tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492369070940163592024-03-13T01:40:39.373+00:00SkipSoaringSouth Wales Slopesoaring AdventuresSkiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-45239053748609624732019-07-30T23:06:00.002+01:002019-07-30T23:44:57.336+01:00I have been proper lazy with the Ol' Blog!!<h2>
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I've done a few competitions since the last entry on my blog......</span></h2>
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">First up was the Welsh Winter League finale..</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "times"; font-size: 18pt;"><br />To save our legs we decided to fly two rounds each flight with a 'crow though' to simulate launching our second run. The course was set up pronto and we were up and running after a few maiden flights and setting checks. One of those maidens was Stefan Bertschi who made the trip from Zurich again to compete with his new Device. I think it's a beautiful plane!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "times"; font-size: 18pt;">Not sure if it was his maiden flights or not, but Mike Evans competed with his new Pitbull2 and seemed to get along with it very well! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "times"; font-size: 18pt;">It’s been a few weeks (Months now!!! Hahahaha) since the comp and I have been very slack about doing this report. So to cut a long story short, I had a pretty horrible comp.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "times"; font-size: 18pt;">I could not get the distance to the bases correct and did many spectacular cuts and recoveries all adding precious time to my runs. I got more and more frustrated with my inability to fly the complete 100m required of each leg that I pushed harder and harder until in our final round I forced the tail into the grass when I pulled elevator and the tail stopped, tore the fuselage in half and spat the wings, joiner and ballast all over the hillside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "times"; font-size: 18pt;">I was really disappointed in myself as there was absolutely no need to be grass cutting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "times"; font-size: 18pt;">Graeme told me during the day, also afterwards, that I had one of the best looking turns for the conditions of the day and that it was a shame I kept cutting. I didn’t feel that way at all. I didn’t think I got any decent air and was just pushing for as good a position as I could. I obviously pushed too hard. It seemed as though quite a few others were struggling with the bases as I don’t remember seeing so many cuts in an event before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "times"; font-size: 18pt;">The standout for the competition for me was Stefan and his Device. What a combination! Brilliant turns and accurate flying won the day comfortably! Look how short he made the course seem in this fantastic run:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "times"; font-size: 18pt;">Joel was his usual outstanding self but wasn’t able to catch Stefan so remained second and Graeme Mahoney had a stellar competition taking third place from a very spritely Mike Evans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "times"; font-size: 18pt;">I believe Graham Hill and Bruce Hudson set new personal best times and I really enjoyed watching Chris Studley fly his needle124. It may take some time to beat his PB from League event 4, but I thought he was flying better again this time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "times"; font-size: 18pt;">On a personal note I want to say a massive, ginormous, heartfelt THANKYOU to Tony. He gave me a fuselage for my Precision which has expedited my repair efforts and also gave me a bargain basement deal on a Jedi which you will see me larking about with at the next competition I attend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "times"; font-size: 18pt;">That is all for the Winter League 2019! What a winter!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "times"; font-size: 18pt;">I hoped to hang on to my second place in the league by the end of round 5 but flying like a pleb will not make those hopes come to fruition…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "times"; font-size: 18pt;">Mike Evans and Graeme Mahoney both overtook me in the League for their well deserved second and third places respectively and Joel West was our Winter League Champion of 2019 with wins in 3 from 4 completed events!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "times"; font-size: 18pt;">Congratulations Joel!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "times"; font-size: 18pt;">Here are the results for the Winter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 18pt;">It was fantastic getting this many events completed this winter. A MASSIVE thanks to Joel for continuing to organise the Welsh Winter Leagues</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are some videos of some runs from some of the guys on my Youtube channel including the maiden of Stefan's Device. It's a very beautiful plane!! Here is the playlist from the day:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next up was the first attempt at BMFA 1 from the Long Mynd in Shropshire. A dash to the slope after a night shift with only the Needle 124 to compete with, as I hadn't finished setting up the Jedi or repairing the Precision, was very nearly an extremely successful trip but the weather was not going to play nicely. We called it a day after completing only three of the required 4 rounds.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A tease of a competition as I was in second place at the conclusion of our day. I was really pleased with myself after that as I had to fly in VERY marginal conditions with 1kg of ballast in the Needle as I had built out the possibility of adding the counterweight for the light joiner ("She'll be right" was WRONG!!).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Up next was the North of England Open.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">This was a 3 day event on the European Tour and a World Cup event.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">I was delighted to be a part of team Smoggies with John Phillips and Rich Bago.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">I managed to have all three planes ready to fly for this event! The Precision was still my number one choice and she faithfully saw me through the entire weekend without falling apart.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">I had an astronomically bad start to the 3 day comp! I cut twice in my first run while also having very poor air and my next two runs were very tentatively flown to have me in 28th place after the first day. Light years different to my team mates who were 1st and 3rd after day 1. I was properly embarrassed!!</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Day 2 was equally difficult with very light conditions but I managed to fly much better and claw my was from nearly last to 16th after another 6 rounds with a couple of top 5 places. Rich slipped from 1st to 4th place and JP from 3rd to 5th at the completion of the second day.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Days 1 and 2 were split between slopes in the main bowl at the Hole of Horcum. Day three was to be a much blowier affair on the infamous Levisham slope! Model attrition rates are generally quite high on that slope!!</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">I managed to make it through the day without any damage!!! I was also very glad the temperature had dropped as I was in desperate need of some shade on my arms after neglecting the suncream on days 1 and 2..... twat.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">I flew really well on the Sunday. I also had some good air in the last couple of rounds and finished in a very credible 8th place for the competition. Narrowly missing out on catching Rich who placed 7th and JP managed to just miss out on beating Pete Gunning for the Title! Huge congrats to Pete!! Awesome result!</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Those 3 places meant that we smashed the team competition and I got my first ever trophy for F3F!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Here is a playlist of a few vids from the Saturday. I was too busy launching and flying most of the weekend to get many vids sorry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My next F3F excursion was the 2nd BMFA league event for this year which was held in Wales this last Sunday. It was a super tricky day with WNW winds meaning we were flying in thermic and crossed wind all day on the Westerly slope of Mickeys at the Bwlch. It was a great call by the Directing team to head straight to the Westerly slope and wait a little for the forecast swing west. All day in crossed conditions on the Icecream slope would have been very uncomfortable.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">29 of us managed to complete 8 rounds and Andy Burgoyne took the win with some outstanding flying! I managed to finish 5th which I was very pleased with! The Pike Precision didn't put a foot wrong all day. I had a very enjoyable, yet challenging day.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Speaking of well-behaved, I took my two kids along for their first taste of F3F as spectators and they said (probably just to please Dad...) that they weren't bored and enjoyed themselves!!! Hopefully some of the next generation flyers in the making!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">I took some videos from the start of the day, here is a playlist from my youtube channel:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">I want to say a massive thanks to Rachel for 'encouraging' me to get this written. Also for her words of wisdom such as "imagine how well you'd have done if you actually practiced..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seriously tho, she is an absolute star and I'm very, very lucky!</span></span>Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-44987551776726607412019-02-21T11:26:00.004+00:002019-02-21T11:26:56.452+00:00Welsh winter league for Feb 2019<span style="font-size: large;">17th Feb 2019 Welsh Winter League.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We arrived to flyable conditions on the back of the Wrecker and quickly set up the course with the hope of getting at least one round completed before the clouds dropped enough to make landing unsafe. We made it to the pilots briefing.