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    THIS IS AN OPEN INVITATION TO ALL R/C FLYERS WITH AMA
    The 495th r/c squadron of chelmsford is holding a frozen 
    finger fun fly this sunday in acton. Time is from noon to
    four weather permitting. Anyone interested should take
    rt495 south to rt2 east, travel rt2 to school st. take
    right onto school st.(were in the field on your right)
    pull in behind buildings(I belive its your first right on school)
    and park in lot just after the bell tel. building. I belive its
    a three dollar entry fee for participants but free to spectators.
    hope to see you there.
    
    
    
    
    
    

Here are some ruff directions to Orange

West on route 2.
Past Acton
Past Littleton
Past Leominster
Past Fitchburg
Past Westminster
Past Gardner
Past Philipston
Past Athol
Take the exit with the Airport sign
after you take the exit you want to sneak into
the airport on the back side.
So take your first left (there maybe
a little R/C Competition sign - maybe not).

Once you've taken the Orange Airport exit you are
within a mile of the field.

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Bye        ----O----   
Kay R. Fisher / \     

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Kay R. Fisher / \     

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    Good idea - I've typed these directions out so many times it would
    be nice to have them in one place!
    
    Take Rt 135 south from the center of Northborough or north from
    Rt 9.  From 135 take the entrance to M2C (Mass Microeletronics
    Center), marked by a sign.  Go up hill and take first left.  Now
    take first left again.  You will pass a parking area and come to
    a sharp right  turn.  You will see a gate just around this corner,
    and this is the gate you must go through.  It's locked so you either
    have to walk the rest of the way or wait for a member to let you in
    and out.  Go through the gate, to the bottom of the hill,
    take a right onto a dirt road and you can't miss the flying field
    (a hundred yards or so from there).

    Bill

        Re:< Note 363.6 by AKOV02::DHUGHES >

        Directions to Charles River Radio Controllers' field in Sudbury:
        
        
        From 495:    Take  the  rt  62  east  (I  think it's exit 26), go
        straight through Hudson.    Continue  straight where rt.  62 goes
        left.  This is Sudbury Road.  Continue for a couple of miles past
        a reservoir on the right  and  a  construction  site on the left.
        Next you will see a gate on your left with a large white sign "Ft
        Devens, Sudbury extension".  Drive up to  the  gate  and stop for
        the guard.  If there isn't one in  the  shack  frive  through the
        gate (after stopping) and take an immediate left.   Go  about 1/2
        mile and take a sharp right (this is actually the first real road
        going  right,  there  is  also  a  small  white sign with "flying
        field".  Go about 1/3 mile (watch the potholes) and you will  see
        the flying field on your right.  There's a windsock and the field
        is several hundred feet square.
        
        From 27:  Tke 27 through Sudbury Center.  Continue straight where
        27 branches off on  the  right to Maynard.  You are now on Hudson
        road, which becomes Sudbury road on the Sudbury/Hudson town line.
        Go several (3?) miles until you  see  the  gate on your right and
        then follow the directions given above.
        
                It's best if you have made an  appointment  with a member
        to escort you through the gate.  If  you haven't there is a small
        chance that the guard may not let you through.
        
                Bill Clark and I are members and typically go  out  there
        whenever the weather is decent on the weekends.
        
        Anker

    It looks like there will be ten or twelve individuals coming to
    the second DEC RC Fly In. I'd hoped for more. Ho well.......
    
    Directions. I'll give them for those coming down the Mass Pike RT90.
    
    Take the RT291 exit off of RT90. Turn left after the RT90 exit onto
    RT 291 and proceed to Springfield. At the junction of RT91 take
    RT91 south. Take exit 48 off of RT91. You will be in Conn. Turn
    left at the end of the exit ramp. This is RT220. There isn't any
    sign to indicate that it is RT220 but it is. You will be traveling
    eastward. At the sixth traffic light RT220 veers off to the left.
    Stay on RT 220 until you see "OLDE FOX" on your left. Right after
    OLDE FOX you will cross a set of railroad tracks. The entrance to
    the field is right after these tracks on the right. If the road
    is not pasable then a baracade will be in place. There is sufficient
    parking of of the road. If necessary I will shuttle equipment the
    500 yards to the flying field using my pickup. I'll be at the field
    by 8:00 so you can plan on getting there any time from 8:00 on.
    There is a new impound stand and frequency board. You will need
    pins 1"x5" in size with a cloths pin attached to the back of the
    pin. The pins can be white or multicolored. The frequency number
    must be on the pin. I should have a dining fly up by the time 
    people start getting there. Often times the prison guards will stop
    and check out cars, so I suggest that all keep their vehicles
    "clean". There are two runways at this field. Depending on wind
    direction I will declare one runway in use. The other will not be
    used.  We allow up to four flyers in the air at any one time.
    You will find skids set up in the pit area. I suggest that you 
    put anything that you want to keep dry on these skids. When we
    establish a "Flight Line" no flying will be permitted behind this
    line. The flight line will be parallel to the pit area. One other
    suggestion is that when everyone is there we will have a pilots
    meeting. At that time it would be good to team up with someone to
    be your helper.
    
