Hi all,

The first comp of the new year was F3K (Hand Launch) and it was a lot of fun at Royal Park in the city. The weather was kind to us and it was a beautiful day for a fly.

We flew a number of different taks including Last 2, Ladder, 1234, Last 3 and AULD which made the tactics just as important as the flying.

We spent some time having a relaxing luch where I helped set up Jim's Blaster 3, Hugh sold some planes and we had a visit from Tom Dupuche and Alan Frost who came along for a look and a chat.

A big thanks to Tim for organising the venue and getting the approvals from the council.

A fun day was had by all:

1st Marcus

2nd Hugh

3rd Tim

f3k1-overall_results.pdf

f3k1-flight_scores.pdf

Cheers,

Marcus

Final Results

Congratulations to everyone who participated in a very successful series of RCGA Leagues.

Well done to:

Grand Champion League

1. Marcus Stent

2. David Pratley

3. Jim Houdalakis

rcga2012-13_grand_champion_league-final_results.pdf

Thermal League

1. David Hobby

2. Bernie Sizer

3. Carl Strautins

rcga2012-13_thermal_league-final_results.pdf

F3K League

1. Marcus Stent

2. Jon Day

3. Brett Anthony

rcga2012-13_f3k_league-final_results.pdf

F3B League

1. Marcus Stent

2. David Pratley

3. Jim Houdalakis

rcga2012-13_f3b_league-final_results.pdf

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May update...

Thermal League

Bernie moves into first position with a great win on the weekend. David Moves into third now that he has completed 5 events. It will all come down to Jerilderie!

Progressive standings:

1. Bernie sizer

2. Jim Houdalakis

3. David Hobby

rcga_2012-13_thernal_league-progressive.pdf

F3K League

Jon had a great win in the May F3K event and is continuing to improve in the lead up to the F3K World Championships. With 2 events still to run it will be a very close finish.

Progressive standings:

1. Marcus Stent

2. Jon Day

3. Brett Anthony

rcga2012-13_f3k_league-progressive27may13.pdf

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April Update...

Marcus has taken the lead in the Grand Champion League, but not by much...

1st Marcus Stent

2nd David Pratley

3rd Jim Houdalakis

rcga2012-13_grand_champion_league-progressive24april13.pdf

The thermal Lague top 3 have not chaged, but David Hobby is making a late run for the title with some recent good results...

1st Jim Houdalakis

2nd David Pratley

3rd Graham Norman

rcga2012-13_thermal_progressive_totals_april13.pdf

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March Update

With only Milang flown this month and the F3K event cancelled due to bad weather, we have updates on the Thermal League and the Grand Champion League

rcga_grand_champion_league-progressive_29march13.pdf

1st David Pratley

2nd Jim Houdalakis

3rd Gerry Carter

rcga_thermal_league-progressive29march13.pdf

1st Jim Houdalakis

2nd David Pratley

3rd Graham Norman

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Feb update:

Grand Champion

rcga_2012-13_grand_champion_league-progressive_21feb13.pdf David now moves into 1st pace with a good F3K result and a win in F3B.

Thermal

rcga_2012-13-thermal_progressivetotals_feb.pdf - No change to the top 3. Graham Norman moves into 4th with another League win.

F3K

rcga_2012-13-f3k_progressivetotals_feb.pdf - Jon moves up to second place with a good result in the last league event.

F3B

rcga_2012-13-f3b_progressivetotals_feb.pdf  - No change but the scores are now very tight with the top 4 only separated by 8 points.

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A late Januarry Update.

Grand Champion League

Even though Gerry won the latest Open Thermal event, we see Jim move up into first place and David move into third place after very good showings in the 2 recent F3K league events. Watch out when David completes one more F3K event!

1sr Jim Houdalakis

2nd Gerry Carter

3rd David Pratley

rcga_2012-13_grand_champion_league-progressive_23jan13.pdf

Thermal League

A first place from Gerry and a second place from Daniel in the latest event see's them move up into second and third place respectively. 

1st Jim Houdalakis

2nd Gerry Carter

3rd Daniel Haskell

rcga_2012-13_open_thermal_league-progressive_23jan13.pdf

F3K League

Two more events in the F3K league and there are no changes in the placings. Watch out for Jon Day when he completes one more event. 

1st Marcus Stent

2nd Hugh Blackburn

3rd Brett Anthony

rcga_2012-13_f3k_league-progressive_23jan13.pdf

F3B League

No new events, so no change.

1st Marcus Stent

2nd David Pratley

3rd Jim Houdalakis

rcga_2012-13-f3b_progressivetotals.pdf

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1st Jan 2013 - Archive

Hi All,

As we turn the corner into the New Year, please see below the progressive scores for the different 2012/13 RCGA leagues.

A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all from the RCGA

Marcus

Grand Champion League

1st Gerry Carter

2nd Jim Houdalakis

3rd Marcus Stent

Thermal League

1st Jim Houdalakis

2nd Bernie Sizer

3rd Theo Arvanitakis

F3K League

1st Marcus Stent

2nd Hugh Blackburn

3rd Brett Anthony

F3B League

1st Marcus Stent

2nd David Pratley

3rd Jim Houdalakis

Hi all,

Jerilderie now stands for "awesome weather" in the dictionary of the Thermal Gods because we have had another year of fantastic weather.

