Competitors athe the first F5J event of the season

F3K #2 and F5J #1 at the State Flying Field.

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We started with F3K in the morning and then finished with F5J in the afternoon. A  big thank you goes out to the Northern Flying group for the hospitality and cooked lunch. Thanks you!

F3K #2 started in very light conditions and 5 competitors enjoyed a variety of different tasks in conditions that were better than they looked.

Congratulations to:

1st Marcus

2nd Jon

3rd Brett

 f3k_2_201314-overallresults.pdf

f3k_2_201314-flightscores.pdf 

An enjoyable morning was had by all.

Marcus

F5J #1 was held in the afternoon and it was a very challenging start to the season.  Conditions started with moderate wind which became a little stronger during the afternoon. Finally by the last round the direction had swung to the other side of the nearby bank of trees, creating a lot of turbulence. The difficult conditions were reflected in the scores. Of the 35 flights only 7 were over 9 min. and only 4 of these were near 10.min. The lowest height penalty was Tim with 80 metres and the highest was Jim with 283 metres. As usual a wide range of model types competed. Marcus flew a Radian and won 2 heats. David flew his Maxa and won the event in the end.

Sundays F5J had a good turnout for a cold day

We had 6 pilots turn up with 5 different models

2 pulsars,1 Maxa ,1 AVA,1 Supra and 1 Egida so a good selection of models to see

All had the same sort of power around 2-300 watts

It was good to see pilots worked out that they did not need to go high as quite a lot went over the 200m and took the pain when a large amount of points where taken off

1st place went to Tim, well flown Tim

2nd to David and 3rd to Grant

Results here f5j05-05-2013.pdf

 Regards

 Dave