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When you arrive, please try to fill-in the corners and short edges of the hall first so as to leave the largest unobsructed
area aspossible for flying. The meetings are largely sport orientated, just turn up, pay and fly. However there will
sometimes be an informal "just for fun" event, which will be fitted-in around the sports flying so that it doesn't
disturb anyone not taking part. FF & RC are allocated half hour slots, FF starting on the hour.
FF models may be flown during the RC slots,
If you are flying a FF model during the RC half hour please make absolutely sure that you don’t
obstruct an RC flier’s view of his or her model. Especially when the RC model is being launched.
The hall’s limiting dimensions are; 7m to bottom of the rafters and approximately 13m between the basketball nets and
about 15m maximum. For FF scale models a span of 17”-18” is a “safe” maximum, but models of up to 20” with a low
wing loading have been flown successfully. As a rule of thumb, given the size of the hall, a model with a wing loading of
about 10g/dm2 or lower (without motor) is very likely to survive a session. Duration models usually have such a low wing
loading that more or less anything of that sort can be flown, the limit being the rafters. RC models up to 24” span are
regularly flown successfully.
What with some of us enjoying less than perfect health, the fast approaching onset of the winter snuffles season
and the appearance of a New Improved! (Now With added Mutations) version of our “favourite” virus it seems sensible to
suggest that proxy flying be allowed by default for all our events. It’s not as satisfying as flying your own model,
but at least the effort of making the model, especially if it is a new build for a competition, won’t be wasted.