Pilot of the Year Competition: Carrier Deck

Pilot of the Year Competition: Carrier Deck 2026

Wednesday August 12^th @ 5:00 pm & Saturday 15^th @ 2:00 pm

Each round of the Pilot of the Year Competition will be run on 2 calendar days:

Wednesday 5:00 PM and Saturday 2:00 PM weather permitting.

Each round of competition will result in a winner.

At the end of the year the overall winner will receive the Pilot of the Year award.

Competitors can enter on the Wednesday or Saturday of each round.

i.e.  if you cannot make the Wednesday competition you can do the Saturday competition, or vice versa, but you can’t do both.

Airplane to be used. Drone / Helicopter are forbidden.

 Prizes are:

Discount voucher for NADMAS membership to the winner of each round of the competition.

Discount voucher for NADMAS membership to the overall winner of the competition (Pilot of the Year award).

Carrier Deck

Deck size is 40ft long by17ft wide.

3 Cables each terminated by small sandbags are strung across the deck at a height of 2 inches.

1. A hook must be attached to the aircraft to engage with the arrester wire on landing.
2. The contest will consist of 2 rounds. For each round the pilot must take off from upwind of the carrier deck area.
3. The model can overfly the carrier deck a maximum of twice before making a landing attempt.

There will be 2 rounds for each pilot and their final score will be the total from both rounds.

 Points will be awarded as follows:-

Model landed on deck, arrester wire engaged, model upright, engine running        = 20 pts

Model landed on deck, arrester wire engaged, model upright, engine stopped        = 15 pts

Model landed on deck, arrester wire engaged, model on nose or u/c broken          = 10 pts

Model landed on deck, arrester wire not engaged                                                          = 5 pts

Model landed and/or rolled off deck, arrester wire engaged or not                           =   0 pts

Come and join in, it will be great fun!