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F3J explained
The BARCS “Open” class rules were first published in the 1970s and have driven the standard for thermal soaring models on a world wide basis. Other than the restrictions on maximum wing area and weight (as set by the FAI rule book), anything goes as a model definition. These rules formed the basis of the UK led submissions to the FAI in the mid 1990s which then adopted them to create a formal thermal duration class of gliders – a class known as F3J. In their adoption by the international community some differences were introduced between Open and F3J. For instance the landing bonus was increased to 100 points (only up to 50 in Open) to add to the flight time score (in seconds) so placing a much greater premium on a precision landing. Additionally (relative to Open), re-launches are allowed – the last flight to count and re-flights can be allowed at the CD’s discretion due to events such as mid air collisions
Flying rules for F3J are quite straight-forward and require as much flight time as possible in a ten minute “slot” period ending with a precision landing. The gliders are flown in groups (usually of between six and ten models at a time) so as to neutralise the effect of any one slot having nothing but “poor air” so resulting in nothing but low flight times for that slot.
The model should be landed close to a marked target spot to get landing bonus points. In competitions, launching is generally accomplished in UK events with a power winch but hand towing (150 metre line) is a requirement for international status events and two persons are allowed to tow. These two tow men generally use a pulley and stake and, by so doing, even more power can be injected into the model than from a power winch giving rise to quite spectacular launches.
Because the flyer’s believe that some of the group who will find thermal air to allow for a ten minute flight (and they can re-launch if they choose anyway), flyer’s will launch simultaneously at the start of the slot time; this gives a quite spectacular start to the slot and the landings, if multiple models fly out the ten minutes can be equally exciting.
As these rule differences are all quite minor the design requirements for the most competitive models for top level Open and F3J events are identical.
Almost without exception, all serious F3J flyers will now use moulded (from factory produced numerically controlled female moulds) or equivalent composite construction models to get the soaring efficiency required whilst also being able to handle the high speed/high stress tow with the consequent height gain from the line. In local competitions where there are generally less experienced flyers participating, the original Open version of these rules may be used however the major two day contests (like the BMFA Nationals) will use the F3J rules.
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Archive of F3J League Results
