FUEL

Once the current stocks of Nitro are exhausted the price will rise to $26.00/litre. For those that use it , the club now stocks RED Coolpower.

PRESIDENT’S REPORT

Hello Members

The last working bee was a bit of a mess, having to cancel the cherry picker and all. Thank you to all the members who turned up in the wet conditions and still did their bit. You will be happy to know the trees were lopped on the western end of the main strip and the roof has been built over the tractor. Thank you to all who took part in these projects.

We seem to have a problem with pilots wanting to fly before the working bee is finished. This is a safety issue and flying will only commence when the person in charge of the working bee calls an end to it

As a trial it has been suggested we sell 1litre containers of fuel at $8.00 per litre for our juniors who might be working on a tight budget.

It has been brought to our attention again that 2.4GHZ radios are still not being placed in the pound, it is a requirement of this club that all radios be placed in the pound while not in use. Keys for 2.4GHZ must have a Club sticker with your name on it and be removed after each and every flight.

The canteen has had a face lift, much to Graham and Therese’s dismay. It seemed a lot of their cooking gear went missing and Graham spat the dummy until he found said gear in one of the containers. Thank you to those people who helped clean and tidy the canteen.

Don’t forget the free Christmas-in-July BBQ on Saturday 19 July. This is the committee’s way of thanking the membership for working bees and such throughout the year. (Last Sat - Ed)

Peter Tompkins tells me that we still have a shortage of pilots for the air show. Please, if you would like to fly in this show and you are gold wing standard (not necessarily with gold wings) talk to Peter).

Many thanks to Steve Godbold and Bob Moore for their hard work in building the new roof over the third container and tractor.

Now I would like to finish on a happy note and wish Ben Staines a Happy Birthday from the membership of PRAMS. Happy 80^th Ben.

Ben looking a bit overwhelmed by the whole thing.

Ben joined BARCS on his 40th Birthday and has worked tirelessly on behalf of BARCS/PRAMS, the plaque was presented on his 80th Birthday.

Air Field Chit Chat

Hi Fellow Flyers

Again an eventful month and beautiful weather for flying models. There has been some rain but on the whole the weather has been kind to us

The QPFA held a round of their competitions at our field on 12^th and 13^th and had keen competition. Unfortunately James Mc Allen crashed his plane on the Saturday and Catherine Newman had a fatality on her last flight on the Sunday afternoon. Apparently Catherine flew very well for a first timer. Here are the results:

SPORTSMAN
1^st  Mike O’Reilly
2^nd Des Newman
3^rd Tim Mew
4^th Catherine Newman
5^th Greg Mew.

ADVANCED
1^st Josiah Atkinson, 2^nd Steve Hampson

EXPERT
1^st Simon Atkinson

F3A
1^st Trevor Nielson

It appears as though that Simon and Josiah gained Promotion Points in this competition. Flyers came from Bundaberg and Larks as well as Prams

Robert Moore suggested some time ago that we give Ben Staines some recognition for his 80^th birthday which fell on 19^th July. Rob also pointed out that Ben had been in the PRAMS for 40years as he joined on or a few days after his 40^th birthday. This being the case we arranged to have a suitable plaque made and engraved to celebrate the occasion and several of us gatecrashed Bens’ Lunchtime party. President Col gave a small speech and presented the Plaque to Ben.

It was obvious that Ben had a great day. Unfortunately Sunday was not so good. Ben came to the field with his ever robust 747 model and took off. He said he was going to do some cunning stunts. Alas Ben crashed his 12 year old model in a vertical dive a few metres in front of the pilot’s area. Bad luck Ben.

The Air Show is very well organised and I think it will be the best for some time. The rain last week has made the grassed area that we use for car parking a little wet and more rain is forecast for the coming week. We will have to access the situation close to the 26^th and make a decision if the Airs Show goes ahead or has to be postponed or cancelled. We will give you more details at the General Meeting on Friday 25^th July.

The Westerner News Paper has given us a great write up for the Air Show which included a photo of Jim Fagan with two of his models

Last night 72 members came to our Christmas in July BBQ and all had a good time. I am sure that no one went home hungry. There were plenty of steaks, sausages and steakettes as well as salads. Jim Fagan was in charge of the desserts and did us proud with a great selection from the Cheese Cake Shop. Of course they were all calorie free so everyone could eat them.

