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Presidential Ramblings
Kevin Botherway
MFNZ President

Massive congratulations to Behram Bajan on being Paul Clegg has been working very hard on a digital card
accepted by the CAA as Model Flying New Zealand’s system “pass kit” we plan to do some testing with the new
Prime Person I am sure Behram will do a superb job in the system to ensure its user friendly and hope to have it out to
role and has our full support. all soon.

A huge thanks to Les King who has done a stella job as Far Recently we have had an increase to our junior affiliations
North Island Area Councillor for some time and has with quite a few new enrolments on board and
unfortunately now moved to Aussie. Alan Walker a well- membership is on the increase. Most examiners have
known local has come on board to represent this area. completed the requalification program and are listed
online under the wings programme on our website.
Updated documentation will go live on the MFNZ website
when we receive it, there have been some changes to the The calendar of events is on the MFNZ website each area
102 operations manual to update it and support the role representative has access to this, and you can advise
change over. Chris Jackson (who now has one less hat to them of any events you have coming up so they can be
wear!) listed and collated here:
https://www.mfnz.org/members-pilots/mfnz-events/
MFNZ Flying Rules have had a few tweaks (version 2.1)
with the main topic being builder of the model rule deleted. It’s time to start thinking about NZ MFNZ 77th Nationals.
The classes of records claimable has been also With a super thanks to Phil Eldridge we have registration
expanded. This is listed under documentation on our online with all the events listed the dates are 29th Dec to
website. Competition rules for most SIGs and code of the 3rd of Jan and will be held at Clareville.
practices have been reformatted and updated also under
documentation.

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