Scale Weekend 2021 – lockdown relief
Wednesday, 14 July 2021
Ant Jervis is organising yet another Scale Weekend for 14th and 15th August at one of our slopes. Scale Gliders are usually in abundance of all types both modern and ancient. It is an event not to be missed. If you are a modeller and want to come along, we usually start around 10am and
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New Flying Rules Published
Wednesday, 06 January 2021
Some or all of you will have received an email from the BMFA announcing that finally the Civil Aviation Authority have agreed the final format of the rules for Civil Aviation Authority licensing. As most modellers know the rules have been established after much hard negotiation. Other articles have been published both on this site
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LMMGA Large Scale Event (2019)
Tuesday, 05 January 2021
by Bob Jennings For more pictures, see the Competition Photographs Page The last line of Keith’s original email for this event went ‘Fingers crossed for fine weather and light winds’. Well, one out of two was pretty good going. Arriving early afternoon on the Saturday there was already a good selection of scale gliders and their
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CAA & BMFA Flying Rules Published
Sunday, 06 December 2020
On December 6th 2020 we received an email from BMFA which detailed the rules and procedure for flying Model Aircraft in this country. I can do no better than to copy and paste the email which is clear and speaks for itself. If things change, hopefully, this page will be updated. “The UK adopted the
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RAFMAA Weekend up the Leek Slopes
Saturday, 02 November 2019
Here is a letter of thanks we received from RAFMAA for the use of our slopes for their weekend of fun flying “Good evening Keith, Gentlemen, Greetings once again from the RAF Model Aircraft Association. I hope this email finds you all well. My apologies that it has taken so long to send this email. I’m
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PSSA Orme Event (October 2019)
Monday, 07 October 2019
“It’s such a perfect day, I’m so glad I spent it with you” Lou Reed, 1972, Transformer Album, produced by David Bowie. I was 15 and impressionable, how old were you? If you answer “older” then you may have attended day one of the Orme Fly-In on the weekend of 12th and 13th October 2019.
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Bosley Minn Flying News
Sunday, 04 August 2019
Today was a South Easterly wind which meant that the flying was either at Bosley Minn, or on Mam Tor. Because of the Whaley Bridge dam situation, all the roads from Macclesfield to Chapel would be shut. Keith would also struggle walking up Mam Tor unti he felt better so it was either going to
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The Orme Welcomes PSS Modellers to the Pier Site
Sunday, 07 April 2019
We are always beholden to the weather at PSS events, such are the vagaries of flying model gliders. When you consider that we need, ideally, 20mph and above to confidently fly Scale Glider Jets, then being fortunate enough to enjoy ideal conditions is a matter of luck. When there are 2 weekend days then the
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Fly 4 Fun Competition News (October 2018)
Tuesday, 16 October 2018
You can say what you like about Ant Jervis – and very few people do – but you just have to admit that when it comes to organising competitions, he absolutely blows your socks off. You can also say what you like about LMMGA, but when it comes to a healthy dose of verbal abuse,
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