2022 proved to be an extremely challenging year for the club with very little flying of Radio Controlled models at it’s Crossgates site. We are hoping for better luck in 2023.

Also we have not yet succeeded in finding a replacement for our Control Line site at Inverkeithing. That field was lost to a Dog Exercising Company which was extremely disappointing after 20 years of happy flying on the site and hundreds of hours of members work developing and maintaining it. Multiple leads have been followed but as yet unsuccessfully.

Our Free Flight members are now able to travel freely to the SAA site in the Pentland Hills. Unfortunately weather conditions have often been very poor particularly the wind strength probably due to Climate Change. As a result many events had to be cancelled at short notice. This years season starts at the end of February with a “blow the cobwebs away” day of Trimming and Testing of new and old faithful models.

Indoor flying at the SAA site in Bathgate has proved popular and is only mildly affected by the weather outside so no events have been cancelled.

See our Forthcoming Events 2023 page for the calendar of events up to the end of the indoor flying season in April.

During the Winter we have had a number of virtual club meetings on line so have been able to chew the fat on matters aeromodelling. Also a couple of face to face meetings in a local Supermarket Cafe have been enjoyed by a few of our retired members and it has been agreed to have some more.

Sadly we lost Bill Grieve during 2022. Bill was our oldest but very enthusiastic member and he is sadly missed. There was a good turnout from the club for the funeral and subsequent Wake where we reminisced over Bills Aeromodelling life and service to the club, thanks Bill.