Licking County
Radio Control Club Inc.
FIELD
RULES
For
the protection of you, the club, and this fling site, ALL FLYERS MUST HAVE a
CURRENT AMA license.
Flying is available to club members, guests and spectators all year long, Seven days a week 8:00am to 10:00 PM. Night flight is permitted ONLY if a spotter is present to help, AND with the proper identification lighting on the aircraft.
Flying
operations must be done in accordance with the AMA Safety Code. It is YOUR
responsibility to know and observe the AMA Safety Code.
The
field is closed when the farmer is working in the following fields. Absolutely
NO exceptions. If you are already flying before the farmer enters the fields,
you must land immediately and cease flying as long as the farmer remains in the
fields. The no-flying zones are the fields immediately adjacent to the LCRC area
on the north, south, and east.
Flying
privileges will be extended to guests for a maximum of 3 visits per year. Guests
must have adequate proof of AMA license and must be accompanied by a flying
regular member. Guests are not to participate in club events that are limited to
LCRC members only.
All
children are to remain in the picnic shelter or parking areas or in the pit area
when accompanied by an adult. Do not allow children to play on the runways,
pilot box, or climb on the wind direction tower.
Parking
is permitted in the pit area or graveled parking lot only, not on the driveway
or runways.
Absolutely
no alcoholic beverages or fires Fires such as a grill are not permitted unless
in conjunction with a club sponsored activity.
All
trash (paper, used airplanes, broken props, etc.) must be picked up and taken
home. Each member must properly dispose of his/her own trash.
When
an aircraft lands in the farm fields, please, only those persons necessary to
recover the aircraft should enter the fields to prevent crop damage.
Please
keep the outhouse clean.
All
gasoline powered models must include a suitable fire extinguisher in the pit
area.
An
EFFECTIVE muffler is required on all 2 or 4 cycle engines, .09 cubic inch
displacement or higher. Effective is defined as original equipment type (or
equivalent of similar or better noise reduction). All tuned pipes must be of the
muffled variety. NON-effective types such as the "Dubro Stack" will
only be acceptable on scale or stand off scale airplanes. Mini-pipes will only
be allowed on quarter midgets or formula one airplanes. If your airplane is not scale or a pylon racer,
you will be expected to have an effective muffler.
All
aircraft should be safety checked and range tested prior to flight.
All
frequencies must be shared with others. Pins for each frequency are provided.
Your transmitter may only be turned on when you possess the correct pin for your
frequency and your current AMA card in placed in the proper slot on the
frequency pin board. After each flight offer the use of the pin to others on the
same frequency and place your idle transmitter in the impound rack located in
the shelter house. All transmitters at the field not matched with the correct
frequency pin must be kept in the transmitter impound rack.
When your flying session is complete place the pin back on the rack and
remove your AMA card before leaving.
NO hand launching from, near, or towards the pit area or pilot box. This pertains to any aircraft type, powered or non-powered. When taxiing back toward the pits area, stop your engines at the end of the taxi way and carry or pull your aircraft back to the pits.
Flying
over the pit area, cars or spectators are not permitted at any time.
Helicopters
are not permitted to hover from the pit area to the helicopter pad. The helicopter
pad area is located at the far south end of the pit area directly in front of
the storage building.
Call
out to other pilots when preparing to takeoff or land. Dead airborne aircraft
should be called out to receive priority use of the runways.