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The forecasts and met office radar suggested that we were looking to be clear just after lunch and that the wind direction would change to have us on Mickey's. So we decamped and went and waited out the rain and clag in our cars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I actually enjoy these times a little, I'd obviously rather be flying, but it gives a great opportunity to catch up with your mates as when the competition is on we are flying or launching or on a base. Especially when there are only a small number of pilots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We caught up with each other til around 1pm when the sky lifted and stopped dumping on us, set up the course in no time and were underway with Joel West leading from the front. I struggled to find my line, especially in the first couple of rounds, leading to messy and slow runs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rachel's wise words were ringing in my ears all afternoon.... "you don't practice anywhere near enough..." as they rung true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Joel had a spectacular day with his very neat and smooth reversals yielding 6 sub 36 second runs with a 30.61 run his fastest. He won the day while winning 4 of the 6 rounds we flew. Congrats Joel!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I actually got that run on video! My phone has been having a bit of a meltdown lately.... It started in focus..... Wind noise warning!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Graeme Mahoney had a solid day too! He managed to top the group of 6 pilots within a poofteenth of taking second place. His best time for the day was a blistering 32.52 which gave him the win in the 4th round after also winning the 3rd.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mike Evans had a relatively consistent day with his Jazz and Shinto to take the third place. His slower runs coincided with Graeme's fastest once, costing him second place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was off to a very slow start as I eluded to earlier but managed to get faster during the day with 35's and 36's. This clawed me up to 4th place just beating Mike Shellim, Dave Rumble and Tony Livingston. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I had a play with reversals and they seemed to work best on the day although my EM line did bear some fruit when it was low and away. I think in one run I managed to do all the available turn styles plus a new one that rolled towards the slope....</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I was gutted to find in the spreadsheet that my fastest time of the day (35.32) was my discard as it was against Joels 30.61. Them's the breaks!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I finally tested out my Xmas present and the Big Blue Brolly worked a treat, thanks Rachel!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Chris Studley had a stand out day! He managed to go sub40 twice with his Needle124 and set his PB first to 38.69 and then to a staggering 36.51 with some very beautifully flown reversals. Well done Chris!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tony (33.88) and Mike S (32.57) also set new personal best times. We had 15m\sec wind pretty much all afternoon with some of it warmer than others effecting the times a little, but not a great deal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Massive thanks to everyone for mucking in to get the competition flown! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Roll on March!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">Southern Winter League at Whitesheet 27<sup>th</sup> Jan
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another post-nightshift competition opportunity for me
presented itself this week with some blowy conditions forecast for Whitesheet
Hills in Kilmington for January’s attempt at a Southern Winter League F3F
competition. I had a sufficiently chilled nightshift and headed off armed with
lots of caffeine, my trusty Pike Precision, Fx-32 tranny, lots of ballast
and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Needle 124 as a back-up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I arrived safe and sound pretty much on time and 18 hopeful
competitors made their way to the NW slope of Whitesheet Hill. I forgot to take
my anemometer out to the slope so I didn’t get to measure the breeze, but it
was WAAAAY more than just a stiff one. Our magnanimous CD for the the Day (Stu
Wallace) took some measurements and I believe they ranged from a measly
7m/sec<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to a whopping 48m/sec! I put most
my ballast in the Precision at the start of the day and didn’t change it. I am
only running brass in the Precision and could have put more in the front of the
joiner. This changes my CoG quite a bit forward from my 107mm and I am a bit
loathed to do that…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was great to catch up with so many pilots I haven’t seen
for ages and also meet a few for the first time. It was my first time flying
with a couple of stalwarts from the heyday of F3F in Greg Lewis and Dave Woods
and I hadn’t seen Tony Robertson for years so it was great to see him at a
comp, no matter how briefly…. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was really impressed by the turnout on Sunday, especially
with the less-experienced racers. Winds that strong are a challenge to fly in
and add to the stresses of being new to competing. I thought they all did an
outstanding job!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Round 1 was a learning experience for me (actually, all the rounds
were a learning experience for me!) as the hill shape and wind strength
combination we were presented with isn’t one I have had before. The closest I
can think of was Levisham way back in 2010-ish. Fortunately I found landing a
LOT easier at Whitesheet! I posted a 40.2 for 4<sup>th</sup> in the round and
Graeme Mahoney kicked off the comp in style with a blistering 36.75. Greg Lewis
and Nigel Witchalls posted sub 40’s for 2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> in
the round. Allen Elliott flew his Needle 124 to his fastest time of the day of
44.01 also Stuart Wallace with his Needle 115 posted his fastest time of 46.74.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I managed to get some extra lift in round 2 which
complimented my line and the flowing style I have been concentrating on to give
me a 35.95 and my first round win. Greg and Nigel both went sub40 again to take
3<sup>rd</sup> and 2<sup>nd</sup> with Andy Burgoyne also in the 39’s for 4<sup>th</sup>.
John Phillips broke his Pink Camo thing on landing and found a dead battery in
his spare plane so was pubward bound from there. After missing round 1, Tony graced
us briefly with his flying presence, then after a servo issue for one plane and
a slight re-shuffle of composite material on another, he was off to the pub
with JP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had some soggy air and over-flew the plane, trying to
hurry it through the turns, resulting in a 50.08 and 10<sup>th</sup> in round
3. “that should be my discard” I stupidly thought… Mike Evans flew beautifully directly
before me to take the round win with a 40.76. Closely followed by Dave Woods
with his Pitbull2 and Nigel Witchalls who was having a stellar competition so
far with his Pitbull. Graham Hill was performing admirably with his McMeekan
Falcon for his first (?) F3F comp (Incredible conditions for number 1!) Very
smooth and consistent all day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I managed to win the 4<sup>th</sup> round with a 37.61 with
Greg hot on my heals again. I only got to see brief parts of Greg’s flights as
he was directly after me, kicking of each round. I had to land very efficiently
to see him and when I did, he looked completely at ease and smack-bang on the
bases all day. Graeme Mahoney and his Pitbull2 took third place in the round
with a 40.74.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ian Falconer flew his fastest time of the day with a 39.54
and 2nd in round 5 along with Mark Passingham who took the round win with a
37.71 with his Freestyler5 and Mike Evans 3<sup>rd</sup> with his Shinto and
39.54. I had some soggy air, but tried to fly smoother again and limited the
damage to only a 43.99. Stu had been struggling with a bad neck all day and had
to succumb to the pain and sit out the rest of the day from here. There isn’t
much worse than being freezing cold and in pain. Hats off to Gromit for
sticking it out to the end of the day!! Hope your neck gets better soon!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Round 6 was a memorable one for me. Halfway through the run
I reckon I was on track for a run in the mid 40’s and then WHACK!!! The
Precision took off like a Stabbed Rat or a Scolded Cat from base A and just
kept getting faster each time it hit the thermal on base A! The thermal hadn’t
hit base B and the wind direction difference was such that I wasn’t really
turning against the wind and I had 4 legs of the fastest I have ever
experienced a Radio Controlled Glider go! I ended up posting a 36.03 and won
that round! I’m pretty sure I had just DS’d the edge of a thermal. Greg posted
a 39.61 for 3rd and Mike Evans took 2<sup>nd</sup> just prior to my run with
39.26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My Thermal created havoc with Round 7 and it was only the
second round without a sub40. Greg took 1<sup>st</sup> with 40.25 closely
followed in the order and time by Nigel Witchalls with a 40.81 and third was Andy Burgoyne with 40.87. Pete Burgess had his best time this round with his Pitbull2. The
wind was extremely strong for this round and everyone had difficulty getting
their planes to penetrate off the slope at all! Landing was a challenge and
crow brakes or butterfly was NOT required! I managed a 48.96 this round and
couldn’t get the Precision into a place where it would gain any energy. This
still wasn’t my discard round though! Bruce Hudson was flying a plane I didn’t
recognise but it can’t have had more than a 2m wingspan and weighed no more
than a few feathers taped together. He had his second fastest flight of the
comp in this round with a very respectable 52.94 (only topped in round 2 by 29 hundredths
of a second) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Greg stood up after my 48 to kick off round 8 and had one of
those flights I wish I had seen. He managed to set the slope record for the NW
face of Whitesheet with a 33.85 run which must have looked absolutely stunning!
I managed a 42.81 this round which wasn’t really too bad, but compared to a 33…..
