The first day (Friday) was dedicated to Instructors only. They came from near and afar...as far away as Australia & Canada and all of our US Regions except the South West. During this 11 hour "marathon", we went through a "myriad" of scenarios and discussions regarding our "Red Book" rules & judging criteria. Integrated with the training were video and flight simulation which enhanced its entirety.

We were "graced" this year by Horizon Hobbies/JR, who donated a complete JR DX7 radio system as a raffle prize, which was won by 11 year old Alex Porter of N. Carolina. We were also fortunate enough to have Duralite Flight Systems as one of our Corporate sponsors who helped to off-set the cost of staging such an educational function with a donation of $250.00. Great Planes/FUTABA donated a Real Flight G4 system to IMAC for use in the visual aids/flight simulation area of our training.  Durant Direct Drive.com supplied very nice stick planes for each attendee which will be put to good use during the contest season. Desert Aircraft contributed various Propellers and apparel giveaways. Carden Aircraft provided several propeller bags which were used in the raffle. Sew Busy donated apparel items which were avidly snapped up by the attendees. IMAC provided a grant which helped tremendously in making this three day Seminar a reality.

On the second day (Saturday) at 8:00am we instituted our complete Judging Seminar which began with a "full house". At 10:00am Stan & I held the rudder for the Advanced "Breakaway" session where we were able to get into more details with the "meat of the matter" in judging. We did find a few areas that needed clearing up & these will be passed on to the Rules Committee & the upcoming Educational committee for clarification. In a separate room, focus was centered on our new members & those who had not attended a Seminar previously. Ty & Kent steered this training, which started off with learning to read Aresti and then going through the details of the judging criteria for each "Family of figures".  It was a full day's work for us all as both groups then rejoined at approximately 5:00pm & we went the full 11 hours again with Stan going into Break penalties & the Airspace Control Score. After drawing all the raffle prizes we had now finished off the theoretical side of the Seminar & the practical application was slated for Sunday.   More.....