Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006
Read and fly higher ;-)
I don't remember where I found this links, but I consider them like a treasure. Two articles written by DP and JW. First is titled Launch-Meister and second one is Maximizing Your Launch Potential. Enjoy them!
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Warp looks so nice but...
A new f3b Sunday. This time with no tragedy, now I am flying my dear Caracho until New Age arrives. Daniel, Carles and Javier are still trimming their new Walter Reist planes meanwhile my father, Alberto and me are waiting for them.
Both planes are really good, maybe Warp is easier to fly but I'm afraid you can have some problems with the T tail in case you make a non nice land (very common in contest when you are looking the 100 points in landing, here we don't have golf fields for f3b contest just hard lands) Warp or New Age... this is the current question. In my case: New Age!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I future everything could happen ;-)
F3F Catalonian Championship announcement
F3F Catalonian Championship 2006 has already been announced. So next Sunday we won't have f3b train although we'll keep fly our planes (in this case my V-Ultra Plus).
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
6th Contest North Island F3B Series
North Island F3B Series are finished, winner of A league is Dave Larsen and B league has been won by Rhys James. You can read a report with complete results in f3b.org.nz site. Congratulations to the winners!!!!
Warp release
My friend Javier has released his new Warp-T, this plane is made by Walter Reist like New Age and my new winch. Almost all mates of my f3b team are waiting (or they already have one like Daniel and Carles) planes from Walter. Alberto has ordered a Warp, and my father and me a New Age, we expect the planes will made in January :-P So maybe next season will be a Reist Team or New Age Team :-P
UK Team for World Championship
The pilots of the UK team will be: Dave Worrall, Norman Quirk and Bill Haley (read in F3B UK yahoo group).
:-(
Two weekends ago we begin our preseason. Wind was very crossed (90º) In one of my launches I lost control of my Europhia and I couldn't restore the path and finally the plane crashed into asphalt truck. It was a fast death, he didn't feel any pain. My relationship with Europhia it has been short (from February to Novembre). We have spend nice moments (but few ones) I'm not going to order a new Europhia (my f3b budget don't let me do it), so now I will go on training with my Caracho waiting for January when it will arrive my New Age.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
New Age Photos
I have uploaded some more photos (Carles Aymat is the owner) about New Age. This is my model for next season. I'm very happy with my Europhia but there are two handycaps: my model is too heavy for f3b competition and the price for a new one is too high for me. So I think New Age is a good option for me, Daniel Portella is flying a prototype and Carles Aymat will release his very soon. Also I thinks is very interesting and easy to train with people that is flying the same plane that you. I ordered it yesterday afternoon and will be delivered in January :-) I will keep you informated with the tests of my friends. New photos here.
Monday, November 06, 2006
F3B at Home SIte is on
Hi everybody!!!How's all? I hope everything and everybody is ok. The final design of the site is made so now I'm updating the sections of the site. The first two are made so you can make the first visits ;-)
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Sunday, October 29, 2006
From Les Stockley (New Zealand)
"Hi Sergi, after the 2nd rounds of trials have been completed, the team from New Zealand for the 2007WC's is:
Craig Dawson
Kevin Botherway
Aneil Patel
1st reserve is Dave Larsen.
Cheers, Les."
Photo here
Photo here
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Belgian Team for WC
The podium of the Belgian f3b nats is (source info Eric Plumacker blog)
1st Denis Duchesne
2st Eric Plumacker
3rd Alex Barbier
The team for wc will be formed by Denis Duchesne, Denis Quindot and Steeve Hansoulle (reserve pilot)
1st Denis Duchesne
2st Eric Plumacker
3rd Alex Barbier
The team for wc will be formed by Denis Duchesne, Denis Quindot and Steeve Hansoulle (reserve pilot)
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Don't buy a Saab II, 6th, 7th & 2nd and more things...
