Mad Dogs 6, Spring 2014

[Flyboysee]

Okay, so it's confirmed then, 26th of April - Normal Mad Dogs Meet (Unplugged!)

Those confirmed are;

1. Flyboysee
2. Currykitten
3. Krikey
4. Marcin_GUmer
5. DaveyLC - PAID: 1 X A+ Wors, 2 X Castle
6. rob.thomson
7. Brucey
8. CharlieWalker
9. Western
10. Ratty
11. iPeel - PAID: 1 X A+ Wors, I x 6 pack
12. Gav
13. Hase2
14. Dogzilla

That's a full house I reckon.

MAD DOGS NOW CLOSED - UNLESS YOU SERIOUSLY BEG OR I'VE FORGOTTEN YOU :)

***£10 PER FLYER AS USUAL - MONEY GOES TO VILLAGE PURSE.***

Lunch? There is a good barbie there - anyone wanting some good old South African meat packs and Castle Lager please let me know and I'll be glad to collect from SA Store, Slough - AWESOME STUFF, but you must cook it yourself, as I'll be flying.

500g boerewors available in...

1. A+ Original - £3.99
2. Cheese - 3.99
3. Peri Peri - 3.99
4. Garlic - 3.99

Castle Lager Beer (Excellent cold with a braai)

1. 1 X 330ml bottle - £2.50
2. 6 pack 330ml bottles - £11.99

Visit www.southafricanshop.co.uk

Please bring rolls and salads.

The club house will be open with chairs, tables, fridge, coffee and tea and toilets.

When you pre-pay (anytime between now and 20th April), please PM me your food and beer order and pay the correct amount into Paypal [email protected]

Happy days, can't wait!

Richard

[krikey]

yay for Mad Dogs!!!!!!

[DaveyLC]

Mmmmmmmm char grilled animal products  !! I'll PayPal my order tomorrow buddy :D

[iPeel]

Flying, beer and barbecued food I can't pronounce, awesome!

[Brucey]

Davey, can you bring some laminate so I can buy it off you please.
Oh and whoop for mad dogs!

[Flyboysee]

Flying, beer and barbecued food I can't pronounce, awesome!

Boerewors;

Boo-rah-vors - you gotta roll those r's...

[rob.thomson]

Lunch? There is a good barbie there

No no no no no.

We dont want any Silly pink dolls at this function.  Especially if their is South African boerewors in the mix.

What we want is a BRAAI!!

Don't see the difference?

Then spend five minutes watching this video and all will become clear.

South African Braai Etiquette

[DaveyLC]

"Bringing in his crazy ideas from the out side"

:laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:

[DaveyLC]

Davey, can you bring some laminate so I can buy it off you please.
Oh and whoop for mad dogs!

Remind me the day before please buddy and I'll roll you some up :)

[dogzilla]

 I vaguely remember sending some money for this one a long time back. Gonna check my paypal :) It might have been during one of my regular FPV dreams.

[DaveyLC]

I cant remember if I already sent some either.. but I've sent more lol

[Flyboysee]

Davey / Dogz - I've not taken any payments for this MD at all yet - unless you've sneaked some in and I never noticed. If so, please PM me. Dogz, I've added you to the list, albeit a bit late, sorry. 14 - that's a BIG number for a little meet :)

[dogzilla]

So I checked my paypal, I was definitely dreaming, last time I sent you money was October for MD5. Cheers for adding me. Alot of people but I don't mind waiting till the evening for some night flying when everyone else has chickened out :) Will be aiming to beat my last long distance night run at MD5...

[DaveyLC]

SAUSAGES!!

[CurryKitten]

So I checked my paypal, I was definitely dreaming, last time I sent you money was October for MD5. Cheers for adding me. Alot of people but I don't mind waiting till the evening for some night flying when everyone else has chickened out :) Will be aiming to beat my last long distance night run at MD5...

Can I book a place on your video distribution board - I really enjoyed tagging along on that last one you did - despite the quite annoying interference you got almost all the way back.

It's also a good time to talk about the "Flight board", and ask for any feedback.  With previous meets, generally most people get do do a reasonable number of flights, but on occasion a few people got "locked out" waiting for a fly when someone else would nip in a fly.  I should point out it's never an on purpose thing - most often it's difficult to check amongst 10+ other people all sat around talking or fiddling about what they are doing.  So we cam up with the idea of a flight board.  Here's how it works.

We have a whiteboard it will have numbers 1 - 14 on it, your name goes against a number, an arrow will point to the person who's turn it currently is to fly, a bit like this -

1. Flyboysee
2. Currykitten                 <---
3. Krikey
4. Marcin_GUmer
5. DaveyLC

Look, it's my turn :)  When I land it's krikeys turn.  Now we haven't really set a time limit on flights, as generally people fly for around 20-30 minutes (in reality it's often more like 10-15 minutes) which seems quite reasonable, so the general rule of thumb is be ready to go and try and setup, launch and land within 30 minutes.  If you are intending to go off on an epic 2 hour journey then arrange things up front.

Ok, so what about flying awesome chases and things I hear you ask.  So if it's your slot, then you can invite 1 or maybe 2 of your buddies to go with you.  But here's the thing, to make it as fair as possible nobody can fly in 2 consecutive slots - again, make sure you are all ready to go at the beginning of your slot.

So in my slot, I could ask DaveyLC to fly with me, but I couldn't ask Krikey, as he's up next, and similarly krikey couldn't ask me in his slot as I've just flown.  So if you do have people you'd like to fly with together a few times (Ratty and Dave spring to mind) then space yourselves out down the list so you are able to do so in each others flights.

At this point I feel like I'm writing the terms and conditions to some dodgy investment... remember people investments can go down as well as up.  Some common sense stuff, you slot is coming up and you aren't ready (you've smashed your plane into a bench/field/my tripod etc and you are fixing it) just ask if someone wants to switch places, or skip your go (you'll come around again).  But if you want to switch, let someone know with more than a minute or two to go, so they can be ready.

Obvious stuff, but incidents do happen - please don't switch on radios and/or VTX's until it's your slot, else risk someone screaming about only being able to see someones foot.

This isn't intended to be a list of restrictions - just a way of making sure everyone has a fair opportunity to fly.  Most of the time it's absolutely fine, so I hope this doesn't spoil anyones vibe.  As it's a test idea, it's subject to change, and is intended to be flexible.

If everyone is on for the race (I hope so :)) we'll reserve a time for running that using the new slightly longer course so noone is confused about where the turn back into the field is.

Rich - feel free to chime in, this is all as discussed, but there's a fair chance you were drunk when we last talked about it.