Club Events

LMAC holds a number of events throughout the season. See the main table below for full details, additional information such as documentation & instructions, along with individual event results & reports. The four club competitions are open to club members only. Although the events run for two days, participants are allowed to enter for one attempt only. Scores are taken from the pilots 'best 3' events.

Event rules & scoring details are explained HERE

Current standings are available HERE

Event reports are available HERE

Date	Event Type	Description	Scoring	Information	Results	Report
1st May Sat	Maintenance	Runway sweeping
15th-16th May		Annual Fly-In
5th June Sat	Comp	Aerobatic Comp		HERE	HERE	HERE
19th June Sat	Display	Stathern Festival				HERE
27th June Sun	Comp	Fun-Fly Touch and Go Pt 1	Yes		HERE
1st July Thurs	Comp	Fun-Fly Touch and Go Pt 2	Yes		HERE
TBC	Comp	Scale Event Pt 1		HERE
TBC	Comp	Scale Event Pt 2
25th July Sun	Comp	Climb and Glide Pt 1	Yes		HERE
29th July Thurs	Comp	Climb and Glide Pt 2	Yes		HERE
1st Aug Sun	Comp	Taxi and Fly Pt 1	Yes
5th Aug Thurs	Comp	Taxi and Fly Pt 2	Yes
22nd Aug		Warbirds Event		HERE
19th Sept Sun	Comp	Bombs Away! Pt 1	Yes
23rd Sept Thurs	Comp	Bombs Away! Pt2	Yes
9th Sept Thurs	Maintenance	Runway sweeping
4th Nov Thurs	Maintenance	Runway sweeping
6th - 7th Nov		Bonfire Remembrance Fly-In

Touch and Go

Total duration: 3 minutes.
Take off from the runway.
Within the three minute period touch and go on the spot landing target as many times as you can.
The spot landing will be taken from where the main wheels first touch the ground.
Points will be awarded for spot landings on the runway target in the ratio of 50 for centre and 30 for next circle 20 for next circle 10 for the outer circle and 0 points for anywhere else.
The aircraft must be in an airworthy condition after landing.
If any of the participants feel the aircraft is not in airworthy condition after the spot landing the pilot may be asked to fly again to prove its airworthiness within five minutes.
The only part that may be changed on the plane is a broken propeller.

Climb and Glide

Take off from the runway and climb to altitude for thirty seconds only.
The engine must then be cut to dead stick.
During your dead stick glide you will be asked to throttle up to prove you are dead stick.
From when the engine is cut to dead stick you will be timed to your spot landing back on the runway.
One point will be awarded for every second of glide.
Points can be gained for spot landings on the runway target in the ratio of 50 for centre and 30 for next circle 20 for next circle 10 for the outer circle and 0 points for anywhere else. But points for the most impressive missed landing may be awarded if the judges are suitably impressed!
The aircraft must be in an airworthy condition after landing.

Taxi and Fly.

Part one timed:
Taxi aircraft around prescribed ground course which ends on centerline (taken across the runway) of the runway target, then take off. This will be timed from the go signal until the main wheels leave the ground.
Part two, landing:
Points can be gained for spot landings on the runway target in the ratio of 50 for centre and 30 for next circle 20 for next circle 10 for the outer circle and 0 points for anywhere else. But points for the most impressive missed landing may be awarded if the judges are suitably impressed!
The aircraft must be in an airworthy condition after landing.

Points scoring for each event.

Each Fun-Fly event consist of six rounds, three held on the Sunday and three more on the following Thursday.
You can enter either or both of these events.
Your best score from any single round will be used to calculate your final position in the event and points will be awarded accordingly as shown below.

