Radio Control Aerobatic Champs 2010
The August bank holiday weekend was to see the hosting of the “ National aerobatic championships” by the “ Carron Model Flying Club “ with contestants arriving to the site on the Friday and getting in a bit of last minute practice prior to the event.
Pilot numbers were down on last year with two regulars being absent namely Niall and Angus. Niall was to become a Dad during the event, congratulation to both of you, hope baby James “Biggles” is introduced to a good YS in the near future.
The event was again scheduled for a bank holiday weekend to allow for a rain day and it looked like it might have been called for as Saturday started off wet with flying not getting under way until after a Bar B Que lunch.
Tier 1 were first out in very windy conditions with John Martin taking the 1000 points this proving to be very useful as this comp formed part of the team trial.
Tier 2 followed judged by the now familiar pilot judge system Paul Houlihan being rewarded for his efforts securing the top spot.
Masters with a visitor pilot David Drummond from the north saw some very good flying with most people watching as both David and James had the same score of 411.5 look forward to seeing James flying F3A.
A second round was flown taking the pressure off for Sunday.
Gone are the days of Baldonnell where one could wander around and see a bit of Control line, Scale, Heli etc and the general get together for the evening meal maybe some day a venue will turn up that can cope.
Day 2 started promptly with much better conditions Shane was to take Tier 1 honours from John but only just. Paul once again came out on top in tier 2, as did James in Masters. Dave King was to take control of cooking serving up a fine array of steaks, chicken and hot dogs, many thanks to Gordon’s Mum Sylvia for the salads, sauces and rolls.
It was now down to the final rounds run back to back, Masters was a joy to watch with some quality flying being but in David to emerge as the Victor this time.
Tier 2 saw no change with Paul again getting the premier score I had to settle for a 960.80 against it.
Tier 1 very close at the top but John had the comp won at this stage but was to secure the last 1000 points, Shane only 7 behind.
As is now common place and where time allows a round of the F schedule is flown, this is open to all pilots but is very complex John again was to win this one.
Once again I would like to thank all who took part, helped, score kept and generally made this a very pleasant event in keeping with all events this year. A special thanks to Gordon our CD, Dave Foley sitting Judge and to Kieth and Johnny for keeping the site in such good condition.