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November 2007
President
Warren Dunnell

Vice President
Andrew Holloway

Secretary
Danny Anderson

Treasurer
Gordon Grant

Field Maintenance
Don Barber

CFI
Don Barber

Airwaves
Vacant

Catering
Therese Ross

The November General Meeting will be Friday 30th November at the Community Hall on the corner of Todds Road and Ellis Street Lawnton commencing at 7:30 pm
 Auction Time
Time to recycle all of that combat proven and time tested aeromodelling gear.
The auction will follow the general meeting, note the early start for the meeting.
Christmas Party
You’re probably too late but a call to Gordon may get you a ticket, no guarantees
Southern Cross Air Force Warbirds (PRAMS field 25 Nov 2007)
It was the turn of PRAMS to host the boys and girls from SCAF on Sunday 25th Nov. Despite some nasty weather the day before and the usual forecast of doom and gloom the day dawned with plenty of sunshine and blue sky. Unfortunately, the wind whilst not strong managed to provide a firm cross wind to both runways pretty much all day.

All the usual warbird types were represented from WW1 all the way through to modern jet fighters (electric DF). Unusually I did not see a great deal of WW2 aircraft flying despite there being quite a few large models around, instead there were a large number of WW1 multi wing aircraft present and flown on the day. It was wonderful to watch the slow motion ballet that is WW1 combat.

Peter Love and his cronies from Toowoomba were there with some large models and a nice selection of foamie and heavier edf jets. There were foamies of the GWS F15, Alfa F86 and Focke Wulf TA183 Huckbein which all flew well. In the higher power area there was two HET F15 twin edf’s and the HET F16. I didn’t get to see the F16 fly but from all reports it was a rocketship as was the F15 I did get to see. I got some video of the F15 which is available at http://www.prams.asn.au/video/flash.htm Note that the link is temporary as I am experimenting with a PRAMS video gallery, so if you want a look do it soon.
Library News.
We have recently acquired two new CDs – the 2007 editions of Joe Nall and SEFF. Joe Nall is one of the biggest model meets in the USA, with over 500 pilots registered for the five day event! The DVD captures many of the top models in flight and on the ground, with interviews with the pilots. SEFF is Southern Electric Fun Fly – another huge event in the USA – even bigger than ours! The latest trends in electric flight are well displayed in this DVD…
Shame file – we still have a few delinquents, but generally members have been very good at returning items promptly, thank you, and keep it up! Here are the delinquents…
                Name                                  Items                               Date borrowed
  R Wilson………………………books 21 and 59……………….31/12/06
  S Degen……………………….book 56…………………………7/4/07
  P Summerfeldt…………………QF22…………………………...22/4/07
  S Glasson……………………….QF24…………………………..14/7/07
  C Turner………………………..video 74………………………..28/8/07
  G Falcon………………………DVDs 3,21,6, book 30………….8/9/07
  W Morrison…………………..DVD40, SF1, QF25, QEFI 23…..8/9/07
   G Falcon………………………DVD 28………………………..15/9/07
   D Smith……………………….DVDs 42,52,72…………………22/9/07
Prompt return of these items would be appreciated! However, I repeat that given the large   number of items borrowed, the majority of members are doing the right thing – thank you!
Minutes of the October General Meeting

Meeting opened at 20:00 hours

Apologies
James McAllen
Graham Kennedy

New Members
Jeoffery Reed
Dener Hollaway
James

C.F.I Report
Nothing

Treasures’ Report
as per and read out at meeting
Passed by Barry Evans, Dave Wherrett

Fuel Report
Premix now available in 25ltr drums.

Motion 1
I, Gordon Grant, a fully paid up pensioner member of the society move that items 6.2, 6.3, 7, 7.1,7.2 and 7.3 be deleted and replaced with the following:
6.2) An applicant for membership in any class to the Pine Rivers Aeronautical Model Society Inc (the Society) shall present to the secretary a completed application form duly proposed by a fully paid up member of the Society together with a non-refundable nomination fee as determined at that time.
6.3) The Proposer should at least talk to the applicant and satisfy himself or herself that the applicant is a suitable person to become a member of the Society.
6.4)The Secretary on receipt of the completed and proposed application shall place a copy on the Society’s notice board and also have a copy of the application published in the next edition of Airwaves.
6.5) The management Committee of the Society shall review all membership applications received and unapproved and consider any objections presented to the Secretary in writing, and accept in the class of their application or reject the individual on a simple majority of a seconded motion put to the management committee meeting.
6.6) On acceptance or rejection of membership to the Society the Secretary shall advise the applicant accordingly. In the case of acceptance this advice shall include the class of membership and the membership fees now due to the Society and that he or she will not be a bona fide member of the Society until such time that the Treasurer has received the full payment of their membership fees and issued an official Society receipt. Further the Secretary shall advise the new member that he or she cannot fly ‘solo’ at the Society’s fields until he or she has received the Society’s official membership receipt.
6.7) In the case of rejection the Secretary shall contact the applicant concerned and convene a meeting with him or her and the elected officers of the Society so that the proposed member can defend his or her position. If at the conclusion of such a meeting the elected office bearers of the Society are of the opinion that the objection was frivolous, unwarranted or not applicable or contrary to the Society’s aims or rules, the elected office bearers shall overturn the rejection and grant the applicant the membership in the class applied for. However, the requirements of bona fide membership included in item 6.6 shall apply.

