In a letter addressed to Jim Bourke, IAC president, Bruce Ballew Government Relations Chair has stepped down from his volunteer position. “It has been a pleasure working with the membership, the Board/Officers and the FAA for a decade on issues important to our sport,” Bruce said. “I will gladly help with whatever transition if necessary and will be available to the new liaison to answer questions or provide historical background on any topics that I can.”
by Jeff Seaborn, EAA 793688/IAC438260, Chair, EAA Canadian Council
There’s a new EAA chapter in Canada — specifically IAC Chapter 137 in Alberta, which is the first IAC chapter in Canada since IAC 4, Toronto, Ontario and IAC 18, Vancouver, BC in the early 1970s. It’s been a long time coming for the Alberta chapter due to some distractions that the group has had to face. The founding president is Neill Cook, EAA 1090385. It was the efforts of Neill and Lenora Crane, EAA 1015429, that made this chapter come to life. The Aerobatic Club of Alberta has…
Read moreThe Regional Series awards the top placing participants in each of the six U.S. regions who fly in at least three IAC sanctioned contests during the year. (U.S. Nationals may be used as a "wild card" as one of the three contests flown.)
With two more contest to be flown November 5-6 at Sebring, FL (SE region), and 11-12 at the Tequila Cup in Arizona (SW Region), the current leaders in all the other regions below have flown all available Regional contests.…
Read moreIAC Policy and Procedures Section 221 (which governs the Rules Program) allows additional rules proposals to be submitted in the week following the Nationals contest to address issues encountered there. The submittal period is now closed but 18 more proposals were received to be considered for inclusion in the upcoming 2022 rules. A PDF with the new proposals is available for download below.
