New Indoor Flying Pictures for 2024-2025! Look Above for past years pictures!
Indoor flying times 2024 - 2025
Any date or time can change so be sure to check regularly
Last updated: 12/14/24
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| December | 22, 2024 | Skyview | 10:00 to 3:00 |
| January | 5, 2025 | Skyview | 10:00 to 3:00 |
| January | 19, 2025 |
Skyview |
10:00 to 3:00 |
| February | 2, 2025 |
Skyview |
10:00 to 3:00 |
| February | 16, 2025 |
Skyview |
10:00 to 3:00 |
| March | 2, 2025 |
Skyview |
10:00 to 3:00 |
| March | 9, 2025 | Skyview | 10:00 to 3:00 |
More fly times may be found, be sure to check here later
Many thanks to the management and staff of Skyview for letting us have access to the gym!
We have a few basic RULES:
Remember that the rubber band planes have the right of way.
1. No street shoes on the gym floor.
2. The main floor is restricted to 1 oz (around 28
-29g) or a Wing loading of 2 oz per sq ft or less for RC.This means that the Mustangs, Champs, Mosquitos, T-28 , Sukhoi, etc. will need to go upstairs to the east gym.
Rubber is not restricted by weight at this time, but please try to stay within the main floor rules.
Rubber exceptions should contact Tom before flying
The (west gym) is available for (Pico, Nano, and Micro helicopters only)
The specifications for these are:
Micro-helicopters: 130mm main rotor or under
Micro-quads: diagonally from motor shaft to motor shaft is less than 140 mm.
Good examples are: (1SQ or 1si by helli-max, Dart or protox by Estes, EthosPQ by Ares, Kodo by Dromida , Nano or Pico QX by Blade)
The (east gym) is for planes that are too heavy for the main gym.
3. Limit your RC flights to 3 to 4 minutes per flight, promoting shorter flights allows more people to fly.
Thanks to Li-poly batteries we can fly up to 15 minutes
with some of the new planes like the Parkzone Vapor or Cessna and
others.
This can be a problem for some rubber band flyers who tend to wait
for an open sky before launching.
This Rule
promotes lots of shorter flights, and makes sure everyone has a great flying
time.
4. RC pilots are to use all skill and prior planning to ensure that they do not fly over the pit area.
The planes need to be far enough out in front to make sure no unforeseen incident can imperil the planes or bodies of others.
5. Pilots are responsible for their own frequency control. Check with all other RC owners so no one crashes
someone else’s plane inadvertently.
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6.
Tom will survey the group
each time and see if there are any ultra lightweight flyers present,
if there are he will shutdown normal flying on the lower gym at 2:30 pm and
start lightweight flying.
This is for planes 1.2 grams or less that fly very slow, endurance style
planes shooting for 5 minutes plus per flight.
Good model examples are: A6, Embryo Endurance, F1D, F1L, EZB, F1M, Legal Eagle,
Limited Penny Plane, and Mini-stick. If there are a lot of happy slow flyers
Tom will extend the time to 3:30 pm if he can
The rules are not to restrict our fun
but to keep a place for us to fly.
We must ALL take the responsibility to keep our environment safe.
Tom
There have been a lot of suggestions about rules that others have used
across the nation and world.
Quite honestly, we have one of the best places to fly of all.
Some places have an hour on and an hour off. In every case, this is because
they have only one gym. We have three.
We are one of the last that has indoor free flight rubber.
It has died in other places because the bigger and heavier planes have
driven them away.
If we continue to think of others before we fly, I think that we will be ok.
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New Flying Challenge for the 2024 - 2025 season
Start thinking and building now so you will be ready! :-)
Updated to 2-gram min to match Easy Wing 2
Rubber Powered flying wing with no fuselage other than a motor stick that can be forward or aft of the wing. 18" max tip to tip, 12" max motor stick, and 2-gram min without motor.
Longest flight time wins.
Example Plane:
Look for ideas in are: Past Challenges
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Discontinued model planes that are
ok
for the main floor.
Any questions or concerns contact Tom or Bryan.
Help! We
are looking for new indoor flying sites.
If you know of a location or some one
that can help click here and let Tom know.
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Attention
These schools have been nice enough to allow us access to their Gyms for the purpose of enjoying our hobby. We also have access to the restrooms. That is the extent of our access, therefore please keep yourself and any children or other guests in these areas. The rest of the school grounds including classrooms are off limits. If we or our guests violate this rule we may not be allowed access to these schools in the future. We appreciate everyone's cooperation in this.
Remember: No street shoes on the gym floor.
Wear only rubber bottom shoes that have not been worn outside and/or bring slippers - if you forget to bring them, you can always run around in your socks.
Back parking lot off of E. Blakeslee Dr.
Enter through the doors marked by the arrow above,
make a left and go through doors into the gym.
Look for signs
1303 E. Greenhurst,
Nampa, Id 83686
The directions for how to get to Skyview: Coming on freeway from Boise take the Garrity exit, turn left go to the first light turn left, this is Happy Valley Rd. stay on Happy Valley Rd. to Greenhurst, turn right on Greenhurst Rd. stay on Greenhurst to Skyview high school. Go to the back of the school (turn left on South Powerline right on Blakeslee Dr. and right into the back entrance to the school).
Thanks to: Tom Cole
Skyview Parking off of E Blakeslee Dr, use the door pointed to above.
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