The FAI can't organize a website for nothin'!

[ShawnK]

I'm going to develop cataracts trying to find the section of the FAI website with the F3C rules and regs. Does anyone have a link bookmarked?

Basically, I want to get the layout of the "box" for next year, since that's what AMA Classes 1-3 are going to be using.

[Hinke]

Here is the Sporting code for F3C. It contains contest layout area:

http://www.f3c.se/docs/2006/sc4.f3c.06.Rev1.pdf

[DavidH]

The FAI website is easy to use.

Open up the website.
at the top across the menu bar.
Choose Air Sports

Then Choose FAI Aeromodeling Commission

For rules Click on the CIAM Pages

Then select CIAM Documents

Next select FAI Sporting Code Section 4 2006 Edition
Scroll down to F3C Helicopter and select a download site.

The FAI site covers all aspects of Aerial competition. Both full scale and models.

David

[ShawnK]

Thanks Hinke!

David,

:arggg: Well, how silly of me to forget to look in the CIAM Pages section. Heaven forbid that the FAI would just have a section clearly marked "Rules and Regulations", or something like that. Shoot... I don't even know what "CIAM" is! Why would it have occurred to me to look there?

You may think it's intuitive, but I think whoever designed that website has some issues when it comes to mental organization.

[Phaedrus]

Buddy, sharing your disdain for the FAI site, I put some resources into a place I know I can find them, my own website. Here:

http://scaleaerobatics.org/F3C-INFO.html

The current FAI rules are there, the current AMA rules, the proposed AMA rules, the field layout diagram, the judging clinic (some very cool slides), and a short wrote up by Gordie Meade on setting up an F3C heli.

All are in pdf format

[ShawnK]

Cool! Thanks!

I put together and printed out my own copy of the field layout and Class 1-3 rules, and now I keep it in my field box. I also went out to the store this morning and bought some orange cones for outer markers. Now, all I need is a little spray paint to paint a circle on the field, and I'm all set!

If I'm going to practice it, I might as well practice it correctly. :mrgreen:

[Blair]

That's because FAI is all old farts that still think CB's are hi-tech! :lol:

Blair

[ErichF]

FAI website is more informative than the IRCHA site. Talk about a waste of 'net space. A whole website dedicated to a big funfly and member recuiting, and bad at that even. :roll:

Not even a mention of the Nats, or the results. AMA SIG, hardly.


Erich

[ErichF]

BTW, Buddy, are you starting to try out the 07 schedules, or just working on the 06 ones? The new 07 class one has forward flight in it now. I'm happy to see the horizontal manuevers eliminated (reason for not having the 4 corner cones anymore). They were hard to judge from the chairs, as well as the pilot's station.

Good luck with your practice, and have fun with it. If you find practice to start getting old, let yerself goof off a bit to loosen up. I would alsways do one goof off flight for every three practice flights. Keeps it from feeling like "work" sometimes.
Also, you may notice your goof off flights getting better, since the FAI practice actually makes you a better, smoother pilot.


Erich

[DavidH]

http://www.fai.org/

Wow right on the menu bar across the top of the page. Documents Center aka Rules and Regulations.

Click on it then wow http://www.fai.org/documents/sportingcode

Then scroll down to section 4 and right there in big letters is Aeromodeling.

Click on it and it goes to this page:
http://www.fai.org/aeromodelling/documents/sc4

scroll down on that page and F3C is the designation for RC Helicopters.

David

[ShawnK]

BTW, Buddy, are you starting to try out the 07 schedules, or just working on the 06 ones?

I'm not even bothering with the '06 schedule anymore. Since the '07 schedule has forward flight maneuvers in it now, I'm going to concentrate on that. I'm just not sure if I want to focus on Class 1, or take the plunge now and start on Class 2.

[Phaedrus]

FWIW I put together a little better page with links to pdf files of interest. I'll continue to update this as as needed. Just meant to be a simple place to grab the important stuff. It can grow to be whatever it needs to be.

Go Here:

http://scaleaerobatics.org/F3C-INFO.html

[ErichF]

Bill,
That's a nice liitle page there, thanks!


Erich