Hello to all of you.

Here it is the South West IMAC year end wrap up. Before we know it we will be deep into 2010.. The South West needs closure with the completion of the last contest of the year. 2009 was a great year in the SW IMAC world. Without all of you pilots this could not happen. As the IMAC SW AZ ARD, I personally want to thank all the hard working club members, CD’s, and IMAC members that make this happen.

I can’t close out the year without thanking our sponsors for the SW IMAC Regional Final at EVA. Special thanks to all of them for helping develop this high tech world we play in. Here is a list of special companies from 2009 in random order. I hope I do not miss any as they are so important.

• Desert Aircraft
• Smart Fly
• Hobbico
• Horizon
• Chief Aircraft
• JJ Tail wheels
• Viper Hobbies
• Aeroworks, Inc
• Club Hobbies
• Bill Hemple
• Ace Hardware

On to the last contest of the year!

SW IMAC Regional Final at EVA

The last contest of the year “SW EVA Regional IMAC Finals” is in the books. The contest was held over the long weekend following Thanksgiving. The long 3 day contest allowed us to change things up a bit and brought out the best of the best. I will take a moment to describe the event for those of you that could not make it.

Friday brought us great weather and all 32 pilots were ready to go on time. The EVA members had the field in the best shape I have ever seen it, “BIG THANKS to EVA”. We started at 9:00 AM with the contest being like every 2 day contest with 2 sequences per round and 2 rounds on day 1. We followed this with Freestyle with 4 pilots. One of the 4 pilots Josh Ziering could not fly due to wing tube failure, (he forgot it). We finished by 5:00 PM on time and Dean Bird passed the unknowns out for Saturday.

Saturday brought us good weather in the AM but it got really windy in the afternoon. We started at 9:15 with what would be a normal 2 day contest with a round of unknowns for all classes but basic. Round 4 we all flew 2 sequences of knowns. This would close the points count for the SW IMAC regional standings. We then followed this with one more round of Freestyle.

After the flying we sent the scores off by email to our regional director Tim Attaway, Tim was waiting and ready for the regional final standing math exercise. After day two of flying, the regional standings could be calculated and awarded at our special banquet @ the Big Bear Diner, (Thanks, Greg!).

The banquet was a blast as we had 50 + pilots and family all together for the regional trophy hand out and Dean Bird distributed the unknowns for Sunday. Part of the contest challenge was that all classes would fly 2 different unknowns on Sunday. In addition to that we had Basic flying one special unknown (designed by Dean Bird) for the bragging rights for 2009 and one cool trophy.

Here are the final scores used for the Saturday / Sunday standings.

	BASIC Saturday	Total			BASIC Sunday	Total
1st	Randy Dreyer	4984.5		1st	Randy Dreyer	6979.2
2nd	Richard Carlton	4916.9		2nd	Sebastian Boetticher	6822.7
3rd	Sebastian Boetticher	4879.6		3rd	Robert Walden	6748.9
4th	Robert Walden	4878.8		4th	Richard Carlton	6639.9
5th	Michael Smith	4521.9		5th	Alex Carlton	5740.6
6th	Bill Santore	4221.1		6th	Jason Neves	5461.7
7th	Alex Carlton	4206.7		7th	Michael Smith	5310.3
8th	Jason Neves	4044.6		8th	Jim Harris	5230.1
9th	Lin Andresen	4026.1		9th	Greg Frazier	5218.8
10th	Jim Harris	3975.0		10th	Mike McIntyre	5140.9
11th	Greg Frazier	3957.2		11th	Lin Andresen	5123.3
12th	Tony Johnson	3844.7		12th	Tony Johnson	4928.1
13th	Mike McIntyre	3821.7		13th	Jerrod Anderson	4863.9
14th	Jerrod Anderson	3529.1		14th	Bill Santore	4221.1
	SPORTSMAN Saturday	Total			SPORTSMAN Sunday	Total
1st	Michael Bacosa	4920.0		1st	Michael Bacosa	6920.0
2nd	Andrew Taylor	4917.0		2nd	Andrew Taylor	6917.0
3rd	Anthony Matera	4874.5		3rd	Anthony Matera	6752.3
4th	Chad Beedy	4687.3		4th	Josh Ziering	6550.5
5th	Josh Ziering	4660.8		5th	Chad Beedy	6409.1
6th	Randy Wegner	4510.1		6th	Randy Wegner	6250.5
7th	Brad Beedy	4389.8		7th	Brad Beedy	6122.0
8th	Jon Ridpath	3907.0		8th	Dave Grip	4671.0
9th	Dave Grip	3240.0		9th	Jon Ridpath	3907.0
	INTERMEDIATE Saturday	Total			INTERMEDIATE Sunday	Total
1st	Spencer Nordquist	4962.6		1st	Spencer Nordquist	6960.5
2nd	Kyle Goodwine	4958.5		2nd	Kyle Goodwine	6899.0
3rd	Rusty Fried	4845.6		3rd	Kirt Campbell	6725.9
4th	Kirt Campbell	4824.9		4th	Rusty Fried	6722.0
5th	Bill Evans	4118.3		5th	Bill Evans	5664.3
	ADVANCED Saturday	Total			ADVANCED Sunday	Total
1st	Cody McClean	4995.5		1st	Cody McClean	6995.5
2nd	Bill Adams	4969.1		2nd	Bill Adams	4969.1
	UNLIMITED Saturday	Total			UNLIMITED Sunday	Total
1st	Dean Bird	4974.0		1st	Steve Nelson	6931.5
2nd	Steve Nelson	4931.5		2nd	Dean Bird	6883.9

