[Talk-GB] Model aircraft landing area

[Chris Hill]

They're not models, they fly. They are radio-controlled aircraft. Their 'hangers' are the vehicles the owners usually bring them in. They don't usually have a formal ATC* but the people controlling the aircraft talk to each other on the ground. Not all airfields have a formal control tower or ATC and many don't have hangers.

* I have been at an event where radio-controlled aircraft had to liaise with an ATC controlling aircraft with self-loading cargo (people) to coordinate the RC aircraft with ATC arrivals and departures, but that is pretty unusual. I held the radio licence and owned the VHF handset that was used.

Cheers, Chris
OSM: chillly

On 11 August 2021 13:32:07 BST, David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk> wrote:
>On 11/08/2021 13:10, Andy Townsend wrote:
>>>
>>> Only if it has model hangars and model control towers!
>>>
>>>
>> You're joking, but model runways are absolutely a thing - from memory I 
>> think that
>
>
>Not really.  I'm suggesting that to call it a model aerodrome it has to 
>be a model of an aerodrome, not just mown grass used for landing models.
>
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