It is near the end of July and your membership fees must be in by the 31^st July to allow you to fly thereafter. To date we have received 169 renewals however there are still 106 members that have not paid as yet. Just a reminder. Danny Hollis assures me that all cards have been sent out to members who have paid fees up to Wednesday 16^th July . I have a further 6 Payments to process and get to Danny.
(50 posted Mon 21st July)

Well that is about all for the moment, good flying,

Gordon Grant

FLYING HIGH
BY C.F.I.

Round 3 of the club championship was flown on Sunday 22 June, 2008. A field of 10 members took part. The task was a spot landing within a set time. All models survived the competition without damage and all appeared to enjoy the event. The next round will be held on Sunday 3 August, 2008. This round will be organised by our current leader, Gordon Bartils. Join in and have some fun.

Current placings are:-
1^st. Gordon Bartils

2^nd. Nadine Lindner

3^rd. Keith Berry and David Turton

HINT FOR THE MONTH.

COMPUTER FLIGHT SIMULATOR

If you would like to practice your model flying on your computer without a large cash outlay on an expensive flight simulator program, download F.M.S. flight simulator which is a free download. This is not a sophisticated program and is very easy to operate. Despite advice you may hear to the contrary, this program will run on a J.R. transmitter with the standard buddy-box lead into the microphone port.

Do you have a good modelling hint? Let me know. Best hint of the year will win 3 free flights on the club trainer.

SOUND METER

With all the new housing development near the field we must address the possibility of our noise becoming a field-threatening situation. Accordingly, I have fitted the club sound meter with fresh batteries and will attempt calibration with 2 high quality sound meters owned by Danny Anderson and Anthony Lye. If this is unsuccessful I intend to request the purchase of a better quality sound meter.

Either way I intend to obtain from M.A.A.Q. the sound testing guidelines and train myself and several other members in its use. I also will call upon our committee to establish a set of guidelines by which any member can be called upon to submit his or her model for sound testing.

KERRY TURTON

C.F.I.

klturtonSPAMBLOCK@hotmail.com

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The Minutes of General Meeting

Held on 27^th June 2008 at Lawnton Community Hall
 

Meeting Opened: 20.20 hours

Chairman: Col Parry

Members Present: As per the membership book

Apologies: E. Pond, L. Smith, T. Mills, S. Ward, S. Goldbolt

Confirmation of Minutes of Meeting held on 30^th May 2008

Moved: D. Harper Seconded D. Wherret

Business Arising: Nil.

Presidents Report:

1. Excessive noise from planes: Danny Anderson measured noise from various planes on the 21/6/08 with the following being an indication of noise levels measured, Large planes 94db (George’s), OS 46 Scanner (Neil’s), no planes measured above 96db with the exception of Glen Parsons jet. Col Parry spoke with Sid Bray over the noise issue and Sid commented that we were no louder than the full size jets. However Sid was making the point that we need to be aware of the noise and keep a cap on it.

2. Spoke to Sid and also advised him we no longer needed the separate area for the heli’s.

3. The issue of Sid selling the property was discussed and Sid has given us a price of $4.6m and stated he was close to signing a deal with the developer and would ensure that our sheds and equipment would be listed as being excluded from the sale.

4. A new lock has been fitted by D. Anderson so the club rooms can be locked at night without a key (just push the door shut).

5. The review of the by-laws, motions to be in the Secretaires hands by the 30^th June.

6. Plane crash in front of the pilots area was due to wind shear from the mangrove’s, all to be aware of the problem.

7. A request from the floor for receipts from electronic payment of fees to be sent out, G. Grant will ensure this is done.

8. Stickers for this year are to be organised and sent out.

9. There is to be no parking in the heli area except for special events or camping, as the heli area is for beginners and only 1 heli is to be flown in the area at a time.

10. There is a working bee next Sunday, cherry picker has been organised to lop the trees on the approach and clean the solar panel.

Moved: Col Parry Seconded: D. Thomas Carried

Secretaries Report:

Correspondence:

1. MAAQ Mike Snabaitis re Bronze wing form

2. Email from Member N. Murray re change of address

3. MAAQ Robin Klau re club survey

4. Local Council L. Stewart re airshow.

New Members:

• Dick Hall Accepted by Members

• Kevin Butler Accepted by Members

• Paul Harrison Accepted by Members

• Steve Tomas Accepted by Members

• Tony James Accepted by Members

• Eric Dickson Accepted by Members

Moved: J. Fagan Seconded: B. Moore Carried

Treasurers’ Report:

Gordon Grant presented the treasurers report to the members and moved that it be accepted.