    					Tom

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                 P.V.R.C.C.
      
                SAFETY RULES
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	   1)  Club members ONLY are permitted to use the field. Club 
	members are responsible for their GUESTS  who also must  have 
	an AMA license.All flying shall  be  done in accordance  with 
	the  published  ( Official AMA Safety  Code )  in  order   to 
	preserve our insurance protection.

	   2)  All transmitters are to be shut off and impounded when 
	not in use.    Official Frequency Flags are required  on  all 
	Transmitters and all frequency sticks ( sticks shall  be hung 
	on freqency pole ).   Sticks and transmitters must have names 
	on them.    New TX frequency's must display CH #  on  TX  and
	FREQUENCY STICK.   No flying permitted without these items!

	   3)  No engines are  to be run before 9:00 A.M.weekdays and 
	saturdays, 10:00 A.M. on Sundays & Holidays. All engines must 
	meet noise committee stds. of 89db. at full throttle, in  any 
	direction (from sound source to db Meter =25ft). All aircraft
	must  be  attended while engines   are  running.   Test stand
 	breaking-in of engines is NOT PREMITTED at the field.

	   4)  No flying over spectators,parking lot,pit area or grass
 	between runway	and pit area  or  in  a  careless and reckless 
	manner.  No spectators are permitted in the pit area or runway 
	area.
 
	   5)  All pilots shall stand back from  the  runways  and  in
	front of the pit area WHILE FLYING.  No flying from the end of
	the runways or closer than 15ft. from the edge  of  the runway
	UNLESS LANDING.

	   6)  Prevailing  winds  shall  determine  desiganted  ACTIVE 
	runway and TRAFFIC PATTERN on busy days.    This is the runway
	all pilots shall use!!  GLIDER tow lines are  not permitted to 
	cross the ACTIVE RUNWAY.

	   7)  Flyers shall yield runway to pilots who are required to 
	call out  "DEAD STICK"  or "COMMING IN" when engine quits, for  
	priority use of the runway.

	   8)  Propwash must be directed towards the runways  and  away
	from the pit and spectators areas.  All 1/4 scale aircraft must
	face away from the pit & spectators.    Taxing to the runway is
	permitted, taxing into the pits is NOT PERMITTED.
  
	   9)  All FUN-FLY competitive  activities shall  be  conducted
	over the runway and away from the pit and spectators areas.

	  10)  It shall be the duty of all flyers to  be  familiar with
	and abide by all safety rules & AMA Safety Code.   Flyers shall
	use COURTESY, COMMON SENCE, and  be CONCERNED for the safety of 
	EVERYONE!

                   (TAKE YOUR RUBBISH HOME WITH YOU !!!!!!)
                            and Happy Flying.             
                                                       Revised 12/5/85

>< Note 399.100 by IGUANO::WALTER >
>    About using the Bose mountain to slope soar. I've flown there once,
>    and it's a bit unnerving. If your plane get below the level of the
>    mountain top (which is flat), there's nowhere to land. Except for
>    some woods, some buildings, etc. But I guess if you're confident
>    you can land on the mountain it'll be alright.

�	So Dave - where is this place?

The "mountain" is actually a (relatively) high plateau just west of Framingham 
on the north side of Rt #9, just a bit west of the Framingham exit of the Mass 
Pike (exit #11-A or #12 I think). If I'm not mistaken, it is the remains of what
was once a land fill (garbage dump). The Bose corporation which supplied the 
noise cancellation audio equipment for the Voyager flight has a facility at the 
summit on the east end of the plateau. I've seen lots of kite flyers on windy 
days but I'm told that the wind is usually to gusty and irregular for kites. I 
wonder what that bodes for a glider?

