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- Last Updated: 18 September 2021
- Published: 23 December 2011
2021 F5J Trophy #5 -
Provisionally scheduled for 5 - 7 November. The event will be run in accordance with any NSW Government Health Directives. Watch this space and social media for further notices.
E-RES Rules from 2022.
Read the rules in the rules library (arranged alphabetically) - click here.
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.
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- Last Updated: 29 July 2021
- Published: 24 April 2014
President’s Message
by Robert Budniak - The Accidental President.
Behind the scenes it’s been an interesting quarter for the executive of AEFA. At the
national Electric Flight Rally, we had our AGM. I stood for the position of Vice President and was successfully elected. Our previous president Ralph Dephoff was unable to attend AEFR and the AGM due to Covid 19, but was elected as President. Shortly after the AGM, Ralph decided that his personal circumstances would not allow him to carry out the position of President and he resigned.
At a subsequent committee meeting, the committee decided to elect myself as the President. I must say that this was somewhat a leap of faith, both for the committee and myself. Being new to the AEFA committee, I considered that I was somewhat
unprepared to take on the role. However I had encouragement from a number of committee members who said they would support me where necessary, and here I am.
I will leave it to the next magazine to give you a full introduction to myself. What I would like to say in the few column inches I have is my vision for AEFA. Firstly I am encouraged by the interest and take up by pilots of eRES. The previous committee has
provided an tremendous set of rules for gliders that both new and old flyers can take up. By and large the rules, as currently published, are the right mix, enabling a cheap entry into glider competition, and yet challenging enough that the top flyers are not
scoring perfect scores all the time. There will be slight tweaks to the rules for implementation next year and the rules will hopefully remain stable for some time.
Secondly, as the SIG for Electric Gliders, AEFA has the right to conduct the selection for the F5J World Championships. Whilst its not official, I understand that there will be no F5J WC next year. I will work with the committee and competitors in order to
frame a selection system which selects the BEST flyers Australia has to represent our country.
Thirdly, I want to see more electric gliding competitions. It seems that other flying disciplines using electric power are well catered for either by SIGs or local interest. Due to the need to gain height clearances for fields, glider competitions are harder
to organise.
And finally, I want to encourage electric flying in disciplines not covered by other groups. This includes old timer flying (the planes not the pilots, though the pilots are also encouraged to participate) and occasional contests for some of the planes we may have in our sheds.
I think that’s enough for my first column. I need to leave something for next time.
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