Round 2 at Tinkers

Round 2 of the BMFA F3F league has been run and won.

Massive congratulations to Joel West for finally taking his first win in the BMFA and also setting a new hill record of 36.25 seconds on Tinkers in challenging and very changeable conditions.




The results are:

1  Joel West          Freestyler          7417.08
2  Mark Redsell       Alliaj/Freestyler   7259.00
3  Richard Bago       Alliaj/Martinet     7187.46
4  Simon Thornton     Extreme             7150.49
5  Martin Newnham     Freestyler          7013.28
6  Peter Gunning      Alliaj/Cyril        6853.76
7  Adam Richardson    Vampire             6627.46
8  Mark Abbotts       Extreme             6545.65
9  Paul Upton         Acacia II/W.Compact 6524.24
10 David Elam         Strega/Sting        6466.77
11 Frank Hulton       Extreme             6361.84
12 Kieth Wood         Freestyler/Sting    6349.24
13 Jon Edison         Extreme             6263.87
14 John Thornton      Skorpion            6256.60
15 Clayton Landells   Skorpion/Acacia II  6173.05
16 Ronnie Lampe       Sting/Strega        6158.47
17 Mick Walsh         Ceres               6087.90
18 Paul Townsend      Skorpion/Strega     5957.56
19 Tim Shaw           Vikos/Acacia II     5902.39
20 Mark Treble        W.Compact           5644.56
21 Phil Smillie       Acacia II           5339.58
22 Egon Lewin         Acacia II           5256.32
23 Mike Evans         Freestyler          4581.60
24 Tom Foreman        Artist              1915.62

For me, it was a reasonably frustrating day as I struggled to keep the Skorp away 

from the edge in the very blustery conditions. 

I was also experimenting with different lines, settings and styles for the first 2/3 of the day.

The conditions eased off for the last few rounds and I found that I was able to put the Skorp where I wanted. 

I was feeling much better about my flying after crossing the line in round 8.

I was then caught out by the change in conditions on my approach to landing. 

In previous rounds, there was very little rotor as the hill was almost blown out. 

On my landing for this second-last round, I put the crows out to find that the Skorp was 

accelerating at my head. I took evasive action with the plane and managed to 

de-laminate one of the wings at the trailing edge. 

Bummer!

It could have been a whole lot worse and I am pretty lucky to still have her in one piece.

I flew the last round with my trusty AcaciaII and was happy to be finished for the day.

A quick bit of an accolade.

Paul Upton flew amazingly well and finished in the top 10 in his first ever F3F event. 

He predominantly flew his AcaciaII! 

I wish I could fly mine like he flew his!

I managed to leave the video in my car, so no vids.

I only got the camera out for a short while and below are the results of the shutter fluttering.

Below is Tom launching Paul's AcaciaII

Joel willing Simon's Extreme on (or is that willing it slower)