proposal was not discussed in detail
but
was expected to be referred to a working group. IAIN members expressed a
number of views which can be summarised as “while celestial navigation is
now
less critical for seafarers, it should remain in the syllabus of navigation
courses,
perhaps at two levels, until e-navigation is most robust.”
US PNT: The US PNT representative had just returned from
the 3rd and latest
meeting where further recommendations had been agreed including the adoption
of E-Loran as a back-up to GPS. Some of its earlier recommendations have
already been adopted proving that this group was now having a significant
influence of the GPS programme decisions.
The President thanked all the representatives present and asked the Secretary
General to pass thanks to the ICAO Representative.
6. The Secretary General briefly explained the changes and
updates that had
been made to the Newsletter and Website in the past year. The Treasurer and
Web Manager proposed to make further, more fundamental changes, to the
appearance and attraction of the website. The Secretary General expressed
the
view that, unlike most other organisations, the IAIN website was provided
as a
service to members and not a means of recruitment or sales; he therefore urged
that any changes were done in an evolutionary manner rather than as a
revolutionary change, which some other institutions had recently undertaken
and
now regretted. Examples of how a re-designed website might appear were
displayed to the meeting. After further discussion, it was agreed to undertake
a
gradual rebuild using the example with a blue background as the preferred
option. The Treasurer will make arrangements to
develop the rebuild.
7. A proposal had been received from the RIN that IAIN should
propose that
ICAO look again at the concept of changing the headings and bearings used
in
civil aviation from a Magnetic to a True reference. After some discussion
of the
huge cost implications related to aeronautical documentation, runway markings,
VOR alignments etc., it was agreed to circulate the proposal amongst IAIN
members for discussion with the view to making a decision on whether to proceed
at the next Officers’ Meeting in May 2009.
8. The President of the Nordic Institute briefed the meeting
on progress and
planning for the 13th IAIN World Congress to be held in Stockholm from 27th
to
30th October 2009. The venue will be the Clarion Hotel Sign which has a
conference centre with three halls; the Gala Dinner will be held at the Vasa
(or
Wasa). The overall concept for the conference has been determined but detailed
themes are still under debate by the Programme Committee. The Paper Selection
Committee will include individuals from each member institute; requests for
names would be circulated later in the year. Lars Magnusson also requested
assistance from member institutes, who have recently held major conferences,
for checklists, templates for presentations and papers (instructions to authors
etc.), lists of participants, financial planning. He asked whether some standard
planning documents could be permanently displayed on the website; the
Secretary General agreed to look at how this might
be done.
9. The only bid to date for the 14th IAIN World Congress
had come from the
Arab Institute of Navigation (AIN); the President requested that any other
contenders should submit their bid as soon as possible as the intention was
to
make a decision at the next Officers’ Meeting on a recommendation to the
General Assembly in Stockholm.
10. The next IAIN Officers’ Meeting will be in Naples on
3rd May 2009. The next
General Assembly will be held in Stockholm on 27th October 2009 preceded by
an
Officers’ Meeting. In closing the meeting, the President thanked the French
Institute for providing the venue and hospitality for the meeting.
NB
20 May 2008
Annexes:
A. IAIN Finance 2007
B. Draft Budget 2008
ANNEX A
IAIN FINANCE 2007
BUDGET
| 110 | Subscriptions | 6900 |
210 | Web/Newsletter | 1.980 |
| 120 | Interest | 500 | 220 | Travel/Representatives | 2.000 |
| 130 | Donations | 230 | Bank fees | 250 | |
| 140 | Special | 240 | Postage | 100 | |
| Loss | 280 | 250 | Consumables | 200 | |
| 260 | Administrative | 150 | |||
| 270 | Awards | ||||
| 280 | Expenses Officers | 3000 | |||
| 7.680 | 7.680 |
RESULT
| IN | EXPENDED | ||||
| 110 | Subscriptions *) | 5.776,91 210 | 210 | Web/Newsletter | 1.924,14 |
| 120 | Interest | 463,61 | 220 | Travel/Representatives | 2.121,00 |
| 130 | Donations | 230 | Bankcharges | 130,79 | |
| 240 | Postage | 88,00 | |||
| 250 | Consumables | 49,78 | |||
| 260 | Administrative | 153,53 | |||
| 270 | Awards | ||||
| 280 | Officers Expenses | ||||
| Profit | 1.773,28 | ||||
| 6.240,52 | 6.240,52 |
*) in advance 2007:
OVN 350
JIN 450
AIN 700 (+2008)
1.500
ASSETS
| 01-01-2007 | 31-12-2007 | |
| ABN AMRO MASTERCARD |
5.752,47 | 1.752,43 318,91 |
| ROPARCO | 17.486,62 | 22.941,03 |
| AWARDS | 1.650,00 | 1.650,00 |
| 24.889,09 | 26.612,37 |