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Gwyn Avenell

76th Nationals at Carterton: Nationals
The planning for the 76th Nationals is upon us. Come and With the Nationals fast approaching, planning is well
help us celebrate the event. under way for our SIG’s free flight and control line scale
events. For information on the SIG’s events at the
At this point, the registration day is on the 31st December Nationals go to the MFNZ website and click on Members
and we will most probably fly Scale on the 1st and 2nd and Pilots, then select NZ Nationals. There are links for
January. Its still a bit fluid at this point as we are looking for both online registration and event programmes. To find
a separate field to fly our event. The Nationals will finish on who has entered the events that you wish to enter, click on
the 5th January. 2024 76 Nationals on the menu at the top of the page then
scroll down to CD resources in the drop down menu,
You are able to pre enter online, even if you are a 50/50 select the specific event and click on it to see entries so far.
chance of going, please pre-register. You won’t need to
pay anything until Registration Day if you wish. It is really Nationals entries
important to register early as all the Contest Directors It is not to soon to enter free flight and control line scale
need to have some idea of what the entry level will be and classes. While the SIG encourages support of all classes,
what resources need to be put in place to run their events. we would particularly appreciate more entries in F4A
Please help them out by doing this early. Open Power Scale, Open Rubber Scale outdoor and
Open Rubber Scale Indoor events.
We will be running the new FAI F4 rules as that came into
to use on the 1st of January 2023. In reality, there are no Nationals Judging
changes to the rules, with a couple of Realism K Factor As many of our more experienced scale flyers capable of
exceptions. judging events are usually unable to assist because of
their own entries in classes to be judged. We are always
Clubman Scale: looking for capable and experienced scale judges. If you
This has been slightly modified with now requiring you to feel that you could help, please call the SIG as listed
fly four optional manoeuvres. below.
Can those of you with trophies please have them engraved Scale News
and bring them to the event or send them to me (cleaned As many will be aware, Scale News has become a well
and polished). establish newsletter for the SIG with news of flying,
building projects and events. If you are planning to attend
We will be running the Notaumatic scoring system (same the Nationals in January, the last issue of Scale News, is
as the Aerobatic SIGs use) we will hopefully have ironed worth referring to. It includes a list of all of the SIG’s free
out the bugs beforehand. flight and control line scale events run at the Nats, on page
28, with useful information about the requirements of each
Notaumatic experience so far: class, and a timetable for scale events as they occur
We have used this system for a couple of comps now (both during the Nats.
Aerobatic and Scale) and I have to say that I am very
impressed with the seamlessness of the system. Once the Stan Mauger
set up of the competition is done and is “Opened”, it Free Flight &
generally sequences its way through the flight order and Control Line
competition order. Should the CD need to change the Scale SIG
competition or reorganise the competitors flight order, it is Ph: 09 575 7971
flexible enough to intervene in the pre-order set up.

A bonus is that you as a competitor or as the CD can look at
the scoring in real time, next pilot up or generally how the
comp is progressing. This can all be done on your mobile
phone linked into the server (Raspberry Pi).

This is a good investment on the part of the Aerobatic and
Scale SIG’s.

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