02/08/2014

        Perfect weather was a great start to the day for CMAC.


The team getting ready for work.

 
 

CMAC ready for action


A big thank you to Cairns Hardware for their great support with the donation of all our barrier and flight box materials.


After a bit of mowing and leveling we have a very usable field and with a bit more work and the possible addition of 9 cubic meters of Crusher Dust CMAC may actually have a great home for at least the next year or more until our permanent home is available. 

A big thanks to Bob and Anthony for their help in getting the field to this stage. Well done. Anthony had a look at our old haunt and it is all ploughed up and looks a very sorry site. Certainly not available for any more flying. We are so lucky to have this new spot. It is actually taking great shape and is proving to be a perfect new site for us to fly. Many thanks to the owner Jeff Mann for his great support and contribution to our club.

As members and guests arrived it wasn't long before the field was christened with a bit of flying and ummm, shall we say some HARD landings. The field is great for checking out our talents both in flying and in landing (strangely now on a runway). Off strip landings are going to be a little rough so planning to land on the strip will be the big emphasis. Proof of this can be seen in the next few photos.


Greg Before Flight

 

 

After a dead stick landing out in the field

 

 

Bob's PC9 before flight

 

After a dead stick landing out in the field

 

 

 

 James before flight

Hey James do those wheels belong to you. I think you must have found a pot hole still to be fixed in the strip.

Nothing a bit more epoxy won't fix.

 

 

 

 Michael I think you must have found another pot hole. Maybe you can get some epoxy from James. After all it appears that the use of wheels today seem highly over rated.


Well we did have quite a few successful flights for the day with some great and silky smooth flying from Matt Holt and his IMAC 60cc twin. Matt fly's with the Mareeba club so it was great to have him out here with us for the day. With the growth of CMAC we hope that the inter-club relationships can gather all members support.

Very smooth Matt.

 

 

Graeme had to break the quiet (as usual) with his super noisy Pitts.

 

 

 

 

 

I wonder what it is that seems to be bothering Anthony..

 

 

Our Prez had a few very good flights of hi Bi-plane and even managed to fly the fields first Heli.

 

 

 

 

Turk Had a bit of trouble trying to coax the engine into life but with no luck had to call it quits and send it back to the hanger.

 

 

 

James flew his Phoenix 2000 until the little electronic aliens jumped aboard and sent the glider into the turf. More of that epoxy required.

 

 

 

 

 

After our first day I think we can safely say the new field is going to work out fine. A little more work and I am sure that we are going to be able to have a lot of great flying days ahead. Thanks to all those who have put in their time and effort. The club has decided that we all need to add an additional $20 payment for this years membership to help cover the cost of fuel and maintenance for the new mower. Payments can be made to the club by Internet banking or by payment to the treasurer. Thank you all in anticipation of your payments as this will help maintain the club in a healthy financial position and enable us to move forward as the opportunities arise.

 

With a lot of enquires from other clubs CMAC has made a decision that affiliate membership for current members of other clubs be $50. This is made up of the CMAC's $30 membership plus the $20 fuel levy.  

 

 

 

 

 



 

And a fitting end to the day with the official christening of the new CMAC field.

 

 

See you all next week and lets hope the weather is going to be just  as kind to us again.