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Large Scale Pylon Racing - secant0give - 15-02-2015

I received this email from Jeremy today, I thought I might post it up here in case anyone is interested in a bit of an adventure I will post some links below to the Large scale racing FB page



Hi Guys,

I am sending you this e-mail as together we make up the NSW Large Scale
Racing fraternity. Most of you know that there have been some ups and
downs over the last couple of years with the races at Cootamundra.

Well, it is time to put all that in the past, attempt to throw off all
the negative connotation's that it involves, and start afresh.

Our plan is to host a race at the NAAS field on the weekend of the 17/18
October (subject to confirmation by the club). This date has been very
carefully selected to fall after the start of daylight saving, and not
clash with the AFL Grand FInal, Labour Day long weekend, Bathurst V8's,
NSW Pylon at Marulan, Melbourne Cup weekend etc etc.

There is a link to the club web site, which has a great aerial video
showing the field, at

http://www.naas.org.au/

This is really the make or break of Large Scale Racing in NSW. We will
do our best to advertise in magazines, the Adelaide, Vic and Bendigo
races, social media such as Facebook etc. If it is a success we think we
can grow the sport in NSW. A failure would mean all 3 races per year
being in Vic which means lots of travel and little opportunity to get
more NSW modellers interested.

I am hoping that you will all be able to help in one way or another to
make this event an success. Blair has kindly offered to start
investigating using the the Air Cadets down there as pylon judges. Byron
is hoping to drop in and check out the field in person if/when work
allows. Tony and I are looking at making sure we can use our timing gear
and lights for this format.

I would hope to encourage a couple of the regular NSW Pylon people to
come down for the weekend and actually run the competition so we can
concentrate on flying. There is a Sport and Rec (or similar) accom unit
nearby so accomodatoin will be cheap. Dinner on the Saturday nigth will
be put on by the host club, so all in all it should be a relatively
cheap and social weekend for those involved in helping.

We would welcome any ideas you may have to help make this event a
success. I hope you will all get behind this, finish building your
models, convince your friends to start, and help make this a great event.

Thanks,
Jag

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Australian Centre for Field Robotics
University of Sydney
Australia
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