it became my discard. Rachel sent me a message asking how my day was going and
I told her it was a tough but brilliant day and I’m doing pretty well but I
think I might require some luck to win. I was right to assume I was in second
place, but I didn’t know just how close it was at the top!! I only had 230-odd
points to make up on Greg! Dave Woods took 2<sup>nd</sup> in the round with
Graeme Mahoney 3<sup>rd</sup> (both with sub 40 flights) and Mike Evans set his
best time of the day with a 38.28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Round 9 was some of the ‘some luck’ I needed. I managed a
very fast 35.89 run. I had found the place on the slope that was working best
for me and obviously had some good conditions as although Greg came second, he
was nearly 8 seconds behind me with a 43.69. Dave Woods kept his climb to the
top on track posting the 3<sup>rd</sup> fastest time of 44.01 with Mike right
on his Pitbull2’s heels with a 44.36.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Greg Lewis got us underway in the 10<sup>th</sup> and final
round with a 47.57 while I was landing. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I didn’t see his flight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I didn’t ask
him how he went. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I didn’t want to know. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It didn’t matter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I just needed to fly
my line as best I could. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jess Nichols was one of the newer F3F pilots at the
comp and he had his best flight of the day with a 49.89 and Dave Woods also
flew his best time of 37.55 for second in the round. Mike Evans secured 3<sup>rd</sup>
in the round with 43.17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I stepped up after Mike and the Precision let me put her on
the same track as the previous round and I managed to coax her around for a
fantastic 34.54!! It was all I could do. We just had to wait for the results to
be published.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p><img class="SzDcob" height="687" jsname="uLHQEd" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ljde9Rh00COEQvB11hsqhqiuLAbEhExqfUhLgMx0UhrrhAHHFGQWHmV4-26tN35nXxBo5gP12XeY09u4NdpjUh2LpiqxQHvVE4jlORH753tchDM5ePQsVIaDodDjRtwBemU7jr1XKB3DNYpntgt7Fx8-f4CJ0lduzuW1eidGmxRR5rJU_rDI_o8OdAkYTEcbsVpz-DS5RUE558dv3F9ClFaJj7iTMG05JhnCui2SgcuA6eLKk-UrGQuf28cWOAyXao7cW7Eh3lSgKUL3Th3KqUiRKkV4SuDLv9fSbWPBmoshQbSSCoPYvQtF_UtdwkVe4hQxJ4YyDRv2j1ab_dI6qTS-dQiU6IX_fsIJlzHrjmIvNJKg61732lJ9JVLCR1RWdDeHytoy1WyzskZBAWhD_e6NfJRXPK-eLxv9Uj689UR265VZbq4CCzKCW67zzqu_aGDkQATIfvueBszkFcB6vrKFe2b07-Guc_qD-Qc6287AlllEYgJuDLzo4UFFTqKAOylJAzix6juJDRPxvTWW0BczsvDAtW9AWPeyWdEjTBWST5yldsewhhzTjgdVCNbqmyaNrbpIpfZ6ey_QiCIIRQ0RIZoSbAXhTQOFCpoiPyNqHGEPJJIv9n8hrbwcMUMkUabwmHS-Brhjk0nzvOgmQdxz=w387-h687-no" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px) rotate(0deg);" width="387" /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">WINNER, WINNER!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I finally won my first official event! SO pleased!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I forgot to take a camera so I don't have any pics or videos for you, sorry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Andy Burgoyne took a video of my final flight. It looks so
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bruce Hudson took a few vids too and for some reason they
are a little steppy, but they give a little indication of the day. The first one is me, second is Mike Evans, third is Andy Burgoyne and I'm not sure about the 4th sorry. Possibly Ian Falconer?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had an amazing day and want to say a huge thanks to Stu
and the Whitesheet club for hosting the 4<sup>th</sup> attempt at a winter
league and for welcoming me along. Thanks also to Pete Burgess, Allen Elliott and Graeme Mahoney for sharing the centre duties with Stu.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Can't wait for the next event!! I could get used to this winning thing!</span></div>
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<br />Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-20379643738216566492018-12-03T19:41:00.000+00:002018-12-03T19:41:10.322+00:00Spring Cup 2019!<span style="font-size: large;">Annual leave is booked for the Spring Cup!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />I've watched videos of the Spring Cup F3F countless times and can't wait to take part. Fingers crossed for some good F3F weather. I wonder what sacrifices work .... 🙏😜😇</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Looking forward to a bit of exploring of the area too as Rachel and I will extend our break for the rest of the week 😊</span><br />
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Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-91433999104109966332018-11-29T21:30:00.001+00:002018-11-30T09:07:32.804+00:00Repairs are coming along :-)<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://skipsoaring.blogspot.com/p/repairs.html" target="_blank">Repairs page</a> has had a couple of updates since the winter league comp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Should be done soon (ish) 😂😂😆</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rachel has asked that I put some paint on it this time..... We'll see 😊</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-24057272411805595042018-11-18T12:23:00.000+00:002018-11-18T12:23:52.771+00:00Welsh Winter League Nov 2018<span style="font-size: large;">Finished work at 0730 and headed up through Nantymoel to the Wrecker car park to meet 19 other hardy and hopeful F3Ffers. Greeted by the Clag and armed with a promising forecast we wandered out to the Crest to set up the course and prepare ourselves for what would hopefully be a day to remember.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The fog was clearing as we set up the course (handy for aiming across the valley! ) and after a test flight by Greg Dakin to test the ceiling and landing area, a pilots briefing by our esteemed CD, coordinator and all round good guy Joel West, we were good to go!!! Les Wood had the dubious honour of kicking things off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Round one was a nervy one for me and after watching lots of flights in the mid 30's I was disappointed to card a 40.32 second flight. I took out a little bit of ballast before the next round as I felt a teeny bit heavy (playing mind games with myself more likely!). I was flying the Pike Precision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I couldn't believe how quick all the planes were going on the Crest today! The noise as they ripped through the compression was beautiful! Here is a run by Greg Dakin as exhibit A for the noise!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had been practicing a more flowing style of turn for a while now, it paid off in round 2 as I broke my long standing PB of 36.18 with a 34.06, with a cut on Base B...!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I didn't feel like I made the most of the air at all. More to come! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Graeme Mahoney took the round win with a very rapid 32.14</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Round 3 was a better flight for me with the same style and less errors to record a lower PB of 32.66! Getting better!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Round 4 was 32.88. Joel was so close to going sub 30, this is one of his flights in the 31 or 32 second bracket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Round 5 had a massive cut, bunt, recovery that cost me quite a few seconds for a 35.29. Joel set the fastest time of the day with a 29.75 in this round for his 4th round win and 3 in a row to here. Again this is Joel, but not the fastest flight sorry. I missed filming that one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Round 6 was my best flight of the day with a 30.05!!!! So close to going sub 30! ! and it was a round win for me. I'm not sure which round it was in, but one of the highlights of the day was the extra 90 degrees turn Mark Passingham inexplicably added on his 9th turn! It made for an exciting finish to his run! I did manage to catch that one on film! Sorry (not sorry!) Mark 😁</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Round 7 I tried too hard and flew my worst flight (still a 33.xx tho!). I couldn't get the plane to exit my turns the way I wanted it to and I think it was due to trying too hard to get under 30. We don't get the opportunity that often 😁. Greg Dakin took the honours in the 7th round with his fastest of the day at 31.80</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Andy Burgoyne was in the centre for most of my flights and couldn't believe how easy my flights looked! He described them as metronomic 😊, I have to say that is a massive difference to the way most people would have previously described my flights 😂</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I made a mistake on my landing after my last flight and now have some repairs to do on the Precision which performed incredibly well!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have to say a massive thanks to Stefan! We went for a fly together on Friday afternoon and he helped me to come to the settings I ended up with for this comp. It was great to see him make the trip over from Zurich again and fly so aggressively so well!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's a shame landing takes so long on the Crest, I only got to see 2/3 of the flights and I didn't get anywhere near enough on video. The ones I have are embedded in here and in a playlist on youtube</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now to the results! Joel took a commanding win.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I finished Second!!!!!!! And Stefan Bertschi was 3rd.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There were so many PB's set today! It was fun to watch Dave Rumble get so close so many times, beat it by 0.2 and then finally beat it by a couple of seconds.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It was awesome to see Chris Studley at an f3f comp again, and great to catch up with everyone and meet a few new faces.</span><br />
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<br />Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-10598827283272208252018-11-01T19:25:00.000+00:002018-11-01T19:25:11.995+00:00Futaba FX-32 transmitter<span style="font-size: large;">After a bit of frustration with the Taranis and an opportunity to get some extra funds by letting go of a plane, I bit the bullet on purchasing myself a 'new' transmitter and on Sunday I managed to organise picking it up.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I have always trusted Futaba transmitters and the FX-32 came up for sale on the BARCS forum for a reasonable price, so I snapped it up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rachel was working nights early this week, so I had some 'nerd time' on Sunday and Monday night where I was able to change my Needle 124 and Pike Precision over to the Futaba S-FHSS protocol. I chose that as the receivers for that system, the FX-32 does FASST, FASSTest and S-FHSS, were significantly cheaper than the FASSTest and I actually don't care about telemetry in my F3F planes. I do now, however, have telemetry if I ever decide to fly jets or large scale stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The setting up of the planes took me about 4 hours each over the two nights and is relatively simple although somewhat different to the Taranis and the FF9 I had previously. If I just wanted to get them flying, I reckon I could have done them in under an hour. I like to have different conditions (flight modes) and snap flap and differential and other performance-improving stuff, so it takes a little longer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today was the first opportunity to test out the new radio so I went up to the Bwlch after finishing work at 1300 hrs to fly on a crossed Icecream slope. I knew the forecast was WNW and figured that I could get some 'marginal conditions' practise and set-ups done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was very glad to have the M+M TransMitt cannibalised to fit the FX-32 as it was quite chilly up on the slopes today. It was a beautiful afternoon though and I was very pleased to have had a trouble-free set-up session. Obviously both planes will need more tweaking, but I can go and enter a comp with confidence now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Speaking of comps. Winter is now upon us! It's time for the winter Leagues to kick in and I am hoping to take part in the Welsh Winter League events. The first one is on Saturday 17th November. I can't wait!!!