Club Fees

[Captain Crash]

Hi guys/gals, it's probably been asked before but as a matter of interest what fees do your local clubs charge for membership and what facilities and amenities do you have a and what are your allowed flying times and what restrictions???

Just interested in what you get for your money around the country

Chris

[adieuk]

we charge £40 membership with £20 joining fee,
we had a steel container comming in a few weeks time and a toilet soon but you can stand against a tree for now
you can fly when you want too.

[tonystevens]

Lost our club earlier in the year but the club im flying at now (South cheshire heliaddicts) has a £50 annual fee, a container with heating, electric, tv, water and i think there are plans to install solar panels soon. Theres even a quad with trailer to get all your gear to the strip. Theres no restrictions on flying time and a model shop next door lol.
It a really good setup.

[Mslater]

You missed out the buckers BBQ Tony. LolJust wish I could get there more often.

[sacko]

Comes to £87 with BMFA insurance included

We currently have 1 large flightline, with 2 heli patches. We are a mixed club, and the setup works pretty well.

Facilities include a static caravan soon to have electric and water (feed already laid), toilets and an RC car track now

The £50 membership fee also includes around 3 BBQs a year.

[debrooker]

Basingstoke Model Aero Club
- £90 inclusive of BMFA
- large flying site
- Burger thrown in every Sunday (if someone prepared to cook on the barrel)
- annual fun day
- 2 x training day
- summer solstice BBQ and night fly
- a good number of people willing to buddy
- i think we have 4 fixed wing examiners and 1 heli examiner

Farnham Model Heli Club
- £65 + BMFA
- no facilities as such, unless you count a field full of sheep poo
- low number of club members so good site if you want lots of air time

[heli]

SWRCS is £71 inc BMFA.

You get one massive slab of ex-WW2 runway and several no fly zones. Club is mixed but tends to favour planks from my experience. Flying times are 10am - sunset and the site will be unavailable for about 3 months during the summer this year due to a little welsh thing called the "Eisteddfod"

[DanWright]

£75 including BMFA insurance. We've got a fairly large grass runway and a helicopter training area. Can fly any day, only real down side is we have sheep in the feilds 6 months of the year. We've got over 100 members but it's always the same few faces turning up every week, rarely will we see more than ten people. Not that I'm complaining as we get more flying time each

[Jamin_00]

PMHC = £0

Nothing to pay for, rent etc etc if we want anything we club together like we just did when we got some big huge tables. There are toilets there but thats it as far as facilities. Field I would say is very big but can't really compare as not been to many other clubs but can fly as far away as can pretty much see as I do, regulary Don't even need to cut the grass no more as a local farmer does it so don't need the liability insurance offered from the bmfa affiliation so I only say you must have your own bmfa insurance and you are golden

Can only fly weekends and bank holidays from 9 till dusk

[CChris]

CMFA is £52 + BMFA. Their biggest cost is rent and grass cutting. You dont get much is the way of facilities, apart from some nice tables, but there are little in the way of limitaions on flying times.

Chris.

[Jamin_00]

I've heard Chris the field is absolutly massive at Chelmsford from Garry and the guys

[daren]

£40 + Bmfa, 30 acre field, Low member count and fly when you want to

[mark_w]

about £80 inc BMFA

4 flying sites (2 are restricted to electric only for 3 days a week)
Indoor flying once a week throughout the winter
quiz nights/show and tell/sim nights/general chat meetings throughout the year
A number of plane instructors and examiners

[stocksy27]

£80 + insurance for big field thats it, o and get grass cut which really benifits heli pilots :-(

[waveydavey]

We are £80 plus BMFA. The rent has just gone up on the field so we had to increas subs. We can't fly Sunday mornings until 1 and Thursday afternoons after 5. Cabin, container, mower, electricity etc but no running water. Oh, and a porta loo