Hello all!

I hope everything is well with each of you.  Chapter 3 will be having a meeting on October 20th, 2013 from 1400-1600.  We invite each of you to come out as we will be discussing several club issues including critiquing this years contest, and beginning preparations for next years contest (ie: choosing a CD, location, date).  The usual club items will also be on the agenda and if you have anything you'd like us to discuss, please reply to this email and let me know so I can add it to the list.

The meeting will be held in the ground school room of the Brantford Flight Centre (CYFD).  Seeing as we will be at an airport, I invite you all to fly in if you can to have lunch before hand as the airport has a great restaurant  on site!  Being in Brantford, I am hoping to keep everybody's distance traveled relatively the same to encourage more of you to come out!

Looking forward to seeing you on the 20th!

Cheers,
Chapter 3

Upper Canada Open 2013

Well ladies and gentlemen, another year has come and gone, and so has another Upper Canada Open contest.  Firstly, I'd like to apologize for my delay in creating this synopsis, but as you all can relate, life gets in the way sometimes!

Chapter 3 held our annual contest on the weekend of Aug 24-25 at the Chatham-Kent Airport (CYCK).  The weather was absolutely gorgeous.  We had temperatures in the mid 20s (mid 70s for our American friends) both days and you couldn't get a sky that was any bluer!  This year we had 12 pilots in 11 different aircraft, including 1 first time competitor. 

We'd like to give a huge shout out too all of the Chapter 3 support staff including Pat Rebbetoy, Joy McKinney, Jessica Trushinski, Josh Pegg, Chris Pulley, and Larry and Elaine Ernewein.  Without people like them, contests are not possible!  We'd also like to thank our American friends that came up to compete and offered any and all assistance they could muster! Thank you very much for all your help!!!

Our contest director this year was Bill Ludwig.  Bill put on a great contest, in a new location, with minimal assistance, a feat that requires great patience and determination.  Bill also flew in the contest and placed first in the intermediate category.  Way to go Bill and thanks for all your hard work, without it, we wouldn't of had such a success!

The contest ran smoothly thanks to help of Deb Laforet, Joy McKinney, Jessica Trushinski, Carol Granger and Elaine Ernewein who ran the registration, program coordination and scoring from the terminal of the Chatham Airport. The Chief Judge for the contest, Carole Holyk, was supported by a panel of American and Canadian judges including Sandy Langworthy, Hugo Ritzenthaler, Jeff Granger, Larry Ernewein and Chris Pulley. Our starter Pat Rebbetoy kept the contest rolling at a non-stop pace throughout the entire weekend.

There is one more group we have to thank, and that is the staff at the Chatham-Kent airport, and all of the generous people in Chatham that donated their time, hangar space, and facilities.  Without all of these folks, the contest would've certainly suffered for it!  Thank you thank you thank you!!!!

Below is a link to the IAC website with the results from the contest.  Thank you to all the pilots that came out to compete, and congratulations to all competitors that placed in this year.

http://www.usnationalaerobatics.org/IAC/IAC_ContestResults.asp?ContestID=447
 
Too wrap up, all of us at Chapter 3 would like to thank everybody, from the volunteers to the organizers to the competitors for coming out and making this years contest another success!

Stay safe and blue skies!

Chapter 3

Chatham-Kent Municipal Airport Information

Chatham-Kent Airport information and map (Click Here) 

Hotel Reservations

Sorry for the mixup folks... The link posted earlier does not show any rooms available. The Holiday Inn Express in Chatham has rooms set aside for us at a special rate. They have reserved 20 rooms available to us for Friday Aug 23rd and Sat Aug 24th and 10 rooms for Thur Aug 22nd.  The room rate is $122. and the promo code is CA2 115201. You can contact the hotel directly at (519) 351-1100. 

Official Contest Hotel

Hi everyone,

For those planning on attending the 2013 Upper Canada Open hosted in Chatham ON (CYCK), we have selected an official contest hotel. The hotel will be the Holiday Inn Express located just up the road. The hotel website can be found at: http://www.ihg.com/holidayinnexpress/hotels/us/en/chatham/xcmtm/hoteldetail
At this time we are still working on a price. Details will be posted shortly.

We have also arranged hangar space for everyone planning on attending. Space will be available for $10 / night.

 If you have any questions regarding the contest, hotel or hangar space please contact Bill Ludwig at pittss1tpilot@hotmail.com

Looking forward to seeing everyone soon!

Chapter 3

El Presidente

Hello all!

I just wanted to take a minute and introduce myself! My name is Josh Pegg and I am the new Aerobatics Canada, Chapter 3 club president. I am looking forward to keeping all this awesome momentum going that Mike and the team have started since we got up and running again in 2011.

I'd like to thank Mike for his contributions to the club over the last 2 years and wish him all the best on his next adventure out west!

I am really looking forward to keeping the attitude unusual in this part of the country and hopefully link the western club with ours in the hopes of maybe holding a national contest at some point in the future.

Fly safe. Fly smart.
Josh Pegg
President
Aerobatics Canada Chapter 3

Annual General Meeting June 9th

The Chapter 3 Annual General Meeting will be held on June 9th at the Brampton Flying Club. 

Due to a multitude of scheduling conflicts/new jobs/training... etc. This will be the last change... We promise. 

PLEASE REVISE YOUR CALENDARS TO JUNE 9th, 2013 at 5pm!!

Location will be unchanged- Brampton Flying Club

See everyone soon!
Aerobatics Canada Chapter 3