September 2020 www.hotrc.co.nz June 2020 Page 1 Editor Murray Race Model Flying New Zealand Council Contents 6 Stevenson Street 3 Council Report Ph: 03 418 0969 President 4 New Central North Island Representative Mobile: 027 418 0969 Len Drabble 4 Regulations & Government Activity Balclutha 9230 04 526 2622 5 Life Members [email protected] 7 NOTAMS [email protected] 8 Single Channel Radio Revisited 10 Rebuild It Magazine Manager 14 Robbe BEA 146 Clive Martis 17 Vintage RC 1/2A Texaco 021 884 323 Secretary 22 73rd Nationals Program Paul Clegg 26 New Zealand F3B 28 F3K Hand Launch Copy Deadlines [email protected] 29 South Island Free Flight Champs 2020 021 986 566 31 Pt12 Catapult Glider March Issue 33 AucklandSoar Thermal Soar 2020 31st January 35 FF/CL Scale SIG June Issue 38 Pylon SIG 23rd April 41 Vintage SIG Treasurer 46 NZRCAA Report September Issue Vacant 47 Soaring SIG 24th July 48 RC Scale SIG 49 Free Flight SIG December Issue 50 NDC 23rd October Front Cover Northern North Island Chris Jackson Brett Robinsons Lanzo 021 0729 458 Bomber, a vintage design [email protected] from the late 1930's, Popsie, a Vic Smeed free flight design enlarged 285% for RC and Night Central North Island Train, a classic model from Frazer Briggs Special Interest Groups the George French stable [email protected] in the 1960's. All models Pylon Aerobatics Les King Frazer Briggs from the MFHB stable Ph 022 073 1133 021 288 9455 [email protected] [email protected] Southern North Island LMANZ Control Line Graham Job Hamish Loveridge Dave Thornley [email protected] Ph 07 349 3719 027 357 5638 027 460 3848 SNIRep@modelflyingnz.org Free Flight Large Model Co-Ordinator Rob Wallace Rene Redmond Ph 06 878 4993 Ph 06 356 5861 [email protected] largemodelpermits@ Northern South Island modelflyingnz.org Free Flight & The Opinions expressed in this Dave Griffin publication are not necessarily Control Line Scale those of the editor or 021 352 595 Radio Control Scale Ricky Bould Gwyn Avenell Model Flying New Zealand. NSIRep@modelflyingnz.org Ph 09 478 8949 Ph 09 298 4819 [email protected] Neither this publication nor [email protected] MFNZ are responsible for the Helicopter Soaring Allen James contents or services advertised Southern South Island within these pages. David James 027 580 5630 Daniel Munro Ph 06 354 3452 [email protected] All advertising is accepted 027 474 3316 [email protected] on the integrity of those [email protected] Vintage placing the advertising. NZ Jet Turbine Don Mossop Craig Abbott 07 578 9783 Printed by [email protected] [email protected] Fisherprint Ltd Competitions Manager FPV & Multirotors Kevin Botherway Mathew Wellington 027 5570 470 [email protected] [email protected] Recording Officer Allan Knox [email protected] Administration/Membership Manager Paul Clegg The body Governing 021 986 566 Model Aeronautics in New Zealand [email protected] Recognised by The Royal New Zealand Aero Club (Inc) New Zealand Representatives of the F.A.I Page 2 Model Flying World Council Report Paul Clegg Hopefully you’ve all taken advantage of the recent spate of good circumstances drop me a line and I’ll check that they are on the list. weather to get out and do some flying. It’s good to see a healthy The distribution list will include copies to libraries and national increase in the number of Wings qualifications being passed in the last organisations such as CAA and Ministry of Transport. Clubs can month. request a copy that they can place in the clubhouse to allow members to browse through a paper copy at the flying site. If this would be AGM notes desirable with your club and you haven’t already emailed me, please MFNZ held a successful AGM in July. The documentation from the do so and I’ll include your club on the list. AGM has been posted onto the MFNZ website. AGM 2020 Documentation In lieu of giving away magazines we are revising a promotional pamphlet that was produced a few years ago. Copies of this will be With the departure of Jonathan Shorer there’s been a bit of rearranging distributed at club rallies, shows and sent out to suppliers. It’s an easy for the MFNZ committee. In the absence of any volunteers for the way of giving an overview of the hobby and providing information for Secretary role I decided that the best way forward for the organisation folks that are interested in getting into the hobby. was to take on the role myself along with the administrator duties. I’ve got a pretty good handle on how MFNZ functions as I’ve been working We’ll be trialling a new piece of software (hopefully you’re