Midland 2024-25 Winter League

[Andy_B]

The Midland winter leagues will be held on the 2nd Saturday of the month from November to March inclusive 

[Les]

Tomorrow's Comp is canceled 

No wind unfortunately 

Hopefully next month will be kind to us

 

[Brett]

Not much you can do when there is no wind... 

[John Minchell]

You could fly power models or even indoors

[Les]

Next round of the Midlands F3F Winter League will be held on the 14th of December. 

Weather call on the Friday evening 

[Andy_B]

Tomorrows comp is ON 

see you in the morning 

Andy 

[wookman]

Have a good one guys. 

[Jep]

Have a good day people, was hoping to be there but man flu has got the better of me.

JP

[DDM]

I'm coming out of the other side of man flu so with true British grit I'll be there.

Besides, I'm bringing Brett so get to infect him on the journey. Winner . 

See you tomorrow peeps. 

[Brett]

I will be bringing my 1940s gas mask for the journey... lol

See you guys in the morning. 

[Andy_B]

Well at last we got a comp on ….and most remembered how to fly F3F ,after a fashion.10 rounds and a lunch break by which time we were frozen and had enough ……JP in the results is really Bruce and Dave Rmble is really Dave De Mott 

 

Andy

[Rumbey]

40 minutes ago, Andy_B said:

Well at last we got a comp on ….and most remembered how to fly F3F ,after a fashion.10 rounds and a lunch break by which time we were frozen and had enough ……JP in the results is really Bruce and Dave Rmble is really Dave De Mott 

 

Andy

Haha. I've got a clone

[Brett]

Was great to be back at the Mynd for a comp, it's been way too long.

Thanks for hosting, it was a great day.

[DDM]

7 minutes ago, Rumbey said:

Haha. I've got a clone

Knowing that I was flying in your name made all the difference to my performance

[Les]

Good to see a few more faces on the slope .

Well done to Andy  Dave and Mark for taking the top 3 position. 

But especially Well done to DDM flying his Wassabi and smashing the bases with pin point position .

Also thanks to Frank for helping out on the bases and looking forward in seeing you fly with us in the new year.

Unfortunately I had a servo gear go on the Vantage then couldn't get the Freestyler 5 to work so only 5 rounds for me.

Got back home to investigate the Freestyler to find its not batteries that we first thought was the problem but the receiver was dead,another £76 to buy a new one .

Great to catch up with everyone again and fingers crossed next Saturday in Wales brings me better luck

 

[PaSky]

Thank you for the kind welcome, it was nice to meet you and see a competition.  All of this just confirmed that I must join you.  PS  the heated seat is a good thing!

Kind regards Frank 

[PaSky]

Some pictures and videos.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1H7iKuChDu/

[MikeE]

A lovely day, Cold but sunny and bright, but just as the sun was coming around to being a problem sitting right on base A a cloud came and stayed the rest of the afternoon. perfect.

Conditions were varied, for most sitting around low 50,s.  there were a few flights that hit the mid 40,s and a few unlucky ones into the mid 60,s. 

On the whole and enjoyable comp with a level of variability that was fine for a fun winter comp with 10 rounds flown to smooth the pot, 

Thanks for everyone that came along today. Real shame we lost Les to a mechanical.

To those that stayed home, I hope you enjoyed doing the housework

[f3fman]

4 hours ago, Rumbey said:

Haha. I've got a clone

OMG ..... not TWO of you ?   

[Brett]

I thought I would add the results to F3X Vault as a way for people to look at the competition stats easily.

For anyone interested in building your profile on the platform, it will also mean your times and stats can start being saved for our local UK competitions, rather than only the Euro Tours. Some of you have more than one F3X profile, so I selected the one with the most information on it, so hopefully its the correct one. 

I'm hoping if people see their profiles building, it will help add some extra enthusiasm to the sport. If people want, I am willing to put the time in to do it for all UK competitions, and possibly even work on historical comps to get them added, if that's what people want.

This is just one small suggestion to try help build up F3F pilot morale, as apposed to looking for new pilots. I know we dont use F3X much here in the UK, but maybe thats because the comps dont ever get loaded. Chicken and egg maybe...

https://www.f3xvault.com/?action=event&function=event_view&event_id=3642

If anyone wants me to add the model then just send it to me on PM. I cant remember what everyone was flying but I have tried to add what I can.