Well the 2013 ERCS Auc-tion took place last Satur-day. It appeared to go quite well. There were around 302 items sold and approx-imately 89 bidders showed up for the event.

The prize item this year was an electric CL415 Canadair (Bombardier) Water Bomber, followed closely by a large scaled Extra 330L and an aerobat-ics Venus 2.

Membership support for this event was stupendous and on behalf of the mem-bership, I would like to thank everyone who came out to help. The team work was second to none, and without the outstanding help that each of you gave, events like this could fail miserably.

The callers this year came from our own resources and compared to previous years where we had profes-sional auctioneers, did an outstanding job pushing things off the block.

Dependent on the wrap meetings to be held, more detailed information on the event will be presented at the October and November meetings. (Also, more on this event in the Last Flight section of this Newsletter.)

ERCS Auction

Notice of Motion - By-Laws Secretary 2.6 Duties

This motion for change will be voted on at this month’s Meeting. - Changes proposed are in red.

Secretary

It shall be the duty of the Secretary to attend all meetings of the Society and of the Board, and to keep accurate minutes of the same. In case of the absence of the Secretary, his du-ties shall be discharged by such officer as may be appointed by the Board. The Secretary shall have charge of all the correspondence of the Society and be under the direction of the Presi-dent and the Board.

The Secretary will act as the registered officer of the society and ensure the requirements of the Alberta Societies Act are met on an annual basis as follows:

File a change of postal address with the Registrar within 15 days of the change.

Submit to the Registrar annually the address of the registered officer of the society; full name, address and occupation of each officer and director and an audited financial statement prior to May 31. Any subsequent changes must be made to the Registrar within 30 days of the change.

File any changes to the society by-laws with the Registrar within 30 days of the change.

The Secretary, or his designate, shall also keep a record of all the members of the Society and their addresses.”

Special points of interest:

30 Oct, General Meeting

27Nov, General Meeting - Elections

25 Dec - Merry Christmas

1 Jan - 2014 Frozen Finger Fun Fly

29 Jan - First General Meeting of the Year

And Now A word from the Prez… 2

Next Meeting 2

Election Time is Approaching 2

Minutes of a General Meeting 3

Around the Web / Indoor Flying 4

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Volume 21, Issue 7

October, 2013

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President’s Msg

Woke up this morning to a sight I didn’t want to see “snow”, and it was cool out, maybe it will go away and give some of us more flying time I’m hoping. Fall is always the best for weather and flying. In the past few weeks there was still a lot of activity at the field, which was great to see. I even had a few flights on small electric jet that I purchased; I was amazed on how well it flew.

Our road into the field is still under water hopefully it will be rectified soon but for now, as you know the west entrance to the property is usable.

The Auction was held this past weekend with a good amount of items. Along with a good crowd, we had a great group of volunteers who made things run pretty smoothly and we were finished by late

afternoon. I don’t have a tally yet so no comments on that until the reconciliation is done. But thank you to all of you that came out to volunteer, sell and buy.

The meeting coming up on Wed. the top-ic of discussion after the meeting is going to be on winterizing your gear. It is not going to be one person’s opinion on this, but all of you together not everyone does it the same and there might be some bet-ter ideas of what should be done. So think about it and bring your knowledge to the meeting, I know I’d like to hear what you bring to the discussion. See you then

Rick Zaplachinski

like.

Stand up and volunteer. There are 9 posi-tions that need to be filled.

President,

Vice President,

Treasurer,

Secretary

And 5 Directors.

It’s that time of year again where we look for people to stand up and accept respon-sibility and infuse new ideas and frevor into the club.

That’s right!! It’s Election time!!

At the November meeting the new execu-tive for 2014 will be elected. This is a meeting you DON’T want to miss.

This is your chance to bring your vision of what the future of our club will look

So come on out to the November Meeting on the 27th of November.

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Next Meeting

A Word from the Prez…

Election Time - November’s Meeting

T HE ER CS NEWS

Next meeting will be held

Wednesday 30 Oct, 2013

at the Victoria Soccer Club

Meeting to start at 7PM

On the Agenda

Committee Reports

Tech Talk - End Season Model Care

- A Round Table Discussion

KEEP AWAY!!!

