Palmerston North Aeroneers

Club Interests

As new guys enter the hobby, they bring joy and enthusiasm to the club. All aspects of modeling has its ups and downs with one thing or another becoming the fad of the week/month/year. Listed are the current interests enjoyed by our members.

Competitions

2m bungee launched Glider

2m electric launched Foam Glider

Tomboy

Vintage

Combat

Aerobatics

The Committee premises the following;

Preface

Competitions are run within Aeroneers MFC for the purposes of;

Encouragement of camaraderie
Development of building and flying skills
Assistance to new competitors
Local attainment
National and International attainment

Introduction

Competitions should be fun
Competitions need clear rules
Rules should be fair and equitable and accepted by all competitors
Rules will generally follow NZMAA Rules, but modified for Aeroneers’ competitions
Rules should not unnecessarily disadvantage or discourage any individual flyer
Scores need to be tallied accurately and published promptly to all interested members and posted to the website
Notwithstanding that the competitions are annual events, the accumulated annual scores should reflect flying achievement more so than monthly attendance
The Committee will appoint a Contest Director to run each competition

Responsibilities of Contest Directors

Run each monthly competition
Appoint a deputy when needed
Adjudicate on any disputes that might arise during any event
Record individual scores
Post scores promptly to all of the Competitors and to the Webmaster
Keep the relevant spreadsheet up to date
Tally annual scores and advise the Committee
Foster the aims of Aeroneers – principally fun and skills development

Scoring Information

The Committee has developed a scores recording spread sheet which will be run for each competition for the information of Competitors. The purpose of this document is to demonstrate to each Competitor his achievement in each of flying time and landing circle/area scores expressed as a percentage of the possibles. This spread sheet will be updated after each event for all competitions and posted to the website in order to present a monthly running performance total to each Competitor. Each Competitor’s flying time to date will be compared to the available target time to date to reveal a percentage. Each Competitor’s landing scores to date will be compared with the available target landings to date to reveal a percentage.