Falkirk Fly in

Stephen · Good Guy Joined: Jul 26, 2003 Posts: 150 Location: Falkirk

Sunday August 22nd, flyin at falkirk,
Planes and seperate flightline for helis,bring both
was quite good last year and theres a BBQ
All welcome.
Cool

Alex · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:58 am Post subject: Re: Falkirk Fly in

Any one coming to the Falkirk Heli day?

Will be running a novelty competition that even beginners can enter
Every one else can just fly and fly.
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fubar_again · Member Joined: Sep 12, 2002 Posts: 30 Location: Fife

need to practice begging skills again on the wife - see you there

Mike · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:40 am Post subject: Re: Falkirk Fly in

Alex · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 6:54 am Post subject: Re: Falkirk Fly in

Thats great Mike Very Happy

see you there

If you are just a beginer or even just thinking about Helis come along, Lots of people to help and advise.

Please remeber its a £2 Registration to fly and your insurance cards.
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Mike · Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 7:12 pm Post subject: Re: Falkirk Fly in

sportsjet · Junior Member Joined: Mar 29, 2004 Posts: 11

Doubt it. No SAA heli examiners bothered to turn up to the Cumbernauld SAA Training day yesterday. Poor show!

There were two helicopter pilots there ready to do the Silvers. But a no show from the "Experts" again. Shocked

Its about time we had some new Heli examiners!

TC

Mike · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 5:44 am Post subject: Re: Falkirk Fly in

Sav · Junior Member Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 14

TC

If we knew that you wished that Heli tests were to be taken apart for another members I would have certainly turned up.

We cannot be expected to turn up to every event, week after week.

Would you be able to?

Contrary to popular belief I do have other commitments.

I find that your comments are particularly distressing as all it would have taken is an email to Quentin informing him of your intention of taking a silver test. Or even myself, I would have passed that onto Quentin, and he would have arranged a test for you.

I personally will be at Falkirk this weekend if anyone wants to do tests.

Stuart

raptorheli2 · Junior Member Joined: Aug 09, 2004 Posts: 11

unfortunetely the examiners who are local to the training day where invited to attend the largest car show in scotland to promote our hobby by putting on a display. turns out the weather put paid to this unfortunetely. only managed a couple of flights but the crowd that gathered to watch soon forgot about ferraris and the like when they see a heli inverted at 6" off the deck.

hopefully next weekend will be ok and we can all get flying at falkirk. weather has been against us for a while.

cheers

QM · Member Joined: Feb 09, 2004 Posts: 50

Hi TC,

This is probably off topic here, but please remember, a silver or gold test, or BMFA B is arranged at area level, not a turn up on the day event. The SAA or BMFA safety officer should be contacted in plenty of time to arrange a suitable date for testing (Me in the SAA case).

There was obviously a problem with communication over the Cumbernauld weekend, which hopefully can be resolved, so as not to happen again. Apart from one individual request I received for a silver test, who was informed that no heli examiners would be available that day so an alternative was suggested, there had been no other requests made to me.

Most of the SAA examiners do tireless work travelling to events or being available, Stuart is definitely one of them. I don't feel your comments are warranted here Sad

Your email to me was the first time I had heard of alleged continual problems, if no one talks to me, I can't do anything to rectify it... Rolling Eyes

Stephen · Good Guy Joined: Jul 26, 2003 Posts: 150 Location: Falkirk

I have heard that on Wednesday night a practice course for the beginers competition will be set up with a following day of practice on Saturday through to dusk and in to the night if needs be,
Is this true Alex ?
Idea

Mike · Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 4:26 am Post subject: Re: Falkirk Fly in

Mike · Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 4:32 pm Post subject: Re: Falkirk Fly in

Anyone got directions to the Falkirk Flying Field?
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Scooby · Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 11:02 pm Post subject: Re: Falkirk Fly in

Head South Laughing

Only joking.
Assuming you are coming from Fraserburgh.

Try www.multimap.com and set directions Fraserburgh to Airth.
On arriving at Airth (assuming you are coming in from the kincardine side) head through the village and just as you leave Airth there is a turn on your left hand side pointing to Cowie. Take this turn and the flying field is about 2 miles along that road. It's called Westfield farm. There should be a sign at the turn.

It's marked as westfield on this map.
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=290000.685940167&Y=687500.012586031&width=700&height=400&gride=289851.685940167&gridn=687678.012586031&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=freegaz&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&zm=0&scale=50000&multimap.x=303&multimap.y=161