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Written by: Rick Crow

Category: Club Business

Published: 25 March 2025

Board of Director’s Meeting Minutes

Monday February 17, 2025

Attendees Rick Crow, Tim Cooper, Adi Kochav, Mark Thurman, Steve Bakke, Kevin Garland, David Garceau, Kim Quenette,

Absent: Manrico Mincuzzi, Oliver Soto, Alex Dreiling, Michael Hobson, D Pierce, Lucas Laforte

Guest: N/A

1. Welcome –
2. Acrowx Demo - We will be having an online competition for all Flight Coach users, this will be an addition to IMAC and is not a replacement. This will start around 1 March for a month or 2.
3. NATS 2025 – July 29-Aug , July 28 is the pilots meeting. Jacques Telles is the CD and it will be in Muncie, IN.
4. AMA Discussion – Discussion was held on the RFA process and how the Scale Aerobatics committee works.
5. RFA Discussion – We have had multiple RFA submissions covering a variety of topics and they will be brought up at the next meeting.
6. Electronic Scoring Update – Dave has a software update for Electronic Scoring.
7. 2025 Budget/Treasurers Report – Alex Dec 31, 2024 $43, 964.13
8. General Business – We will be doing a 35% plane for each regions freestyle champion.
9. Regional Updates –

NE – May have as many as 10 contests this year with 3 new clubs with a regional final in NY state. Also a new club in Vermont.  

SE – Schedule is full with contests running from March to November. 3 new venues for IMAC events.

NC – 10 contests so far this year. A couple new clubs this year.

NW – Judging School will be in March in Othello and our first contest is in April at Higgins. Schedule is now published. 10 events on the calendar.

EU – Contests start in May. Emirates contest will have 50 pilots. France Germany and the UK will have contests.

SC –first contest in March with 12 contests on the schedule. One will be in Missouri.

SW- 1 contest so far and a clinic in Phoenix and new club near Tucson

AP – N/A

LA – N/A

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Written by: Rick Crow

Category: Club Business

Published: 28 February 2025

Board of Director’s Meeting Minutes

Monday September 17, 2024

Attendees Alex Dreiling, Jim McCall, Rick Crow, Jacques Telles, Tim Hughes, Tim Cooper, Kim Quenette, , Adi Kochav, Michael Hobson, Oliver Soto, Primo Riviera

Absent: Jamie Hicks. Dave Dupre, Manrico Mincuzzi,

Guest: N/A

1. ISC Chairman – Rich Whitlow has agreed to take on the position for 2025.
2. 2025 Knowns – ISC is working diligently to have them to the BOD for approval in October. BOD to hopefully get them approved and on the website by November 1^st.
3. General Business – None
4. Treasurer’s report

Cash on hand

Sep Checking Balance – $43,744.87

Sep PayPal Balance -      $  2,520.63

Total assets -     $46,255.50

Regional Reports

NE – N/A  

SE – N/A

NC – N/A

NW – Regional Finals this weekend with 13 pilots.

EU – Contests coming up in Israel and a lot of practice.

SC –Plenty of contests coming up.

SW- Quiet in the SW waiting for fall

AP – in 2 weeks we will have our finals. 35 or so pilots.

LA – Issues with getting results from sone areas. Judging schools will be held soon. Argentina and Mexico are the most active countries.

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Written by: Rick Crow

Category: Club Business

Published: 28 February 2025

Attendees

Steve Bakke

Mark Thurman

Kevin Garland

Dave Dupre

Dave Garceau

Jim Hicks

Tim Cooper

Alex Dreiling

Jacques Telles

Michael Hobson

Adi

Kim Quenette

Jim McCall

Oliver Soto

Welcome

Alex announced the new board members

Elections

Unlimited Known Sequence

Michael asked about the attitude pilots are experiencing flying the sequence.

Jacques made the motion to approve it

Michael seconded the motion

Dave has some concerns about the tail slide and the level of CHANCE.

Adi this manuaver is all about skill

Alex confirmed he was the one that pushed for the tail slide in the 2025 sequence. Feels the tail slide is a good for a known alt sequence since its the same K factor for the roller. Alex confirmed which sequence/change is being reviewed.

Michael likes the idea of several options to fly Unlimited Sequences at a contest

RFA from SC - "help growth by encouraging recruitment of new pilots and bringing backold pilots"

The request is to reimburse pilot entry fees. Alex suggested waiving the fee at the contest. Kim talked to the "smart" of using waived fee for new basic pilots.

Michael confirmed they do this in Australia.. ie a new pilot gets comped their 1st contest.

Mark T -clarified that the request is to comp the pilot who brought the new pilot. Kim and Jacques agreed that paying a commission to pilots to bring in new pilots isnt supportive of the intent of the mission. Michael stated paying a commission is "grimmy"

Alex suggested we put in writting the policy to waive a 1st time pilots entry fee. Kim this should be left to the RD and the club.

