2008 Competition Results Round 3

The Third round of the 2008 club competition took place on Tuesday evening 24^th June. This months task was a variation on the FAI competition for electric hot-liners of which I can’t remember the official number ( F 5 something I think ). Anyway the gist of the task was to do as many motor off passes as you could in a three minute time slot. Any power used while between the flags would forfeit that lap, this part of the task would represent 50% of the final score. The course consisted of two flags about 150 yards apart, any motor power used after the first pass was then totted up and the pilot who used the least power would gain maximum points for the other 50% of the task. Sounds horribly complicated to me but after a quick demo with my Rabbit hot-liner everybody seemed to know what they had to do. Of course anybody using an ex club model would score an extra two points as well.

A turn out of eight pilots soon to become seven as George unfortunately had an argument with a tree on his maiden test flight prior to the start. With no reserve model his only option was to retire early.

It became apparent early on that those models with good power to weight ratios were going to do well, as this enabled faster climb outs and longer glide duration. It also helped if the model was quite aerodynamically clean as this gave a faster power off glide in the reasonably strong breeze, enabling more laps to be completed in the three minute time slot. The models that seemed to do well were all Piccolo’s, Brian’s seemed to have the most powerful set-up so only used 30 seconds of motor run for the entire 3 minutes and completed 7 laps. The other 3 Piccolo’s also did well as can be seen in the results. Unfortunately Duncan’s battery came adrift at launch resulting in a very tail heavy flight which I am sure he was glad to finish.

Again everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, still not in double figures yet with the entries. See you all at the next round if not before.

Round 2 Results

1^st Brian Webb 12 points Piccolo

2^nd Bob Branch 10 points Piccolo

3^rd Teresa Pemberton 8 points Piccolo

4^th Ian Walker 5 points Piccolo

4^th Dick Blenkinsop 5 points Just Junior

6^th Duncan Barker 3 points Extra

7^th Bob Herbert 2 points Samba

9^th

Total Scores after Round 3

1^st Teresa Pemberton 20 points

2^nd Alan Ballard 18 points

2^nd Brian Webb 18 points

4^th Ian Walker 17 points

5^th Bob Branch 16 points

5^th Bob Herbert 16 points

7^th Duncan Barker 12 points

8^th Dick Blenkinsop 10 points

9^th Terry Masters 5 points

10^th George Wenham 3 points

11^th Ian Newton 2 points

The next round will be on 22^td July