Dave

    An other place to consider is the Quaker RC Flyers club in Whitinsville
    (midway between Worcester & Woonsocket) of rte 122. The flying site
    is a now out of business landfill (aka garbage dump) set on the
    side of hill near the top. Good for gliders when wing pick up. See
    diagram below:
    
    
        .....                                  Blackstone
       .     .					Valley
      . Hill .___ 				 Here	
               ^ ............
          road |        ^     . 
               Landfill-|     .
                               .		<---- Wind direction
                                .		       (From NW)
    
    md

    I found out from the new Rider Hobby Shop on Carpenter in Ann Arbor
    about a fixed wing field in Milan, about 14 miles south of Ann Arbor,
    and a Helicopter field in Ann Arbor where they fly on Sundays only.
    I did go to both, and at the helicopter field, I was supprised at
    the activity.  There is a helicopter club that is about 1 year old,
    and the skill level on several of the new pilots made me envious.
    
    At the fixed wing field in Milan, I was treated as if I were royalty.
    One gentleman by the name of Jim Larson even brought his Sig Seniorita
    to the field on Sunday afternoon so that I could have something
    to fly.  I did make one flight on it (after he took off so I could
    get a feel after 3 years) and even made a landing.  It did flip
    over but it was very light and the pilot walked away.  The hospitality
    shown to me was fantastic and if anyone gets to the Ann Arbor area,
    I would recommend going to Riders for directions and make sure to
    get to the Milan field to meet a real great group of people.

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	/	__|___|__/  BREAK A BLADE,
			    Ken    	

    
    Lancaster - across from Lancaster correctional facility 
              - Rt 117, to Rt 110 
    	      - Left on 110 for 1 mile or so on the right
              
    I forget the name of the club that runs it, but one can become a member
    and fly there.(need a key to get in)  State owned.
   
    The site is not real hot now, but I've heard they will be clearing
    brush/trees, and it will be longer and overall a better flying area. 

    
    
    Enfield Conn.
    			Field is across the street from the Conn.
    State correctional facility. Open to any AMA member for a guest
    fly in. Spectators welcome. Take I91 to Rt 220 east. app 5 miles.
    Run By Pioneer Valley Radio Control Club. Can fly a few times before
    becoming a member. Wide open field and sky's. Fairly smooth grass
    runway 40ft wide 450ft long.
    
    
    Tom
    
    P.S. Free Parking :-)

    PUCKERBRUSH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT:  From Phoenix, drive approximately
    15 miles northeast, turn left and proceed to the buzzard sitting
    atop the steer's skull.  Turn right 'til you come to a cattle-gate.
    Proceed through the gate, leaving it as you found it, and drive
    up the dry-wash approximately 1/4 mile; turn left at the second
    stick-lizard and follow the trail through the Mesquite, Greasewood
    and Manzanita bushes 'til you come to the LAAAAAAARGE open area
    in the middle of nowhere...yer' there!!  All sizes/types/powerplants
    (including pulse-jets) welcome.  Scale encouraged! 

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      | |      00	 Adios,      Al
    |_|_|      ( >o
      |    Z__(O_\_	(The Desert Rat)

>    I would like to suggest that we need to put better info into this
>     Topic than this to make the note usefull. Please conside DECRCM 

So Eric - is your field in the United States?
If so what state :-)    

Orange Mass. (USA)
	Orange Air Park (Mohawk Valley Modelers club field)

	Go west on Route 2 to the Airport/Route 202 South exit.
	Go North about 100 yards and turn left into the Air Park.
	Follow the road to the end (about 100 yards) and turn right.
	Take the next left (if you don't you will hit a dead end).
	Use your key to go thru the gate.
	Turn left and follow road around all he runways til you come
	to the club shack.
	Park there and fly on the unused runway next to it.
	It is about 1500 feet long, paved and has some bad
	cracks on the end nearest to the active runways.
	There are flight stations marked on the runway and a frequency
	poll in the shack.
	
	Closed during winter months (snow prevents access).
	Open to AMA members who are guests of members.

	Membership limited to residents of Athol and Orange
	with one exceptions granted to notable Ducted Fan and
	Scale modelers.  See President Randy King (he is in the
	Athol phone book) for details.

Gardner Mass. (USA)
	Central Mass Correctional Institute (Wachusettes Barn Stormers club field)

	Go west on Route 2 to the 140 North exit (just east of Gardner).
	Look for the Correctional Institute sign (about 1/2 mile north on 140
	and take a right.  Follow the signs into the Correctional Institute
	and drive past thru and past everything towards a wild life sanctuary.
    Keep going till your convinced you have went too far then go a little
	further (about 1/2 mile) and you will see a building with some cars
	and planes flying on the left up a little hill.

