General Rules 

• Flying hours are 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. seven days per week.
• Don't litter! Take out all your trash and keep the area clean.
• The last person leaving the field must make sure that the frequency board and windsock are stowed in the shack and that both gates, the shack, and the outhouse are locked.
  
• Close and lock the first gate whenever entering or leaving.
  
• Do not drive motor vehicles on the runway at any time.
  
• All transmitters must be 1991 certified per AMA guidelines.
  
• All flyers must be a member of AMA and must be able to produce for inspection at any time a current AMA membership card and R/C Bees membership card.
  
• Channel frequency number flags are required on all transmitters, except 6 meters and 2.4 ghz.
  
• The channel frequency board must be used whenever three or more flyers are present.
  
• Current AMA membership cards (or photocopy thereof) must be used on the frequency board.
  
• On the frequency board, only one card is allowed to be in a channel frequency slot at a time.
  
• All models must be identified with owners name, address, phone number and AMA number.
  
• Mufflers are required on all gas powered aircraft of .10 ci displacement and larger. No exhaust baffle type mufflers are allowed. Aircraft must meet Santa Cruz County Noise Ordinance requirements (85db @ 50 feet).
  
• No engine break-in in the spectator or pit area. Use the test stand area located at the gate end of the field.
  
• When bringing or picking up aircraft and equipment from the pit area, no auto will pass first pit area.

Flight Rules

• Guests of members are allowed to fly three times at the field before club membership is required.
  
• Motors must be started turned away from other aircraft.
  
• No more than four aircraft in the air at one time.
  
• No flying of aircraft over Thurwachter Road or within 100 feet of the house.
  
• Frequency use is limited to twenty minutes.
  
• The landing pilot has the right-of-way over any pilot taking off.
  
• Pilots must call out takeoffs and landings to other pilots on the flight line.
  
• All pilots must stay 30 feet apart on the flight line and 30 feet from the runway edge to minimize radio interference.
  
• You must not turn on a transmitter unless your AMA card is in the correct channel frequency slot and you are in a pit area or at the engine test stand.
  
• No flying towards or over pit area, or behind the pits over the river. If seaplanes are to be flown, the fixed gear runway will be closed, allowing time for seaplane flying.
  
• No gas powered flying at the field when five or more workers are in the fields on our side of the river or when field owners or their employees ask that you do not fly.  Electric park flyer aircraft (less than 2 lbs) may be flown when workers are in the field provided the aircraft remain at least 250 feet from any worker at all times.
  
• No low flying over runway or levee areas when people are on the levee. Maintain 100 foot minimum altitude over levee. Check the levee before landing.
  
• Crosswind takeoff and landing will be performed from right to left. If crosswind is not straight across runway, takeoff and landing will be into the wind. Traffic pattern is never over the river.
  
• If your aircraft has landed and cannot be taxied back, leave your transmitter in the pits during aircraft retrieval.
  
• Do not walk or run across the runway to locate or retrieve downed aircraft when anyone else is landing or taking off, and announce your intentions first.
  
• Retrieve stalled aircraft as quickly as possible from the runway. Announce your intentions to walk on the runway to others on the flight line. Do not restart an aircraft on the runway.
  
• When retrieving downed aircraft from the large field area, two persons only are allowed, and walk between rows to protect crops.