• Reminder 2010 Membership Dues
Dues can be mailed to: Stan Wysocki 135 Spring Street Stratford, CT 06614. Make checks out to “CMAC”.
Please note any changes in address, phone number, E-Mail or AMA
number. If possible include a copy of your current AMA card.
It’s your dues that cover the operating expenses and maintenance
of the fields. Most of the dues goes into the events, cookouts,
awards and door prizes that the members have the opportunity to
partake in.
• CMAC web page is now linked from US Army Corps of Engineers
Site
The Plymouth Field of CMAC is featured as part of the Hop Brook
Lake site administered by The US Army Corps of Engineers at http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/hnk/hnkhome.htm
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I can mail out most small items like hardware, props, radios,
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"Plus we have many new items daily. Our prices are magazine competitive."
Please mention you saw this notice here on the web at www.ccmacbb.org
• CMAC-Pilots Group on Yahoo
Many of you will recall that we started an email group on Yahoo
over a year ago. Several CMAC members have joined since that time
and it has been a useful tool to coordinate with other CMAC members
for flying together at our fields.
If you are a CMAC member and have not already signed up, I would
like to encourage you to join. Only CMAC members that join the
group will be able to use the features of the group. Not only
will you know when others a planning to fly, the group makes it
easy to tap into the knowledge and experience of the other folks
in the club when you have a question about a model your working
on. Items of interest are also passed along which may not be timely
to get in the newsletter.
I hope to see you at the field. If you have any questions, please
contact me.
Ken Johnson Phone (530) 689-6805 fly@rc-aircraft.info
REMEMBER, You Can Join CMAC Anytime...
You can join CMAC anytime and get your own subscription to the
print version of Balsa Chips which has more information than the
web version.
Dues can be mailed to: Stan Wysocki, 135 Spring Street, Stratford,
CT 06614. Make checks out to "CMAC". Please note any changes in
address, phone number, E-Mail or AMA number. If possible include
a copy of your current AMA card.
Better yet, come to the meeting.
* Regular membership $65.00 * Senior membership $50.00 * Junior
Membership $6.00
Rules for The CMAC Plymouth Field, a big field worth flying
How often have you heard someone say:
Don’t fly over the house
Don’t fly over the road
Don’t fly over the barn
The park is too crowded to fly today
Field is being cut
Planes too noisy
Field’s flooded
Can’t fly before 10
Can’t fly after 1
Can’t fly on Sundays
At Plymouth You Only Hear 1 Thing >>> Always lock the gate!
DIRECTIONS AND RULES FOR THE PLYMOUTH FIELD
<<Area Lodging and Campgrounds are at end of rules section below>>
GPS Field Co-ordinates are: N 41 8.800, W 73 01.863
Directions: Take Route 8 to exit 39. If you are coming from the South turn
right at the end of exit. If you are coming from the North, turn
left at end of exit. This is Route 6 going towards Plymouth.
Turn right at the first traffic light (about 7/10 mile up winding
hill from exit) if coming from Route 8. (Second traffic light
if coming from the North.) This is route 262. Take your second
left off of Rt. 262 (about 6/10 mile). This is Keegan road. Follow
Keegan Rd. to the end (about 1.1 miles) and then sharp right to
the first gate.
You can check out the web site for the Army Corps of Engineers
Hancock Brook Lake at http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/hnk/hnkhome.htm and if you go to recreation you can select model airplane club
and you can get to our web site.
The current weather and wind is also available from their site
at http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Plymouth&state=CT&site=ALY&textField1=41.6526&textField2=-73.0406&e=0
The Rules:
SUMMER Gate Rules In Effect Starting Saturday, April 17, 2010.
SUMMER GATE RULES GO INTO EFFECT THE THIRD SATURDAY IN APRIL (APRIL
17, 2010)
Spring and Summer: Gate 1: The first gate is open all Spring and Summer and is locked up
on Columbus day. If you find the first gate open, leave it open.
If you find the first gate locked, open with your key. Close the
gate behind you and put the bar in and lock it.
When you lock the gate, CMAC's lock is on one side of the pin
and the Army Corp' s lock is on the other side of the pin. This
allows the police department, rangers and fire department to enter.
Please do not put CMAC's lock thru the bar restricting their access.
If you are the last person out, put the pin in and lock the gate
behind you. Again, only if you found the first gate locked. Proceed
to the second gate (about 2/10 mile). Unlock this gate or pull
the pin, go through and close the gate behind you and put the
pin in.
Spring and Summer: Gate 2: Proceed to the second gate. Unlock this gate, go through and
close the gate behind you and LOCK IT. The second gate is ALWAYS
KEPT LOCKED.
