F3B at Home

Happy New F3B Year 2012!!!!!!!!!!!

2012-01-01T03:21:00.001-08:00

Happy New F3B Year 2012!!!!!!!!!!!

FS4

2011-12-22T12:28:00.000-08:00

Well, after eight long months my Freestyler is at home :-) First photos here. More information next days.

Nice morning in Secret field

2011-12-18T06:29:00.001-08:00

I've brought to my father to secret field. Wind direction was not steady oriented so we have set winches in 90 degrees.

2011 F3F Catalonian League ended

2011-12-14T08:51:00.000-08:00

We had F3F contest last Sunday, it was the last contest of the year for Catalonian League. We had few wind and worst conditions I've ever met. We counted times with calendar instead timers (rounds were won with times of 102, 84, 80 and 83 seconds):-P I was classified in second position but it was not enough to get a place in the podium :-( My Altus has worked very well so I will go on with them in 2012.

Santa Coloma Contests classification
2011 F3F Caralonian League classification
Photos from f3fcat.blogspot.com
Photos from f3b.es
Video from f3b.es

F3F in Santa Coloma slope

2011-12-05T12:36:00.001-08:00

Last Sunday I went to Santa Coloma slope with my father and Carles Aymat to prepare the last contest of Catalonian F3F League. Not good conditions (4 m/s) but we could fly a little bit :-P

F3B World-Cup Competitions 2012

2011-12-01T00:39:00.001-08:00

Calendar for 2012 :-)

2011 F3B Japanese Championship Video II

2011-11-30T02:25:00.001-08:00

2011 F3B Japanese Championship Video

2011-11-29T11:55:00.001-08:00

2011 F3B Japanese Championship

2011-11-28T07:59:00.001-08:00

Naoto Sakurai F3B Japanese Championship winner.

Resistor KO

2011-11-25T02:16:00.001-08:00

Yesterday I burn out one of my winches resistor. It's a second hand winch that was used in 2001 WC in Chrudim. I think engine is also dead so I don't know to do... :-(

F3B WM 2011 CHINA

2011-11-25T02:10:00.001-08:00

Running with Fosa

2011-11-01T08:07:00.001-07:00

A new visit to our secret field. I spent the whole morning to make run my Fosa. Amazing!!!!!! I've never made so fast turns :-P

I love Fosa

2011-10-24T23:43:00.001-07:00

Sunday was my Second day flying my Fosa, I'm falling in love... That plane launches like a rocket!!! I spend second day to test distance settings with some ballast (500 grms aproach) and duration. It seems CG in 98 mm. is right.

For first time I have a plane that launches really high so now I'm not scared to use more ballast that I used :-)

Photos here and more from f3b.es

Secret Field

2011-10-21T05:23:00.000-07:00

We have found a field 30 minutes from Barcelona :-) But I think will be plant wheat until June :-( At least, that field is free form June to November :-)

Photos here.

2012 F3B Season

2011-10-12T23:37:00.000-07:00

Mmm... You can begin to ask for your hollidays at work....

http://lomcovak.cz/wp_cze/f3b/2011/10/f3b-2012/

World Champs ended... :-(

2011-09-28T00:56:00.000-07:00

Individual
1- Andreas Herrig
2- Martin Herrig
3- Andreas Kunz

Team
1- Germany
2- USA
3- France

Updating...

2011-09-22T22:40:00.000-07:00

I have posted in right columm:

New "Deal of the week" (Crossfire 2 from my friend Carles Aymat, so I won't remove till you buy it :-P)
Link to USA F3B Team twitter owned by Glauco Lago

F3B World Championhip

2011-09-22T12:51:00.001-07:00

F3B World Championship begins Tomorrow. Germany is favourite to win individual and team competition. There will be a very interesting fight with countries like USA, France, Japan and Australia for team podium.

