Hello all,
RCU FORUM POSTERS, I NEED YOUR HELP!

Let me lay it out. At a club board meeting tonight I brought up the fact that our club, as large as it is, does not have any “Scale” meets. Everyone agreed with my opinion that our club needs to be rounded out with a good scale event.
I have been tasked with organizing & running this event. I am happy to accept this challenge. However, I have never directed any event, much less a scale event. PLEASE, anybody that has any experience with promoting or running scale events, I need your advice. We have a very nice new facility with 650’ of runway, as is. For future reference, I’ll be adding runway to our site this winter when I’m not so tied up with business. I can see how we could easily achieve 800’ of runway. I mention this because I want this to be an annual event, getting better over time.

What I need

Date: we have September thru October open for events. What other scale events are going on around this time, what is the best date during this time frame?

Promotion:
What brings the premier scale fliers out to the field?

Sponsorship:
What companies would like to get involved with a scale event?

Here is my plan – A scale event, fly in all rolled together. Any scale plane allowed even standoff scale. I think the “reasonable” rule applies here. Also during this event I would like to have a certain time dedicated to true & accurate scale, an actual contest.

I personally feel a strong desire to promote the scale aspect of our hobby. I think that with ARF’ 3D’s, etc.. there has been somewhat of a “loss” of modeling. I greatly enjoy a lot of the aspects of this hobby, and I want to expose as many people as possible to the scale modeling facet of the hobby, with the hopes of sparking interest.

feel free to contact me directly.
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