Few days beffore Christmas i visit probably best F3P competition/show ever organized in Europe, Wall-halla.nl invite all top F3P pilots from all Europe, some of participants travel more than 2500km one way, this say allot!
Dutch Wall-halla was inspired by German Wall-halla first time organized last year. Weekend shedule (synchro flight competition, Airrace, Gala show, open Dutch F3P and AM championship), with such pilots as; Martin Muller, Gernot Bruckmann, Derk and Bert Van Der Vechts, Denis Horn, Markus Zolitch, Andes Leoni and many more sure promise amazing weekend!
Competition was held in small town Loop on Zand, with very nice neighbourhood
Ok so lets start from begining, this time i decide go to competition with plane instead of driving two days with car, distance from Vilnius to Loop on Zand is more than 1700km one way... Its cheaper and much faster travel with airplane, and biggest advantage you don't feel like zombie affter trip;) But for such comfort you have to pay with stress in check in and baggage receiving point at airport, because of oversized lugage with fragile content. As far as i know in last Gernam F3P championship mr. Kimmo Kaukoranta baggage with planes was lost, and in competition he had to fly borrowed planes...so its always small risk.
Deluxe safely packed inside of 19kg hardply box, for easier transportation landing gear removed.
Sultimate attached to top of box, i find out later this is not best way to do this...
Two planes packed inside, ARTF (LITERALLY LOL)
When we land in Amsterdam, i saw my box damaged with top open, this sure is not great way to start weekend... From scratches and damage to box, it was abvious that someone drop it quite hard. I can't imagine how workers of airport can work so irresponsibly, box is made from 8mm hardply, and normally i can stand/walk on it without no damage...Now i know how i need to reinforce it for next trip, i will pust short article about this in future, and now, lets go back to results;
So as you see quite ugly but repairable damage, wings supports broken, tail broken, and both ailerons looks and have structure of accordion;) So instead of sitting in bar with all pilots i had to repair plane in hotel. Big thanks goes to Bert Van Der Vecht and Andris Sebins for help and materials for repair! Funny thing but this was first time when i forget to bring piece of depron and carbon just in case i need it for repair...;))) I finish repair about 00;30 and went to sleep, on saturday morning right affter breakfast we went to hall for test flight, plane flew good, so i was ready for competition.
Aeromusical Synchro Flight
First competition was quite new class Aeromusical Synchro Flight, originally it started last year i German Wallhalla. Overall 8 teams compete in this class, with participants from 5 countries (Germany, Latvia, Austria, England, Lithuania). Me and Gernot was only team composed with pilots from different countries;)
My and Gernot Bruckmann Sultimate's V2.
It took 3 rounds to see finall results, most of team show interesting flights and great control. My favorite was trio flight by Kai, Karl, Martin. Synchro AM is sure difficult type of flying, because you always have to talk with partner and follow two planes instead of one, not mentioning bigger chances to crash.
Latvian team synchro practice with cell phones;)
Snap roll? ;)
Kai and Christoph good looking flight with long streamers.
My favorite routine, Carl, Kai and Martin prepared for start.
Results
Pos Pilot Pnts Sum. Summary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Gernot and Donatas; 356.5000 (R1:168.0000) R2:174.5000 R3:182.0000 2 Kai & Christoph; 342.0000 R1:170.0000 R2:172.0000 (R3:164.5000) 3 Markus and Dennis; 338.5000 R1:168.0000 (R2:159.5000) R3:170.5000 4 Kai , Karl , Martin; 336.0000 R1:165.5000 R2:170.5000 (R3:162.0000) 5 Bert & Derk; 334.0000 (R1:157.5000) R2:163.5000 R3:170.5000 6 Martin and Stephanie; 333.5000 R1:164.0000 R2:169.5000 (R3:144.0000) 7 Shahid and Ian; 209.0000 R1:111.0000 R2:98.0000 R3:0.0000 8 Kristop & Andris; 150.5000 (R1:64.0000) R2:80.0000 R3:70.5000
Its long time since last update on my homepage, but now i have wonderfull news, next year January we will run our first open F3P championship in small town near Kaunas, Kazlų Rūda. This will be great two days competition because of few things, first of them is competition sponsors; Axi model motors , Flight Power , CasteCreations, Jersey Modeler, Express Flight, Propeleris.lt and RC-hobby will be sponsoring event with awesome RC equipment. We already receive box full of goodies from Axi, also waiting for new EON F3P lypo packs from Flight power!!! Im really happy to see our hobby have such wonderfull companies and people that stand behind them!
