We will continue to develop this site for radio control model aircraft enthusiasts in the Nottingham area. 

Our flying home enjoys a tarmac runway to die for. On 'cross wind' days, a lot of our aircraft can take off at right angles to the runway... it is that wide (although landing is more of a trial). Our airfield is currently the home to the famous Rolls-Royce aero engine manufacturer, and we have close links with the company.  This web site uses the official RR web site colours too.

These pages serve both club members, and anyone that may stumble across it from wherever they may reside. Club events including subsequent photographs and reports will be posted when appropriate. Tips that we have discovered, and links to other useful sites will can easily accessed from here, making it a first point of call for all of your flying needs.

This Web site will comply with recognised standards, and so is best viewed using 'Internet Explorer' at a screen resolution of 1024x768. This will allow more of the text to be read on one page before you need to scroll down. If you press the [F11] button, the annoying top menus, and the irrelevant bottom text will not be shown. Just press [F11] again to return to normal viewing. To navigate the pages, I have simplified the grey menu bar on the left to include only "Top level" subjects. Each item can be used to drill down to a more detailed menu if the subject matter becomes larger than a page full, or where splitting it is easier to navigate.

Under-lined text on any page will be a link to some other page, or initiate another task.  Hover your mouse over this text to read where the link will take you (at the bottom of the page). Click on the text and you will be taken to that page or link. Updated page will be highlighted by a icon. If I have emailed you to let you know of web page updates, but you cannot see the changes on your computer, press your [F5] button to refresh your browser. Your computer may be storing out of date pages to speed up its web browsing. Check those settings to ensure that always get up to date web pages.

Please email me with any comments or articles for inclusion on these pages. You will of course be credited for your work (if you wish) even if you are not a club member. There is no reason why you should not have your say or make a contribution to this site. 

Thanks for the comments already received about these new pages and the layout of the same. I will listen to adverse comments too. 

Why not make this site one of your book marked favorites, and pop back for another look soon.   Enjoy.............

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A forum (on the internet) is a place where interested parties start off a conversation (or subject matter) and invite other interested readers to reply to the thread (subject) or comment on it. the thread goes on and on until quite an in-depth topic is developed.

Hucknall-mac forum   Subject topics can be totally R/C aircraft related, or other loosely related topics. These can be subjects that can be open to be read by any member of the public, meaning that a user does not need to log in or be registered to glean the information from them, or requiring any potential reader to first sign up with the club, ensuring that only private conversations within the club are posted. Of course the entire forum can be made up of both kinds of postings... each subject matter potentially being moved in and out of security areas as the topic develops.

Anything that you think might be a nice subject matter, or whatever,  let me know, and we can discuss it, add it or just laugh. This facility will be of no use if nobody looks at it or adds their own comments to it.  Little more work will be done to the forum pages until more club members register and have a go at it. We don't want to waste any more time if it is not going to be used by anyone.

Forum Security

If the subject is in the secure area, then ONLY registered users can add a topic or reply to an existing one. Anyone requesting registration will be looked at by the webmaster or forum administrator, names checked for Hucknall-mac membership, and then an authorisation email sent to the user granting their entry.

When a club member leaves, we can remove their rights to be able to post and contribute to the Forum, as well as persistent trouble making posts.

If anyone sees an improper posting, be it swearing or anything else that you are not happy being associated with, they can report it and we can get it removed immediately, or the offending word edited by the moderators.

Registering

If you are happy with the ways forum work, and want to register for the Hucknall-mac forum, click here   Forum registration  If you just want to take a look, without registering yet, click here   Forum index  There will of course be a short cut on these pages to save you having to bookmark this on your web browser. Make sure you read all of the instructions to enable you to register easily.  simply read the notes an "Terms of use", and then click the button that says [ I agree to these terms ]. Make yourself a username....  this could be a nickname or your own name. enter your current email address (this is where your registration confirmation will be sent to). enter a password to the site (make a note of it if you cannot remember it) and enter the confirmation code (written in the brown graphic box).  Click the Submit button and then wait for your email to come from the Administration team.

Posting notification

If you particularly are interested in a thread (or all of them) you can add a notification option, this means that if anyone adds a comment to the forum, you will receive an email stating that a new posting is there.  

Scenario One - Imagine if your thinking of going flying on a Saturday, but your normal flying buddy is away for the weekend....  Post a thread saying "Flying on Sat Dec 26th ? ".  anyone saying "Yes I might come along" will instigate an email to everyone that says they would like notifying. Now we all know that at least two of us are flying..... and that might spark some other interest from pilots not sure if anyone else will be there.

Scenario Two - Imagine if your thinking of going flying on a Tuesday. As you know, we need to contact the Rolls Royce airfield to book the runway, but you don't know if anyone else wants to fly that day.  So, call RR, check availability of the airfield, book it and then post a thread saying   "Flying today Tues Dec 22nd - Airfield booked ".   Anyone registered to the "Topic" will gat an email saying that, and all you need to do is post a reply "Yes I will come along, what time are you thinking?"   We will all get both emails, and know that its worth nipping out of work for an hour. We all know that at least two of us are flying..... and that might spark some other interest from pilots not sure if anyone else will be there. If we all post a similar reply all the better, if not at least we know that there are two other pilots at the airfield.