September, Labor Day weekend, the races
at AMS, barbeques, and hopefully great
weather coming for flying at Red Hawk field in Henry County.
As many of you are aware, there has been
major changes these last few weeks at our flying field. As with everything in
life most changes are good, some not so good.
But given time all things equal out.
The biggest and most important change you
will notice if you haven't been to the field lately is that our runway is in
the process of being repaired. The ski jump, hump/dip, is being leveled out.
Soon that will be followed with a new coat of sealer, and finally new paint for
the whole runway. It should be something we will all be proud of. The officers
have worked hard with the county officials, and we all should offer our thanks
to them.
Another big change will be the addition of
two more pilots stations to the north end of the field. This is so that on
baseball game days we can all shift our flight pattern more to north end of the
field. As stated earlier, the entrance gate will be southern border on game
days. We will all have to adjust our flying pattern to make this work. But with
a little practice it should be no problem at all.
For some of you who are new to the club, you
might ask, "What exactly is the pattern"? Let me explain.
Think of the pattern as a large
rectangle. The runway is the long leg of
the rectangle closest to you.
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This is a standard takeoff and landing
pattern used by RC pilots and full scale pilots too. The distances of the legs are not that
critial for RC planes and will change depending on the size and speed of the
model. Our biggest concern is that everyone uses the entrance gate as the
southern most point of our pattern.
if you have any
questions about this please feel free to ask any of the senior members of the club.
Lets hope that September turn out to be a
great one. Happy flying.
Larry Przyborowski
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