Price of club membership....

[waveydavey]

£80 plus BMFA, fly when you want except Thursday evenings and Sunday morning until 13:00. We have good facilities and a max membership of 45.

[davew]

I would be interested in how much clubs are paying for fields?

Our indoor club charges £20 per year + BMFA and then so much per Tuesday night session depending upon where we are. The nightly flying fee is between £3 and £7, but we are paying up to £120 per night rent. On top of that we have a superb outdoor flying facility to which we have about 90% access to during the week and maybe 50% at weekends and the rent from that is funded by the indoor element of the club.

I'm keen to find an alternative/additional outdoor field but have no idea what a sensible rent is?

[Tim Procter]

£30 per year plus BMFA membership.

[jwatts007]

£30 per year plus BMFA membership.

How many members are there in your club Tim and is it just helis 7 days a week early early till dusk....

[jimheli]

275 year ,includes insurance ect ,

[tomatwalden]

£75 quid I believe I paid (or was it £85?) for Phoenix UAV club @ Bath. Anyway - access to the field pretty much all the time (inbetween any lessons). Club house, coffee, biscuits and Bill's famous toasted sandwiches!

[helijohn]

Free got my own field, was a member of a club for 3 years but full full of plankers!

+1
I'd rather pay a farmer.

[Sao]

£50 a year plus insurance of your choice. Mixed heli and plane club. We used to have two fields but reduced to one now, no hut or toilets but you can fly out of the boot of your car so no walking to and from the strip

[LipolyGone]

£75 quid I believe I paid (or was it £85?) for Phoenix UAV club @ Bath. Anyway - access to the field pretty much all the time (inbetween any lessons). Club house, coffee, biscuits and Bill's famous toasted sandwiches!

Coffee & biscuits & toasted sandwiches are paid for via voluntary donations to the Tea Tin, they are not free as your post kind of suggests Tom
Phoenix is ok but is getting very over crowded now which is why I've moved on to another club their fees are only £56 a year & they have a 7 1/2 acre field with no Tree of Doom
or Ross's tree as its become known

[smiles]

£100 per year including BMFA insurance two flying sites both in remote locations so no mains. Another aspect to this thread is how many of you get involved with the maintanence of the sites ie grass cutting hedge trimming etc, the older retired guys tend to take care of the grass cutting but once a year we try to have a get together just to trim hedges prune trees and a general tidy up of the sites and its always supprising how few turn out to help.

[jwatts007]

£100 per year including BMFA insurance two flying sites both in remote locations so no mains. Another aspect to this thread is how many of you get involved with the maintanence of the sites ie grass cutting hedge trimming etc, the older retired guys tend to take care of the grass cutting but once a year we try to have a get together just to trim hedges prune trees and a general tidy up of the sites and its always supprising how few turn out to help.

Thats a good point the CMFA contracted the grass cutting out and they did keep it nice...at Flamebirds you could not fly every other Sunday as there was a clay shoot held there I dont like having any restrictions on times or IC engines use or anything like that and its got to be 7 days a week.....

[kroozing]

I have my own 32 acre field but i really wouldn't mind paying to be in a club, just struggling to find a local one.
I would say about £100 is reasonable.

[bigpops]

I pay £35 at one club, and £65 at the other. Last year one of those clubs lost its field, so I'm keeping a membership at two clubs for the time being.

[brin]

thats the sort of figure i am looking at to start with as there will be start up costs .As you say theres not many sites around and even less that want to put up with helis and planks .hopefully if i can manage with 20 members that are willing to pay for good quality flying i will be well happy.the last club was 90 +bmfa and the one i am with now is 90 including ins but its not ideal as its on the top of a hill with a north to south flight line:-(

Anglia Rc around here an old well established club has just lost its field...they flew on an active airstrip for light aircraft...they were told there were 7 aircraft approaching too land...one old boy decided as he paid his £38 quid a year he was just as entitled too fly in the air space as the full size and they would have too wait while he finished his tank...needless too say it gave the owners of the strip a reason to chuck them all off 70 club members without a field now...I have no idea how much they paid for the use but it was not enough for them too think twice about kicking them off...that's the 2nd club I have heard of around here losing a field the 2nd one was about £40 per year as well and both clubs were mainly plank flyers...for me £100 a year for a small club with about 15 to 20 members is worth it I would rather that than pay £50 and be in a club with 40 members or more.....

[Disc]

Price of club membership....

I'm never sure why people moan at club fees. These people that moan need to go and try to set up a club.

For me anything under 50 pounds is cheap. Know and seen what running a club costs.

I even payed 250 to fly my jets a year on a private tarmac strip only jets and only 5 people.

Depends what you get for your money and if you think it's value for the fees