using it to closely with Jonathan over the last few years. You’ll need to be patient read this copy of the magazine) that formats the online magazine to the as there is still a lot to learn about the different processes for MFNZ but size of screen that you are viewing the magazine with. Hopefully this I should be up to speed pretty quickly. will make the magazine far more accessible in the digital format. Chris Jackson has taken over Jonathan’s role as external advocate. We are hoping to look at other methods of notification that a new Chris’s experience in the aviation industry will be invaluable in magazine is available. One possibility is to use text messaging. We maintaining relationships with all the various external agencies. It’s a haven’t put a login on the magazine as other organisations have. The really critical time for us to stay in contact with the aviation government hope is to make the magazine widely available to both yourselves and agencies as they struggle with regulation over future use of New the public. If you don’t get a notification for the magazine just web Zealand airspace. search “Model Flying World” and the first hit should take you to the MFNZ magazine page. MFNZ Life Membership There were two remits proposed at the recent AGM. Both were for Or…click the tile on the front MFNZ Life Membership and both were passed at the meeting. page of the MFNZ website .. Easy! Congratulations to both Bill McGarvey and Jonathan Shorer. Huge March 2018 thanks to both these folks for all the sterling work over the years for MFNZ. Life Membership is small recompense for all the work they’ve The big thing we need is to have your put in. participation. Please send us feedback MFW with ideas, your likes or dislikes and give Model Flying World Magazine us a chance to address any issues. We MAGAZINE Hopefully, by now you’re aware that the Model Flying World magazine intend to have a membership survey early is going to be predominantly an online publication for the remains of next year and from there will form a decision to continue with online or this financial year. The MFNZ committee has debated long and hard revert back to paper. about doing this. Both online and paper publication had its advocates within the committee. We do appreciate the folks that have put in the The Outcomes effort to sending in comments / suggestions as to what they see as the The hope is we can deliver you the same high-quality magazine in the future of the magazine. Your feedback is important in this process. most cost-effective way possible. There is going to be some tuning down the line to figure out the best mix of digital versus paper but with I’d like to outline the reasoning of the conclusions we have come to and your help we want to make this as effective as possible. how we reached them. If this is successful it is envisaged that we will be able to free up a chunk The Problem of cash. We intend to increase the budget available for local grants. The committee has managed to make considerable inroads on With increasing urban sprawl, greater pressure has been placed on lowering the cost of running the organisation over the last few years. club flying resources. It is also expected that increased adverse One of the primary ways we have achieved this is to use technology to weather events will require increased repair of flying facilities and reduce costs. Examples of this include lowering travelling costs by underwriting of club events. The organisation wishes to be in a position using remote meeting software. Reducing print costs for the office by to assist clubs that encounter these issues. This budget will be electronically transmitting user information to the clubs. We have been increased where funds are available. constantly on the look for other ways of trimming the organisations expenses. The most obvious centre of cost that came to light is the paper printing and distribution of the quarterly magazine. The cost of both printing and posting the magazine last year had an overall increase of a dollar per member. The concerning thing is that these costs will only increase over the coming years. Last month, NZ Post once again increased the overall postal fees. The Resolution It’s been decided to trial online distribution of the Model of Flying World magazine. The trial will continue until the end of the financial year. A limited print run of paper copies will be produced and distributed where needed to try and provide the best effect. Elderly members without Internet connection will be sent a copy.