Results Armidale Sailplane expo F5J 2019

Armidale sailplane expo 2019 and 4 days of sunny, light wind, and hot conditions ( in the 30’s).

Following is David Leitch’s f5j summary.

“Armidale F5J is over for another year. Despite expectations for more wind conditions

were basically unchanged from yesterday and the promised thunder

storm didn’t develop beyond a black cloud. We flew 6 rounds today for 12 in total

Jim Houdalakis won from Chris Graham and Col Woodward.

Lowest successful launch was David Vels who accidentally switched off at 17 metres

and then flew beautifully to follow a thermal back. Ross Ginder managed a 35 metre start height with confidence.

This was a contest where mistakes killed you.

Jim didn’t start under 100 metres as far as I recall on any flight and made time on all but one occasion.

Several other pilots eg Alan Mayhew, Ross Ginder, Marcus Stent, David Pratley even Chris Graham to an extent on day 2

would have a series of successful low launches earning 1000 but would occasionally

not get away and end with a zero or very low score.“

The place getters

1st Jim Houdalakis

2nd Chris Graham

3rd Colin Woodward

The Armidale f5j event was the last of 4 rounds in the Australian f5j team selection

for the FAI F5J World Championships in Slovakia in August.

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