F5J#3 17Jan2016
F5J #3 Diggers Rest 17 Jan 2016
Our winner and his Pulsar
The F5j event at Digger’s on Jan. 17, had 8 pilots. The forecast was light winds but at mid day this wind was quite strong. It slowly settled during the afternoon. Marcus has now joined the group with his preloved electric Prego. He has quickly shown us that even a balsa 3.2 metre model goes up when in lift as well as anything. I the first heat he had everyone “on toast” in a large down wind thermal. Unfortunately his motor decided to start up and so was disqualified. The winning time was 4.59!
The thermals were large and so was the sink, Chasing down wind at times was risky with several out landings.
3 newcomers joined us, Zdenek Busek and Gary Ryan from VARMC and Andrew Fenech with his electric F3b model.
Final scores were,
Al Mayhew 3990
Dave Pratley 3983
Marcus Stent 3921
Andrew Fenech 3691
Jim Houdalakis 3556
Bob Wilson 3021
Zdenek Busek 2170
Gary Ryan 1863
Andrew's electric Shinto!