Black Knight's Flamer 06 Weekend 15th-16th July 2006

Following on from the great success of the BK Flamer 04 and Flamer 05, we are pleased to announce that the next BK Flamer event is over the weekend of 15th-16th July 2006 at our Milson flying site.

It would help the Flamer organisers to know how many people hope to attend in advance of the event. If you are attending please drop the club an email letting them know numbers of flyers, total number in party, number of tents/caravan pitches. This helps us to gauge how many loos to book - Thanks

The Event Team (Blackknights Committee) will be on hand to answer questions or provide assistance throughout the weekend

The weekend offers:

• Rockets from A-class to K-class
• Evening (Dusk) Flights
• L1 Certification flights (UKRA Payment fee required for passes)
• L2 Certification flights (UKRA Payment fee required for passes)
• Level 2 certification exam sessions
• On-site Food Vendors
• Odd-roc Competitions
• Soft Toy Competitions
• On-site Rocket Vendors
• On-site Toilets with washing facilities

You don't have to be a Black Knights member to come and fly, you just need to be a BMFA/UKRA member so every flight will be covered by insurance.
If you are completley new to the hobby, still come along and fly under our club insurance which allows you to fly for 2 flying sessions. Bring your starter set or even buy a starter set from the on-site vendors. There are many people here ready to help you and offer guidence.

** Due to the heightened state of security in the country would all flyers attending the Flamer please ensure that they bring their paperwork with them (Ex Cert, store cert, RCA and UKRA/BMFA insurance cert).
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Please Note:
This is a "K Class" site, with ceiling heights of....

6,000ft ceiling for single recovery
12,000ft ceiling for dual recovery

Launches to altitudes between 12,000ft and 25,000ft must be by prior arrangement only. We regret that vehicles that are likely to breach 12,000ft ceiling, which have not been arranged before the launch meeting will not be allowed to fly.

Because this is an active airstrip, you must comply with Milson traffic control and the RSO's. Currently no air traffic allowed to use the airstrip on Sundays between 2pm and 5pm, all other times by request. If fact last year there was just 1 aircraft taking off/landing. So we do have plenty of slots.

Recovering Rockets: When recovering rockets please follow the countryside code

Costs

On Arrival
Parking in designated areas only.
If camping, setup in tent city.
Flyer registration on arrival please, registration will provide you with a Black Knights Flamer 06 badge which must be presented when seeking RSO flight permission.
All visitors to obey signage and not pass the spectator line
All visitors, flyers and event organsiers to obey RSO/LCO announcements.
No tents, gazeboos, launch gear, tools etc to be placed on the runway.
This is a working airstrip, so be aware of air traffic. Announcements will be made when needed.

There are designated fire points, fire assembly points and a fire marshall.
The first aid station will be at Flyer Registration tent.

Event Timetable (Proposed)
Friday PM
Range Setup
Tent City Setup
Vendor Corral Setup
Food Vendor Arrives

Saturday
Flyers Briefing
Ranges Opens 10:30 - 12:30
Range Closes for lunch 12:30 - 12:15
Range Opens 13:15 - 15:15
Range Closes 15:15 - 15:45 for RSO Swap Over and Break
Range Opens 15:45 - 18:00
Range Closes 18:00 - 20:30 for Evening Meals
Range Opens 20:30 for Dusk Flights

Sunday
Flyers Briefing
Ranges Opens 10:30 - 13:00
Range Closes for lunch 13:00 - 13:45
Range Opens 13:45 - 16:00
Range Closes 16:00 - 16:30 for Raffle
Range Teardown 16:30 (Absolutely NO flying after this time!) and go home.

Toilets

We will have 4 Pota-loos on site, plus the visitors toilet at the airstrip.

Rocket Vendors

Apo11o
Congreve
Rockets and Things

This is because they have agreed to our Vendor Code in writing back in January. No exceptions to this ruling as you will not be allowed on site!!

Food Vendors

Karl (Same as last year) will be on site providing food and drinks.

Rules For Od-Roc Competition.

Entry fee £1
Adult Prize 50% of Od-Roc Competition Takings.
Under 16 will be a Trophy.

The Od-Roc competition has two categories.
1) A rocket, but of "unusual Sci-Fi" design.
2) A "not-normally-expected-to-fly" object.

The entries will be subject to the normal UKRA RSO inspection and "RSO's word is final" regarding flight readiness. This is for insurance purposes.

Motors: anything legal ie. Restricted to S&T listed/stipulated.

Each entry will be judged by a "panel" of 3 non-flyers and/or non-entrants.

Each entrant will be asked to make a brief statement about what the rocket "will" do.

Marks to be awarded for:

Interest or "WOW" factor Maximum 5 points.
May be:
Unusualness of the design Maximum 5 points.
The quality/level of finish/detail Maximum 5 points.
What the rocket does (that it is intended to do) Maximum 10 points.

The flight stability. Maximum 5 points.

Successful, undamaged recovery. Maximum 5 points.

In the event of a points tie the winner will be the one to land closest to the launch point.

Rules For Soft Toy Competition.

Entry fee £1
Adult Prize 50% of Soft Toy Competition Takings.
Under 16 will be a Trophy.

The Soft Toy competition is designed around launching a soft toy (i.e. a small beanie soft toy) as a payload and have the toy ejected at apogee and descend by a minimum 12in. parachute or 24in. long streamer. The object of the competition is to land the soft toy nearest a designated marker (An off shoot of the spot lander competition).

The entries will be subject to the normal UKRA RSO inspection and "RSO's word is final" regarding flight readiness. This is for insurance purposes.

Motors: anything legal ie. Restricted to S&T listed/stipulated.

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