You can see reports, results and photos in these sites:

http://www.f3b2011.com/
http://lomcovak.cz/wp_eng/
http://www.teamusaf3b.com/
http://www.f3b-team-germany-2011.de/
http://www.f3news.fr/f26-chine-2011
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1497458
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1402819

F3B Lippeweidenpokal 2011

2011-09-22T12:19:00.000-07:00

2011 Pre-season begins

2011-09-22T12:17:00.000-07:00

I hadn't time to finish my Fosa for last weekend so I brought my Orange Altus to Bràfim. I just made one flight because my towhook broke after first launch :-( I spend most of time to help my friends and my father with first flights after hot summer. I made some photos but you can see more in f3b.es

Fosa under construction IV

2011-09-19T07:18:00.001-07:00

Last step... RDS!!!!!!

Fosa under construction III

2011-09-15T12:41:00.000-07:00

First wing conector ready

Deal of the week updated

2011-09-12T11:56:00.001-07:00

36th Oktoberfestpokal

2011-09-12T11:31:00.000-07:00

Fantastic weekend for winner, Daniele Amici, who leads until round one the contest with a brilliant speed of 12,82 seconds. Congratulations to the Organization, that posted scores and photos in MCM Modellbau Club München site. Two interesting things:

Three first pilots flew FS4
Martin Webershock brought a new model: Radical 2?

Photos and results (source MCM Modellbau Club München site)

Fosa under construction II

2011-09-12T11:11:00.000-07:00

Fosa fuse is ready. We don't have enough room to place receiver and eneloop batteries so we have to remove housing receiver :-O Tails work perfect, so is now to attack wings!!!!

36th Oktoberfestpokal

2011-09-09T05:22:00.000-07:00

Photos and results on-line here. First Dish Daniel Amici 12,82 in Speed :-O

Fosa under construction I

2011-09-06T14:07:00.000-07:00

We have removed receiver housing to fit everything in fuse

Ocelot released

2011-09-05T23:00:00.000-07:00

After lot of months we released one of our Ocelots in Santa Coloma Slope. Before, we drove to Santa Coloma de Gramanet to enjoy the festival that Ikarus Club make every year. That time we were accompanied by my sister and cousin. My sister flew Ocelot with my help and enjoied it. Mmm... maybe we'll be three pilots in the family... My father is scared!!!!!!

Some photos here and here.

Winterthur Mörsburg Cup 2011

2011-07-27T12:02:00.000-07:00

Fotos

Turnaround at Home

2011-07-18T09:00:00.000-07:00

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Last weekends before Mörsburgcup

2011-07-11T03:46:00.000-07:00

One weekend left before Mörsburgcup. We have spent last weekends to prepare the competition, but we also have had time to have fun... Dani is thinking to go to next F3K WC in 2013 with his Altus... I'm not sure he will succeed :-P Some photos here.

Ready to go Bràfim

2011-07-10T01:37:00.000-07:00

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My Helper

2011-07-09T06:34:00.000-07:00

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F3B Brno Cup Video

2011-06-30T05:50:00.000-07:00

Extasys, old lines and cool prize

2011-06-26T11:29:00.000-07:00

Last weekend drove to Pla de Vent field with a very good new. Saturday night I won a Fosa in the F3B France Team Lotery. We spent lot of time with first flights of my dad's Extasys and changing our old lines on Sunday :-P Now I have to wait until Winterthur to pick up my new babe. Some photos here.

My team mate Sergi Subias holds my Fosa

Rewind is mine!!!!!!

2011-06-26T11:17:00.000-07:00

I've just won an auction in ebay for a Hollenbeck rewind :-) That was the deal of the week :-P I'm sorry guys, it had to be mine...

Bulletin number 2... Coming back to School...

2011-06-24T11:37:00.000-07:00

F3B World Championship Team Members will come back to School... :-O Bulletin here.

F3B USA Team Practice

2011-06-15T05:24:00.000-07:00

It seems our American friends are working hard to be in good shape for China...

Ironworks Trophy 2011

2011-06-15T05:14:00.000-07:00

I haven't found any report about Ironworks Trophy either I found a video :-P

Is Graupner going to interview German F3B Team?

2011-06-11T15:25:00.000-07:00

F3B Shop

2011-06-11T09:03:00.000-07:00

I have opened a new section: F3B Shop. I will try to post every week a good f3b offer: planes, winches, radios,... whatever could interest you ;-)

Troféu F3B APSIA 2011

2011-05-31T03:27:00.000-07:00

Results and report about F3B World Cup contest made in Portugal with Spanish, German and Portuguese pilots.

