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work with very little thermal activity. It was a case of 100m is not very high at all. The best flight was Richard
launching well upwind and then be in search mode. We Thompson 4.57 flight and 50 landing.
managed 4 complete rounds of three groups in each
round. 1st Stewart Cox. 2nd Andrew Hiscock. 3rd Rob Morgan

1st Kevin Botherway. 2nd Peter Glassey. 3rd Richard After this it was a night out at the local for a great dinner
Thompson. and relaxed catch up with everyone on all the other topics
in life.

The last day

iming group for F3K - all up last down.
Timing group for F3K - all up last down.
T T iming group for F3K - all up last down.
F3K (Discus Hand Launch) & F5K (Electric Hand
Launch)
This was another stunning day in the Bay. We set up and
prepped all our models in some nice air with thermal
activity and a light breeze. The tasks were scheduled in
alphabetical order. We planned to run a complete round of
T
Tony Christianson with Rob Morgan timing.ony Christianson with Rob Morgan timing. F3K then a round of F5K which had two groups in each
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ony Christianson with Rob Morgan timing.
round. This meant lots of swapping around model’s
ALES Radian (Electric chilly bins) transmitter’s charging batteries it was a busy time. There
We decided to do this Class next as the wind was getting a was some good lift with a little ballast required towards the
little stronger and the radians had a little better penetration end of our flying.
than the eRES models. We flew 3 rounds of 30 minutes
time slots and had 10 pilots in the competition. The first F3K - 1st Peter Williams. 2nd Miles Moloney. 3rd Peter
early starters seemed to get the worst times and the air Glassey
just got better and better towards the end of the
competition. Quite a few did some full on thermaling with a F5K - 1st Kevin Botherway. 2nd Peter Glassey. 3rd Steve
few getting to the height where your model disappeared! It Warner
was fun watching landing styles with no brakes. John
Shaw had the three top flights in Radian with his best a Overall if you flew every event and got all your time you did
max of 7.00 minutes and a 50 landing.
257 minutes or about 4.2 hours of flying in competition
mode! That’s without warmups and practice and calling
1st John Shaw. 2nd Andrew Hiscock. 3rd Peter Glassey.
others - WOW no wonder we deserve a beer… A super big
eRES 2M (Electric Launch 2m rudder,
elevator, and spoiler)
It was the first time this competition had
been run by the Soaring SIG as a new
Soarchamps discipline. It’s getting popular
with many around the country building kits
or buying the ARF. We had 9 entries in this
one and it was time to pop a little ballast in
them which worked a treat. The air from
Radian had gone and it was just a clean
breeze with little lift with under half of all the
flights under 5 minutes. Kevin’s and Dave’s
planes crashed on launch during the
competition which put them out. It was a
great competition and believe we have the
E
S
2M model lineup.
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recipe about right for rules. We all found e e R E S 2M model lineup.
eRES 2M model lineup.
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