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Gary DeBaun of Lakeville, Minnesota has been appointed by the IAC Executive Committee to be the Contest Director for the 2015 US National Aerobatic Championships.  The Championships are to be held in September 2015.  Gary is a veteran IAC member of 36 years, holding member #4145, and has served as the Starter and Tech Monitor at the Nationals since 2010. 

In addition to his Nationals experience, he served at the 27th FAI World Aerobatic Championships as Flight Director and as a Contest Director at many IAC Chapter 78 regional contests in the 1990's.  The owner of a Pitts S-1, Gary…

The power and glider Known sequences for 2015 have now been finalized.  The sequences are available at https://www.iac.org/sequences, or by clicking on one of the attachments below.  All categories are included except Primary.

The Primary sequence to be utilized in 2015 is still under review by the Rules Committee (and its Known Sequence Sub-Committee) and will be announced separately.

Nationals data is now integrated into the IAC contest database. (See Integrating Nationals for the ugly details. This was a big job this year.)

The primary impact for now is an update to the Regional Series Results. We'll soon complete computations for the L. Paul Soucy and Collegiate Series, that also depend on results from the Nationals.

Read details of Nationals impact on the 2014 IAC Regional…

IAC is pleased to announce that we have expanded our archive of aerobatic sequences to include Unknown and Free programs as well as the Knowns. Visit: https://www.iac.org/sequences (member login required). Or you can find it under the Pubs/Archives menu item.

If you would like to contribute Freestyles -- your own or paperwork saved from contests -- please email them to webmaster@iac.org and I'll post them. PDFs are preferred, but GIFs and…

We've added some photo galleries to the IAC web page: eight years of the U.S. Nationals including 2014, WAC 2013, and some miscellaneous pictures.

These are all publicly viewable, no login required. https://www.iac.org/galleries

If you have any aerobatic pictures you'd like to share with the world, you can email them to webmaster@iac.org or we can arrange for transfer via Dropbox or a similar file sharing service.

The Rules Committee finalized its work on the proposed Known sequences for 2015 and sent its report to the IAC President on Wednesday, October 15th.  Their report is attached here for download in PDF format.

Members are invited to send their comments on these proposals to the IAC Directors who represent their region.  A list of those Directors and their contact information is also attached below as a PDF for download. 

The Board of Directors will meet in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on 12-13 November and vote on the Knowns. Those sequences will go into effect for the 2015 contest…

Congratulations to the following individuals who have earned Achievement Awards while flying in a non-contest environment (Smooth Achievement) or at at contest (Stars Achievement) during the third quarter of 2014;

The deadline for rules proposals for the 2015 contest year was September 1st and since that date, the IAC Rules Committee, under the direction of Chairman Brian Howard, has been busy reviewing the proposals, voting, and preparing their final recommendations to the Board of Directors. 

IAC members are now invited to direct their comments on the IAC Rules Committee's recommendations to the IAC Director who represents their Region.  Attached below, for download, are PDF's with the Rules Committee's report and the latest listing of regional assignments with contact information for your…

The dates for next year's US National Aerobatic Championships have been set. The competition will begin on Sunday, September 20th and will go through the following Friday, September 25th. The awards ceremony and closing banquet will be Friday night as has been the tradition.

The 2015 Championships will feature all categories of competition in power and glider aerobatics -- Primary through Unlimited -- and the selection of the 2016 US Advanced Aerobatic Team. 

The IAC Board of Directors will meet in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on the 12th and 13th of November to discuss plans for next…

The final episode of the series of four short films on the US Nationals is now available:

http://vimeo.com/108318021

The filming at Nationals was done this year by Matt Ulrich. Matt did double-duty this year as he was also responsible for filming all the Unlimited flight programs at the Chief Judge's station for video review. This film includes all seven of the pilots who elected to fly the 4 Minute Free -- Benjamin Freelove, Mark Nowosielski, Kevin Coleman, Mike Gallaway, Goody Thomas, Rob Holland, and Jeff Boerboon.…