2005 Competition Reports and Results

Aerobatics 3rd April 2005. Report by John Phillips

This was the first club competition of the year. The weather did not look good on Saturday night with rain and wind. Well, as normal the forecast was nearly right, Sunday dawned and there was no rain but plenty of wind. Direction was south-south-west, not the best of directions and there was a lot of it.

10 competitors turned up at the Longman and after a couple of test flights the conditions looked horrible. But with all these people come to fly we started the comp. As it turned out flying was not too bad as long as you stayed out in the middle of the bowl and there was no problem doing the manuvers in the time aloud. One thing was apparent from this comp, we do not practise acrobatics enough or have the right type of model. Still, even with the planes we had there was some very good flying to be seen.

We decided to go for a three judge system, with only two of these marking at one time and rotating between pilots. With 5 manoeuvres to fly (axle roll, loop, square loop, four point roll and Cuban eight)these being flown in that order, and marked out of ten from each judge. Then both scores added together to get total score for each manoeuvre. Then these added to give a total for the competitor’s score for the comp.

The judges where Terry, Tom and myself.

Final positions are as follows:

1st Gary Harrison
2nd Tom Noble
3rd John Phillips
4th Jim Taylor
5th Dave Cox
6th Cam Tate
7th Chris bell
8th Julian Perrott
9th John Adams
10th Colin Lennox

Julian did crash his model badly trying to do his first ever Cuban eight, but this was the only bad damage of the comp. My best memory of the day was Chris having his hand trod on by another flyer. {As we all know it is Chris who normally stands on things.}

To see some pictures from the competition click here

Club Crosscountry 19th June 2005. Report by John Phillips

Another good turn out again. Butts Lane was the venue with southeast wind and not too much of it. In my eyes the best conditions for a cross-country.

I set out a simple course along the ridge with four turn points, each one slightly further back from the ridge. You got one point for just getting to the point and one point per 360 turn you did. These had to be behind and down wind of the pilot, you were allowed up to four turns per turn point, but these where optional so you did not have to do any. And there was a spot landing near the start of the course for one point. If you landed on course you where not allowed to relaunch and your round was finished.

There was a variety of model taking part from foamy wing to big thermal type models. The pilots flying the smaller planes did struggle in the variable conduction but did not do too bad as there are a lot of bushes and trees on this site as well as a lot of turbulence behind the bush line. This type of model being more manoeuvrable helps out here.

Also good to see a young member taking part as well as our older flyers, well done to you all as this comp was harder than it looked.

Dave Cox was the real winner as he flew the furthest along the course and made it back to the start point only to miss the spot landing and the point that would have gone with it. Bad luck Dave. Gary was the only one to get the spot landing.

Results

1st Dave Cox 16 points
1st John Phillips 16 points
3rd Julian Perrott 15 Points
4th Cam Tate 14 points
5th Jim Taylor 13 Points
6th Tom Noble 12 points
7th Gary Harrison 8 points
8th Chris Bell 4 points
9th Adam Scrase 4 points
10th Colin Lennox 3 points
11th Roy sharp 1 point

As you can see 11 pilots turned out keep it up for next time speed in October.

Speed competition 23rd October 2005. Report John Phillips

(Another day that started with no wind.)
I arrived at the long man car park just after 9.15 to be greeted by some glum faces, there’s no wind they said, what are you going to do.

As it was there were some flyers all ready up the hill and flying of sorts. So I handed out the equipment among our selves to help carry it up the hill and set off. On reaching the main bowl of the Longman we were greeted with a gentle breeze from the South South West but not enough to fly...

After half an hour the wind started to pick up so we set the coarse out, by 10.30 we started the comp. Four rounds of F3Fcourse were completed best two going to your final score. There was the usual cross mix of models from foamy racers to moulded F3F planes, nine club members took part and four spectaters. Most of us improved as the comp went on and some damage to models ocorded after hard landings.

Jim won the comp but it was very close between him, Gary and myself. Most consistent of us was Julian all his times were in the 60’s, the rest had at least one time over 70 seconds.
       
1st Jim Taylor          2000
2nd John Phillips      1999
3rd Gary Harrison    1980
4th Julian Perrott       1925
5th Tom Noble         1838
6th Cam Tate            1612
7th Adam Scrase       1497
8th Chris Bell            1489
9th David Cox           1435

A good competition in not the best of conditions.

2005 Club Competition Results

It has been a good year for the club comps with a reasonable turn out for each round.
All points are a percentage of 1st placed man in each round as per f3f system of scoring.