2015 Mid America Fun Fly May 29-31

[dlbell]

Hello Friends,

I am pleased to announce the 2015 Mid America R/C Heli Fun Fly scheduled for May 29th thru May 31st, 2015. Next to the Jamboree this is the premier helicopter event in the Midwest!!!

This years' event will again take place at Grosse Ile Municipal Airport on the island of Grosse Ile, Mi.

The runway is 8850 feet long offering us an incredible amount of space for our flight line. The event will be held in conjunction with the Grosse Ile Island Fest also occurring at the airport during the Fun Fly.

The airport offers several new amenities:
Night Flying
Camping
Motor Home Parking *** No Fees***
Full Scale Helicopter Rides
Full Scale Plane Rides
Exotic race car driving on a closed course;
Carnival Games and rides for the family;

After a very successful event last year with over 190 pilots at the event and well over $15,000.00 in raffle prizes, I am determined to make this year’s event even better. Look forward to more pilots, more prizes, more spectators, more food vendors, more evening activities and more good times!!!

We are planning to add an Autrorotation contest and a mini FPV quad race as well.


We had a few issues with the PA system last year so I went out and purchased a brand new 5000 Watt PA system just for Mid America!!!!!!!!!

Demo Pilots planning to attend!!!!

Nick Maxwell - Team Thunder Tiger, Team Futaba,& Team Rotor Rage
Kyle and Ray Stacy - Team SAB Goblin, Team Futaba & Team Rotor Rage
Bobby Watts - Team Futaba, Team Gaui
Bert Kammerer - Team SAB Goblin
Tim Jones - Team A-main Hobbies & Team YS & Team Rotor Rage
Art Hughes - Team SAB Goblin
Matt Botos - Team Synergy & Team Rail Blades
Rob Cherry - Team Synergy & Team Rail Blades
Alex Rodriguez - Team Gaui
AJ Jaffe - Team Experience RC
Tony Whiteside - Team Compass
Jared Granzow - Team Horizon
James Haley - Team Horizon
Mitch Marozas - Team Gaui & Team Futaba
JIm Stark - Team Futaba - Team Thunder Tiger
And many more to come...

The following Sponsors supported last year’s event and many have already committed to supporting the event again:

HeliDirect
Experience R/C
SAB Heli Division
Pro Star Hobbies
Hobbico - Futaba & Thunder Tiger
Horizon Hobby - Blade Helis & Spektrum
Byron Fuels
Helix Blades
Random Heli Products
HD Helicopters
Compass Models
Castle Creations
Aerial Freaks
Clyclone Blades
Curtis Youngblood Enterprises
Scorpion Power Systems
Zeal Blades
Rail Blades
Prop-shop hobbies
Dirtburners RC Racing
A-main Hobbies - Protek
Progressive RC
Align USA
Smacktalk R/C
Boca Bearings
BK Servos
MKS Servos USA
Spartan
Hitec RCD
RC Booya
SAB Goblin
Airtronics
SwitchGlo
KDE Direct
Coolpower
IRCHA
Sick Canopy
Canomod
Lynx Heli Innovations


This year all of the proceeds from the event will go to the US F3C Team to help offset their travel to the world Championship Event. Nick Maxwell supports this event every year let’s rally together to support our Team!!!!!!!

The Primary hotel will be the;
LaQuinta Inn
12888 Reeck Road
Southgate, MI
734-374-3000
The hotel offers free wi-fi and free breakfast.

The second hotel will be the;
Motel 6
18777 Northline Road
Southgate, MI
734-287-8340
The hotel offers free wi-fi and free breakfast.

The landing fee this year is $35.00 pre-registration and $35.00 on-site and includes the following;

3 days of flying at a premiere facility with some of the best pilots on the planet.
Event t-shirt (free with pre-registration only).
General Raffle tickets (5 included with pre-registration only)
Pilot Raffle ticket 1 included with registration.
Special Raffle for Preregistered pilots only.

The t-shirt design will be released on May 1st, and there will be a few prizes for those that pre-register.

Pre-registration is available now and there will be special raffle drawings for early pre-registration.

Pre-register here http://www.RCFlightDeck.com/event.cfm?id=4260

As usual there will be planned dinners and other activities for every night of the event. In addition to the night booming Detroit area night life, the Detroit Grand Prix is the same weekend so the city will be buzzing with excitement and all of you race fans can check out the race on Sunday. Check out Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix http://www.detroitgp.com for more details.
Fastrack Exotics will be on-site with another closed course race track along with their Ferrari and Lamborghini.


Stay tuned for more info very soon.

Big D.
http://www.RCFlightDeck.com/event.cfm?id=4260

[derrickcbr]

Will there be 3D school this year?

[Scott Bowersox]

Registered! This is always a heck of a good time, he throws a truly awesome event!! See ya all there!

[LegndarySaiyan]

Registered, see you guys there!

[Jetstream9]

Registered.

[GVan586]

Registered!!!

[raylepper]

Registered. Random Heli will be there with Skid Clamps for the raffle.

[A&P Mech]

I might be in the area the end of May. This looks like it could be a good event. Hope to be there.

[dlbell]

Pre-registration is open right now...... Closing May 15th.

Big D.

[dankcincy]

Getting close.

[KSHeli]

Registered to come again this year, enjoyed last year also.

[jypt01]

Does anyone know when the raffle for the event is held?
I will be in and out visiting with family in the area and want to plan my time at the event to overlap with the raffle.

[CB6311]

Originally Posted by jypt01

Does anyone know when the raffle for the event is held?
I will be in and out visiting with family in the area and want to plan my time at the event to overlap with the raffle.

To my knowledge going off of the past years the raffle is on Saturday in the afternoon.

Maybe Big D will chime in and verify....

[KSHeli]

Originally Posted by CB6311

To my knowledge going off of the past years the raffle is on Saturday in the afternoon.

Maybe Big D will chime in and verify....

Yah, wasn't it around 2:30 or 3:30

[squeely531]

Almost here

[markrj]

11:47 pm and I am mostly situated. Notice I didn't say "The car is packed and ready to leave!" lol

Had to take a break from all the inventory and consolidation of tools, parts, etc.

Having a nice glass of Jameson and a Rocky Patel Edge Maduro.

Then I will start to pack the car, get some sleep, and try to be on the road by 8:00am

[KSHeli]

Well i'm on my way, but my horse is throwing a shoe so I'm stuck in Brazil, IN, over night.

[markrj]

I guess I arrived a little too early. Where is the camping area exactly? I've never been here before and I asked a couple of people about the event and nobody knows what I am taking about.

HELP! lol

[Scott Bowersox]

From memory there is not really any camping area except where your camper ends up! Seen people set up just on the other side of the runway as the flying area. Don't think there is any water or electric though.

Just flew in from LA tonight and drove to Lansing for some sleep, than be out there around noon or a tad later. Excited but exhausted.

[minatrix]

Wish I was there! Have fun!