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Happy Days:
Brian, myself and a couple of others have arranged for the hiring of a GAA hall for the purpose of indoor flying at a location just outside of the village of Kiltealy. (Kiltealy lies behind Mt. Lienster about 10minutes drive from the Nine Stones car park.)

The hall is 60mtrs x 30mtrs with a high ceiling. All windows are up high and have metal grills over them, as do the 10Kw of internal lights. :D  

We are hoping to have our first flight there tomorrow morning.  8) Thereafter we have use of the hall on Thursday nights and Sunday mornings, each week until the Spring.

If anyone would like to join us on a regular basis then please let either Brian or myself know. ( We could do with some expert guidance :roll: )

Wish us luck! :lol:

Keith

IceWind:
Congratulations Keith!
Those are really excellent news, I maybe wrong but it seemed that indoor wasn't much popular around here.
But it seems to be turning around what is great. :-)

I'd love to join you guys so let me know what's needed.
I'll probably could only join on Sunday's and not all due to the distance. :(
( unless i skip work on Thursday's :o) )

Still I wish you guys all the fun!

Nando

Happy Days:
Hey Nando, I’m not sure what you’re intending to do. Do you think you’ll be flying with us every Sunday,…or just on the odd occasion? :?:

What we’d really like is for someone to commit to a regular attendance. :D  The reason being that my three fellow pilots and I have had to cough up some serious amounts of money each :(   to pay (Pro Forma) for the hire of the hall until the Spring. So if you were going to use the hall regularly we’d ask you to ‘chip in’ with an up front payment.

If you only want to fly on the odd occasion then that could probably be arranged, (we are limited to how many “visiting”  pilots can be there at any one time)…..not sure what the cost for a couple of hour  period would be, I’d have to consult with my colleges.

Today we spent a lot of time crashing, laughing, repairing, and adjusting our planes. It’s a very different discipline to any other flying we’ve done! Great fun though, and for those who feel the cold, relatively warm. :)  

The only thing I should point out is that the floor of this hall is laid with Astroturf.  The tiny wheels of most indoor planes just dig in to the surface and the plane goes nose over. :oops:  We found hand launching was best for take off, and for landing,…………remove the wheels and fit skids. (preferably before the model has taken off :roll: ) Plastic spoons do the trick nicely! :lol:  

No one bought a camera with them today. :!:  I’ll post some picies when we get some.

K.

Aidan:
Hi Keith.

I'd love to drop over and take a look on Thurday if there's room for one more? I'd be happy to chip in whatever you think is fair. I'm not sure how long the run from Kilkenny to Kilteally would take but I might be interested in heading over every Thursday until Christmas. Not sure after that because I'm planning to move over towards Cahir or Clonmel and that'd leave me with a long drive!

Aidan

Happy Days:
Hi Aiden, Please do drop in on Thursday, we could all do with some of your expert guidance. :clap:  None of us have ever done any indoor flying before so we’re rather like the blind leading the blind! Come and see what you think of the venue, and if you want to make it a regular thing we’ll come to some arrangement vis cost. (We might give you a discount if you teach us how to fly as well as you can! :wink: )

I’ve only been to Kilkenny a couple of times so I have no real idea how long the journey would take.  Not too long I shouldn’t think, Kilkenny and Kiltealy are only about three of centimetres apart,……………. on my map! :lol:

So how to get there?????…………………

The GAA hall is in the townsland of Coolree. It’s known as the Duffry Rovers Hall. To get there from the village of Kiltealy………….

In Kiltealy there is a little post office. Running along the side of the post office is a road that does Down a hill.

Go down that down hill road until you come to a cross roads junction.

Go straight across the cross roads.

After about a mile you come to a “offset” cross roads junction. (The roads don’t meet exactly opposite each other.) You want to go “straight ahead” but to do so you have to first turn right for a few meters and then turn left……….(a kind of zig-zag.)

Continue along that road for about a mile and the Duffry Rovers GAA hall is on your left.

I’ll send you a pm. with my phone number although I’m not too sure if I’ll be there this Thursday night. The model I’ve got has proved to be a bit too fast for this indoor lark. :oops:  I’ve ordered a different one but I don’t know if it’ll be ready in time for Thursday night, :!:  but the other flyers will be there.

If anybody else would like to “Pop In" they’d be very welcome.

K.

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