	You can show up and fly 2 or 3 times without joining as long as
	you are an AMA member and you have a club member present.  They 
	have an impound area and a box of club supplied frequency pins.

	The advantage of this club it they fly all winter long religously.
	The field is only open Sundays during hunting season.
	If you want to join the club there may be a waiting list (there was
	last year).  There a nice bunch of guys but there not going to
	leap out of their cars and welcome you with open arms.  You have
	to seek them out and introduce yourself.  Runway is well maintained
	and about 200-300 feet long.  Tree line and old building make it
	a little tight for flying.  This last year they have had lot's of
	frequency problems.

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Kay R. Fisher  |
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    Uxbridge Ma.
    
    Operated by Quaker RC club.
    
    How to get there: rte 122 to Uxbridge. Turn at east Hartford ave
    (Getty station on corner) towards West Hill Dam. Drive about a mile
    til you get to Tri-River Medical Clinic. Turn right at clinic.
    a few hundred yards up, you see old red barn. Turn immediately before
    the barn (into courtyard). Follow dirt road over concrete bridge.
    Flying field is on other side of bridge.
    
    Alt. route: rte 16 to west river rd (Countryside farm flower shop
    on corner. Follow West river Rd to East Hartford Ave. Turn left
    on East Hartford Ave. Follow East Hartfod Ave till tri-River medical
    clinic. Turn left.
    
    Rules: All gas powered models must be tested  noise per AMA recomended
    standard. ANY MODEL REGISTERING ABOVE 90 DB IS NOT ALLOWED TO FLY.
    (This field is in the middle of town, on state land and we want
    to make sure we keep it. For what its worth, I can see and hear
    the planes from my house. It's that close !!) 
    
    Also, no gas powered flying before 10:30 am on Sundays.
    
    Must be member of club to fly. Guest allowed once. To become members,
    contact Gerry Bagdasarian, in Northbridge (club prez) or Paul Lebel
    (club veep) in East Douglas. Both are also members of CMRCM.
    
    ps: For Slope soaring fans, we also have access to the Northbridge
    landfill, off Quaker St, in Northbridge. No flying on Sundays.
    
    
    

Derry NH.

    Operator : New Hampshire Flying Tigers RC Club

    Field Location : Off of RT28 just north of Derry in the Derry
    industrial park. Coming from the south, take RT 28 north through
    Derry. Turn left into the industrial park entrance just past the
    Dial Drug store. 100 to 200 yards into the park, TV chan 50 will
    be on the right. Go into the parking lot of the last building on the
    left. Go to the corner of the lot and find a dirt road behind the
    building leading to the field entrance. The entrance has a chain &
    lock.

    This is the club that I belong to. During good weather (i.e. no snow)
    the field is usually in use most weeknights and weekends.

    Rules : mufflers required, transmitter impound, frequency control
    is via the traditional colored/numbered frequency clips.

    New members welcome...  
    President - Moe Grandmaison, VP - Rick Manson, Secretary - Scott Fuller

    Address:  Flying Tigers RC Club
	      C/O Scott Fuller
              48 Chester Road
              Derry, NH 03038

Merrimack NH

    Operator : Flying Eagles RC Club  (may not be quite right but it's close)

    Location : within a 5 min. drive of MKO. From the Merrimack toll booths
    on the Everett Tpke, go east on Continental Blvd. (away from MKO).
    Go across Daniel Webster Hwy and down the hill. At the bottom turn left.
    There is a dirt road that goes off to the right and underneath some
    railroad tracks. The field is just on the other side of the tracks.

    Rules : I haven't flown there but I visited once just to check it out.
    Frequency control was via a frequency board & AMA cards (it looked like
    the system that is shown in the AMA manual).

    At the time I was there (late summer '88) new members were being accepted.

                     !
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G. Schrader     o___<0>___o
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	  JUNCTION 20 | AND 84			      RT 20       |
	              |                                           | RT 395
		    RT 84

X MARKS THE FIELD

The easiest way to get there is route 9 west.
After going through West Brookfield center,
another 3-5 miles west you snake down a hill into a valley.
Just before the valley floor you reach the Ware town line.
500 FT. past the town line take a sharp right. Follow this road
for 1.5 miles. You will see the woods on the left give way to a field.
Thats the field. Take the next left and another left just before the 
bridge. Follow the dirt road to the parking lot under the trees. 
See you there.

