F5J State Champs Diggers Rest 3 May 15

           Dave,    Jim   and   Bob

VICTORIAN F5J STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2014-15

Perfect weather was the order of the day for the eight pilots contesting the first ever Victorian F5J State Championships. By agreement, the pilots decided that all scores would count and that re-launches would be allowed. As it turned out there was one re-flight group for the day (due to a mid-air collision on landing approach) and several pilots took advantage of the re-launch opportunity.

We ran eight rounds for the day with two groups per round so there was plenty of flying. The wind was generally light and variable in direction. Equally suitable for small and large gliders. Thermals were there but not very strong and sometimes quite elusive. All this is reflected in the scores where, apart from the last flight group of the competition, the winner's time was close to the 10 minutes while the other pilots fared much, much worse. The lowest winning time was by Bob Wilson, 5:00 from a start height of 96 metres.

The lead changed quite a bit in the final stages.

So Jim had a big lead going into Round 8, but a lot of this was lost and the final scores were close

Winner and Victorian F5J State Champion 2015 - Jim Houdalakis (7473.1)
Second - Dave Pratley (7412.4)
Third - Bob Wilson (7108.5)

Congratulations to everybody. It was a great day to be out flying!

overallresults.pdf
flightscores.pdf
landingresults.pdf
heightpenalty.pdf

Wrenford Brown - Landing

Wrenford Brown - Launching