He put in many volunteer hours behinds the scenes, she made herself available by traveling long distances, he has a great understanding of the technical aspects of judging, she gives countless hours of her personal time for the betterment of IAC, his products and services have been a tremendous benefit to aerobatics, and he has coached and mentored pilots at contests and on practice days.

Do these people sound like someone you know and would like to have recognized for their contribution to the sport of aerobatics? This is an excellent opportunity to give recognition to an…

The Tech Committee is in need of volunteers with software coding expertise. Tech Committee members are responsible for the contest registration software, the contest scoring software, the contest results database, the analysis of contest results, and  the IAC website. If you have ideas for software services that do not presently exist, and are willing to put in the effort to turn those ideas into reality, we would love to have you get involved.

The most immediate need is for someone to transition into the role of managing and maintaining the IAC Contest Database, or IACCDB. The…

Beginning with the 2013 Aresti Aerobatic Catalogue (Condensed), various errors created during the publication process have crept into both the Power and Glider (aka ‘GAF’) Catalogues.  Those errors were generally corrected in subsequent editions, but unfortunately new errors were added.  At the FAI/CIVA 2017 plenary conference, revisions to the Catalogue to correct all known errors were approved for use starting in 2018.

In the document below, we also provide a link to the Aresti System SL website for ordering Catalogues. We do not recommend ordering their 2018 version yet until we…

The 2018 edition of the IAC Rule Book is now available to members at: https://www.iac.org/download-contest-rules