Mike

                

        Re:< Note 399.155 by K::FISHER "Stop and Smell the Balsa!" >

        Kay,
        
                Its in  Callahan  State  Park  in  Framingham.    I don't
        remember the directions offhand, but its quite close to Pnobscot.
        If you find the park and put your car in the parking lot you take
        the path across the field  and  through  a row of bushes.  On the
        other side you will see a large field through a gap in the bushes
        on your left.  Thats it.  Only for CRRC members and their guests,
        and AMA insurance required, of course.
        
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This weekend both Saturday and Sunday is the District I fun fly in Westover MA.

I'm not reading this from the AMA magazine so I can't be sure of details.
Could someone please confirm this and give directions to Westover.

Anyway I plan to be there Saturday.

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Sunday in Hadley Mass there is a Scale Fly In.  Kevin and I checked out
the field a couple of weeks ago and it looks very nice.  It is grass but
is long enough and smooth enough that they fly jets off it.  I'm hoping that
I can get a test flight on a Berliner-Joyce before Sunday and if the Fun
Fly in Westover isn't too much fun then I will be at this Scale Fly In.

Directions are as follows:

I91 to route 9 East.
Just after you cross over the bridge over the Connecticut River
look for a left hand turn (North) between a fruit stand and the
Polish American Club.  You are now within 1 mile or so of the field
and it is next to the Connecticut River so if you get lost just remember
that if you can follow the river north you will be going past the field.

You're in the middle of farm fields now...

Go down the gravel road and when you come to a T take a left.
Take your next right.
Take your next left.
Take your next right.
You're there.

Bye          --+--
Kay R. Fisher  |
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    I couldn't find a better place for this so I stuck it here.  Let's
    make this topic the CMRCM information topic.
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I have some information that should make CMRCM members (and our entire
RC community) feel pretty good.

I spoke with Chris Thurlow, the District Manager of the department of
fisheries and wildlife this afternoon, to ask for permission to land
the recon chopper at CMRCM tomorrow.  He said no problem (suggested I
let the Westboro police dispatcher know about it in case there are any
calls) and added some interesting tidbits to the conversation.
    
He said that they are trying to formalize the relationship between
CMRCM and the department - not change anything particularly, but just
formalize things a little now that they have complete control over the
area.  I guess until recently there was some question about what state
department actually controlled the land.  I gave him our president's
name and number.

Here's good part #1.  Chris stated that there is no plan to change our
club's relationship and use of the land.  He also stated that they are
trying to eliminate the dog trials from that field!  Wouldn't that be
great if we didn't have to be grounded by dog days any more?!

Here's good part #2.  Chris stated that of all the clubs they have dealt
with over the years, the RC clubs have been the most courteous, easy
to deal with, clean up after themselves, etc etc.  He had nothing
but praise for us.  He commented on the problems of 15 years ago when
CMRCM and the dog groups and hunters didn't get along very well.  There
were apparently arguments, fistfights, and even airplanes being shot
down (literally) back then.  He gave the impression that the reason things
have gone so smoothly since then is because of the quality of our club
membership, which may be part of the reason they want to move the dog
people out and keep us there.  By the way, his comments about RC clubs
was not only directed toward CMRCM, as he mentioned there are one or
two other RC clubs in the area on state-owned land that have also been
very easy to deal with.  Unfortunately I don't remember their names and
locations.

Not often that we hear these good comments from the "outside".  Thought
I would pass the word around.

Bill

From Maynard Center, take Main Street/Rt 62 west towards Stow. You will
merge with Rt. 117 approximately 1.5 miles from the center. Follow 62/117
west for approximately 1.5 miles from the lights where 62 and 117 join. On
the LEFT you will see White Pond Rd., and a sign for the Stow-Away Golf
course. Turn Left there. If you pass Erkkinen Buick you missed it. Follow 
White Pond Rd to the end, about 1 mile. You will cross a small concrete
bridge, and about 50-75' after the bridge is a dirt rd to the RIGHT. Take
that dirt road for 1.1 miles, and you are at Crow Island.

Directions to the Ware MA club field. Please note that this location is 
currently for sale and the site could be lost in the future. At present the 
field may still be used.

The Divot Diggers field is available for use by members and their guests. 
Prospective members may fly once if sponsored by a current club member. All
fliers must have current AMA membership.

The flying field is off Rt. 32 in Ware.

