South Central Pilots

Happy New Year  to everyone from Melissa and myself. We have had one of the busiest years in our lives here while she was in nursing school. It kept us out from competing much this past year.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and great New Years.  Our region has overall had fairly low participation these past two years. I know that the economy has played a role in this to an extent. I say that loosely because other regions have had great turnout over the same period. We as a region need to come up with ways to help this situation out. This year Abilene R/C Society is coming back to have a contest during the latter part of July if not by Fall 2012. The CD's of our contests this year need to have their scorekeepers participate in the tutorial for the score program. Most of you know that before any scores are posted they come to me. This past year I have spent a lot of time correcting IMAC numbers misspelling of names that have changed outcomes and changed the point totals. Some of our contests have taken awhile to post because I didn't receive the files needed within a reasonable amount of time. Guys this has to change!!!  The webmaster will not post any scores until verified by the RD. Wayne Matthews has challenged me in coming up with ways to improve our region overall, and I have been soaking on a few which I will post to our SC page next week.  Contest Directors need to go to the IMAC homepage and place your contest into the events page so it will come to me for approval, we have 4 up so far.

I apologize again for not being at the fore front as I should but that will change, we plan to make at least 4 or 5 contests this year.

I need input from you (pilots) as to if we should have a judging school this year. I need at least 20 pilots so the school can pay for itself. Need to know this soon so I can call Tarrrant College and get our rooms reserved.

Happy Flying,,,

Eddie Bernaldez

SCRD