Results f3j Milang S.A. March 2018

Hi All,

Continuing on from from our day and a half of f5j in Milang, South Aus,

After lunch on Saturday, we setup for f3j which would go through to half of Monday.

All up 29 pilots competed, and the the good weather conditions continued through the whole event, except for the first day when we got through only one round before the prevailing wind did a 180 degree turn and got strong in the opposite direction. So we lost some time turning things around, and only did one more round for the Saturday half day. 

The daily pattern was light conditions in the morning, with the wind picking up to about medium strength at some point during the day,

with that point got earlier each day. 

So typically conditions were easy enough, but occassionally a lot of us got caught out on a round with no lift in the  immediate surrounds, or following a little bit of lift back, only to not make it back within 75metres and getting a zero. 

The ground was hard and unforgiving, and landings were costly, if you were going a bit quick or didn't stab it in at a steep enough angle. It took me a couple of rounds to realise I didn't have a motor up front to protect and I could change from sliding in, back to the more acurate but less elegant dork landings.

After a few rounds Monday morning, the preliminary rounds were done, and the top 8 pitots went into the flyoffs

Top 3 from the prelim rounds:

1st Joe Wurts

2nd Jim Houdalakis

3rd Matt Wood

So after the prelims, we had the flyoffs, the top 8 pilots spread out accross other teams and we flew 3 rounds all up to determine the overall winners.

Conditions had gotten fairly breezy by now. (I stuck 200 grams in my perfection) With basically huge lift and sink, it was a matter of get to the thermal quick, and hope you could still see your plane after 15 minutes. However most of the pilots would catch 2 or 3 thermals to not get too far away.

So the overall winners were

1st Joe Wurts

2nd Kevin Botherway

3rd Jim Houdalakis

 f3j international 2018 - overall results r1-r11.xls

 f3j international flyoff 2018 - overall results r1-r3.xls

regards

JimH