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2016 BMFA F3J Team Selection League Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Eurotour Pos Pilot South Mids 01 05 2016 Radioglide 30 05 2016 F3Jglide 26 06 2016 BMFA Nationals 28 08 2016 Edgecot 11 09 2016 Twywell 25 09 2016 Slovenia Cup 30 07 2016 Total 1 Neil Jones 103 101.5 102.00 98.98 88.91 405.48 2 Peter Allen 96.26 59.82 101.81 94.65 95.67 102.00 93.54 395.74 3 Mark De Vall 89.65 91.97 102.11 101.00 38.20 84.63 384.73 4 Ozzie Osbourne 101.00 83.36 93.77 85.09 97.36 377.22 5 Ian Duff 89.53 85.20 92.41 94.94 100.08 78.65 376.96 6 Colin Paddon 83.44 89.80 99.78 95.16 368.18 7 Bob Dickinson 80.69 95.85 95.12 89.96 64.18 361.62 8 Al Lipscombe 95.58 48.99 83.02 74.17 76.22 87.18 342.00 9 Chas Dunster 67.76 70.34 99.54 63.02 63.27 92.75 330.39 10 Colin Boorman 81.21 79.22 95.38 72.71 328.52 11 Mike Raybone 96.63 53.52 76.07 91.97 318.19 12 Dave East 80.02 66.11 80.85 85.67 312.65 13 John Shenstone 70.86 80.26 80.97 64.97 297.06 14 Graham Wicks 83.51 98.75 99.27 281.53 15 Kevin Beale 84.04 91.14 92.24 95.06 267.42 16 Alex Sykes 61.28 69.05 78.37 208.70 17 Gary Binnie 82.62 74.40 157.02 18 Graham James 71.21 70.33 141.54 19 Cengiz Philcox 88.22 88.22 20 Alan Morton 86.11 86.11 21 Neville Warby 81.38 81.38 22 Tom Satinet 75.99 75.99 23 Simon Haley 60.95 60.95 24 John Hulett 49.81 49.81 25 Robin Sleight 13.23 13.23 Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Round 7 Eurotour Pos Pilot South Mids Radioglide Wetlands Re Run Interglide Retford BMFA Nationals Edgecott Bulgaria Total 1 Peter Allen 95.37 101.05 98.3 97.59 98.25 103 90.42 92.42 399.94 2 Mark DeVall 92.49 91.33 89.10 89.44 101.00 100.27 102.85 393.56 3 Neil Jones 102.71 100.50 101.50 82.72 94.45 102.00 388.93 4 Kevin Beale 88.5 88.97 87.56 92.46 101.06 98.44 379.52 5 Graham Wicks 97.67 90.05 86.17 96.38 88.77 370.27 6 Ozzie Osbourne 101 90.61 74.06 76.38 95.01 93.25 363.32 7 Colin Boorman 90.47 82.61 89.08 92.94 79.14 355.10 8 Cengiz Philcox 98.21 94.10 78.82 82.50 353.63 9 Colin Paddon 85.44 102.94 60.03 100.53 74.94 89.98 353.48 10 Ian Duff 91.22 81.30 97.60 56.97 100.62 80.62 97.86 353.05 11 Chas Dunster 94.46 94.64 52.85 95.12 93.30 96.36 338.97 12 Bob Dickenson 74.79 63.90 71.30 67.92 85.42 80.83 308.96 13 Dave East 99.55 91.74 100.67 100.05 300.27 14 John Shenstone 73.56 60.30 51.68 63.37 76.62 265.23 15 Mike Raybone 91.75 86.55 75.80 82.24 260.54 16 Al Lipscombe 90.04 75.54 59.50 85.34 84.63 260.01 17 Kevin Dart 90.16 76.93 68.52 235.61 18 Neville Warby 68.21 63.30 86.84 218.35 19 Gary Binnie 79.58 89.78 169.36 20 Andre Borowski 87.53 70.31 157.84 21 Robin Sleight 73.3 30.4 103.71 22 Alex Sykes 24.6 72.6 97.16 23 Simon Viatkevicius 79.80 79.80 24 Graham James 75.40 75.40 25 William Watson 71.10 71.10 26 Graham Gilliat 69.20 69.20 27 Brian Johnson 62.81 62.81 28 Ken Goddard 56.17 56.17 Pos Pilot Radioglide Rd1 Interglide Rd2 BMFA Nats Rd3 Bulgaria (Eurotour) Hollandglide (Eurotour) Total 1 Graham Wicks 92.68 98.51 98.47 88.10 86.78 289.66 2 Colin Paddon 95.38 87.32 100.00 86.90 282.70 3 Peter Allen 94.60 92.35 95.03 89.07 281.98 4 Kevin Beale 92.45 87.60 98.18 75.92 278.23 5 Mark DeVall 87.22 91.31 98.78 277.31 6 Chris Glover 93.91 96.79 84.62 275.32 7 Ian Duff 85.71 84.61 96.91 267.23 8 Colin Boorman 98.22 69.22 93.21 260.65 9 Ozzie Osbourne 90.49 81.86 84.63 256.98 10 Dave East 100.00 73.55 79.23 252.78 11 Andre Borowski 85.19 75.03 89.71 61.16 249.93 12 Chas Dunster 71.32 79.16 89.16 77.60 