</span>Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-7378942297738922982018-10-18T12:30:00.001+01:002018-10-18T15:23:35.434+01:006 P's<h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rachel and I intended to walk up Pen Y Fan yesterday from the Lower Neuadd Reservoir near Pontsiscill.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dogs packed, Precision packed, boots, coats, hats etc, all packed for our 'no more than 4 hour' walk.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We headed off armed with a picture card/map with some quite detailed directions.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The only vague direction was how to get to the start point. 'Follow the small lane north from Pontsiscill to the car park near the reservoir'.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, the map suggested using an OS map, gave the reference for the suggested map, and I ignored it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We parked up at the reservoir, donned our walking boots, popped our packs on and headed off, following the very clear directions up the bank on our left to the escarpment.... (1330 hrs)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first 4 or 5 km's of our supposedly 11km round trip were spent discovering that we were never going to find the magical escarpment and we headed for Corn Du and Pen Y Fan in the distance.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We found some lovely places about. We even thought we might have found where we should have started our walk from...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was challenging terrain, long grass over wet, boggy marshland type stuff. The Yorky (Fred) needed carrying through some of the worst parts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At about 9 Km's into the walk, the map came into chrystal-clear view and it's accuracy was shown to be precise! We could see the start point below us as we stood on top of the magical Escarpment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now the actual walk could start properly (1600 hrs).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">One of the first top spots we got to would be incredible for DS! NE or SW winds, just for fun though. SW will nearly always bring hill fog. NE is chilly!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next peak was Corn Du. Those steps up the face were hard yesterday! The boys were chuffed for a break.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Got to the top of Pen Y Fan at 1800hrs. It's such a beautiful place to be, in most conditions, and yesterday was no different. I'd forgotten about the Upper Neuadd Reservoir ever having water in it. It has beed drained to protect the Grade 2 listed Dam Wall and probably wont be filled again. We could still see it and where it should be. It would be a lovely walk from there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Discretion won over valour as we decided to leave Cribyn for next time. It is STEEEEEEP! and it was already pretty dark as we reached our decision point for ascent or not (1825).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Luckily, Rachel and I are pretty fit (on a global scale.....) and what we lack in fitness, we make up for in stubbornness and pig-headed determination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We dragged our sorry limbs for the next three hours passed the suggested start point. Passed the suggested car park. Passed a massive reservoir and along another reservoir through a pine forest and finally back to the car (21xx hrs, I forgot to look). Fortunately it was all on an actual road once we got down to the Lower Neuadd Reservoir.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I printed out a series of OS maps to figure out our route. I still can't quite figure the part in the bottom left, reckon it was further. Next time I'll print the maps before doing the walk. What a Pillock!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A crude measurement of our route comes in at 23km's. No wonder I'm a bit tender today! Hopefully you can see our route in pen on the maps. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-46753376100421212732018-10-09T13:18:00.000+01:002018-10-09T13:18:44.269+01:00Lucky boy with the Needle yesterday!<span style="font-size: large;">I did some more setting up yesterday on the cliffs near the farmhouse in Southerndown in pretty good lift although slightly crossed.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Got the Precision going well, although the ballast is in front of the CG so the heavier it gets, the more it pulls up. The main tube is pretty close to the CG, so I might just get some tungsten and forget the joiner ballast.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There has to be something else causing it....</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Needle 124 was going great! Then control got sluggish and and the brakes were only 1/2 deploying..... dying battery!!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Quick emergency landing done safely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today I made up a 2 cell LiIon battery and popped it in the nose with a 5V BEC and balanced her up. Good to go again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">More setting up and figuring out to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'll be looking for another transmitter soon. The FF9 is a bit too long in the tooth. I'm thinking and FX30 or the handheld version.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I'm open to suggestions and reasonably priced offers 😆😇</span>Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-59542572488824782412018-10-05T21:41:00.000+01:002018-10-05T21:41:30.322+01:00Mickey's Westerly after work ;-)<span style="font-size: large;">After my disaster at the Welsh Open this year I had to get some time on the sticks with the ol' trusty FF9. Setting up the planes will take longer as each adjustment requires landing 😱.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Actually my landings are pretty good now 😂.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had a quick flight on the Wrecker the other day with Andrzej (awesome to catch up with him!!) and after measuring the CG after managing to just get the needle down safely, it was found to be at 117mm 🙈..... I fly pretty rearward at 100 on the needle normally... </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">so she was a little sketchy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyhoo, I managed to sneak up to the Westerly slope of Mickeys on Wednesday after an early finish at work for some much needed stick time and set up time on the Pike Precision and Needle 124. The Westerly of Mickey's is ideal as the landing area is the nicest we have and it was worth the extra walk past a flyable Mickey's (Sorry Graham <i>Wookman</i>). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">CG on the Noodle was set at 100 and the only thing to get right now is the settings and travels. That'll take a little while I think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Precision gave me a few headaches tho. I thought I had set the CG at 107 and couldn't for the life of me figure out why I needed to add so much down elevator for straight and level flight. It turns out that I had set it at 97... </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I'm not sure that moving it back to 107 will have the desired effect on her flight characteristics, but we will see next time I take her out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After getting both of them set to a level where I am confident that they won't just fall out the air, I am less fussy about where I fly next 😊</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was lovely to meet Graham (Sorry if it is spelt Graeme 😇) and share the walk, sky and a chat with him. He was flying a McMeekan Falcon and a Pike F3J plane (Superior?).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I didn't take any vids and only managed a couple of photos.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We had some Welsh Clag to play with too.... for a change.</span><br />
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I arrived on Friday morning with Mia and Adam all fired up ready to hang out on the slope with me and my flying mates and watch me compete. The Taranis had other ideas though and would not let me send any signals to either of my gliders.<br />
Long story short, I had managed to burn out the internal module and had also fried both my receivers in the process of trying to get it all working.<br />
The Taranis is now in the bin.<br />
I am back using the old trusty Futaba FF9.<br />
It took me a few night to get the planes programmed and I didn't want to ignore the kids while I had them staying with me so I was not able to get back out to the Slopes to even watch the rest of the Welsh Open.<br />
Huge congratulations to Joel West, Mark Treble and John Philips for the top three spots!Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-68161999647831011852018-04-09T17:15:00.000+01:002018-09-24T08:48:08.940+01:00Champ of Champs, Take one, April 2018<span style="font-size: large;">Meteorology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It seemed as accurate as Astrology last week with no-one having a single clue what the weather was actually doing, let alone what it was going to do in advance!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had 2 days of below legal wind. You could't predict that for Wales in April, ever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Day one saw us complete 3/4 of a round and I had my first competitive run in well over 2 years. A false start to begin with as I didn't get buzzed off-course and then on the re-flight I managed to hit the bases pretty flush to record the second fastest time of the people that flew, only being beaten by Joel. I was well pleased with that and also very pleased with how the Pike Precision performed in the very marginal conditions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mark Passingham was the lucky one to get to fly as the wind stopped so he had the most exciting flight of the day as his Freestyler tried t o get a closer look at the roadworks below. He managed to coax it back to the landing area safely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Day two had a promising forecast giving us NE from 5 to 10 MPH for the majority of the day. Those wind speeds never materialised and we had a lovely day sitting around chatting and sports flying (very sedentary SPORTS.... ) in the very light wind which was becoming increasingly thermic with the associated good and BAAAAD lift. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Greg Dakin treated us to his maiden flight of the Redshift. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It seemed to go quite well, especially once the ailerons were plugged in... Andy Burgoyne took a couple of FacebookLive videos which I'm sure you'll be able to find on Facebook. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a real shame that the Welsh weather is trying to beat us every time we want to compete. We'll get a real comp in soon enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I really enjoyed catching up with all the blokes who came along and it was great to meet a few new faces too!</span><br />
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<br />Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-55376701124540792892018-03-27T21:17:00.000+01:002018-03-27T21:17:12.335+01:00A bit of Sloping today, left me with a big cheesy grin.Had a half-day today and the forecast said WNW....<br />
It had said NW for the last couple of days and the actual wind had been smack on West so I took a gamble (I needed the walk) and yomped from the IceCream carpark to the Westerly slope of Mickeys at the Bwlch. It's such a nice walk 😎.<br />
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It wasn't directly on the slope, but it was great to get some cross-wind practice for a bit and when the thermals came square through...... so much speed!<br />
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I had a play with CG's today. I discovered that the Needle is 'flyable' with a very rearward CG (107 ish) , however it is VERY uncomfortable. Whisper quiet but sooo twitchy with very savage reactions to changes in the air, which tend to happen nearer the ground...<br />
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I popped a little more lead in the nose of the Precision after a very squirrelly flight which made her fly like a pussycat. probably shifted the CG to 104-ish. I'll measure them both when I've got them where I like them.<br />
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It is so nice to be flying two very fast planes 😋<br />
