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Northern Helicopter Modellers Club rules
Peter’s Covering Letter
To whom it
may concern.
My name is
Peter Buckland and I am a member of the “Northern Helicopter Modellers Club”
Based on my
vast experience administering “Clubs” the NHMC Committee invited me to produce
a draft set of rules for the NHMC.
From my
point of view I felt that I needed to write a set of rules that was as fair as
possible to all members enabling them to pursue their chosen discipline without
detriment to other members what ever their chosen
discipline or level of competence.
The rules
also had to stand the test of time that is the need for a new set of rules
should not occur for hopefully at least another ten years. The rules should
also be able to be amended by Committee. The amendment may come about because
of an overall “club” need or at the input from the membership.
It may seem
at this time that there is no need for a such
comprehensive set of rules but in my experience it is most advisable. It will
prevent the need for another set of rules having to be written to cover any
situation that may arise in the future. (Much easier to write
an amendment that a whole new set of rules).
It will
also prevent knee jerk reactions to any given situation due to a base set of
rules of reference governing the Club.
As a
starting reference I took into consideration the rules of two local Aero
Modeling Clubs then modified those rules to suit Helicopter Flying.
I also took
into account the rules governing “Alpine Sports Club and the Marque Sports Car
Club of Australia. I served as President and Chairman of both of these Clubs,
ASC at that time grew to Eight Hundred members and MSCA had well in excess of
two thousand members made up of all the individual Marque Sport car Clubs in
Australia. The interesting thing to me is that even although the rules were
written towards the end of the 70’s and seemed over the top on the day, they
are still in force to this very day albeit with many amendments which suit the
modern day requirements of its members.
It is my
opinion that these rules are now badly needed as the club membership has risen
from 8 when the last set of rules were written, today requiring an increased
stewardship by Committee in order to meet its goals in providing members with
their specific needs where possible.
First of
all I considered what was required.
Any Club or
groups of like minded people need to have a purpose
for their association. In this case I felt that the aim of NHMC was to promote
the sport of Radio controlled model Helicopters.
How was
this to be achieved?
First of
all there needed to be a Committee elected by the members to manage the
activities of the NHMC, very generally by providing its members with the
facilities to pursue their choice of discipline pertaining to the “Sport of
radio controlled model Helicopters.
Of course,
in order to provide these services to its members there has to be a set of
rules and just as in the society in which we live in, the higher the number of
members in any group of people the more specific the rules have to be in order
to provide for all members.
It seemed
to me that the main consideration here was “Safety” and I have hopefully
covered all aspects so as to protect all members in any given situation.
Because we
use radio sets on varying frequencies there needed to be a section covering
this, there also needed to be section covering all aspects of flying including
the lay out of the flying field and specific areas
for use by members practicing their particular discipline.
Provided in
the rules are a section for “General Rules” and an “Enforcement section which
covers the consequences to any member who willfully disregards the Club Rules.
I would
also like to point out that it is very difficult to retain a flying site these
days and all but impossible to find a new site should we lose our current site.
I have
provided Committee with what I see in my experience a “middle of the road” set
of rules in draft form for their consideration.
After due consideration they have asked me to amend or clarify some of
the rules, this I have done and believe that they are neither too harsh nor too
lenient and should satisfy the majority of members.
I welcome
any comment from members.
Yours
Faithfully,
Peter
Buckland.