Due to concerns over liability and abuses in the past, we must require:

1. That you have a 2009 AMA license or a receipt from the AMA or a contest director showing you have paid for current membership. You can pay for your license at the site, and we will give you a receipt.

2. That ALL fuse dethermalizers employ a positive extinguishing device (snuffer)

3. That all models entered display the modeler's AMA license number

If you do not comply with items #1, 2 and 3, you will not be allowed to fly on the venue of SWR.

Contest  is Cat II.

 

  Delta Dart: Jrs only; Free ; Build model at the field or fly your own. Kit, supplies, tools, place to work & build/fly assistance are provided.

  Catapult & Hand Launched Glider: Time cards must be posted after each two flights.

  Jetex/Rapier: - to be flown generally to the rules listed for AMA Free Flight Rocket, event #162. Any Jetex or Rapier motor is allowed. 

  Carlo Godel Rocket Event: 

Carlo Event Rules

Classic Towline Rules: [A1 follows same rules except for model size - use the old A1 size rules]:

Classic Towline Rules

Taibi Powerhouse event:

Powerhouse Rules

Tomboy event:

Tomboy Info and Rules

Twin Pusher:

1. SAM rules. 2. 11 AM mass launch Sunday.

News bulletin for AMA - NFFS - SAM Free Flight Contestants:

•National Cup: The SW Regionals was honored in year 2000 to be the very first NFFS National Cup Contest. Points are awarded for placing in specified events and selected contests for each year, with awards presented at the close of the year. 

For 2009, The Southwest Regionals is again honored to be classified as an Exempt contest.

National Cup events [each separately recorded and reported] for the 2009 SWR are: 

For Senior/Open modelers: all AMA gas events 1/2A through CD, Nostalgia gas 1/4A, 1/2A through C and Early 1/2A, Classic Power 1/2A through CD, Mulvihill, P-30, Moffett, Nos. Rubber, Nos. Wakefield, Classic Towline, and Catapult plus Hand Launched Gliders.

For Juniors: Junior 1/2A AMA Gas & 1/2A Classic Gas [combined], Junior P-30,
Junior Hand launched Glider, Junior Classic Towline [new for 2009] and Junior Catapult Glider.

If Saturday or Sunday has inclement weather, then Monday will be the reserve day.

• Awards through 3rd place, plus perpetual awards for winners of all 6 major FAI events.
• F1A, F1B, F1C, F1G, F1H, F1J,F1P and F1Q are America’s Cup events.
• F1A, F1B, & F1C/F1P will be flown in 7 one-hour rounds beginning at 8:30AM. Fly-offs in 10 minute rounds after the 7th round for 5, 7, 9 min max flights. If necessary, a 10 min fly-off will be held Sunday morning. Sunday’s Mini events will begin at 8:30AM and have 5 one-hour rounds with 2 min maxes, followed by 3, 4, 5 min max fly-offs.

*F1P is combined with F1C

**F1Q ~ FAI electric will be flown in 7 rounds. No entry fee and certificates will be awarded.

Important Timing Note: Due to no timekeepers available, timers will not be provided. Please find someone to fly and time with you.

Wakefield & Unlimited Rules

**S400 LMR Event to be held at the 2009 SWR – ELOY, Az  

S400 LMR Rules

The Contest Site

Free flight, both AMA and FAI, will begin each day with the flight line to the north of the parking area.  Because of expected changes in wind direction, at some time each day we will move the flight line to the south side of the parking area. It is therefore important that you confine parking to the designated area.

Use caution when using a chase bike. Things that you need to be aware of  include animal burrows, tire tracks, irrigation ditches, and the possibility of a one-wire electric fence [no guarantees, but the fence is rarely 'live'] around the field. If you unhook the fence to allow passage, re-hook it up - we have a responsibility to the owner of any cattle on the field. Our flying field is located in the middle of formerly irrigated land. The ditches are laid out in a 1/2 mile grid pattern. Permanent bridges are generally located at the corner of each field. We have added dirt filled bridges along the south, west and north sides of our primary field.  

The prevailing wind is out of the south at 8:00 AM, usually dies off into a midday lull, and picks up in the afternoon and comes from the north. Early morning temperatures can be in the mid 30s to low 40s, warming to mid 80s in the afternoon. The temperature drops rapidly as the sun sets. Although the field is large, we generally fly Cat. II as people seem to like to enter a lot of events.

Campers can use tents, trailers and motorhomes, but the only facilities we offer are J-Johns. 

Hope to see you here! / AL

 There are a number of gas stations, restaurants, hotels and motels at Toltec Road and I-10 (Exit 203):
-Super 8, I-10 & Toltec Rd, 520-466-7804
-Red Roof Inn, I-10 & Toltec Rd, 520-466-2522

There is another group at Sunland Gin Road & I-10, about 3 miles NW (Exit 200):
-Motel 6, 4965 N. Sunland Gin Rd, 520-836-3323
-Days Inn, Sunland Gin Rd. at I-10, 520-426-9240
-Sunland Inn, 7190 Sunland Gin Road, 520-836-5000

Additional facilities will be found in Casa Grande and Eloy:
-Hotel Casa Grande, 777 N. Pinal Ave, Casa Grande, AZ 85222, Call 520-426-3500 or 1-800-465-4329. 
-Best Western, 665 N. Via Del Cielo, Casa Grande, 520-836-1600
-Super 8 Motel, 2066 E. Florence Blvd, Casa Grande, 1-800-800-8000
-At Exit 211; Picacho KOA, 520-466-7401
-In Eloy; Eloy Mobile Home Park, 612 W. Frontier, 520-466-7411