The outdoor RC and FF scale competition calendar is cancelled from now until further notice. When the C 19 situation stabilises, the BMFA Scale Technical Committee will then see how many events can be re-instated, depending upon the time scales involved. Hopefully, we can get back to normal in a period of a few short… Read More »
The NW Free Flight Gala at the Manchester Velodrome is now a well-established and much anticipated annual event. Various duration classes are flown, plus Peanut, Pistachio and Flying Only Open Scale. This year, for some reason, the turnout was disappointingly low with only 11 flyers arriving at this super venue. Fortunately though, all eleven of… Read More »
Graham Kennedy is running the Scale Uncovered event on March 15th at Buckminster. Intended to show how easy and unthreatening entry into a BMFA competition is. To give guidance on how to fly and how to produce the necessary documents. To take away the perceived barriers to participation right from club level, up to the… Read More »
Scale at the 2020 BMFA FF Nats It is with great regret that the STC has decided to pull their Scale competitions out of the 2020 FF Nats. The entry fees proposed by the FFTC were considered by the STC to be excessive and a request for a sensible reduction made to the FFTC was… Read More »
The 2020 Indoor Scale Nationals Entry Forms for both RC and FF on April 18th & 19th are now up on the main BMFA website. They can be downloaded, filled in and emailed, or printed off and posted. Here :- https://bmfa.org/Downloads/Entry-Booking-Forms?EntryId=3419
World Championship team for 2020 The FAI F4 Scale World Championships will be held at Jarlsberg Flying sports centre Tonsberg Norway on July 25th till August 1st 2020. The Scale Technical Committee are pleased to announce that the team who will represent Great Britain in the F4H class are Steven Jackson, John Carpenter and Richard… Read More »
HEADS-UP ON REVISIONS TO 2020 PEANUT RULES Herewith the key information from the updated 2020 Peanut Rules for those of you interested and especially those choosing projects for April 19th. The Pistachio Rule updates are identical. The rules have been updated to reflect the original simplicity of the class and scoring system with the objectives… Read More »
Synopsis of 2020 Scale Rule Changes The following is a brief summary of the changes which will be made to the BMFA Scale Rule Book for 2020 and is made available for advance information only. In view of the number of changes and new classes, it is essential that all competitors in Scale competitions obtain… Read More »
The PROVISIONAL Results have been posted for all scale classes (RC, FF & CL) flown at last weekend’s August Nationals. Look here https://bmfa.org/DesktopModules/Bring2mind/DMX/Download.aspx?Command=Core_Download&EntryId=3280&language=en-GB&PortalId=0&TabId=1584
Message from Chris Allen Overall Scale CD. Competitors Pre Flight Briefings. R/C Classes – In the Scale Marquee Saturday 0800 – Chris Allen and John Minchell C/L Classes – At the Scale Control Line circle Saturday 0800 – Brian Cordwell FF Classes – At the Scale Marquee Saturday 1745 – John Minchell Static Judging R/C… Read More »