Arrived at the mines at 07:45 straight into practice until 09:00, at 09:00 round one starts, each competitor flies one flight per round, conditions early were very good with negligible drift, early in the round Ivan Treger (Slovakia) set a 27:37 flight, the UK team started off with Hans who got a 22:22 flight in … Read More
F1D World Champs Day Sunday
F1D World Champs day 4 official practice
Early start, breakfast at 06:30, buses to the mine arrive at 07:30 Today is a day of free practice allowing competitors to finalise model set up for main and reserve models, not a great deal happening except get flights in, check and confirm trim, speculate on the drift for the competition days and get around … Read More
F1D World Champs Day 3 Otto Hints Trophy
Friday and things are hotting up (as far as they can in a cold Salt mine), UK team used the day mostly for setting up and practice, strangely Tony’s No 1 model sustained damage overnight and had a broken tailplane in the morning setting him back by several hours. The first full motor flights were … Read More
F1D World champs update 21/03/2024
Breakfast at 06:30 buses at 7:30 for an early start to a long day Today is day one of the Otto Hints trophy, this event is open to all European F1D flyers and held in accordance with the current rules, there was a large number of people present, flyers, assistants, time keepers plus others, this … Read More
The fully interactive February issue of the BMFA News is now online.
The new fully interactive online versions are now online. You can view the latest issue at https://online.fliphtml5.com/doorh/mina The BMFA News Archive is now available at https://bmfa.org/bmfa-news If you would like to submit articles please email the editor at editor@bmfanews.org
Robin Innes Gowler FSMAE – 1933-2023
It is with great sadness that we report the death of our former Chairman, Robin Gowler, Fellow. Robin passed away peacefully at home on Friday 8th December with his wife Poppy at his side. Robin began experimenting with radio control in the 1940s. Thirty years later, Robin joined the Ramsey Model Aero Club and progressed … Read More
CAA – Review of UK Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Regulations – BMFA/LMA Response
Further to our previous post (https://bmfa.org/caa-review-of-uk-unmanned-aircraft-systems-uas-regulations) regarding the CAA consultation on a review of the current regulations for unmanned aircraft systems along with proposals for the introduction of some new requirements including Remote I.D. We have been working in liaison with the Large Model Association to prepare a joint response to the consultation which may … Read More
CAA – Review of UK Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Regulations
The CAA have recently launched a consultation on a review of the current regulations for unmanned aircraft systems along with the introduction of some new requirements including Remote I.D. The proposals include a simplification of the current Open Category requirements which would see the operational sub-categories re-named to ‘Over’, ‘Near’ and ‘Far’, in relation to … Read More
BMFA Membership Fees for 2024
The 76th AGM took place on November 18th. In the face of reducing membership numbers, the Board proposed some significant cuts in expenditure coupled with an inflationary increase in the senior subscription rate to £45. However, this proposal was amended by a vote of the AGM which set the rate to £47. Therefore, the subscriptions … Read More
CAA Proposes 8.3% increase in Operator Registration Fee from April 2024
The CAA have launched a consultation on their Charges Scheme for 2024/25, with the proposed changes due to come into effect on the 1 April, 2024. The CAA proposals include a general 5.3% increase with an additional 3% being used to support innovation, which in combination will take the Operator Registration fee (currently £10.33) to … Read More