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Arizona Model Aviators Safety Code1. The Academy of Model Aeronautics Safety Code will be observed at all times. This Code is posted on the Bulletin Board at the field. 2. All pilots using the field will observe the Club Safety Officer’s requests. The Safety Officer has the authority of the executive board to submit a grievance or ground airplanes or pilots that present potential safety hazards. Disputes over safety rule interpretations will be discussed and resolved at the next board meeting. 3. Any non-member who wishes to fly at Superstition Airpark must have a current Academy of Model Aeronautics License, and purchase a day pass. 4. The non-member must understand and obey all posted safety rules. Not knowing the rules is not an excuse for not obeying the field rules. Unless the non-member is known to be a competent pilot by a current member, the non-member may be checked by a qualified Club Instructor or Safety Officer. 5. Airplanes shall not be started in any area other than the aircraft start up boxes or starting tables, located in the starting area. A second person should always hold the aircraft during engine starting if possible. The aircraft's prop blast must be directed towards the runway. 6. Airplanes that are not next in line to fly must remain on the ramada side of the double white line. 7. All transmitters must attach the proper frequency number on the antenna at all times. All transmitters must be kept in the transmitter impound unless being used. 8. Pilots must observe posted transmitter impound and frequency control procedures as posted. 9. Pilots flying aircraft must remain behind the cement curbs within the marked pilot boxes. Only pilots, spotters and instructors are permitted to occupy the pilot boxes during aircraft operation. Only one piloted aircraft per box is allowed except when launching a glider from a carrier plane or a tow plane. After launch, the tow or carrier plane must land as soon as safely possible. They will be counted as one plane as the glider isn’t powered and the tow plane is coming right down. This way no more than five (5) aircraft will be in the air at a time. 10. Before entering the runway, pilots must loudly announce their intentions. Never taxi onto the runway before checking for landing aircraft. All takeoffs and landings will be into the prevailing wind. Always check the windsocks for wind direction. Notify all other airborne pilots if the wind changes and you choose to takeoff in a direction counter to the existing pattern. 11. Pilots making Touch and Goes or a full stop landing must loudly announce their intentions. All landing aircraft have precedence over aircraft taking off. "DEADSTICK" landings have precedence over all other flight operations. 12. All flying over the runway (HI and LOW speed passes and all forms of aerobatics, etc.) will be restricted to the berm area beyond the north edge of the runway and will be in the same direction as the current takeoff or landing pattern. There are to be no aerobatics over the runway. The only maneuvers permitted over the runway are takeoffs, touch & goes, landings, landing approaches and emergencies. 13. If an aircraft must be carried out into the runway for a takeoff, this intention must be previously announced to any other pilots. A pilot helper must carry the aircraft and the pilot shall remain in the pilot box. The helper must promptly clear the runway when the aircraft is released. 14. No person shall stand at any edge of the runway during flight operation. 15. No engine restart shall be made on the runway, except as allowed by a contest CD during club events. 16. All flying must be done in front of a “dead line” formed by the white lines immediately in front of the pilot boxes and extending to infinity in an east/west direction. 17. Spotters should be used anytime there is more than one aircraft in the air. 18. Members should be aware of No Smoking and No Turbine signs posted during dry spells as needed. There will be notification in the newsletter when these restrictions are in effect and when they are lifted. 19. Helicopters shall fly the same pattern as fixed wing aircraft but only from the far corners of flight stations 1 & 5. This will be considered as the flight station being occupied and no one else shall use those stations as long as a helicopter is operated from them. There is to be no hovering over the runway unless you are the only one in the air. There will be no students taught to fly helicopters at the airfield unless you are the only ones at the field. TRANSMITTER IMPOUND PROCEDURES
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