THE BEACON

Return Address: Nathaniel Guerrero 6433 Reflection Drive #102 San Diego, CA 92124

FEBRUARY 2014

February 2014

The next MRCF Meeting will be on TUESDAY, 11 February 2014 Location: American Legion Hall 7815 Armour St.

Corner of Armour and Convoy St. General Meeting at 7:00 PM

American Legion Hall at 7815 Armour Street.

Hwy 163 TO BALBOA AVENUE, WEST TO CONVOY STREET, LEFT ON CONVOY TO ARMOUR ST., TURN LEFT ONTO ARMOUR AND RIGHT INTO AMERICAN LEGION.

ADDITIONAL PARKING IS ACROSS THE STREET AT CARQUEST.

CLUB OFFICERS President: Fred Miller

(619) 562-9826

Vice President: Curtis Kitteringham

(760) 746-5913

Secretary: Mark Lukens

(858) 945-8525

Treasurer: George Sager

(858) 748-0868

Field Marshal: Tom Pham

(858) 761-3959

Helicopter Chairman: Darren Hauptman

(619) 948-1948

Safety Coordinator: Brian Werner

(760) 473-7004

Membership Chairman: Brian Werner

(760) 473-7004

membership@miramarrcflyers.com

Newsletter Editor: Nathaniel Guerrero (858) 240-2215 Email: nguerrero@san.rr.com

Club Webmaster: Darren Hauptman

Darren@miramarrcflyers.com www.miramarrcflyers.com

CLUB FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS Any club member who wishes to have some assistance should call one of our designated instructors. There is no duty instructor at the field, so you must prearrange a time with someone on this list.

Name Number Richard Barndt (858) 213-5740 Frank Gagliardi (858) 271-4430

Curtis Kitteringham (760) 746-5913 Mark Lukens (858) 945-8525

Jerry Neuberger (619) 258-4477 Tom Mulder (619) 804-8596 Tom Pham (858) 761-3959 Ron Stark (858) 530-0586

Talmadge Sanders (858) 382-2003 Darren Hauptman (619) 948-1948

2014 is here! Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching. Don’t forget to remember you’re loved one!

Message from the Board

The President’s Message Greetings, Facilities Update We have added one new set-up table and two new start-up tables thanks to the generous provision of materials, tools and effort by Tom Pham and Mark Lukens. The tables were fabricated and partially assembled in their respective garages, and then transported to the field Sunday, January 26. On-site volunteer help with assembly and painting was provided by Don Drew, Darren Hauptman, Nick Palanza, Dave Uren and Leroy Brooks. Tom is organizing a follow up work party to replace the deteriorated tops on two additional set up tables. The start tables will also be refinished in early February. Thank you all for your generous donation of materials, time and effort. Environmentally Sensitive Resources Our field is located in close proximity to a Level I designated Environmentally Sensitive area, which requires that we be cognizant of the rules and regulations that govern activities that could negatively impact sensitive resource areas. The following link provides the MCAS Miramar strategy for conservation and management of sensitive resources: http://www.miramar-ems.marines.mil/Portals/60/Docs/MEMS/Nat_Res/INRMP%20Ch%205%20Management%20Areas.pdf

Membership Participation and Voice Broad based participation in club activities by the membership is a critical factor in ensuring our successful accomplishment of the club mission statement. Bylaws are the tools and the board of directors the mechanism by which the membership promote their common weal. There are communications technologies readily available to the club that will promote broader participation by the general membership in matters that are best served by having a larger audience than might be in attendance at regular meetings (this will also serve to preserve military member oversight and guidance.) To that end, the board will be testing web based survey tools that could support MRCF requirements.

If the membership response is positive, the board will formulate a proposal to move away from meeting based voting for club officer elections and by-laws changes, to the broader membership based e-voting process. Club operations and administrative motions would continue to be voted on at regular member meetings. Fred

Vice President’s Message

I hope this month’s newsletter finds everyone in good health and ready to enjoy a new year of modeling. Our event schedule is about the same as years past. With one addition the IMAC group will be back in August, as always for each event we will need the membership to step up and help. Areas of help are the gate will need to be maned during event hours, flight line marshals, for the IMAC and Pattern events score keepers and runners. This is just some of the help needed at the club, the open cockpit days at the base air museum will need your help with displaying of your model for five hours. This is an easy thing to do plus you get to walk around and enjoy the displays. So get that model completed so you can have as much enjoyment as possible at the club/hobby this year. For event help come see me at the club meetings or at the field to get an idea of how you can help this year. For this year we should get more involved with the base, something we did in the past was to do a display at the base education buildings, took model magazines to the transit terminal, library, we should look into what we can do for other base services also. As you can see the club has several areas that the membership can step up to lend a hand with. As always I Thank You for all your help. Curtis Kitteringham 14 January 2014 Miramar Radio Control Flyers

