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F3F Winter League R2 7 Dec 2019
A great day on lovely Levisham. Weather forecast was a bit off to start, with light southerly winds, making the decision to go to Levisham looking like an mistake.
However, patience paid off as the wind increased, and turned W, well nearly, probably WSW to SW most of the day. Wind speed peaked at around 12m/s.
As we waited for the wind to settle, we ran a Round Zero to give the 10 pilots a chance to do some trimming flights.By Midday we had steady legal conditions, and the racing started for real. Rounds were completed in rapid succession, resulting in a total of 8 rounds before the daylight started to fade.
Consistent flying from Mart R give him a clear win, followed by Peter in second, and Mark T in third. Mark T also took the FTD with a cracking 36.20 in R3.
Great results guys.Must mention our new recruit , Cengiz Philcox, taking part in his first F3F comp. A damaged model put him out of the last two rounds, otherwise I think he would have been a lot higher in the leader board. Well done mate!
Full results :-
1 Mark Redsell 6752.8 FS5 2 Peter Gunning 6477.06 FS6 3 Mark Treble 6289.04 Toxic 4 Paul Garnett 6095.59 Proton 5 Rich Bago 6076.16 FS5 6 Steve Haley 6073.28 Pike 7 Ewan Maxwell 6035.69 Pitbull 8 Jon Edison 5218.09 FS4 9 Bob Dickenson 4565.0 Xover / Ascot 10 Cengiz Philcox 3815.05 ? Thanks to all for your help and patience. See you all hopefully in January
In the meantime Happy Christmas!
Latest Drone News
Despite all our efforts to argue against Model Aircraft being classed as Drones, the Government have seen fit to introduce a registration scheme which covers Model Aircraft and Drones within the same legislation.
As from 30th Nov 2019 ALL model aircraft and Drones above 250g in weight MUST be registered. Failure to register, apart from the risk of a fine or imprisonment, could mean that your INSURANCE WILL NOT BE VALID!
It is up to all our Members to ensure that they comply with the Law. There is a fee of £9 per year, plus an online test which is designed more to impart information than to test your knowledge, so no one should fail!!
The following link will take you to the CAA Registration Page.
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Note :- you only have to register once. If you have already registered as a member of another Club or organisation you do not need to register again here
If you are a BMFA member ( as many of our members are ) then the BMFA will register yourself with the CAA and you don't have to comply with the 30th Nov date. This exemption will last until 31th Jan 2020.
However to prove you are a BMFA member, you should carry your BMFA membership card with you PLUS the CAA exception letter available here :-If you hold an 'A' Certificate, then you are also exempt from taking the online test.
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Northern F3F Winter league 2nd Nov 2019
The first of the Northern Winter League events was to be held on Saturday 2nd Nov. Forecast for winds moving from S to E with heavy rain by midday resulted in the competition reluctantly being called OFF. Next event is the 7th Dec 2019
Classic Slope Soaring article by Mike Kitchen Oct 2019
Mike has written an article for Aeromodeller Magazine with the aim of encouraging the building and flying of classic, all balsa, slope soaring gliders. Here is a preview of the article for Club Members to enjoy. Click here.
Welsh F3F Open & Eurotour 13th / 14th / 15th Sept 2019
Another great weekend on the Welsh Slopes. With high pressure bang over the top of the country, it was never going to be a classic event. Nevertheless enough wind and plenty of sunshine kept the show on the road. If you were lucky enought to hook up some good air you were assured of a reasonble run, otherwise good times were difficult to come by.
After 3 days and 5 rounds, the cream always raises to the top, and the eventual winner was Fernando Moro, with Peter Gunning in the closest ever finish, in second, and our own Richard Bago in Third. FTD also went to Fernando with a 40.49.
1 Fernando Moro 3790.50 1000.00
2 P Gunning 3790.44 999.98
3 R Bago 3758.61 991.58Other Club Members were Mark Treble in 10th, and Jon Edison in 15th
BMFA F3F League 3 1st Sept 2019
Car mishaps aside, the 15 pilots had a pretty good day battling through the Levisham variability.Hopefully everyone had a least some good air.
The forecasters had the weather spot on. Westerly winds with a sprinklering of showers. Even though we only had three stops for rain, the speed and severity of the showers gave little time for the pilots to dive for cover.
Hoping to manage a 10 round comp, the target was abandoned when the mother of all showers was seen developing on the horizon. So the comp was called after 9 rounds, and with fastest course clearance on record, we all headed for the safety of the cars.The final results gave a win to Peter Gunning, Mark Redsell in second, and Rich Bago in third. FTD went to Ewan Maxwell with a 41.31 in R3. Well done guys.
