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- Last Updated: 06 December 2019
- Published: 23 December 2011
Entries for NEFR 2020 are now open
The 2020 National Electric Flight Rally (NEFR) will be held over Easter 2020 from 10th – 13th April.
NEFR is a jamboree of electric flying events and also incorporates the AEFA AGM.
For full details of this event and the entry form Click here
Australia F5J Open InternationalThis premier F5J event, presented by the Southern Soaring League, will be held from the 7th to 9th March at the SSL field at Milang South Australia.
For full details of this event Click here
2019 F5J Trophy #4 - Another Successful F5J Event
The 2019 4th Annual Australian F5J Trophy event has been run and won. A successful event with 34 fliers, it was run in very mixed conditions with fliers having to contend with strong winds, rain and even low levels of dust from a nearby dust storm. Despite several breaks in flying we managed to complete 9 rounds.
Thanks to the Coota club for preparing a section of the field for our event and for the well maintained facilities and excellent meals.
Also thanks to our prize sponsors Modelflight (Mike O’Reilly), Sky Soaring Robots (Les Safarik), Electric Flight in Australia (Peter Pine) and the AEFA.
Congratulations to the winners and placegetters. Full results click here.
Open F5J:
1st Andrew Meyer
2nd Scott Lennon
3rd Dave Millward
Limited F5J:
1st David Moore
2nd Tom Clifford
3rd Ralph Dephoff
40th Sailplane Expo Armidale 2020
January 25th – 27th 2020. Events will be F5J and a special nostalgia class.
The details for this event can be found by clicking here.
The AEFA has achieved MAAA NSIG Status
At the AEFA AGM in April 2019 a motion was passed giving the AEFA committee the go ahead to apply to the MAAA for recognition as the Electric Glider National Special Interest Group (NSIG). The application was submitted to the MAAA and I am pleased to announce that the MAAA approved our application and the AEFA is now the Electric Glider NSIG.
It is a great honour for the AEFA to achieve this recognition and it will enable the AEFA to liaise with the MAAA on the issues of safety, insurance, frequencies, notification of trials, requirements re overseas teams, rules and publication of rules, flying sites, running World Championship events in Australia, National Championships, mediation on disputes and if required, the appointment of appeals boards to resolve disputes.
The AEFA committee has voted to apply to the MAAA to run the F5J Team Selection Trial for the 2021 F5J World Championships and an application will be submitted to the MAAA soon. We will keep you updated on the outcome of this application.
FUND RAISER - World F5J Championship in Slovakia 2019
The fund raiser raffle was drawn at the NEFR 2019 presentation. Click here for winner's pic.
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: 09 December 2019
- Published: 24 April 2014
President’s Message
by Trevor Smith
With the ongoing drought and fire conducive weather, my clubs flying time has been reduced as we enforce a no flying during total fire ban (TOBAN) policy. It’s encouraging to hear that other clubs have also been introducing this policy. While none of us want to cause a fire that may injure others or cause loss of property, we also need to consider the tenure over our flying fields, especially if we lease. With my devil’s advocate hat on, a crash causing a fire during a TOBAN may be viewed as irresponsible by the lessor putting your clubs field tenure at risk. A bit of a stretch perhaps, but not a risk you should be taking with your most valuable asset.
A flying colleague has asked me to tell you of his recent experience with a propeller strike. Simple situation, the plane landed a bit hard and bent the undercarriage. Wanting to re-fly without returning to the pits the undercarriage was adjusted from in front of the plane with arms very close to the prop. You probably know or may have even experienced what happened next. Transmitter dangling from neck strap, motor switch bumped, electric motor immediately started on full power with no respect for the arm in its path. The other members mobilised very quickly stabilising the wound with the bandages in the first aid kit, took our colleague to hospital, packed up his equipment, ferried his car home and called his wife. Visiting him in hospital before his operation he felt more embarrassment than pain. I’m not going to preach to you about safety, you know what you should and shouldn’t do, but I am going to show you the less gruesome picture of the stitched-up arm. The force was so great that the propeller broke. Fortunately, no permanent damage, all the fingers still wiggle.
On a brighter note, the Radian and F5J postal comps will be managed by Mel Gillott in 2020. After having done it for 3 years it’s time for me to handover to someone else. Thanks to all those who entered this year and for the little bits of extra info you send with your entries. You are in good hands with Mel as I understand he has over 4 decades of modelling flying behind him.
And finally for 2019, look after yourself over the Christmas and New Year period and I hope to see you at an event in 2020.
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