Saturday, 16 November 2013
League 7
Results from our event yesterday. It was lovely and windy but the sun shone all day! Wind speed was in the 15mph range coming straight down the course so A-B legs took no time at all and B to A took a while especially the last ones
Dynamic Simon flew well to take the Dynamic league after 3 events. Hopefully we will see more competition next year. The wind isn't kind to these models on the 150m course so thinking about dropping that to 75-100m. Need to run some tests with it over the winter. Tony, Steve and Joe also tried their hand at the Dynamic class but the top legs of 14 was Simon's. Joe decided to show everyone how it should be done and had numerous safety infringements followed by an incredible crash after doing a dive!!! He suddenly found out that these foamies don't have much elevator authority at speed.... Bit of an expensive day for models yesterday as you will find out.
Darron R (F5D normally) showed up for his first F5B event flying a RW2B modified to take a lipo. He had a good trial flight as the plane had never flown before. Then produced a solid 26 legs doing only LEFT turns. Unfortunately during the duration task the plane tip stalled into the runway. Hopefully he will be back to fight again. Tony had an incident on the first F5B round where the wipers on the V tail came out. He thought those were fixed for Rd2 and on initial climb out lost all elevator control. Resulting in a very bent airframe.
Mark, Joe and Alan had a good fight for top spot. Trading top scores with sometimes 1 point in it. Joe unfortunately ..... ..... limited on his 2nd round which put the pressure on for the next 2 rounds. Round 3 he flew very nicely and while Alan missed the 30 points he sailed straight in for them. Pressure for Round 4 then as Mark needed to beat Joe to maintain 3rd in the UK League scores. Alan flew first putting in 45 legs with a solid duration. Joe suffered a technical gremlin at the end of the legs when he wanted to climb for duration. Not sure what the problem was yet but nothing smoked this time. Mark flew another solid round with 43 legs. Dick and George were also trading scores throughout the day with George emerging as the winner of their battle.
Event finished with Alan, Mark, Joe in the top 3 places.
Bring on the next event....
Dynamic Simon flew well to take the Dynamic league after 3 events. Hopefully we will see more competition next year. The wind isn't kind to these models on the 150m course so thinking about dropping that to 75-100m. Need to run some tests with it over the winter. Tony, Steve and Joe also tried their hand at the Dynamic class but the top legs of 14 was Simon's. Joe decided to show everyone how it should be done and had numerous safety infringements followed by an incredible crash after doing a dive!!! He suddenly found out that these foamies don't have much elevator authority at speed.... Bit of an expensive day for models yesterday as you will find out.
Darron R (F5D normally) showed up for his first F5B event flying a RW2B modified to take a lipo. He had a good trial flight as the plane had never flown before. Then produced a solid 26 legs doing only LEFT turns. Unfortunately during the duration task the plane tip stalled into the runway. Hopefully he will be back to fight again. Tony had an incident on the first F5B round where the wipers on the V tail came out. He thought those were fixed for Rd2 and on initial climb out lost all elevator control. Resulting in a very bent airframe.
Mark, Joe and Alan had a good fight for top spot. Trading top scores with sometimes 1 point in it. Joe unfortunately ..... ..... limited on his 2nd round which put the pressure on for the next 2 rounds. Round 3 he flew very nicely and while Alan missed the 30 points he sailed straight in for them. Pressure for Round 4 then as Mark needed to beat Joe to maintain 3rd in the UK League scores. Alan flew first putting in 45 legs with a solid duration. Joe suffered a technical gremlin at the end of the legs when he wanted to climb for duration. Not sure what the problem was yet but nothing smoked this time. Mark flew another solid round with 43 legs. Dick and George were also trading scores throughout the day with George emerging as the winner of their battle.
Event finished with Alan, Mark, Joe in the top 3 places.
Bring on the next event....
League 6
Final results from the UK league for F5B and Dynamics.
We had a very good day today. It did threaten to rain but luckily it stayed away once 9:00 arrived. A bit of wind cross course but nothing like we have had in the past.
Only 6 pilots today Any suggestions for getting more people involved?
Today was crunch day for the 3rd position in the league. Joe was in prime position and Mark needed to have more than 98.x% points to move up.
Steve and Dick flew solid leg scores - Dick having decided that his practice flight on Thursday using all motor in one climb wasn't advisable. Tony had a few issues with the power plant in his plane. It would run for about 1 sec at a time then cut out. Alan flew an opening 46 legs got the duration and landing. Joe flew 44 with duration and landing. All pressure on Mark who came storming out with some amazingly fast 4 leggers - then a cut at B and didn't go back..... a few stern words from the timer after a slow next 4 and he was back on step. He flew a 45 (could have been 47) then needed to get duration and landing which he did with no trouble.
