General Club Business

It’s May!

The Cloudbouncer is available for viewing and/or downloading. Sunday is our Monthly Flying Event. It’s also Mother’s Day, so we’ll have carnations for the moms in attendance. And Flying Events is holding a lunch meeting to get your ideas about improving those activities. And if you missed the April meeting, the recording is now available…

New Board in Place

As of Monday’s night board of directors meeting, there’s new leadership at the helm of AAAA. The newly elected board has taken over and is now responsible for the direction and well-being of the club. Welcome to President Blair Kaufman, and Special Events Chair Chris McCord. Welcome back to Treasurer, Dick Rice; Crew-Development, Sue Palmer;…

April Flying and Bunny Butts

Saturday, April 9 found AAAA members flying and bouncing bunny butts. Well, not actual bunnies, but ping-pong balls that looked like bunny butts. Check out the day’s scores, and overall results for both Flying Events and Crew-D on their respective pages.

Flying and Crew Competition Email sent

We just emailed a reminder about this weekend’s flying and crew competition. Didn’t get it? Maybe you didn’t renew? Maybe you didn’t respond to an email to “reactivate your email”. Maybe we screwed up and didn’t register your email. Whatever the reason, read it here . and click the button at the top to get back…

AAAA LOA in Effect

updated 3/28/2022 AAAA has an LOA with ATC regarding Class C airspace. The Final, signed version has been posted. The effective date on the LOA is Monday, March 28, 2022. A list of 105 AAAA pilot members, N numbers, and signatures was submitted on Monday morning. New “badges” have been sent to those 105 which…

FAA ATC on ABQ LOA

The FAA and ATC will be presenting on the ABQ LOA via YouTube, not Zoom, on Friday at 1pm MDT. Here’s the direct link to the video. https://youtu.be/_03iKT1pt_4

Good News on the ADS-B Situation

UPDATED 9 am, 3-23-22 The DRAFT version of the LOA has been posted for your review. There’s good news on the ADS-B situation as the FAA and ATC have agreed to offer an LOA to ABQ pilots for flying in the Class C airspace. Pilots in PAD will need to add a signature. Pilots not…

Election is now OPEN!

It's Time to Vote! March means spring, winds, and Elections! The 2022 Board of Directors election is underway. Electronic ballots were delivered to email boxes Tuesday morning. Paper ballots were put in the mail Monday afternoon. Vote by paper OR electronic, but do take the time to vote! Bios are online, on the electronic ballot…

February Meeting Time

Where have we been? Yep, it’s meeting time already! Tuesday, 2/22/22, 6:30 pm at the Balloon Museum, or on Zoom. The program is Kim Vesely taking us on a walk down memory lane to revisit all the launch sites Balloon Fiesta has used in the last 50 years. You’ll also hear some historical facts about…

January Meeting and Cloudbouncer

It’s time for the first meeting of the year. This coming Tuesday, Jan 25, 6:30 at the Balloon Museum. Hear from Zerek Welz and Ray Bair about what it takes to place 1-2 in the 2021 Balloon Fiesta competition. Get the details about Friends and Lover in the latest edition of the Cloudbouncer. Download it, or…