Rich Griff

Happy new year folks, only 10 days late but never mind...... Using a real computer today so rally enjoying the lightening fast internet, huge screen, no swtupid predictive text and an english spell check...... Visited BMFA site to print out 2025 article 16 as last years is effectively out of date. Need to do the same for the BMFA Handbook, but before that, I hope Andy the site bmfa rep could advice please ?? Andy Symonds Could you please advise as to any and all 2025 handbook alterations please so I can literally paste alterations into my 24 handbook file hard copy, which will then be renamed BMFA 2025 Handbook, saving me quite a bit of money and many processed trees, so I do not have to print out the complete 2025 handbook, thank you so much, very much appreciated. I suspect that will also help many other members. BMFA used to supply paper paste able slips of changed info, but that was a few years ago now. Having visited the BMFA site using a real computer with a big screen, to check on things etc., some more "inaccuracies" have stood out, nay, leaped out.........some being similar/identical to the inaccuracies seen and identified in the BMFA News digital and hard copy issues ? Some worked needed there I feel Andy. Today is January 10th. 2025 after all. By the way, Happy new year to all you guys and gals, only ten days late, but better late than never eh ! My RCC test expire date is 2029, having taken the test a few years ago now. I like to retake the test every year, as a reminder, just like an annual read of the up to date highway code. Printed certificate date is shown and different to 2029........ Nearly timed out now, so RCC retest on Monday....... Maybe a new THREAD and location for dedicated BMFA stuff should started ? Looking forward to the "free" digital and hard copy BMFA NEWS Magazine, and the "free" BMFA 2025 membership stickers ! May all your landings be damage free 😄 Stay safe out there........safe flying is no accident. Legal flying is in your hands.

Were can these little beauties be purchased from please ? Any more detail like product name and article number please....

The mark 2's toprc spit, 109 and Mustang have rx's with dcm and s bus sockets and can use multi firmware sub protocol toprc 2 spit, p51 and 109 protocol 761. The Rx had four white sockets to make it easier to identify, 2 at the battery leads end and two at the other end Toprc 450 wingspan range. Dont know about the 400 wingspan range, not flown one of those as I don't have one of those, but probably similar Rx would make sense ? Busy weekend....don't forget Monday 11 am.

Free speech, within reason of course.

Andy, you may have seen the "torture logic" comment in the budget thread, cost cutting. February edition is free to all members, at what cost i wonder..... Digital copy free but how to email stickers, mmmmmmmmmm May be at the time of membership renewal, say for before mid January 2024, due to printing deadlines etc....and admin..... Could not signed and paid up members "opt out" of receiving the hard copy with stickers, or "opt out" of just the hard copy, but receive the free stickers, or not opt out at all so receiving the mag and stickers, just like last year ?? Members not wishing to receive a hard copy and receiving one would probably do as they normally do, and bin the mag. What a waste....of BMFA money, effort, time and money ! The BMFA management may feel that it is easier just to send out the free February hard copy with stickers, money aware people that they are. Members wishing to receive the magic £10 copies, being 3 copies, as Februaries copy is free anyway, will be happy. How the Free February copy is funded, by the magic £10 possibly, or members subs, or BMFA reserves, is not known to me. Becoming a BMFA member in 2025 is appealing, as is the magic £10 cost of the 3 remaining BMFA news hard copies. Being sent the 2024 "magic £10 3 hard copies" , gratis, was lovely, which caused the initial thread, and to some extent this thread, to be made. Thanks for the opportunity to comment. Proper computers are great ain't they, lightening fast internet, a huge screen where the text leaps out at you, in your face nearly, and the spell check, wow. The only down side is the free bus ride into town and the time constraint of being allowed to use the computer. Cant have everything one supposes. ps before i forget, pictures saved as a safeguard.

Hi Andy, Is it correct that every member of the BMFA will receive a "free" hard copy with stickers, of the 2025 February BMFA news, just like last year, please ? For 2024, a free February issue of the BMFA news with stickers was sent out. In that issue, on page 5 at the bottom of the page, if my memory is correct, there was a boxed article about the 2024 issues of BMFA news. It stated that 2024 BMFA news was going to be limited to 4 issues, but in the back of that issue, February issue, the BMFA advert stated 6 issues per year. May and August hard and digital issues ran the same advert. November issue of the BMFA hard copy still carries the incorrect BMFA advert, frozen in time, but the November digital issues carried the same incorrect advert, for all to see, until the incorrect advert was removed and replaced with the current advert. You may remember our pm messages. I free issues, how that is paid for remains to be seen. The magic £10 therefore paid for the remaining 3 hard copy issues, May, August and November. That means the cost of the 3 paid for issues costs.....well you can do the arithmetic. As we both know that problem has been sorted for the 2025 issues, both hard and digital. Had censorship not taken place on the other thread, it would have been completed as above, but with the added text in the next entry, not much more to come i promise.

So I may as well be hung for a sheep rather than a lamb then ? Some people on here are more equal than others it seems. It's known that people posting on here can be made to completely dissappear, without trace, apart from stuff saved outside of this place, about this place . That's a buried bag of sweets for a different day. Bmfa digital news ran the incorrect advert all year, including November issue, which was ammended by replacing the incorrect advert with the current advert. So the statement of * only in the hard copies* is/was, incorrect. A screenshot had been taken.

Unfair censorship, views please..... Screenshot taken.....

thanks leccy brian, actually, thanks not correct either, is it ?

Since some people are getting a bit "confused" ......... Leccy Brian very recently wrote : "TBH the hobby really doesn't need anyone who might feel "cheated" at a mistake in an advert (in the printed hard copy only) which promised six copies rather than four copies, to the extent that they would consider contacting the Advertising Standards Authority or Trading Standards." Leccy Brian, please would you explain " ( in the printed hard copy only ) " please. Thanks.

Cost saving..... Did the meeting alter the free edition of the bmfa news hard copy sent to every member in February ? See 2024 Feb edition page 5, the box at the botton of the page. Since mag is free on line for those that want it on line, no hard copy for them. If mag is to be continued, and I sincerely hope that it will be since it *sells itself* at no cost to the company, ( Andy says it's self funding etc .. ) and customers are willing to pay £10 for the "magic" 3 copies ( Feb hard copy is free at the moment ? ) Morphing into 4 hard copies, does that not save the company money. At say £1 per copy, 27,000 members, £27000 not spent. Don't forget the mailing costs as well, not sent out, no cost . Torture logic.....hard copy devoties happy as more or less nothing has changed, digital devoties happy as no real change, but £27k + not spent, ie saved. All depends if anything was changed in the meeting as regards the mag..... Can you confirm please Andy or anyone else up to speed as to meeting outcomes.

Wow, ferric chloride is pretty nasty stuff..

TBH the hobby really doesn't need anyone who might feel "cheated" at a mistake in an advert (in the printed hard copy only) which promised six copies rather than four copies, to the extent that they would consider contacting the Advertising Standards Authority or Trading Standards. in the hard copy only ????

absolutely, hear hear !

Wonderfull, so 4 hard copies per year for ten pounds ( four copies for £10 hence £2.50 each ). Thank god no one felt cheated and contacted trading standard or the Asa about the mistake in the advert, 6 ( six ) copies per year etc........ Thankfully the mags *sell themselves* to those interested in a hard copy.