Combat!  2025

New Rules

The 2025! Combat Season is here. And this year, there were no changes so we are using the 2024 rules again.

As many of you know, the formal rules for Combat! hadn't changed since 2012. As a result, they were long overdue for review and updating. There are no changes to the basic combat rules, but a few minor safety and scoring changes were needed. The new rules were discussed and approved at the Competition Clinic on Saturday, March 30th, 2024 and are still in effect this year.

Please look over the 2024 rules and score sheet and send any thoughts to the Combat Coordinator.

Join Combat!

If you have never flown in a combat contest, you're missing out. It's lots of fun, it doesn't cost much to get involved and it greatly improves your flying skills.

Basic requirements?

A qualified airplane; contact the Combat Coordinator for details.

Flying skills?

If you can land and take-off, then you have what it takes to get involved. Combat flying will help you improve your flying. It will help you learn how to put the airplane exactly where you want it. It also helps you become more aware of where other aircraft are in the air, without loosing sight of your own plane. Both are great skills to have even when you're not flying combat and just burning holes in the sky on a Sunday morning.

During the spring and summer, the combat pilots compete at 12 noon on the first Saturday of each month, right after the racing finishes and we eat lunch. A hearty Congratulations! is presented to the winner of each combat session and an award is given out for the overall points winner of the year.

Interested?

Contact the Combat Coordinator at combat@kitsaparcs.org.