19.1 BMFA Rule Books
All the following rule books are available as free-of-charge downloads from the BMFA Contest Rules Archive or they may be obtained pre-printed from the BMFA Leicester office at a cost of £3.00 per book (books 3 to 7), plus an A5 SAE.
FAI Class rules are now excluded from these rule books, but they do include variations to the FAI rules where implemented in the UK. See below for full FAI rules.
- Section 1 & 2 General Regulations and Rules
This section is issued free with sections 3 to 8. - Section 2a Records Rules
This section contains detailed regulations concerning record attempts and it is available free on request. - Section 2b UK Records List
This section contains details of all ratified UK records including the current records and holders and it is available free on request. - Section 3 Free Flight
All Outdoor and Indoor classes. - Section 4 Control Line
Speed and Aerobatics’, Team Racing, Combat and Carrier classes - Section 5 Radio Control Power
Aerobatics (GBRCAA and IMAC), Helicopters, Pylon, Waterplanes, Sam 35 Vintage, Fun-Fly and Drone (FPV) Racing. - Section 6 Scale
Free Flight, Control Line, Radio Control, Indoor and Helicopters - Section 7 Radio Control Silent Flight Book 1
Glider and Electroflight classes - Section 8 Space Models
All Classes
19.2 FAI Sporting Code
Each section contains all the FAI rules for the discipline, including FAI Provisional rules. The codes can be either downloaded free of charge from the CIAM Sporting Code page of the FAI website at https://www.fai.org/page/ciam-code or ordered from the BMFA office. See below for pricing.
CIAM General Rules | £4 |
Records | £4 |
EDIC - Electronic Devices in Competition |
£4 |
Vol F1 Free Flight | £5 |
Vol F2 Control Line V2 plus Annex 4J |
£5 |
Vol F3 R/C Aerobatics | £5 |
Vol F3 R/C Helicopters | £5 |
Vol F3 Pylon | £5 |
Vol F3 R/C Soaring | £5 |
Vol F4 Scale | £5 |
Vol F5 R/C Electric Powered models |
£5 |
Vol F7 Aerostats | £5 |
Vol F9 Drone Sports | £5 |
Vol S Space | £5 |
Buy one discipline and each additional discipline is |
£3 |
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