Plank club members

[Rob O]

I got one on the shelf........

Someone on the Sherry last night ? Rob .

[mark_w]

Do you have a club in mind? might be worth poping along at a weekend and chatting to the members. You will then get a feeling of how the club operates (Each club is different)

I fly in winterbourne, but that is probabbly a bit far for you to travel, however if you want some more infor drop me a pm.

[LipolyGone]

Frome model flying club mate.
I was a member there some years a go.
Prety freindly place back then but have since
lost that site and moved to another.

[moonmanflyer]

Well Martin i have just been into the hobby hangar and reserved a WOT 4 mk2 for Ashley, so we will need to find a good place to fly that. charlton won't be no good, might have to re-join westlands club

[Hangar-7]

With respect Martin, I think the answer to that questions is squarely in your own hands.

I agree but would go further by saying "in your mind" as well. It is no good, IMO saying "helis are good and planks bad" and vice versa. Both can exist side by side or should do. I know a club where helis and planes have separate airspaces and so both fly at the same time.... but some of the fixed wing flying members will not speak to heli flyers. That's a bad attitude.

I think, at the end of the day, if a club is well organised then clashes does not occur but a badly organised club is a different matter. I used to belong to a club where members hated anything other than thermal gliders, even electric gliders was a target for hate. Now 90 percent of the members fly electric gliders and planes.... change can happen.

[Farmer Giles]

my club has a good mix of heli and plane flyers and most of the heli flyers fly both anyway. For us it's just a courtesy to ask anyone on the flight line if they mind me taking off with my heli whilst they are flying and everyone calls out any moves, low pass left to right, for example, so on the whole it works well. It does get busy with planes when the weathers good but I think that's the same at any club.

I think it helps that there is a good mix of both types of flyers on the comittee so both sides have a voice on the running of the club.

[LipolyGone]

Well Martin i have just been into the hobby hangar and reserved a WOT 4 mk2 for Ashley, so we will need to find a good place to fly that. charlton won't be no good, might have to re-join westlands club

Thats good news then mate.
Ashley will be made up when he gets that for sure.
Think the words ducks to water summed up how he took to flying aeroplanes. Sam was the same mate, he loved planes & hated helis.
I think its the intimidation level of a heli thats sat maybe 6 foot away
in a hover. A plane on the other hand is taken off away from
yourself & flies far enough a way to lose that anxiety.
Martin

[moonmanflyer]

Thats good news then mate.
Ashley will be made up when he gets that for sure.
Think the words ducks to water summed up how he took to flying aeroplanes. Sam was the same mate, he loved planes & hated helis.
I think its the intimidation level of a heli thats sat maybe 6 foot away
in a hover. A plane on the other hand is taken off away from
yourself & flies far enough a way to lose that anxiety.
Martin

I agree mate, he is mega keen, all he has talked about since coming home.
I can see i will have to get it for him soon

[3Dheliflyer]

looks like i wont be attending northwick park flying club then.il stick to field end road anyone you guys go there then pm me please.

[Boggy]

Well Martin i have just been into the hobby hangar and reserved a WOT 4 mk2 for Ashley, so we will need to find a good place to fly that. charlton won't be no good, might have to re-join westlands club

tbh i dont see it being a problem James. it may even help our cause having a plank flyer amongst us

[Adrian]

Well Martin i have just been into the hobby hangar and reserved a WOT 4 mk2 for Ashley, so we will need to find a good place to fly that. charlton won't be no good, might have to re-join westlands club

Wont be so bad now rejoining that james as they can fly any day of the week now at there new field.

[LipolyGone]

tbh i dont see it being a problem James. it may even help our cause having a plank flyer amongst us

Funny you should say that Ron I mentioned this when Ash took a huge liking to planes in corfu.
I likened him to "our very own little trojan horse"

[moonmanflyer]

Going to pop to bearly field sunday morning and take a look, and yes could fly from charlton, but will have to hand launch being the only issue

[Boggy]

Going to pop to bearly field sunday morning and take a look, and yes could fly from charlton, but will have to hand launch being the only issue

there's always the road

[moonmanflyer]

there's always the road

Surprised they don't do that already.....lol