Indoor Flying
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Indoor Flying

Hosted by Jim Sheppard, our indoor flying sessions return for the 2025/2026 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 on the first and third Monday each month. Here is this season's indoor flying schedule:



October 2025           6th and   20th
November 2025        3rd and   17th
December 2025        1st and  22nd
January 2026           5th and  19th
February 2026         9th and  23rd
March 2026             9th and   23rd

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.

Rubber Powered and scratch built