The new, later-in-the-season deadline for proposing Known Programs and rules changes is September 1, only six weeks away.

Known Programs for Primary, Sportsman and Intermediate categories are solicited for both powered aircraft and gliders, as applicable.1  Please submit at least a Form B.  Include a list of figure catalog numbers and K-factors if possible.2

Please write each rule proposal as specifically as possible and include the rationale for the change.  When applicable, identify rules affected by your proposal by…

Elections for IAC board seats for the 2014-2016 term remain open for a short time longer.  If you haven't yet voted, please do so here or by returning the paper ballot included in your May 2014 issue of Sport Aerobatics.

Voting online requires you to log in.  If you haven't registered or have forgotten your login information, IAC's webmaster can help.

Balloting closes at 5 PM CDT on Tuesday, July 29.

If you're planning to be at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014 at the end of this month, make sure to stop by the Vicki Cruse Educational Pavilion at the IAC building right off of show center, where we have an all-star lineup of speakers scheduled. Here's the schedule:

Wednesday, July 30
8:30 am - 9:45 am     Will Berninger and Tom Wheeler, International Miniature Aerobatic Club
10:00 am -11:15 am   Bill…

IAC Chapter 88 and Contest Director Brian Roodvoets hosted the Michigan Aerobatic Open in Jackson, Michigan on the weekend before the Fourth of July. They flew sixteen competitors in four categories, Primary through Advanced Power.

Find Jackson, Michigan at the bottom of the Michigan "Mitt," the lower peninsula, north of the border with Ohio. It's thirty or forty miles West of much maligned Detroit, the same distance East of world famous Kellogg's Battle Creek. Snap, Crackle, and Pop were unable to attend. The Great Lake Erie is East. The Great Lake Michigan is West.

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You can take Amtrak to Ephrata, Washington. You can walk to the airport from the station. But, better to land with your aerobatic airplane and participate in the Apple Cup.

Ephrata is in central Washington State, across the coastal mountains to the East of Seattle, on the Northwest edge of the agricultural portion of the state, which is otherwise mountainous. Spokane, pronounced Spoke-Ann, is about a hundred miles East-Northeast of Ephrata. Mount Ranier is about a hundred miles West-Southwest. Mount Baker and Snoqualmie National Forest are about a hundred miles West-Northwest.