MODEL AVIATORS ASSOCIATION
THORNWICK BAY HOLIDAY WEEK 2008
SATURDAY MAY 10TH TO SAturday MAY 17TH 2008
The week will run from Saturday 10th May until Saturday 17th May 2008 and will combine both the MAA We will be providing facilities for powered aircraft, electrics, gliders, helicopters. Experienced MAA instructors will man all sites at the appropriate times.
BOOKING
Booking forms are available
from the MAA on receipt of an SAE from the address at the end of this
information sheet. All bookings must be made through the MAA into Haven
accommodation or their touring site. This is essential in order for us to be
able to negotiate favourable prices and to ensure that these holidays will
continue. This year again we will be dealing directly with the management at the
park and as a result have been able to negotiate substantially reduced prices
due to our pre-booking blocks of units.
Due to legislation regarding the operation of holiday parks only persons booked into Thornwicks own accommodation or the touring site will be allowed free access to the park and the relevant passes will be issued on arrival. These passes are required in order to gain entry to our meeting rooms, and to participate in our evening activities including the auction as our room is within the main entertainment complex. Park security officers are instructed to remove any person without a pass from the site. We stress that this a legal and policy decision by Thornwick and is completely outside the control of the MAA
This year the power site
is again at Bridlington Aerodrome at Burton Fleming. Approx 8 miles from the
camp Maps can be provided at the briefing. This is an active airstrip operated
by British Skydiving. We have been offered the use of the clubroom which
includes toilets, showers, cafeteria, bar, games room and TV during the day.
This is a superb site with ample room for power and helicopter to operate
together. Instructors will be in radio contact with the skydiver pilots when
they are operational and it is therefore imperative that you land immediately if
requested by our instructors to do so. There will be a flying fee of £10 per
person for the week. Flying passes will be issued on receipt of the fee and will
be checked by instructors throughout the week. Any one who does not have a valid
pass will be asked to leave the power field. Maurice Partington and Brian Cooper
will man the power field.
PLEASE NOTE THAT OWN
TRANSPORT IS NEEDED TO REACH THE FLYING SITE
Dependant on wind conditions
these will either be Reighton Sands, Flamborough or Filey Brig. Approx distances
from camp are 2 miles, 10 miles and 4 miles respectively. We must stress that flying at the Hole of Horcum and Levisham
is NOT permitted and anyone flying there is doing so without the sanction of the
organisers and at their own risk. Notices detailing the site for the day will be
posted at the organiser’s chalet and shop chalet by 09.45 hrs daily.
Gliding will be under the
control of our gliding CFI, Dave Scoles
PLEASE NOTE ALL GLIDING
SITES ARE OFF CAMP AND OWN TRANSPORT IS REQUIRED
Again the helicopters will
share the power field. Helicopters will be under the control of Derek Stowe.
Dependant on the numbers of helicopters participating a time slot system
of attendance at the site may be imposed if insufficient numbers warrant the
manning of it all day
These can be flown at
either the power or gliding sites but we ask that ‘noisy’ models e.g.
Twinjets etc only be flown at the power site
All the sites will have
experienced instructors available between 10.00 and 17.00 hrs daily depending on
the weather and training can be arranged between these times. If you require
help please make yourself known to the relevant CFI at the Saturday briefing
Please have all your
crystals with you to avoid congestion on the pegboard. The permitted frequencies
for aircraft are 27 MHz and 35 MHz.
The permitted frequencies
for cars are 27mhz and 40mhz.Again please try to have changes of frequencies
with you to avoid clashes and ease race planning. Final decisions on frequencies
will be at the discretion of the Chief Instructor but it is the intention to use
all frequencies on all sites wherever possible
There will be a pegboard in
use at each site. The power site system will be explained at the briefing. The
gliding site uses the peg ON system so you need to bring a peg with your name
and frequency on with you
The car Chief Instructor
will explain at the car briefing the system he proposes to use
These will be kept to the minimum and will take place at 0930 hrs on Saturday in the meeting room
A programme of evening activities is being prepared and we hope to have the exclusive use of a room every evening. We hope to be able to have a bar open. The usual raffle will take place and any donations of prizes would be welcomed.
AUCTION
The now infamous auction will take place during the week and will be hosted as always by John ‘Move and I’ll sell you ‘Bicknell
Please bring proof of insurance with you. Any modeller without insurance will be able to obtain it from the organisers on arrival
BOATS
There are no organised activities for boats and regrettably no facilities for sailing them. The fishing lake is a strictly no go area
PROGRAMME
A full programme of the week’s activities will be available from reception or the organisers on arrival
MODELLING
GOODS
A fully stocked model shop will be on site with opening hours to be posted. Haven Holidays will not sanction any other form of trading, commercial or otherwise of model goods on the site with the exception of the authorised shop and the bring and buy and auction evenings
Booking forms for 2009 will be available from the organisers during the week and we hope to be able to once again guarantee prices on all bookings made before the end of September 2008. Booking forms should be returned to the organisers either during the week or by post to the address below.
This information sheet is
not exhaustive. The joint organisers will make all decisions on the conduct of
the holiday and such decisions must be regarded as final.
Further information can be
obtained from the organisers, Caroline Scoles and Max Bradley, tel 01472 322874
or 07771 751959 or by post. Send SAE to MAA c/o Grimsby Model Centre, 22 Lord
Street, Grimsby DN31 2LU
E-mail
address: mail@grimsbymodelcentre.fsnet.co.uk
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