The Summer league has started!

 

  What a fun weekend and day of challenging British F3F!  With the sun shining and barely a breeze to hinder our merry band as we skipped up the trail to the Ice cream slope it was great to have the chance to catch up with some old friends as we waited for the wind to join us.

  It also gave the chance to look around at the variety of models being raced, from memory the field included.

Device, Mamba, Freestylers, Extreme, Toxic, Pitbull, an Orden and of course the Saker.  As a judge of models the weekend wasn’t very scientific, the Mamba won and Devices cam second from the top and second from the bottom of the leader board.

2 sleek models

  My own day could be summed up quite well in the first 2 rounds, both times I found myself pushing out from the slope in desperate search for a thermal as my Saker lost height.  Round 1 had a re-flight and a top 5 time, round 2 didn’t have re-flight and I ‘enjoyed’ a sedate 88 seconds on course before heading off in search of lift.

  As the wind built and kept swinging around, a heavier approach to ballast seemed to deliver results for me.  Different pilots were clearly wrestling with the issue of ballasting.  It would be harsh to suggest that “if you got good lift you go fast- if you not you don’t.” didn’t have a large amount to do with the results with in each round but the better pilots made the most of the good stuff and managed to minimise the damage of the poor air.

  The Saker was proving itself to be more than competitive in the conditions, only to be let down by my thumbs on the last round of the day.  It’s 2 land out avoiding flights did make me feel more confident with the air frame and the race conditions.

and thats league 1 done