club scene

Tell us all about your model flying club and report on your activities. E-mail me with some idea of the sort of facilities you have, size of membership, types of model flown, social activities, reports of special events, site availability, guest arrangements, frequency of meetings, location, or anything else you can think to mention. Pictures will also be most welcome, and if you want to send me pictures by conventional post, my address now appears on home page. If your club has a website, let me know the address and ModelFlight will pay you a virtual visit!

This unique club title would appear to be bi-lingual! If you're speaking Afrikaans, I guess you belong to Irene Radio Vlieëniers, otherwise you belong to Irene Radio Flyers. Either way, its the club that ModelFlight contributor Leon Janeke belongs to, so I thought I'd drop in on them!

The club is located near Pretoria, South Africa, and has good flying facilities. The picture on the right shows the airfield with the rather smart peg-on pegboard in the foreground. Work has now been completed in up-grading the runways to a tar surface which must be a great improvement on the dusty-looking compacted brown earth visible here.

Irene Model Flyers has an extensive web site with the home page in both Afrikaans and English (right). It took me a moment to be sure I was at the right site, as it's only the club logo that identifies the site - I was looking for some main title!

Other pages on the site are a mixture of the two languages, whilst some are entirely in one or the other.

As well as the usual pages giving club news, club rules and events, there are such 'extras' as a very good flying manual and an 'archive' page that carries some great pictures and a series of really practical 'How To' articles. There are archived pictures of members' models, and a set of very appealing 3D images that can be used as backgrounds for your PC - the Zero pictured here is one example. There is also a chat forum, a dealers' page and - like the club site featured on the last issue - a 'humour' page - see hotchpotch for a specimen! I also found the club's solo test rather interesting - a bit more demanding than the UK BMFA test, since it includes an inside loop!

You will find the club web site at http://clik.to/irv

and more pictures from the club on photo gallery