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Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) is the largest sport aviation organization in the
world with over 170,000 members in over 2,500 chartered clubs. AMA District VII consists
of the 249 AMA Chartered clubs in Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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| We need your help! |
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In order to be able to bring you the latest news, events, pictures and information from around the district, we are happy to announce that the AMA District 7 website is undergoing a major overhaul! A new site with easy-to-use features and functionality in a nice, modern design will make it easy to learn what's going on in your district.
Help us get the site ready for launch by sending us your content! Give us a report of your latest event, or announce an upcoming one! Tell us what's going on in your club and things you're doing in your community. Don't forget some pictures!
Email your submission to webmaster@amadistrictvii.org. Thank you!!
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| Feb 15 - President signs FAA bill, includes protection for model aviation |
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Last week, Congress passed the first FAA Reauthorization bill in more than four years. The Bill included a special provision for model aircraft protecting it from FAA regulations.
Signed last night by President Obama, the special provision in the Bill recognizes community-based safety programming as an effective means of managing the modeling activity. The model aircraft section establishes minimum criteria for safe aeromodeling operations and specifically directs the FAA to not enact rules for modeling activity conducted within the safety programming of a nationwide community-based organization.
The culmination of AMA's efforts over the past four years in achieving this recognition and obtaining the legislative safeguard is a great accomplishment for the aeromodeling community. This recognition will help with our continuing efforts with the FAA to improve safety in the national airspace.
Recognition is also due to the tens of thousands of AMA members who went the extra mile by writing their congressional leaders, making phone calls, and supporting the AMA with donations used for this campaign. Continue to monitor www.modelaircraft.org/gov for further details.
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| Feb 3 - Message from Tim Jesky - District VII VP |
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Hello everyone. As many of you may already know the election results have been finalized and I now have the honor of being voted in as the new AMA District VII Vice President. First and foremost I'd like to express my gratitude to all of the members in the district for their support. I'd also like to thank Former District VII VP Bill Oberdieck for his years of service to the district and the academy.
For those that didn't catch my campaign statement, my name is Tim Jesky. I've been married to my wife Linda for 34 years and have two children, Joe and Andrew. I've been a model aircraft enthusiast as long as I can remember and became involved with R/C when my boys were young. I divide my flying time between sport flying powered aircraft and soaring which I was introduced to several years ago.
It's been a busy month for me since taking office the beginning of the year. After attending the AMA Expo and Executive council meetings in Ontario, California I was off to AMA Headquarters in Muncie for orientation meetings. The biggest news out of Ontario on the FAA briefings was that the release of the NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rule Making) on small unmanned aircraft systems has again been delayed. The new release date has been moved mid second quarter of this year. The two best recommendations that came from the AMA team heading up the response to the FAA is that we as modelers continue to operate our model aircraft in the same safe and responsible manner as we have collectively done for the past 75 years. The other is that we make certain that our personal contact information is current and up to date. If you have moved, changed your phone number or email address please let the membership officer in your club know as this will help should we need to begin another letter writing campaign to our Senators and Members of Congress.
Please feel free to contact me with your questions and concerns, my doors always open.
Tim
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| Add Your Club's Events to D-VII Calendar |
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Email Ed with the
specific information. You can list sanctioned and non-sanctioned events,
but it's best to send info at least 4 weeks in advance. And don't forget
non-flying events like swap meets and mall shows.
Here is the information we need:
- Event Date(s)
- Event Name
- Event City, State
- Site location (URL of map if available)
- Event desription
- Event flyer (URL of flyer or attach pdf file)
- Contact name, email & phone number
- Sponsoring club name with URL
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