Well Easter has just finished and I hope you all got some good flying in! I did the test flights of my Vigor after it's refit and also made sure the Voyager got a sound thrashing too :).

New Club
My 'home' club is situated on a shooting range that is used both by the Army and the National Rifle Association. Normally there is shooting on Saturday and we get the range on Sunday for flying. Lately though shooting activities have taken place both on Saturdays and Sundays so I have been looking around at alternate flying sites. I found another club about the same distance from my home and so applied for membership and have been flying there off and on lately. This club has got some pretty serious plank fliers doing IMAC and F3A. Most couldn't remember when or if there had been helicopters at this field. I must say I was a little bit worried about how the helis would be accepted here. I need not have worried, just about everybody stopped to watch when I flew and then came and asked questions afterwards. When I have been there people like let the flier have the sky to himself and turns are taken like that which suits me fine.
Although I will continue to prefer to go to the shooting range, this new club will be great for an alternate site, and excellent for learning to fly my plank.

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Event calendar
Something I've also been working on lately is an event calendar which will allow people to enter and publicise upcoming helicopter events. Each time a newsletter goes out, future events will be publicised on the bottom of each edition as well as on the site itself. Look out for it!

Pilot Locator
The Pilot Locator has continued to grow in popularity since the last newsletter with it still rating second most popular section of littlerotors.com. Make sure your details are up-to-date! The pilot locator can be found at www.littlerotors.com/findapilot/

Market
The Buy/Sell Market has been growing also. It should be noted that this section will accept postings from all over the world, not just New Zealand. List your items free of charge! See the market at www.littlerotors.com/market/

Articles this issue are:

Setup for F3C
One of the most popular questions I get is "What's a good setup to start with?". This will hopefully provide a good starting point for those unsure. Click here

Vigor Refit
After 240 or so trouble free flights, I felt it was time to give the CS a rebuild. Click here

Feel free to contact me at simon@littlerotors.com at any time.

Si