August 11, 2010

RMAC Fun Fly Competition – Held Sat 3rd July 2010-07-05

The competition consisted 3 events:

  • Climb and Glide
  • Touch and Go
  • Team Relay event using a Club Trainer

The weather could not have been better.  Slight breeze in a very favourable direction with good clear sky and some cloud.  In short it was one of the best flying days of the year.  The turn out to the event was a bit disappointing but we went ahead to plan.

Climb and Glide

The Climb and Glide really sorted out those who had engines that would not stop.  Usually we want them to keep going!  Result:

1st Craig Cundy – Time 7mins and 5 seconds (Aircraft Ripmax Nova Trainer with OS46LA engine.  A superb effort all round.

2nd David Wilk (guest of Craig Cundy) 4 min 18 sec

3rd Nigel Cundy 4 mins 17 secs

Jamie Harrold (junior club member) should be mentioned here as he used a Low wing model not ideal for this type of comp.  He had never tried anything like this before and achieved a notable 2mins and 59 seconds.  Very well done.

Simon Webb never did get his engine to stop and had to give up.  I nearly lost sight of my own Limbo dancer.  Next time I will try binoculars.  I was 4th with 4 min 10 sec.

Touch and Go

Great event and very enjoyable.  We had put 2 chalk circles on the field.  Scoring was as follows:

5 points touch outside circle

10 Points for touch in the Outer Circle

15 Points for touch in the Inner Circle

20 point for a touch on the Bullseye

Ist           David Wilks using an electric Foam “Fun Cub” secret weapon.  He scored a Total of  14 Touch and Go’s Point Count was 200 including 1 bullseye.

2nd Peter Snow using a Limbo dancer.  Total of 15 touches and score of 180 points.  (I got the most touches as consolation).

3rd Jamie Harold using his low winger.  Total Touches were 10 with a score of 100.  (1 For a first time effort Jamie has to be congratulated on a really superb performance.

Team Event

This was won by Craig Cundy and Jamie Harrold

Overall Winner

Declared as Craig Cundy

Best Placed A Cert Flyer was Jamie Harrold

Overall Conclusion

A fun day which what it was all about  Those who did not come along missed out.

Link to PHOTO`s