Beech Aero Club

Want to read BAC news items through an RSS feed? Want to update your calendar automatically with our fly-ins? Over the years we've developed the tools to do so, however at the time they were relatively "cutting edge" technology and most people didn't have the necessary software to take advantage of them. Many more people do now, so if you are wondering how to get some of our syndicated content, read on. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, that's okay too, you can safely ignore the geeky tools and still not miss anything.

Did you know that you can receive a notification via email whenever anyone posts a reply to a topic you have participated in within the Discussion Forums? It is true! Near the bottom of the form that you post while creating a new topic, or responding to an existing topic is a checkbox which says "Notify me when a reply is posted".

BAC Founding Director Tom Corcoran was quoted in an AOPA article about "correcting" an unfavorable AP news item on General Aviation. Here is his "Letter To The Editor" of the Patriot Ledger in Quincy. For more ideas on how to get the truth re GA and the FAA Funding Plans, log onto the AOPA website. Better yet...join AOPA, or EAA, or any other alphabet GA group.

Recently a few people have asked me about the ability to receive emails or notifications when topics in the Discussion Forums have been updated. Yes! This functionality has always existed, however you might not receive notifications based on the preferences you set when you joined.

Mark Miller has grabbed the lead from Bo Boggs in the 2006 President's Trophy race.

I've updated the Map of Members page on the BAC website. I've finally uncovered a more reliable international airport database to pull lat/long information from. Also when I build the original map Google Maps had not yet released their mapping API so I couldn't reliably draw a World map. So now the map shows what airports around the world have BAC members.

I've been meaning to build this for a long time. Since it is BAC's birthday real soon I thought this would be my present to BAC. You can now view a map of our members. Unfortunately due to poor availability of airport databases outside of the US and appropriate (and free) mapping software it is USA only right now... but I hope this changes soon.

Today the BAC website reached a new milestone. Just before noon EST Kerry Muller visited the Product Discounts page marking the 1,000,000th page viewed on this site!