The Hong Kong Radio Control Soaring Society

 


Organization

The management of HKRCSS is entrusted to a committee consisting of four office bearers, six function chairs, some interest group representatives and a few committee members. We also invited a few advisors to give advises on matters related to the club functions. Regular committee meeting will be held every three months and there is an annual general meeting for all members. The four office bearers are: Chairman, Vice Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary. The six function chairs are responsible for, publicity, competition, technical, training, social function and industrial liaison, and their job definitions are given as follow:

Publicity
Responsible for promoting the club's activities, membership drive, membership registration, web hosting and updates, production of bi-annual newsletters, external relationship with the general public, other r/c clubs and government.

Competition
Responsible for organizing competitions including slope racing, air show, spot landings, aerobatics, and model design. To setup competition rules, arrange competition site and provide logistic supports.

Technical
Responsible for technical supports, projects on designing new models, model review, review of new building techniques, design r/c electronics to support club's activities, flying site development.

Training
Responsible for training of new pilots, flying skill upgrade, organize training courses for sailplanes, both theory and practice, training courses in r/c principles, r/c equipment, band and frequency selection, production of training materials.

Social Function
Responsible for organizing social functions for the club's members, such as annual dinner, field trips, study tours, get together BBQ, hiking, soaring trips to exotic places.

Industrial Liaison
Responsible for building up relationship with r/c model industry including model shops and manufacturers. To secure sponsorships for club's events and contests. To secure purchase discounts from model shops for our members.

Interest Groups
In order to serve the need of our members whom may have a wide area of interest, HKRCSS may allow a group of members sharing the same interest in some items of r/c soaring activities to form an interest group. Examples of these groups are: thermal soaring group, EPP combat group, and etc. Currently, we have the following active interest groups:

  1. Thermal Soaring Group

  2. Scale Soaring Group

  3. F3F Slope Racing Group

  4. F3B Soaring Group

  5. EPP Combat Group

Committee members, 2002
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Committee members, 2008