One key is selecting events that do not require excessive manpower to administer.

One type of fun fly event that has become a very popular regular for our club are 'wingless trainer races'. Just two cones spaced 150 apart down the runway and four wingless trainers lined up at the startline at a time, flag goes down and the first to comple ten laps wins.

Simple and hugely successful here, has the advantage that even pilots that may have not soloed yet can participate and frankly they usually end up the winners and most of us old hot dogs end up on our backs with gear in the air just like pac man.

A great deal of laughter goes on at our events and rules should state that any airplane that can taxi without a wing is elgible but must be flyable with the simple addition of a wing and cannot have more than three wheels.

These events for us have had member you never see coming out of the woodwork.

John