I further move that item 6.3 be numbered 6.8) and as item 7 has been deleted in total all subsequent item numbers be altered to present a true numerical, progression.

Moved:  Gordon Grant      Seconded: Danny Anderson  Dated 10 Oct. 2007.
Motion 2
I, Gordon Grant, a fully paid up pensioner member of the Pine Rivers Aeronautical Model Society Inc. (the Society) move that all words in item 8.2 after sub-item d) beginning with “ The management committee shall issue the member with a warning letter….including clauses a) and b) and concluding with the words his/her membership be terminated” be deleted and replaced with:
d) On receipt of a complaint in writing against a member from another member the secretary shall contact the recipient of the complaint and convene a meeting with him or her with the Elected Office Bearers (EOB) of the Society to informally discuss the matter with the view of resolving the complaint with a minimum of disruption to the Society’s activities.
e) If the EOB considers that the recipient of the complaint is at fault then the EOB shall tell that member of their decision and advise him or her not to act, behave, fly or speak in that manner again at the Society’s flying field in the future. Every effort is to be made to get the offending member to accept this decision and the member is to be advised in writing that the matter is now put to rest; but if such a complaint is received again a warning letter may be issued. If the EOB accept the explanation of the recipient of the complaint, then the plaintiff member shall be advised accordingly. In the case where one of the EOB or their immediate family are the plaintiff or defendant then he or she shall be excluded from the evaluation panel of the EOB and if required a member of the Management Committee shall fill that vacant position.
f) In the case where a warning letter is issued to a member the EOB may at its discretion institute
      i) suspension of privileges of membership for one month or
      ii) suspension of privileges of membership for three months or
      iii) total suspension of privileges of membership.
g) Again the member shall be given the opportunity to discuss the matter with the EOB and every effort on the part of the EOB is to be made to resolve the matter without further disruption and/or ill-feeling to or within the Society’s activities.
h)If in the case where the outcome of the EOB mediation is not acceptable, the Secretary shall call a special general meeting of the membership at which the complaint shall be read, a report given of the mediation attempts and outcomes of the EOB and the defending member shall have the opportunity to respond within the rules of debate. On conclusion of debate a motion shall be moved to resolve the matter finally and all parties shall abide by the decision of the special general meeting.

I also move that the word “be” in the first line of item 8.1) be changed to “by”

I further move that item 9) “Appeal and rejection or termination of membership” be deleted in total.

Moved G Grant         Seconded D Anderson  Dated 10 Oct 07
Motion 3
I, Danny Anderson, a fully paid-up member of the Pine Rivers Aeronautical Model Society Inc., move that the amounts in section 28.7 of the Constitution “All expenditures by the management Committee …” be amended from $400 to $2000 to reflect current values.
Moved D. Anderson      Seconded  D Harper        Dated 10 Oct 07
 
Motion to raise spending
from $400 dollars to $2000 was amended by Jim Fagan to $1000 dollars and was passed by the members.
Motion to concrete
The pit area quote was accepted by the members, but Colin Parry declined to do the job. The President said he would attempt to find someone else to do the job for the same price.

Rc cars motion
There will be no rc cars driven at the air field. Motion passed.

Danny Hollis asked that Warren Approaches Sid Bray in relation to no other rc operations.

Fence to be put back to the end of the pit area.
 
PRAMS
Christmas Party

Sunday 2nd December 12:30PM
at the PRAMS field.
Catered Spit Roast
Members and their Families
$10.00 ea*.
children 12 and under free*
*(Members and Family pricing, non-members $20.00)
 

Tickets may be purchased from the Canteen
by Sun 25 Nov 2007

Further details
Contact
Gordon Grant on 32636440
If Parents would like to purchase a gift for their Children (we recommend for children 12 and under a gift to the value of $10), wrap and name it, Santa will present it on the day.