Twenty plus years ago I started a website for the
Omahawk's RC Club. One year later another Omahawk's
member took over their website. I wanted to continue
to provide an on-line presence for the area clubs so
here is what I did:
Ollie
Olson and I had talked about starting a website, not just for
one club, but for all the Metro Area R/C Clubs. We
thought this would make a positive difference and help our
hobby to grow.
Such
a website would provide a schedule that would show all the
events for all the clubs in one place so that R/C Flyers
could quickly see what events were happening for that day
or weekend. Clubs would be able to schedule upcoming
events so they would not be on the same day.
It would also provide the following services:
-
Metro Area Schedule
- the
most important service
-
Maps Page - s to every event, club meeting,
etc. so that even new members could find everything
-
Newsletter
Page - All
Club
Newsletters all in one place
-
Links Page
- Links so you could find good prices when
purchasing planes and equipment
-
For Sale Page
- Free Ads for RC items
-
Video Page 1
&
Page 2
- A place to show your videos & slide shows
-
Weather Page
- Weather station
links for the Omaha area.
There are 11 stations in all, plus another that shows the
pollen levels if you are an allergy sufferer.
That
is how and why I started
Metro Area R/C Flying.
Later, I realized that it would help the clubs, when making
"Event Flyers" and planning the dates for an event, if they
could go back and see when they had it the year before.
They could also see last year's "Event Flyer" and that would
help them design a new "Flyer" for the current year. I
added Archive Pages to the schedule for that reason.
There are pages, for both the Metro Schedule & the
Out-Of-Area Schedule; you can find them in the navigation
links at the top of each page.
I also added an Out-Of-Area Schedule
so that flyers traveling to out-of-town events could
also benefit from an event schedule.
(Out-Of-Area Schedule)
I publish
MetroRCFlying.com
Performanceflyers.com and
ScottsPainting.com
It's
turned out to be a lot of work and I've done it now for over 20
years. I hope that the area flyers value what I do.
I trust that it will help bring all the clubs together so we
can become one R/C family.
Thanks for Reading,
Keith Paskewitz |