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Free speech, within reason of course.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Unfair censorship, views please.....
Screenshot taken.....
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thanks leccy brian,
actually, thanks not correct either, is it ?
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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.
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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.
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Wow, ferric chloride is pretty nasty stuff..
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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 ????
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absolutely, hear hear !
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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.
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I notice the praying hands, so you go to church then ?
Mammon, the Bible related context....
Model Shop Leeds is fantastic, unlike Perkins.
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I am sure the vultures are circling
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Hopefully the catalogue relevant to the weekends event has been updated with prices achieved, attached to the lots ?
That would make a great *modellers guide* to help value stuff.....
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Etch primer ?
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Sorry, did you say £10 to get the mag sent to your door, at £2.50 an issue hard copy ?
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Hi cuban8,
Can you remember when the bmfa news changed to having to pay £10 for a hard copy of the years issues of the mag, about this time last year if I remember correctly
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When it changed from 6 ( six ) to 4 ( four ) editions per year for £10 delivered; to your door; please ?
Thanks.
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Still puzzeled leccybrian ?
Have a great day....🤓
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Thanks leccy Brian....may I ask how is the lotus 7 ?
I was expecting you to reply, same as ever....you asked similar questions of a member on here some time ago, I will find it and give it a bump....unless if course it's been removed.
Have you sussed out the bmfa advert yet ?
Perhaps a new section should be created, "spurious members".....good idea ?
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So most bmfa members are morons then, not being interested in model flying behind the scenes.....what's needed to make there selfish Sunday afternoon flying hobby, sorry, sport, happen ?
Going by some comments about how many members actually cut the grass, do a litter pick etc. etc. etc....then I suppose they are.
We're doomed then....role over and die.....or come up with some way of improving the situation, a meaningfull inclusive vote perhaps....
I do not know what the answer is, perhaps more interaction with the young, schools etc..
Xmas is coming. Thinking very hard about the article in bmfa news, simple cheap f15 chuck glider, b and q materials, a plan and instructions, donated to the school, free, .......I know they have kids proof stab proof scissors and magic markers.....
Hopefully kids will love it. Also cheap foam seagulls that glide etc. Etc. Etc.
Just might get permission to do indoor flying in the school hall. Pointless asking the community hall commitee, staff would actually have to get off thier backsides and do some actual work, other than drinking tea with heating on full blast, at the communities expense. Close shop committee run, upset one, upset half the village.....
Back to bmfa stuff
Vote or let it die.....
I will always have flying models of some sort in my hand/life, bmfa or no bmfa......better with a bmfa god willing.
Bounce ideas about guys.....
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Wiffeltree compensator..mind you I was young and dad did have a *sence of humour* bless him.
Horse and cart, Roman chariot, handbrakes etc. etc. etc........
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Then educate members as to what is being voted on, but yes, you can only lead a horse to water.
A block vote, with at least 80 percent of that *block* casting a vote to make it meaningfull, which ever way they vote.
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Yes one member one vote, with at least 70 percent of bmfa members voting, to make it meaningfull.
Email means can be utilised to ask for, and cast, your vote.
No stamps etc. Involved at all.
As long as the voting system will work on real computers, AND mobile phones.....
Ali express
in All Things Model Flying
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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.