By IAC's CIVA Delegate Mike Gallaway, IAC 23924
- The 2022 CIVA Plenary Meeting will be held in Dallas TX next November
- The 2022 World Aerobatic Championship will be held in Leszno, Poland July 30th- Aug 13th. The Chief Judge is John Galliard and Mike Heuer IAC 4 is on the jury. The judges will be named later, there is an application process that will take place in the coming weeks
- I was voted on to the Rules Committee again. This is good news and makes three years now that I have been on the committee.
- Mike Heuer and Jim Bourke IAC 434151 were both elected to the Catalogue Committee.
- Nick Buckenham IAC 16011 was elected as President of CIVA.
- Many rule changes were adopted, mostly dealing with flick rolls (aka snap rolls) in Unlimited Unknowns, we basically added more options and increased the number of allowable flicks in an Unlimited Unknown from six to eight.
- The Advanced Unknown proposal to add vertical flicks was rejected.
- The Free Known sequence sets approved are :
Finally, Mike Heuer was awarded the *Léon Biancotto Diploma. Congratulations to Mike!
* https://www.fai.org/page/fai-awards
Léon Biancotto Diploma Diploma was established in February 1993 on a proposal by the FAI Aerobatics Commission. Widely regarded as one of the finest aerobatic pilots of all times, Leon Biancotto was a member of the French aerobatic team. He lost his life practicing for the first FAI World Aerobatic Championships in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1960. Biancotto won the famous Lockheed Aerobatic Trophy in England on three of the six occasions it was held. In 1965, a competition known as the Biancotto Trophy was started which eventually developed into the European Aerobatic Championships. The Diploma may be awarded on the recommendation of the FAI Aerobatics Commission to individuals or organizations that have contributed significantly to the sport of aerobatics.