From the East:
	Take route 9 west from Worcester to the junction with route 32...
		(continued below)
From the West:
	Take route 9 east through Ware to route 32...
		(continued below)

From the South-East:
	Take route 20 west from Route 84/Mass Pike and take route 148 north
	(towards Brookfield) to route 9. Head west on route 9 to route 32...

From the junction of Route 9 and route 32:
	...head towards Gilbertville on route 32 and about a mile down the 
	road on the left there is a road with a small median. Turn left there 
	and as you come over the bridge you'll see a dirt road on the left.
	Take that road in past the now closed airfield and soon you'll see the
	small asphalt strip (100'x20') and the mown area surrounding it.

Recommended flying patterns are over the old airfield and away from Route 32
(there is someone across the road that complains and we don't want to lose the 
use of the field). The club tries to hold a fun fly each year and several 
members are into 1/4 scale. The field is open year round but the access road 
isn't plowed so that can be a limiting factor. Flying is requested to be after
9am (can you really get out of the house before then ;^)

Sunday 22-Jul-1990

    Northern Connecticut RC Club - Electric Fly In
    I called and got the following directions:
        
        91 South to 
        Route 140 east approx 10-15 miles
        1 mile past the dump on the left
        just past a flashing light the road bends (stay on it)
        now look for the next left - suppose to be RC signs up.
        This is Green Road.
        Registration is at 8:00 AM

    Who's going?

    Re:  Concord, N.H.
    
    Oh, yes!  A very fine group called C.A.G.S. (Concord Aero Guidance
    Society) of which I am an on-again, off-again member.
    
    An excellent home field at the Contocook Dam site.
    
    Presently I'm off the role, give me a day to check my home files &
    I'll be back to you tomorrow with particulars.
    
    John

    
    
    	My club has been a club without a field for one year.  But that's
    about to change in a big way.  Presently we have two irons in the
    fire and one cooling.  That is to say...
    
    	At present we are negociating with a turf farmer in suffield ct.
    Actually this area is a close as suffield comes to being Southwick Ma.
    THis area would be designated as the "Official Club Sailplane Site".
    Another turf farm is also being negociated with in the enfield ct. area
    for the purposes of establishing a "southern" engine powered site.
    This should take us a few months to nail down so I wouldn't expect any
    action until next spring.
    	The last site and the one I mentioned was "cooling" is the use of
    the Palmer Ma. Airport for a power site.  THis is 18 miles NE of
    Springfield and is a non controller private airport.  Similar in
    function to the location that the "Divot Diggers of Jim Reith fame
    are flying from.  Actually one of the gentleman who recently bought
    the site that the Divot Diggers are on actually used to tie down his
    plane at Palmer.  OK,  We'll be flying off of a paved taxi strip and
    an adjacent grass strip they have for full sized aircraft.  The
    airport manager is being more than cooperative with our efforts. When
    I spoke with him to set the deal up it really wasn't a question of "IF"
    we should be allowed to use the area. More a question of what did we
    need and what did he have to do to get us in.  Quite a refreshing
    discussion after one year of searching, talking to people and etc.
    
    So, we as a club should be showing a presence there over the next few
    weeks getting the area squared away to effectively become a Miniature
    Aircraft field and are hoping to make the next club meeting  Aug.
    21st the kick off day/evening for our flying activities.
    
    
    BOY I'M PUMPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    
    Tom

    Great news Tom!
    
    O'Reilly has been very cooperative with us in our use of the field. We
    have several Palmer/Monson area fliers in our club that would be
    interested in information about your club. It might also be good for
    you to have a couple of hometown guys to keep an eye on things and an
    ear to the ground on town issues. I know it works out well for us to
    have someone 5 minutes from the field and friendly with the town cops.

	Well, folks, we have lost yet another flying field, this time a
	glider site. John Nilsson, the president of the Charles River
	club, called me last night to inform me that even gliders have
	been banned from the Wayland conservation land site on Rt. 27 in
	Wayland. 

	I realize very few people who read this conference used that
	field, but it was a primo area for gliders. Unfortunately, the
	easy access to it meant lots of people knew about the flying
	going on there, and some renegades occasionally showed up with
	power planes (which were always banned). This upset the
	neighbors. I think the last straw was the guy learning to fly his
	powered trainer who brought a lawnmower with him and actually cut
	a runway in the middle of the field! You can't DO that, it's
	state land.