Decision was to leave this at the region level

Treasure’s report

General Business

Mark T - has a club level contest that is pitched to happen right before the Nats (July 29th to Aug 1st)

Motion to leve IMAC Nats fee at $100. Approved

Kim - how did the airplane giveaways for freestyle? Tim H/EF liked the program and wants to do it again. David G - there's a worry that same pilots will win repeatedly. Region is looking at points run and more tickets to help build membership. This year the plane was given to the points winner (same as last year). By mid year it was obvious who was gonna win the plane. Kim in SW every pilot got a ticket for each freestyle contest, winner got an extra ticket. Tim did that in SC region as well. A 1st time basic pilot won the plane. Adi divided the pilot into seniors and juniors to level the playing field. Kim mentioned a future opportunity of creating layers of freestylers... David the plane needs to drive participation. Michael doesnt agree in using IMAC brackets to divide Freestyle but rather make it entry level or advanced skills

Tim Cooper how do you keep track of the tickets? Kim puts the tickets in a box. Dave Duprie SC does the same.

Jacques - e-imac. Lets not let this die! Michael talked about the 2 contests in Australia. A bit of challenge to generate pilot counts. They did get new basic pilots and they got focused attention from the experienced pilots.

Dave Dupre - did you have upper bracket pilots? Did have an upper pilot fly E-IMAC... did not have alot of upper pilots.

Dave Dupre - are we running a national level judging class? David G and Primo have an online judging school in Feb for anyone. SE will have a one day in person judging school in March

David G- Aerojudge update. Was used at the 2024 TAS. The hardware is set and did one more change to the "box" design. David wants to put 4 boxes into each region by mid year 2025. Will need to work with the sequence committee.

Michael H will be creating narratives for the new sequences.

Alex highlighted our new 2025 members

 President Kevin Garland. Kevin talked about some of the targets for 2025. E-IMAC is one of the focus points. Looking at online judging using flight coach. Wants to look at computer based judging (long term focus)

Steve Bakke talked about how he got into IMAC back in 2018

Mark Thurman – started IMAC back in 2015. Another IMAC pilot challenged him to fly IMAC.

Dave Dupre – started back in 1976! Looking forward to being part of the BoD

David G – started flying 21 yrs ago. His father was his inspiration. Started flying IMAC 5 yrs ago. Hosted 9 events last year. Will jump to Intermediate in 2025

Regional Updates

Tim Cooper – NW region: completed regional finals. March 15^th/16^th will be a judging school.

Dave Dupre – NE region. Completed regional finals in September. Was not able to attend do to COVID. Steve working on 2025 calendar of events. Steve Bakke talked about trying to get some additional clubs engaged for 2025. Looking to move regional further south.

Michael Hobson – fine tuning the 2025 calendar. Looks like 17 or 18 events. Forecasting some membership renewal challenge

Kim Quenette – SW region. Talked about having to move the regional finals during Fri practice do to signal/interference issues. Contest had to be moved t

Tim – talked about the regional finals in Odessa. It was COLD in the mornings. The freestyle plane/giveaway was a huge hit.

Jamie Hicks – did regionals about 6 weeks ago. Had 28 pilots. Working with David bringing him up to speed

Olive – Nationals planned for end of the month. Argentina is doing national finals. 2025 calendar is looking good.

Adi – All the contests in EU are done and winter is setting in. Manrico is in Saudia Arabia. He’s working on staging contest there and in the United Emirates. Using the TAS model. In Israel, Nov 29^th is the IMAC Championship, 2 weeks later is the Freestyle Championship (pilot has to attend IMAC to fly freestyle)

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Written by: Rick Crow

Category: Club Business

Published: 28 February 2025

Board of Director’s Meeting Minutes

Monday June 17, 2024

Attendees: Jim McCall, Rick Crow, Jacques Telles, Oliver Soto, Kim Quenette, Adi Kochav, Alex Dreiling, Primo Rivera

Absent: Manrico Mincuzzi, Michael Hobson, Tim Hughes, Dave Dupre, Tim Cooper, Jamie Hicks

Guest: N/A

1. NATS 2024 – 28 Pilot are registered so far. A New app will be utilized for the NATS Called BAND. This will allow all members to stay up to date on the competition. A comprehensive team is in place to ensure the competition goes off without a hitch. Jim McCall has been securing sponsors. We will be giving away a 120cc ARF from Extreme Flight. We have 28 pre-registered. This is the 50^th anniversary of the NATS. The banquet will be excellent.
2. 2026 Worlds Proposal – A proposal has been received from Latin

 America to host the 2026 Worlds in Argentina. The Board has conditionally approved the proposal to have the world 2026 in Argentina.

3. General Business – None
4. Treasurer’s report

Cash on hand

May Checking Balance – $50,203.41.96

May PayPal Balance -      $4,808.98

Total assets -       $55,044.94

Regional Reports

NE – N/A  

SE – Many contests are coming up this summer.

NC – N/A

NW – N/A

EU – Contests in France and Hungary as well as the UK. Noise is a concern in the UK. Euro Cup process is working well. Israel is doing well.

SC –N/A

SW- Quiet season in the hot SW.

AP – N/A

LA – Mexico is active, Chile will have a couple of contest as well as Argentina.