Guidance for the safe and effective use of Lithium Polymer batteries in model aircraft is now available to download from the link below. https://online.fliphtml5.com/doorh/nvld/
Author: BMFAAdministrator
Li-Poly Battery Safety Booklet released.
Possible amendments to Poisons Act (1972). Affects users of fuel containing nitromethane. Please respond to the consultation.
Members may be aware that the Home Office are currently undertaking a consultation on amendments to the Poisons Act 1972, which controls the sale of certain explosives precursors and poisons – including nitromethane. At the present time, members of the public are permitted to acquire, import, possess and use products containing up to 30% nitromethane. It … Read More
BMFA Article 16 Mandatory Occurrence reporting Guidance
The BMFA Article 16 Authorisation includes a requirement for remote pilots to report certain accidents, serious incidents and other occurrences to the Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). This was an existing requirement, but has been emphasised in the terms of our Authorisation. To read the full guidance about mandatory … Read More
CAA Publish CAP 722F- Model Aircraft Operations Policy and Guidance
The CAA have today published CAP722F, the annex to CAP722 specific to model flying. Please see https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/modalapplication.aspx?appid=11&mode=detail&id=10792 for further details. CAP722F describes the how the current regulatory framework applies to the operation of model aircraft, sets out CAA policy for model aircraft operations, describes the boundaries between operations which require an authorisation and those that do … Read More
BMFA issued with an updated Article 16 Authorisation (21/12/2021)
We are pleased to confirm that the BMFA has now been issued with a revised Article 16 Authorisation for the benefit of its members in 2022, which is effective immediately (from 21 December 2021). The only changes to our Authorisation have been made to reflect the recent changes to the operator registration requirements for control … Read More
BMFA Membership Fees 2022
The Annual General Meeting of the Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers (SMAE) took place on Saturday 20th November. The AGM approved a small increase in the membership fees for 2022 (the first increase since 2019) to cover inflation and the increased cost of insurance premiums. 2022 Membership fees (renewals will be available from 1st December … Read More
Attention Control Line Flyers! – Changes to CAA Operator Registration Requirements
Members may recall that when the requirement for CAA Operator Registration was first introduced in November 2019, that control line flyers were exempted from the requirement to register. When the EU regulations came into effect on the 31st December 2020, the situation changed because the EU regulations only exempted those operating control line aircraft weighing … Read More
Ronald Checkley 1929 – 2016
<p>Ronald 'Ron' Checkley, of the Tamworth (Hanson) Model Flying Club, passed away earlier this years at the age of 87.</p> <p>Ron had been a much loved and valued member of the club for more than 20 years and was famous for his love of life and infectious sense of humour. He was a talented pilot … Read More
John Henderson FSMAE
<p>It is with regret and sadness that we inform you of the death of John Henderson Fellow who passed away on Friday 6<sup>th</sup> March at St David’s Hospital Cardiff, following an inoperable brain tumour. John would have been 87 this year.</p> <p> </p> <p>John was elected to Fellowship in 1995 and served on the Executive Committee … Read More
Roger Stanton 1947 – 2019
<p>Firebirds Model Flying Club club member and author of the much read BMFA New ‘Nostalgia Notebook’ feature, Roger Stanton passed away on May 29<sup>th</sup> this year.</p> <p>Roger was a proper ‘old school’ aeronautical modeller who told stories of how as a child, he saved up his pocket money, dreaming of the next model that he … Read More