Royston Model Flying Club
Field Advice
Field Advice For Our Site
Health & Safety Statement
Our club believes that responsibility for health and safety matters should be shared by all club members and considers that everyone has individual responsibilities. This is to ensure that the safety rules and codes of practice are observed and that there is full co-operation by all members on such matters.
IMPORTANT!
Drones & FPV
Please Note that due to the active nature of our airfield and in accordance with BMFA, the committee have decided that, with immediate effect, there will be no flying from the site by means of Drones or FPV or those aircraft that are programmed to fly autonomously with GPS systems. This includes all multi rotor, planes & gliders. The BMFA & CAA are currently running a joint initiate called ‘Drone Aware’. If you have a model of the this type, you are strongly advised to visit Droneaware.org for further information.
This document is an important piece of information provided by the CAA. We have put it on this page as it is very relevant to flying field practice and model flying. The Civil Aviation Authority is empowered to regulate all civil flying activities over the United Kingdom, including model aircraft so we would suggest you read this occasionally to keep an awareness for what they, the CAA, expect of us flyers. Interestingly they also mention the SMART rules, something that can be found below in the next item.
SWEETS & SMART Guide
We have also supplied some very helpful information on flying and awareness. The BMFA 'SWEETS' & 'SMART' guides are provided here and we would strongly recommend you print and familiarise yourself with this information. It might make you a safer flyer.
Club Guides
Apart from the official guides that we have shown above, we also produce club guides that are more specific to the conditions at our club and flying site. Feel free to offer suggestions on anything you would like to see on this page and we will do our best to include it.
Field Guide
The field guide has been produced to give new members or novice pilots, a little help with those first few visits to the flying field. However, even experienced members should read this on occasion to ensure they don't become forgetful of the important points - especially safety aspects. The guide is intended to help you see what to look for on your first visit, how to check your model prior to your first flight and finally to provide guidance on safety that must always be adopted at the field.
The above information is written to provide you with early understanding of the process of flying at our field, there may well be points that you wish to add to this guide. To you and all members of our group, feel free at any time to raise issues which you feel should be included in this guide and which might help new comers to understand more about the excitement of flying your own aircraft.