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- Last Updated: 15 December 2018
- Published: 23 December 2011
2019 NEFR - National Electric Flight Rally.
See all the details click here
2018 F5J Trophy #3 - Another Successful F5J Event
The 2018 Australian National F5J Trophy event is now history. A very successful event with 36 fliers and the third event in the Team selection Trial regime for the 2019 F5J World Championships has concluded. Click here for a link to a mass of photographs courtesy of Charles Powell.
Congratulations to the winners and placegetters:
Open F5J:
1st Andrew Meyer
2nd Marcus Stent
3rd Scott Lennon
Limited F5J:
1st Peter Pine
2nd Rob Watson
3rd John Quigley
FUND RAISER - World F5J Championship in Slovakia 2019
Some great prizes including a Flight Centre $2,000 travel voucher. Click here for info and ticket purchase.
Looking For Something About Electric Flight In Australia?
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).
Solutions Update
A couple of updates to our Solutions Via Rule of Thumb page have been made, namely Mike O'Reilly's guide to Trimming a model, and Marcus Stent's thermalling notes now live here.
NEFR 2018 - Results
This was a great event! Final results can be found here.
Watch Peter Baumgartner'sfantastic video highlights - click here.
Raffle Winners were:-
| Place | Prize | Winner | From |
| 1st | Ava kit | Lindsay Dephoff | Sydney |
| 2nd | Triple Thermic kit | Terry Harrison | Charlestown |
| 3rd | AXI F5J electric motor | Israel Linwood | Bundaberg |
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- Last Updated: 08 November 2018
- Published: 24 April 2014
President's Latest Report
The 31st October is rapidly approaching and for many of us recreational flyers it will mean a big reduction in the number of sites where we can legally fly above 400ft (120m).
CASA Instrument 96/17 (available here) released in October 2017 placed a blanket ceiling height of 400ft everywhere in Australia for recreational flyers, except where a CASA approved ceiling height increase applied. The MAAA acting on behalf of its members secured an exemption (Instrument number CASA EX52/18 available here) to 96/17 however the exemption has an expiry date of the 31st October 2018. One aim of the exemption was to provide relief to MAAA members while their respective clubs applied to CASA for ceiling height increases. So, come the 1st November 2018, if you do not have a CASA approved ceiling height increase already in place, then 400ft is the limit. In my opening sentence I didn’t use the word ‘legally’ lightly. CASA Instrument 96/17 is LAW and penalties apply for breaching this LAW.
I don’t know what it will mean to you, but for me, if I am to continue to fly F5J, I will have to travel one and one half hours each way to a club field that has a CASA approved ceiling height increase, this of course assumes these clubs’ current applications are successful. Anyone for 1/12 scale indoor F5J!
Another thing I have to think about is the future of the F5J postal competition. In the monthly results I publish launch heights (as we all do for any F5J Comp, think about it), and not many of us launch below 120m. Should I ask if you are flying legally, am I liable for running the comp if you are not flying legally, I don’t know the answer. More to come on this.
While on rules, do you really understand the 30m rule for recreational flyers? I am told many interpret the rule as a 30m radius hemisphere centred on a person and you must avoid bringing your aircraft anywhere within that hemisphere. Wrong! The rule actually refers to a 30m radius cylinder extending below your aircraft (at any altitude) to the ground and you cannot bring this cylinder over people on the ground. Hence why you cannot fly at any altitude, over the pits and spectator areas at flying events, and also over roads and populous areas. Why, because if a drone (read multi-rotor device) looses power it will fall straight down!
On a brighter note, the 3rd annual F5J Trophy, incorporating the 3rd F5J team selection trial, is being held on the 3rd & 4th November at a field that has a CASA approved ceiling height increase. So visit the LSF website for all the details and get your entry in before the 27th October closing date.
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