Indoor Flying
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Indoor Flying

Hosted by Jim Sheppard, our indoor flying sessions return for the 2026/2027 season! 


Location & Timing
 - Indoor sessions are conducted at the Nanoose Place Community Centre. The club reserves the flying space from 7-9pm. A link to Google maps for the location can be found here. 

Indoor Dates -
The club flies indoors twice each month in the off season. Here is this season's indoor flying schedule:
October 2026           5th and   19th
November 2026        2nd and   16th
December 2026        28th 
January 2027           11th and  25th
February 2027         8th and  22rd
March 2027             8th and   22nd

Flying types
- Our indoor flying sessions invite any small indoor aircraft. Whether rubber or electric powered, fixed wing or helicopters. small drones are also welcome. 


Indoor Models 

The indoor flying 'field' is a relatively small community gym, which favours small, light-weight, aircraft. Presuming you'll be joining us for the first time, here are some suggested "off-the-shelf" indoor flying models. 

Ideal models are lightweight enough that an errant model won't cause injury.

UMX Vapor: Available from Horizon Hobby and your local hobby shop - an ideal 'ready to go' indoor flying model.
 

UMX Turbo Timber:
 For expert pilots, the Turbo Timber may work for our space. Many pilots do find, however, the space to be challenging with these faster planes.

Stevens Aero Kits: For those wishing to build their own indoor flyer, but need a kit, Stevens Aero has a number of indoor kits that use the e-flite/parkzone electronics.

Helicopters: Micro helicopters work best for the space, with the E-Flite Nano S3 being an excellent example. For helicopters, however, even the inexpensive London Drugs helicopters can be quite a bit of fun. 

Rubber Powered Models: Rubber-powered model aircraft are a fascinating and historic type of aircraft. They were popular in the early days of aviation before the widespread use of more modern power sources like engines. When trimmed correctly they will fly multiple 360's in our indoor space to the delight of all.

Add to this list the Stick Insect:
We were looking for a replacement for our Embers which were used for indoor racing in our indoor space. Nothing has so far lived up to the Ember so we decided to build our own indoor racing aircraft. Image and spec's to come. It's a work in progress. Thanks Tim!

Rubber Powered and scratch built