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Entry is now open for Interglide 2013. Interglide is the UK leg of the F3J Eurotour and is flown to FAI F3J rules. No winches allowed and strictly hand towing only. If you want to fly and don’t have a team please contact the organisers and they...
We were lucky that the Sunday was the best day of the weekend for weather, but best is a comparative term! This was a chance to try out the new flying field between Bicester and Aylesbury and it proved to be popular with plenty of space and short grass. The...
The BMFA rule book for 2013 has at last been published and the weather is beginning to show signs of moving out of the ice age so the season is about to get under way. In fact it has already started with an unexpectedly good weather Sheffield competition...
Sunday 24th Feb. The weather forecast for the day was for overcast and windy. How wrong could they be. The day started with light north wind and cloud however by the middle of round 1 the Sun appeared with the winds reaching an average of 12mph. With...
Background It is widely accepted within F3J circles, BARCS and the BMFA that recent efforts, while well intentioned, to expand the participation of flyers in this soaring class have not proved successful. The much hoped for expansion of the league in...
Picking up the thread from Part 1 here is Part 2 of my odyssey into F3J! Round 5 was cancelled due to weather, not that the weather was unflyable (it was actually quite good on the day which made it worse!) but the field at Marsh Gibbon was waterlogged...
For some reason I have been itching to write about my first season of flying BMFA F3J gliding competitions! Here goes then: As a bit of background my main employment so far in life has been as an airframe engineering technician in the RAF, after leaving...
Results of the 2012 BMFA F3J league have now been checked, verified and posted in the F3J section of the website here. The top three pilots will have the chance to represent the UK at the 2013 F3J European Championships which is taking place in Turkey. Congratulations...
The rerun of round 5 BMFA F3J league took place on 30th Sept. Conditions were not great as far as thermal comps go as it was overcast and quite windy at times. 99 percent of the time was spent trying to ride small pockets of wave lift or the odd thermal...
