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RCGA November 2017 F5J Round 1

Sorry for the delay, but here are the results from our previous f5j event.

If you reschedule an event enough times eventually you will get nice weather, and I’d say we pretty much ended up with perfect weather. Low wind, blue skies, low 20’s temperature, made for very competitive conditions and not  a day for conservative flying. Every time I thought I’d gotten away from the lowest launch, someone else had launched lower, so although annoying, was a lot of fun pushing for even lower launch in the next heat.

For such nice conditions, there were quite a few motor start issues, my plane managed to uninstall its motor on startup after a heavy landing in the previous heat (it was easy to come in too fast because it was so calm at times, or landing through lift.) I didn’t have a backup, so that was me out for the last 3 rounds, and so I concentrated on cd’ing for the rest of the day.

In the end, congratulations go to

Dave Milward 1st

Hugh Blackburn 2nd

Bob Wilson 3rd

 

and Hugh gets a special mention for the lowest launch winning heat of 27 metres,

Here's the results:

 pdf rcga-f5j-flightscores-12-11-2017.pdf

pdf rcga-f5j-overallresults-12-11-2017-.pdf

 

Since the December comp. was also cancelled due to bad weather, I’m going to try to arrange an f5j event for Feb at Diggers...stay tuned,

otherwise, I’ll see the rest of you f5j flyers at Armidale over the Australia Day weekend in Jan,

Merry Christmas,

Happy New Year,

and I'll see you in the sky in 2018,

regards

Jim

RCGA September 2017 Thermal Round 1

You couldn’t ask for a nicer day to kick off the 2017-2018 RCGA competition season. Compared to the weather roller coaster melbourne has been in the last few weeks, with usually a hurricane for our first few events in Spring,
Sunday was calm with mostly blue skies, and even warmish in the sun.
On the minus side numbers were a bit down as there were quite a few of our regulars on holidays interstate or overseas, or struck down by the flu going around.
Although we were joined by an overseas competitor in form of David Hobby, so the standard of competition was going to be even higher.
Because of the light conditions, and forecasts showing wildly varying wind directions, It took a while to decide on the winch line direction. I think we were launching into wind by the end of the day, but mostly off by 90 degrees or more. I was having fun trying to go around on launch, and sometimes I even managed not to stuff it up. Launches were made tougher by the lowish bright sun directly ahead, catching some pilots out.
It was a typical nice days flying, with lift present all day, light in the morning strong in the middle of the day, and softening by the end of the day, and with the sink not too vicious.
We flew eight rounds, and it came down to landings for the top 3 three pilots, having made all their times.
Congrats to :
Marcus Stent 1st
Jim houdalakis 2nd
David Hobby 3rd
and thanks to everyone that help run the event,
regards Jim Houdalakis
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Graham and Dan
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Dave Hobby
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Jim and David Pratley
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Marcus burying landing tape to bounce back to 99
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Final League Results 2016/2017

Final League Results

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the 2016/2017 season and to the place getters of each league.

F3K Hand Launch Glider

f3kprogressivefinal2017.pdf

Open Thermal

thermalleague2016_17_final.pdf 

F5J Electric Glider

f5j progressive 2016-17.pdf

Grand Champion

2017 grand champion.pdf

Results and Report Open Thermal #9 Diggers Rest

RGCA 09 Thermal Event Diggers Rest 21 May 2017

Eight pilots competed for the penultimate RCGA event of the year and an important opportunity to fine tune models before Jerilderie. The forecast was for fine weather with higher northerly winds in the morning abating in the afternoon and this is what happened. I measured gust of up to 20 knots in the morning and at times it was dead still in the afternoon. With the winches set up to the north the pilots also had to deal with the inconvenient sun position with a few hairy moments!

With the eight pilots divided into two groups of four we were kept busy with everyone doing something each heat. As a result, we managed to get through 8 rounds well before the winter sun set. Lift was sometime hard to come by and many did not make their time and there were heats won without a 10 minute flight. There were also a number of out landings particularly in the morning with the higher wind strength and I for one took the “walk of shame”!

During the day, the lead changed on numerous occasions with every pilot carrying at least one “dropper” but in the end Jim prevailed with consistent flying ahead of the in form David Pratley flying a new very light Maxa in second and Marcus in Third.

Next up Jerilderie – look forward to seeing you all there!

Daniel Haskell

1st Place Jim Houdalakis

2nd Place David Pratley

3rd Place Marcus Stent

2017_rcga 09 overall results.pdf

2017_rcga 09 ind fl scores.pdf

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