Round 2 started with Steve changing to the saw tooth prop to get more go which kicked him up to 43 legs. Dick having had a trimming flight with the Jeti TX in Rd1 was flying very smoothly with 42 legs. Unfortunately he limited and landed early. Alan flew a slow 44 legs wondering why the plane wouldn't go as fast as Rd1..... Joe came out and flew a 45 then limited in duration with about 2 mins to go. Mark flew another solid 44 legs with duration and landing.
During the gap between the rounds Alan flew the e-schwing from sloperacer.co.uk With approx 1600W setup it flew to 28 legs with a very interesting snap roll at base B
So all down to Rd3. Tony flew his low power setup very smoothly to post 28 legs.
Steve posted 43 legs and then went into orbit for the rest of the flight. Landed beautifully on 10 dead in the center spot. Dick's Jeti TX was coaxing him to fly faster and faster as after each climb it announces the last set time. Starting at 19sec and down to 17 mid flight. Alan flew 46 and then tried hanging around in the sky. All of a sudden the plane stopped responding to control inputs normally. After a few minutes of the plane hoping around the sky it arrived smoothly on the ground. Doing a range check we found that one of the aerials wasn't picking up a signal any more - hence the very scary behaviour. Joe flew the B12 putting in very tight turns at Base B and gaining time until a cut at B resulted in 44 legs. Mark came storming out with his very fast 4s which resulted in 46 legs. Knowing he was tight on motor run resulted in various worrying moments at low altitude by flying too slowly.
At the end of the day we tested the Dynamic by shortening the course to 100 and 75m. The aim being to get 4 legs in approx 30 seconds. There didn't appear to be much between the distances in terms of time so we have decided to set the distance at 100m for next year. This can be refined if necessary over the next year.
Results for today are
1. Alan - 2000.0
2. Mark - 1998.1
3. Steve - 1971.9
2013 F5B League placings
1. Alan - 500
2. Steve - 496.36
3. Mark - 492.60
2013 Dynamic League placings
1. Simon - 297.81
2. Andy H - 100
3. Andy S - 96.17
We had a very good day today. It did threaten to rain but luckily it stayed away once 9:00 arrived. A bit of wind cross course but nothing like we have had in the past.
Only 6 pilots today Any suggestions for getting more people involved?
Today was crunch day for the 3rd position in the league. Joe was in prime position and Mark needed to have more than 98.x% points to move up.
Steve and Dick flew solid leg scores - Dick having decided that his practice flight on Thursday using all motor in one climb wasn't advisable. Tony had a few issues with the power plant in his plane. It would run for about 1 sec at a time then cut out. Alan flew an opening 46 legs got the duration and landing. Joe flew 44 with duration and landing. All pressure on Mark who came storming out with some amazingly fast 4 leggers - then a cut at B and didn't go back..... a few stern words from the timer after a slow next 4 and he was back on step. He flew a 45 (could have been 47) then needed to get duration and landing which he did with no trouble.
Round 2 started with Steve changing to the saw tooth prop to get more go which kicked him up to 43 legs. Dick having had a trimming flight with the Jeti TX in Rd1 was flying very smoothly with 42 legs. Unfortunately he limited and landed early. Alan flew a slow 44 legs wondering why the plane wouldn't go as fast as Rd1..... Joe came out and flew a 45 then limited in duration with about 2 mins to go. Mark flew another solid 44 legs with duration and landing.
During the gap between the rounds Alan flew the e-schwing from sloperacer.co.uk With approx 1600W setup it flew to 28 legs with a very interesting snap roll at base B
So all down to Rd3. Tony flew his low power setup very smoothly to post 28 legs.
Steve posted 43 legs and then went into orbit for the rest of the flight. Landed beautifully on 10 dead in the center spot. Dick's Jeti TX was coaxing him to fly faster and faster as after each climb it announces the last set time. Starting at 19sec and down to 17 mid flight. Alan flew 46 and then tried hanging around in the sky. All of a sudden the plane stopped responding to control inputs normally. After a few minutes of the plane hoping around the sky it arrived smoothly on the ground. Doing a range check we found that one of the aerials wasn't picking up a signal any more - hence the very scary behaviour. Joe flew the B12 putting in very tight turns at Base B and gaining time until a cut at B resulted in 44 legs. Mark came storming out with his very fast 4s which resulted in 46 legs. Knowing he was tight on motor run resulted in various worrying moments at low altitude by flying too slowly.
At the end of the day we tested the Dynamic by shortening the course to 100 and 75m. The aim being to get 4 legs in approx 30 seconds. There didn't appear to be much between the distances in terms of time so we have decided to set the distance at 100m for next year. This can be refined if necessary over the next year.
Results for today are
1. Alan - 2000.0
2. Mark - 1998.1
3. Steve - 1971.9
2013 F5B League placings
1. Alan - 500
2. Steve - 496.36
3. Mark - 492.60
2013 Dynamic League placings
1. Simon - 297.81
2. Andy H - 100
3. Andy S - 96.17
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