WRIGHT FLYERS CLUB FIELD RULES AND SAFETY REGULATIONS
- 1. All flyers will adhere to established field and safety rules as set by the AMA.
- 2. All flyers will have in their possession a current valid AMA membership card and a club membership card.
- 3. Guest Flyers: Non-Members may fly as a guest of a club member on no more than three occasions. Guest may fly in a club sponsored club activity but must have a current AMA and FAA membership card.
- 4. There will be no flying over: spectators, pits, and parking areas.
- 5. All glow powered or gas engines must be equipped with an adequate muffler. The aircraft must not exceed a sound level of 95 dB at 3 meters at 9000 RPM.
- 6. No turbine powered aircraft are permitted.
- 7. No First Person View (FPV) piloted aircraft will be flown at the Wright Flyers field.
- 8. Verbal announcements will be given when taking off and when making a landing approach. Dead stick landing will take priority over all landings and take offs.
- 9. All participants will be responsible for maintaining a clean and respectable field.
- Example: Take all trash that you bring!
- 10. No flying is permitted beyond the perimeters of the landfill.
- 11. Drive only to and from flying field and nowhere else in the facilities. Members are only allowed access to the area in the immediate vicinity of the flying field (area maintained by Wright Flyers Club). Members may go to other areas of the landfill only to retrieve a model that has gone down outside of the flying field.
- 12. No alcoholic beverages are allowed in Landfill.
- 13. Hours of operation: Daybreak to Dusk. Models with internal combustion engines may not fly before 12:00 Noon on Sundays.
- 14. You enter the landfill at your own risk. Neither Baltimore County or Wright Flyers Club are responsible for injury or accident.
- 15. Landfill gate must be locked properly as follows:
- a. As a general rule, if you find the gate locked when you arrive, it can be unlocked and left open while you are on the property between daybreak and dusk.
- b. During week days, contractors and county employees may be performing work at the facility. Therefore, the gate should be left as it is found upon entering and leaving.
- c. If you are leaving the facility at dusk, always lock the gate with the assigned lock in a daisy chain fashion with the other locks on the gate.
- d. On Sundays, when contractors or county employees are NOT working at the facility, the gate should be locked if you are the last club member leaving the facility.
- 16. Any violations of the above, or common sense rules, or unsafe or discourteous actions will be subjected to a review by the Club Officers and subsequent termination of the person from flying at the field.