Austin, TX Sept. 18 & 19th "Hill Country Aeromodelers"

[Robert Youens]

Hill Country Aeromodelers are hosting an AMA Sanctioned - Electric Aircraft Fun Fly in Austin, Texas Sept. 18th & 19th.

Great sponsors are already lining up and we are working on more. Get this one on your calendar; it is going to be a great event. We will have many fantastic raffle and door prices.

3D Hobby Shop, with their factory pilots and a trailer full of planes have already jumped on board, and when they are there you know it is going to be fun.

All electric aircraft are welcome. We will have 110 volt power at the setup tables for your charging equipment. Plenty of shade and will have food & beverages available.

Friday is going to be free open flying for all AMA members. You can camp on site Friday night (we have water, but no electric hookups). Many hotels and restaurants close by. Saturday is the big day.

Bring what you have if it is electric, we want to see them all: Jets, Foamies, Balsa Full Fuse, War Birds, Helicopters, Scale, Giant Scale, Micro's, Scratch Built, ARF's, RTF's, 3D, sail plane, precision, heck if it flies with an electric motor, bring it. We will make sure there is plenty of time allotted to fly what you bring.

We are going to be promoting the attributes of Electric Flight by getting as many members of the press to cover the event as possible. We will have seminars during the day with subjects to be announced.

As we line things out I will continue to update!

Thanks,

Robert Youens

[Robert Youens]

Location

GPS Coordinates 30o 10.052N 97o 48.440W

Located in Mary Moore Searight Metropolitan Park in South Austin just west of IH 35. (between Manchaca Rd. and South 1st street)

Thanks,

Robert Youens

[MikeC3D]

DAAYYUUUMMM.....my plane dont use electrons......figures. Sounds like alot of fun though, I may come just to check out all of Ben's offerings though cause I just havent had time to make it up to his place and I know Josh will be there with his fleet.

[greg e]

Hey mike your fuel can is electric lol J/k This looks like we all might have to take a road trip and ck this out. Or we can break into dan's and Andy house and borrow there electrics and fly them like we stole em lol.

[danielgpr]

	Quote: Originally Posted by greg e
	Hey mike your fuel can is electric lol J/k This looks like we all might have to take a road trip and ck this out. Or we can break into dan's and Andy house and borrow there electrics and fly them like we stole em lol.

Come get them! LOL
Dan

[Robert Youens]

Look forward to seeing you guys at the fun fly. Things are really shaping up for a great event.

More specifics will be following soon.

Robert

[greg e]

Robert keep us posted.

[gmorales83]

It'd be fun to go to an event without having to load up a trailer or the roof of my car as I normally do for the gassers. A little trunk space and a brisk drive to Austin would be nice !

[Robert Youens]

	Quote: Originally Posted by greg e
	Robert keep us posted.

Hey Greg,

I will keep everyone posted on the event as things pop up or there are questions.

I have attached the event flyer.

Thanks,

Robert

[Robert Youens]

The pilot fee is $15 (which includes lunch on Saturday), if you let us know you are coming on this thread or on rcgroups we will discount the pilot fee by $5 dollars. I will keep a list of everyone that says they are coming and if you are on the list there will be a discount when you check in Saturday morning. Friday flying is no charge!

Oh while you are at it let us know what you are planning on flying.

I will be flying my 85" 3DHS Katana, 50" Yak, 48 inch foamy, and "blue core" wing combat plane.

Will be doing demos on some new Budget RC planes that be included in the raffle ready to fly. I will throw in a Budget RC Arrow (indoor F3P) out of my sponsored pilot stock over and above what they send for the raffle.

I know Hobby Town, 3D Hobby Shop and New Creations are all bringing planes for the raffle also.

We are working our butts off to make this a special event.

Thanks for your interest,

Robert

[greg e]

Robert I should be there with the SA gang! I just have a mini pulse to fly only electric I have at this time lol. Hope to see you there. This is the feild off Manchaca and and first st right ?

[Robert Youens]

	Quote: Originally Posted by greg e
	Robert I should be there with the SA gang! I just have a mini pulse to fly only electric I have at this time lol. Hope to see you there. This is the feild off Manchaca and and first st right ?

Correct, it is really easy to miss the turn into the park. You exit Slaughter off IH 35 head west and it is between 1st Street and Manchaca. If you print the event flyer, it has a detailed map. There is a sign for Mary Moore Searight Park (were club is located) on Slaughter, but it is hard to see. We will be putting up more signage for the event.

Look forward to seeing you there. There is going to be a lot of planes in the raffle, maybe you will leave with more than you brung.

Robert

[steedav8ranger]

ill come up from houston.. i'm converting my whole fleet over to e power right now. all my birds are NEU powered. 1515 2.5d's with FAI Gb's on 10s, and 1509's with p32's on 6s. the big motors are on 71" extra 330 profiles, and the smaller 1509's are getting mounted on a fusion67 and a moass60.

hopefully ill keep them all in one piece.. i am going to nashville the following weekend with all my slabs for Nash-Bro

[Robert Youens]

	Quote: Originally Posted by steedav8ranger
	ill come up from houston.. i'm converting my whole fleet over to e power right now. all my birds are NEU powered. 1515 2.5d's with FAI Gb's on 10s, and 1509's with p32's on 6s. the big motors are on 71" extra 330 profiles, and the smaller 1509's are getting mounted on a fusion67 and a moass60. hopefully ill keep them all in one piece.. i am going to nashville the following weekend with all my slabs for Nash-Bro

Got you on the list, you qualify for the $5 discount. Thanks for letting us know what you are bringing.

From what I am hearing, there are going to be quite a few 60" and larger electrics. Should be a great opportunity to check out how others are setting up their planes. I wil have my 85" 3D Hobby Shop Katana.

I fly with some of the Pro-Bros from Memphis and they never fail to have a great time. It should be a blast in Nashville.

Glad to hear your comming. Just got back from the field and things are really shapping up. If you have any foamies, bring then along too, there will be time to fly everything. The only scheduled competition is a combat, it is open to any foam aircraft that uses a 3 cell battery 2200 mah or less. As I understand it (official rules will be posted by Dennis Caudle soon) we supply the ribbon. We will have one round of preliminaries in groups of approximately 10 planes at a time. The top 10 pilots from the prelims will compete in the final against each other for a cash prize. Placement will be based on length of ribbon remaining after each round. It should be Quick, Action Packed and fun for Pilots and Crowd alike.

[Robert Youens]

greg e, gmorales83, danielgpr and MikeC3D - got you on the list to qualify for the $5 discount pilot registration on Saturday. When you finalize your plans let me know what you flying so we can get an idea of what to expect.

Thanks,

Robert