SLOPEGLIDE 2012

The following in italics is a post from BARCS forum outlining the format for the annual (hopefully) SLOPEGLIDE competition.
I've entered, woooooohooo!!, and my wonderful wife (she reads this occasionally) has agreed to look after the kids for the weekend while I go and play with my toys. I am super excited to be finally getting out on the slopes again for some competition and to catch up with friends I have not seen for a while.

The itinerary for SlopeGlide will be as follows:

· Saturday 4^th August meet 8:30am at the Ice Cream car park.

· Set up F3F course with aim to get flying started as soon as possible. Last round in progress on the first day will 3:30pm. (This will be dependent on how many enter for slope aerobatic contest)

· After the last round is completed we will run a Slope Aerobatics competition.

· Sunday 5^th August meet 9:00am with the aim to get flying started as soon as possible. Last round in progress at 5:00pm, this will be assessed based on conditions.

· Presentations

Aerobatic contest: I know there have been many competitions over the years, this is very new to me, so if you feel guidance is required after you read the following please PM or email me .

My main aim is to get the manoeuvres out there for you to practice.
Example of some aerobatics:

The contest will consist of one round per pilot:

Compulsory Manoeuvres as follows:

· One inside loop K = 5

· One roll K = 5

· Split S K = 5

· Immelman turn K = 6

· Additional four manoeuvres, selected from the following list —

Optional manoeuvres.

· Stall turn K = 6
· Rectangular approach K = 6
· Straight inverted K = 7
· Two inside loops K = 8
· Two rolls K = 8
· Three turn spin K = 8
· Double Immelman K = 9
· Three inside loops K = 10
· Cuban eight K = 10
· Vertical eight K = 10
· Slow roll K = 11
· Horizontal eight K = 12
· Three outside loops K = 12
· Inverted eight K = 12
· Figure-M K = 12
· Three rolls K = 13
· Four-point roll K = 14

Each manoeuvre will be marked out of 10 and multiplied by its K number, therefore the more difficult the manoeuvre the better chance of a higher score, but be careful if you get it wrong, you could end up way down the order.

Here is also a link to a site with the manoeuvres, as mentioned this is my first time of running a slope aerobatic competition, so I will look at the rules to simplify to uses as an introductory event.

http://www.southernsoaringclub.org.za/MGA-rules-10-aerobat.PDF
I can't wait for the SLOPEGLIDE weekend to arrive, so excited!!

Better get out in the garage and do some repairs. I'd like to have two Skorps up and running for the event, but definitely NEED at least one. Better get glassing!!