Just curious, how many members does IMAC currently have?

Originally Posted by Judge

Just curious, how many members does IMAC currently have?

Hey Judge..... Enough that FUTABA is advertising your new radio over there!
Wayne

Originally Posted by wmat7039

Hey Judge..... Enough that FUTABA is advertising your new radio over there!
Wayne

So, is the number a secret?

Originally Posted by Judge

So, is the number a secret?

There is no secret.... It is there on the website under "Information".
W

Been studying intermediate sequence #4 and it makes no sense

inter upright, push down to vertical, 1/2 roll, positive snap,,, here's the question,,, shouldn t the vertical down line after the snap be a black solid line ??? same thing on #9 after the 3/4.

the plane is unloaded and the aresti doesn't distinguish between positive and negative loads in that figure, except at the entry. if the entry was positively loaded the vertical line would be solid. the exit is clearly marked as positive.

Originally Posted by Bill Vargas

Been studying intermediate sequence #4 and it makes no sense

inter upright, push down to vertical, 1/2 roll, positive snap,,, here's the question,,, shouldn t the vertical down line after the snap be a black solid line ??? same thing on #9 after the 3/4.

Hi Bill.... If you ever get a hold of the Aresti Aerobatic Catalogue (Condensed), and take a look on page 1, it explains Basic figures and complementary elements.

#3 says: 3. In basic figures, flight with a positive or zero angle of attack is shown with a solid line; flight with a negative angle of attack is shown with a dashed line. In this description, simple dotted lines are used when no specific angle of attack is shown. Flight lines may be vertical, horizontal or at 45° to the horizontal. No other angles are permitted. Each figure starts and ends in horizontal flight, depicted respectively
by a small circle and a short cross-line. The cross-line is vertical for figures ending on the main axis and horizontal for those ending on the secondary axis.

The figure in question is 1.1.6.3 and the base figure is exactly what you see on the Intermediate sequence (figure #4). The base figure starting from inverted 1.1.6.4 is also shown in the accompanying graphic.

There is a LOT more to Aresti than meets the eye and constructing the IMAC Known and Unknown sequences by the IMAC Sequence Committee is a chore that only the strong of heart will tackle.
Wayne

Originally Posted by wmat7039

There is no secret.... It is there on the website under "Information".
W

Got it. THanks. SO holding your own, especially compared to some other SIGS!!

Originally Posted by Judge

Got it. THanks. SO holding your own, especially compared to some other SIGS!!

It will get better... The new site was needed and also there were over 5200 users of the website but not paying members.... I think we need to see realistic users of the website and also the paying members.

Internationally, next year in Europe and South America we will see significant growth as several countries (Europe: Italy, Germany) will be moving over to Scale Aerobatics using the IMAC format for competition.

Much more down in the pipeline..... also with another IMAC World Championship on the horizon in 2018. Last year we ended up with 89 competitors from 13 countries.
http://www.imacworlds.com/

Wayne

Hi Wayne, ok thanks for the clarification,,,

on a side note, just when I was ready to start playing with the 2016 stuff, mother nature rolled in the storm clouds today, Grrrr.

BV

Originally Posted by dshriver

Has anyone made up call sheets for the new sequences yet? I flew through the sportsman and advanced and they look like they will be fun to practice. I'd love to have some good call sheets though.

Thanks!

I got last yrs call sheet here http://www.jtecrc.com/imacsequences.html so hopefully its not to far away from a 2016 sequence call sheet being posted

BV

The Official 2016 Basic is now posted on the IMAC website under the "download" tab. Couple of figures that have not been in Basic for a while and should prove to make Basic interesting.


Tom Wheeler
IMAC Sequence Committee Chairman

Glad to see a 360 Turn. An aerobatic turn is much more challenging than most realize. At least one that scores highly is

Originally Posted by Steve Graham

Glad to see a 360 Turn. An aerobatic turn is much more challenging than most realize. At least one that scores highly is

I always thought those would be really easy till I tried it.

Re: Aerobatic turn

Lots of ways to loose points. Rate of roll in/roll out must match, altitude variations, radius change, >60/<90 degrees ..........