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- Published: 23 December 2011
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YOU'VE FOUND IT. AEFA, AN AUSTRALIAN ORGANISATION FOSTERING AND PROMOTING AEROMODELLING USING ELECTRIC POWER.
The AEFA began in the mid ‘90s. In those early days, meetings, rallies and newsletters were the only methods we had to share our knowledge and passion. While times have changed we believe it’s important to continue sharing our experience, problems and solutions to mastering electric flight. This website is one of the main avenues for doing that and here you'll find things to help you enjoy electric powered models.
In our ‘Resources’ section we have compiled information that can be classified as electric flight 'know how'. For many, understanding the technology, or selecting components for an electric model, is a daunting prospect. We want to help. Our focus is on those matters that are pertinent to electric flight and some of the differences from the IC world. We will try to point you in the right direction, present as broad a view as possible, and maintain brand independence.
Getting together as electric modelers is another way we can pass on what we have learned. Our ‘Events, Competitions and Rules’ section provides information about where and when electric events are planned and the competitions that might be run at them. It’s also a section where new ideas about events and rules are published along with those for regularly flown contests.
The section ‘ About the AEFA’ is just that. It explains our origins, recognizes some of the key individuals that have pioneered electric flight in Australia and provides information about how we are organized and operate. Because we want to stay in step with current and emerging practices for connecting and collaborating with each other, we now concentrate on communicating via this website plus a network of ‘focus’ email groups. News and information is circulated for each categories depicted in the graphic at the top of this page, namely:
- electric gliding,
- Electric Old Timers,
- general news and rally information.
Details on becoming an AEFA member (membership is free) are in our 'How to Join' page (here).
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- Last Updated: 25 July 2016
- Published: 24 April 2014
Presidents Update
The 3rd edition of Electric & Gliding Flight Australia (EGFA), our new E-magazine, has been out for a while now. It includes reports on the very successful National Electric Flight Rally held at Easter at the NAAS field just outside Canberra. If you have not seen this magazine, send an e-mail to David Lucas or Peter Pine and they will e-mail it to you. It is worth reading! And watch for the 4th edition, which is being prepared now.
Anyone that has organised a large event understands the amount of work required to make an event a success. On that note (without mentioning names), I’d like thank all the members of the AEFA Committee and NAAS Club that put so much work and effort into making the Easter event the success it was.
For me personally it was great to catch up with old mates and make some new ones. The weather was great with lift there if you could find it and if you didn’t an early landing resulted.
Jamboree events such as our National Electric Flight Rally schedules individual events over 2 or 3 days, therefore contestants entering multiple events and get to fly 1, 2 or even 3 different categories each day. This type of event favours unpredictable weather as you will most probably be flying over more than one day and hopefully get one good flying day in. The down side to this style of event is that you have to make a commitment to fly over the whole weekend to have any chance of gaining a place or posting a reasonable result. Over the years we have had some feedback about running the event this way, however so far the majority of flyers enjoy the format and wish to keep the event the way it is.
In relation to checking the opinion of flyers, AEFA have conducted a survey to obtain feedback from flyers around what is important to them and also seeking flyers opinions on the venue for our 2017 National Electric Flight Rally. The results showed an overwhelming positive response for keeping the NEFR the way it is, and returning to NAAS for the 2017 event .
One last thing, before I sign off for this edition, and that is AEFA is always looking to help clubs run electric events so if your club is thinking about running an electric or glider event, please contact any of the committee for assistance as we have spot landings markers, PA Systems and Scoring programs we can loan to clubs to help out.
Until next time cheers and happy thermal hunting.
Terry Scolari
President AEFA