Heli SIG Committee
Chairperson: Kim Clarke – Tauranga Secretary: Allen James- Auckland Treasurer: Kevin Foote – Hamilton Committee: Bruce McKay- Tauranga
Website: http:// www. modelflyingnz. org / interest / heli. htm Facebook: www. facebook. com / helisignz Email: helisig @ yahoo. co. nz
Competitions & Events
The Heli SIG is facilitating a new Heli Series for 2013. We have 6 events booked in with hopefully another to be held in Christchurch. Each event is a competition in its own right but a competitors best 3 round scores will go to determine the“ 2013 Heli Series” champions. Each event will be run to published rules and scoring system. The Heli SIG would like to use this series to trial potential updates to the competition schedules in preparation for the 2014 Nationals at Carterton.
Clubman, Sportsman, F3C( Schedule P), and 3DNZ will be offered at each round and to count towards the series. For more details, check out the event listings under the Competition and Events tab on the Heli SIG pages of the MFNZ website, or send and email to the address listed above.
General
For the latest communication check out our Facebook Applet on the MFNZ website: http:// www. modelflyingnz. org / interest / heli. htm or go directly to our Facebook page: www. facebook. com / helisignz
For further information or comments please do not hesitate to send an email to: helisig @ yahoo. co. nz. Any thoughts, suggestions or feedback is greatly appreciated.
Kim Clarke Heli SIG
Events have been and are booked to be held at the following locations: Round 1- 16 / 17 March – Pukekawa Round 2- 13 / 14 April – Tokoroa Round 3 – 19 October – Hamilton Round 4 – TBA – Levin Round 5 – 7 / 8 December – Tauranga Round 6 – January 2014 – 66th MFNZ Nationals – Carterton
Contact Person: Mathew Wellington Email: mat _ wellington @ yahoo. co. nz
MFNZ FPV Website http:// www. modelflyingnz. org / interest / fpv. htm Here we have the FPV code of practice, this includes the 3 rules for FPV flying from the CAA as well as the MFNZ’ s recommendations for successful FPV flying.
FPV Sig User Group http:// nzfpvsig. wordpress. com An open group of FPV fliers, not restricted to members of MFNZ, we currently have 31 members, and discuss everything from the code of practice to the gear to use and setups that work. We welcome anyone to come along and view, if you want to join, sign up with www. wordpress. com and send an email to mat _ wellington @ yahoo. co. nz with your user name.
Best of the Web
Here’ s a group of guys in Australia racing FPV http:// www. vimeo. com / user13921222, showing how to have fun with a group of FPV flyers, taking turns to put up a best time around a fixed course, and if held in New Zealand would comply with the code of practice.
Upcoming Event
There are plans for an FPV gathering to be held at Lake Forsyth in late August together with the event held there by the Christchurch club, this can include events such as a limbo circuit, long range flying and pylon racing to name a few, we will keep you posted as the event takes shape!