The September 2011 Flightline newsletter is now posted for download. Grab a copy today.
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The 2011 Bayside R/C Club Auction information is now posted on the site.
Take a look at this year’s information and contact the event coordinators if you have more questions.
- View the Auction overview page.
- Visit the Auction rules page.
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Looks like the military (and eventually law enforcement & security firms) are out scouting for remotely flown vehicle operators, or so says this article. Is this a full time job for you or someone who flies R/C?
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From our web site to your hard drive, here is the July edition of the Flightline newsletter.
Grab it from the usual spot, here: Flightline page
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Some of you may have noticed on June 8th the web site was temporarily down. This was in preparation to move it to a new provider that, fingers crossed, is a bit more stable than the last one.
As a result, some web page functions, downloads, images and other things may be missing or broken. We are going through the entire site and will fix things as we find them. However, if you find something that needs a correction earlier, please send us an email using the Contact Us page and we’ll see if we can get to it sooner.
Thanks for your patience.
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June Flightline Available
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Just released to the web is the June 2011 Flightline. Go grab your copy from the Flightline page that can be found at this link.
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In what is probably the first real justification for FAA regulation of model aircraft activities, the National Transportation Safety Board has found that the RC pilot is at fault for the collision at a flying event in Colorado in August 2010. This marks the first time (that I’ve seen) the NTSB and FAA have publicly admonished the RC community for using the National Airspace and causing damage.
It is difficult to say whether this will set precedent with the FAA and NTSB, but I believe this is the first concrete step in bringing the full weight of federal regulations into the RC community. This is not a good thing for the hobby, but as this event showed just one person doing something anywhere with an RC craft in the NAS is likely to draw attention from regulators. We will have to wait until the summer of 2011 before we find out the full impact of this incident and the FAA’s decision on whether to regulate and how much the RC community.
Full details of the NTSB report can be found here.
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Now available in the newsletter section of the site is the May edition of the Flightline. Go grab a copy to see what the latest club news is for this month.
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The President will be in and around the Bay Area again this week and unfortunately that means no R/C flights. The AMA web site has the full details, but like before it prevents just about everyone trying to fly model aircraft from flying anywhere within a 30 mile radius of the visit sites, which span the majority of the North and South Bay cities.
For more information on these flight restrictions, please visit the AMA web site:
http://www.modelaircraft.org/membership/clubs/notams.aspx
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