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Soarchamps
Soarchamps
Soarchamps

Kevin Campbell with his Plus F5A.
Kevin Campbell with his Plus F5A.
Kevin Campbell with his Plus F5A.

This was our usual second biggest event for soaring
during our year. We had an average amount of entries
with 7 Classes on the schedule. This meant we had a
good variation in soaring available to over most of the
different soaring disciplines. John Shaw was up from
the very deep South Island, and we had a few from all
around the North Island. Although we had some good
rain on the Tuesday before the event the forecast
looked great!

F3B (3 Task Winch launch)
This was scheduled for the first day as normal. We had Kevin Botherway targeting 100 points landing.
Kevin Botherway targeting 100 points landing.
Kevin Botherway targeting 100 points landing.
enough people to help run the course and a big thanks to
Helen Gray-Williams and Barry Kerr who also helped with crossed over on the lines and Peter Glassey lost his
the officiating. Twelve entries made it a little easier to run elevator on launch. Luckly there was little damage, and it
efficiently and with a light wind (in the right direction) made was repaired and ready to fly again with the group re-flown
launching nice and easy. It was time for the light winch line later. Again, we had the wind direction perfect for
although Richard managed to trash four lines in one day, launching and most of the day there was little thermal
almost a record! We completed two full rounds during a activity but mostly a lot of wave lift which means lots of
nice relaxing day with most getting there ten minutes in patience and just hanging there waiting for time to tick by.
duration. The landing was different, with the models being The best score was 9.52.9 and 98 landing by Kevin
a bit heavier than our thermal models, they came in fast, Botherway and lots achieved times close to Kevins flight
and it was harder to manage getting the magic 100-point time. We completed 9 rounds of 3 groups during the day
landing. which was heaps of flying for all. We flew the last group
with light rain starting and unfortunately ended up packing
Peter Willimas got the perfect landing score 10.00 minutes up in the rain! Yep, everything and everyone got well
and 100 landing. Four pilots flew 20 laps in distance and washed and cleaned.
Peter Williams was fastest in the speed task 16.34
seconds. 1st John Shaw. 2nd Kevin Botherway. 3rd Peter Glassey.

1st Kevin Botherway. 2nd Peter Williams. 3rd Peter F5J (Electric Launch Thermal)
Glassey This was our first electric model competition for the
weekend and again the weather was great! This is a
F3J (Winch Launch Thermal) reasonably technical event with three recordings to be
The next day the weather was just as good, and it took a done, launch height, flight time and landing and most
little while to set up with mostly Maxa’s to assemble and pilots have got all of this sorted now. We set up and worked
lots of little screws to lose. The winch lines for this event towards a cut off for the event so we could fit the other
are 150m long but we space the winches in lanes to give a day’s events in. The best flight was 9.56 time, 50 landing
little launch separation as the pilot group all start launching and 91 meters launch height by Kevin Botherway. It was
at the same time. In the very first round we had a little not a day for the low launch and at time flights were hard
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