What a glorious day....

Hi all,

Wow! I'd like to thank whoever sacrificaed the virgins to the weather Gods, it was an awesome day!

9 Pilots ejoyed a layed back day with 7 rounds and no droppers! This proved to bring a few pilots undone and I am pleased to say that David Pratley was the best Thermal pilot on the day and thoroughly deserved a well earnt win.

Great effort Dave! A great performance also by Tom DuPuche saw him come in Second and a consistent performance by Bernie saw him come in Third. A special mention to Marcus who flew his 2.7Kg 'Machine' F3B model to a nice 4th place. 

We had Bob Wilson come along and join in the fun and he did his first ever winch launch. Well done Bob and some of your thermalling throughout the day was excellent.

Congratulations to:

1st David Pratley

2nd Tom DuPuche

3rd Bernie Sizer

thermal_1_201314_overall_results.pdf

thermal_1_201314_flight_scores.pdf

Cheers,

Marcus

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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.

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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