This was a competion the way competitions are supposed to be. Nice weather, lots of fun and just the right kind of wind for some entertaining flying..
All the participants of the 2010 NIAA funfly
.. and the winners are..
Anyway, starting time was close as you can get to 10:00 in Banbridge. We flew 1 round, it’s enough, but not too much. Climb and glide is first. To hurry things along, and to cope with the ever increasing glide times, 2 pilots went up at the time. It worked out in a way that as soon as one contestant was down, the next one went up. Standards are improving, and everybody made it back to the strip. Annoyingly, Richards engine refused to quit. I don’t think it actually improved the glide time, a slowly turning prop produces a lot of additional drag.. But, rules are sometimes rules.
Climb and glide, 20 sec engine run, time till wheels touch the strip.
- Richard: 0 (engine not stopped)
- Paul: 92
- Dennis: 130
- Iain: 153
- Alistair: 159
- Gordon: 264
- Matthew: 274
- Kees: 282
Tripple Trash, should be easy 😉
- Kees: 70
- Dennis: 64
- Paul: 63
- Iain: 62
- Gordon: 62
- Richard: 61
- Alistair: 48
- Matthew: 23
It’s good to see that the majority flies consistant enough to get scores that are very close together.
Touch and Goes: The wind was picking up, and sometimes planes did not want to come down, on other occasions they touched a wee but to hard. For the first time I don’t think we had any ripped out u/c or major disassembly.
- Dennis: 11
- Kees: 11
- Iain: 11
- Paul: 12
- Gordon: 12
- Richard: 16
- Alistair: 17
- Matthew only 33
Limbo, the wind had picked up enough to make the string break itself. So a stronger bit of yarn was employed. It was more like an arrestor wire, as some found out the hard way 😉
- Kees: 0 (yes, it’s an arrestor wire..)
- Dennis: 2 ( string, what string)
- Alistair: 3 (that string again!)
- Paul: 4 (engine fixed!)
- Iain -who needs a rudder : 6
- Matthew :6 (right, defenitely needs more practise!)
- Richard: 9 (your dad will be proud!)
- Gordon: 10 (and he claims he stood on the wrong side of the gate 😉
All this translates in:
| ClimbGlide | TrippleTrash | TouchGo | Limbo | Total | ||
| Matthew | 971.63 | 1000.00 | 1000.00 | 600.00 | 3571.63 | |
| Gordon | 936.17 | 395.35 | 363.64 | 1000.00 | 2695.16 | |
| Alistair | 563.83 | 612.40 | 515.15 | 300.00 | 1991.38 | |
| Iain | 542.55 | 395.35 | 333.33 | 600.00 | 1871.24 | |
| Richard | 0.00 | 410.85 | 484.85 | 900.00 | 1795.70 | |
| Kees | 1000.00 | 271.32 | 333.33 | 0.00 | 1604.65 | |
| Paul | 326.24 | 379.84 | 363.64 | 400.00 | 1469.72 | |
| Dennis | 460.99 | 364.34 | 333.33 | 200.00 | 1358.67 |
Congratulations to the winners, and lets do this again, some time soon 😉
(ps.. gotto do a bit of work, will flesh this out a bit more..)