Donatas Pauzuolis RC page

Last week 14 European F3A championship come to end, strongest pilots from Europe compete for champion title. This year championship was held in Italy - Celcinatello.

6th time Europe Champion, CPLR. Second S.Silvestri, third B. Beschorner

Planes

New CPLR plane, Axiome.

One of the best looking F3A plane i ever saw, Miss Wind.

Liechtenstein team, with legendary F3A pilot Mr. W.Matt holding new Amethyst.

Sequences

10 Finalists.

Results

Lithuania 2008 F3A;F3J and F3K Championship

Saturday, 02 August 2008

Last weekend we had our National championship in 3 categorries, F3A-classic pattern, F3J-thermal soaring and F3K-hand throw gliders. Champnship was held in Alytus airfield already 4th time in a row.

Competition was divided in two parts (to save time on F3J equipment preparation) so 8 prelim and 4 final F3J rounds was held on saturday and 3 rounds of F3A and 8 of F3K took part on sunday.

F3A

Third round flight, it can also be found on FlyingGiants.com

Unfortunately this year i could not get/prepare in time big 2m plane, and my last season glow plane is already sold, so i had to use small Vanquish from Extreme Flight, that is powered by Flight Power EVO25 2500mah 4S pack. P07 is quite difficult sequence specialy for smaller planes, so i had to make some changes on my Vanquish to make it fly even better.

I always find interesting to experiment with some aerodynamic devices to make good planes fly even better. This time i use CPLR idea T-Catalyzer. Since it was shown in France 2005 f3a WC, i was wondering is it just "look at me" type device ore it really work and give advantage. People like CPLR, BPLR and QQ don't look like persons that use device without real benefit.

So i put small t Catalyzer on Vanquish, and i was surprised with nice changes i saw in flight;

* KE/KE loops does not require so much rudder input.

* All rolling maneuvers improve, fuselage stay horizontal, and maneuver looks smoother.

* Vanquish is small plane and it was quite hard to make good looking integrated rolling circles (not talking about rolling loops), Canard help here as well, with less correction it looks better.

T-canard is made from balsa, and reinforced/attached with 3mm carbon tube, inside of fuselage is also reinforced with balsa. Weight ready to attach canard was only 10g!

Canard view from top.

Affter one week of practice i get use to plane and ready for competition.

Guest from Latvia Aigars with his own construction airplane powered with two stroke OS160fx.

Paulius airplane.

F3A Results (2 best round summ of 3) ;

1.Donatas Pauzuolis 899 points.
2.Vitalijus Pilkionis 838 points.
3.Arturas Narbutas 462 points.
4.Paulius Raupys 425 points.
5.Aivars Banders 373 points.

My new DA50r powered Yak 54 from Extreme flight RC . Affter championship i made few demo flight with it. Here you can download video (50mb). Ore see it on Flyinggiants.com

My dad Rimas help to start engine.

Rolling Harrier.

First hover affter engine brake in!

Low and slow;)

Now im happy;)

I stay one more day in Alytus for some flying, here you can see happy pilot, Jersey modeller fuel can with F3A championship cup that was won with small Vanquish.

Discusssions about my Yak and giant airplane servos on FlyingGiants.com

F3K

F3K class grow and become more popular each year, this time there was total 14 pilots. Almost all of them flew "Vladimir's modells" Blaster-2 (including me as well).

F3K final results affter 8 rounds.

Ilja Krug practicing beffore competition;)

Some F3K pilots had to much beer on saturday...?;)

In championship i meet one very nice guy, who is working on special FX electronics for RC models, check out his amazing work and preview video from championship. All heli flying was made by Evaldas Cerniauskas.

F3J

Its not a secret that F3J is most popular class in Lithuania, so it was not surpise that it atract biggest number of participants. Level in this class is really hi, and it always give interesting finals.

2008 F3J Lithuania Champion Algimantas Vasiliauskas.

Juozas Svirusis took second place, in both F3J and F3K.

Full F3J results.

This year championship was very sucesful for me, and i would like to thank all my sponsors and people that help me for big support in 2008 year!!!

My dad Rimas

Jersey Modeler /Dean Kraus.

Extreme Flight RC /Chris Hinson and Daniel Roser.

Flight Power /Bob Sadler, David House and Ian Watson.

Castle Creations / Lee Estingoy.

Emotec /Robert Hussmann.

Magazine articles

Thursday, 26 June 2008

After very interesting and successful 2007/2008 year indoor season, i find some interesting articles about top competitions i visit. It is pleasure to find my name and pictures in well known RC magazines FMT (Germany) and FLY (France). Here is share these articles with you my dear visitors;

2008 June, FMT magazine include article about 2008 year German F3P championship.

Click on picture above to see hi resolution picture.

2008 June, FLY magazine include article about Mons Expo competition.

Click on picture above to see hi resolution picture.

Special thanks to Darius and Fabien!

Turin, WAG 2009 test event. (Update 06 14)

Thursday, 12 June 2008

I have wonderfull news, this weekend Lithuania team visit very interesting competition in Italy, Turin, it was test event for famous Worl Air Games in 2009 year. FAI promoting 3 new class, F6A (Artistic Aerobatic) F6B (Aeromusicals) and F6D (Hand throw gliders) all these categories will be included in Worl Air Games.

F6A, Artistic Aerobatic;

Sad but this time Artistic aerobatic class atract not so much pilots, totaly there was 6 participants in F6A, organizers told Sebastiano did not prepare routine because of bad weather beffore competition and bussy work schedule, Alberto had problems with his plane. Anyway small number of participants did not mean competition will b e easy, there was few some top 3m plane pilots, Gernot Bruckmann, Filippo Materazzi, Massimo Selva.

