UAV DAY at the Fleet

Join UAV Day by completing the UAV Day Participation Form. Space and tables are available on a first come, first served basis. All forms are due by Tuesday, Sept. 17.

During UAV Day, we would like to complement the displays with public talks and workshops. Both are great opportunities to educate people about the UAV technology being developed and supported locally, as well as to share information about building and flying UAVs as a hobby. If you’d like to participate in a talk or a workshop, please let us know by filling out the UAV Day Participation Form.

Because of the date change, we will be inviting press coverage for Wednesday prior, October 2. We do not know if this would be in-studio interviews or live remote segments from the Fleet. Please let us know if you would be interested in participating in the media coverage. We will also have a secure area for you to store your UAVs and info until the Sunday expo.

We will be in touch within 5 business days of receipt of your information to confirm your participation. Thank you for your interest in UAV Day!

Hello multi-rotor friends! I believe you have all been invited to join us for UAV Day, but because we realized that holding UAV Day on Saturday puts us in conflict with the Miramar Air show, we are moving our date to Sunday, October 6.

In order for the 800 lb. gorilla to not sit on our media coverage as well; I will be pitching interviews ASAP to see if I can arrange advance press on Wednesday, October 2. Please let us know if you are still available to join us – and if you might be interested in doing advance press.

If I get enough takers, we would probably invite the morning news teams to send a live remote crew to do a two hour chunk of time; as well as going in-studio for the morning news programs.

We can also arrange for any exhibit materials to be stored here for the rest of the week, so you don’t have to schlep it twice.

I have attached the press release for the On the Fly: Technology Takes Off! exhibit FYI as well.

Thanks for your interest – I hope you can join us for UAV Day here at the Fleet!

Susan

Sunday, October 6, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

2013 UAV Day Participant Form

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Participant Name (list the name as you want it to appear in publicity materials)

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Please describe what you plan to display/do at your table or booth:

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Participation information:

¨            We will need electricity: ____________________________________________________________________

¨            We will be bringing the following electrical equipment: _____________________________________________

¨            We will need a table (36’ round and 6’ and 8’ available; please indicate size): ___________________________

¨            We will need a table cloth: __________________________________________________________________

¨            We will need space for our booth (indicate booth size): ____________________________________________

¨            We would like to sell the following item(s): ______________________________________________________

¨            Please indicate the number of people who will staff your table/booth (minimum 2): _______________________

¨            We would like to participate in a talk (describe the topic): ___________________________________________

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¨            We would like to lead a workshop (describe the topic): _____________________________________________

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If you have urgent questions, please call Susan at (619) 238-1233 x743.

Published November 16, 2017

Brad’s Corner for Nov/Dec 2017

To begin, I would like to mention that we are moving this month’s meeting/board member voting from our usual fourth Saturday to Saturday the 18th to avoid conflict with Thanksgiving holiday travel. We will have the meeting/voting around noon with pizza provided by the club for attendees. Jim has sent out absentee ballots for those that cannot attend, please ensure that if you do vote absentee – you fill in your full name as it appears on your membership card. If we can’t verify that you are a member, your ballot will not be counted. No cemetery voters please…
Finally, it has cooled off a bit! It is crazy that we had to wait until November to get a break this year. Still waiting for some rain to smooth the field out and reduce the risk of fire at our site. We really haven’t had many fires this year, and I want to thank all of you for being careful and having your extinguishers ready as needed.
Jim and Dennis have started replacing the worst of the tables at the main runway. Please throw them a thank you for giving up a few flying days to work for us instead. They started with the worst four and will continue into next year as the existing tables give out. Not bad, we have nearly 4 years on tables we expected to last one.
A reminder on etiquette at the field, safety concerns, and just plain common sense: In the last 2 weeks I have observed folks walking out past the fence without letting other pilots know they were stepping out. Please call loudly, there were a few VERY near misses! Also, please look and verify no one is on approach before loudly announcing take-off and landing. Also judge the point at which you call your landings, calling too early can leave others stranded with low batteries waiting for a landing that should have been called thirty seconds later. Finally, after landing, if you taxi – please do so near the fence to reduce risk of others coming in after you.
One of our club members, Butch Bucciarelli, heard my call in September that we were looking for a venue to have our Holiday banquet in Jan. He came through for us in a big way, and our Banquet Committee ( Randy and Quan ) are finalizing the details. It sounds AMAZING! Plan for a blast to all 2017 members to come out in early December with all of the info. Details will not make the web page or be posted to Facebook ( Pictures will post AFTER the event) to avoid the party crashers/freeloaders as we experienced the last 2 years. If you are a member, and do not get the club e-mails, email your friendly editor and he will make sure you get yours: editor@sefsd.org

As I look over the newsletter for the last few months, I notice a great amount of content provided by members. Thank all of you that have hopped on board! Steve Belknap has been doing a great job of putting it all together for us, and it makes his life a bit easier if he does not have to search for all of the content himself. If you have a neat project, please share!
The Board has voted on and approved a small increase in membership dues starting 2018. Dues will go up to $50.00 a year when we start accepting 2018 applications next month. The club costs have been going up over the last few years and this will allow us to keep even. One exciting thing you will see next year is a new style of badge we will be issuing to take some of the load from the membership coordinator – THANKS GEORGE SULLIVAN! We failed to realize how much of a load we had put on Isabel as we took the club from two hundred to four hundred members. Thanks again to Paul and Isabel Guidice for the service to the club for the last seven years.
Please join us on Saturday for the meeting and vote. If you want to give back to the hobby you enjoy, I greatly encourage each of you to spend a bit of time on the board so we can all benefit from your ideas and experiences.
Have a great Thanksgiving, and please be safe. I think I saw a video on YouTube of Skip trying to deep fry a turkey. It was scary! I will be having ham now…
Brad