The single aerobatic event will be judged by Steve Mallinder whose scoring will establish a final standing that will be used to awarded points as shown below. Details of the actual flying manoeuvres will follow as soon as I get them from Steve

1st place 10 points
2nd place 9 points
3rd place 8 points
4th place 7 points
5th place 6 points
6th place 5 points
7th place 4 points
8th place 3 points
9th place 2 points
10th place 1 point

Bad weather

If two pilots are prepared to fly the event in full and land safely with aircraft in an airworthy condition the event is considered valid.
If the event is unable to be held on the Sunday or the following Thursday due to bad weather it will be cancelled.

Aerobatic Comp

Hobby Stores of Beeston have kindly offered to provide two trophies for Steve Mallinders' Aerobatic Competition! One trophy for each class (Basic & Sportsman) will be presented at this years AGM!

As if this wasn't enough, Savox have also kindly provided 4 servos for the winner of each class!

Both the basic & sportsman routines are available to download.

BASIC – SAVOX CHALLENGE.PDF
SPORTSMAN – SAVOX CHALLENGE.PDF
SAVOX CHALLENGE DISCRIPTION.DOC

Steve Mallinder has published flight demos of both the Basic & Sportsman routines online. See links below.

BASIC FLIGHT DEMO
SPORTSMAN FLIGHT DEMO

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Scale Event

Dennis Colbeck has kindly offered to donate two trophies for the Scale Event this year. One trophy for each class (Novice & Show Pilots) will be awarded at this years AGM!

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Warbirds Event

Our new warbirds flying is to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the battle of britain and is open to all warbirds from 1914 to the present day, prop or jet big or small all welcome.

The main event will be on the sunday but anybody wishing to make a weekend of it are welcome to camp FREE on the airfield although there will be a small fee of £5 a day to fly to cover the cost of the portaloos. Of cause all pilots must have the relevent BMFA/LMA insurance & relevent paperwork for 20KG+ models

Chris Peers has posted a new thread on the RCMF Forum regarding the event. Click HERE to follow.

Event results are shown in this section. Events are listed in date order

Aerobatic Comp - June 5th 2010

Results for the Aerobatic Comp are shown below. Two classes were flown on the day.

Basic
1st	:	John Appleyard
2nd	:	Tony Morrol
3rd	:	Dave Gent
4th	:	Mick Wilson
Sportsman
1st	:	George Bradley
2nd	:	Steve Green
3rd	:	Geoff Graves
4th	:	Barry White

Fun-Fly Touch & Go - June 27th & July 1st

Results for the Fun-Fly Touch & Go are shown below.

1st	:	Chris Peers
2nd	:	George Bradley
3rd	:	Steve Green
4th	:	Steve Woodhead
5th	:	Ted Cooke
6th	:	Dave Gent
7th	:	John Appleyard
8th	:	Freddie Tregenna
9th	:	Alan Sharp

Climb & Glide - July 25th & 29th

Results for the Climb & Glide are shown below.

1st	:	Robin Woodhead
2nd	:	Chris Peers
3rd	:	Freddy Tregenna
4th	:	Steve Woodhead
5th	:	Steve Green
6th	:	Dave Page
7th	:	Dave Gent
8th	:	Terry W
9th	:	Alan Sharp
10th	:	Russel Legge
11th	:	Andy A

 

Current standings will be available shortly.

Aerobatic Comp Report

I arrived at Langar, on Friday evening, the airfield was pretty busy with pilots doing some final preparation which was great to see, there was a really great atomoshere.  The first 2 judges were already there; Phil Hoyles and Mal Green had arrived earlier in the day to take advantage of the wonderful weather, Mal had travelled over 4 hours to get here as he lives way down south!!! You can’t beat that for dedication.

The guys helped me set up the presentation tables and put up the new Savox Banner and the Bionic flag so that it was something less for to worry about in the morning.  We retired to a local pup for a refreshing drink and bite to eat, finally finishing the evening with a EPP fly off, with the “Smart” winning by a mile, or so I thought.

I awoke really early and at around 6.30am Mal and I were wringing the new Famous Mini Warbirds out, brilliant start to the day.

After a large fry up at the local café we were ready to take on the world; Ok I’m exaggerating, the Savox Challenge then!