Moved: G. Grant Seconded: I. Rowe Carried

Library & Airwaves Report:

Dave requested the members approve the renewal of our subscription to the RC&E magazine for the next 12 months, cost of 56 pounds. Members agreed to the expenditure.

Moved: D. Harper Seconded: B. Bates Carried

CFI Report:

There was no CFI report.

Field & Ground Maintenance:

1. Roof over tractor, roofing materials on site and to be installed on the 6^th July working bee.

2. Containers to be painted, gate being put up by D. Anderson.

Moved: B. Moore Seconded: G. Grant Carried

Fuel Report:

1. Nitro is hard to get, at present we can only purchase small quantities, will explore other options to get some more.

2. Fuel sales generally have improved.

Moved: Dave Wherret Seconded: P. Somerfeldt Carried

Pro Report:

Air Show: Update given. All in order and looking good.

Shopping centre exhibits and staffing request for help and aircraft.

Request to invite Yvonne Barlow to airshow.

The raffle is looking very good with lots of donations from stores.

Woody Point Special School has had the exhibitor pass sent to them to allow them to attend the airshow.

Events – Update given.

Swap meet detail given.

Moved: P. Tompkins Seconded: D. Wherret Carried

Further Business:

D. Mount, requested that working bee be spread to Saturdays as well as Sundays to allow more people to attend.

Barry (Dave Buckel) Brewing Company – outside Austinville, drop in and say Hi.

Pat asked how much land would we get from Sid for the $4.6m, Col Parry stated that this was for the 95 acres. Discussion on the availability of other land for the club. Col spoke with Graeme Tattersall re council “spare” land, and were going to look at it. Sid Bray has given us an undertaking to keep us in “the loop” with regards to the negotiations on his land.

D. Mount inquired if the developer had been invited to our airshow, would be good to promote the club.

Meeting Closed at: 21.15 hours

LIBRARY NEWS

The subscription renewal for RCM&E magazine has been sent off. We have several new DVDs in the library and the Flying Models magazines are proving popular. For our new members, we have over 100 DVDs in the club library as well as many books. The club subscribes to four overseas aeromodelling magazines, covering all aspects of the hobby. Catch up with myself or Darren Robinson to be shown the library and to book out items, which we generally like returned within a month. Dave Harper

PYLON RACING MARYBOROUGH QUEENS BIRTHDAY

The weekend started out cold, cloudy and potentially rainy, with 4 flyers from our club making the trip to Maryborough for the biggest weekend of racing in Australia, and this is considered more prestigious than the nationals at Christmas!

Although 4 from our club started the trip north only one came through to Mary borough: Don, Andrew and Sven all deciding not to take a chance on the rain and turned back, as for myself it would have to be a cyclone to stop me (Allan Taylor)

The event we fly is the Q500 which is now an international event being flown in USA, ASIA, EUROPE, SOUTH AFRICA and nationally in AUST. It was very tightly contested as with every one having the same engine and airframe it comes down to your flying on the day. With entries from every state in Australia I found myself flying against a couple from WA in very close contested heats. At times you could not see any space between the planes and sometimes the ground as they hurtled around the pylons for ten very exciting laps.

Unfortunately I did not place too well, something to do with losing my plane in the swamp the week before and having to rebuild that week! Preparation is the key to good racing, although this cannot be given as an excuse. The eventual winner was a young 16 year old from Toowoomba with W.A. flyer 2^nd and as for myself coming in 7 out of 16 flyers in our division of Q500.

Overall for the weekend there were over 50 racers on parade so if you see any of our boys at the field with V tails going hard turning left and need more info, ask, they’ll be happy to help. Our next meeting will again be in Maryborough for state champs and then we have one closer at Coolum, so till next time

Go hard turn left

Allan Taylor

(I inadvertently omitted this report from last issue- sorry! DH)

DON’T FORGET THE SWAP MEET ON SATURDAY 26^TH JULY

THE DAY BEFORE THE AIRSHOW!

PLEASE GET YOUR NAMES IN TO HELP OUT ON AIRSHOW DAY….27^TH JULY.

CONTACT PETER SUMMERFELDT ON
3886 1267 IF YOU CAN HELP OUT.