The AMPS Club is proud to host its first AMA/F3A pattern contest ever January 15-17, 2010. The Club's website is www.amps-rc.com and the runways are golfcourse quality grass. There is a north/south and east/west facing runways with lots of permanent shade. The Club members are great people that always support the events, and also BBQ very good food!! The AMPs is located on the outskirts of Miami and very accessible by MIA! Thats right, we are hoping that many fliers from around D3, the USA, Canada, South America, the Carribean, or perhaps even Europe, can come for this event. This is perfectly timed to get all the cabin-fevered pattern pilots out of the winter gloom and to Miami with great flying weather! The East/West flight line has two pilot stations nicely separated, with 20' tall poles with colored flags. The field is setup very nice for pattern flying!!

1. Website: www.amps-rc.com
2. Date: January 15-17, 2010 (15th is official practice day, 16 and 17 is for the competition)
3. Friday: Practice (Practice before the 15th is possible, but field time will be shared with the club members)
4. Saturday: All AMA classes, and F3A pilots will fly 4 Rounds of P11
5. Sunday: All AMA classes, and F3A pilots will fly 2 Rounds of F11

It is planned that all AMA classes will get to fly 6 rounds. Given the newness of the P11/F11 schedules, the F3A competitors will be allowed to keep their best 4 rounds of the event, regardless of the mixture of P or F rounds. This will allow everyone the opportunity to fly the F rounds in competition for a new experience, but still allow the pilots to keep their best 4 of 6 rounds. I personally hope to see again many of the pilots we met from the 2008 Bogota South American Championships. There is already some growing interest and invitations sent out, and I hope these pilots and countries can announce their visit when decisions are finalized. We will post more information soon, as we are submitting our AMA sanction this week. We are 4 months from the event and given our hopes for creating an international atmosphere, feel this is the right time to make this announcement.

There will be trophies from 1st through 3rd positions all classes. I also plan to have to have 30% Cool Power Heli fuel available to all pilots flying glow at the event included with the entry fee (entry fee has not been determined yet, but is typically in the $30.00 range).

Thank you everyone for the interest and I look forward to seeing you all in Miami in 2010!!!!

Jim Woodward, Asst CD

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