245.92 13 Gary Binnie 85.99 75.55 69.67 231.21 14 Mike Raybone 71.33 75.24 78.80 225.37 15 John Shenstone 72.52 80.35 61.39 214.26 16 Neil Jones 99.08 91.72 190.80 17 Brian Johnson 89.89 99.00 188.89 18 Austin Guerrier 92.11 93.00 89.64 185.11 19 Cengiz Philcox 86.88 86.64 173.52 20 Graham James 63.94 86.04 149.98 21 Bob Dickenson 80.79 64.98 145.77 22 Kevin Dart 99.67 39.75 139.42 23 Al Lipscombe 52.68 69.08 121.76 24 Jon Stanswood 80.09 80.09 Pos Pilot Round 1 Radioglide Round 2 Interglide Round 3 BMFA Nats Total 1 Peter Allen 102.73 100.69 101.35 204.08 2 Ian Duff 101.90 90.59 101.50 203.40 3 Colin Paddon 98.78 98.54 98.18 197.32 4 Chris Glover 96.93 91.22 99.38 196.31 5 Kevin Beale 98.73 87.94 94.50 193.23 6 Colin Boorman 102.00 90.27 87.31 192.27 7 Bob Dickinson 100.52 84.37 87.35 187.87 8 Graham Wicks 95.84 91.07 186.91 9 Neil Jones 96.54 89.34 185.88 10 Mike Raybone 87.84 89.36 94.64 184.00 11 Dave East 93.65 79.24 90.08 183.73 12 Ozzie Osborne 85.16 83.15 97.09 182.25 13 Mark DeVall 95.14 84.65 179.79 14 Cengiz Philcox 97.45 78.66 176.11 15 Gary Binnie 71.30 87.96 87.07 175.03 16 Al Lipscombe 97.93 75.35 173.28 17 Graham James 73.60 81.17 154.77 18 Neville Warby 70.80 75.81 146.61 19 Chas Dunster 94.37 44.85 139.22 20 John Shenstone 63.81 66.00 66.18 132.18 21 Kevin Dart 88.53 88.53 22 Jonathon Wells 88.2 88.17 23 Brian Johnson 85.21 85.21 24 Alex Sykes 70.89 70.89 25 Jon Stanswood 70.57 70.57 Pos Pilot Northern Round 1 Bulgaria Eurotour Turkey Soarist Cup Southern Round 2 Osijek Eurotour Radioglide National Event Euroglide Belgium Interglide National Event BMFA NATS National Event Hollandglide Southern Round 9 Southern Reserve Total* 1 Graham Wicks 69.70 100.06 102.00 88.89 82.47 100.50 92.46 100.75 97.43 403.31 2 Kevin Dart 80.74 102.00 92.95 92.81 99.19 100.11 89.41 99.90 401.20 3 Colin Paddon 78.64 98.22 102.66 67.57 102.00 93.25 95.99 78.55 398.87 4 Ian Duff 96.59 90.13 82.70 102.44 75.15 103.00 392.16 5 Chris Glover 82.40 98.29 96.75 103.00 89.27 387.31 6 Bob Dickenson 101.33 92.59 87.96 69.96 92.35 96.10 69.12 382.37 7 Colin Boorman 78.51 72.38 61.98 99.14 97.47 90.60 75.83 91.39 378.60 8 Ozzie Osbourne 90.73 95.33 94.68 93.76 89.34 374.50 9 Brian Johnson 99.73 87.72 78.74 93.97 91.33 372.75 10 Peter Allen 79.99 96.82 76.65 100.08 101.53 85.29 76.24 366.89 11 Austin Guerrier 69.36 76.85 92.15 99.29 91.29 66.99 71.44 55.20 354.17 12 Mark Devall 84.52 95.89 79.57 75.16 91.98 83.24 351.96 13 Dave East 92.45 92.98 93.57 93.89 70.60 74.49 350.51 14 Kevin Beale 78.07 92.77 79.73 87.68 88.85 85.22 79.47 346.31 15 Gary Binnie 68.57 89.63 74.11 88.02 73.01 88.16 338.82 16 Graham James 74.32 85.15 91.11 62.80 60.26 313.38 17 Cengiz Philcox 73.49 77.05 88.42 87.09 55.57 304.57 18 Al Lipscombe 60.44 67.31 80.18 87.03 71.25 65.59 304.05 19 Jon Stanswood 101.00 88.85 78.40 88.51 278.36 20 Simon Jackson 75.25 84.26 96.08 255.59 21 Neville Warby 79.78 61.29 79.51 82.80 242.09 22 Steve Haley 100.05 92.02 192.07 23 Simon Haley 93.05 80.65 173.70 24 Andre Borowski 79.86 79.60 159.46 25 Bill Haley 75.59 43.48 119.07 26 Ken Goddard 59.70 45.13 104.83 27 Jonothan Wells 98.36 98.36 28 Rick Lloyd 96.72 96.72 29 Neil Jones 89.91 89.91 30 Andy Lewis 86.57 86.57 31 Sydney Lenssen 75.96 