Shankill Radio Flying Club

Fun-fly August 2022

Wireless buddy box

This is a description of how to setup a wireless buddy box connection to various trainee transmitters using a FrSky transmitter (ACCST D16). The wireless buddy box is connected to the trainees transmitter using a standard mono jack plug (or other supported connectors), and the trainee uses the trainers transmitter

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Aerobatic competition results

Advanced 1st Bob Finley 2nd Conor Buckley 3rd Barry Waugh Bob Finley, 1stBarry Waugh 3rdNovice 1st Jimmy Murphy 2nd Colin Block 3rd Carl Hayden Jimmy Murphy 1stColin Block 2ndOther photos from the day

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Aerobatic competition

Skywing Edge 540T 91" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OK, here we go. These are going to be the descriptions of the manoeuvres for the competition. They may not be exactly the same as the BMFA or MACI or any other organization but that does not matter. This is just a competition for our

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PilocRC Extra 330sc 92" build

PilocRC Extra 330sc build

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Two successful maidens today

Today we maidend two new models, Barry Waugh's PilotRC Laser 73" and John Allen's Aeroplus Edge 76". Barry's Laser was powered by a PTE36R with FrSky RX8R & xm+, with JX 30kg brushless servos. John's Edge was powered by a DLE35RA with FrSky RB10 with X8R and xm+, with KST BLS815

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Giant Stick (evolved)

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Top RC Aerobatic Models

PilotRC Extra NG PilotRC LaserPIlotRC Slick 360Skywing Edge 540Skywing Slick 360 Skywing ARS300 102" with GP-123Skywing LaserSkywing Extra 300

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Bob's EDF Jets

Freewing A10Freewing A10 Freewing L-39Freewing A10Freewing L-39Freewing L-39Freewing A10Freewing L-39

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65th Anniversary 2015

John Armstrong, John Short, Denis NoonanJohn Armstrong, John Short, Denis Noonan Martin Sweeneys ExtraMartin Sweeneys ExtraNeil's Sebart Shark

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MXS-R

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PilotRC Laser 88"

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About

The Shankill Radio Model Flying Club was established in the 1950’s by a small group of enthusiastic modelers living in the Shankill area in south county Dublin. Since its humble beginnings the club has grown in size and draws most of its members from modelers living, in the main,

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Skywing ARS300

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Shankill RFC Forum

We have a new discussion form here [https://forum.srfc.net]

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Trainers

Name Phone Number Email Seamus Doyle 087-9877983 sjd208@gmail.com Terry Heffernan 087-7742977 terryheffernan2@gmail.com John Allen 085-1295486 john.allen@7huntersleap.net Conor Buckley 087-7990300 buckleyct@gmail.com Bob (Robert) Finley 086-8323730 bob@bobfinley.eu Jimmy Murphy 087-2669049 jmurf1@hotmail.com Alen Rasmussen 086-8236661 alan.rasmussen@icloud.com Neil

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FrSky Taranis

The latest Taranis transmitters & X series receivers have the EU compliant firmware, this means those old X series receivers need a firmware update to work with the new transmitter, and old transmitters require a firmware update to work with the new receivers. I have an old transmitter, and when I

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Ghost blogging resources

At the Shankill Radio Flying Club we use Ghost [https://ghost.org/] to manage our blog. Here are some nice Ghost blogging guides. You can ignore the parts about installing and managing users etc... just concentrate on getting some stuff written. By default Ghost saves your posts as drafts, you

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Location

Shankill Radio Flying Club★★★★★ · Aeroclub · Calary LowerShankill Radio Flying Club [https://goo.gl/maps/ajYitLNnfmQCAqmeA]

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Comittee

Title Name Email Chairman Terry Heffernan chairman@srfc.net Vice Chairman Conor Buckley vicechairman@srfc.net Treasurer Seamus Doyle treasurer@srfc.net Secretary Patrick Moore secretary@srfc.net Training Officer Conor Buckley trainingofficer@srfc.net Safety Officer Barry Waugh safetyofficer@srfc.net Runway management runwaymanagement@srfc.net Member Neil Agnew

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History

The Shankill Radio Model Flying Club was established in the 1950’s by a small group of enthusiastic modelers living in the Shankill area in south county Dublin. Since its humble beginnings the club has grown in size and draws most of its members from modelers living, in the main,

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Fees (2023)

Membership SRFC Full Year SRFC New Member joining between end Sept to Dec MACI Full Year MACI Joining between 1st Oct - 31 Dec Notes Senior € 175.00 € 90.00 € 80.00 € 35.00 Over 18 years at time of joining or renewing Family Member € 20.00 € 10.00 € 15.

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Training

The current rules of M.A.C.I. require that in order to be able to fly unaccompanied a modeler must be in possession of an A Cert. The club has adopted the following training policy to get our new members up to A Cert qualification as quickly as possible.

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Application form

Shankill Model Flying Club is a friendly and open club welcomming all, beginners to experts, as well as all types of Radio Control flying - Sport, 3D, Helicopters, Scale Pattern etc. The Club is affiliated to M.A.C.I. (which is the Governing Body for the Hobby in Ireland)

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Useful Information on Radio Controlled Aircraft for Beginners

Welcome to the fascinating world of radio controlled model aircraft. These are flying models and in some instances are scale replicas of the full size aircraft. In the case of planes, they are generally constructed from a very light wood known as Balsa wood although other materials such as plywood,