Sunday 19 January 2014

Welsh F3F Winter League first Round Results

Hi Lads

Just a quick write up tonight! Well it finally happened we got a league result in! Although the forecast was good it was still touch and go. With a chance of the wind shifting to the back of the Wrecker but with still some west in it we set the course up just before the cattle grid just before Mickey's . In true Welsh F3F fashion the clag came in with a bit of rain and hail for good measure.

We had to wait until after midday until it cleared and although there was a hint of south in it we decided to stay put.

I won't do a blow by blow account but it turned into a very close contest  between  Mark Abbots, Simon Thornton,  Joel West and Martin Newnham.

Round
1st
2nd
3rd
1
Mark
40.34
Joel
41.86
Martin
42.36
2
Mark
47.36
Simon
48.61
Joel
49.40
3
Joel
45.37
Simon
46.30
Mark
48.01
4
Simon
43.25
Mark
45.00
Joel
46.20
5
Mark
44.90
Joel
45.49
Mike
46.37
6
Simon
41.63
Martin
41.90
Joel
43.99
7
Martin
48.22
Simon
48.58
Graeme
51.56

Before the final result a big thanks for everyone who helped today. Clive for collecting the money. New Dad Joel for being Buzzer Supremeo, and finally and not least Martin and Simon helping in the center.

Simon ran out as the winner of the first round of the Winter League flying his new  Freestyler, that's right you heard correctly Simon has gone to the Dark Side as well now!

Mark finish a worthy second just behind Simon flying his Caldera and also grabbed the Fastest Time of the Day in the first round with a 40:34.

Joel was third which proved a welcome change to nappy chnaging!

The full results are below and that just leaves me to say see you all next month and all the best  

Andrzej
1
Simon Thrornton
5860.69
2
Mark Abbotts
5814.48
3
Joel West
5791.92
4
Martin Newnham
5698.54
5
Graeme Mahoney
5457.04
6
Tony Livingstone
5323.60
7
Mike Evans
5245.23
8
Martin Drewett
5243.56
9
Dave Runmble
5236.70
10
Paul Stubley
5102.27
11
Clive Jones
4873.87
12
John Treble
4861.73
13
Chris Studley
4508.51
14
Andrzej Tabero
4501.45



Friday 17 January 2014

SWSA F3F Winter League is ON

Hi All

Right, it look we are in real danger of getting a competition in on Sunday, so the Winter League is on.

The wind forecasts have been flipping between Mickey's and the back or the Wrecker over the last 48 hours although it is looking more like Mickey's now.

We will meet at the "T" junction and head up to the slope at 09:30. Just to let you know there is a degree of change ongoing between over the farmers over the land and  Jonathan who currently open the gate for us has asked that we keep the gate closed. He would like us to pull the gate closed and  by putting  open pad lock through the hasp to keep the gate closed.  So if you turn up late please pull the gate closed and put the lock through.  I have raised concerns about us getting locked in but Jonathan has assured me that he will be within five minutes of the gate all day if someone locks it.

So I am looking forward to seeing you all Sunday and all the best


Andrzej

Monday 13 January 2014

SWSA F3F Winter League

Hi All

Right excuse my paranoia but I am starting to think this seasons winter league is cursed I tried to go flying last weekend and got up the slope to late as the air died right off and then guess what it the slope was in clag and rain Sunday!



Anyway we will try again Sunday 19 January (I am starting to sound like a broken record) to get a competition in for the SWSA F3F winter league. I will make a call Friday if the competition is on and if so more details of meeting times.



If I can have entries by Saturday I would be grateful as it helps with organising the flying order and get things running on the day. However, if you wake up Sunday morning and decide at the last minute you want to fly you will more than welcome, but you might find yourself early in the flying order!

If you are thinking about having a go in F3F the winter league is a great place to start, it's all pretty informal and don't worry if you haven't got the latest state of the art carbon fibre dream machine to have a go.  Sure it nice to have but it is more important that you have a go at standing in the centre of a course and trying to fly a kilometre as fast as you can with what ever plane you have got.  Better to find out flying a foamie that F3F is for you than spending thousands only to find out you have made an expensive mistake!   

Looking forward to seeing you all Sunday


Andrzej