When you lock the gate, CMAC's lock is on one side of the pin
and the Army Corp' s lock is on the other side of the pin. Please
do not put CMAC's lock thru the bar restricting access to the
rangers, police and fire departments.
Never fly alone. Plymouth is in the woods. If you got in trouble,
people may not find you for days.
Winter gate rules go into effect after Columbus Day when the first gate is kept locked at all times. With the first
gate locked cars can’t get locked in, so when we are at the field
we can leave the second gate open while making sure to lock it
shut when the last member leaves.
Make sure that our lock, the Rangers' lock and small pin is locked
to the large pipe. If not secured, it has the chance of getting
taken or lost.
If you come to the field and the First gate is open, then you
have to lock the second gate closed just to be safe.
Following the rules will prevent somebody from driving in and
getting locked in.
The Frequency Board: The frequency board is first come, first served except that if
there are more than four flyers present you can only fly once
an hour or once a rotation.
Maximum flying time is 15 minutes, timed from the moment you commit
to your frequency and when you land.
If you are using a frequency for engine test, you may do so for
no more than 15 minutes at a time.
There will be five flight stations. Four aircraft and one helicopter.
Four aircraft and one helicopter can be in the air at the same
time.
The frequency board will have the usual 44 frequencies and 9 HAM
frequencies. The 72M are numbered. The HAM frequencies are the
letters A-I.
RULES OF USE — MONROE FLYING SITE
Directions to::621 Fan Hill Road Monroe, CT
From Route 25 take Route 111 N for approximately 2.1 miles then
turn left on Elm Street for approximately 2.0 miles. Bear Left
onto Fan Hill Road. Drive approximately 1.5 miles to 621 Fan Hill
Road. Turn Left at the #617 mailbox and White sign with Architectural
Innovations LLC into the driveway. There will be a building on
the left and in front of you, turn right and go up the hill the
house #621 will be on your right. There can be a cable across
the road. There is also a post on your left indicating how many
cars are at the field. Field use is limited to nine cars. Drive
up the road to the field. The pit area is on the left towards
the end of the field.
Use caution when entering the area, as at times it can be busy
with trucks coming and going due to the lumbering activities.
Harry manages the property and lives in the house and Jay runs
the lumbering business. Give them every courtesy.
The Rules
Flying hours are:
Monday thru Friday
9:00 AM to 10:00 AM Electrics ONLY
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Electrics, Glow and Gas
Saturday
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Electrics and 4 stroke glow engines up to
.75 cu in.
Do not start or run any engines before 10:00 AM
No Activities on Sunday
Monday thru Friday
Maximum 3 electric, glow or gas powered planes or helicopters
in the air at one time.
Engine limitations: Glow 2 stroke 1.20 cu. in.
Glow 4 stroke 1.80 cu. in.
Gas 55 cc
Saturday
Maximum of 2 glow or electric powered planes or helicopters in
the air at one time.
Engine limitations: 4 stroke .75 cu. in.
Noise limit 94 dbA measured at 9'
Do not fly over or past the pit area towards the house and Fan
Hill Road.
Do not fly too far out to the North as there are houses past the
tree line.
The Connecticut Model Airplane Club is a registered non-profit
organization dedicated to members mutual support for model aviation.
CMAC members exchange their ideas and opinions though a newsletter,
a monthly meeting held on the third Friday of every month (7:30
p.m. Margaret Egan Center, Devon sectionn of Milford, CT) and
other activities. Monthly CMAC meetings are open to the public.
The CMAC is chartered (#1311) by the Academy of Model Aeronautics
(AMA) national organization. http://www.modelaircraft.org
2010 Connecticut Model Airplane Club OFFICERS
President BILL ROY Phone (203) 876-9885 broy304@aol.com
Vice President ELMER CROUTHERS Phone (203) 378-2222
Assistant Vice President KEN JOHNSON Phone (530) 689-6805 fly@rc-aircraft.info
Recording Secretary MIKE BRUNETTO Extra3000@aol.com
Treasurer ANDREW FIGLAR Phone (203) 377-1535 andrew_l_figlar@sbcgglobal.net
Membership Chairman STAN WYSOCKI Phone (203) 378-0088 swysocki@snet.net
Newsletter Editor RAY HINDS Phone (203) 334-7207 rchinds@optonline.net
Newsletter Distribution BILL ROY Phone (203) 876-9885 broy304@aol.com
Webmaster JON SINISH Phone (203) 375-1919 sincom@aol.com
This site has been on the web since March 7, 1998
and moved to cmacbb.org in the late summer of 2008
Thank YOU For Visiting!
May Your Flying Days Be Happy Days!
This page is frequently updated. Please e-mail any comments or
suggestions to C.M.A.C. Webmaster Jon Sinish —
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Bill Roy, CMAC President