F3B under Sun

2011-05-23T08:39:00.000-07:00

A very very hot Sunday, lot of duration flights. I help to my father to train Task C. I hope next flights will be made with his Extasys :-P

Orebro Open

2011-05-23T08:32:00.001-07:00

Few competitors in Orebro Open :-( and a very understood Joakim Stahl :-) Results here.

New winch

2011-05-15T13:01:00.000-07:00

I have bought a second hand winch in very good conditions. Today I have made some launches with it to confirm everything was ok. So now I will have to good winches for competitions and two for trainings. Few people in the field today because a windy day :-( My father, Javier, Dani and me... we don't fail... we must fly once a week to be happy :-) Some photos here.

German Team Site

2011-05-14T15:09:00.001-07:00

German site under construction... 10 teams registered now for WC.... who else?

Kamisato Cup

2011-05-14T08:17:00.000-07:00

Japanesse friends have had a very special competitor: Joe Wurts.

We go to Mörsburgcup!!!!!!!!!!!

2011-05-10T15:20:00.000-07:00

Yeahhhh!!!!! We're already registered to Mörsburgcup, same team that was in KO (Sergi Subias, Alberto Portella, Daniel Portella and me) and maybe my father will be there helping us...

Flying with seniors

2011-05-10T15:01:00.000-07:00

Last weekend I couldn't met with everybody so I was flying with my senior team mates (Javier Portella and my father) on Sunday. Both are a deep source of wisdom, and I think I should obey more than I do... :-P I was testing new settings for launch that Mr. Dieter Perlick (Altus designer) gave me nicely. I like them so I'll change my two phases for launching system and I will launch with one and I will use for zoom speed mode :-O

Some photos here

Some videos

2011-04-19T22:48:00.000-07:00

Some videos from contests in UK and France

Kirchheim Open 2011

2011-04-19T02:32:00.000-07:00

Finally at home, lot of kilometers form Barcelona to Kirchheim... three amazing days again in one of the best F3B Contest in the World. 99 pilots from lot of European countries. Amazing organization so we could fly four rounds in three days.

Herrig brothers are still the referring pilots in F3B scene. Age of Radical and Freestyler 3 seems is ending and Baudis Models and Freestyler 4 are the fashioned models without forgetting Extasys. About flights... I feel every year pilots are stronger, that edition you should reach almost 25 laps and some times more than 30. Martin Herrig beat distance world record with a new score of 38 laps Yeaaahhhhh!!!!!!

First flight of the contest was Speed, and people at 8.30 already made 15.xx seconds scores. In my case my time was 22.xx :-P Personally I made my best personal scores in distance (27 seven laps) and speed (18,89 seconds). I had to flight two rounds with my green Altus because T-tail of orange ones was damaged :-( Also I made a 0 in second speed where I lost all my oportunities to get a better classification. Anyway, I'm happy and very motivated to train hard and compete again in Swiss.

Results and my photos.

Alberto Portella photos.

Is so cute...

2011-02-20T12:11:00.001-08:00

Back to normal

2011-02-20T11:48:00.000-08:00

After some weekends with lot of problems with launchs it seems I've restored good settings for my Altus :-( Today was very windy so I have to wait for a quiet day to confirm towhook position and deflections are right. Javier brought his "new" motorized Jewel making awsome flights. Dani is a tirelss pilot so he wanted to fly with us despite his injured ankle. Alberto every day is happier with his Crossi II and my father enjoyed flying his Nyx.

Some photos here.

Training for Coll de l'Illa Contest

2011-02-12T08:46:00.001-08:00

That afternoon I've been with my father flying in Santa Coloma slope to check our planes are ok for Sunday. We will compete in Coll de l'Illa first contest of F3F Catalonian League tomorrow. It used to be a very cold and windy slope, landing is so dangerous we flight all rounds in a row to avoid more landings. Conditions are extrem but feelings in that slope are amazing. Also amazing is the lunch after the contest. We will make a "Calçotada" as every year

My Caracho had so damaged its tips we decided to cut them so now I have a new version: Caracho 2.9 It seems is very easy to make turns with them. Tomorrow will be a good flight test :-P

I have made some photos while my father flew his V-Ultra.

