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(NIMSA)

12/07/10

 

 

 

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Click pic to download a pdf calendar of NIMSA events for 2010

 

Next Event:

8th Aug 2010 - Rescheduled Area Open Championships

 then 

22nd Aug, Open thermal 

and electric


Latest News

latest  update 21/06/10


***Area Open Championships ***

As the Area Open Championships was cancelled on the 6th June 2010, the event will now take place on 8th Aug 2010. If that date is unflyable it will be two weeks later on the 22nd Aug 2010


Wed night flying has started

 

 

 

Wed Night Flying

Thermal soaring, either electric or off the winch, will take precedence over all other forms of flight. No electric sport flying of park fliers etc will take place until ALL thermal soaring has finished.

This is in accordance with the clubs stated aims of "soaring" and the decision from the 2006 AGM and it's reiteration at the 2009 AGM.

If a soarer wants to fly, any parkflyer type models MUST land and allow soaring to take place.

 

 

 



 

Club Fees 2010

Fees for 2010 will be £50, same as last years.

BMFA £29

Club £21

All club members are required to be BMFA members

For details of how to join NIMSA, contact one of the committee members on the contacts page

 


 

*** Frequency Control***

After much "discussion" at the last committee meeting, frequency control at Mallusk this year will be of the "peg on" form.

Each flyer will have a peg with their name on and when they want to fly, they place it on the board on the frequency they are transmitting on.

Bill will supply each flyer with a peg at the first event of the year and it is then the flyers responsibility to remember to bring it to the field.

Please ensure you are sure of what this means BEFORE the first event!!!

If in doubt ask a committee member!

 



A Cautionary Tale from the Club Chairman!
 

"Negative Lead Corrosion: Until last Wednesday evening this was only something I had read about. I launched my large electric glider and it set off happily towards the entrance gates. It then demonstrated a disconcerting lack of response to control inputs and continued in a gentle descending right-hand turn towards the car park. It just missed the cars and crashed into a tree from which it was fairly gently deposited on the pavement. Lucky Me!

On examining the electrics, I thought that my soldered joint between the negative battery lead and 4mm socket had failed, but on cutting off the socket I found that the whole wire part of the lead had been reduced to a sorry black mess!

Perhaps in pre-flight checks, we should include a jiggling of the black lead?"

Reproduced with the permission of Mike Leonard (Chairman)