The 2024 European F3CN championships are over and we are well on our way home. Yesterday was finals day for F3C and we were fortunate to have both Mark and Steve into the finals which only the top 14 get into. Two rounds were flown to decide the eventual winner. The exciting thing is that … Read More
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2024 European F3C Championships, Aabenraa, Denmark. Day 8
New GBR European Champion! 2024 European F3N Championships, Aabenraa, Denmark. Day 7
Another long day though we did get a bit of a lie in this morning due to the rain. The F3C round which was meant to start at 8.30am, didn’t actually get going until 12noon. There was another break for rain for about 1.5 hours and they finally got going again just after 3pm. In … Read More
2024 European F3C Championships, Aabenraa, Denmark. Day 7
Today was round 2 of the semi finals and the forecast had been for rain until mid to late morning. We woke up and got ready as planned and yes, it was raining but the forecast was still for it to stop. Ian was the first of us to fly and was in the first … Read More
2024 F4 Scale World Championships Day 9 report
In summary Day 9 proved to be a little lesson in Team Management, some things I got right and others I barely got away with! We hardly needed to rush down to the airfield: 10:30am was the scheduled start time so a relaxed breakfast and a diversion enroute to pick up gallons of water and … Read More
2024 European F3N Championships, Aabenraa, Denmark. Day 6
It was the first of the Finals rounds today (Set Manoeuvres) with the top 10 pilots making it through. For anyone unsure of how the scoring works, all of the Preliminary rounds are amalgamated into one score (with the lowest being dropped) and those scores are then normalised to 1000. A Final Sets round plus … Read More
2024 European F3C Championships, Aabenraa, Denmark. Day 6
As I’m writing this, I’m still at our house waiting for the rain to stop along with Mark. The flying order for today’s second round of the semi finals has Ian up 6th in the running order with Mark and myself a little later in the morning. Today’s plan was for Ian to head to … Read More
2024 F4 Scale World Championships Day 8 report
Early start this morning and a late finish! Thanks to the local bank holiday flying started at 8:00am with the last flights of F4C round 1. Also scheduled for 8:00am, and the reason for our early arrival, was the F4B (control line) meeting and with Danny competing in F4B we needed to be there. The … Read More
2024 F2 World Championships, Muncie, USA Day 3
Today started with a rainbow which all the British competitors hoped would end in a pot of Gold. Andy was due to fly early, (which for those who know Andy is NOT an EASY task as he is not at his best after getting up at 6:30 😊) In round 4 Andy flew Cary Minor who … Read More
2024 F2 World Championships, Muncie, USA Day 1 & 2
Pre Championships Report Prior to the competition we decided that we needed to test and show that we could control stress levels and keep rehydrated so Dave Wiseman took up black jack at the local casino and won whilst Johnathon Crabtree practiced his re hydration techniques. Both were done successfully. It was also amazing to … Read More
2024 F4 Scale World Championships Day 7 report
Day 7 started as mad as day 6 finished, we hurried down to the airfield to crack on with assembling the models. With Nigel still a little unwell and the call to static judging an hour earlier than we had expected, the challenge was on to get all the delicate fancy scale bits like pitot … Read More