Monthly Fun Fly

On the 1st Sunday of the month, Croydon Airport Model Flying Club runs a Fun Fly event at the Fickleshole Flying Site. These monthly competitions are fantastic fun for members who get to fly outside of their comfort zone.

Scoring

If you come 1st place in your completion you’ll score 10 points, 2nd 9 points, 3rd 8 points etc. Your best 8 scores out of the 10 competitions are added up throughout the year and the person who has the highest score overall is awarded a prize at our AGM in January. This means you can have a couple of months off and still be in with a chance of winning.

2022 monthly competitions and how they work:

Info coming soon!

Aim: Complete a series of manoeuvres in the shortest possible time.

How: Time starts on the first touch with each pilot completing: three touch and goes, three rolls and three loops. The clock stops after a final touch and the pilot with the fastest time wins.

Results: 

Pilot	Time
James	31.06s (1st)
Trev	42.06s (2nd)
Ian	47.93s (3rd)
Emay	55.12s (4th)
Shane	72.25s (5th)
John	D.N.F (6th)

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Aim: Fy under the tape as many times as possible in 2 minutes.

How: A 2 metre high line of old video tape is strung up across the runway, facing into wind. Contestants are given two minutes to fly under the tape as many times as possible or until the tape is broken.

Results: 

Pilot	Number of passes
James	20 (1st)
Trev	11 (2nd)
Pete	11 (2nd)
Shane	10 (3rd)
Emay	9 (4th)
John	5 (5th)

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Aim: Score as many points as possible by dropping a Cadbury Creme Egg onto a target!

How: Score points by hitting a target painted in the middle of the runway which has 100, 50, 20, 10 point scores on it. Each flyer has multiple attempts (usually three), to drop your egg as close to the middle as possible. Points scored for where your Egg ends up (not where it first lands).

Results:

Pilot	Best Attempt (out of three)
Pete	2.43m (1st)
Emay	4.15m (2nd)
James	5.15m (3rd)
Trevor	7.8m (4th)
Shane	8.25m (5th)
John	9.5m (6th)
Ian	17.8m (7th)

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Aim: Land on a carrier deck without going off the edge.

How: A Carrier Deck will be spray-painted on the runway with numbered areas 20, 40, 60, 80, 100. Each flyer has three attempts to fly a circuit then land on the deck from any direction. You must touch down and stop on deck.

Results:

Pilot	Attempt 1	Attempt 2	Attempt 3	Total
James	80	80	80	240 points (1st)
Trevor	60	60	80	200 points (2nd)
Ian	40	60	80	180 points (3rd)
Emay	0	60	80	140 points (4th)
Pete	60	0	60	120 points (5th)
Shane	0	60	0	60 points (6th)
John	0	0	0	0 points (7th)

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