F3K Mike Lucas - 4th April 2009 A day not dis-similar to the Flying Sparkes 2 competition - a bit windy, but with more sun. The wind caught out two competitors before the comp. even got started. Neville Warby broke both his models before I'd got to the field and Mike Stern some how managed to break his launch peg on landing. Neville decided not to bother trying to get a model repaired on the field but Mike was able to shape and fit a new peg in around 20 minutes - that was after we all had given him our ideas of how to carry on with a jury-rigged launch peg. While the glue on Mike's peg dried we got under way with Round 1, slot 2 - 5 x 2min. flights, or more like - 5 best flights, 2min. max.  Simon Jones showed the way with a best time of 1:55, while Tony Field posted a 1:48. Mike Fantham managed two 2min. flights to Mike Stern's one to take their slot. As you can see from the times, it was pretty tough to score well. In round 4 Gavin Stern and Chris Grant both managed a 4 min. flights but conditions were deteriorating and Gavin had at least 2 land outs, most likely more as he only got two counting times in the slot. Round 5 was last flight to count. As you can see below, no one came close to flying a 5 minute max. at all, so I took a straw poll on whether we should continue or pack it in, it wasn't difficult to call a halt to the contest. Even though we had a slightly delayed start we had finished by around 2:30pm. With just 10 competitors flying 2 slots we were able to fly two rounds an hour with plenty of time between slots, hopefully no one felt too rushed to get back on the field to fly after timing in the previous slot. Final Postions | NAME | Rnd1
Task M | Rnd2
Task C | Rnd3
Task J | Rnd4
Task P | Rnd5
Task B | Totals | POS | Drop One Totals | POS | | Mike Stern | 880 | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | 4880 | 1 | 4000 | 1 | | Tony Merritt | 721 | 1000 | 984 | 887 | 972 | 4564 | 2 | 3843 | 2 | | Mike Fantham | 1000 | 643 | 738 | 1000 | 1000 | 4381 | 3 | 3738 | 3 | | Gavin Stern | 805 | 941 | 611 | 962 | 915 | 4234 | 5 | 3623 | 4 | | Simon Jones | 1000 | 811 | 1000 | 743 | 715 | 4269 | 4 | 3553 | 5 | | Chris Grant | 820 | 842 | 520 | 931 | 892 | 4005 | 6 | 3485 | 6 | | Mark Freeman | 748 | 669 | 571 | 514 | 803 | 3305 | 7 | 2791 | 7 | | Tony Field | 875 | 643 | 448 | 493 | 690 | 3149 | 8 | 2702 | 8 | | Tony Beckett | 624 | 567 | 473 | 559 | 492 | 2716 | 9 | 2243 | 9 | | Ron Chitty | 470 | 509 | 400 | 423 | 192 | 1993 | 10 | 1801 | 10 |
Round 1 - Task M - Five longest flights- two minutes max time per flight | Name | SLOT | TOTAL | %SCORE | Flight 1 | Flight 2 | Flight 3 | Flight 4 | Flight 5 | | Mike Fantham | 1 | 466 | 1000 | 2.00 | 1.11 | 0.59 | 2.00 | 1.36 | | Mike Stern | 1 | 410 | 880 | 1.05 | 1.30 | 1.05 | 2.00 | 1.10 | | Gavin Stern | 1 | 375 | 805 | 1.12 | 1.09 | 1.01 | 1.30 | 1.23 | | Tony Merritt | 1 | 336 | 721 | 1.07 | 1.02 | 0.46 | 1.19 | 1.22 | | Tony Beckett | 1 | 291 | 624 | 0.44 | 0.49 | 0.43 | 