On Saturday 21st June 2025 we hosted the Dalgety Bay Scouts (who were camping locally) for RC plane demonstrations, helicopter demos and buddy-box flying on the Club Trainer for the lucky ones (over a dozen scouts had a go and maybe 40+ visited our field). It must have felt like ‘The Longest Day’ for Chair Neil and Treasurer Mike who spent the whole day at the field, hosting the visit. Well done!
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RC Helicopter Animation
Useful video showing the basics of how movement is controlled on an RC Helicopter. This is a flybar controlled heli, there are also other ones that use electronic stabilisation that are called flybarless.
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The 10 Commandments for EdgeTX
Below is a useful Youtube video for new users of EdgeTX, all good advice on how to configure your Tx to get the best out of it. All done on a RadioMaster TX16 (which a lot of EdgeTX users have), but will equally work on any EdgeTX radio, the screen might just look a little different.
One of the commandments is how to update your firmware – very useful but do remember if everything is working, there isn’t really any need to update it; don’t be the person who updates it every few months just because a new version is out.
The manual for EdgeTX is also very useful and can be found here for colour radios and here for monochrome ones. -
Slope Soaring Locations
If any members are interested in getting into slope soaring, there is a Google map showing Scottish locations at https://kevin-newton.blogspot.com/p/scottish-slopes.html . As you would probably expect, a number of them are on Lomond Hill, both the West and East one. The West one is effectively Bishops Hill. so expect more of a climb. The East one is close to Falkland, and there is a car park at the top.
If you want to go a bit more off piste with your soaring (or other flying for that matter), remember to check out the restricted flying zones at https://nats-uk.ead-it.com/cms-nats/opencms/en/uas-restriction-zones/ . FL (Flight Level) means a unit of 100feet btw, so FL85 is 8500ft for example.
If you are just looking for a good reason to get into it, John Woodfield’s videos should whet your appetite for how fun it can be!
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Welcome to our New Website!
Hello and welcome to our new website. We have moved from paying for a web domain to using one sponsored by the BMFA, we are one of a number of clubs that they are now hosting and we would like to say a warm thanks to Andy Symons of the BMFA for setting it up. This new website is based on WordPress which is a very popular website management system that has its origins in blogging.
We are still adding to the website as I write this but there is a great amount of material already there. We hope you enjoy looking around it!