"Another good turn out for the second league event. Only a couple of the regular B leaguers not flying due to lack of models.
It was good to see the new B league pilots here again. Mark Passingham and Ken Woodhouse taking advantage of Ken’s motor home to make a weekend out of it. By all accounts a little extra practice on Saturday and a lot of wine Saturday night .
Weather was quite kind to us, not quite as poor as the forecast predicted.
After the pilots briefing from Clive Needham the competion started at 10:00.
Our normal program was flown to this schedule. A then B Duration Round 1. A and B Distance Round 1 and 2
A and B Speed Round 1 and 2 . Ending with the A and B R2 duration.
This schedule allows Clive to populate all of the manning and timing requirements at Bases A and B with little shuffling of helpers.
Round 1 A league Duration.
Slot1. Steve Haley (Estrella) took top honours just out landing Jonathon Wells( PlusTask), in Round 2 a couple of crossed lines forced a re-fly for the group. Dave Worrall ( Crossfire x) took 1000 points from his attempt and elected not to re-fly. John Whittle took best advantage from the refly to score 1000.
Round 1 B league Duration.
John Stewart (Europhia) took best advantage and outflew the rest in slot 1 by 1min.10s.
Mark Southall battled against Clive Needham also flying a Tragi and Ken Woodhouse with his x tail Crossfire to emerge the victor for slot 2.
Rounds 1 & 2 A League Distance.
Round 1. Bill Haley took advantage of some great air to take top spot in S1 flying his new Furio.
Steve Haley and John Whittle tied with 24 laps in slot 2 with Dave Worrall taking the lead in S3 with 24 laps.
Round 2.
Slots 1,2&3 showed some excellent close flying in more consistent air. Simon Jackson, Dave Worall and Paul Carrington headed their slots to take top points. Paul was flying his modified Skorpion F3B with single strand wire turbulator just in front of the aileron surface.
Rounds 1 & 2 B League Distance.
Clive Needham flying his new Tragi and Mark Passingham won both round slots with newcomer Keith Whitton winning slot 3. Keith has come back to soaring after a long absence. He is currently flying a veteran Calypso Contest . Its great to see him doing well.
Round 1&2 A league Speed.
Steve Haley again recorded the fastest speed time of 16.63s with Paul Carrington pushing his Skorpion to record 16.76
Round 2 Speed. Again Steve reigned supreme with 15.56 with Simon Jackson the closest to him with 17.16.
Round 1&2 B league Speed.
Round 1 Mark Southall flew superbly to record 19.16 using his Tragi a clear 2 seconds faster than the rest of the field.
Unfortunately Ken Woodhouse launched his Crossfire into the ground after a mix up resulting in his model not being switched on. He did however change to his backup model (Arris) for round 2. Mark Passingham won the second round with a great run of 19.91.
Round 2 A League Duration. Slot 1 saw poor conditions and Bill Haley managed to overcome the rest but only recording a 4min47s flight.
Slot 2 Simon Jackson managed take advantage of the better conditions to squeeze home with 10.01 and maximum landing bonus.
Round 2 B League Duration.
By the time the B league final duration was held the quality of the air had improved and Ken Woodhouse showed that his Arris could take advantage of the available good air to record a win in slot 1. Slot 2 was just taken by John Stewart with Mark Passingham only just 1 second away.
These two flyers have only 4.3 points separating them from 1st and 2nd in the league. It promises to be a closely fought season.
Next League event is:- League 3 on SATURDAY 19th May. Venue Retford Wetlands. Start 10:00 prompt."
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