In preparation for the 14th IJMC JWM in Italy, a training seminar for the nominated judges, the newly registered junior judges and for the scoring officer was announced at the AGM in January.
This training seminar is intended to familiarize the judges with the new simplified construction rules in the static as well as the changes in the flight display.
This will prepare the judges as much as possible for the 'hot case' in August 2023, not forgetting the long break of four years without hosting a JWM due to Corona and the resulting lack of practical experience of the judges.
For the JWM 2023, Marco Inga, Eric Wong, Thomas Boxdoerfer, Evert Tjepkema, Helmut Hallermeier, Heinz Schaer, Jean-Philippe Laugier and Alexey Prokhorov were already nominated in January as Static and Flight judges, together with Guenther Knoerr as scoring officer.
The nominated are completed by the five new Junior Judges:
Francois Fermaut
Mauro Pirotti
Lothar Heinrich
Thomas Brandt
Johann Mohr

The seminar was led by the interim Chief Judge Frank Dohrmann with the active support of the two spiritual fathers of the new rules, Reto Senn and Heinz Schaer.

Starting with this JWM, pilots will have to fly two different flight programs A and B.
For the third flight the pilot may decide whether to fly program A or B again, depending on the pilot's preference.
Another new feature will be that realism in flight will be broken down into the three subcategories:
Speed of the model to the original
Jet-like flying style called smoothness
Variation in turning maneuvers.

In order not to overburden the flight Judges in judging the variations of the turning maneuvers in the competition, an additional judge will be appointed especially for this category.
Only for this category the judges are allowed to harmonize their scores after the flight, of course this rule does not apply to the judging of the individual maneuvers.

Once again a big thank you to all nominated judges, junior judges, scoring officer and participating pilots for the long journey and the two intensive days.
I am looking forward to seeing you all healthy and well prepared in Italy for the 14th IJMC JWM in August.

Frank Dohrmann
IJMC Chairman and Interim Chief Judge