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April 2010
A/B
Examiners Course
As a
follow on from the A Cert exams below, Bill Thompson and Paul Gaffney attended
an A/B
Examiners
Course run by the MACI in Portlaoise.
Both now have 90 days to fly and pass the
B
Certificate flying exam and they will be confimed as A/B Examiners. This means that we
will
then have 3 qualified examiners in the club with Liam Butler being the more
senior of the
3.
Scale
Heli Competition and Fly-In, August 14th
The
Royal County will host our first even open to members of other clubs around the
county on
August
14th, when we will run a Scale Helicopter Competition and
Fly-In. We look forward to
welcoming
in our first batch of visitors to our site.
The event is being run by our foremost heli
man
namely Gerry Sweeney and we wish him well and reassure him of our support on
the day.
A
Certificate Exams
On
Sunday 4th Oct, we held our first session of A Certificate
examinations to continue the personal
development
of the club membership. We had a total
of 6 candidates who were available to take
the
test. We were visited by MACI
Examiners, Steve Quigley from the Newbridge Club and in
conjunction
with our own Liam Butler, also a MACI Examiner, they proceeded to give us a run
through
of the procedures.
We
had already met in the coffee shop that morning and between ourselves read
through and
answered
the various questions to our best ability and covered the flying schedule as
well.
Bill
was first off and answered all the relevant questions and performed a good
flight to end
with
a Pass to his delight. As we had all elected to use the Club Trainer,
it was refuelled and
prepared
for Alex who was next. Unfortunately,
Bill had inadvertently moved the throttle trim
and
when Alex performed the Intentional Stall, the motor quit forcing Alex into a
deadstick
landing. This necessitated a complete rerun of the
flight test which Alex passed no problem !!
Then
the remaining candidates, Manuel, Joe, Paul and Damien sailed through the
various
sections
of the test and we achieved a 100% score in that all candidates are now fully A
Certified
!! Congratulations to all
concerned. Some photos of the day are
next.
Damien going through
the motions !!
Manuel getting familiar with the Club Trainer !
Alex pleading with the
Examiners after his dead stick landing !!
Alex learning the
Irish solution to an Irish problem !!!
A Happy Group of
campers in front of our mobile clubhouse !!
The Club Trainer has
notched up it’s first 6 Victories !!!
Liam Butler’s very
nice YAK 54. A lovely flyer.
Gordon’s Hangar 9
Soptwith Camel.. flew very realistically.
Steve getting his
Seagull Pilatus ready. Nicely finished
in Irish Air Corps colours.
A good turnout of high
quality models on the day. Some great
flying also.
The smiles of 2 new A
Certified Aeromodellers.. !! Manuel and
Joe !!