Monday, May 7th. May meeting is the Annual Beauty Contest. at 7:30 pm. In This Issue. April 2018

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1 Newsletter of the Oakville Milton Flying Club April 2018 The competitors eagerly prepare for the start of the Free Flight Contest May meeting is the Annual Beauty Contest In This Issue Wings Students - info OMFC Beauty Contest info April meeting hi-lights Indoor FF contest Meeting and Events Calendar Our next club meeting is: Monday, May 7th. at 7:30 pm Unit 13, 785 Pacific Rd. Oakville

2 OMFC Fliteline - Page 2 Attention: All Potential Wings Students Ground School this year will not be held at the Union Hall, but rather at the Flying Field on the first day of Flight School ALL NEW STUDENTS MUST PRE-REGISTER WITH THE CFI via CFI: Brian Anderson brian@virtuhost.com (First day of on-field Instruction is Tuesday, May 15th) OMFC Beauty Contest May 7th This year s event will feature the same three categories as in the past: Self-Built: This can be totally scratch built, built from a kit or built from commercial plans. ARF: Any type ARF, RTF, BnF etc. Included are any of the former that have been modified to add detail, change of colour scheme, etc., etc. Previously Flown Any self-built or ARF model that has been flown previous to this year s Beauty Contest, but has never been entered in the contest. (This does not mean the plane has to be a rebuild after a crash). Note: These three categories apply to any class of model (glider, helicopter, gas, glow, electric, foamie,..) There will also be one model (from any of the three above categories) that will be voted Best of Show

3 OMFC Fliteline - Page 3 Hi-lights of April 2018 Meeting The OMFC April meeting was brought to order by President Terry Sears at 7:30 pm on Monday April 2nd, with 21 members present. There were no guests or new members present this month. V/P Denis Loo gave a recap on a meeting of club representatives from MAAC Zone L. The agenda was to look at ways to increase membership in MAAC. Not surprisingly the average age of club members is quite high ranging from with some even higher. To ensure the viability and continuation of MAAC, we need to get more young people interested. Many members only see MAAC as useful for the insurance it provides - and don t see it as doing much else for them. As some clubs decline in membership, others are approaching insolvency, fortunately others are stable, even some of the smaller clubs. It seems many younger members don t stay long as commitments fill their time, but many come back later in life, so we need to build interest to keep them. Denis noted there is an interactive map intended to help UAV operators select sites away from aerodromes and built-up areas on the National Research Council Canada website. Judging by the limited places, this should help encourage more people to join clubs where it is allowed to fly safely. The link to the map is: A reminder that the Annual General Meeting of MAAC is this Sunday, April 29th at 1:00 PM in Niagra Falls at the Niagra Falls Mariott on the Falls, 6755 Fallsview Blvd.

4 OMFC Fliteline - Page 4 *** Free Flight Contest *** Gentlemen, start your engines! Oh sorry, wind your rubbers. This years event did not see nearly as many competitors (last year there were 14). Results were also lacking this year with the winner, Andy Sulkowski, having a time of 9.47 sec., which was far from his winning time last year of 17.6 sec. The others did not even have results worth publishing!

5 At least Andy came prepared with this custom winder OMFC Fliteline - Page 5 That wall is coming up really fast. the EXIT is down and to the left! That s cheating! It s supposed to be free flight.

6 OMFC Fliteline - Page 6 Jim was making good business selling Draw tickets. Still no winner! The pot is now up to $ Better come to the next meeting for your chance at a win!

7 OMFC Fliteline - Page 7 OMFC 2018 Executive President: Terry Sears searst7281@gmail.com Vice-President: Denis Loo Past President: Field Manager: Vacant Bill Funnell Social Director: Harvey Slaght Fliteline Editor: Steve Goldring flitelineeditor@omfc.org Secretary/Treasurer: Jim Eichenberg jim@virtuhost.com 1316 Gainsborough Drive Oakville, Ontario L6H 2H5 Telephone: Chief Flying Instructor: Brian Anderson Webmaster: Bert Armstrong bert@virtuhost.com Municipalities Liaison: Mike McDermott OMFC Meeting Dates for 2018 Date Agenda May 7 (Monday) Beauty Contest October 1 (Monday) Summer in review November 5 (Monday) Annual General Meeting December 3 (Monday) - OMFC Event Dates for 2018 Date Event Event Contact May 26 (Saturday) Presc. Aero Judge Training (Union Hall & Field) Harry Ells or Jim E. May 15 (Tuesday) Ground & Flight School (OMFC Field) Brian Anderson Jun. 02 (Saturday) Electric Fun Fly (OMFC Field) Denis Loo Jun. 09 (Saturday) TBC Milton Street Market (Milton) Bill Funnell Jun. 17 (Sunday) Airshow (OMFC Field) Jim Eichenberg Jul. 28 (Sat. & Sun.) Precision Aero. Contest (OMFC Field) Jim Eichenberg Aug. 25 (Saturday) Family Fun Fly (OMFC Field) Terry Sears Aug. 26 (Sunday) Fam. Fun Fly RAIN DAY (OMFC Field)