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Home Page
Welcome
to Cleveland Model Helicopter Club's home page!
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Cleveland Model Helicopter Club
is really all about people and helicopters.
Primarily we are model helicopter enthusiasts who build,
maintain and fly model helicopters.
Club members fly 3D aerobatic helicopters
as well as scale models and some are
just learning the mysteries of radio controlled, or R/C model, flight.
Fixed wing
aircraft are not a common
sight at the field
but we do fly them occasionally. We have no formal meetings and
generally we just get on and fly, that is why we have the club in the
first place after all! If you should ever feel the urge to rush out and
buy a model helicopter
and live near the
Cleveland
area, come along,
you'll be quite welcome. Even if you are just thinking about it, come
along anyway as we are only too happy to share our knowledge of radio controlled
flight.
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Model helicopter
flying is,
for the uninitiated, a black art. Helicopters, by their very nature of
design have a natural desire to crash into the nearest immovable
object. Trees and bushes become magnetic and they always want to shoot
off in a direction not intended. We hope that these pages will help you
understand what these machines are all about and if you get a chance,
come along and fly with us, if you cannot yet fly but would like to,
come along anyway. Don't for one second think we are all experts, some
of us can do little more than hover so far, there are however some very
accomplished pilots in the club who are more than happy to help any
newcomer learn to fly. If you want to read more visit our Getting
Started and Learning
to Fly pages to give you an idea
what is involved in model helicopter flying.
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Club
and BMFA fees will remain unchanged for 2010. If you do not pay
for membership you are not insured to fly!
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Rubbish & Litter
It has
been noted that people are
leaving waste items at the field such as bottles, sandwich wrappers,
crisp packets etc. Please take your rubbish and litter away with you
rather than leaving it for someone else to remove. If you should crash
please take care to remove all broken parts from the field as Cows will
eat pretty much anything including Carbon Fibre!
There
has been unauthorised flying at the field of late. If you do not
recognise someone at the field please challenge them for proof of club
and BMFA membership. If they are not members then they and more
importantly we are not insured.
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BMFA Advertisment
Cleveland
Model Helicopter Club were
asked by the
BMFA if they could use one of
our pictures in an advertisement to be published in the December 2006
issue of Rotorworld Magazine.
The resulting advert is show to the right and can be maximised by
clicking on it:
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Outdoor
Flying
Generally we are at the field most Saturday and Sunday afternoons and
also during the lighter, summer nights we meet up on a Wednesday
evening at around 6pm too. You can often find people at the field at
any time during the week so stop by and have a chat. Obviously our
flying is always weather dependant - If it is bad, we usually
still
show up anyway and
stand under the trees for shelter, but
if it is really,
really bad we stay at home
and moan about the weather!
As you can
see below this is
perfect flying weather. We are all always hopeful of good flying
weather like this but this last year has been pretty poor. On occasion
we have to share our flying field with a heard of cows, the bright side
is that they keep the grass down, the down side is that they leave an
awful lot of mess which you rarely avoid when your eyes are gazing
skyward!
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It's not always hot and sunny in
England like the pictures to the left. Even in snowy weather like this
above we manage to get some flying done although you can't feel your
fingers or toes after about five minutes. Still it's fun - well to a
certain degree anyway!
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Indoor
Flying
In
the winter months we fly
electric micro helicopters such as Piccolo's, Zoom's, Dolphin's, Zap's
and T-Rex
indoors at Nunthorpe School Sports Hall in the afternoon and evening
from 3:00pm of the first Saturday of each month. There is also an
indoor meeting every Monday night at 'The Dome' at Boulby Potash Mine
from 7:00pm onwards. As these events are not arranged by Cleveland
Model Helicopter Club you do not need to be a member to fly but charges
vary from around £2.50 to £3.00 per pilot for each
of these events to cover the cost of hiring the hall or dome. Valid
third party insurance may be required in the way of BMFA membership and
models must be no bigger than T-Rex 450 size. Have
a look at the events page
to see some indoor action. Directions for these venues can be seen on
our directions page.
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Events
Our Events
page lists things coming up each year and also what's been happening
over the past few seasons. Including the 3D Masters World Championship
and the Teesside Model Flying Club annual airshow where we make a
regular appearance.
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Television
Stardom
A couple of
us were invited to show
off our helicopters on early morning RI:SE tv and even got to meet the
lovely Holly Valance. Read how it all went on our RI:SE
tv page.
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Articles
and Reviews
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There are
numerous pictures of club
members and their helicopters on our
Gallery page so why not check
them out!
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Joining
Cleveland Model Helicopter Club
If
you want to join Cleveland Model Helicopter Club you can open up an
Adobe Acrobat printable application form here.
All our members get free expert advice and tuition to make the
experience of learning to fly as enjoyable as possible. Of course it is
still down to you to practice,
practice, practice as the more
stick time the easier it becomes!
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If you are a
member submit your
pictures to the website as they are always needed!
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| Hambleton
Heli's
Andy
Throup and Matti Ward who started their flying at Cleveland Model
Helicopter Club have now set up their new club just outside of
Wigginton village near York. Hambleton Heli's is affiliated to the BMFA
and is club number 2513. Visit their new website at
www.hambleton-helis.co.uk or
contact Andy at andrew@hambleton-helis.co.uk
or Matti at matt@hambleton-helis.co.uk
for further information. For directions to their club flying site click
here
to view a detailed map. They are a continually growing club and will
make you more that welcome if you pop along and pay them a visit.
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