	John was invited to a meeting of the commission that governs that
	land a couple nights ago, to present his side of the issue. When
	he got there, he found a vote had already been taken and the
	gliders banned! But he was allowed to speak anyway (how
	democratic of them...). Also in attendance was a gentleman that
	represented those with the opposite view, and he had a little
	notebook with a list of violations and when they took place. 

	John argued that he doesn't condone power flying there, and that
	none of the CRRC club fly power at that site. His argument that
	gliders are environmentally innocous was countered by a women who
	claimed that she saw hawks attack the gliders, which meant that
	they were agitated and harassed! (This from a woman who tends a
	vegetable garden on that land... she doesn't seem too concerned
	about the squirrels and hedgehogs she displaces. I wonder if she
	uses insecticides?)

	I think they just find it much easier to ban all flying rather
	than trying to distinguish a glider from a powered plane. I
	wasn't at the meeting, so this isn't an entirely objective
	account, but it sure seems like we were shot down by a group of
	people who just can't stand to see others enjoying themselves. It
	just sticks in their craw, somehow.

	Dave

    
    	I reported awhile back that my club had recieved permission to fly
    at the Palmer Airport.  Over the last week we've been doing a little
    work to deveolp the site.  To date we've install two picnic tables in
    ourpit area and painted some reference marks to designate the
    pits/parking area.  Also we've painted four circles to designate the
    pilots flight stations.  The field is organized to allow us access to
    the taxi-way in order to get to the parking/pits area.  We park off of
    one of the taxi-ways so that we can pit directly behind our cars and
    still allow for a buffer area for any aircraft that wishes to use the
    taxi-way. The flight stations are on an old turn around adjacent to the
    active runway. Flying with a spotter is manditory.  WE also have
    initiated a rule that requires all RC traffic to land when a any full
    sized traffic is in the area either taxiing or within the traffic
    pattern getting ready to land.
    
    
    
    Tom

    
    My club the PVRCC has had a rough year.  Last year in August we lost
    the field we'd had for about five years.  That was rough. Rougher still
    was trying to find a new field. We've looked at a minimum of 100
    potential sites and late this past august we came to an agreement 
    to utilize Palmer Municipal airport.  Unfortunately that area
    hasn't worked out as I'd hoped.  This is by no fault the failure of
    the airport but rather the apprehension of the RC flyers to mix
    with full sized aircraft.  Hence we've decided to stop flying there.
    
    It's funny how you can go along and then all of a sudden a dam seems
    to burst...  we had been evicted from our field in CT because the
    landowner (LEGO) wished to build on the property.  Then when they
    went for the zoning changes because 50% of the land is on "Wetlands"
    they couldn't get the changes.  They since have negociated with the
    state of CT and the prison (which abutts their property) to swap the
    land the intended to build on for another section that is note zoned 
    wetlands.  So interesting is the fact that we've been in contact with
    the lawyer for the state who negociated the land swap deal and the
    state is looking to use the land for some recreational purpose.
    WE MAY END UP GETTING THIS PROPERTY BACK TO USE AS AN RC FIELD!!!
    
    That we will know in a few weeks.  Along with this we've been
    negociating with a Turf farmer south of Agawam Ma. to use his
    250 acre farm as a site.  This we have come to terms with and
    will be voting on at our next meeting.  If everything turns out
    right we may have two field to reduce the pressure.  Funny,
    go from no field to two fields in one month. 
    
    
    Tom

    
    
    	To update everyone on the ongoing saga of finding a field...
    
    We are still awaiting the final word from the prison warden if we can
    use the (our old) Lego field.  It's been approved by everyone including
    the warden but he wanted to pass the idea onto his boss.  This delay
    coupled with the recent prison difficulties they've been having has
    slowed this train down to a crawl.  We're hesitating pushing the idea
    seeing as the warden has better things on his mind.  But there is very
    optimistic hope.
    
    To add to this we come across another turf farm 4 miles west of the
    present farm we're renting in Suffield Ct.  This new farm is in West
    Suffield and we have permission to fly there during the winter on a
    trial basis.  Then in the spring we can sit down and negociate a 
    contract if the membership want.
    
    Add to this,  I have a meeting with the VP Director of a local
    Exposition Fair grounds not 2 miles west of Springfield.  The have 
    a complex that sits on about 300 acres with a 100 acre parking lot. 
    Businesses abutt the area on two sides with the river and the
    fair complex abutting the remaining two sides.  A ramdon group of guys
    ocasionally use this parking lot to fly.  The VP is looking for us to
    come in and formalize the use.  The club would have jurisdiction.
    