As Artistic aerobatic rules say plane must be not bigger than 2x2m and not heavier than 5kg,its quite hard to reach such results, keeping good power for powerfull 4min routine. Masimo and Filippo flew Sebart 140 Funtanas, both electric powered, Gernot had new good looking Sukhoy 140 also from SebArt. I flew Extreme Flight RC , 58inch Extra 300, naturally it is to small plane for Artistic Aerobatic competition but with good weather conditions, it was competetive to 2m planes. Affter interesting fight with some best world pilots i was able to win competition, pictures and videos are much better than thousand words, so please enjoy;)

1.Me/EF 58 inch Extra , 2. Gernot Bruckmann/SebArt Su29 140, 3. Filippo Materazzi SebArt Funtana 140

Top 4 pilots with planes, one from Extreme flight RC other three from SebArt.

Finalists, Gernot Bruckmann and Donatas Pauzuolis.

Flight Power team, Donatas, Massimo and Filippo.

Massimo preparing his plane.

Affter awesome SMOKE demo, Evaldas Heli require some cleaning;)

F6A points for Turin competition;

Place	Name	Nation	FAI Licence Nr	World Ranking Points
1	Donatas Paužuolis	LTU	LT-493	367,42
2	Gernot Bruckmann	AUT	240039 0058	183,71
3	Filippo Materazzi	ITA	ITA-15392	122,47
4	Massimo Selva	SMR	SMR-012	91,86
5	Sebastiano Gabutti	ITA	ITA-	73,48
6	Evaldas Černiauskas	LTU	LT-	61,24

WAG CIAM Selection contest World Ranking

Filippo SebArt Funtana.

Simply sick movements!

Only one Graupner 8811 servo on pull-pull system is more than enough for elevator.

Massimo impressive special FX's on his plane.

Quick field update on my Extra;)

F6A Videos;

1.Donatas Pauzuolis final flight.

2.Gernot Bruckmann final flight.

3.Filippo Materazzi final flight.

4.Massimo Selva qualification flight.

Artistic Aerobatics finals result:

2-minute compulsory music:

Donatas Pauzuolis: 131.50 points
Gernot Bruckmann: 118.50 points
Filippo Materazzi: 111.00 points

4-minute free music:

Donatas Pauzuolis: 131.00 points
Gernot Bruckmann: 122.00 points
Filippo Materazzi: 120.00 points

F6B Aeromusicals.

Its quite strange to fly indoor when we have fantastic weather outside, but it was organizers idea to test all WAG classes in action. Few thing were different compared to other selection competitions i visit this indoor season. Main difference was pilot position, all pilots stand infront of judges and spectators, probably this give good chance to look at pilot face durring flight.

I must say hall is very good for such top event, average size in lenght and width with very hi ceiling, give allot of space for any routine.

All pilots except Filippo (Vortex) ussed monoplans, Fabien flew Donuts models Yak, Gernot his profiled wing Yak55, Marco flew not typical am plane Mercury, i ussed Sultimate, and Gyula flew his own designed plane. I must say this young guy improove allot from last F6B Mons competition!

F6B points for Turin competition;

Place	Name	Nation	Licence Nr	World Ranking Points
1	Gernot Bruckmann	AUT	240039 0058	367.42
2	Donatas Paužuolis	LTU	LTU-493	183.71
3	Fabien Turpaud	FRA	FRA-1136	122.48
4	Filippo Materazzi	ITA	ITA-15392	91.86
5	Gyula Inzsöl	HUN	HUN-3026	73.49
6	Marco Valliera	ITA	ITA-15273	61.24

Discussions about competitions on

RCgroups.

WAG CIAM Selection contest World Ranking

Nice demo flights were made with two dirigibles.

F6D, Hand launch gliders;

Right way to scare oponent;)

First place F6D winner Ricardas Siumbrys.

Second place winner Vitalijus Pilkionis.

No comments;)

F6D Points for Turin competition;

Place	Name	Nation	FAI Licence Nr	World Ranking Points
1	Ricardas Siumbrys	LTU	LT-273	400.00
2	Vitalijus Pilkionis	LTU	LT-568	200.00
3	Alberto Consolini	ITA	ITA-15618	133.33
4	Carlo Cobianchi	ITA	ITA-13509	100.00
5	Donatas Paužuolis	LTU	LT-493	80.00
6	Massimiliano Sacchi	ITA	ITA 15309	66.67
7	Claudio Zavagno	ITA	ITA-15238	57.14
8	Flavio Pompele	ITA	ITA-8785	50.00
9	Ivan Brayne	ITA	ITA-15617	44.44
10	Pietro Casagrande	ITA	ITA-10427	40.00
11	Juozas Svirusis	LTU	LT-575	36.36
12	Carlo Poli	ITA	ITA-15587	33.33
13	Sergejs Timofejevs	LAT	270YL	30.77
14	Donatas Pampikas	LTU	LT-472	28.57
15	Davide Bettin	ITA	ITA-15374	26.67
16	Giambattista de Lorenzi	ITA	ITA-15364	25.00

Discussions about F6D competition on RCgroups.

WAG CIAM Selection contest World Ranking

Blaster inspector working;)

LT team affter good start.

Conclusion;

Speeking for all Lithuania team, i can say this was one of the best (if not the best) competitions we ever visit, very helpfull organizers, nice athmosphere and allot of flying, what else you can expect? Naturally sad that contest atract not so much participants (specialy in Artistic Aerobatic class) as we expect, but we hope it will improve till next year. July 31 day will be decided how many pilots will be invited to main event. Total there is 10 airsports, and over 25 events, this promisse very interesting event.

Mr. Guy Revel, preparing participants music.

Lithuania team.