John Tee

Thanks Nigel. John

I have managed to break a switch om my Hitec Flash 8 Tx. I have got a new switch,but when I took the back cover off instead of a lead the switch is soldered to a board along with the adjacent switch and a slider switch. Not confident about replacing it so need to send to an agent. Can anyone tell me who the service agent is for Hitec please. John

KC. Lastyear there was no market so no holdups. Parking was where the market was. Seemed a long walk to the entrance but if you had to park in the overflow paking in previous years no different. John

Martin, That was suggested from the outset, but reluctance on the two parts. John

KC we have advised it might not be in anyones interest to get the law involved for exactly that reason. It has quietened down at the moment so I can't update. Our landlord is very good and we don't want to upset him. Been on site for too many years. John

Thanks for all your comments. I would add that we park along a hedgerow and all models are unloaded and placed on the flying side of the access route, about 20 feet from the cars so in theory the model should not have been where it was. At the time there were no vehicles apparently to the right of the model owners car and so the car owner pulled into the next space and didn't see the model. I've not hear.d any updates today as I have not been around. I don't think that it will go to extent of removal from the club, but it is a first for us in 50+ years . John

Bruce. The chairman has tried to get them to sort it out. Thanks for the offer but we are at the other end of the country. John

They have been in contact with the BMFA who advice going to car insurer. Not sure if the car insurer has been contacted yet. BMFA member to member insurance seem more for personal injury from what I have heard. Both unfortunately have prickly natures so may drag on for some time. John

This seems to be the best topic to use. If not could the mods please move to the most appropriate topic. We have recently had an expensive model damaged on our site. I have to state now I wasn't present and have only seen photos of the incident and heard second hand versions of both sides. The owner of the model placed his wings on the ground near, not by his car and another member drove into the parking area and apparently didn't see them and drove over them while parking.. Neither is accepting responsibility and things have become quite heated with lawyers and police being threatened. How would other clubs deal with this as we don't feel it anything to do with the club directly, but obviously we need to be peacemakers. Parking and unloading have not caused any problems in the very many years we have been onsite. I have always assumed that in incidents like this an offer to repair/replace is usually made but this incident may involve a fair amount of money. John

One plus factor for our club was that we had a guest flier who is not in any club, and liked our facilities so much he applied to join our club. This takes us up to full membership (limit 100 adults) which is not bad after the Covid losses. John

Cuban8. My club committee's first reaction was that it would attract unwanted attention to the club leading to possible loss of the club site. Also assumed that we would have to fly in tight formation to get the required (initially) dated photo evidence, which many had never done. It was pointed out that the flying would not be much different to our normal routine with the exception of relaxing our five in the air rule for 10 - 15 minutes every 100 years. Also the photoing could be done by multiple cameras so no need for formation flying. On the day it all went very smoothly even though the majority of the committee were absent for whatever reason. John

Ace. That is just what our club achieved - 11 R/C plus 3 chuckies John

Thanks to Simon for organising this event. Sounded simple but anything but in practice.

Well done to all who took part. First time in my 73 years that I have been involved in a record attempt. I thought maybe 2500 - 3000. John

Got a couple of predictions right but the prediction that my predictions would be rubbish was 100% right. John

Despite your reminder John,I got mine in with 10 minutes to spare. Not going to be one of my better set of predictions but nothing new there.??

Nor mine John S. and we have just bought a new one!!

iT IS FOR ME??

Had two flights on Sunday after the record attempt. First time since last September!!

I didn't get to fly as I ended up as club coordinator after making the initial enquiry as to how it would work. Still feel proud to be part of the record attempt though. John

Horsham club had 11 r/c and 3 chuckies. The rain eased just long enough to complete the challenge.

I got the impression that it will be a record attempt, but not not a Guinness book of record attempt due to the date/time complication. Have I mis read that. John

Well done Tony and Simon. Must have had a funny turn as I put Hamilton down for third for some reason after a poor start to the season so only got two out of three podium places, normally get one if I'm lucky. John

Hoping the staff are still employed

I knew last weeks score was too good to last. Hey ho. John