Well done to the 8 members of the club who have successfully completed the BMFA RCC test and uploaded their achievement to their portal. To the remaining 11 of our members who apparently have yet to complete the test, we can only encourage you to do so (it’s easy, honest) and let Andy Harding know… Read More: Congratulations! »
Please remember that from today (30th November 2019) our club require members to either hold a BMFA achievement scheme certificate or to have completed the CAA or BMFA RCC test successfully. Our reasons for this have already been communicated to our members who we trust will support us in this decision. If you have successfully… Read More: Legal Flying »
The committee’s objective is to ensure that members can enjoy flying at our field while maintaining safety for everyone. We believe that if we have a rule then members should abide by them and they should be enforced. It had been noted that the pegboard was no longer being used and it is accepted that… Read More: Modification to new safety rules »
The modified Safety Rules have now been published and can be found in the Flying Information section and can also be downloaded from the documents section under the Members only section
The 2020 membership fees are now available in the Club Information section
Dear LMFC members My apologies for the length of this communication, but please persevere and read it in full! There has been a lot of activity which affects our hobby and our members in the last few months. Some of this has been external to the club and some of it from within. Firstly, I… Read More: Chairman’s update letter 22/11/2019 »
Spektrum released their latest version of airware v2.03 today (13/11/2019). All members with Spektrum Transmitters should update their software as soon as possible. Note: If you haven’t been keeping your software up to date you may need to update the audio files too. Both are extremely easy to do and full instructions are on the… Read More: Spektrum Airware update – v2.03 »
UPDATE – CAA DRONE AND MODEL AIRCRAFT REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION SCHEME (DRES) – CAA LAUNCHES THEIR SYSTEM News Flash 05/11/2019 09:14:00 The CAA have launched their DRES system today (5th November) to allow operators of unmanned aircraft to pass a competency test and register as operators. https://register-drones.caa.co.uk/ . They have also launched a scheme to… Read More: UPDATE – CAA DRONE AND MODEL AIRCRAFT REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION… »
The following was publicised by Dave Phipps, CEO of the BMFA (23/10/2019) Further to the announcement earlier this week, we will be working with the CAA to clarify the detail of how we can best assist our members to comply with the Registration and Competency requirements which were introduced in the 2018 changes to the… Read More: Further update and clarification of new CAA Drone Registration and… »
The CAA have just published the following update. Some areas of the text have been highlighted where being members of the BMFA is appropriate: https://www.caa.co.uk/Consumers/Unmanned-aircraft/Our-role/Drone-and-model-aircraft-registration/ which is provided in full below: The UK’s new Drone and Model Aircraft Registration and Education Scheme will go live on 5 November 2019 (please note that you cannot register… Read More: Latest update on new CAA regs – Important »