Minutes of the Meeting Held at the

American Legion

MAKE SURE PMO AND THE TOWER ARE CALLED FROM THE CLUBS PHONE TO CLOSE AND OPEN THE FIELD AND THAT THE BOOK IS FILLED OUT

DO NOT FLY UNLESS THE BASE IS REACHED

Meeting Called to Order (Fred Miller): Meeting opened with Pledge of Allegiance at 7:00 PM Fred announced that the board had selected Mark Lukens as the replacement club secretary for 2014. Secretary Report (Mark Lukens): No November or December meeting minutes available for review.

Treasurer’s report (George Sager): The Treasurer’s report was read to the Board and Membership present. The motion was made to accept and was seconded. The report was accepted as presented. George reminded all members to register guests into the guest book and collect the guest flying fee. 2014 Upcoming Events: 3/22 pylon racing @ 10:00AM (Frank Gagliardi) 4/26-7 Hemet Model Masters Early Bird Open Pine Float Fly 5/17 Member Appreciation Fun Fly (Mark Lukens and Jerry Neuberger to coordinate) 5/31 Leatherneck Museum (Curtis Kitteringham) 6/7 Pylon Race @ 10:00AM (Frank Gagliardi) 6/14 4th Annual Cub Fly-in (Mark Lukens) 7/12-13 Rotors over Miramar (Brad Kuller) Safety (Brian Werner): According to Tim Attaway (AMA District X VP) the AMA safety code doesn’t require a fire extinguisher for operators of gasoline fueled aircraft. Agreement was that the MRCF field rules should be amended to include that requirement. Field Marshall (Tom Pham): Need to repair two tabletops, add one assembly table, build new starting table. Tom will organize work party to get upgrades done. There may be some materials in the conex box. $200 approved previously for budget to repair tables. Contact Tom to participate in the work party. Also, let Tom know if you have materials to donate for table maintenance. Old Business: Jerry Neuberger: Jerry and Fred will work with MCAS OPS to secure a second conex box for the field. Mark Lukens to update the economics of a wheelchair accessible toilet at the field; research and update the rent vs own payback analysis. Fred will inquire as to whether or not we need to provide an accessible toilet. Adjourn for break at 7:30 New Business: Jerry Neuberger: Motion offered to move $5000 from general fund to the runway fund. No discussion. Passed with one no vote. Don Rice: Discussion on extending the shade structure between two sections: The two structures are not joined to allow access for big hardware. Also the structures do not align. Don thinks we need more assembly tables. Frank Gagliardi: Frank is working on creating better signage to direct visitors to our field. He mentioned that the signs can be made by the MCAS base public works or ourselves. Fred will work with Frank to develop appropriate signage.

Brad Kuller: MCRD is doing a car show this year on June 22 by Bay View Restaurant. Suggestion is to put up a MRCF tent to recruit new members. Fred is to coordinate military member recruiting effort for club. Tom Pham: New gate combination is going to take effect on Saturday 1/18/2014. If you don’t have the combination, please contact a board member to obtain it. Frank Gagliardi: 5/22-25 IMAA meet at Castle airport. Open to large (>80”) planes. Pilots must belong to IMAA and AMA membership required to participate. IMAA Members get quarterly magazine. IMAA chapter formed in San Diego. Contact Frank Gagliardi if you are interested. Frank Gagliardi: Number of scale ship models are for sale. Contact Frank if you are interested in them. New Member participation sheet needs to be distributed to civilian members. Website: Working on how get the content up to date and maintained on a regular basis. We will split the bulletin board function from the core content display to make sure that it is stable and easily managed. Show and Tell: Don Rice showed us how he built his cowl flaps on his giant scale Corsair. He used steel powder with epoxy to add weight to the cowl. Ron Peterka: Showing how he built scale elevator on 12’ B-24 and why they were built that way. Motion to adjourn, seconded, and passed at 8:15PM

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