f3k#1 Longwood 31 August 2014

Hugh Jim John David

Hugh, Jim, John, David

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First comp of the RCGA season to clear the cobwebs, with a beautiful day's flying F3K competition. Five of us made the trip to Longwood, 1.5 hour drive North of Melbourne, (1.5 hours South for Dave and I (Jim) who spent Saturday in Cobram flying scale)

So here's Hugh Blackburn's report...

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Round 1 at Longwood - a fantastic day's flying with beautiful weather: light Northerly breeze up to 4 m/s max, sun all day, skies mostly blue. Newcomer to our local F3K comp but an experienced glider guider, Dave Milward, arrived with a trailer full of scale sailplanes and an XXlite - he is the first person I can think of who has made the 'reverse transition' from scale to handlaunch! We look forward to seeing you again Dave. Marcus had a very impressive first outing with his new Aerial and carried the day with it. Well done Marcus! See the Aerial thread for his comments.

Scores and rankings after 1 drop, 9 rounds flown.

1. Marcus Stent 7997/100.
2. Jon Day 7702/96.3
3. Hugh Blackburn 7607/95.1
4. David Milward 7321/91.6
5. Jim Houdalakis 6859/85.8

Hugh

PS: Jon CD'd and we drew the tasks to be flown at random from a jar full of beer bottle tops. That added some spice, can recommend it.

f3k1 Longwood flight-scores 31 aug 2014

f3k1 Longwood overall-results 31 aug 2014

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