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Hello fellow Icon owners and flyers,

I personally am tired of receiving my SPA calendar and seeing multiple pictures of pontoon planes, Searey kit planes and year after year, NO Icons. I challenged Steve McAuley on this at SnF 24 and he claimed the reason the MOST BEAUTIFUL aircraft design in 25 years (my words, not his) has been snubbed by the calendar was the lack of good pictures submitted. I just sent 5 and I encourage as many of you as possible to do the same. If I see another SPA calendar without at least one Icon picture I will not be a happy camper. Please help me in rectifying this incongruous and bewildering situation.

Here is the link to submit photos.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...eid=4a322468a9

Thanks!

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Michel, you had some nice pics posted here on the water.

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Yup. I sent those! I hope we can flood SPA with great Icon Pics!

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Hi Michel. I too submitted some photos last year and never got any feedback. Will try again this year.

Tim

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Just uploaded 5 pics. Thanks for the info Michel.
Hopefully we get some space in the calendar!

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I contacted the photographer who took ICON pics in Monaco last month, he says he I’ll submit photos too. Let’s get ICON on the calendar!

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Well, once again Steve McAughey snubbed us on the Calendar. This is really starting to irk me. No Icon.

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I saw that too. Have we ever made it onto the Seaplane Pilots Association calendar? I was disappointed, especially knowing photos were submitted. Not a single Light Sport seaplane represented this year. While I love floatplanes, 9 out of the 12 featured have the same traditional layout—high-wing, taildragger on floats. It gets a bit monotonous after a while. What I really enjoy in calendars is the display of aerodynamic designs. By leaving out Light Sport seaplanes, they missed showcasing the variety of designs available today.


No multi-engine seaplanes either, so I guess we’re in good company on the sidelines. Makes me wonder if they just didn’t receive submissions for this category.


Oh well, I suppose the ICON A5 is shaping up to be the Susan Lucci of the SPA calendar—she needed 19 tries to win her Emmy. Let’s hope the ICON doesn’t have to wait that long to make the pages!

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I am considering leaving the SPA.

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I’m new to SPA, Has any of the LS seaplanes ever been on calendar?

Let’s flood them again next year, and maybe combined with (hopeful) corporate news releases of ICON resuming production, it may be a win/win.

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over the last 10 years, I have seen probably a dozen sea Rey’s . That’s why I am so irked .

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Ugh! That stinks!

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Challenge Accepted 5 Photos uploaded

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Maybe we should make our own IOPA calendar?

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I like that idea let’s make our own calendar great thinking

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I agree too!

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I think we can use one of the services below and list it in the Marketplace, then anyone can order it on-demand.

https://www.createphotocalendars.com...hoto-calendars
https://www.cafepress.com/designer/custom-calendars

Start emailing me photos to [email protected] and I will put together a voting contest once we get enough entries in!

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Great idea! I’ll email you the photos I sent to the SPA. Keep us posted!
Thanks Marcus

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I just sent you an email with eight or 10 candidates

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I just sent you an email with eight or 10 candidates

It was published last week.

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Since we got snubbed we’ll do our own calendar!

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I did send in a couple of photos Mike but, as you can all see, no Icon A5 photos in the 2025 calendar - oh, well!

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Last chance to email me photos, I will put them up for voting next week.