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The wind did square to the slope just before I was leaving, but it chilled substantially and I had to feed the fur-babies. They were rocking.Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-4555610424398651212018-03-06T17:08:00.001+00:002018-03-06T17:08:41.619+00:00Weather, repairs and Big F3F eventsWe've had some interesting weather lately and after thawing out since Sunday, today I've managed to get the needle structurally repaired again. The resin is currently going off and I'll crack it open in 24 hours or so.<div>
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I have a free weekend and there are two winter league competitions in the UK this weekend. The Midlands one is on Saturday and I'd like to apologise to the regular blokes as I have entered and the weather doesn't look good. The Southern one is on Sunday and the weather looks pretty poor for that one too. I'm yet to enter that one, but I'd love to.</div>
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I've also entered the North of England Open in June and the Welsh Open in September. I imagine those two will be my only big events for the year.</div>
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I've been looking at foamies lately as I need a couple for teaching the kids to fly. Adam is keen. Mia probably won't, but that is OK! Just a couple of delta wings like the good old Zagi or X-it will do nicely. It might be a bit of a pipe-dream, but I'd love to be able to spend time with the kids on the slopes. Especially now that they are able to deal with the cold better.</div>
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I also pulled out the Wasabi to have a look as I had some spare resin in a pot going to waste. I had completely forgotten that I had started the repairs on her. She'll be galavanting about on the slopes soon! She will always look like a battered bird, but she knows I still care ;-)</div>
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Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-13561000159965968532018-02-21T18:47:00.003+00:002018-02-21T18:47:27.487+00:00Lovely light lift practice.Popped up to the Bwlch with Rachel and the 2 dogs today as it was a lovely afternoon and took the Precision along too.<br />
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We wandered out to the Crest even though I could have flown the Wrecker and Rachel and the boys kept walking as I set up the Precision for some practice and more fine-tuning. I don't have an anemometer so wasn't able to measure the wind speed but it changed over the hour from being able to pump and gain a hundred feet or so height to having to manage all my available energy to perform a decent run that would have been around 50odd seconds.<br />
I'll be interested to see how she (and I) goes in stronger lift, but it felt pretty promising.<br />
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After a good hour of flight time in fading lift I feel much more comfortable flying again although I couldn't tell which style was working best in the light conditions. Obviously she was holding more speed managing the energy, but she was travelling a long way. I <i>feel</i> like banking and gently yanking had the best times in the light conditions. When the conditions were better earlier on I felt like reversals were working the best. I also imagine that if I had the comfort I developed by the end of my session at the start, my EM effort might have paid dividends.<br />
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I was getting pretty chilly by now and was also expecting to see Rachel on her way back along the top. The mobile signal is much better up there now and after a quick phone call IU found out that she had walked a massive circuit all the way along the top, then below the front of the Crest, back up the top and was almost back at the car!! Good walking!<br />
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Needle repairs haven't started yet. I'll get on it soon ;-)<br />
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See you on a slope soon!Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-24522987549242245742018-02-13T21:15:00.001+00:002018-02-13T21:15:26.237+00:00Maiden done!I popped up to the IceCream slope after a 2pm finish at work today for the test flights of the Needle124 and Pike Precision.<br />
The conditions were lovely, cold, but lovely.<br />
Precision was first to go and I launched her empty into a decent blow. I had nothing to worry about except my own ability! She was really a pussycat.<br />
A bit of larking about, some setting of elevator compensation, snapflap and aileron differential and it was landing time. Easy as pie!<br />
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The needle was next. It was a very short flight. 2 things wrong were a very rearward CoG and I'd forgotten to reduce the elevator travel.<br />
I did manage to get it down in one piece, although the fuselage piece was a bit broken....<br />
So back to the Pike and I popped a few hundred grams of ballast in her. The conditions were weakening but she didn't let that worry her at all.<br />
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Another 15 minutes or so of hooning around, trying to improve the set up and came away after another fine landing with a few things to think about.<br />
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I struggled getting my hands comfortable on the transmitter. I've modified a transmitter tray to fit inside my old Transmitt. I took to the tray with a hacksaw tonight and it is a massive improvement! Comfy again!<br />
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I didn't feel like I was getting the desired effect of adjusting the Differential in the Ailerons so I'll reduce the amount of coupled aileron and hopefully reduce the tendency to fly behind me.<br />
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I feel really really positive about this plane!!<br />
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I do also love the Needle124 and after a quick repair to the Fuz and sorting the CoG back into the early 90's, she'll be right as rain again.<br />
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It was awesome to be back on the slopes! So happy!Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-37253671636111938762018-02-10T12:06:00.000+00:002018-02-10T12:06:17.865+00:00I'm READY!!!!The Needle is completely ready! All painted, fettled control suraces, set up on the taranis and ballast sorted. I like having a twitchy plane and have set the CG at 105. I've organised my ballast so that when my steel joiner is in, I remove some weight from near the nose. The weight is in for the carbon joiner. The rear ballast compartment is the only one that doesn't shift the CG too savagely.<br />
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The Precision is all as ready as the Needle except for paint.<br />
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I'm very exciTed to get out and set them up properly for me on a slope. The weather needs to play ball at the right time now. Fingers crossed!Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-74435634874304457272018-02-07T22:36:00.001+00:002018-02-07T22:36:37.733+00:00Precision and Needle are almost ready to go!!So excited about getting out on the slopes this year!<br />
Probably won't be competing much, still not a great deal of time to spare.<br />
<br />Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-77769846240520611982017-11-26T22:09:00.002+00:002017-11-26T22:09:35.470+00:00Woah! It's been Frages!!!I can't believe it's been two years since my last entry on my blog!<br />
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Life has been happening and I completely lost my MoJo and the ability to find it or resuscitate it!<br />
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My last outing I believe was a very windy Welsh F3F event which I managed to break two models (Needle 124 and Skorp) The Needle is an easy fix and the Skorp was written off.<br />
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I still haven't finished repairing the Pike Precision, need to repair the needle and should pop the radio gear back in the willow2.<br />
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I now have a garage again and am getting the itch to get back out on the slopes. I don't imagine I'll have the time to compete regularly in F3F, but maybe a comp or two every now and then if the stars all align and the moons of Saturn go double time.<br />
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It's gunna take me some time to figure out how to use the Taranis again too.....<br />
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Hopefully write to you all again soon.<br />
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ClaytSkiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-89094213500375020612015-11-26T00:04:00.002+00:002015-11-26T00:04:38.102+00:00Pike Precision, Needle 124 and CeresI acquired a damaged Pike Precision and have started to undertake the repairs. Some details are on the <a href="http://skipsoaring.blogspot.co.uk/p/repairs.html" target="_blank">repairs page</a>.<br />
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Not sure if I have let you all know that I have also managed to get a Needle 124 too! That one is flying and only needs a little bit of paint on the fuselage.<br />
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A substantially broken Ceres is also on its way to me which will be repaired, ready to be thrashed on the F3F course!Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-82372037067640069702015-11-07T22:03:00.000+00:002015-11-07T22:03:39.236+00:00Report from the German Open 2015<div class="MsoNormal">
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watching videos of pilots wrestling their gliders along the edge of the
Turbulator at the inaugural F3F World Championships in 2012, I knew I had to
experience the German Open on the same slopes. This year I gave myself that
opportunity and took my Willow2 along to see if it was up to the task. Seeing
as it was a test, I also took my trusty Skorpion DSL (one plane was never going
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23 hours was asked of my van and it delivered, although I would have preferred
one of the German cars that flew passed me like I was standing still on the
unrestricted areas of highway in Germany!!! I nearly made it the entire trip
without a sleep and had to stop for a rest about 3 hours from R</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">ü</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">gen which timed my arrival at the Turbulator for 6am.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I actually found the Turbulator (it was hiding from me) it was nearly 8am and
Carlos Riviera from Venezuela was already making the most of the flyable
conditions and getting some quality time on the sticks. To be honest I was
expecting quite a few more locals to be at the slope even though it was early
as I knew the opportunities to fly were going to become rarer as the day drew
on.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">The lift
was quite light and I had a feeling I would need some weight in the Willow to
keep some momentum so I flew for the first flight with 20% ballast. What I
didn’t count on was just how narrow the lift band really is on that 6metre
slope especially when launching your own plane. Needless to say that this was
the only flight I didn’t get someone else to throw my glider towards the sea,
rocks and beach with some gusto! It turned out that I actually needed more
weight, but I’m glad I didn’t have it in for the first flight.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">Anyway,
after successfully finding and utilising the lift I scraped over the trees to
the landing area and completed my first flight on the Turbulator without any
damage. By mid afternoon I had started to get more comfortable with where to
place and keep my model while flying to get the best from it and had plenty of
analysis time between flights as we slowly worked our way along the queue. At
one time I counted 29 planes for 21 pilots and do wish I had been clever enough
to put 2 or 3 planes in the queue, but I wasn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">I had the
pleasure of sharing this weekend with not only a fantastic group of friendly,
well-regarded international pilots that I didn’t previously know, but also was
one of a cast of four travelling British pilots (I know, I’m not British! But I
am a British Pilot ;-)). Martin Newnham, John Phillips and Mark Abbotts all
arrived on the slope during the day for some practice too.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">After a
long days travelling and flying it was a relief to get to my accommodation in
Goor (Hof Kracht) and pass out for the night (after remembering to charge my
blat flatteries!).<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">First Competition day!</span></span></div>
