1. All Fliers must be AMA members and BRRCC members, or invited guests.
2. Host members must be present when guests are flying.
3. All Fliers must have their current AMA card displayed, on their person, when flying.
4. All provisions of the current AMA National
Model Aircraft Safety Code and these Field
Ground Rules will be
strictly enforced.
5. Spectators must stay behind the fence; and, children must be supervised by a parent.
6 A frequency control system is in
effect at all times. It is the Fliers’ responsibility to be
familiar with and abide
by the frequency control system; and, to replace the frequency
control clip, after
each use, for other Fliers that are waiting.
7. Vehicle parking is permitted in designated areas only.
8. Training of student Fliers will be the
responsibility of the member who sponsored the
student for Club membership.
Alternately, students may be trained by a Club
Introductory Pilot.
9. Any member who causes damage to another
person’s aircraft or equipment, through
failure to comply with the
established frequency control system, or the Field Ground
Rules, will make appropriate
restitution in accordance with the BRRCC Bylaws.
10. All takeoffs, ROG or hand launched,
and landings must be made on the runways.
All flying must
be done on the East side of the North-South runway, and on the South
side of the East-West
runway. Deliberate flying over the pit and parking areas is prohibited.
11. Helicopters shall obey the same area
and flight safety restrictions as fixed-wing aircraft,
with the
following additional restrictions when fixed wing aircraft are flying,
and/or when
anyone is
East of the pit area:
(a) No hover taxiing. The helicopter shall
be carried from the pits to the runway or the
designated hover
area, and back to the pits after landing.
(b) No sustained hovering over the North-South
runway, or near the pilot stations. All
sustained, low-level
hovering will be accomplished in the hover area, South of the
pits. High-level,
sustained hovering will be accomplished away from the flight path
of fixed
wing aircraft; i.e. ‘the pattern’.
(c) No sustained aerobatics over the runway.
The helicopter shall ‘follow the pattern’ in
the same manner
as fixed wing aircraft.
12. Start engines on the runway side of the fence only.
13. Always be courteous; and, direct your
propwash away from other fliers and their
equipment.
14. Housekeeping is everyone’s responsibility. Take your trash with you, when you leave.
15. The field is closed to flying while
grass mowing is in progress, East of the vehicle parking
line, or
on the East-West runway.
16. Members or guests who repeatedly
violate any of these rules, after being informed of
such, will be
subject to disciplinary action by the Field Operations Committee.