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Please refrain from flying gas models at MS
Hello guys. I'm not a heli flyer but I've some advise and story to share and to pass on the awareness.
As some of you who has been to Marina South will find that the group flying there are quite unfriendly towards flying nitro there. I'm happened to be one of them, and in fact the one who has been politely advising people since 5-6 years ago when I first started flying there.
I was being introduced to fly electric planes there by some veteran flyers in the late 90s and we all stopped flying there after a year or 2, when police had banned us from flying there as there were public complaining about some gas flyers with whatever reasons not disclosed to us. Probably the noise from the gas engines had attracted too many attention at that time.
A few years back, we started flying electric planes there again hoping the authorities will not intervene this time as we would strongly advise people who has or has the intention to fly gas planes there. It has been a few years we have been doing so without any complaints and the group started to grow larger.
However, more and more gas flyer also started turning up there recently. As usual, we'd advise them against flying gas models there. Some of them heed the advise and even started flying electric planes there. However, there are a handful who still insist on flying gassers there even though they has been advised. Like what I been telling people, I can only advise them off but not stop them since I don't own the place and I don't have the rights to do so. Deep in my heart, I'm telling myself the end of Marina South flying field is near.
True enough, there were police coming over Yesterday at Marina South who came to advise flyers there. They didn't stop the flyers from flying as there were only a group of electric flyers there and they were busy explaining to them that they are only electric foam planes and IFOs. Before the police left, they warned them against fast planes, restrict the flying to no more than 200 feet altitude and to obtain a license for the radio set. The story didn't end there.
After the police had left, some gas heli flyers turned up at the field and was being told what has just happened. Unfortunately, he continued to fly his gas heli even after that. What he has done is that he had dashed all the hope of those who has been explaining so hard to the police in order to keep the flying site. For him, it'll be easy to go find a new site if the place happened to be banned from flying totally, but for electric plane flyers, who has searched for a grass field ideal for the types of the model for flying, and has been flying there for years, it'll be a great loss.
In a nutshell, please try not to fly anymore gas models there and pass on the message to anyone intented to or has been doing so. In short, DON'T HIT AND RUN especially for those who has been field-hopping.
Hello guys. I'm not a heli flyer but I've some advise and story to share and to pass on the awareness.
As some of you who has been to Marina South will find that the group flying there are quite unfriendly towards flying nitro there. I'm happened to be one of them, and in fact the one who has been politely advising people since 5-6 years ago when I first started flying there.
I was being introduced to fly electric planes there by some veteran flyers in the late 90s and we all stopped flying there after a year or 2, when police had banned us from flying there as there were public complaining about some gas flyers with whatever reasons not disclosed to us. Probably the noise from the gas engines had attracted too many attention at that time.
A few years back, we started flying electric planes there again hoping the authorities will not intervene this time as we would strongly advise people who has or has the intention to fly gas planes there. It has been a few years we have been doing so without any complaints and the group started to grow larger.
However, more and more gas flyer also started turning up there recently. As usual, we'd advise them against flying gas models there. Some of them heed the advise and even started flying electric planes there. However, there are a handful who still insist on flying gassers there even though they has been advised. Like what I been telling people, I can only advise them off but not stop them since I don't own the place and I don't have the rights to do so. Deep in my heart, I'm telling myself the end of Marina South flying field is near.
True enough, there were police coming over Yesterday at Marina South who came to advise flyers there. They didn't stop the flyers from flying as there were only a group of electric flyers there and they were busy explaining to them that they are only electric foam planes and IFOs. Before the police left, they warned them against fast planes, restrict the flying to no more than 200 feet altitude and to obtain a license for the radio set. The story didn't end there.
After the police had left, some gas heli flyers turned up at the field and was being told what has just happened. Unfortunately, he continued to fly his gas heli even after that. What he has done is that he had dashed all the hope of those who has been explaining so hard to the police in order to keep the flying site. For him, it'll be easy to go find a new site if the place happened to be banned from flying totally, but for electric plane flyers, who has searched for a grass field ideal for the types of the model for flying, and has been flying there for years, it'll be a great loss.
In a nutshell, please try not to fly anymore gas models there and pass on the message to anyone intented to or has been doing so. In short, DON'T HIT AND RUN especially for those who has been field-hopping.
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