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A long overdue awards presentation was made by IAC President Mike Heuer at the US Nationals on Wednesday, September 24th. This was the presentation of the CIVA Gold Medal to John Morrissey.

John was the winner of the Known program at the 1997 World Advanced Aerobatic Championships in Lawrence, Kansas and was one of the first Americans to participate in WAAC in 1995 (then called the AWAC). At that time, CIVA did not award medals in the Known (then called the “Q”) as the results did not count. Later, however, those rules were changed so the Known would count if only two flights were…

Though the US National Aerobatic Championships remains in progress, the flights used to determine the 2014-2015 US National Aerobatic Champion have been completed.  Unlimited pilots have flown the Known, Free, and 1st Free Unknown flight and it is those three flights which determine the winner. The 2nd Free Unknown flight is used for determining team selection. 

Results for those champion-determining programs are now official and the winner is Rob Holland.  One of the country's most well-known airshow pilots, Rob also has proven his abilities in competition settings…

The statistical scoring program called the Fair Play System (FPS) is being used a the US National Aerobatic Championships this year in accordance with IAC policy.  A statistical system has been used in World Aerobatic Championships since 1978 and FPS is the latest development of those systems. FPS is implemented through the scoring software we use at Nationals called ACRO -- different than the JasPer program currently in use at regional contests throughout the USA.  ACRO's author is Nick Buckenham of Great Britain, who attended US Nationals in 2012 and is frequently a Chief Judge at…

Late last night, the first video of the 2014 US Nationals Aerobatic Championships was posted on YouTube.  The 3-minute video can be viewed here:

Available below are the two Unlimited Free Unknown II programs (labeled A and B on the Forms) that will be flown here at Nationals.  These were posted at the airport this afternoon and all pilots have now chosen one of them to fly tomorrow.  Challenges for these fine pilots ahead!

These Forms were created in Visio/Aresti by Brian Howard, IAC's Rules Chairman.  Brian is located in Tucson, Arizona but set aside the time to do this important work for IAC today.  Thanks, Brian. 

Available below for download in PDF are the Intermediate Unknowns to be flown at Nationals in both Power and Glider. 

It might be interesting to see which Regional Series titles are in play at the Nationals. Recall that the Nationals is a wild card contest that counts for every one of the regional series contests. Read more about Regional titles in play at the Nationals.

See the Regional Series Standings and the Nationals Standings to follow the fight.…

The Advanced and Unlimited pilots at Nationals selected their Unknown figures last night at the airport after flying.  The Advanced will fly only one Free Unknown and the Unlimiteds will fly two.  Free Unknown #1 in Unlimited will be flown this morning, Tuesday, September 23rd. 

While the Unlimited pilots have to submit their sequences for the 2nd Free Unknown today -- which will then be checked and posted by the Jury -- the Advanced pilots have more time as their sequences are not due in until tomorrow, Wednesday, September 24th.  They will fly their Free Unknown on Thursday if the…

The sequences for the first Free Unknown in Unlimited are available. Only three were submitted by pilots and can be downloaded below as PDF's.  The filenames identify the sequences as A, B, and C.  However, those letters do not appear on the Forms.

The US Nationals results page is now available:

https://nationals.iac.org/files/results/index.htm

Raw scores appear as long as the results are provisional. Once the protest periods have expired, as the contest progresses, the results will become official and the Fair Play System (FPS) implemented in the score computation.  "Fitted values" then appear on the individual pilots' pages.  You can look at each pilot's scores by clicking on the blue…