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<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/42696926@N02/22829564466/in/dateposted-public/" title="German Open day 2 morning wander"><img alt="German Open day 2 morning wander" height="426" src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/746/22829564466_5e699c13c3_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">The pilots
briefing and welcome was held near the HQ and we all made our way to the
Turbulator for the start of the competition in double time. The team organising
the German Open had already set the course up by the time we arrived and we
were flying very shortly after. The organisation of the event was outstanding. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">My first
flight was a nervy one and Martin managed to catch some of it on video.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="309" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1-_Bn3kqwbk" width="550"></iframe><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did get better
as the day drew on, I promise. Unfortunately there isn’t any video evidence.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">I really
enjoyed how precise you had to fly and the concentration required to get the
most out of your glider. What was immediately clear to me was that I didn’t
have the Willow2 set up to carry energy as well as other slipperier planes, and
I didn’t have the knowledge, experience or skills to change it. I just flew it
how it was and concentrated on flying in my normal aggressive manner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think I
flew fairly well and provided some entertainment along the way too!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">I had hoped
to borrow a DSLR with video capability to be able to create a decent movie
about my German Open experience. Unfortunately the camera didn’t have video so
I only managed to film a few flights on my phone and have popped them in a
video of day 1 runs here:<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sorry that
the majority are just of the Brits, I didn’t think I had much memory on the
phone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the end
of day one, Andreas Herrig was in first place after 5 very efficient and
fantastically flown rounds. Martin and Mark were both pushing for top 10 places
by the end of the day and I was managing to keep JP and Daniel Schneider (honorary
Brit …. or Mascot, you decide ;-) ) behind me in the running order. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">That night
I met up with some of the lads for dinner at Zum Kap Arkana (competition HQ) in
their restaurant. It was a great multi-national get-together and a top finish
to a fantastic first competition day. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">There wasn’t
much wind predicted for day two and what there was, was later in the day so
after the pilots briefing a group of us spent the morning taking in the sights
and sounds of Kap Arkana and Vitt. Vitt was a proper little fishing village and
the walk along the beach, up the cliff to the lighthouse was lovely. There was
an annual fun run around Kap Arkana that we managed to watch the start of too
(I quite like Lycra on fitties).<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">Competition day 2!</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our aim for
Saturday afternoon was to try to get a round flown so we met after lunch at the
Vitt slope and tried to get started. The conditions were light but legal so
Antek Kania showed us the way with a test flight and we started round 6
directly after. The conditions were extremely light and by the time it came to
be my turn I was very nervous about hoiking my Willow2 over the edge. I was
right to be nervous. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">Before the
start of the round I had a good look at the course and planned my flights. I
was going to be particularly aggressive as I thought I could get a little bit
of an advantage by using the dead air behind the trees on the right side base.
Lucky I had a plan, because that was about the only line I could get enough
height for!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">I struggled
to get the plane above ankle height for the entire flight and was picking
little gaps between trees and branches.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">My flight
was cut short after forgetting about the little tree in the centre of the
course at the height of the slope edge which I clipped. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">This clippage slowed
the Willow down enough that I was unable to avoid the next little tree on the
entry to the base, whose impact made it impossible to fly over the big tree on
the base. Doh!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Willow
emerged unscathed from its session of tree-hugging except for a little ding in
the leading edge! Lucky me!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">As I popped
my head back up to the top I asked everyone if anyone had recorded my shenanigans on
video, unfortunately no one had, so you’ll just have to imagine it!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">You can
imagine my dismay at hearing that the conditions had now deteriorated to below
legal, but my flight still counted because they were legal for my flight. Well
30 minutes later dismay turned to delight when we were told that the 1<sup>st</sup>
attempt at round 6 was cancelled!! Woop-woop! Lucky me!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">During the
break I met a lovely boy and could feel myself falling in love instantly…………….
His name was Genghis and he was beautiful! If I ever get my own dog, I think it
will have to be an Alsatian x Husky!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/42696926@N02/22234600813/in/dateposted-public/" title="German Open day 3"><img alt="German Open day 3" height="640" src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/670/22234600813_c1276c681b_z.jpg" width="384" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">We managed
to complete 2 rounds before the sun set. None of the flights were blistering
but it was a really beautiful day and I couldn’t have wished to be anywhere
else. Also I didn’t land in any more trees, bonus!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">Andreas
Herrig was leading, David Stary was second and Helge Borchert third at the end
of day 2. I had managed to hold off Daniel Schneider and John Phillips while
Martin was managing to fend off Mark Abbotts just outside the top 10.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here is a stitching of flights from the second day:</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">All the flights I caught on film are also individually uploaded to youtube if you'd rather look there!</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">TUD had
organised a spectacular banquet. The food was delicious and the company was top
notch. The social side of this event only added to what was a fantastic trip.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">Third competition day!</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">There was a
similar amount of wind on day 3 as there was on day 2 but the direction had us
back on the Turbulator and with only 6 metres of cliff to generate lift the
decision was made to have 4m/s consistently to start the competition. That
strength never materialised and the final result was as it stood from the end
of day 2.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">I took gazillions of photos and have put them on <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/42696926@N02/albums/72157660951324125" target="_blank">Flickr</a> if you would like to have a look and I also made a little montage type video with no runs below:</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">I’d really
like to thank all the Guys and Girls from the TUD club for organising a
fantastic event. It was amazing to have the course manned by non-flying people
and their time and effort was massively appreciated. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">I’d also love to thanks all
the pilots I met for being incredibly friendly people and helping me to feel at
ease and welcomed. Huge thanks also to John, Martin, Mark, Daniel, Arne and
Peter for sharing this experience with me.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-18652828985737770752015-11-06T20:05:00.001+00:002015-11-06T20:05:54.571+00:00Videos of F3F runs from the German Open 2015I've condensed the videos I took of F3F runs at the German Open into two videos.<br />
The first one is day 1 on the Turbulator and I needed to mask the wind noise with a soundtrack.<br />
The second has a beautiful accompaniment of the dulcet tones of F3F in light conditions.<br />
Grab a cuppa and enjoy!<br />
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I'll pop together a video of the runs I caught later on and am still working on a very wordy report!<br />
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<br /><iframe width="550" height="309" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wyhpn0bu7lo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-6133656047590877162015-09-28T11:45:00.000+01:002015-09-28T11:45:23.478+01:00BMFA F3F 2015. Long Mynd 27 September<br />
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I clocked out after my night shift, jumped in my Van and tootled off to the Long Mynd in Shropshire to meet ten other blokes brave enough to have decided to try to complete a competition in what promised to be very light conditions. It was really quite the ‘Who’s Who’ of British F3F with a star studded, although compact, field.<br />
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After arriving a little late (I’d have had to drive like a hooligan to get there for the 9am meet) we got set up on a beautiful slope at the end of a little valley that funnels the available breeze.<br />
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The forecast told us to expect a very light breeze to start with conditions building as the day drew out. The forecast was correct on one count. It was light.<br />
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Our CD for the event was Mike Evans and he suggested that we complete a round Zero to let the conditions build and stabilise a bit before we got started on the official comp. Based on the forecast it was a good call and we all agreed.<br />
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The random order generator took 3 attempts to give an appropriate flying order and settled on having me to go first so I donned the number 1 bib and chucked my empty Willow2 into the beautiful scenery. I tried a pump and it was clear that was a waste of stick time so I scampered along the slope trying to build energy and find some buoyant air before the compulsory start of my timed run.<br />
I felt relatively comfortable on that course and found the bases easily and was able to concentrate on keeping as much energy through the turns as possible and posted a time of 61 or 62 seconds.. Not blistering by any stretch but I was quite pleased with how I flew. Aggressive, but not stupid (in MY eyes!)<br />
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You can imagine my surprise when at the end of the round, an entire field of world-class pilots with some of the best gliders available were sitting below me on the leaderboard! It was pretty close actually with most times in the 60’s and a couple in the 70’s. I think there was an almost unanimous sigh of relief that there was a round zero.<br />
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SO….on with the comp, proper like.<br />
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I flew almost exactly the same flight for the first round with exception of spending longer trying to gain energy and height without a pump and I also flew just a little too close to the bracken on one corner resulting in a split second of no control while the wingtip threaded its way through the ferns. My heart nearly jumped out my mouth as one of my top priorities for this comp was to leave with models intact as I’m driving to Rugen (Germany) on Wednesday! I carded another very low 60’s run and I was matched by Mark Redsell, Mike Evans and Simon Thornton. Not sure who won that round but it was close and it wasn’t me.<br />
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Round 2 was my slowest flight with a 62ish second run. I don’t think I had quite the same air as the previous run. But I was still pleased with the run. I wish I could remember who won this round, but I can’t. I have a feeling it was Mike Evans with his shiny new Shinto. They really are a gorgeous plane! It could also have been Mark Redsell or Simon Thornton. It might also have been Greg Dakin with his Jedi?<br />
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The conditions were starting to really drop off by the end of the second round with a bit of waiting on the flight line for the conditions to read 3m/s and the same was evident for the start of the 3rd round. I was standing waiting to launch, looking at a large group of birds circle out in front of the slope weighing up whether to launch and run to the thermal to get height and risk not being able to have a re-flight due to launching in non-legal wind speeds.<br />
