The South Meadow of Rancho San Antonio County Park is home to an active community of regular flyers, who share the space with joggers, hikers and other park enthusiasts.

It's a lovely site, with a backdrop of rolling green hills. The takeoff and landing strip runs roughly north to south, with flyers facing west-southwest. Best fly early in the day: in late afternoon the sun gets mean. The flight line is hard-packed dirt, so many pilots use wheels for takeoff and landing.

Like Baylands Park in Sunnyvale, RSA is a public park with non-gas model-airplane-friendly management. The park is managed by the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District through an agreement with Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department. Admission and parking are free. In addition to parking facilities, the park maintains restrooms.

The flight line features a frequency control board. The flying group requires all flyers except those on 2.4GHz to use a frequency pin as long as they are at the field. More information regarding frequency control and field customs can be found in the Files section of the Yahoo! Group RSAelectricflyers. Access to these files requires membership in this informative and sometimes humorous Yahoo!-hosted mailing list which is moderated by Ron Fikes, a genial and creative builder and flyer.

Just behind the flight line is a parking lot, so pilots have to keep their planes in front of themselves.

A hundred feet or so in front of the RSA flight line runs a 30-foot-deep gully and a downslope. Beyond the gully lie woodlands and, in the distance, hills and powerlines.