Nick Cripps

For me as a committee member, one of the key benefits of the BMFA insurance is that it is extended to cover club officers' activities. It also provides member-to-member insurance, either (or both) of these may not be included in other insurance policies such as from a sports council (you'll have to read the small print). We had a somewhat bloody AGM and subsequent EGM about 20 years ago in my club when we pushed BMFA affiliation through but i certainly feel it was worthwhile.

Also finished my submission and sent it off. Many thanks to MattyB for highlighting this to us all and sharing his thoughts, and also thanks to the BMFA for their input.

I think you're spot on with that comment Ron. I just hope that the CAA have the sense to make use of the model associations to administer the registration process like currently for models over 7.5kg flying over 400ft or registration of over 25kg models.

Have you tried cleaning the main jet? We had a similar problem with a strimmer that started and idled happily but wouldn't pick up to full throttle. One of our club members had a look and fixed it by taking out the main jet and cleaning it. Apparently they can suffer from a build up of a varnish-like coating which obviously limits the fuel flow. The main jet was not easily accessible as it was retained by a non-standard bolt so the head needed a slot to be filed in it it to allow removal with a screwdriver. Worth a look? Incidentally, I had the same problem with the gas burner in my caravan fridge a few years ago.

Just look up Flitetest

Well, that's the last time I believe a weather forecast from John (Michael Fish) Stones, who claimed that Sunday would be the best day of the weekend. It started out ok, a bit overcast and breezy with the occasional sunny patch and was looking good but, around 1pm, you could see the storm clouds all around and the rain soon started. Not heavy and not too long but it remained very windy for the rest of the afternoon. Of course, all we heard all day was how good the weather had been on Saturday... Still, as always, it was a good day out with the usual friendly welcome from the Don Valley crowd. I managed to maiden the Arrows Hobby L-39 which flew well but seeing Paul Marsh's example made me realise that I need to invest in some 4s packs as mine on 3s was quickly running out of steam in the climb. This was the scene early on with Paul just landing his Pilatus PC-9.

I'm sure your new helpers will do a good job - unless they drop a clanger! Boom, boom (as Basil Brush used to say)!

Before cutting out formers, check the height and width against the plan and side views of the fuselage.

Just taken delivery of my L-39. Looks a decent bit of kit but the supplied decal sheet is rather poor so I'm going to try and make some suitable insignia using transfer sheet. I haven't set up any switching of the gyro, it will be permanently in "dynamic" mode to give a bit a protection from the effect of wind gusts on such a small model. I'm away for a few days from tomorrow so maiden will have to wait for next weekend at Don Valley. I'll let you know how it goes.

Planning to be there for at least 1 day if not all 3.

Goblin was in the Vampire

Surely it's a Ghost?

I fly waterplanes. I stand on the bank.

Oh that's bad news, Ron, hope you recover quickly. I've booked camping for the weekend and was looking forward to flying the RV-4 there. The forecast seemed pretty good a couple of days ago when I looked, let's hope it changes again before the weekend.

Fantastic achievement. Well done, Dirk 👍

Also note that Savox use the same spline fitting as Futaba servos so there are plenty of aftermarket options available.

Sorry, Adrian, but the rod connectors you are showing in option 2 should not be anywhere near a 50cc model. They are (just about) adequate for a small foamy but really not not suitable for anything bigger. On such a large model, I would always go for ball-link connectors using either a turnbuckle rod with LH/RH threads (your option 1) or a conventional threaded rod with a threaded coupler for the ball-link soldered onto the other other end (your option 3). There is also the option of making up a carbon pushrods such as this.

Looks like a Multiplex Fun Cub.

I hope so, I've just bought some for veneering a set of floats for a waterplane. From a bit of reading, poplar is of a similar density to obeche and also slightly stronger, but is softer and more porous so will most likely soak up more paint/glue. I've had a good search around on the internet and it looks like Hobson's choice unless you go for balsa or brown paper as mentioned by others.

We had 105 renewals in our club this year. Breakdown is: Bank transfer 84 Cheque 12 Cash 4 Honorary 5

Roy, have a look at the poplar veneer available at Balsa Cabin

The format used in NOTAMs is degrees, minutes and seconds: DDMMSS, DDDMMSS. For your example it is 52°06'10"N, 003°28'18"W

Neat work, EB 👍

The Spektrum trainer system allows 2 different methods for configuring the slave transmitter. In "Programmable Instructor" mode, both transmitters need to be fully configured for the model. In "Pilot Link Instructor" mode, the master transmitter is configured for the model and the slave transmitter must be configured with no settings, servo travel set to 100% and no servo reversing. Both of these options are available to be chosen when initially setting up the master transmitter for training. I've found the latter to be better in practice and simply selected a blank, unused model memory in the slave transmitter, bound it to the master as described in the manual and it all just worked. I also found that it was only the 4 main channels that were transferred to the slave with the master maintaining control of any other channels/settings such as flaps and the throttle "safe" for the motor. Keep at it, Toto, it will all come together soon.