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Title:	Welcome To The Radio Control Conference
Notice:	dir's in 11, who's who in 4, sales in 6, auctions 19
Moderator:	VMSSG::FRIEDRICHS

Created:	Tue Jan 13 1987
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1706
Total number of notes:	27193

1520.0. "Fun Fly Rules?" by BAHTAT::EATON_N (Nigel Eaton) Wed May 05 1993 06:11

One of the long standing members of our club died a while back, and his family 
have provided a trophy in his memory. (Nice idea). The contest will be a fun fly 
type event. 

Only snag is, none of us can find a set of rules for a fun fly, and we want the 
event to be a good one! Has anyone organised such an event, and have you any 
example rules for some manouevers?

Cheers!

Nigel.

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1520.1 Rules? SOAEDS::FRANCO Spin, crash and burn! Mon May 17 1993 16:11 27

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1520.1	Rules?	SOAEDS::FRANCO	Spin, crash and burn!	`Mon May 17 1993 16:11`	27
	I'm not sure of any 'rules' for a fun-fly exist. It seems to me you could probably contact the AMA. I have never put together a fun-fly of any magnitude, however I have attended many of them. I have just returned from a very large event this past weekend. It was held in Greenville, South Carolina and was a 4 day event. (Quite long.) We had over 262 registered pilots and over 300 airplanes present. It was limited to giant scale only and you had to be AMA to fly and to get in. In other words, it was NOT open to the public. This is because it is on a private estate owned by one of the local IMAA Chapter members. THe only rules they had were around freq. control and number of planes flying at a time, five. Any manuevers were allowed as long as there were done over the flying area, i.e. NOT the spectators. Altitude was kept below 500 ft. since there was a local airport about 5 miles away. All airplanes had to be safety inspected by an inspector, usually someone who was in the sponsoring IMAA chapter. We had some great pilots there. You might recognize some of their names, Bubba Spivey, who ownes Lanier R/C, Stinger Wallace, who flies pylon at Madera, Don Lowe, AMA President, Eric Dern, who flew his 17 ft. wingspan Diablo, and others. WE alos had a pilot who flew two planes at once, one with his feet, the other with his hands. Quite interesting. Well, that's my 2 cents. Hope it helps.

    I'm not sure of any 'rules' for a fun-fly exist.  It seems to me you
    could probably contact the AMA.
    
    I have never put together a fun-fly of any magnitude, however I have
    attended many of them.  I have just returned from a very large event
    this past weekend.  It was held in Greenville, South Carolina and
    was a 4 day event.  (Quite long.)  We had over 262 registered pilots
    and over 300 airplanes present.  It was limited to giant scale only
    and you had to be AMA to fly and to get in.  In other words, it was
    NOT open to the public.  This is because it is on a private estate
    owned by one of the local IMAA Chapter members.
    
    THe only rules they had were around freq. control and number of planes
    flying at a time, five.  Any manuevers were allowed as long as there 
    were done over the flying area, i.e. NOT the spectators.  Altitude
    was kept below 500 ft. since there was a local airport about 5 miles
    away.  All airplanes had to be safety inspected by an inspector,
    usually someone who was in the sponsoring IMAA chapter.
    
    We had some great pilots there.  You might recognize some of their
    names,  Bubba Spivey, who ownes Lanier R/C, Stinger Wallace, who flies
    pylon at Madera, Don Lowe, AMA President,  Eric Dern, who flew his 17
    ft. wingspan Diablo, and others.  WE alos had a pilot who flew two
    planes at once, one with his feet, the other with his hands.  Quite
    interesting.
    
    Well, that's my 2 cents.  Hope it helps.