THIS ONE’S MINE!!

Les’ CL415 at Clear Lake

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Minutes of ERCS General Meeting

September 25, 2013

Rick Zaplachinski called the meeting to order at 7:08 PM at the Victoria Soccer Club.

Guests or new members Tony Possnett, Garry Sarver and Scott McKinney were introduced.

Minutes of the previous meeting were presented and accepted. Moved by Iain Middleton and seconded by Deryl Kartz.

Committee Reports

1. Field Maintenance: Ron Passmore has received new parts for the Cushman mower. These should keep it running for years to come. Herbicide has been completed. Rig mats have been placed on the flooded access road as a temporary fix – more to come.

2. Noise and Safety: Noise is virtually non-existent.

3. Wings: Don Miller awarded two sets of wings and has presentation wings available for $10:00.

4. Newsletter: Brad Lourie has forwarded the September issue.

5. Pattern: Nothing new to report.

6. Pylon: Nothing new to report.

7. Sport/Combat: The September 15 event had great weather. The Shaw video shot during this event was a great club booster. Ensure comments on the video are sent to Darrell Shivak or Muryl Marler. Next event is October 26.

8. Scale: Nothing new to report.

9. Membership: Al McGillis reported the club has 100 members.

10. Web Site: Todd Tate noted many new updates to the website.

11. Float flying: Clear Lake event had a fabulous weekend with about 27 pilots. Good flying weather.

12. Jets: Next year there are plans to hold a major fun fly event at Tofield. As precaution, pilots must accompanied by a member as the there are full size aircraft and pilots must be radio certified.

Old Business

1. Lafarge Lease: The new lease has been signed with a 5 year option to renew.

2. Field Projects: No major work done this year. Sun shades on hold until next spring. Float fly site needs to be rebuilt as summer rains damaged out retaining walls.

3. Auction: Baturyn Community Hall, 10505 - 172 Avenue on Saturday on October 26th. Need volunteers. Notices have been placed in the newsletter, on the web site and forwarded to neighbouring clubs. Posters will be placed in hobby shops.

New Business

1. By-Laws Change: Dave Thurston is proposing a change to the Secretary duties to better reflect the requirements of the Societies Act. Changes are noted in red on the handout. This is the first reading and changes will be voted on at the October general meeting.

Notice of motion “That the By-Laws item Secretary 2.6 duties be changed to read –

2.6 Secretary

It shall be the duty of the Secretary to attend all meetings of the Society and of the Board, and to keep accu-rate minutes of the same. In case of the absence of the Secretary, his duties shall be discharged by such of-ficer as may be appointed by the Board. The Secretary shall have charge of all the correspondence of the So-ciety and be under the direction of the President and the Board.

The Secretary will act as the registered officer of the society and ensure the requirements of the Alberta Soci-

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Those are all confirmed dates. I will be talking with the heli guys about taking some of there Sundays. I will post the added dates when I get them.

If you have any questions please call me at hobby wholesale.

Thanks,Ian

Hi guys. Most of you have heard that we lost Thursday nights to air cadets. We will be in on the odd Sunday from 6:00 to 10:00.

We are in on the following dates.

Nov 10

Dec 29

Jan 12

Feb 2

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2013 - 2014 Indoor Flying

T HE ER CS NEWS

eties Act are met on an annual basis as follows:

File a change of postal address with the Registrar within 15 days of the change.

Submit to the Registrar annually the address of the registered officer of the society; full name, address and occupation of each officer and director and an audited financial statement prior to May 31. Any subsequent changes must be made to the Registrar within 30 days of the change.

File any changes to the society by-laws with the Registrar within 30 days of the change.

The Secretary, or his designate, shall also keep a record of all the members of the Society and their address-es.”

2. Summer events: A big thank you to the C.D.’s for the organization of outstanding summer events. Congratula-tions to Craig Green for placing first at the Calgary scale event.

3. Gate Lock: Lock the gate lock onto the chain after opening the gate. Lafarge and Inland have reported theft in the area.