The F3J WC team for 2014 has now been selected and congratulations go to Matt Lowe, Carl Strautins and Nick Chabrell. David Hobby missed the team by just 0.011 of a point...so close!

Congratulations to all the competitors and winners:

Open Thermal Expert

1st Joe Wurts

2nd Matt Lowe

3rd Carl Strautins

Open Thermal Advanced

1st Daniel Haskell

2nd Gerry Carter

3rd Scott Lennon

Open Thermal Sportsman

1st Eddie Meester

2nd Carl Knack

3rd Bruce Nye

jerilderie_2013_overall_results.pdf

jerilderie_2013_flight_scores.pdf

F3K Hand Launch 

1st Joe Wurts

2nd Marcus Stent

3rd Hugh Blackburn

f3k 9_jerilderie_overall_ results.pdf

f3k9_jerilderie_flight_scores.pdf

Perfect Flight - Nick Chabrel

Landing Champion - Joe Wurts

A great time was had by all and it was an excellent way to finish off the year. I will update all the league scores shortly and we will have our end of season celebrations and prize giving soon!

Cheers,

Marcus

Hugh, Marcus and Jon with Tim on the Camera. The XXL was the weapon of choice. And yes, we are squinting to keep the rain out of our eyes! 

Hi all,

4 competitors braved the cold and rainy conditions to enjoy a fun day of F3K.

Congratulations to:

1st Marcus Stent

2nd Jon Day

3rd Tim Lennon

f3k_diggers_2june13-flight_scores.pdf

f3k_diggers_2june13-overall_results.pdf

We had a lot of pilots out enjoying some Open Thermal Jerilderie practice and other than the frequent rain showers a great day was had by all.

Roll on Jerilderie!

Marcus

From left to right

Tom Dupuche, Dan Haskell, David Pratley,

Alan Mayhew, Gerry Carter, Bernie Sizer,

Theo Arvanitakis, David Hobby, Rod Watkins,

Jim Houdalakis, Nick Watkins (in front)

Eleven pilots made the trip to Ballarat for a great days competition and once again were made to feel very welcome by the Ballarat Aeromodellers. It is always a treat to go to Ballarat because the field is wonderful and the members look after us so well. They put on a great barbeque lunch for us once again and I must say that having hot food on a cold day was very welcome. We thank them for that.  There's a photo of the chefs at work just below.

It was good to see Rod Watkins (and junior helper) back again and Tom Dupuche was flying some new models (may explain his lower than usual placing).  Unfortunately Graham Norman had to pull out after the first few rounds.

The day was fairly cold, but not too cold. There was some drizzle for a short while but we flew right through that without any problems. Lift? Could be difficult to find and when found was often not very strong. But most flight groups made their target time. Wind? Also not too strong and lightened off in the later part of the day. So overall we had very good and sometimes quite challenging conditions.

In the end it turned out to be a two person contest with an extremely small margin separating them.  Nobody else was within striking distance.

Congratulations to everybody but especially to

1. Bernie Sizer (6987)
2. David Hobby (6985)
3.Theo Arvanitakis (6622)

Click on the liinks to see the full results.

Overall Results
Flight Scores
Landing Scores

The Ballarat Chefs.  Thanks guys.

Sundays F5J had a good turnout for a cold day

We had 6 pilots turn up with 5 different models

2 pulsars,1 Maxa ,1 AVA,1 Supra and 1 Egida so a good selection of models to see

All had the same sort of power around 2-300 watts

It was good to see pilots worked out that they did not need to go high as quite a lot went over the 200m and took the pain when a large amount of points where taken off

1st place went to Tim, well flown Tim

2nd to David and 3rd to Grant

Results here f5j05-05-2013.pdf

 Regards

 Dave

F3K#7

7 competitors enjoyed a cool and breezy day of F3K and in particular it was good practice for the Aussie F3K team of Jon, Hugh and Marcus. 

1st JonDay

2nd Marcus Stent

3rd Brett Anthony

Jon flew a very clever competition and showed great tactics and clever flying to win the day.

Marcus flew his XXL for the first time and did well, only to be let down by a few tactical mistakes and trying different setups with his new plane

Brett showed he still has the knack with his Salpeters and flew well.

Dave flew well with his Blaster 3.

Hugh suffered from the odd outlanding and some agressive Poker calls that he missed by only a few seconds.

Gerry had a some nice flight.

Tim had a broken boom and lost a few rounds. 

A great morning was had by all.

f3k_diggers_may13-overall.pdf

f3k_diggers_may13-flight_scores.pdf

Gerry's bright Green Blaster 3

Hi all,

The Victorian State Thermal Championships were run and won over the weekend of the 21/22 April at Diggers Rest and the conditions were very challeging. Breezy conditions on Saturday turned into very windy conditions on the Sunday, so those that did well thoroughly deserved their rewards.

A big thanks to our interstate competitors of Greg Potter, Robert Gunn and Nick Chabrell who made the effort to drive over from Adelaide for the event. It really added to the atmosphere and a great time was had by all!

Congratulations to the winners 

1st David Hobby

2nd Daniel Haskell

3rd Nick Chabrell

victorian_state_thermal_champs-overall.pdf

Thermal League 7 was scored from Saturday's results and Thermal League 8 was scored from Sunday's results

thermal_league7-overall_results.pdf

thermal_league8-overall_results.pdf

league7-flight_scores-duration.pdf

league8-flight_scores-duration.pdf

Cheers,

Marcus

Graham and his Espada

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