Open Thermal #7 Milang 7-8 Mar 15

OPEN THERMAL #7 MILANG SA 7-8 MAR 2015

Every once in a while an event comes along that has everything. The organisation, the competitors, the location, the weather. This was one of those. It takes a lot of effort by a lot of people to put together an event as good as this. A big THANK YOU to all of you.

35 pilots in 9 teams arrived for two days of F3J (with winches) competition. 12 preliminary rounds were flown, eight on the Saturday and four on Sunday. The top eight pilots then flew three 15 minute fly-off rounds to decide the winner.

There was a good breeze practically all the time, but not too much, and thermals were sometimes extremely elusive and sometimes as powerful as you could wish for. The log of one pilot's flight showed a maximum altitude of 1016 metres. That's high! We had full cloud cover at times and full sun at others. With three minutes between flight groups everybody was kept busy and we did a lot of flying.

After the dust settled the top three pilots were extremely close with 4.03 points between first and second, and 1.22 points between second and third (the next pilot was 382 points behind).
Congratulations to

1. Mike O'Reilly 2992.82
2. Marcus Stent 2988.79
3. David Hobby 2987.57

Preliminary Rounds
f3j_overall_results_r1-r12_2015.pdf
flight_scores_preliminary_rounds.pdf

Fly-0ff Rounds
f3j_flyoff_results_r1-r3_2015.pdf
flight_scores_flyoff_rounds.pdf

RCGA Thermal League - Progress Results

Full table of results for RCGA Thermal League here - rcga_thermal_league.pdf