The rest of the judges and helpers arrived at 9am, Barry James travelled all the way from York and we also had Phil Mousley, Shaun and Ollie Staples also travelling some hours from up north.  At 10am I carried out the Judges briefing and issued out laminated copies of the schedule, call notes, clip boards and pens.  We then set up the judges chairs and scoring table up on the flight line.

At 10.45 I carried out registration and gave the competition briefing to some nervous looking pilots.  There would be 4 rounds in total for each of the classes, you could drop the 2 lowest scores and it was the pilot with the highest total score that would be crowned Savox Challenge Champion 2010 in Basic or Sportsman.

Ollie Staples then completed a demo flight of both schedules for the judges and pilots and we kicked the competition off at around 11.15, there is nothing worse than flying in front of your peers, so well done Ollie.

Pilots flew the first round of Basic class first and then we moved onto the Sportsman, I think it was fair to say that everyone was a little apprehensive with such an intimidating line up of judges all critiquing them, it’s not for the fainthearted. 

As pilots got used to the conditions the second round was much smoother for most of the pilots and we finished round 2 and all broke for a spot of lunch and flying demos.

Barry James gave us a very low and fast demonstration of his wonderful composite Extra, it really did howl as the tips hit supersonic only feet from the runway.  Ollie and I flew the Famous Models Mini Mustang and P40 Warhawk and had some great fun flying in syncro.  We even managed a deliberate belly touch, brilliant flying aircraft.  These will be the must have of the summer and unbelievable value for money too.

I also got to wring the Savox Extreme Flight 78 inch Extra; powered by Bionic 10S pack it’s a real showcase of technology and it’s a great flying machine.  I’ve only just finished it and I still have a bit of work to do tweaking this one.

After lunch we started round 3, pilots were really getting used to it now and the competition was starting to hot up.  Ollie had issued out the score cards to the pilots at lunch time so they were able to reflect on there scores, this year the judges had been able to put a few notes on the side of each score thereby assisting the pilot when they came to review them.

The final round 4 was definitely the best for the majority of pilots, so it was still all to play for.  Although I had decided not to issue the scores out after each round to keep the tension as high as I could!

Ollie did a great job of calculating the scores all day and he handed me the final score card just 5 minutes after the last the flight.

As I gathered  all the pilots ready for a photo shoot we all moved down to the presentation area in front of the Savox Banner and display stand, tension was high, it was a great atmosphere.

Langars Competition Secretary – Dave Gent, said a few kind words thanking the Judges, callers, helpers, Savox and CML for putting on this event.  Finally the results were announced in reverse order, the summary is as follows:

The top 3 positions

Savox Challenge Basic:

1st John Appleyard 85.5

2nd Tony Morroll 70.9

3rd Dave Gent 53.8

Savox Challenge Sportsman:

1st George Bradley 96.7

2nd Steve Green 55

3rd Geoff Graves 54.1

Savox Challenge Judges and Helpers:

Phil Hoyle

Mal Green

Barry James

Phil Mousley

Shaun Staples

Ollie Staples

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Stathern Festival Report

The Club was represented on Saturday 19th June 2010 at the Stathern Festival, in a static and interactive display by:

Dave Gent
Steve Woodhead
Steve Green
Freddy Tregenna
John Green
Robin Woodhead

There were more than 20 models on show ranging from trainers and foamies to larger scale models, the display occupied half the area of pews in St. Guthlac’s Church.
In addition to the models, Steve Green set up a model flight simulator that was in constant use for the 5 hours it was set up, it is amazing that the sticks and gimbals are still working. Steve also provided a small indoor model that was flown throughout the day by Steve Woodhead on Mode 2. A couple of indoor helicopters completed the crowd-pleasing show. Our members were kept busy by a constant stream of visitors, all very interested in what the club does. Fliers were distributed for the warbirds event with many of the local residents promising to drop in and give us a visit. The consensus of all involved was that it was a worthwhile event and one, which we hope to repeat in the future.