On Thursday 19th September the Council and Environmental Agency will be carrying out a mapping survey on the Moor to assist their wetland project. This entails flying a drone at 300 feet repeatedly criss crossing the Moor, our flying strip and some private properties. They have no objection to us flying but can we limit our flying height to 200 feet for the two days. If you have any problems please contact Charlie Lee or anyone on the committee. Thanks in advance for you co-operation.
Sep 18
Urgent Works On Harden Moor
Aug 15
Scale Competition
Because of the bad weather forecast on Saturday, Mick Banks has made the decision to cancel the Scale Comp which was due to be held on Saturday.
Aug 13
Quiz night with Pie & Peas
If your attending our October club quiz night and would like Pie & Peas, please can you let a committee member know at the next club meeting or drop us a text/email/call, just so we have ruff idea of how many to order.
Aug 11
Scale Competition
Amendment to the date of the scale Competition to Saturday 17th August. Mick Banks is CD for this event.
Aug 07
Up & Coming on Harden Moor
Scale comp 18th august
Funfly 7th sept
Electric 8TH sept
Aerobatic 12th Oct
Aug 02
Urgent info re: Harden Moor Survey
On Monday 5th August and Tuesday 6th August the Council and Environmental Agency will be carrying out a mapping survey on the Moor to assist their wetland project. This entails flying a drone at 300 feet repeatedly criss crossing the Moor, our flying strip and some private properties. They have no objection to us flying but can we limit our flying height to 200 feet for the two days. If you have any problems please contact Charlie Lee or anyone on the committee. Thanks in advance for you co-operation.
Jul 27
Aeromodelisme
Anyone interested in attending a top class model flying event with guaranteed good weather? Our good friend Nicolas Dutrieux is putting on an event over the weekend 7-8th september in central France.
Jul 20
Scale Competition
Sorry folks scale Competition is cancelled today due to high winds.
It will take place at a later date to be confirmed.
BMFA
- Update on EU regulations – supporting documents publishedEASA have now published documents outlining their Acceptable Means of Compliance (AMC) and Guidance Material (GM) in support of the EU regulations for unmanned aircraft. The documents can be found here: https://www.easa.europa.eu/document-library/ag - Read more
- Science & Technology Committee publish their report into ‘commercial and recreational drone use in the UK'The Science and Technology Parliamentary Select Committee will today publish their report into ‘commercial and recreational drone use in the UK'. The BMFA provided several written inputs to the Committee on behalf of the UK model flying association - Read more
- An update on the UK regulations for model flyers - a bit of good news at last!I published an update on the BMFA website on 23rd August (https://bmfa.org/News/News-Page/ArticleID/2608/An-update-on-the-UK-regulations-for-model-flyers ) which provided a summary of our position at that time. This was also going to be the basis of - Read more
- 2020 Membership documents pollWe are currently looking at options for membership documents for 2020 and would like some feedback from members. Please could you complete the short survey at https://e-forms.bmfa.org/membership-cards Thank you
- An update on the UK regulations for model flyers – delay to DRESFurther to our previous update of 11th September (https://bmfa.org/News/News-Page/ArticleID/2610/An-update-on-the-UK-regulations-for-model-flyers-a-bit-of-good-news-at-last ). There is no real change to the situation as published. All parties are c - Read more
- Team Manager for the British Space Modelling team, 2020 World ChampionshipsOFFICIAL NOTICE The Free Flight Technical Committee invites applications for the post of Team Manager for the British Space Modelling team competing in the 2020 World Championships to be held at Buzau, Romania from 21 – 29 August 2020. The role of - Read more
- Team and Assistant Team Manager for the British F1A, F1B and F1C European ChampionshipsOFFICIAL NOTICE The Free Flight Technical Committee invites applications for the post of Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager for the British F1A, F1B and F1C team competing in the 2020 European Championships to be held at Prilip, Macedonia from - Read more
- Manager & Assistant Team Manager. F1E European ChampionshipsOFFICIAL NOTICE The Free Flight Technical Committee invites applications for the post of Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager (the Assistant Team Manager role will not receive BMFA funding) for the British F1E team competing in the 2020 European - Read more
- Peter RabjohnIt is with great sadness that we hear of the passing of Peter Rabjohn in the early hours of Saturday 21st September 2019. Peter had been receiving treatment for a heart condition for many years, but a recent deterioration finally beat him. He was a - Read more
- Les OrmrodOn Thursday 19th of September Les Ormrod, a long time member of our club, died after a short stay in hospital. Les was a very friendly person who easily got along with everyone. Les had varied interests, but his main passion was aircraft of which h - Read more