Don’t forget the family day next week !!!

 

If you want to impress your mates, why not  wear one of the club embroidered shirts.  They are available from our merchandise officer Steve Canavan.

Prices as follows:    Polo Shirt               £10

Sweatshirt              £12

Fleece                                                                              £18

 
 

Editorial.

Hi club members.   First a reminder of the coming events at the field.  A week on Sunday, that’s the 28th June is the date for the club family day.  This is a chance for you to bring the wife, kids. girl friend or better half along to see what you get up to on a Sunday.   There will be food and drinks for all and hopefully lots of flying. We will start around 12pm.  Lets hope the weather is kind for a change.

 

26th July is the date for the club scale day.   The idea is to bring along a model that is scale like.  It can be built from scratch, a plan, a kit or ARTF.  Points will be awarded for  complexity-workmanship-finish-realism and of course how it looks in flight.

 

There are quite a number of heli flyers in the club so on the same day I would like to run a simple test comp to see who is the most consistent heli flyer,  We have never tried this before but it proved quite popular in the Coventry model club recently.

The test is split into 3 sections. Novice, intermediate and expert.  Either level of flyer could win because the point system is worked out on a percentage.  With accurate flying a novice could achieve a higher score than an expert.

Manoeuvres are as follows:

Novice

1Take off and hover for 5 seconds

2 Fly left 5 meters and hover for 5 seconds

3 Fly right 10 meters and hover for 5 seconds

4 Fly left 5 meters and hover for 5 seconds

5 Land on take off spot.

Each manoeuvre has a maximum of 20 points – total 100.  The emphasis is on smooth controlled flying.

Intermediate  does the same as above plus:

6 Take off and hover for 5 seconds

7 Pirouette – either direction

8 Climb to a safe height and fly a circuit (circular or race track either direction)

9 Return to take of area and hover for 5 seconds.

10 Land on take off spot.

Expert Does all of the above plus:

11 Take off and fly rectangular circuit (either direction)

12 Stall turn to either side of flying area (away from the flight line)

13 Inside loop in front of pilot

14 Full normal speed roll centred in front of pilot

15 Circuit, approach and land on take off spot.

 

As you can see, nothing too difficult.  Even I could have a go at the intermediate and I have not flown a heli for many a year.

Just decide which level you are at and have a go.  It will improve your flying and who knows, you might enjoy it.

 
 

June 2009