Some very nice pictures in this thread…
My wife is a surveyor at Heathrow and has the luxury of an airside pass so, whilst I was stuck at home she sent me these to tease me a bit…
On the stand…
Now she’s just showing off! 😮
Cheers
Mike
Hi! new to this forum – first time post…
Interesting debate here!
I’m not sure if the Air Navigation Order or CAP 658 mention these type of models directly but the do get a mention in the BMFA handbook as ‘Parkflyer Models’.
http://www.bmfa.org/handbook/images/handbook2003.pdf
They certainly seem to class these models as ‘propper’ r/c aircraft as they fly and use r/c to control them on the same frequencies as much larger model aircraft.
I personally think they are propper r/c aircarft for the following reasons:
They are available to buy (argos, ebay etc…) unlike any other r/c aircraft. They are relatively safe to fly if certain rules are followed and will do little damage in a model/human collision. My main model is a Funtana S40 that would kill someone if it hit them and as such is only available through good model shops (I love it – see picture below! :diablo: )
For this reason these small electric models are able to reach a much wider audience than we ever could before through shows and displays. Theye are fun to fly but some people quickly want to know why they can’t hover their 2ch plane like a 3D aerobatic model or why it doesn’t sound like that warbird with the big 4-stroke up front – and this brings new life to the hobby!
Cheers
Mike
PS – Those little FW190’s are supposed to be cool fun!
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