BATON ROUGE RADIO CONTROL CLUB FIELD GROUND RULES
     January 7, 2003
 

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.