1 Peter Gunning 7557.19 FS5 2 Mark Redsell 7428.08 FS5 3 Rich Bago 6935.88 FS5 4 Greg Dakin 6873.84 Pitbull 2 5 Mark Treble 6809.81 Toxic 6 Ewan Maxwell 6771.28 Pitbull 1 7 Mark Passingham 6601.45 FS5.4 8 Nigel Witchalls 6566.29 Jedi 9 Dave Watson 6376.60 FS4.3 10 Jon Edison 6369.47 FS4 11 Bruce Hudson 6330.75 FS4 12 Robert Carson 6296.85 FS4.3 13 John Treble 6233.88 Pitbull 14 Kyri Christodoulou 5988.27 Needle 124 15 Tony Wilson 5695.48 Skorpion Thanks to everyone for their help throughout the day. Looking forward to the Welsh Open in a couple of weeks time
PSS Event 14th July 2019
One day PSS event was held on the North slope in fairly light wind conditions. A number of pilots attended, but the conditions didn't suite all models, so flying was somewhat limited. Lets hope we can resurect interest in PSS and look forward to next year.
North of England F3F Open 28th - 30th June 2019
Another fantastic weekend for our Eurotour and World Cup event sponsored by T9HobbySport and MKS Servos.
With a forecast for the hottest day of the year for Saturday and wind on all three days, we couldn't wait to get started. Friday was forecast was to have light E winds moving to SE later in the day. As a result we only managed 2 rounds on the East Slope before the SE winds caused us to move to the South slope for 1 more round.
Saturday was a more productive day, on the South slope again, 6 more rounds were added in a scorching 28deg C temperatures, and a surprising bland southerly wind without the lift the temperature would suggest.
Sunday was on Levisham in stonking Levisham air, saw the grand total of rounds increased to 15 despite the earlier finish of the last day. Fortunately the temperature had dropped to a more comfortable 18 Deg C, and Levisham was a great leveller, the top 20 pilots all had a normalised score of 900 and above.
With the lead changing each day, Peter Gunning finally took the top spot, with John Phillips in Second and Mark Redsell in Third. Mark also took the FTD of a fantastic 32.83 in R12. Congratulations to the winners and to everyone for some stunning flying throughout the weekend.
The Full Results were :-
1 Peter Gunning 11730.89 2 John Philips 11687.79 3 Mark Redsell 11656.67 4 Dave Woods 11613.27 5 Stefan Bertschi 11323.93 6 Mark Treble 11314.48 7 Rich Bago 11277.98 8 Clayton Landells 11247.19 9 Mike Evans 11094.67 10 George Young 10991.86 11 Stefan Bernardy 10926.18 12 Arjen Van vark 10818.10 13 Tony Livingstone 10808.93 14 Brett Larrett 10754.45 15 John Treble 10725.71 16 Rick Ruijsink 10686.02 17 Eric Heine 10654.36 18 Andy Burgoyne 10611.11 19 Keith Wood 10605.01 20 Paul Garnett 10573.72 21 Mike Shellim 10528.29 22 Dave Watson 10519.11 23 Graeme Mahoney 10516.81 24 Paul Stubley 10455.87 25 Bruce Hudson 10281.38 26 Les Wood 10244.94 27 Nigel Witchalls 10106.80 28 Jon Edison 9864.99 29 Robert Carson 9600.95 30 Bob Dickenson 8576.56 31 Jason Bioletti 8250.69 32 Dave Rumble 8099.75 33 Maria Freeman 7269.62 Team positions were:-
Smoggies 34212 All Stars 32568 Wooden Shoes 32398 Bonkers 32161 Scoobies 31685 Mickleson Massives 31305 GIFGOF 29425 Thanks to everyone for great weekend and for shifting all the gear on and off the slope each day. Mark T for organising the event, and John T for his flagging system which magically turned everyone into Buzzer Supremo's
Classic Glider Event 16th June 2019 ( SAM35 Report Here )
Great day on the South Bowl. Good selection of traditionally built gliders. Dave Hughes Soarcerer, Ken Binks 'Suzy Que' and others. Brisk Southerly winds didn't deter pilots from flying what were Rudder / Elevator models. Superb prize of a SunSpot Glider kit donated by Belair, went to Phil Green for not only his gliders but for his 'Retro' radio control outfits as well ( Link Here ).
The next retro soaring event is Ivinghoe Nostalgia Day, at Ivinghoe Beacon, Saturday 14th Sept 2019, Post code is LU7 9DJ
However, if that is too far to travel, we look forward to another event at Horcum next year. Here are some photos of the day.