My photos

2011-02-08T13:58:00.000-08:00

I use to be the photographer of my blog so I don't use to appear in my photos. Last Sunday Jose Jurado made us some photos. Mine are those:

New planes and new mates

2011-02-08T13:29:00.000-08:00

Last Sunday was a day with lot of news. Jose Jurado made his first flights launching with winch and Alberto brought his new Crossfire II. Ten weekends left for Kirchheim :-O

Some photos here.

Bulletin no. 1 WC F3B 2011

2011-01-29T06:52:00.000-08:00

Read in f3x.no Bulletin number 1 already posted.

F3B at "Home"

2011-01-29T06:01:00.000-08:00

My father and me rewinding a new line

That morning have in working at home. Our Megalines are consumed so we have had to remove from winches and prepare the new ones bought in Tarragona harbor by my friend Dani. It has been a entertainig morning :-P Some photos here.

New gadget at home

2011-01-23T13:35:00.000-08:00

That weekend we've released a trolley called "No more pain in Sergi's back Machine". From now it will be easier to save our winches in wardrobe and my back will thank.

Photos

Ice Age in Pla de Vent

2011-01-23T13:18:00.000-08:00

Brrrrr...!!!!!! Very very cold that Sunday in Pla de Vent field, and wind make you feel frozen... Only four braves in the field: Javier, my dad, Dani and me. We have had to rest and have lunch in the House Club. But so many sacrifice have had his reward: a new personal launch of 319 meters of altitude :-)

Photos

F3B French Team site

2011-01-21T13:05:00.000-08:00

F3B French Team site.

Two in a row

2011-01-19T11:38:00.000-08:00

My dad and me in a nice flight

Last weekend I went to fly Saturday and Sunday :-) We are working hard that Winter to improve our performs in Eurotour. Everything was ok except a bad landing of my father and a little accident with a broken line and my right hand. I spend all weekend training distance task and optimizing my launches. I've realized I lost a lot of altitude in first laps and I fly better in final laps, so I have to improve my perform in first 4 laps :-P Next weekend more flights and I don't discard to make a F3B weekend very soon :-O

New Zealand F3B Nats 2011

2011-01-09T11:18:00.000-08:00

Joe Wurts is the champion of New Zealand F3B Nats 2011. Results in page eight.

Training distance task

2011-01-09T01:42:00.000-08:00

We we're very quiet yesterday. We just could met in Pla de Vent field my father, Javier and me :-( Dani had to work, Alberto was sick and Sergi Subies was bussy in Barcelona. Fantastic weather, very sunny and good wind for launches. Megaline 1.22 still worked fantastic and I spend all day long making distance flights. Javier is very happy with his Vampire, it looks very nice an performes very well in launches. My father finally got good settings for launches with his Crossfire and brought his new toys for 2011 to make some photos: FX-30 and Extasys by Jiri Tuma.

Seniors in Action

I've planned to train next weekends to set up Altus for distance, yesterday I flew with 400 grams of ballast getting 270-280 meters launches. To be more competitive I have to ballast Altus whit more lead but anyway I think 400 grams is a good beginning.

15 weekends before Kirchheim removes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Photos

Good feelings for 2011

2011-01-02T11:30:00.000-08:00

We are very motivated for 2011 Season, so Dani, Sergi Subies and me met to Pla de Vent field to make first flights of the year. We are very motivated and very excited for that Season. We want to perform in more contests in 2011 than last year and train very hard that Winter. First step will be improve our launches and today I got my personal one: 310 meters... :-) Next weekend more flights.

Some photos here.

Sergi Subies photos.

A new Radical at Team

2010-12-21T12:47:00.000-08:00

Last Sunday Portella Team (Javier, Alberto and Daniel Portella) and F3B at Home Team (Sergi Subies, my dad and me) met to make some flights, sunday was a special day, Sergi Subies made his first flights with one of his Radicalsm (I hope his girlfriend won't read that blog :-P) After lot of failed launches Sergi set ok the towhook and made some flights with a better launch of 277 meters. Maybe that was our last flights of the year but I'm tempted to fly on 25th...

