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New England Aerobatic Championships

New England Aerobatic Championships

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Annual Contest:

1998 New England Aerobatic Championships, sponsored by the New England Aerobatic Club, IAC Chapter 35. A 5-category (power) contest, May 14-17 at Orange Municipal Airport, Orange, MA (KORE). Airport office phone 978/544-8189.

The tentative schedule is:

Wed May 13 -- box setup
Thu May 14 0900 - 1900 -- registration and practice
1900 -- food, drink, merriment (TBD)
Fri May 15 0900 - 1200 -- registration and practice
1200 -- Unlimited, Advanced and Intermediate briefing
1300 - 1830 -- Unlimited, Advanced and Intermediate contest flying
1900 -- food, drink, merriment (TBD)
Sat May 16 0700 -- all categories briefing
0800 -- registration
0830 - 1830 -- contest flying
1900 -- drinking, banquet, and probably more drinking
Sun May 17 0800 -- all categories briefing
0900 - 1430 -- contest flying
1500 -- awards ceremony

Preregistration

We encourage you to preregister for the contest. If you do, we'll add your name to Thursday's practice list and give you priority on hangar storage for your aircraft. (Hangar space is limited at Orange.)

For a pre-registration kit, just drop a note via e'mail or postcard; or, call me:

Jim Ward, Contest Director
E'mail: jimw@orbital.mv.com
USPS: 15 Cleveland Hill Road, Brookline, NH 03033
Phone (home): 603/672-6336
Fax (home): 603/672-4825
Phone (work): 603/672-8600 x232

Be sure to include your name, USPS mailing address, daytime and evening telephone numbers.

Fees

Contest registration:
Basic: $40
Sportsman: $45
Intermediate: $55
Advanced: $60
Unlimited: $70

Hangar, per nite: $10
Food on the field (Thu-Fri): contribution
Banquet, per person: $25 (max)

Banquet

Steve Pennypacker has arranged for this year's banquet to be held Saturday evening at 7 pm at The Old Mill Restaurant. It's the same Westminster, Mass venue we used for last year's telling of tawdry tales and doing of dubious debauchery. Steve promised them we'd behave this time.

Lodging

Steve has also procured a discounted rate at the Super 8 Motel in Gardner, Mass, about 20 minutes east of the field on Route 2. (We'll provide transport.) Mention IAC and receive a room for 1-3 people of $60.20. All rooms have double beds. Forty rooms are blocked off for us until April 21. Reach the Super 8 at Motel at 978/630-2888.

Other area hotels to which we'll provide transport:
Bald Eagle Motel Orange, MA 978/544-8864 ($)
(20 rooms available nights of 14th and 15th, none 16th)

Quabbin Gateway Motel Orange, MA 978/544-2986 ($)
(14 rooms for 14th, 15th, 16th)

Wachusett Village Inn Gardner, MA 978/874-2000 ($$)
(35 rooms available)

Colonial Bed and Breakfast Gardner, MA 978/630-2500 ($$)
(109 rooms available)

"Rooms available" are as of noon on 6 March.

Orange Airport

By air: NY Sectional, Gardner (GDM) VORTAC 292 degree radial, 10.3NM. 42.34.04N, 72.17.28W. VOR and NDB approaches.

By car: U.S. Route 2 to exit 16 (U.S. Route 202, Amherst-Belchertown exit). Travel 1 mile N and turn left onto Partridgeville Rd. Travel .5 miles W; find the airport on your left.

Arrival: Runways 14-32: 4998'x150'; 1-19: 5000'x150'. Field elevation 555'MSL. Orange Unicom 122.8. Runway 1-19 will be closed during practice and contest flying except with 15 minutes prior arrangement by phone or radio. Fly right traffic for runway 32, left traffic for runway 14. Caution: The aerobatic box is southwest and parallel to runway 32 and immediately over runways 1-19. Do not overfly the airport.

What to Bring

Aircraft: airframe and engine logs; airworthiness certificate; registration certificate; radio; operating limitations; weight and balance data; in-pack chute (<120 days) & pack card; proof of insurance.

You: pilot and medical certificates; IAC membership card; FAI license (Unlimited competitors only); 7 copies each of free style forms A. B and C, signed and dated ('98) by a current IAC judge; $ Photocopies of documents are permissible for IAC contest registration; however, FAA requirements may differ.

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