Its was very long time since last update, reason for that was big lack of time because of preparation for World Air Games in torino Italy, but now i have wonderfull news to share! Picture say more than thousand words;
World Air Games 2009, Artistic Aerobatic podium. From L to R Filippo Materazzi second, Donatas Pauzuolis champion, Masimo Selva third.
Pleasure to see Lithuania flag in highest point.
Final 2min compulsory flight, hover with one hand.
World Air Games 2009, Aeromusicals podium. From L to R; second Martin Muller, Champion Fabien Turpaud, third Donatas Pauzuolis.
Award from FAI president Mr. Pierre Portmann.
Lithuania aeromodeling team, From L to R Evaldas, Ričardas, Vitalijus and me.
This time it took way to long to write competition report, but finally i find time to do this. And this competition definitely deserve report, its our own National F3P championship, that was help on January 17,18 days in huge Kazlu Ruda sport center hall.
For the first attempt we decide to invite our neighbours from Latvia and Belarus, and our good friend and F3P enthusiast Richard Boyd to represent Ireland. We run contest in usual format that was tested in Europe during last few seasons of competing. For the first time we flew old F3P-A, F3P-B, F3P-C pattern programs F3P-AM, Pylon race. As expected biggest number of participants was in F3P-C and AM.
Preparation for competition. Its sure hard to make everything run smooth...;)
Participant registration and we ready to go.
Competition participants with planes, total we had 24 pilots from 4 countries.
Without hard working judges and helpers competition would be not possible! So special thanks to them!
Me and Richard Boyd from N. Ireland who flew to Lithuania only to fly in our competition and have fun with LT pilots!
Pilots from Belarus, (from L to R) Dmitrij Lisneusky, Igor Kozelcev Danil Pilaev.
Each competition give surprises, our guest from Belarus, Danil show some excelent flying.
Quite crazy stuff , snap rolls in hotel room;) Again thx Aleksey for video.
Danil flew Sultimate V2, painted in Sebart spirit.
Latvian pilots in action, Aleksandrs Sergejevs flying in F3P-C, Andris Shebins calling.
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);
Update: MR. Dave send me video of his demo flight with Deluxe, enjoy;
Download hi quality video here. For more videos/pictures from contest click here.
My good friend from USA, Mr. David Lockhard (top F3A pilot), send me great news, using my designed F3P-A pattern plane Deluxe he won local F3P contest in USA. Here is his story and few pictures:
KIEF indoor festival is over. 1st year of event, and 75 pilots. Nonstop flying from 8AM Saturday to 5PM Sunday. Small F3P contest Sunday morning for A and B sequences. I do not know exact results, but I was 1st in F3P-A with Deluxe. Perfect start for me, many pattern contests as you know, but my first F3P-A contest – I think I will retire now, and be undefeated!!!
David milled Deluxe with JR9303 2.4ghz radio.
Very large flying place – only problem was wind and turbulence – heaters cycle on/off to blow hot air to keep building at about 18C – at night it was cold, about 2C.
Deluxe is flying very well, and I am learning the plane. Last Sunday, I made 12 flights in Lakehurst Hangar (HUGE flying site), and Wednesday, I fly 7 times in very small (to me anyway) gym which is 25x18 meters x 15.5 tall, and maybe 5 practice flights at KIEF before the F3P contest (I have video of one flight, file size is also large).
Competition participants with pattern planes.
For F3P at KIEF, my opponents flew FF milled Vantage (very light, maybe 125 grams and Clik! (140 grams). Deluxe and Vantage are slower flying than Clik!, but Deluxe gets faster in downlines, and Vantage is very slow in downlines. I think the Deluxe is very smooth and stable in the air, and because is so big, it looks very nice. Because of wind from the heaters, it was better to fly a little faster. I have not put landing gear fairing or rounded leading edge on the Deluxe yet – I will do this, and also consider options to make the downline slower – right now, I have added small brake on back of the rudder, but do not have as much drag brakes on the elevator.
Probably most popular indoor pattern design by Mr. David Kyjovsky "Click" already counting third years of flying.
Fancy Foam Vantage F3P design by J. Chinn.
David preparing for start.
For Saturday and Sunday, KIEF has demos at lunch – each day I flew the Deluxe to show F3P and some freestyle. Many people ask about where the plane is from, how to get the kits, and when it will be available.
Special thanks to David, for article and top Deluxe representation!!!
For all people that are interested in getting Deluxe for new indoor season, i have good news, right now i make small changes for design, to make plane better suited for more difficult F3P-09 sequence , affter that it will be released by Extreme Flight RC (hopefully untill new year.)
F3P 09 sequence (modiffied version) flown in Mons Expo 2008 competition.
Aresti diagram of this sequence can be found here. At the moment its not official, since FAI did not aprove it, but in some countries like Netherland decission was made to fly it in 2009 year season competitions, since sequence proposed by FAI is not flyable in regular sport gym.
F3P finals sequence (modiffied version) flown in Mons Expo 2008 competition.