F3F Champion of Champion Event 30th - 31st March 2019
The Champion of Champions event, the culmination of all the F3F Winter Leagues around the country, was held at Horcum over the weekend. 20 pilots spent 2 days enjoying glorious weather in one of the most picturesque places in the country,
Despite the light winds, 8 rounds were completed before the wind became too variable to continue. The final results was a win for the ever popular Mike Shellim, second went to Rich "Mr T9" Bago, and third to Mark "Shirt Sleeves" Treble. Mark T also took the FTD for the weekend with a 45.20 in R7. Great result guys, well deserved.Full placing here :-
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Mike Shellim 6571.27 1000.00 Rich Bago 6435.86 979.39 Mark Treble 6391.40 972.62 Mike Evans 6354.41 966.99 Mark Redsell 6337.28 964.39 Peter Gunning 6281.47 955.89 George Young 6227.25 947.64 Ewan Maxwell 6216.26 945.97 Paul Garnett 6194.35 942.64 Keith Wood 6074.33 924.37 John Treble 6018.43 915.87 David Woods 5959.78 906.94 Nigel Witchalls 5933.02 902.87 Andy Burgoyne 5923.33 901.39 Dave Watson 5912.89 899.80 Paul Stubley 5912.86 899.80 Brett Larrett 5905.50 898.68 Bruce Hudson 5756.04 875.94 Jon Edison 5450.94 829.51 Bob Dickenson 5159.49 785.15 Thanks to everyone for making it a great weekend and look forward to the next get together
AGM 17th March 2019 at Lockton Village Hall
Annual AGM at Lockton Village hall. Thanks to everyone who attended. Subscriptions remain the same for 2019 / 2020, as does the Committee. Renewal Forms Here
Final F3F Winter League Event 16th Mar 2019
This is it before the Champions of Champions Event on the 30th / 31st March at Horcum.
All the Winter Leagues qualifiers from around the UK descend on Horcum to determine the Champ of Champs for the Winter League SeriesF3F Winter League 2nd Mar 2019 Results
Well, turned out nice again!
Problem was which slope should we be on?
SW winds are betwixt and between Levisham and the South BowlHowever it didn't really matter for the first few hours, as Horcum was shrouded in mist
So in the intervening period, the forecast and actuals could be well studied and debated. Result - South Bowl!Ten pilots set up camp on the South Slope, and with the mist beginning to lift, flying finally got under way at 11am. Winds were surprisingly square on for most of the day, but the bowl will 'straighten' up the flow even though the wind could be crossed.
6 to 12m/s wind speed at the start and end respectively, resulted in a nearly a third of all flights being sub 40's. After a surprisingly variable days flying, and 15 rounds, the eventual winner with some terrific flying was Mark Redsell. In a close second was Peter Gunning with some equally inspiring flights, and third was Steve Haley , also with some quick flights, so much so , that Steve took FTD with a 33.20 in R12.
Full results here
Mark Redsell 12711.88 1000 Peter Gunning 12571.99 989 Steve Haley 12270.18 965 Mike McCracken 12074.96 950 Paul Garnett 11531.39 907 Rich Bago 11330.66 891 Mark Treble 11258.09 886 Jon Edison 10853.58 854 Ewan Maxwell 10774.73 848 Bob Dickenson 9025.43 710 Thanks to all for shifting kit up and down from the car park
and running the show during the dayNext and final Winter League is on the 16th March
F3F Winter League 16th Feb 2019 Results
South Westerly winds meant we were going to compromise on slope choice as the direction falls between the South bowl and Levisham. However there were sufficient west in the direction to make Levisham work reasonably well. With 10-20mph there was potential for some good racing.
Only 7 pilots managed to attend for various reasons, but with support from all, flying was fairly continous, but to ease the frantic efforts to keep the bases manned, breaks in flying were made every five rounds, and with 15 rounds completed a good days racing was had by all.
Final results were in first place was Mike McCracken, second Rich bago, and third Steve Haley. FTD went to Mike of 37.53 in R9Full results are ;-
1 Mike McCracken 12189.78 1000.00 2 Rich Bago 12175.25 998.80 3 Steve Haley 12009.27 985.19 4 Mark Treble 11383.77 933.87 5 Jon Edison 10963.74 899.42 6 Marie Freeman 10506.36 861.89 7 Bob Dickenson 4192.65 343.94 Thanks to everyone for keeping the show running
F3F Winter League on the 2nd Feb 2019 is Cancelled
Forecast wind speeds of 15 - 25mph and NW direction were OK, but a weather warning down the east coast for snow and ice, possible fog / mist and below freezing temps was the ultimate put off! Goods news is the next WL is only 2 weeks away
F3F Winter League on the 5th Jan 2019 is Cancelled
Forecast for 7 - 8mph WNW winds is a bit on the low side, especially for the likes of Levisham which is not the tallest of ridges. Ideally 10mph is the lowest figure to give a sporting chance of a good days flying. With a High pressure slap overhead, the prospects of an improvement in the forecast looks slim and hence the comp was cancelled.
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HELICOPTER and INDOOR ELECTRIC FLYING
Updated 20 Sept 2016INDOOR FLYING Resumes September 2016
Tykes ( Post Code YO60 7RB ) are Sunday Mornings 10:00 to 12:30.
These meetings are for both Fixed Wing and Heli's.
NB BMFA Insurance required for Heli's
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