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Thermal #6 Milang F3J

f3jhero

Thermal #6, F3J Milang International

Seven pilots from Victoria made the trip over and enjoyed some great weather, great competition and great hospitality from the SSL club. Thanks for putting on such a great event!

Congratulations to:

1st David Hobby

2nd Nick Chabrell

3rd Mike O'Reilly

f3j_international_2013-flyoff_results.pdf

In the preliminaries it was:

1st Carl Strautins

2nd David Hobby

3rd Bernie Sizer.

f3j_international_2013-prelim_results.pdf

I got the following from Jim Houdalakis.  Thanks Jim..

Details:
24 fliers 6 teams of 4
Saturday:
Overcast, hot, humid, some showers mid day. Really calm conditions and hard to pick lift. It was also downwind launches for atleast 6 of the 8 rounds on Saturday. I zigged when i shouldve zagged twice on the Saturday, so I was sitting in 8th

Sunday:

Was the same as Saturday but with blue skies and hotter. Lift was a bit stronger so I found it a bit easier. So by the end of prelims I climbed to 7th but not good enough, 12 points short of Jamie in 6th.

Those who had light planes had the easier time of it.

Only Carl didn't have a dropper. David Hobby only had one because he snapped a super light joiner in his perfection on launch. Ignoring Sambas warning not to winch with this joiner.

Prelims our team did best Carl 1st Hobby 2nd, Bernie 3rd then Nick 4th Mike 5th Jamie 6th

After lunch Sunday started the flyoffs which got windier once the sea breeze kicked in. (no more flying superlights)
It was tough flying in the heat for an hour with 3 short breaks to reset. I think the whole weekend we got to mid 30 temperatures.

I called for David Hobby who was very consistent and won with 4 x 15 minute flights and good landings
Second was Nick, Third was Mike.

Carl gambled on the first heat with a fast launch and had to relaunch, he cracked his boom at the tail at some point and his rudder was drooping so he was out of action.
Bernie fluttered his ailerons in the first heat so he didn't do so well.

Still fun had by all,
you should've been there!

Jim

Open Thermal 17 Feb, 2013

Tim_Lennon

Tim Lennon on approach.


Hi all,


The Thermal league event was held on Sunday as part of the F3B event. Graham Norman flew his Agida and showed great thermal skills in difficult (very cyclic) conditions and was the only one not to drop significant flight time. Marcus finished second flying his 2.7Kg Machine and David third with his Fosa. Interestingly there was only 35 points between 2nd and 6th.

Well done to:

1st Graham Norman, Agida

2nd Marcus Stent, Machine

3rd David Pratley, Fosa

thermal_league5_overall_results.pdf

thermal_league5_flight_scores.pdf

The 2 x Distance tasks flown in the middle of the Thermal day were a great success giving Daniel and Tom a chance to fly distance with their thermal models. Daniel won their first encounter 19 to 15 and then Tom got his revenge 17 to 9 in the second. They thoroughly enjoyed the challenge and recommended we do it again in the future. The 2 rounds of distance took less than 1.5 hrs to run and we only stopped at 6 Rounds (4PM) because of the 35 degree heat.

 

Marcus

Open Thermal #4 13 Jan 2013

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Relaxation at lunch time in a very dry field.

Hi All,

The fourth RCGA Open Thermal League event for 2012/13 was held at Diggers Rest on Sunday 13th January.

It was good to have eleven pilots turn out for what turned out to be an interesting day. 

The field was made available for those wanting to practice their F3K skills for next weeks World Championship Team selection trials.  They took a spot way off in the distance so this caused no problems at all.  We had an overcast day and despite this the thermal activity continued quite strongly throughout the day.

So, what was interesting? 

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