Competition poster, please share it with anyone who can find this interesting.
Goodies from Axi Model Motors.
Championship official information sponsor www.aviacijospasaulis.lt
Second thing that guaranty good time, is amazing hall we get from main event sponsor "Kazlų Rūdos sporto centras", 12m height and simply huge hall.
Durring competition our friends www.rc-hobby.lt will run small shop inside hall, so it will be possible to buy some foamie accessories , carbon, depron ore CA glues.
Map that will help you find hall easier. For best way from your town i suggest to use www.viamichelin.com
For detailed and full information about competition please downloand Bulletin Nr.1;
Competition BULLETIN (in English) download here!!!
Because this will be our first attempt to run such competition, decission was made to keep old well known pattern sequences. New FAI F3P-09 sequence is way to difficult for beginners, so we will use old F3P-A, F3P-B and NEW F3P-C sequences, maneuver list of both sequences can be found on bulletin. Video examples of both sequences and 2min AM routine;
F3P-A (Pattern)
F3P-B (Basic pattern)
F3P-C (Baginer pattern)
1.Horizontal eight 2.Loop 3.Roll 4.Triangle loop 5.Knife edge flight 6.Square loop 7.4 point roll
F3P-AM (Aeromusical)
Participant list, (so far 22 pilots from 4 countries);
I present you Sultimate V2, my 2008/2009 indoor season Aeromusical plane. Last year plane was very successful design and bring me many victories in international competitions!
Questions; what can be updated on already good plane?
Answers;
1.Increase control surface area is not a bad idea;) 2.Making plane slightly bigger for better appearance in air. 3.Searching for better equipment.
And here we have Sultimate V2;
New scheme.
Technical info;
Fuselage lenght: 90cm
Wings lenght: 83cm
RTF weight: 140-160g, (depending on equipment), plane in picture weight is 149g rtf.
Radio: Jr 9V2 Gold, RX: AR6300 (~2g).
Servos: Hitec 65hb on elevator, D47 rudder D47S on ailerons both Dymonds connected to 2s lypo. Best place to buy these servos at Aerobertics.be
Bottom of plane, you can see two D47S servos on ailerons.
Bigger plane need more powerfull engine, Axi2203/Race handle job really well.
In last 4 years i flew with Vytas CD-R motors, unfortunately we lost stator suplier, and further motor production is under big question. Other stators we test don't give even close results that we expect. So i had to find more powerfull silent motor ASAP, since first serious F3P competitions waiting for me already in next month. Some of my RC friends, like Benoit Dierickx, Gernot Bruckmann, fly with Axi motors with great success, so i decide to try it as well. New Axi 2203/Race was beyond my expectations, very well build, motor have really good trust and at same time don't make to much noise, that is very important for Aeromusical. In video bellow you can see what i have in mind, actually i set only 85 percents thr curve on my TX, since i don't need so much power for my Aeromusical routines!
Motor Specification
No. of cells
2 Li-Poly
RPM/V
2300 RMP/V
Max. efficiency
74%
Max. efficiency current
3 - 7,5 A (>69%)
No load current / 8 V
0,55 A
Current capacity
9 A/20 s
Internal Resistance
220 mohm
Dimensions (diameter. x lenght)
27,7x21 mm
Shaft diameter
carbon 3 mm
Weight with cables
18,5 g
So im happy to announce that affter possitive testing Model motors aka AXI , become my sponsors, im really happy to start work with them. In any case i will use Axi motor for Aeromusical planes, and for pattern planes i still be ussing good light and reliable Vytas bruschless.
Best and most powerfull indoor lypo packs from Flight power.
Better than 1000 words is one video, so enjoy;
This time we test something different , video was captured with fish eye lense, special thanks for Aleksei from MyResearch.
Our good friends from Netherlands at the end of December will be organizing unforgetable show/cometition "Wall-halla NL", it was inspired by last year very successful show/synchro flight competition Wallhalla in Germany that was organized by Mr. Martin Muller, Stephanie Schwan and Markus Zolitsch . Looks like competition in Natherlands will be main F3P event for 2008/2009 year.
Such pilots as Martin Muller, Derk/Bert Van Der Vecht , Gernot Bruckmann, Benoit Dierickx, Denis Horn and many more will compete in spectator friendly competition, that will include Synchro flight Aeromusical, new modiffied F3P 09 sequence, famous CZ Airrace and Aeromusical!!!
Here is my last practice video for Synchro AM competition with Gernot (his 2007 AM routine);
More information about competition can be found here.
