FLYING SAUCER
March 9, 2011 at 9:28 pm

Does anyone know where my friend can fly his model Helicopter in Leicestershire?

Hello everyone,

My friend has a large Model Helicopter and would like to know where he could go to fly it in the Leicestershire area.

It has to be on a large open space away from people, power lines and animals etc. as there are quite stringent safety rules that have to be adhered to.

Does anyone know of any clubs specially for this purpose please?

Many thanks in anticipation of your replies.

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By: FLYING SAUCER - 14th March 2011 at 19:44

Thank you all very much indeed!

I will pass on this info!

Thanks for your time.

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By: TonyT - 14th March 2011 at 17:05

Try these links….google is your friend, first link seems ideal

http://www.leicestermac.org.uk/

http://www.leicestermac.org.uk/site.html

http://www.rc-airplane-world.com/rc-flying-clubs-england-uk-counties-GtoL.html

http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/lc/parks-green-spaces/main-parks/braunstone-park/braunstonepark/

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By: WJ244 - 12th March 2011 at 14:10

I should think that the following link would be as good a starting point as any:-
http://www.bmfa.org/

or possibly here if it is really big:-
http://www.largemodelassociation.com/

Hope this is some help. If he goes it alone don’t forget that he will need to take into account any nearby airfields as the CAA, quite rightly, don’t take kindly to models getting mixed up in the traffic patterns for the full size jobs.
Apparently someone at our local flying field decided to fly his jet around a light aircraft on finals for Southend. They soon got a visit from the airport authorities to explain the error of his ways and the club was told by the local council that if it happened again they would lose their model flying field.