Well the 77th Nationals are not far away now. The dates are confirmed as the 29th Dec 2024 to the 3rd Jan 2025 and will held at Clareville as the last nats were. The event schedule is still being worked out. Once it has been confirmed, we will advise. Online registration opens on the 1st of November 2024. If you could get your entries in early, it helps the organisers for planning. Note that if you enter in November, the registration fee is $50; if you enter in December 2024 or January 2025, the registration fee is $70. Save some money by registering early. Note that if you are 25 years of age and under, the registration fee is waived. Once you have submitted the online registration form, you will receive a confirmation email. Please review this email. Note that you can come back and enter more events if you wish. However you cannot remove any entries because you may have already paid online. Final entries can be sorted at registration.
Countdown to Registration:
The results of the last 76th Nationals can be found here.
The MFNZ nationals are held every year to allow MFNZ members to compete against each other in various disciplines at a nationals level. Typically they are held in early January each year to take advantage of the long summer days and the end of the Christmas/New Year holidays. Usually competitors number between 110 to 150 and come from all areas of New Zealand… and sometimes overseas. There are a number of trophies that competitors compete for and there are champions for the various disciplines and then the champion of champions.
The nationals require a lot of organisation as there are normally around 90 events which are flown over 5 flying fields, over 5 days. Each event can have from 3 to 30 entries so it’s quite a bit of work to get them to run smoothly. The last few years, the nationals have been held at Clareville near Carterton in the Wairapapa which is fairly central in terms of the whole of New Zealand and the flying fields are grouped relatively close (there are some quite specific requirements for some events).
Note that if you enter events which you subsequently can’t fly, and advise us at registration, we will give you a refund if you have already paid for those event(s) via the internet.
You can see the current status of entries by visiting this page.
Click here for the Event Program
All MFNZ members are welcome to come and even compete, even if you haven’t been before, it’s a great experience.