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• Limited Motor Run Competitions and F5B starting Thursday morning.  
  Sport Sailplane and Class B will take place from 9 am to 3 pm on Thursday.  Open flying begins at 3pm.  There's no additional cost to participate in the LMR or F5B contests as a registered pilot for the fun fly. Click here for the rules.
• 4th Annual "SEFF Texas Hold'em Championship of The Universe" will take place on Friday evening at 7 pm. and is being coordinated by Dave Thacker from Radical RC.  You must enter at the Radical RC booth on Friday morning.  Space is limited to the first 32 entrants.  The buy-in is $20 per person for $3000 in chips.  The game will be 5 card Texas Hold'em and will be run tournament style. We will start with 4 tables..the top finishers will take the pot. 

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Special Events

Hobby Lobby Air Drop during noon demo on Friday and Saturday.  Friday is RC toys for pilots.  Saturday is a candy drop for the kids.

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SEFF FOAMY CHALLENGE
Everyone, here’s a new event for the 09 SEFF. We’ll have a prize for the most unusual “flying thing” built out of foam.

1 Must be made of foam.

2 Must demonstrate safe, stable, controllable flight.

3 Must have flown PRIOR to SEFF, no maidens.

That’s it. It can be a cat, dog, house, car, truck, wing, tree, X, anything. Let your imagination run wild.

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SEFF EXTREME SPEED


Twice a day we are going to have a half hour of speed in the sportplane section. This will be open to planes 100 mph and faster! It will be at 1130 and 1730 each day. One catch, we will have a trial period on Thursday 1730 and Friday 1130. If we don't get enough participation, we will cancel the slot. Just won't shut down open flying if not enough pilots want to fly.

1, All pilots will get a briefing as to rules for extreme speed.

2, Flight path will be altered to make sure we have more separation with the crowd.

3, You will need to be at the flight line, get a briefing, and be ready to GO when the slot opens.
number two thing to post.

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SEFF Ultimate Destruction Combat

When:  Right after noon demos at show center

Any air worthy plane can fly in the event.
The limit on battery will be a 2 or 3 cell with 1320mAh Max.

Start the horn with full contact, as your out step back away from the flight line, when plane/pilot count gets to 6, I will have 6 judges ready to step up assigned to each pilot to start counting impacts upon a second horn sound for the final 2 minute countdown, Any model(s) involved in an impact hitter/hitty scores a point via judges official tally not pilots. Both or multiple planes score per impact. The winner would be declared by most impacts. In case of tie draw straws from clenched fist for shortest.

This is like a qualify heat with a final all in one, then ultimate luck if your skills are equal. This format should limit duration as well as purpose built duration models with no manueverability or combat skills strictly entering on luck.

• Best New Product Released at SEFF
• Best of Show

Please see details here for these categories.

• We will double the number of porta potties and have them serviced daily.
• We are tweaking our Thursday schedule:
  • We will create one area on the flying site to allow spread spectrum controlled parkflyer aircraft to fly during the Thursday LMR contest.  This area will be placed as far away from the gliders' flight path as possible and will be limited in size.  The goal is to allow the early attenders to get some form of flying in during Thursday.  At 3pm, open flying will commence for all aircraft types.
• Flightline:
  • Parkflyers will be show center.  3D on west end / sportplanes remain at east end
  • We will add a helicopter area and the far west end of the field beyond the 3D area
  • we will add a few more parkflyer pilot stations
  • the sportplane area will be in the same place as usual, however, we will move the pilot stations further away from the pit area so that the pilots have a smoother runway
  • We will probably have a few more flightline bosses as that worked well this past year.
• We will offer to pay the BBQ team more to ensure that they do not run out of any food. 
• There will be a $20 RV parking fee if your RV is not parked in one of the reserved spots thru Hodges Hobbies.  (See camping details below for all the details)
• We are going to double the quantity of SEFF beer brewed.  We will be increasing the bottled beer from 20 gallons to 30 gallons.  The beer is complimentary and no purchase is required to get any.  It is not part of the menu during the BBQ dinner.  Pilots at the BBQ dinner get first priority for the collectors edition of the bottled beer.  We will also have 10 gallons in kegs for non pilots and "refills".

Well, you know Southern Hospitality isn't complete without throwing a BBQ.  Around 6:30 we will be serving the South's finest BBQ dinner.  The cost per person is $10 and tickets can be purchased on the online registration form.  You must purchase your tickets in advance so that we know how much food to have available. 
BBQ artfully prepared by the Grillmasters Team of GA 
Menu:
14-hour oak fired, smoked and chopped pork...yummm, BBQ sauce on the side (the only way to do it), cole slaw, baked beans, potato chips, pickles, bread, cookies, sweet & unsweet tea
BYOC = Bring your own chair

Coffee, Juice, Lemonade, Bottled Water, Coke, Diet Coke -- $1
Breakfast:
2 Sausage Biscuits -- $2.25
2 Scrambled Eggs, 2 Sausage Patties, biscuit -- $3.50
Banana Nut & Blueberry Muffins -- $1.25

Lunch / Dinner:
8 oz. Sirloin Burger with sides & chips -- $6
6 oz. Marinated Grilled Spicy Chicken Sandwich with sides & chips -- $5.50
6 oz. Grilled Ribeye Steak Sandwich with sides & chips -- $6
All beef hotdog with sides, pickles & chips -- $2.50
Chicken Salad or Tuna Salad on bed of lettuce with vegetables and crackers -- $5.25
12 oz. Soup -- $3.75

Desert
Cookies 2/$1
Brownies $1

These prices are a few years old and I think they went up a little.  I'm leaving the prices up so that you have a general idea of the costs.

1.  Spots with electrical hookups:

There are a limited number of electrical hookups for RV's available right in the pit area.  However, you must contact Mac Hodges (property owner) to reserve a spot.  There is a small fee to use the hookups. You can get more information by calling Mac at (866)924-9505  Pilot's RV's will get first priority on the property. If you have a space reserved with Mac Hodges that has hookups…you won’t have to pay the $20 RV parking fee listed below.

2.  Spots with no hookups:  (just a parking space)

RV parking pass details:
The fee is $20 and covers the entire weekend.
Pilots with RV’s will need to pay the $20 RV parking fee and the pilot registration fee of $25.
Spectator’s with RV’s will need to pay the $20 RV parking fee and this will cover parking and admissions for the entire weekend.
There are no hookups with this pass. You must contact Hodges Hobbies about hookups….but we can tell you they are already sold out if you did not get a spot last year.
You will be directed to the available parking areas for RV’s when you get to the field.
You will receive a special RV parking pass that needs to be displayed on the driver side windshield. The pass will be emailed to you right before the event.