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NZMPBA SKYPE COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
Date 1st October, 2018 8pm

PRESENT; Grahame Haines, Marie Haines, John Belworthy, Trevor Emerson, Murray Smithson, Peter Collier, Nigel Wong,

APOLOGIES; Keith Ewing, Pieter Lokum

MATTERS ARISING FROM PREVIOUS MINUTES;

1. Offshore updates
Have been published to the membership for the mandatory 6 week consultation.
Peter to Add to web site
These changes will take effect from 1 January 2019

2 web site now back to normal thanks to Peter

TREASURERS REPORT.

NZMPBA Monthly Accounts

Opening Balance 2018
Date 1 September 2018 - 29 September 2018

Opening Bank Accounts 1 September 2018

Entry Fee Account $ 113.48
Insurance Account $2,008.99
Non Profit Account $4,993.96

Total $7,116.43

Deposits

Entry Fee Account Nil $ -
Insurance Account Nil $ -
Non Profit Account Nil $ -

Total $ -

Withdrawals

Entry Fee Account None $ -
Insurance Account None $ -
Non Profit Account Host Papa reimbursement $ 227.64

Total $ 227.64

Closing Balance 29 September 2018

Entry Fee Accounts $ 113.52
Insurance Account $2,008.99
Non Profit Account $4,766.32

Total $6,888.83

NEW MEMBERS 2018 RETURNED MEMBERS 2018
Name NZMPBPA # Name NZMPBPA #

Life Members 6 Total Members 49

Moved John Belworthy That accounts be accepted
Seconded Peter Collier

CORRESPONDENCE;

IN
1. From Bob Gutsell
Hey Nitro
I checked the rules for fail safe testing today, and it turns out that the Fail Safes John Belworthy, Peter Collier and Nigel Wong are in fact legal.

The Rules currently state (I should have known, since I wrote them!) "The effectiveness of the Ignition coil disabling system must be demonstrated during scrutineering with the engine running by turning the receiver off. "

I now realise that this is an error, I recommend the rule is changed to read "The effectiveness of the Ignition coil disabling system must be demonstrated during scrutineering with the engine running by turning the receiver off, then the receiver must be turned back on, engine to be restarted and then the engine must die when the Transmitter is turned off.

The boats are safer when they kill the engine when the signal is lost as well as when receiver power is lost.

Could you please forward this to the committee for discussion and resolution?

DISCUSSION AND RESOLUTION FOR PUBLICATION ON THE WEBSITE FOR MEMBER COMMENT
Fail Safe Requirements

Radio Control systems with an integrated Fail safe must use and demonstrate the operation of the Fail Safe during scrutineering with the engine running.
All Petrol powered boats must be protected against zero voltage receiver failure by using an ignition coil disabling system.
 The effectiveness of the Ignition coil disabling system must be demonstrated
during scrutineering with the engine running by turning the receiver off, then the receiver must be turned back on, engine to be restarted and then the engine must stop when the Transmitter is turned off.

As this is a health and safety issue and breaking the NZMPBA rules , should any competitor be found guilty of disconnecting an ignition disabling device, in order to continue racing, will lose all points gained at that regatta and as well be stood down for the following two sanctioned regattas on the NZMPBA Calendar for that year.

Secondly
With respect to the idea of self scrutineering. We don't support it, even though scrutineering on Saturday took longer than it should have and longer than it normally does. It's important that these checks are done independently, particularly confirmation of failsafe function.

Cheers

Bob

Discussion
Peter has devised a scrutineering sheet that combines self scrutineering with supervised regatta scrutineering of the failsafe aspects.

2. From Companies office confirming that the new Constitution changes have been accepted and that the new constitution was now available for public viewing on their web site

OUT
nil

GENERAL BUSINESS

At regattas, Contest directors must have a copy of the current rules, and be familiar with same and emphasise competitors be familiar with same. eg( if a cowl falls off in offshore you must cease to race until the cowl is returned and correctly fitted back on the boat)

Murray Smithson remit.
General feeling at the AGM was for 1 off regattas a fee should be charged to cover insurance and incidentals. Committee will discuss further to gauge feeling of membership before making final recommendations to be submitted at next AGM.
No further discussion this month as we ran out of time

Offshore rules
A review is pending on a tweak of the rules regarding things that are not being done properly or can be dispensed with at regattas.

Work in progress

NZMPBA CALENDAR.
TIME TO START THINKING ABOUT NEXT YEARS EVENTS YOUR CLUB WISHES TO RUN

Notify Nitro by November 30th

Next NZMPBA Committee meeting Monday 5th November 2018 8.00pm

Meeting closed 10.25 pm

MINUTES OF THIS COMMITTEE MEETING OF 01/10/2018 READ AND ACCEPTED;
Moved: Marie Haines
Seconded John Belworthy.

G Haines to post to web site.

Rule changes were sent out well before AGM and are now implemented and available for down load in the rule book section