I nodded to Simon to launch and took the risk.<br />
I got out to the thermal, gained quite a bit more height than I had previously been able to and bombed back onto the course half expecting the air to be electric and smash though each turn. It was clear at turn one that I needed to conserve that energy and I managed to set the fastest time of the day with a ‘blistering’ 56 second run.<br />
Mike and Mark also got sub 60 second runs both in the 58’s I believe.<br />
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We tried so hard to get a 4th round flown.<br />
Initially we attempted it on the slope we had used but with 4 out of the first 6 pilots being awarded reflights due to a drop in the conditions we shifted around the slope to the south and as we got the course set up, the wind died altogether and the competition was called finished and incomplete as we need 4 rounds to count towards a BMFA League result.<br />
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Below are the final results after 3 completed rounds<br />
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1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Clayton Landells<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2939.37<br />
2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mark Redsell<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2919.62<br />
3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mike Evans<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2898.59<br />
4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Simon Thornton<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2813.44<br />
5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Peter Gunning<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2794.11<br />
6<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Paul Stubley<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2778.61<br />
7<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Andy Burgoyne<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2730.54<br />
8<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Greg Dakin<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2699.69<br />
9<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Martin Newnham<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2629.69<br />
10<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mark Treble<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2567.33<br />
11<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>John Treble<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2467.13<br />
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Yes, you are reading that correctly.<br />
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I won with a Willow2!!<br />
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I wouldn’t have made any different calls, including the round Zero and I’d like to thank Mike Evans and Andy Burgoyne for hosting and running the event.<br />
Thanks also to all the pilots for their encouragement and support. It is one of the best aspects of F3F in my opinion and why I loves it!<br />
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But everyone loves a what if……<br />
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What if round zero was round 1!!!!!<br />
I’d be insufferable and you’d never hear the end of it! Hahahaha<br />
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Better get packing for my trip to the German Open at Rugen!!<br />
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Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14291950354108094578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49236907094016359.post-42456895809896133552015-09-15T14:39:00.000+01:002018-03-08T16:10:44.784+00:00Welsh Open 2015<span style="font-size: large;">What a fantastic 3 days of competition, exercise and mateship!! I want to start by saying a massive thanks to Kevin Newton for running this years event. He did a fantastic job and it was a pleasure to help in the centre of the course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Day one started with what feels like the longest and hardest walk in the world which depressingly, is only a kilometre. We set up camp on the crest and tried to get started as soon as we could with the random number generator singling out it’s first Spanish number for the weekend and Jorge Medina got us underway. He must have been shitting himself as the crest is a daunting place to fly for the first time in a social gathering, let alone a major comp! I was 4th to fly and it was a bit of a test flight after playing with the CG on my Willow2 and not having had the time to test it. It didn’t go well at all and left me way down the pecking order after a 49.68 in sub 40 air with Mark Treble’s 35.28 with his iridescent Toxic setting the fastest time. I immediately modified my ballast to send the CG forward and hoped that it would behave better from round 2 onwards. Fingers crossed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mark Treble and Jon Edison let us use their timing gear for the Welsh Open and it is such a breath of fresh air in the CD chair! The Bluetooth speaker saves your voice and the auto functions enabled us to try to manage the buzzers on bases from the flight line. It worked really well and I’d like to thank all the pilots for their help, understanding and brilliant work on the buzzers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The addition of ballast and a shifting forward of the CG made a massive difference to the Willow2 and my second round was a much better flown 42.91 although I was still too light and added as much ballast as I was comfortable to carry which was also the last time I changed the ballast over the weekend! As I’ve mentioned before I’ve given myself a couple of targets or benchmarks to beat. Well after two rounds I had given the 3 Whitesheet boys a massive head start! Round two was taken by Joel West with a 33.64.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Round 3 I had finally started to get similar results to Tony Livingstone and Daniel Schneider who were flying either side of me. I got my first sub 40 time of the competition with a 39.31 and was soundly beaten by Fritz Donker-Duyviz from Holland with a fantastic 33.12! It was so good to see so many fantastic pilots from across Europe beating the slope and the wind into submission!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Daniel Schneider from Germany held the early round-lead in round 4 with a fantastic 35.18 which was rudely pipped by Joel West a few flights later with 34.17. Joel’s time stood until Inaki Elizondo blitzed the course with an amazing 32.51 second run. I was still chugging along with a mediocre 42.01 which doesn’t score much against a 32.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The last round for Friday was the 5th round and the conditions were easing off a little bit by now and were also affected by quite a bit more South in the South Easterly breeze. It was quite a challenging round but I managed to get some of the better air and flew a 41.37 second run which enabled me to have clawed my way from 46th after round one to 34th at the end of day one. Joel West cemented his day one lead by winning the 5th round with a very tidy 34.14.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The top 3 at the completion of day 1 were Joel West (1), Inaki Elizondo (2) and Peter Gunning (3).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The team Standings after day 1 were, Mickeys Massive (1), Ye Lo Que Hay (2) and GBU (3)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The forecast for Saturday wasn’t particularly flash leading up to the Welsh Open, however the morning dawned bright and dry and we made our way to the westerly slope of Mickeys and got set up. Then the rain came and we hunkered down to wait for the rain and clag to pass. The Random Number generator had chosen a second Spanish Number to kick off day 2 and Marcelino Punal had the honour of first pilot up at just after midday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Simon Thornton started the day as he meant to go on, taking the round win with a blistering 35.93. Inaki Elizondo and Martin Newnham were hot on his heels but everyone had been put on notice. Simon was coming to get them! Oblivious to all the front running shenanigans, I wobbled in a lacklustre 48.78 and made no forward progress. The West slope doesn’t like reversals (Turn Style) much so a smoother Energy Management style was called for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Round 7 saw Richard Bago set the pace with a 36.32 and just hold off two of our Austrian visitors in Kurt Planitzer and Stefan Fraundorfer with 37.xx each. Kurt is a seasoned F3Ffer and Stefan was having his second or third F3F event having lots of Electric Pylon racing experience (F5D) which showed in his very aggressive and skilful flying style. I managed to place 7th in the round with my 39.56 and was well pleased with myself!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There were two EPIC flights in round 8. Martin Newnham took the round win with 32.59 and Greg Dakin probably couldn’t believe his eyes when his own extremely fast time of 32.87 was beaten. Stefan Bertschi (Switzerland) and Ronnie Lampe both had stellar runs to grab 3rd and 4th in the round. I was getting the hang of the required style for the hill and posted a 41.19 in 18th place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had another really nice flight in the 9th round and was on track for another low 40’s flight until I missed the base (cut) on the 9th turn and had to loop back which cost me 3 or 4 seconds giving me a 44.28 which was still good enough for 14th in the round and more forward progress. Simon Thornton kept plugging away and won the round with a 38.24, just beating Jose-Louis Alvarez and Keith Wood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the end of day 2 I had managed to scramble up to 28th position with a few good flights. Simon Thornton had closed the gap to Joel west and was now only 90 points adrift with Martin Newnham hot on their heels in 3rd 45 points behind Simon. Inaki, Peter and Greg rounded out the top 6 with the teams having a bit of a change-up too. Mickeys Massive still held the lead with GBU hot in pursuit followed by Ye Lo Que Hay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I thought that our chances of getting any flying done on Sunday were slim to none so I wasn’t even thinking about flying while we gorged ourselves on Indian food at the Natraj in Bridgend. I woke on Sunday to a very surprising sky and forecast and bolted to the Crest for another pack-horse session. Massive thanks to all the guys that helped drag the course to the slope and back over the weekend! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kevin and I chose to move the course about 150yds north from where we flew on Friday and found a place where we could just squeeze the course onto a cliff face. We were a little bit concerned that some might dive straight into a rocky outcrop coming out of Base A. There was nothing to worry about as nobody hit that particular piece of earth……</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Random number generator picked on another Spaniard for Sunday, this time it was Inaki Elizondo’s turn to go first. He wasn’t particularly lucky as he did a massive double-cut on base A and carded a disappointing 51.88. I tried reversals again for this slope but they just didn’t work and gave me a 48.57 with a few ‘squirrely’ moments to consider. ‘EM’ for the next one then. Greg Dakin managed to find a mid-morning thermal square on the face for his 34.36 second run and bound his way towards the top 3 with that! Lazaro Martinez had a great flight to go sub 40 and hold off Pete Gunning and Kevin Newton.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Simon Thornton must have woken up smelling a mixture of fear and blood in the air. He was on a mission and took round 12 by nearly 3 seconds with a 37.77 second run. Alejandro Gil Garcia beat Kevin Newton and Kurt Planitzer to second place by 5 hundredth’s of a second followed by John Phillips and Graeme Mahoney who had had a very good Welsh open and was in with a shot of a top ten finish! Speaking of top 10, I got a 43.39 with the Willow2 which gave me 10th place in the round. We were starting to get a few significant ‘dead spots’ in the conditions and some pilots were feeling the (lack of) effects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ‘EM’ turns in round 12 paid off for me again with another 10th place 43.40. Simon Thornton clearly wanted the title of Welsh Open Champ as he was on form again and held off Joel (39.36) with a rapid 37.24 while Dave Rumble got his best round place with 3rd in 40.31 seconds. Inaki had gone from bad to worse when he misjudged the height of the ground and clipped the cliff on the way TO base A. He was then followed by Keith Wood doing exactly the same thing. I felt bad for them, but at the same time was relieved that they hadn’t hit the rocky outcrop we warned people about in the briefing!