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Congratulations to Team USA for their overall second-place standing at WAAC in Poland. We are all proud of you. And congratulations go out to Craig Gifford for his Silver in the Free Known program.

The championship started off slow with a couple of days of wind, then rain. The team spent some time brainstorming on their Unknown figure submission and strategizing while they waited out the weather.  The team started off strong in the first round of the Free Known with four of the team members in the top 15 places and Craig finishing with his second place Sliver finish in that flight…

The IAC Board of Directors has voted to fill the Director position vacated by Michael Steveson with A. J. Hefel of Wichita, Kansas. Michael is undergoing some surgery soon and will take several weeks to recover. He felt he could not fairly and adequately represent the membership while going through surgery and the resulting recovery and elected to leave the Board. Michael Steveson has been a valuable Director and has spent countless hours working on our teams’ behalf…

The Advanced Aerobatic Team made it to Poland safely. Since their arrival yesterday they have checked in and registered for WAAC and had their familarization flights.

Today, August 5, was the start of the event. Unfortunately a common complaint in just about every World Championship - the weather. At the scheduled time the judges were setup and ready to go this morning at 10:00am, but the winds were out of limits. When they do get flying tomorrow, results can be found here:

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The U.S. Advanced Team has been polishing up their flying in preparation for WAAC, which begins with arrival and registration on this Thursday, August 4 in Radom, Poland. Competition flights begin on Friday, August 5, along with the Opening Ceremonies. 

Coach, Nikolai Timofeev has been putting them through their paces in Hosin, Czech Republic. Some team members arrived with their planes as early as July 17. All of the planes are assembled and functioning well. Practices have been sporadic, with weather interruptions and various logistics matters…

On Thursday, July 28, the IAC was notified by FAA in Washington of the publication of FAA policy N 8900.372 which extends a long-term Aerobatic Practice Area (LT APA) from 24 months to 36 months. This is very good news and is the result of the work of our Government Relations Committee and in particular Bill Finagin and Wayne Roberts. Sue Gardner, FAA’s national airshow coordinator, provided the document to to the IAC on Thursday.

A copy of N8900_372 LT APA 36 month is attached…

This morning, July 29, 2016, at the IAC Annual Meeting in the IAC Pavilion at AirVenture, the 2016 election results were announced. Ballot Certification Chair, DJ Molny, certified the following results:

President
  √ Michael Heuer (319 votes)

Secretary
  √ Lynn Bowes (319 votes)

Board of Directors (3 open seats)
  √…

IAC Gathering of Members takes pace tonight at the EAA Nature Center, 6:00-8:00pm. New this year, during the gathering the 2015 Annual Non-Flying Award Recipients will be presented with plaques for the Kathy Jaffe Award, Frank Price Cup, Harold Neumann Trophy, Robert L. Heuer Award and the Curtis Pitts Memorial.

Join us at the IAC Pavilion for the forums on Friday, July 29.

8:30-9:45am       IAC Annual Meeting

10:00-11:15am  Airshow Adventures - Debbie Gary

11:30-12:45pm  A Look into the World of Airshows - Skip Stewart

Join us at the IAC Pavilion for the forums on Thursday, July 28, 2016;

8:30-9:45am      Getting Your Head Around Unusual Attitude Recoveries - Billy Werth 
10:00-11:15am  Life Looks Better Upside Down - Patty Wagstaff
11:30-12:45pm  Five Tools for Taming a Taildragger - Greg Koontz

Billy Werth will start off the morning with his
forum titled, "Getting Your Head Around Unusual
Attitude Recoveries".

With over 8,000 hours of flight in 20 different
aircraft and over 900 hours teaching folks how
to fly upside-down he will have a…

Join us at the IAC Pavilion for the forums on Wednesday, July 27;

8:30-9:45am       Which Acro Bird is Best for You - Budd Davisson
10:00-11:15am   RV Aerobatics - Ron Schreck
11:30-12:45pm   Spins: From Top to Bottom - Michael Church

Budd Davisson starts the morning off describing

which Acro Bird is Best for You.  Budd has 43 years and

over 5,500 hours of dual-given just in the pattern teaching

people to master the Pitts on the ground and in the air.

He's flown over three hundred different types…

Join us at the IAC Pavilion for the forums on Tuesday, July 26;

8:30-9:45am      The Inverted Flat Spin Record - Spencer Suderman
10:00-11:15am  Flying the Decathlon - Michael Lents
11:30-12:45pm  Basic Elements of Aerobatics - Dagmar Kress 

Spencer Suderman starts off the morning speaking

on his Inverted Flat Spin Record.

In March 2016,  Spencer completed 98 inverted

spins in his Sunbird S1X biplane, easily breaking

his own previous record of 81 in March 2014.

Michael Lents is a Master CFI-A, an instructor…