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Part II Winter X-Country in a Pitts Sightseeing: Rules to Fly By APRILL 20120100 OFFICIAL MAGAZINE o the INTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB PartPtII II Winter X-Country in a Pitts Sightseeing: Rules to Fly By OFFICIAL MAGAZINE of the INTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB Vol. 39 No.4 April 2010 A PUBLICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL AEROBATICS CLUB CONTENTS “Thirty miles outside of Billings, my toe warmers abruptly quit...” Aaron McCartan FEATURES Fuel Futures 4 Gordon Penner 6 Freezing in a Pitts Winter x-country Aaron McCartan 14 The 2010 Sportsman, Part II How to fly it Steve Johnson 28 IAC’s Furure Chris Rudd COLUMNS 03 / President’s Page Doug Bartlett 32 / Ask Al Allen Silver DEPARTMENTS 02 / Letter from the Editor 21 / Sport Aerobatics Snapshot 30 / Contest Calendar 31 / Fly Mart & Classifieds THE COVER Julie Clark performing at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh air show in 2009. Photo by DeKevin Thornton. REGGIE PAULK COMMENTARY / EDITOR’S LOG OFFICIAL MAGAZINE of the INTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB Publisher: Doug Bartlett IAC Manager: Trish Deimer Editor: Reggie Paulk Senior Art Director: Phil Norton Interim Dir. of Publications: Mary Jones Copy Editor: Colleen Walsh Contributing Authors: Doug Bartlett Aaron McCartan Ryan Birr Gordon Penner Steve Johnson Chris Rudd Mark Mattioli Allen Silver IAC Correspondence International Aerobatic Club, P.O. Box 3086 Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086 Tel: 920.426.6574 • Fax: 920.426.6579 Change for the Better E-mail: [email protected] OVER THE LAST COUPLE months, you Regulations (FAR’s), and insurance Advertising Director may have noticed changes to the layout requirements, this is a must read. Katrina Bradshaw Tel: 920.426.6836 E-mail: [email protected] of Sport Aerobatics. Th e EAA put a great Even if you’re just a passenger, deal of research and eff ort into a rede- reading this piece will let you know Representatives: NORTHEAST: Ken Ross sign of Sport Aviation, and we are the if your pilot is operating within the Tel: 609.822.3750 Fax: 609.957.5650 benefi ciaries of that work. If you com- law or not. E-mail: [email protected] pare the January and February issues of Although this issue may come too SOUTHEAST: Chester Baumgartner Tel: 727.532.4640 Fax: 727.532.4630 Sport Aerobatics, you’ll notice the new late, ’I want to take this opportunity E-mail: [email protected] look. I’m only a sample size of one, but I to let you know I’ll be looking for CENTRAL: Gary Worden & Todd Reese sure think the magazine looks better. stories and airplanes while I’m down Tel: 800.444.9932 Fax: 816.741.6458 E-mail: [email protected] We’ve been getting at Sun ‘n Fun. If you’ll [email protected] a trickle of feedback be there, I’d love to talk MOUNTAIN & PACIFIC: John Gibson from some of you out “ . I’ll be to you about possibly Tel: 916.784.9593 Fax: 510.217.3796 E-mail: [email protected] there, and in the coming getting your airplane EUROPE: Willi Tacke months, we’ll incorporate looking for on the cover of Sport Tel: +49(0)1716980871 Fax: +49(0)8841/496012 more “How to Fly It” Aerobatics. Most of the E-mail: [email protected] pieces, along with articles stories and beautiful cover shots we Mailing: Change of address, lost or on building, flying, and feature come from pilots damaged magazines, back issues. maintaining aerobatic airplanes I’ve pestered into waking EAA-IAC Membership Services Tel: 800.843.3612 Fax: 920.426.6761 aircraft. This also comes up before the sun rises E-mail: [email protected] as a result of the research while I’m so we can get the best The International Aerobatic Club is a division of the EAA. conducted by EAA light as the sun crests through reader surveys. down at the horizon. Even if you As always, I’d love to haven’t flown formation, hear your critiques. Don’t Sun ‘n Fun” pilot Bruce Moore and WWW.IAC.ORG WWW.EAA.ORG hesitate to contact me, photographers Jim even if it’s just to say hi. Koepnick or Bonnie EAA® and SPORT AVIATION®, the EAA Logo® and Aeronautica™ are registered trademarks and service marks of the Experimental Aircraft Association, Inc. The use of these trademarks and The competition season is upon us, Kratz will take care of you while they service marks without the permission of the Experimental Aircraft Association, Inc. is strictly prohibited. Copyright © 2009 by the International Aerobatic Club, Inc. All rights reserved. and this month, we have the second get the shots I need. The International Aerobatic Club, Inc. is a division of EAA and of the NAA. part of the Sportsman sequence I also want you to know that many A STATEMENT