FlyMiPPG at Walter RC Park Event Field

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PPG friendly
Yes
Authorization
Required
Club / contract
Required
Launch faces
Not listed
Forecast point
Ready
Access notes
Walter RC Park is a private nonprofit recreation property used for the recurring FlyMiPPG event. The September 2025 listing documents the sixth annual fly-in at this address, while the USPPA record documents explicit PPG launch and landing use on more than 300 acres with a private manicured LZ. Use is limited to a currently announced event or separate current permission from the Walter property and FlyMiPPG organizers. Complete the current registration, waiver, donation or fee, arrival, camping, pilot, and flight-line process before entering or flying; older event invitations do not create standing public access.
Site rules
  • Obtain current Walter RC Park and FlyMiPPG organizer authorization before entering or flying; this private event-field row is intentionally red as well as club/contract controlled.
  • Use the property only during a currently announced event or under separate current owner/organizer instructions; verify registration, waiver, donation or fee, pilot eligibility, arrival, parking, camping, guest, and quiet-hour terms.
  • Follow the current briefing, sterile flight-line boundary, launch and landing sequence, pattern, spectator separation, motor-start, fuel, fire, and emergency procedures supplied on site.
  • Coordinate explicitly with the resident radio-control club and every other active property use; never assume a model runway or older event layout is clear for a PPG operation.
  • Do not navigate to the published coordinate as a gate, parking point, launch line, or LZ. Use the current organizer's arrival and field-layout instructions.
  • Check current FAA airspace, NOTAMs, TFRs, weather, surface condition, obstacles, wires, people, water, crops, and emergency outs before every operation.
Direction notes
No current source publishes field-specific compass headings or wind limits; none are inferred from the open-land description or model-aircraft runways.
Safety notes
  • The older USPPA event record describes more than 300 acres of open land and a private manicured LZ, but it does not guarantee today's usable launch line, mowing, crop state, obstacle clearance, or wind suitability.
  • Walter RC Park is an active multi-use recreation property with model-aircraft runways, tracks, trails, camping, water access, vehicles, spectators, and other participants. The current event briefing and traffic separation plan are essential.
  • No current source publishes wind limits, launch headings, a surveyed LZ boundary, a PPG traffic pattern, obstacle distances, or an emergency plan. Inspect the assigned launch and landing area before operation.
  • The displayed event point is 14.232 km from operational FAA facility 6MI5 U-M Health Sparrow Ionia heliport and intersects no current Restricted or Prohibited polygon.
  • The clean point screen is not route clearance. Review the full intended flight, nearby aviation activity, current NOTAMs and TFRs, and all temporary event restrictions.
Additional notes
Added in the PPG-heavy completeness pass because two event records establish recurring, explicit non-airport PPG launch and landing use at the same named private property. It remains an event/permission-controlled red field, not a year-round public launch.
Map pin (approximate field)
Published Gaggle event coordinate at the Walter RC Park venue. It identifies the recurring event property but is not a surveyed PPG launch, gate, parking location, flight line, or LZ.
Navigation warning
PRIVATE EVENT PROPERTY - coordinate marks the venue only. Obtain current organizer/owner authorization and use the supplied gate, parking, launch, and landing instructions.

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