This program is not intended to al-ter or replace any instructor pro-gram offered by AMA chartered clubs for their AMA members. This program is intended to introduce the non-AMA member to aeromod-eling while providing liability insur-ance coverage to the non-AMA member and the chartered club. This program is optional.

A non-AMA member may fly at a chartered club site and receive mem-ber liability insurance protection as long as he/she is flying under the di-rect supervision of a club-designated Introductory Pilot Instructor. The Introductory Pilot Instructor must hold a current AMA Open member-ship with the “Intro Pilot” classifica-tion. Supervised instruction must take place at an AMA chartered club’s site, and must be closely supervised. The non-AMA member will have the same liability insurance coverage that other AMA members receive, solely while under the direct, one-on-one supervision of the Intro Pilot Instruc-tor, for a period of 60 consecutive days starting from the first session. No other AMA benefits are provided to the non-AMA member.

I am really excited about be-ing your new newsletter edi-tor. It is my goal to deliver informative and interesting issues about the club, it’s members and events. I have some ideas that will stimulate your thinking and occasion-ally provide some amuse-ment.

I have some experience as a newsletter editor with the former Pioneer R/C Club in the Bay Area. I was also newsletter editor of a local astronomy club in Medford. I hold a Commer-cial Pilots License with Instrument and Multi-engine ratings and was a former Flight Instructor. I’ve had several other lines of work in the aviation field with flight schools, Boeing and as a Jet Air-craft Mechanic in the Air Force working on B-52’s and KC-135’s.

With a club our size, we certainly have a wealth of knowledge and experience and it is my hope that we can share some of this with all the members by soliciting such items as: building projects, photos, stories, suggestions, humor and so on, from you.

Again, I am excited and eager to get going as editor and please, let me know what you think about the content and feel free to make suggestions.

I hope everybody finished your building projects because it’s time to go flying. This last week-end’s float-fly was a real success. The weather was perfect and the turnout was great. I was talking with a gentleman from the Port-land area and he said that he was having a great time and would be back next year.

Don’t forget the IMAC contest is coming up we could use some help, so contact me or just show up at the field on the 3rd of May. I want to thank Kevin Parker for taking over the safety officer po-sition and also Ben Musolf for taking over the newsletter. Their help in the club is greatly appreciated. Please give them an “atta boy” when you see them next.

See you at the next meeting.