Few photos

USA F3B Team site

2010-12-18T13:11:00.000-08:00

USA already has team web.

2013 F3B World Championship

2010-12-10T23:12:00.000-08:00

Germany has bet to organize 2013 WC. See here CIAM document.

Bulletin 0 F3B WC 2011

2010-12-09T12:03:00.000-08:00

Here!!!!!!! It looks there will be contest... or not...

F3B Speed Cup in Poway

2010-12-08T08:06:00.001-08:00

F3B USA Community looks very motivated so they made a speed contest last weekend. You can read a thread in rcgroups.com about it and where you can read results.

Training for F3F Catalonian Championship 2010

2010-12-08T07:42:00.000-08:00

F3F morning with F3B at Home Team (my dad, Sergi Subies and me) and Carles Aymat. Until half past one wind was very pour but finally we have been flying with 10 m/s wind. Sergi Subies has made his first flights with Radical. Next Sunday we have the F3F Catalonian Champ so we have met for a last train next Saturday.

Photos

Making a carbon fuselage

2010-12-06T10:21:00.000-08:00

Japanese in action

2010-11-20T01:32:00.000-08:00

Yes, we train

2010-11-14T12:18:00.000-08:00

Saturday morning I drove to Pla de Vent field where I met with Javier, Dani and Alberto. All three wanted to test his pylon planes for Sunday club contest. It was a new nice day with light south wind that some times increased its strenght. We made lot of flights and I was trying to improve my launches. I tested my new settings in my second phase before zoom and the new position of the towhook. I still have a lot of work and also a lot of time before contests begans.

Some photos here.

We already have F3B 2011 Eurotour Calendar

2010-11-14T08:14:00.000-08:00

2011 Calendar posted here.

Update

2010-11-11T12:36:00.000-08:00

Next Events section updated.

Vampire

2010-11-07T10:09:00.001-08:00

With no rest after last weekend contest we met in Pla de Vent field for more flights. Javier spend all day long to his new brand new Vampire and Dani & me we're trying to improve our launches with south light wind. Next weekend I hope to fly again, we have to prepare 2011 season!!!!!! We're not going to go to China but we would like to go as much eurotour contests as possible ;-)

Photos

Open Pla de Vent 2010

2010-11-03T01:40:00.000-07:00

Sunday 31st of October met 9 pilots (including our French friends Sylvain Coulomb, Fabrice Estivals and Roland Henninot) for F3B Speed and Duration tasks Contest.

Wheather forecast all week long was very bad (rain and strong wind) but luckly rain just appeared one hour when we were setting winches, anyway very strong wind was with us all day long.

We made 6 rounds of Speed and Duration task (3 pilots for group) in a row with a short break for meal. Very early top pilots (French Team and Dani Portella) began to stand up and speed times improved all day. Best time was for Dani, 14,92 seconds (his new best personal time) but Fabrice Estivals was very steady with a final average of 16,23 seconds.

After that contest I realize I can fly speed tasks with full ballast with no fear and I have to prepare every flight before every launch to be sure about what I have to do to get best scores.

A very usefull contest to take decissions for next season and keep our friendship with our French neighbors. Personally I made some good flights but tactical mistakes in two duration tasks and a bad speed penalized me a lot. Now is time to fly, fly and fly again all Fall and Winter to prepare next season.

Results
Photos
Alberto Portella Photos

Watering lines for Contest

2010-10-30T05:23:00.000-07:00

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2010 F3B Italian Championship

2010-10-25T15:06:00.000-07:00

Read in f3b.it, Daniele Amici is the winner of 2010 Italian Championship, followed by Carlo Roso (2nd place) and Samuele Villani (3rd place). Full results here.

Last flights before Pla de Vent Contest

2010-10-25T05:51:00.000-07:00

Sunday morning my father and me met with Carles, Javier, Dani and Alberto to make some flights to prepare contest of next Sunday 31st October (Duration and Speed F3B Tasks). We will be matched by our French Friends. I'm sure we spend a good time and nice flights.

Photos.

