Author Archives: Alan Paul

5/6 – Guidance for Quadcopter and Drone flyers at IVC

The following information was sent to all club members on 5th June Impington is a very rare club where we have a regular Friday meeting and fly a varied mix of Free Flight, Control Line, Fixed Wing Radio and Quads / Drones.  We also aim to have a very light touch on rules and are… Read More »

15/5 – World record attempt – IVCMAC contribution

23 of us joined in yesterday and managed to fly 36 models at noon – 2 up on last year due to cunning methods being employed. A full report will be in the next newsletter, but a video of the carnage is below.  Thanks also to Chris Constant who took the photo at the end… Read More »

10/4 – World Record attempt this Sunday 14th May

Just a reminder that we are taking part in the BMFAs attempt to break last years record of 3,109 models in the air across the country at 12 noon We have booked the Sports Hall from 11am to 1pm this Sunday 14th. This is for mixed RC and FF flying with a break at noon… Read More »

11/4 – Outdoor flying starts on Friday 14th

Well, the indoor flying season has finished for this winter – it seems to have gone well with plenty of people coming along on Saturday afternoons.  If you have any comments, please let me have them for the committee to review.  The indoor dates in the run up to Christmas are now on the website… Read More »

8/2 – Access to the Girton flying site

Just an update on Girton. The field is usually not accessible by car in Dec, Jan and Feb, but my spies have been out and parts of the field are dry enough at the moment, but avoid the area along the hedge on the right which as usual is a bit boggy. We do not… Read More »

31/1 – Public Open Day cancelled

The committee have decided to cancel the proposed Public Open Days this year.  The decision was for the following reasons – We agreed that there is no need to go to all the effort to publicise the club or raise funds as in the past. We are all getting plenty of indoor flying with the… Read More »

17/1 – Trial of revised indoor RC flying guidance

The following e-mail was sent to all members today Dear members This only concerns indoor RC flyers. There seems to be a good interest in indoor RC and we had quite a few people at the first Saturday.  We don’t want to have too many complex rules or we’d need to employ a policeman full… Read More »