    
    
    						Tom

I don't know how many Florida noters there are in here but I'll be down
there in mid-March. I'll be in the Ocala area visiting my parents for 
their 50th anniversary and "might" be able to put a plane in the car. I 
know there is a field in Ocala that I'll be visiting but I was wondering 
if there were any others within an hours drive that some noters might 
want to show off. Contact me via Email with any possibilities.

Jim

    
    Well, I guess this could go here:
    
     
    It seems from my club meeting last night that we've lost
    yet another flying site in Yorkshire.
    
    The local council will shortly be introducing a bye-law
    forbidding the use of aircraft powered by IC engines on Baildon
    Moor.
     
    One of our club members remembers flying taking place on
    Baildon Moor since 1935. Now, thanks to the usual minority of 
    idiots we all lose it 8^(. It seems that at least one guy has 
    been flying a noisy plane at 8:30 am!
     
    The club members will be flooding the council with protests,
    but they've pretty much made their minds up. The *really* worrying
    thing is that they used wording from the BMFA handbook to justify
    stopping flying, since the moor is classified as a "country
    park". So is our field.........
     
    Depressed of Haworth
     
    Nigel.
     
     
     
     
    

    Nigel,
    	If you a BMFA affiliated club (and even if your not) you should 
    urgently contact them. They have a great deal of experience (I'm not
    sure of their success rate) and should be able to assist with your
    case.
    
    I hope all is not lost.
    
    Trevor

    
    Trevor,
    
    We're not a BMFA affiliated club (we are SMAE affiliated). 
    Unfortunately the Council has been in discussion with the BMFA, and 
    has used their handbook as the basis for the ban. We are contacting 
    the BMFA, the council, the Sports Council, God, Esther Rantzen, 
    etc etc etc, but I feel we may simply be too late.
    
    I know the BMFA does a good job and all that, but in this case they
    seem to have negotiated everybody's rights away, without referring the
    council to ANY other organisations.
    
    Cheers
    
    Nigel.
    

    Being a little ingnorant of what the BMFA and SMAE offer could you
    forward some information on this ie insurance, safety guidelines,
    noise, membership, recognition abroad etc).
    
    Eric
    Mail stop: ILO (Galway, Ireland).
    

    RE:.47 
    Nigel,
    	There does seem to be that view regarding BMFA. In their latest
    BMFA News (September 93) they even discuss that very point (page 10)
    ...Within the Handbook they use the "DOE Code of Practice for the
    Minimisation of Noise" as guide lines (BMFA Members Handbook starting
    page 23)... BMFA will help, hopfully, to assist proving you fall within
    the Guideline, which is the very part Councils use against model clubs
    when they want to get rid of them.  
    
    If you would find any comfort in a copy I'll fax the various pages.
    
    PS. to ERIC,
    	BMFA is SMAE, they when through a marketing exercise a few years
    back and made the name more "customer" acceptable.
    
    PPS.
    	I'm on Hols this week, just getting to know my little girl born on
    Thursday last. But I just couldn't resist a few moments in the Old RC
    file.

    
    Congratulations!!!
    
    When does she get her first trannie?  8^)
    
    Nigel
    

    Nigel,
    	My eldest who's 13 now and lost a bit of interest, started playing
    with the sticks when he was 4. I have another at almost 4 who is almost
    ready cutting his control teeth on a TOMMY car.
    
    Thanks Trev

    Eric,
    	Re .48
    I think I have a spare copy of the handbook I will look out and send.
    By the way in the BMFA News I mentioned they discuss 13 affiliated
    Clubs in N.Ireland.
    
    
    Trev

    thanks.

    DIRECTIONS TO NEW BOSTON, NH FIELD (FLYING EAGLES)
    	
    The New Boston Field is located on Rt 13 about mid-way between Mont
    Vernon and New Boston, New Hampshire.  Rt 13 is accessible via
    Rt 101 in Milford, but use any other method you like.
    
    Once on Rt 13 going north, you are looking for the General Store on the
    left in the center of Mont Vernon.  
    Go 4.8 miles beyond this point, and you will
    see South Hill Road on your left.  Turn in here, and go about 1/4 mile. 
    On your left will be what looks like a driveway to the side of a mobile
    home.  There is a small Flying Eagles sign on the big tree just to the 
    right side of this driveway, but its almost impossible to see unless 
    you know its there. Turn in there, and the field is about 200 feet back.
    
    Flying is open to club members only and their invited guests from 10 AM
    to dusk.