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Dubai Masters RC championship showcases millions in RC tech
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2/12/2025
Close to Dh2 million worth of remotely-controlled (RC) aircrafts are competing at the first Dubai Masters RC championship today at the SkyHub RC campus in Al Lisaili flying field on the Dubai-Al Ain Road.
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Hello, I'm at the Skyhub RC Flying Club at Le Cieli, where scores of hobbyists have gathered
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to take part in an RC Flying Club Championship that is taking place from today until the
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26th.
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The hobbyists, most of them wannabe pilots, are bringing their fancy remote-controlled
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planes and flying them here at the event.
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It's our pleasure to host this event and to organize for this event and try to make the
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best out of it and to really attract all the tourists and all the international pilots
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to come to Dubai, to come to Skyhub RC Club to practice their hobbies as much as they
00:43
can.
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We have, until today, 70 competitors.
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And those 70 competitors from many different countries, they all attended here to be with
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us in Dubai.
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We have three categories and the first category, we have like two groups.
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The first category, we have the RC helicopters, we have two, the international and we have
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the GCC countries and the residents of GCC countries.
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So we have to give the chance for everybody who's living with us in Dubai.
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We'd love to see everybody all together in Dubai.
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I'm flying in the jet category.
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It's one of the basic classes that we're going to be flying.
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It's going to be a five-minute flight, which is basically a freestyle flight with three
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compulsory manoeuvres that we've got to complete during that five minutes of freestyle flying.
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So the first one we've got to do is a loop, so it's just a general basic inside loop.
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Second manoeuvre is just a roll, a nice axial roll.
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And the third one is just an inverted pass.
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And then, yeah, obviously around that we can put in any manoeuvres that we choose to do
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for the time of five minutes.
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Our most important thing and the most paramount subject will be the safety operation.
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The operational safety and the safety of our club members, our spectators, our visitors.
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With the amount of fuel that it can carry, around six to seven litres is more than enough
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to explode in there.
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So we make sure that they fly safe, they don't get closer to the specific areas, they try
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to stay away as much as they can.
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And if they have an emergency, they shout loud that they do have an emergency.
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For me, as an aviator, I like to recommend our starter boys, our rookie pilots, to start
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with high wing aircraft, like a Cessna 172 type of model, which creates...
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That's a trainer, actually.
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That's how we, as aviators, start flying as well.
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Trainer with high wing, very slow speeds, so everything can progress as the proficiency
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increases as well.
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You can start from 50 dirhams to 150,000 dirhams.
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So when I say 50 dirhams, we are talking about the small toys, because, you know, the kids
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and they love to start with those small helicopters, airplanes, they buy it from petrol station
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or anywhere, it's like a toy.
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But this is mostly, it is the beginning for many of the pilots.
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Then you can go for the normal airplanes, maybe it will cost 5,000 dirhams, 7,000.
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Then there's like some 12,000.
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This one, to make it to fly, it costs like 25,000, again, this dirhams.
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This is a small one, this is 2.2.
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That one, it will cost around 35,000.
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This one costs, ready to fly with everything, like 11,000.
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So it depends on the people.
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If he have 11,000, he can buy like this.
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If he have 25, he can buy this.
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This one, it's less price from the other one.
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So it's same like the cars, you have so many brands, each brand have different.
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Again, it use the same concept, power board, turbine and electronics, the servos and...
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What's it called?
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This one, actually, this one, a scale plane, it's similar to a real one, it's called SuperGal.
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This is a Yugoslavian plane, in the real, yeah.
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We ran into the world's youngest remote control pilot, Nasir Ahmad Nasir.
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He's all of eight years old and very enthusiastic.
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He's the youngest pilot in the fixed wings, because we have also helicopter.
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So, he will fly his fixed wings.
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He will fly tomorrow and today later in the opening ceremony, he's flying as well.
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It's been a fascinating afternoon watching the preparations for the first ever Dubai
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Masters RC Championship that's being held at the Skyhub Dubai in the Lisi Ali Field Campus.
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70 pilots from the UAE, the Gulf and internationally will be taking part at the three-day event
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and will be showcasing their favorite model aircraft.
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Close to 2 million worth of model aircraft are set to be on display at the event.
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Prize money for the championship is set at $70,000, which is close to the room's $275,000.
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All in all, I think it's going to be an exciting affair.
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So, good luck to all the participants.
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This is Anjana Kumar with Gulf News.
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