Not so grim up north

The rest of the photos are at http://www.glos-mfc.co.uk/phil/d13/1.htm 

Calendar of events  http://www.malvernsoaringassociation.co.uk/cal13.html

May events

The MSA Open - 

"With the cancellation of our thermal club comp the next day 4 of us decided to take up the challenge of flying in an F3J league event for the first time.

Following a late call to Mike Raybone ( cd on the day) on Friday evening to agree our participation, we gathered on Fish Meadow early on Saturday morning.

We were joined by 9 other seasoned F3J pilots and duly went about setting up our winch lines in readiness for a 10:00 briefing.

The competition consisted of 6 rounds with 4 slots per round. Once the comp stated the timing ran automatically with 10 minute slots followed by 4 minute preparation time. If you were not ready for the start you in effect forfeited potential flying time. This meant that for all 24 slots our team had to be ready to fly , time and spot for each other. Whilst
this may seem a lot of work it was thoroughly enjoyable.

The air was pretty unpredictable all day, with some slots being flown out while others required relaunches to achieve a relatively decent time.

The flying was arranged such that no member of any team flew against  each other.

Having stated flying around 10:15 the last round finished around 17:00.

The results of the comp have been published elsewhere and I have not included them in this report, other that to say that Phil Hayward reached the Fly off, finishing 3rd after the rounds and then 3rd in the
fly off.

A thoroughly enjoyable day, with good fun, and good company. 
Many thanks to the organisers for letting us in as late entries and for making us feel welcome.

Mike has collected the times for the four members that don't usually do the Barcs comps 

Following on from the results below I thought you might like to see the  individual flight times.

Phil    9:38 + 99 : 5:19 + 98 : 5:29 + 96 : 9:38 +98 : 9:49 + 98 : 9:46 + 35

Malcolm  5:14 + 93 : 9:41 + 90 : 9:51 + 65 : 6:34 + 50 : 8:51 + 0 : 9:34 + 65

Geoff   5:54 + 80 : 5:20 + 90 : 5:42 + 80 : 9:49 + 0 : 9:49 + 65 : 5:10 + 75

Mike  8:52 + 80 : 9:36 + 100 : 3.09 + 85 : 9:45 + 96 : 7:41 + 99 : 4:47 + 99

Phil used his Supra, Malcolm his Bubble Dancer, Geoff his Eliminator 134 variant and I used my Pike Perfect.

Regards

Mike

Mike, Dave and Neil are also club members but fly as Cats

  Photos:- Geoff and Neil launching

There are some more photos at http://www.glos-mfc.co.uk/phil/msaopen13/1.htm 

Monday

DG1000 popup motor 

http://youtu.be/3I1AclO2KhM  

Strong lift at Haresfield

   Tuesday

The lift was not good as the wind was on Frocester

Sqeela's Artist, Adam's DG600 and Shadow, and Andy's Esoarer on the common

The lift was not good enough for Adam to fly the DG600

Wednesday

Sqeela's K8 on Selsley

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

My starlight and Andy's Starlight 2000,  flying on Selsley

Sunday

Had a good fly at Frocester. The winds were strong and almost on the point resulting in lift all over the LZ. I "grew a pair" and chucked off my U2 and was able to pull basic aeros as the lift was so good. Also flying was Scot, the gent Sparky Ben and I met last weekend. Unfortunately, his Wildthing get caught up in one of the trees just beside the road. I don't know if he rescued it but it was so high up the tree I think it may still be up there.
Looking forward to the next sesh.

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