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.

The IRCHA E Bulletin is once again being published. IRCHA will bring this to you 4 times a year and it is available to IRCHA members only as a PDF download in the publications section of the IRCHA site. This E Bulletin has been done as a cost savings measure for the organization which is helping us give back to the members with the ability to provide financial support to your regional events.

Starting with the Jan. issue it is our goal to include articles from a manufacturer each quarter that will be of interest and benefit to you. Currently we have commitments from several willing to provide content. Another facet of the quarterly bulletin will be to provide IRCHA news to its members on IRCHA related events such as your regional events.

The bulletin can be a forum for those willing to provide information / coverage of their local events that may otherwise be un-noticed. This publication by no means is meant to take the place of the forums we all use. So many modelers make use of these and it is not our intention to assume the roll of a forum.

The goal for this administration is to build the hobby by IRCHA becoming the first source newcomers look to for guidance to information sources and reviews. From there each modeler will find his or her own sources of information they are comfortable with. Beyond that it is you the modeler that must assist that newcomer into becoming someone to build the helicopter fraternity into a strong segment of the hobby.

Thanks
Dave M

IRCHA has held meeting with the AMA and submitted paperwork to take over the Turbine waiver process for the rotarywing portion of the hobby from the JPO.

IRCHA officers and turbine CD’s met at the jamboree to discuss and revise the procedures.
This process takes time, but we will announce the outcome once the AMA has reviewed all the revisions. More on this as things develope.

Dave M