Anna Wood had a contest calendar on the "imacwebscore" website early in the year to assist all the CD's in choosing dates. I sent an email to Anna to please include the JR-SCAT Series dates on the site to assist the CD's in choosing their dates and for the pilots to be able to plan their contest year. She was willing to, and the information on contest dates for both organizations was available for the CD's that wanted to try and coordinate dates.

The JR-SCAT Scale Aerobatic Series website also includes a contest calender with events from both organizations.

http://www.scaleaerobatics.org/non_scat_schedule.html

I think Anna and the SCAT Series Director are very aware that many pilots, including myself, aren't really concerned with who is hosting the contest. We just want to fly contests that are within a reasonable distance, are well run, have a good sized group of competitive pilots to fly against, and are FUN!!!

For me that means I fly the SCAT Series primarily, and the Tucson Shootout because it meets the criteria above.

The JR-SCAT Series is accomplishing Jack's goal of creating new interest in Scale Aerobatics in the Southwest. The Las Vegas contest had 19 pilots in the Basic Class, and another 10 in the Sportsman Class. My club had 4 or 5 pilots fly consistently in the JR-SCAT Series last year. This year we had 10 members compete in the Las Vegas contest. Three were new pilots in the Basic Class. We'll likely have 12 or more pilots from my club flying at the Phoenix event on April 24th & 25th.

The "Series" concept has created a lot of new Scale Aerobatics interest in the Southwest!!! My personal "Thanks!!" to Bill Malvey (Series Director), Barry Wegman (Series Administrator), Jr/Horizon Hobby, and all the great sponsors that make the JR-SCAT Series possible.

http://www.scaleaerobatics.org/sponsors.html


Dean Bird
Sun Valley Fliers
Phoenix, AZ