Other Business

1. No other business

Tech Talk

1. No tech talk.

It was moved by Jim Herlich that the meeting be adjourned at

8:00PM. Carried.

Another good one

Team Echelon - In My Dreams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5pazsq3Qto

Some interesting links from around the web:

New way to fly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgGsPaCVdjY This is Cool!

This link contains links to the material pages for parts required to build this rig.

http://fpvlab.com/forums/showthread.php?20505-SecretSpy711-s-Rotor-Cam

Biggest RC paper plane EVER built crashes spectacularly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmcJCKvkrq8

Around the Web

Your club executive for 2013

(as elected at the November 2012 General Meeting)

President – Rick Zaplachinski

Vice President – Todd Tate

Secretary – Dave Thurston

Treasurer – Brian Bell

Director – Al Robertson

Director – Bob Wonitoy

Director – Len Boisvert

Director – Rick Wieringa

Director – Ron Passmore

Primary Business Address

Email: rzap@telusplanet.net

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year, and if not for the assistance of the members that came out to help, such might not have been the case. Great Job everyone. We had some very special vol-unteers this year. Family members who came out and pitched in with the rest of us. Special thanks go out to Sheri Wonitoy and Soffie Cosby, who kept the coffee hot and ensured we didn’t run out of nummies in the concession, to Sue Boisvert, who’s data entry skills allowed us to get things up to the block on time (had it been me, we’d still be at the auc-tion today waiting for things to be entered into the database) and to Mike Lourie who gave up his day off to come help move stuff from the block to the storage area. Special mention and thanks go out to Bruce Cutting, Deryl Kartz, and Peter Cary, our auctioneers for the day and to our whip, Bruce Bender who organized the event and ensured everything ran smoothly. A huge thank you to the people that participated as buyers and sellers.

To those who donated items to the club, words cannot portray our appreciation.

As a club, we would like to thank Hobby Wholesale for use of the debit machine which allowed us to offer alternative payment methods to our bidders.

Well, that’s it for now (ELECTIONS NEXT MONTH, think about it!!!!)

See you at the meeting. Till next time, keep those wings level.

Not a huge Newsletter this month, no activity reported by anyone and very little activity in the Forums on the Website..

Anyway, the regular flying season is just about over for those of us that are fair weather pilots. Time to put away the toys is just around the corner. BUT, it’s now time to pull out those projects and start building the new ships that will grace our skies next year.

Help out the Newsletter by posting your build in the ERCS Forum. Tell us what your going to accomplish over the winter period and share your building techniques with us.

It easy to do, just log into the ERCS fo-rum and start a new conversation.

Don’t have a log in?? No Problem!!! Contact our Webmaster, Todd Tate and get yourself set up. He can be contacted directly at one of our monthly meeting, or by clicking the “Email the Webmaster” link on the website.

That being said, this is the Second to Last Newsletter that I will be publishing (my last being the November Issue.) The club is desperately seeking someone to pick up the reins to carry it on. If you are inter-ested please contact me (my contact info is <— in the column to the left) and let me know. I can provide you with the past issues in Publisher Format.

The auction was successful again this

The Last Flight

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On the Web at

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THE ERCS NEWS

Volume 21 Issue 7 - Oct Edition

Publish Date: 29 Oct, 2013

Next Deadline is 13 Nov, 2013

Available on or around the 4th Monday of each month (usually

more around than on)

Like our meetings, there will not

be an issue of the Newsletter in

July, August or December

EDITOR:

Brad Lourie

NEWSLETTER MAIL:

Brad Lourie

16723 - 93rd Street

Edmonton, AB, T5Z 1X8

(780) 909-9001

E-mail: ercsnews@shaw.ca

Membership and Circulation

ERCS MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN:

Mr. Allan McGillis

10938 126th Street

Edmonton, Alberta, T5M 0P3

(780) 454-7548

Email: amcgil@telusplanet.net

This Month’s Pictures provided by: Todd Tate (Auction) and Rick Zap (CL415 and the mishap)

Result of a Mid-Air Mishap - An Iain M and Bill H produc-tion!