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Noeline Craighead
Secretary/Treasurer

September ~ Season Opening On Sunday morning, F3R was flown with four pilots. This
A great season opening weekend of pylon. The first NZ was run with two heats of two-up. Again, some very close
pylon race meeting of the 2024/2025 season held at racing.
Airsail MAC, Pukekawa.
After an early lunch, it was time for the fast boys. It was
This meet was a 'learning curve' for the new safety regime also great to see Gary getting up to speed and Frazer back
by running the course with the 10+1/2 laps timing from the flying some pylon after just getting back from an F3A
No. 1 pylon area, using the pylon one light and the cut, two aerobatics World Cup event in China.
button system. It worked fine for everyone after a little
coaching for the timers. We were a little short on entries A special Thank you mention to June for sitting in the
but there was still some great, enjoyable racing, with PB's timers chair all weekend and thank you to Ross for running
in F3R for Stephen Collins and Gary Mercer. the timing system, making for a successful weekend.
Congratulations guys. Thanks also to Antony for running the computer during the
F3D racing and for trying to teach Alex to push a pylon one
Q500 was first up on Saturday afternoon. There were button.
three flyers with some very close racing between Dave
Coleman, Chris Charlton & Antony Wright. October 9-10
Day 1
Again, light on entries. Some people apparently have a life
outside of pylon. We started with F3T with only two entries
~ John & Len.

John did a quick time of 60.85 seconds for his first race
(Pylon’s 2 & 3 were unmanned). Unfortunately, that was
his only flight as in the second race things didn't sound
right and he shut the model down. Len continued for a
couple of more flights.
Great to see Chris getting to enjoy his racing now he has his pink model
sorted out and achieved a PB.
Q500 only had three entries. Ron was back flying, putting
F3T and F3E were flown together after Q500. in his usual fast times. Chris was fitting it with him, getting
faster with each race.
Later, on Saturday afternoon there was some demo races
with E2K models. Chris flew John's model, and Antony Day 2 :
flew his orange model. Then Frazer had a race against There was no rush to get started as there was only F3R
Antony (who won … Antony believed you’d have to look at and F3D to get through, and some pilots were up late
the photo finish). watching the America's Cup final till 2.30am … worth it to
see Emirates Team NZ “WIN” .

First up was F3R with five competitors and some very
close racing between all pilots. No real mishaps, just a
couple of broken props on the cross-wind landings.
Chris Charlton “Transmitter matches the plane”
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