Bartletts League Comp 21st June Bartletts Farm. Essex.
The forecast was for a superb weekend, which did not quite live up to name, in that there was a great deal of overcast from time to time, but the wind was light from the North West approx 6/8 mph. However the sun came out in the afternoon, which made the conditions ideal.
Entry was down due to holidays etc, but we had 11 entry’s on the day so 2 slots per round were run, using the space from 3 to sort the timers out at a leisurely pace for all.
Highlights of the event were a mid air collision between Brian Austin & Peter Sainsbury, in the last round of the day. Strange that there have been two mid airs in two recent comps, but both have been when the models are thermaling & not on the launch when you think that there would be a greater chance of that happening.
Paul Wainwright had asked me to make sure the wind was less than the last event in May, so having got his wish, proceeded to over fly in 3 slots, due to the lift being so strong (in his words) that he could not get the model down in time!!!
Peter Hindle was back this time to give us his invaluable assistance, in scoring plus his David Bailey hat as well, so photos will follow in due course. Using Peters computer scoring programme the results were up about 5 minutes from the end of the last round at about 3.45pm.
Results can be seen on attached Excel sheet, plus League Results after 3 rounds. These have been % now on request that, if there are less than the 7 rounds flown, the total number of points can vary due to the scores being higher with the larger number of rounds flown. Having said that, there does not seem to be a great deal of difference in the overall results, when comparing them.
Having flown in 5 of these events now, the general view is they work well and using the variable motor run is excellent as the difference on windy & good days gives that ability to cater for those conditions that can crop up in the UK.
We used 22 second run on Sunday as voted on at the briefing and from the general point of view nobody seemed to be getting to the heights that were being achieved last year in 200 watt events, but 10 minutes was easily being flown out by most flyers during the day, if they found the lift
Entry was down due to holidays etc, but we had 11 entry’s on the day so 2 slots per round were run, using the space from 3 to sort the timers out at a leisurely pace for all.
Highlights of the event were a mid air collision between Brian Austin & Peter Sainsbury, in the last round of the day. Strange that there have been two mid airs in two recent comps, but both have been when the models are thermaling & not on the launch when you think that there would be a greater chance of that happening.
Paul Wainwright had asked me to make sure the wind was less than the last event in May, so having got his wish, proceeded to over fly in 3 slots, due to the lift being so strong (in his words) that he could not get the model down in time!!!
Peter Hindle was back this time to give us his invaluable assistance, in scoring plus his David Bailey hat as well, so photos will follow in due course. Using Peters computer scoring programme the results were up about 5 minutes from the end of the last round at about 3.45pm.
Results can be seen on attached Excel sheet, plus League Results after 3 rounds. These have been % now on request that, if there are less than the 7 rounds flown, the total number of points can vary due to the scores being higher with the larger number of rounds flown. Having said that, there does not seem to be a great deal of difference in the overall results, when comparing them.
Having flown in 5 of these events now, the general view is they work well and using the variable motor run is excellent as the difference on windy & good days gives that ability to cater for those conditions that can crop up in the UK.
We used 22 second run on Sunday as voted on at the briefing and from the general point of view nobody seemed to be getting to the heights that were being achieved last year in 200 watt events, but 10 minutes was easily being flown out by most flyers during the day, if they found the lift