This is the way the regional standings finished for 2009.

Congratulations to all!

SOUTHWEST REGIONAL CLASS WINNERS
UNLIMITED		Points
1st	Eric Powell	4950
2nd	Adam Bry	4930
3rd	Steve Nelson	4728
4th	Bernie Boland	4651
5th	Tim Attaway	4488
ADVANCED
1st	Todd Bridges	4994
2nd	Bill Adams	4964
3rd	Cody McLean	4926
4th	Nick Radle	4883
5th	Frank Oliver	4541
INTERMEDIATE
1st	Spencer Nordquist	5000
2nd	Kyle Goodwine	4998
3rd	Matt Stringer	4949
4th	Jason Benson	4892
5th	Joe MacGregor	4777
SPORTSMAN
1st	Kirt Campbell	5000
2nd	Dominic Grasso	4979
3rd	Andrew Taylor	4971
4th	Anthony Matera	4870
5th	Randy Wegner	4770
BASIC
1st	Mike Smith	5000
2nd	Randy Dreyer	4934
3rd	Rich Carlton	4893
4th	Bill Santore	4560
5th	Sebastian Boetticher	3867
6th	Robert Walden	3847
7th	Mike Brown	3640
8th	Mike McIntyre	3620
Senior
1st	Joe MacGregor	5000
2nd	Pete Watkins	4861
3rd	Bruce Roland	4851
4th	Steve Nelson	4751

Sunday weather looked great in the AM but as most of you know we got blown out in the afternoon. The weather shortened the flying a bit but we still had a 7000 point contest with 2 unknowns for Sportsman through Unlimited and one unknown for Basic.

The Unknown for Basic was a huge hit. Watching all of the pilots eyes open wide as Dean handed it out was worth all of the work I personally put into this contest. We had, I believe, a 100% vote for an unknown to be flown again at the last contest of the year by the Basic pilots. Here are the unknown and Freestyle scores.

	Basic Unknown	Rnd 5			Freestyle
1st	Randy Dreyer	1000.0		1st	Bernie Boland
2nd	Sebastian Boetticher	943.1		2nd	Spencer Nordquist
3rd	Robert Walden	884.3		3rd	Kirt Campbell
4th	Richard Carlton	810.6		4th	Josh Ziering
5th	Alex Carlton	799.7
6th	Jerrod Anderson	640.9
7th	Jason Neves	596.8
8th	Jim Harris	500.5
9th	Mike McIntyre	518.0
10th	Greg Frazier	452.2
11th	Tony Johnson	437.3
12th	Lin Andresen	313.7
13th	Michael Smith	6.5
14th	Bill Santore	0.0

I can send the excel file to anyone that wants it with round by round pilot scores. Due to the Score Software problem this contest had, (I had), the outcome will not be on the IMAC site unless Roy can figure something out.

Well this wraps up 2009 from AZ.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year for 2010!

Cheers,

Bernie Boland

IMAC South West ARD for Arizona

bwboland@gmail.com

602-509-3412 cell