1.07 | 1.28 | | | | | | | | | | | | Simon Jones | 2 | 345 | 1000 | 0.56 | 0.57 | 0.58 | 1.55 | 0.59 | | Tony Field | 2 | 302 | 875 | 0.41 | 0.58 | 0.45 | 0.50 | 1.48 | | Chris Grant | 2 | 283 | 820 | 0.41 | 1.07 | 0.37 | 1.33 | 0.45 | | Mark Freeman | 2 | 258 | 748 | 0.48 | 0.46 | 0.56 | 1.04 | 0.44 | | Ron Chitty | 2 | 162 | 470 | 0.29 | 0.27 | 0.37 | 0.35 | 0.34 | Round 2 - Task C - Last Two flights count. Score ONLY the last 2 - 4 minute max. | Name | SLOT | TOTAL | %SCORE | Flight 1 | Flight 2 | | Tony Merritt | 1 | 291 | 1000 | 1.05 | 3.46 | | Chris Grant | 1 | 245 | 842 | 2.48 | 1.17 | | Tony Field | 1 | 187 | 643 | 2.19 | 0.48 | | Mike Fantham | 1 | 187 | 643 | 1.52 | 1.15 | | Tony Beckett | 1 | 165 | 567 | 1.47 | 0.58 | | | | | | | | | Mike Stern | 2 | 169 | 1000 | 1.26 | 1.23 | | Gavin Stern | 2 | 159 | 941 | 1.17 | 1.22 | | Simon Jones | 2 | 137 | 811 | 1.10 | 1.07 | | Mark Freeman | 2 | 113 | 669 | 1.01 | 0.52 | | Ron Chitty | 2 | 86 | 509 | 0.49 | 0.37 | Round 3 - Task J - 6 flights, best 3 to count, 3 minute max | Name | SLOT | TOTAL | %SCORE | Flight 1 | Flight 2 | Flight 3 | | Simon Jones | 1 | 275 | 1000 | 1.00 | 1.15 | 2.20 | | Mike Fantham | 1 | 203 | 738 | 1.34 | 1.05 | 0.44 | | Gavin Stern | 1 | 168 | 611 | 0.58 | 0.47 | 1.03 | | Chris Grant | 1 | 143 | 520 | 0.42 | 0.39 | 1.02 | | Tony Beckett | 1 | 130 | 473 | 0.49 | 0.45 | 0.36 | | | | | | | | | | Mike Stern | 2 | 315 | 1000 | 1.18 | 0.58 | 2.59 | | Tony Merritt | 2 | 310 | 984 | 1.59 | 1.28 | 1.43 | | Mark Freeman | 2 | 180 | 571 | 1.15 | 0.56 | 0.49 | | Tony Field | 2 | 141 | 448 | 0.43 | 0.53 | 0.45 | | Ron Chitty | 2 | 126 | 400 | 0.51 | 0.34 | 0.41 | Round 4 - Task P - A 1, 2, 3 and 4 minute flight, any order. Each pilot has unlimited number of attempts | Name | SLOT | TOTAL | %SCORE | Flight 1 | Flight 2 | Flight 3 | Flight 4 | | Mike Stern | 1 | 381 | 1000 | 0.47 | 0.49 | 1.20 | 3.25 | | Tony Merritt | 1 | 338 | 887 | 1.00 | 1.04 | 1.42 | 1.52 | | Simon Jones | 1 | 283 | 743 | 1.00 | 1.13 | 1.10 | 1.20 | | Tony Beckett | 1 | 213 | 559 | 0.42 | 0.48 | 0.49 | 1.14 | | Tony Field | 1 | 188 | 493 | 0.58 | 0.55 | 0.41 | 0.34 | | | | | | | | | | | Mike Fantham | 2 | 317 | 1000 | 1.00 | 1.14 | 1.14 | 1.49 | | Gavin Stern | 2 | 305 | 962 | 0 | 0 | 1.05 | 4.00 | | Chris Grant | 2 | 295 | 931 | 0.21 | 0.34 | 0 | 4.00 | | Mark Freeman | 2 | 163 | 514 | 0.29 | 0.34 | 0.48 | 0.52 | | Ron Chitty | 2 | 134 | 423 | 0.22 | 0.36 | 0.53 | 0.23 | Round 5 - Task B - As many flights as you like, just the LAST ONE counted. 5 minute max per flight | Name | SLOT | TOTAL | %SCORE | Flight 1 | | Mike Stern | 1 | 130 | 1000 | 2.10 | | Chris Grant | 1 | 116 | 892 | 1.56 | | Simon Jones | 1 | 93 | 715 | 1.33 | | Tony Beckett | 1 | 64 | 492 | 1.04 | | Ron Chitty | 1 | 25 | 192 | 0.25 | | | | | | | | Mike Fantham | 2 | 71 | 1000 | 1.11 | | Tony Merritt | 2 | 69 | 972 | 1.09 | | Gavin Stern | 2 | 65 | 915 | 1.05 | | Mark Freeman | 2 | 57 | 803 | 0.57 | | Tony Field | 2 | 49 | 690 | 0.49 | |