F3B/F3J Swiss Contest Video

2010-10-24T12:17:00.000-07:00

2010 F3B Open International in Milang

2010-08-08T10:07:00.000-07:00

I have found an interesting Report in Southern Soaring League site about 2010 F3B Open International in Milang in its April/May newsletter. Read it in page 7 and 12.

Samba Winch

2010-08-08T07:30:00.000-07:00

Read in F3J Norwegian Team site, seems Samba is going to comercialize a winch made by Alois Hrabacek (F3J pilot from Czech Republic)

F3B USA Nats

2010-08-08T06:55:00.000-07:00

You can read a small report about F3B USA Nats here and enjoy some photos

Training for la Seu Contest

2010-07-18T10:57:00.000-07:00

Next Saturday I have f3f contest in la Seu d'Urgell (near Andorra), so I've gone to Santa Coloma with my father for some flights with our Carachos. There, we've met with Escobar family, today young Hugo had to flight for first time his Freestyler but some problems with the battery haven't let fly :-(

F3B World Chamos Image Gallery

2010-07-18T05:32:00.000-07:00

Very good Austrian site with lot of photos from 99, 01, 03, 05 and 09 F3B WC

Arnhem Open 2010 Results

2010-07-12T09:58:00.001-07:00

1st Reinhard Liese

2nd Denis Duchesne

3rd Christian Rein

Full results in f3b-holland.tk

MC-24

2010-07-01T12:15:00.000-07:00

I have bought a second hand MC-24 and it have arrived that afternoon. Its old owner is a F3B Belgium Pilot named Denis Duchesne, maybe you have met him in some Eurotour contest or WC ;-)

2nd Contest Dutch F3B League 2010

2010-06-30T10:02:00.000-07:00

1st Jeroen Smits (Radical pro)
2nd Robert Hermans (Cyril)
3rd Frans Vreugdenhil (Radical pro)

Results here and report translated in english here. (source f3b-holland.tk)

Montauban contest

2010-06-30T09:58:00.001-07:00

Told by my team mates, Montauban contest was nice (people, place and flights) :-) Results here (source f3news.fr and Laurent Gauthie) and photos here (source f3news.fr and Fabrice Estivals)

Montauban

2010-06-30T09:52:00.000-07:00

Very sad weekend personally, while I was driving to Montauban I received a very bad new... my very very loved grandmother have just dead the same morning so I had to cancel my travel and let my team mates (Sergi Subies and Dani and Alberto Portella) in a resting zone in the motorway to come back home :-(

Gone to Montauban

2010-06-25T22:55:00.001-07:00

Gone to Montauban for a F3B Contest... see you on Sunday!!!!!

F3B Ironworks Trophy 2010 Photo Gallery

2010-06-21T10:08:00.000-07:00

http://picasaweb.google.fi/heikkiastikainen/Sm1#

French Selection Contest in Colmar

2010-06-21T09:51:00.001-07:00

Podium (source f3news.fr):

1st Fabrice ESTIVAL 8883.55
2nd Christian PINOTEAU 8677.25
3rd Sylvain COULOMB 8583.38

Sonnenwendpokal Podium

2010-06-21T08:03:00.000-07:00

1st Böhlen, Andreas
2nd Flixeder, Bernhard
3rd Bachler, Herbert

Nice Video F3B French Contest

2010-06-20T03:05:00.000-07:00

F3B from Roulettes on Vimeo.

Round 3 North Island F3B in Hawkes Bay

2010-06-20T02:18:00.000-07:00

Joe Wurts 9000.00
Chris Kaiser 8241.40
Peter Williams 7850.90
Aneil Patel 7767.30
Craig Dawson 7268.00
David James 7246.80
Kevin Botherwa 7176.60
Ken Duffell 7068.50
Ted Bealing 6318.20

More information in few days in http://www.f3b.org.nz/North_Island_F3B_Series/2010.html

New link added

2010-06-14T09:26:00.001-07:00

Nice f3b Austrian site.

Dörnberg Pokal 2010 Results

2010-06-14T09:13:00.000-07:00

1st Duchesne, Denis
2nd Herrig, Martin
3rd Seyfang, Michael
4th Trautwein, Ulrich
5th Dylla, Thomas