Model Aerobatic Association of South Africa

MAASA is a Special Interest Group (SIG) of SAMAA.

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News

• 2025-05-20:2025 Competition dates
• 2025-05-20:2025 Rolling Judges register May 2025
• 2025-05-20:2025 National Score Register May 2025
• 2024-12-01:Classic schedule 25-26
• 2024-12-01:Advanced A27 Description and Aresti
• 2024-12-01:Advanced A27 schedule
• 2024-12-01:Intermediate schedule 25-26
• 2024-12-01:Sporting Code 202411
• 2022-04-06:SAMAA iMustfly video of the Gauteng February League event and interviews with our Junior pilots
• 2022-01-11:Judges training material for the 2022/23 season.
• 2021-10-14:Very nice F23 ribbon flight animation
• 2021-10-14:Very nice P23 ribbon flight animation
• 2021-02-18:The HuiYang F3A model airplanes website and dealer list
• 2018-07-11:RC Aerobatics 5: Freestyle by Clinton Carter-Brown
• 2018-07-06:RC Aerobatics Video 4: Preflight
• 2018-07-02:RC Aerobatics Video 3: Stickplane demo of P19 schedule
• 2018-06-29:RC Aerobatics Video 2: Intro to Competition Plane
• 2018-06-29:An updated trimming guide by Andre Stockwell June 2018
• 2018-06-27:RC Aerobatics Video 1: The Basics of Sport Flying
• 2017-11-10:The semi final placings for the 2017 F3a world championships. Well done Clinton and Roston.
• 2016-11-17:Anatomy of a Snap Roll - Author Unknown
• 2016-09-23:Setting up control rates on a Pattern plane by Neil Allen
• 2016-02-22:An article on Pattern Flying fundamentals by Brett Wickizer
• 2016-01-19:Feedback from the 2015 F3A World Championships by the RSA Team
• 2016-01-05:An article on Basic aircraft setup by Bryan Hebert
• 2016-01-02:CIAM have updated the sporting code to include 1/2 point deductions. Still rounded up to a full score though.
• 2015-12-28:a youtube video reviewing the 2015 F3A World Championships held in Switzerland
• 2015-12-24:Events Planner - 2016 <click here for the online version>
• 2015-09-28:Australian team report from the 2015 World Championships held in Switzerland
• 2015-08-16:Team SA Performance over the years
• 2015-08-12:CPLR, Lassi and Suzuki on day 3 of the 2015 F3A World Championships
• 2015-08-10:Jesky, Onda, Silvestri. 2nd Round 2015 World Championships Video
• 2015-06-30:2015 SAMAA Power Nationals Survey Feedback
• 2014-10-21:Some basic pointers in Aerobatics in 12 articles. A lot of text but useful if you can wade through it.
• 2014-10-03:New MAASA logo for 2015 Thanks to Stuart Nix
• 2014-08-24:Regional Rep Mission Statement
• 2014-06-30:You can join the Pattern discussion groups on RCGroups by clicking on this link
• 2014-05-19:An article about the 2014 SA Nationals held in Himeville at the end of April (written by Arthur Eggar)
• 2014-05-18:A report on the 2014 SA Nationals held in Himeville at the end of April (written by Mike Clark)
• 2014-05-16:Roston Dugmore is preparing to compete at the USA Nationals and to defend his Junior world F3A title in 2015. Here is some background info on our world champ.
• 2014-05-05:Report on the 2014 MAASA Nationals
• 2014-04-17:Our 2013 F3A Junior World Champ Roston Dugmore and The Minister of Sport Fikile Mbalula and Mr Gideon Sam.
• 2014-04-09:An updated Workshop Presentation on Model Setup and Trimming prepared by Andre' Stockwell is available for download
• 2014-03-25:Ola Fremming's list of suitable models and equipment for precision aerobatics
• 2014-03-25:Bryan Hebert Triangulation Trimming guide
• 2014-03-18:What is F3A?. A link to a definition on the Team USA F3A website.
• FAI Jury report on the 2013 World Champs held in South Africa (M Ramel)
• See the equipment list for the competitors at the 2013WC under 'Interesting Links' kindly borrowed from the Australian pattern website by Neil Allen.
• Dereck Butow has prepared a ribbon diagram for the FAI F15 schedule
• Looking to fly aerobatics at club level? Try Club Aerobatics
• CIAM Flyer Jan 2014 - Article on contra rotating coaxial propellers (M Ramel)
• Team Canada FAI F3A 2013 Technical Report
• Feedback from WC2013 Judge Ivan Olivier
• SAMAA Archive
• SAMAA Membership website
• What is Pattern (Precision Aerobatics) - easy reading
• A beginners guide to pattern from an Australian website
• Judging Criteria
• What colour to choose for your patternship