I’ve added a few events coming to SFL in October, November and December. Included are the AMPS 50th Anniversary Festival on Halloween day and PBRCA’s Toys For Tots Fly-in in December. We can keep busy with other events like pylon racing and jets at Markham Park this November. Check it out in the Events Calendar.

More events for AMA members at www.modelaircraft.org

In early September i took a trip to see some family in Northern Florida and I couldn’t waste the opportunity to fly in the countryside. I packed up the Super Cub and took her along for the ride. While up there, I had many smooth flights, including some of extended length due to a few thermals and well-placed winds. Here’s a video on-board the Cub on a very windy flight.

Twitter users and pilots: now we can all find events and set up meetings using our very own Twitter Group. The place is twitter.com/rcfinder and its purpose it to aid Florida Modelers in finding each other and setting up meeting at the spur of the moment. We can use our mobile devices to inquire to each other about when and where we’ll be flying or to sell parts and such.

Great little tool. Brought to you by MAYDAY! RC :)
http://twitter.com/rcfinder

I was flying at the park accross the street where I live, the park I fly at two or three times a week, when a Park Ranger approached me and said I couldn’t fly there. I thought he meant THERE: in the spot I was flying, because I had never flown there. So he then says “There are no RC planes allowed in the park.” I said “I fly here all the time and have seen clubs flying internal combustion planes here, too.” I was flying my HobbyZone Super Cub, a park flyer. He said NO RC PLANES at all allowed because of an incident that happened sometime in early May, 2009.

Apparently, a local RC club that had been allowed to fly at Amelia Earhart Park in Hialeah, the field we fly out of, has been banned from flying there and, with them, every RC plane. The story is that one of their members flew a nitro airplane into a tree and, instead of getting a ladder or using some reasonable method to retrieve the aircraft, cut the tree down with a chainsaw. Now no one can fly there.

That sucks since there are NO PUBLIC FIELDS IN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY. If pilots fuck things up for others like this, we won’t be able to fly anywhere but private club-owned fields.

Went to the park today. Great day except for some minor winds (5MPH). Time was around 8:00 AM on May 31, 2009 at Amelia Earhart Park in Hialeah, Florida.

We need to set the monthly meeting day(s).

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EF222F75EEA6B3D6

Looking for a nitro trainer. Used or new. As cheap as possible. The Hangar 9 Alpha 40 is perfect. Must be ready to fly.

I will be flying my Super Cub on Sunday, the 5th in the afternoon and Monday from 3 to 5 PM at Amelia Earhart Park. Come by if you’d like.

See the Events page for more meets.

Title: Flying at Amelia Earhart
Location: 401 E 65th St Hialeah, FL
Google Map: Click here
Start Time: 15:00
Date: 2009-04-06
End Time: 17:00