NMPRA

Best of luck to the team. Thanks Chuck for all of your work with the indoor free flight youths.
Jim

This is very sad news for sure. Rest in peace Tom.

Count me in.
Jim A

I would work to make that one. Always regretted not making any of the Bowie races in years past.
Jim Allen

This is happening to AMA clubs as well. Treasurers and sometimes other officers are getting fake emails trying to get the Treasurer to send money to make a payment.

Allen C7, Schmidt C6, All 4 classes

The results of the Final Vote for the 2024-2025 Rule Book can be found at this link. All proposals passed. https://www.modelaircraft.org/sites/default/files/events/ruleproposals/2023/final_vote_rc_pylon.pdf The rulebook will be updated and take effect January 1, 2024. AMA will work to have the revis...

Thanks to those who have reached out so far. We appreciate it.

Please don’t wait too long. Some Board members may need a bit of time to compile the input before they have to vote no later than the 15th.

Jim

Hello, There are six Rules Change Proposals being voted on this rules cycle for RC Pylon. The final votes have to be in from the RC Pylon Contest Board members by Sept 15th. Now is a good time to review those proposals, if you haven't already, and give your input to the Contest Board Representative ...

Trey,
Thanks very much for all of your efforts and leadership for the last 8 years. Time flies and we all appreciate you taking on the job and doing it so long. As the Contest Board Chair for Pylon, it's been great working with you. See you at the races again soon.

Jim Allen

At the 2023 NATS EF1 event, the rules applicable to servos and their installation in the NMPRA version of EF1 will be used. The below paragraphs will apply to EF1 at this years NATS. These are the requirements that have been in place for EF1 since its inception and will not require any changes if a ...

The Urgent proposal to raise the battery weight (30g) was done to respond to complaints that the few batteries that were "competitive" were out of stock frequently or had gone away from the market. The popular Turnigy 2700's are rarely in stock, the G1 Spektrums ($100+) were going away in favor of t...

Wanted to share that Gator RC has added a very nice spinner to support the PB-2 Proud Bird ARF. It's 45mm (1 3/4") in diameter and has a metal backplate with socket head machine screws to hold the cone on. It's a nice unit that I've been flying for a couple months now. The adapter ring that is the c...

Hi everybody, Once again this year, Barrie Lever, the head of the FAI Pylon Sub-Committee, is hosting a Zoom chat that he would like invite everyone to participate in, not just those who fly the FAI classes. It will be very interesting, as it was last year, and hope we can get some good participatio...

Below is what I posted on the RC Groups forum yesterday: ****************************************************************** Thought it was time to post here that a new version of my Proud Bird EF-1 is available again as an ARF!! It hasn't been a secret but, we wanted to hold off pushing it too much ...