The BAeA UKaerobatics e-mail exchange forum

The Association has an excellent e-mail exploder to provide a forum for the publication and exchange of aerobatic information through the internet. This uses the title UKaerobatics, is hosted via the eGroups web-site at www.egroups.com and furnishes similar facilities for all manner of sporting and other groups around the world. Ours is a "closed" group, that is it is only open to members of the British Aerobatic Association or other aerobatic folk known to us. The process is very simple, requires only that you have an email address, and is ideally suited to our Association. To join just submit your email address using the gizmo below, and you'll get a response (by email) from Steve Todd at - he's the system moderator.
 

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If your name is not on the current BAeA membership list then we suggest that you initially visit the membership pages here and become at least an Associate Member. This of course provides a range of other benefits - not least the annual BAeA Contest Information Booklet and the bi-monthly Aerobatic News Review.

When you are a member of the BAeA section of eGroups.com you are automatically sent a copy of every email submitted to the site, ie. sent to the exploder by other members of the closed BAeA group. In this way we all receive a copy of all the "correspondence", and by simply "replying" to such an email, or submitting one yourself, your own material is circulated to everyone else. In this way discussions, arguments, queries, requests for technical or flying technique help, anecdotes... all are distributed amongst the electronic membership and anyone can dip-in and state their piece.

About half of the current BAeA membership have email addresses, and have been invited to join the exploder group. If this is seen as an intrusion then it is equally simple to leave the group - just log onto the E-groups site and the way to withdraw  is explained.

For those of you not "in the know" there's a similar IAC (International Aerobatic Club - the somewhat larger USA version of the BAeA) exploder that is equally easy to join, although this one is open to anyone who wishes to become a subscriber. Their web URL is at www.iac.org and as usual the instructions on how to join are all there. Regular users of this much larger exploder group have often found that the considerable level of non-aerobatic small-talk and occasional personal outbursts of poor netiquette do lower the tone somewhat, but take the rough with the smooth and you may find it interesting.