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CIVA has published the Known proposals for the 2015 competition season for Advanced and Unlimited Power; Yak-52/Intermediate category; and Advanced and Unlimited Glider Championships. The deadline for proposals was 15 September. The sequences were checked and de-identified by IAC Rules Chairman and CIVA Judging Sub-Committee member Brian Howard of Tucson, Arizona prior to their publication in a single document. The document was distributed to CIVA Delegates on 4 October 2014 by Mike Heuer, CIVA's Rules Sub-Committee Chairman.

The CIVA proposals can be downloaded below as a PDF. The…

The third episode of the US Nationals video coverage was released on September 29th on YouTube and can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnJ_mJNr7DY&feature=youtu.be

The video features segments from the Awards Ceremony and Banquet held on Friday, September 26th, as well as more flying, airplanes, and people. 

On hand at the US National Aerobatic Championships this year was one of aviation's best photographers -- Evan Peers of Air Space Media from San Carlos, California.  Evan had made arrangements with IAC to attend the event for the first time and was busy throughout the week with photographing the event and also staging the group photo of the new US Unlimited Aerobatic Team.

Please go to this link for an enjoyable few minutes of some of the best photography of an aerobatic competition ever taken.  It really captures the color, the excitement, the aircraft, and the people very well. …

The deadline for the submission of rules proposals and Known sequences for the 2015 contest year has now passed (September 1st) and a document that includes these proposals is now available in PDF. 

The rules proposals have been sent to the members of the IAC Rules Committee (RC) which have until mid-October to make their recommendations to Rules Chairman Brian Howard. Once the RC votes on these proposals, the package of recommended rules changes will go to the IAC Board of Directors for its meeting in Oshkosh on 12-13 November. 

Similarly, the Known proposals have been sent…

The last day of the 2014 US National Aerobatic Championships was today -- and it was capped off with the beautiful and always anticipated Four Minute Freestyle flights by six Unlimited pilots.  The contest finished before noon. 

National Champions are as follows:

Sportsman Power: Paul Thomson (Decathlon)

Sportsman Glider: Steel Shoaf (DG-1001)

Intermediate Power: Curt Richmond (Pitts S-2B)

Intermediate Glider: Joshua Wilson (DG-1001)

Advanced Power: Foster Bachschmidt…

Please go to http://t.co/huBNW4z8YD/s/zx_r for Episode 2 of the US Nationals video coverage. 

The final results for the Unlimited 2nd Free Unknown became official at 2:15 pm on Thursday, September 25th.  IAC is pleased to announce the selection of the US Unlimited Aerobatic Team that will compete in Chateroux, France in August 2015. 

Full results for the team selection can be found at https://nationals.iac.org/files/results/multi_R012s08s17s26s28.htm.

The new Team pilots assembled for a team photo session this morning and appear below.  Left to right, they are Tim Just, Rob Holland,…

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…