OF POLICY The International Aerobatic Club, Inc. cannot assume responsibility for the accuracy of the material presented by the authors of the articles in the brought to you by Steve Johnson. We of the stories we print on these pages magazine. The pages of Sport Aerobatics are offered as a clearing house of information and a forum for the exchange of opinions and ideas. The individual reader must evaluate printed the first half in the March issue come from members just like you who this material for himself and use it as he sees fit. Every effort is made to present materials of wide interest that will be of help to the majority. Likewise we cannot guarantee nor endorse in case you missed it. have an idea and take the time to sit any product offered through our advertising. We invite constructive criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertising so that corrective But also Mark Mattioli and Ryan down and write about it. Every one of measures can be taken. Sport Aerobatics (USPS 953-560) is owned by the International Aerobatic Club, Inc., and is published monthly at EAA Aviation Center, Editorial Department, Birr share their unique insights into us was once unpublished, so don’t be P.O. Box 3086, 3000 Poberezny Rd., Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086. Periodical Postage is paid at Oshkosh Post Office, Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901 and other post offices. Membership rate for the legalities of sightseeing flights. shy. If you have an idea, feel free to the International Aerobatic Club, Inc., is $45.00 per 12-month period of which $18.00 is for the subscription to Sport Aerobatics. Manuscripts submitted for publication become the If you’ve ever thought about what it contact me. property of the International Aerobatic Club, Inc. Photographs will be returned upon request of the author. High resolution images are requested to assure the best quality reproduction. takes to give rides, and do so within POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Sport Aerobatics, P.O. Box 3086, Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086. PM 40063731 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to Pitney Bowes IMS, the confines of the Federal Aviation See you at Sun ’n Fun! IAC Station A, P.O. Box 54, Windsor, ON N9A 6J5. 2 Sport Aerobatics April 2010 Please submit news, comments, articles, or suggestions to: [email protected] DOUG BARTLETT COMMENTARY / PRESIDENT’S PAGE Heralding the New BY THE TIME THIS magazine has been pub- our editor, Reggie Paulk. We hope our possess. One common error I see by lished, the IAC should have successfully members will take advantage of this many pilots is a desire to fl y a competi- launched our fi rst e-newsletter called In opportunity by forwarding video from tion sequence over and over. I prefer to the Loop. Late in February the membership many of our contests and member activi- fl y the fi gures in groups of three or four committee met at Oshkosh to lay out the ties throughout the world. fi gures and only fl y the entire sequence format of what will hopefully be a great Th is is an exciting new publication for periodically. addition to our ability to communicate the IAC because of the greater ability to Prepare a training card. You should with our members worldwide. get content input from our members and never go up to train without having a card Th e Internet and e-newsletters have reliable feedback about what is enjoyed. in front of you identifying step by step been around for many years, but the Please take the time to go to www.IAC.org what you intend to practice. Start with ability to use them in an interactive way to sign up for In the Loop warm-up drills, then is increasing rapidly. Th ere are no plans today. We hope all enjoy move on to the core of to eliminate this magazine, but there are it. And as always, please your practice. Th e card several limitations that we have in Sport forward any ideas on how “ This is an should identify your Aerobatics that we do not have in an we can improve this ben- safe training altitude e-newsletter. As an example, we hope to efi t to all of our exciting new for each fi gure or com- bring you In the Loop at least monthly members. Th is is the rstfi bination. Prepare your and include audio, video, and written of several steps to publication for card in an order that stories about aerobatic fl ying activities enhance our electronic does not waste practice worldwide. In the Loop is actually a one- member communication the IAC . .” time in the air. Good or two-page table of contents that has a network; more about preparation should paragraph or two of a story combined that next month.
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