Dear Club Secretary Happy new year. As the newly appointed BMFA East Anglia Area Committee Chairman I hope to keep the flow of information to you useful, informative but not excessive so here goes … BMFA Council Meeting. This was held a week ago and as the first meeting of the new council much of … Continue Reading
If you would like your club events listed in the BMFA East Anglia website calendar, please send full details to the webmaster – contact via the committee page.
Following the flurry of announcements on the implementation of Drone Regulations, there are 2 documents that are useful to have available for reference either at Club flying sites or for carriage by individual members. Note, these only apply to members of the BMFA and the other model flying organisations named in the documents. They are: The … Continue Reading
Clubs and members will be interested in the following key points from Saturday’s BMFA AGM which for ease of reading I have summarised below. BMFA membership fees were agreed as: Seniors: £38 (no change in recognition of the introduction of £9 CAA registration fee) Juniors: £17 (no change) Family partners: £25 (up £2) Family Juniors: … Continue Reading
Please note: this is a copy of the post on the BMFA News page that you can access directly via this link. The CAA have launched their DRES system today (5th November) to allow operators of unmanned aircraft to pass a competency test and register as operators. https://register-drones.caa.co.uk/ . They have also launched a scheme to return lost … Continue Reading
Provided by Graham Gooch – Norwich MAC Background In an effort to make monthly Club Meetings Interesting, Educational as well as Enjoyable, I carried out the following which went down very well with those attending. Scenario I took along the Fuselage only of a Four Channel Trainer Aircraft and invited members to have a “Thorough” … Continue Reading
Since the CAA finally announced details of its Drone Registration and Education Scheme (DRES) last week we have published several explanatory notes both on the BMFA website and directly to members by email. However, the flurry of correspondence and comments on various forums and groups suggests that there is still considerable misunderstanding of the scheme … Continue Reading
The BMFA through Dave Phipps continues to make significant progress relating to the details of future arrangements for the roll out of new Registration scheme. Quite naturally club committees and members are keen to understand these arrangements, not least as clubs are holding their AGMs and membership renewals approach. The BMFA Council agreed at its … Continue Reading
The latest update on the DRES was presented by Dave Phipps, BMFA CEO, at latest ASRC Roadshow. His presentation may be downloaded by clicking on this link.
I attended the autumn BMFA Council meeting in my role of Area delegate. The main business related to finance where the key points were that the Association made a small operating surplus in 2018/19 and it will be proposed to the AGM that there will be no increase in member fees for 2020. However, the … Continue Reading