[AlaskaRC] ARCS Field
Steve
aerobatix at gci.net
Fri May 8 12:14:39 AKDT 2009
Hey Leni,
Glad to hear you didn't loose your field. How is it doing now? Did the grass come up last year? Some of the guys out here (myself included) were thinking about coming out there to fly with you guys this season. I miss going out there (in the warm weather) to fly, camp and hang out with all you guys.
Hope to see you this season (here or there)
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: akflyer
To: ARCS mailing list
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 7:13 AM
Subject: Re: [AlaskaRC] ARCS Field
I can second this one. The PMA had all our eggs in one basket with the soldotna flying field and ened up hosed when we lost it. We got the Kenai flying field up to par by putting in a 500X75' grass runway and thought we were walking in high cotton again.. Last fall a new borough tax assessor came in and upped the lease by 2000.00 without telling anyone namely US. We did not know we any of this had happened till I got a phone call saying we were behind on the lease payment and they terminated the lease (come to find out they did this to atleast 6 other organizations on the peninsula). We fought hard and jumped through alot of hoops, but were able to get the lease back just 1 week ago. We went through the winter flying off local lakes etc, till we were able to get our field back. Please try to learn from our mistakes and if at possible, secure more than one spot to fly!
I have found that most clubs have a VERY small hand full of "doers" that actually help to maintain the fields and really give alot of time to make sure that all the rest of the complainers and whiners have a nice place to fly. I for one hope to be able to come up and fly off your new site and enjoy this GREAT addiction with you folks.
Arrmand, Mike, Steve, Pat, and the rest of the "doers" thanks for your hard work and diligence in making sure that every one up there will have a place to fly should they choose to!
Leonard Perry
President P.M.A.
--- On Fri, 5/8/09, Patrick Martin <n411x at hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Patrick Martin <n411x at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AlaskaRC] ARCS Field
To: alaskarc at lists.alaskarc.org
Date: Friday, May 8, 2009, 7:02 AM
Hollow Gentlemen
I have lived here in this Great State of Alaska since 1970 and have been in Aviation the entire time. I have seen many people come and go in that time frame. I remember when EDF RC field was not paved and some of us flue at Crowley and along the Seward Hwy Potter Marsh. Anchorage House of Hobby was on spenard road we manly flue glow powered aircraft and the little fields were ok for that kind of Aircraft.
We have seen many changes in this wounderful hobby in the size of the aircraft from the scale Jetcat trubines to 6000 watt Battery powered Eletric aircraft. I have a great love for this Hobby and have made many good friends through this wounderfull hobby.
We need to improve our flying fields and haveing just one field, to fly is like putting all your eggs in on basket. Thanks to some of our fellow modelers there is a lot of new and exciting thing going on here in Alaska and haveing flying fields that fit that need makes me Happy.
So if you would like be a part of this great if not Please do not try to stop the people that are willing to inprove this Hobby.
Pat Martin
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Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 06:35:10 -0800
From: aerobatix at gci.net
To: alaskarc at lists.alaskarc.org
Subject: Re: [AlaskaRC] ARCS Field
Hi Tom,
This field is not just for flying contests.. Many of us like to fly planes above 300'. This field would have no size, sound or altitude restrictions (other than AMA safety regs.). Also, for events like the Hal Horton Memorial (non-competition) which are open to the public, there would be no problems for non-members like getting through the gate at Elmendorf. As Armand has said, one of our members has taken a positive step for the club and paid for this month OUT OF HIS OWN POCKET (not club money).
Any club member can contact a club officer and get permission to have the rent a can delivered. I used to do it for Moffit and I was not a club officer. Maybe we all could try to help out instead of making it more difficult.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: tom & shannon parsley
To: alaskarc at lists.alaskarc.org
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [AlaskaRC] ARCS Field
from what i remember at the club meeting tuesday we all were going to vote and persue the other flying fields at the next meeting
you were not in no big hurry to open the rent a can so just wait for all of us not just a few of you to make the dission
of when and where your going to fly your contest and a vote of the members at a reg meeting is required before we spend
more than 500.00
never the less we still need to vote on this before we persue this any further
----- Original Message -----
From: Armand Marshall
To: AlaskaRC at lists. alaskarc. org
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 1:05 PM
Subject: [AlaskaRC] ARCS Field
I just want to start the ‘discussion’ about a new unrestricted field for ARCS. I am referring to a field with no altitude restrictions or noise issues. One that we can fly all of our various types of aircrafts and hold events. Last year that field was Wayne’s World.
Over the last couple of days, I have had some phone calls back and forth from fellow members who are concerned about the fact that the club didn’t decide on a field at the meeting on Tuesday. We hate to see an entire (summer) month go by without a field while we wait for the next club meeting. So, some of us have decided to move ahead with the plans to use the field ‘across the way’ from Wayne’s World. (Sorry, I don’t know the name of the field owner so I don’t exactly know what to call the field at this point.) From what I have been told, this field will be even more wide open than Wayne’s and with no berms or wind rows (smoother/flatter too).
Mike Mosesian has been in contact with the owners and with Wayne and everything is looking good. Wayne says he is fine with us moving and there would be no hard feelings. Mike also negotiated for us (or ARCS) to spread out the payments across a five month term – which comes out to $400 per month for a total of $2,000 (which is even cheaper than last year’s field).
We have discussed this with our club president, Tom Simes, and it seems that everything is looking good for us to go ahead and begin getting things in order (insurance for the field, figure out the runway, move the benches, etc.).
So now we (you, us) need to get together and set up a day/time to meet out there and discuss the arrangements and have a good look around. Maybe a work party or something to that effect. Those that are interested in helping and/or would like to be involved and see the field (and hopefully do some flying too), just let your voice be heard here on the mailing list. Alternately, if you prefer to remain anonymous, go ahead and send an email directly to my email address (below).
Reminder: There still hasn’t been an ‘official’ club vote on the field. As far as I know, we will still be taking care of the voting process at the next meeting.
Thanks.
(Also a huge thanks goes out to Mike Mosesian and Pat Martin for getting the ball rolling.)
Alaska Radio Control Society
Armand Marshall - Treasurer
Treasurer at AlaskaRC.org
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