WMF 2011 Competition

2011 Competition Results Round 3

 

 

Round 3

Devised By Ian Newton 

The third round of this years competition was held at the club on Tuesday 21st June.  Conditions were good except for the high wind gusting quite strongly.  

Due to the high wind speed it was decided that only suitable competitions for the conditions would be placed in the draw.  As a result only 2 competitions were 'in the hat', one devised by Ian Walker and the other by myself.  Wendy made the draw and mine was chosen.  The rules and task were simple as detailed below but the conditions made the attainment more difficult.  Barrie's model was excellent under the circumstances as he took off and almost hovered above the landing point riding the wind.  His timing was very close in both rounds as was his proximity to the landing spot.  For the rest of us, the rounds were more challenging!  Having climbed to the height we felt necessary and cutting the power the flight became interesting.  When flying downwind the planes traveled extremely quickly but on turning into wind it was as though a brick wall had been hit.  A lot of height had to be lost to gain the speed to make forward progress.  As a result, although in general everyone had times very close to the 30 seconds required, the distance from the 'spot' often fell well short giving Ron some long walks in pacing out the distances!  However, there was only one flight where the 10 second penalty for having to re-apply power had to be invoked.  Fortunately only one model was damaged during the evening.  A substitute plane was permitted since the objective of the events is mainly to have fun - shame he scored so well though :-)

All in all another enjoyable evening.  Hopefully next month the competition night will be a little calmer!

The rules were:

1.       The competition will take place with 2 rounds

2.       Take off and take as long as necessary to reach your chosen height.

3.       Cut power and glide to make landing

4.       The landing must be as close to 30 seconds as possible and as close to the marker as possible

5.       Repeat for further round

ScoScoring

1.       Any application of power after the declared height has been reached and power has been cut will result in 10 seconds being added / subtracted from time (subtracted if landing was in less than 30 secs, added if landing was in more than 30 secs

2.       0.5 secs per full metre (pace) from the designated landing spot will be added / subtracted from the time as per above.

3.       Points will be awarded based on competitors adjusted times being the nearest to 30 secs.

4.       1 extra point will be awarded to the one nearest the landing marker

5.       The points from each round will then be added together

6.     The final order based on these points will determine the final points in the competition as normal. 


 Name

Position

Points
Barrie Burton 1st 10
Ian Walker 2nd 8
Ian Newton 3rd 6
Bob Branch 4th 5
Duncan Barker 5th 4
Bob Herbert 6th 3
Brian Webb 7th 2

Results so far......

Name Round 1 - points Round 2 - points Round 3 - points Total points
Barrie Burton 1 3 10 14
Brian Webb 10 2 2 14
Ian Newton 6 5 6 17
George Whenham 0 1 - 1
Bob Branch 8 4 5 17
Bob Herbert 4 6 3 13
Bob Taylor 8 - - 8
Ian Walker 2 10 8 20
Duncan Barker 4 8 4 16

Last modified: June 21, 2011