75.96 32 Terry Pelling 73.83 73.83 33 Gordon Ballantine 73.24 73.24 34 Robin Sleight 68.65 68.65 35 George Wells 68.45 68.45 36 Mick Thorpe 66.02 66.02 37 Tom Satinet 58.08 58.08 38 Cliff Hannam 53.39 53.39 39 Ian Stewart 53.31 53.31 40 Tom Preston 51.94 51.94 41 Peter Shirlicker 42.41 42.41 42 Alex Forest 40.60 40.60 43 Craig Mason 36.81 36.81 44 Clive Needham 33.08 33.08 45 Bob Owston 18.57 18.57 46 Ian Coutts 6.79 6.79 47 Tom Wilson 2.87 2.87 48 Mike McCracken 2.10 2.10 Pos Pilot Northern 1 Bracknell Bulgaria Eurotour Interglide Radioglide Re-Run Belgium Eurotour Finish Eurotour Upton Holland Glide British Nats Twywell Italy Northern Reserve Best Eurotour Total 1 Neil Jones 91.07 97.97 102.08 97.42 80.12 94.77 100.71 97.42 398.18 2 Austin Guerrier 67.89 66.13 91.10 99.83 98.23 101.80 85.30 95.88 98.23 390.96 3 Peter Allen 97.09 88.30 97.69 79.86 95.72 102.00 79.86 385.08 4 Colin Paddon 73.55 99.15 90.42 89.13 79.24 103.00 69.21 99.15 381.70 5 Jon Stanswood 100.37 72.79 86.11 78.20 89.23 90.05 103.00 379.53 6 Ozzie Osbourne 86.52 97.75 99.45 84.66 78.78 90.39 84.66 374.11 7 Mark Devall 66.83 87.35 96.65 88.41 69.92 100.50 372.91 8 Chris Glover 102.00 69.07 83.91 86.74 98.55 78.10 87.04 78.10 371.20 9 Brian Johnson 101.00 78.02 76.75 89.45 58.54 92.19 83.00 92.19 365.64 10 Ian Duff 79.43 95.37 77.84 84.98 101.74 77.84 361.52 11 Mike Raybone 91.16 88.80 93.49 84.30 71.87 85.95 84.30 357.75 12 Bob Dickenson 93.88 47.66 72.16 87.65 75.56 102.00 355.69 13 Kevin Beale 84.95 78.52 76.69 92.47 78.54 86.91 93.83 78.54 351.75 14 David East 72.82 64.29 96.89 92.57 65.22 95.65 350.33 15 George Wells 86.24 76.55 57.34 100.97 321.10 16 Chas Dunster 64.6 87.45 82.66 84.11 82.66 318.82 17 Kevin Dart 83.02 94.18 101.50 94.20 289.88 18 Al Lipscombe 67.31 69.91 82.52 62.59 282.33 19 Gordon Ballantine 96.20 84.80 86.40 267.40 20 Nick Kidd 90.57 77.71 72.86 95.81 77.71 259.24 21 Graham Wicks 55.00 93.03 81.65 88.18 75.02 79.83 93.03 254.51 22 Colin Boorman 50.41 79.42 88.05 79.72 88.05 247.19 23 Ken Goddard 74.58 72.71 76.27 223.56 24 Andy Lewis 96.19 99.13 195.32 25 Rick Lloyd 92.88 66.94 33.33 193.15 26 Graham James 91.94 78.37 170.31 27 Dougal McIntyre 79.04 85.83 164.87 28 Craig Mason 81.43 78.88 160.31 29 Ian Stewart 76.23 83.80 160.03 30 Cengiz Philcox 75.12 81.92 157.04 31 Colin Lucas 79.16 74.09 153.25 32 Neville Warby 66.18 78.68 144.86 33 Robin Sleight 73.57 54.94 128.51 34 Andre Borowski 61.17 64.03 125.20 35 Tom Preston 45.65 69.90 115.55 36 Alex Forrest 52.53 51.20 103.73 37 Steve Haley 102.45 102.45 38 Simon Hayley 102 102.00 39 Jonathon Wells 98.72 98.72 40 Dave Hunter 92.38 92.38 41 Ian Coutts 89.83 89.83 42 Peter Sherliker 86.53 86.53 43 Ian Simpson 86.36 86.36 44 Alan Morton 84.69 84.69 45 John Payne 79.97 79.97 46 Greg Hayfield 76.32 76.32 47 Andrew Weight 75.53 75.53 48 Bill Hayley 75.42 75.42 49 Colin Sparrow 75.19 75.19 50 Richard Reed 69.76 69.76 51 Mark Weight 65.63 65.63 52 Clive Needham 63.77 63.77 53 Mike McCracken 57.74 57.74 54 Sydney Lenssen 48.04 48.04 -
