Northern Winter League 2019 / 2020

[Jon_E 359]

Just to confirm postings elsewhere ( NYMRSC , GBSRA ),
the dates for the Horcum based Northern Winter League are :-

2nd Nov 2019
7th  Dec 2019
4th Jan 2020
1st Feb 2020
7th Mar 2020

Reserves 15th Feb and 21st Mar 2020

See you all there!

Jon

[Jon_E 359]

There now appears to be 2 threads on this subject!!
This is the one I will be making the call on.

Currently the Met Office can't make up its mind  for Saturday 2nd Nov

Keep watching

Jon

 

 

[Wout Heijne 0]

Jon, can you send me the dates for Hole of Horcum int. and English Open next year?

Wout

[oipigface 1,212]

 

23 hours ago, Jon_E said:

Currently the Met Office can't make up its mind  for Saturday 2nd Nov

Neither apparently can you, Jon!

[Jon_E 359]

The call is normally left until early Friday evening to make the decision on the best possible forecast.
In tomorrows case, it is now clear that  the changing  wind direction has become an issue, together with the rain forecast for late morning.
All making for a low probability that we could complete enough rounds.

Reluctantly, tomorrows comp is therefore OFF.

Jon

 

[Greg Dakin 385]

That's a shame Jon, but as always a spot on decision. There was no way that we were going to get a race in tomorrow. Roll on November

Regards, 

Greg

[SilentPilot 297]

You mean December, right? 

[Jon_E 359]

HoH Winter league  this weekend 7th Dec
Current forecast is for Westerly winds 12 to 20 mph

All good, lets hope this remains the case,
as usual, call will be made Friday Evening

Jon

[Jon_E 359]

Tomorrows Winter League at Horcum is ON

WSW winds to start, 19-32 mph by the end of the day should produce some great flying on Levisham.

Meet in Braygate Lane at 9:30am

See you all there

Jon

[Maxscotland 80]

Great stuff John 

See you tomorrow,

cheers Ewan 

[Jon_E 359]

A great day on lovely Levisham. Weather forecast was a bit off to start, with light southerly winds, making the decision to go to Levisham looking like an mistake.
However,  patience paid off as the wind increased, and turned W, well nearly, probably WSW to SW most of the day. Wind speed peaked at around 12m/s.
As we waited for the wind to settle, we ran a Round Zero to give the 10 pilots a chance to do some trimming flights.

By Midday we had steady legal conditions, and the racing started for real. Rounds we completed in rapid succession,
resulting in a total of 8 rounds  before the daylight started to fade.

Consistent flying  from Mart R give him a clear win, followed by Peter G in second, and Mark T in third.
Mark T also took the FTD with a cracking 36.20 in R3. Great results guys.

Must mention our new recruit , Cengiz Philcox, taking part in his first F3F comp. A damaged model put him out of the last two rounds, otherwise I think he would have been a lot higher in the leader board. Well done mate!

Full results :-

1 Mark Redsell 6752.8
2 Peter Gunning 6477.06
3 Mark Treble 6289.04
4 Paul Garnett 6095.59
5 Rich Baygo 6076.16
6 Steve Haley 6073.28
7 Ewan Maxwell 6035.69
8 Jon Edison 5218.09
9 Bob Dickenson 4565.0
10 Cengiz Philcox 3815.05

Full spread sheet to follow

Thanks to all for your help and patience. See you hopefully in January
In the meantime Happy Christmas to everybody

Jon

 

 

[f3fman 258]

Well done for running it and thanks for the report Jon, I do like to keep track of what's going on still in F3F  :-)

 

[Les 474]

Great to see you guys got a comp in,well done top three and everyone else. 

[Jon_E 359]

Thanks guys for your comments.

Full spread sheet can be found here :-
http://www.nymrsc.org.uk/Assets/docs/WL_R2_Dec19.xls

Jon

[Peter G 730]

Thanks for organising John & Mark, it was a grand day out!

The forecast didn't quite happen so it was the more normal, challeniging crossed conditions on Levisham, the downwind base B being particularly tricky.

Well done to Mark R whose turns on B were top notch. Mart T's 36 was epic and Pengy's 42 was pretty sublime too