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Round 13 was our final round. It turned out to be our only weather effected round of all 13 over the 3 days! Tony Livingstone was on the flight line getting ready to launch while I was willing him to fly as it didn’t matter how wet I got, I was going to fly IN the rain rather than in the soggy mess AFTER. Unfortunately Tony didn’t launch and we started the timer for the 30 minutes allowance to continue the round or call it a day. So we all had 30 minutes to ponder the results. Would we continue? Had Joel done enough to hold off Simon? Had Martin done enough to beat Pete to third? Had Greg beaten both Martin and Pete to third? Had I done enough to beat Tony Livingstone and Martin Drewett? I knew I hadn’t beaten Graeme, he’s stepped up a level.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">27 minutes into the rain delay, the weather cleared and we were able to get started again. As predicted, Tony, Daniel and I got the soggy air and posted 50’s and 51’s. Joel managed to beat Simons time by 0.7 seconds but no-one was expecting Peter Gunning to stand up and be greeted by a monster thermal and post a 32.84 absolutely obliterating the rest of the field. Until that flight Martin Newnham looked odds-on for third as he took 4rd in the round with 40.17 behind Kurt and Inaki. Greg Dakin wasn’t to be outdone as he took 6th in the round behind Graeme Mahoney and Mark Treble.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before we crawled back to the cars I scrambled down the cliff to retrieve a bag of bits that used to be Scott Ravenscroft’s Caldera. I’m not a big fan of litter and offered to get it for him after a complete radio failure left him powerless to do anything but watch as his plan accelerated into the cliff base.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had a fantastic weekend. It was awesome to see so many pilots from across Europe and the UK and amazing to get so many rounds flown over the 3 days. I was really quite impressed with the Willow2 enabling me to have a few top 10 round finishes and also flitting between reversals and EM with relative ease.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Massive congratulations To Inaki Elizondo for taking the fastest time of the competition with his blistering 32.51!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Congrats also to the winning team of Joel West, Peter Gunning and Stefan Bertschi: Mickeys Massive</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Exceptionally well done to our Welsh Open Champion of 2015 …….. Simon Thornton flying his Shinto!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Second place was a valiant Joel West with a Freestyler and in Third after smashing the final round was Peter Gunning!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks again to all that Helped. Special thanks to Kevin Newton for organising and running the event and to Mark Treble, Jon Edison and Rich Bago for their help in the middle when needed and for the timing gear. I’m going to see if I can get some for the SWSA!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Below is the final results and the complete spreadsheet will be available by email, possibly on Kevin’s site, Mike Shellim’s site or hopefully I can figure out how to make it available on my blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">TEAM RESULTS</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mickeys Massive</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>GBU</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ye Lo Que Hay</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>GIFCOF</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>XEIS</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>All Stars</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tea Swillers</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">8<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bonkers</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">9<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fake Pilots</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">IINDIVIDUAL RESULTS</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Simon Thornton<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 10949.04</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Joel West<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 10873.91</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Peter Gunning<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 10780.76</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Martin Newnham<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 10606.39</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Greg Dakin<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 10602.92</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Inaki Elizondo<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 10417.80</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mark Treble<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 10335.98</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">8<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mike Evans<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 10250.86</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">9<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Richard Bago<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 10249.23</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">10<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Stefan Bertschi<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 10210.18</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">11<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Graeme Mahoney<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 10194.47</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">12<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kurt Planitzer<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 10186.40</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">13<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ronnie Lampe<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 10074.38</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">14<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kevin Newton<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 10051.00</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">15<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jose luis Alvarez<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 10012.71</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">16<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Daniel Schneider<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9959.05</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">17<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>John Phillips<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9953.30</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">18<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Stefan Fraundorfer<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9941.96</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">19<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Stefan Bernardy<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9857.97</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">20<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lazaro Martinez<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9793.96</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">21<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fernando Moro<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9776.22</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">22<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Frits Donker Duyvis<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9759.22</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">23<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Keith Wood<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9715.88</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">24<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Clayton Landells<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9678.49</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">25<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jorge Medina<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9673.09</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">26<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tony Livingstone<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9627.25</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">27<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Martin Drewett<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9583.61</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">28<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reto Blumer<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9569.39</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">29<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Inigo Herrera<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9548.21</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dave Rumble<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9528.69</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">31<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>John Treble<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9516.02</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">32<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Alejandro Gil Garcia<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9486.13</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">33<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mike Shellim<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9447.50</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">34<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Paul Stubley<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9392.71</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">35<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Andy Burgoyne<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9373.67</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">36<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ewan Maxwell<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9370.90</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">37<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Erik Heijne<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9348.00</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">38<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Christian Schnepfleitner<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9261.29</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">39<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Scott Ravenscroft<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9220.91</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">40<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rick Ruijsink<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9047.12</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">41<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Marcelino Punal<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 8956.90</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">42<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jon Edison<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 8837.83</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">43<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jason Bioletti<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 8735.97</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">44<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ian Mason<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 8634.13</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">45<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mark Abbotts<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 7254.93</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">46<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tony Robertson<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 6185.69</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">47<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Frank Hulton<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 5776.88</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">48<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Vic Eldridge<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 3983.62</span><br />
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