BARCS F3J League 2016 Final Pos Name Points Cards 1 Neil Jones 396 4 2 Peter Allen 390.1 6 3 Mark DeVall 379.7 5 4 Ian Duff 375.6 6 5 Ozzie Osbourne 374.8 5 6 Colin Paddon 363.7 4 7 Bob Dickenson 361.7 5 8 Al Lipscombe 340.5 6 9 Colin Boorman 328.5 4 10 Mike Raybone 315.2 4 11 David East 312.6 4 12 Chas Dunster 299.1 5 13 John Shenstone 297.1 4 14 Graham Wicks 279.6 3 15 Kevin Beale 265.3 3 16 Alex Sykes 208.7 3 17 Gary Binnie 157 2 18 Graham James 141.5 2 19 Cengiz Philcox 88.2 1 20 Alan Morton 86.1 1 21 Neville Warby 81.4 1 22 John Hulett 49.8 1 23 Robin Sleight 13.2 1 Pos Name Points Cards 1 Neil Jones 399.7 6 2 Mark DeVall 391.7 7 3 Peter Allen 391 6 4 David East 387.5 4 5 Ian Duff 382.3 7 6 Chas Dunster 379 6 7 Ossy Osbourne 378.8 5 8 Kevin Beale 368.7 5 9 Graham Wicks 368.4 4 10 Colin Paddon 358.7 5 11 Colin Boorman 355.1 5 12 Mike Raybone 336.3 4 13 Al Lipscombe 335.4 5 14 Bob Dickenson 312.4 6 15 John Shenstone 274 5 16 Cengiz Philcox 272.8 3 17 Kevin Dart 235.6 3 18 Neville Warby 218.4 3 19 Gary Binnie 169.4 2 20 Andre Borowski 157.8 2 21 Robin Sleight 103.7 2 22 Alex Sykes 97.2 2 23 Simon Vaitkevicius 79.8 1 24 Graham James 75.4 1 25 William Watson 71.2 1 26 Graham Gilliatt 69.3 1 27 Brian Johnson 62.8 1 28 Ken Goddard 56.2 1 Pos Name Points Cards 1 Peter Allen 381.9 4 2 Mark DeVall 377.3 4 3 Colin Boorman 360.4 4 4 David East 344.2 4 5 Chas Dunster 335.5 4 6 Mike Raybone 323.1 4 7 Gary Binnie 309.1 4 8 John Shenstone 302 4 9 Graham Wicks 287.7 3 10 Colin Paddon 282.7 3 11 Neil Jones 279.1 3 12 Kevin Beale 278.2 3 13 Christopher Glover 274.3 3 14 Ian Duff 269.4 3 15 Ozzie Osbourne 268 4 16 Bob Dickenson 237.2 3 17 Brian Johnson 188.4 2 18 Cengiz Philcox 171.5 2 19 Al Lipscombe 158.5 3 20 Graham James 149.9 2 21 Kevin Dart 139.4 2 22 Simon Thornton 96.5 1 23 Martin Newnham 95.9 1 24 Thomas Satinet 92.2 1 25 Austin Guerrier 92.1 1 26 Jon Stanswood 80.1 1 27 Neville Warby 73.6 1 28 Ken Goddard 70 1 Pos Name Points Cards 1 Ian Duff 396.1 5 2 Peter Allen 395 6 3 Colin Boorman 370.6 4 4 Colin Paddon 369.8 4 5 Mike Raybone 366.3 6 6 Bob Dickenson 365.7 5 7 Christopher Glover 364.9 4 8 Ozzie Osbourne 363.7 4 9 Chas Dunster 350.6 5 10 David East 349.3 5 11 Mark DeVall 341.3 4 12 Gary Binnie 326.8 5 13 Kevin Beale 281.1 3 14 Graham Wicks 275.1 3 15 Al Lipscombe 260.6 3 16 Neil Jones 249.9 3 17 Neville Warby 234.3 3 18 Graham James 216 3 19 John Shenstone 210.9 3 20 Cengiz Philcox 176.2 2 21 Brian Johnson 169.7 2 22 Philip Hayward 103.4 2 23 Kevin Newitt 100 1 24 Kevin Dart 88.5 1 25 Alan Morton 86.6 1 26 Thomas Satinet 82.6 1 27 William Watson 76.5 1 28 Alex Sykes 70.9 1 29 Jon Stanswood 70.6 1 30 Ken Goddard 68.6 1 31 Jason Griffiths 63.2 1 Pos Name Points Cards 1 Graham Wicks 397.2 7 2 Colin Paddon 396.9 6 3 Christopher Glover 392.1 6 4 Peter Allen 385.4 7 5 Ian Duff 383.1 6 6 Colin Boorman 377.5 7 7 Bob Dickenson 375.8 6 8 David East 372.9 7 9 Ozzie Osbourne 372.5 6 10 Brian Johnson 360.7 4 11 Mark DeVall 355.1 6 12 Kevin Beale 348.9 5 13 Gary Binnie 339.9 6 14 Austin Guerrier 321.8 5 15 Graham James 313.4 5 16 Neville Warby 313.1 5 17 Al Lipscombe 306.8 7 18 Ken Goddard 186.3 3 19 Neil Jones 178 2 20 Andre Borowski 159.5 2 21 Andy Lewis 86.6 1 22 Chas Dunster 85.4 1 23 Sydney Lenssen 76 1 24 Terry Pelling 73.8 1 25 Robin Sleight 68.7 1 26 Mick Thorpe 66 1 27 Thomas Satinet 58.1 1 28 Cliff Hannam 53.4 1 29 Bob Owston 18.6 1
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