NATS 2023-Registration is open. Links for registration, camping and banquet

[John Paris]

Everyone,
Just a quick message as all AMA members should have received an email stating that Nats Registration is open.  As a reminder, you need to be logged into the AMA site in order to register online.  New for this year, AMA can collect the event fees for the unofficial events for PAMPA with your registration.  If you are flying only unofficial events, the AMA required fee of $10 will also be charged.  If you are flying both official and unofficial events (ie Open and OTS), the base registration fee of $60 at AMA will be charged as well as the event fees.  Hopefully this makes sense.

For those flying unofficial events only, you should still be able to register upon arrival at the AMA and pay the unofficial event registration fee (AMA requirement) and then pay the event fee at the flying site for the events you would like to enter.

For the Junior and Senior flyers, the fees are waived but you should still register through the AMA using the Jr/Sr log in so that the AMA will have a list of the competitors in these age groups.  It will certainly help for the main events being flown at the L-pad.

For those that find the registration process troublesome, which may be true for those flying multiple disciplines, a call to Yolanda Jones at 765.287.1256 x261 should take care of things.

I will add the proposed schedule for this year's events later today so that plans can start to be made to attend.  One big change that we have over previous years is that things will conclude on Friday 14 Jul 23 which means that Qualification Flying will start a day earlier (Tuesday) in order to maintain the regular cadence of events.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions related to the NATS and I will see what I can do.  Looking forward to a great NATS this year as we celebrate 50 years of being in business as a SIG and 100 years of NATS competition.

John Paris

[John Paris]

Sorry for the poor formatting here.  The attachment should look nicer.


2023 Control Line Aerobatics National Championships
                   July 9-14, 2023

Saturday July 8
7am – dark   Control Line Precision Aerobatics Practice   L-Pad, Grass Circles

Sunday, July 9
7am – dark   Control Line Precision Aerobatics Practice   L-Pad, Grass Circles
8am   Beginner & Intermediate Stunt Registration*   Grass Circles
8:30am   Beginner & Intermediate Stunt Pilots Meeting*   Grass Circles
9am   Beginner & Intermediate Stunt Event*   Grass Circles
12 noon   Jr/Sr/Open/Advanced entries close   Nats Headquarters
2pm   Open/Advanced Models Presented for Appearance Judging AMA Museum
3pm   Pilots meeting (Big Tent)   AMA Boardroom
Registration for Old Time, Nostalgia 30, and Classic Stunt will be at the
Boardroom before and after the meeting for Official events*
Pilots will be given circle assignments and flight orders before they leave the meeting.
Pilots will vote for Concours Award after the meeting
6pm   PAMPA Banquet    Ball State University

Monday, July 10
7am – dark   Control Line Precision Aerobatics Practice   L-Pad, Grass Circles
7am   Judges Seminar Phase (Flight)   L-Pad Circle 4
8am   Nostalgia 30, Old Time, & Classic Stunt Pilots Meeting*   Grass Circles
8:30am   Nostalgia 30, Old Time, & Classic Stunt Events*   Grass Circles
5pm   Judges Seminar Review (Rules review)   AMA Board Room

Tuesday, July 11
7am – dark   Control Line Precision Aerobatics Practice   Grass Circles
7am   Judges warm up flights   L-Pad Circle 4
8am   Open/Advanced Qualifications Rounds 1 & 2   L-Pad

Wednesday, July 12
7am – dark   Control Line Precision Aerobatics Practice   Grass Circles
7am   Judges warm up flights   L-Pad Circle 4
8am   Open/Advanced Qualifications Rounds 3 & 4   L-Pad

Thursday, July 13
7am – dark   Control Line Precision Aerobatics Practice   Grass Circles
7am   Judges warm up flights   L-Pad Circle 4
8am   Open Top 20   L-Pad
8am   Advanced Finals   L-Pad

Friday, July 14
7am – dark   Control Line Precision Aerobatics Practice   Grass Circles
7am   Judges warm up flights   L-Pad Circle 4
7:30am   Jr/Sr processing and Appearance Judging   L-Pad
8am   Jr/Sr Finals   L-Pad
8am   Open Finals   L-Pad Circle of choice
12 noon   Walker Cup Fly-off   L-Pad Circle of choice



*Unofficial Event
If you are flying only unofficial events, you still must register and pay the $10 unofficial AMA event fee.  Event fees collected at the Event.

[John Paris]

Everyone,
I received word today from Yolanda that camping reservations are open for the Nats as well as a reminder that Nats registration is open.  I will place the links for both below.  It still could be worthwhile to hold off until Mark Weiss has finalized the cost for the banquet to make it one stop shopping for registration and paying for the banquet.   I expect that this may be one of the topics he covers on 9 Feb 23 during the Zoom Meeting.
John

https://nats.modelaircraft.org/nats/register

https://www.campspot.com/book/internationalaeromodelingcenter

[John Paris]

Everyone,
Everything should be in place for registration with the AMA now to include the Banquet if you would like to pay when you register.  If you are not registering to fly there is a link to purchase tickets to attend the Banquet on the PAMPA website.  This will avoid any required fees by the AMA at checkout.

https://pampacl.org/2023/02/24/pampas-50th-anniversary-banquet-and-the-100th-nats/

Please feel free to post any questions or comments on your experiences with registration.

John