In our continuing efforts to provide our members with more benefits and information about IRCHA and the helicopter community we are making some updates to our website. These updates will allow us to mass e-mail all current members with information about IRCHA, Events, Newsletters etc. We are also happy to announce that we will now have an official newsletter editor. This person will be taking care of creating, collecting information, posting and distributing (thru the website) the quarterly newsletter. We have appointed Bryan Rowell to get us started for the 2008 calendar year.  Thank you Bryan for stepping up to take on the task! Next addition to the website will be an archives page of manuals from as many different radios, machines, motors and electronics (gyro’s, governors etc.) manufactures as we can collect PDF’s for. We are going to set this up so you select a brand and it will take you to a page with all their products (at least all the ones we could get pdf’s for). Also in the works are 2 other pages, a benefits page explaining the benefits of IRCHA and a new products pages where we will post new/improved items as we receive information from mfg’s.

Now in order to make a lot of this work we need some help from our members, in other words help us help you. We need to get our records updated with current addresses and e-mail addresses. So we need everyone to go into there account and make sure that there address and e-mail address are current. If you need help getting into your account please contact myself or Shannon Lloyd @ secretary@ircha.org and we will be glad to reset your login information so you can update your account. If you have any questions please feel free to drop me an e-mail.

Brett Walker

IRCHA Member at Large

memberatlarge@ircha.org

flyer2251@yahoo.com

For those of you who have been anxiously waiting, Align has released the official product information on the Trex 500. We have all been watching the posts on forums wondering and hoping will it make it in time for Christmas. Well it appears it might be just happen. I am going to bet that this is the hot seller of the season. If you have a favorite shop I would call and see if they have a preorder list as these are expected to sell out.

We are now accepting nominations for 2 seats on the Board of Directors. The nominations will be open till Jan 1st, please use the form below and submit to irchaelection08@yahoo.com. We will announce the nominees by Jan 15th and we will then hold the election in Feb with the announcement of the winners to follow in March.
Nomination Form

Dates for the 2008 IRCHA Jamboree

Many of you have emailed asking about the dates for the 2008 Jamboree, the need for vacation time to be planned/ requested for etc….

Your IRCHA board is pleased to announce the following

It is finally confirmed that the
2008 IRCHA Jamboree will be Aug. 14th thru the 17th.

Planning is already in progress for another great event.

Dave Millner & the IRCHA Board

Starting on Dec 1^st till Jan 1^st we will be taking nominations for the 2 seats that are up for election, these 2 seats are currently held by David Millner and Fred Gambino. The election will then be held in Feb in accordance with the by-laws. We will be posting more details as to the nomination process once we get closer to Dec 1^st. Feel free to contact any of the board members with questions.