:-( F3B season is almost ended. Fantastic four days that began like a nightmare. We went
to Palencia on Thursday very soon to be in the f3j nats in the afternoon. After 150 km, the car was ko again Argghhhhhh!!!! I thought it was the end of the travel but we feel like going to the contest we decide to rent a Opel Zafira. The matter was that that Thursady was holiday so was very difficult to rent one.Finally we arrive three an a half hours later but our firends decided to make the contest on Friday morning. :-)
We made 5 rounds in f3j contest plus a fly-off of four pilots. I took advantage of the contest to trim my Europhia in duration task and landing. Launching in rounds was made by winches with 150 meters of line. Just fly-off was f3j pure because we don't have enough tools for everybody. The planes got highest altitudes with turnaround pulley :-P I just make one almost 1o minutes flight (first round strangly). Finally I was sixth. After the contest begun to arrive people and we met to have launch and make some flights later. I tried to trim the Europhia for speed making some flights waiting for first day of contest.
F3J Results:
1- Ruben Merino Gomez
2- Jesus Merino Gomez
3- Andoni Gorriñobeaskoa
4- Andres Cardona Vidal
5- Adrian Rodriguez Otero
6- Me
7- Fernando Valls Castella
Next day was the first day of competition. This time we had in F3B at Home Team our friend Carles Aymat. Almost all day long we had light tail wind so the launches were a litlle bit shorts. You had to get altitude looking for the thermal in distance and duration. The left side of the field had a good performance so a lot of disatnces were won with 20-24 laps. In my case I flew my Europhia without ballast (so 2.4 kg) and worked really well. Duration task was very stressful. Few times I got a good thermal, lot of times I was flying in low altitude looking for small thermals. I was very good with landings, a lot of 100 points (I think :-P). After the end of the day I moved back the hook 1 mm. because I felt the launches hadn't been enough good. I made a test fly. Everything OK so we went to rest and have dinner. Mmm...
Secon day crossed wind. We had two directions to set the winds, so until midday we were changing of position our winches :-P We tried to make 6 rounds to discharge the three worst tasks but there was not enough time. Second day I improved my scores.
The team was second classified :-) Maybe we could improve our scores because I was the helper of Carles in a lot of distances and durations. I don't have enough experiences to "see" thermals and position of the plane with base b :-P My father has two problems. First of all his FC-28 becames crazy and the settings were ko so he had a lot of problems. When he restored his radio during a distance task (with good conditions and running a lot) he crashed with Iñaki's Aris. Aris was down and my father could land with a wing tip of Aris in the edge of the Furio's wing :-(
F3B Results:
1- Daniel Portella (Mr. Again) 14.412
2- Iñaki Elizondo Casado 13.600
3- Ruben Merino Gomez 13.498
4- Carles Aymat Simo 13.374
5- Jose Manuel Quintas Vide 13.237
6- Alvaro Barcia 12.910
7- Me 12.885
...
13-Fernando Valls Castella 11.353
...
19-Marcelino Puñal Pensado 7.254
F3B Team Results
1- Nunca Mais
2- F3B at Home
3- Pla de Vent
4- EA Palencia
5- Aero Tres
6- Grupo Halcon
to Palencia on Thursday very soon to be in the f3j nats in the afternoon. After 150 km, the car was ko again Argghhhhhh!!!! I thought it was the end of the travel but we feel like going to the contest we decide to rent a Opel Zafira. The matter was that that Thursady was holiday so was very difficult to rent one.Finally we arrive three an a half hours later but our firends decided to make the contest on Friday morning. :-)
We made 5 rounds in f3j contest plus a fly-off of four pilots. I took advantage of the contest to trim my Europhia in duration task and landing. Launching in rounds was made by winches with 150 meters of line. Just fly-off was f3j pure because we don't have enough tools for everybody. The planes got highest altitudes with turnaround pulley :-P I just make one almost 1o minutes flight (first round strangly). Finally I was sixth. After the contest begun to arrive people and we met to have launch and make some flights later. I tried to trim the Europhia for speed making some flights waiting for first day of contest.
F3J Results:
1- Ruben Merino Gomez
2- Jesus Merino Gomez
3- Andoni Gorriñobeaskoa
4- Andres Cardona Vidal
5- Adrian Rodriguez Otero
6- Me
7- Fernando Valls Castella
Next day was the first day of competition. This time we had in F3B at Home Team our friend Carles Aymat. Almost all day long we had light tail wind so the launches were a litlle bit shorts. You had to get altitude looking for the thermal in distance and duration. The left side of the field had a good performance so a lot of disatnces were won with 20-24 laps. In my case I flew my Europhia without ballast (so 2.4 kg) and worked really well. Duration task was very stressful. Few times I got a good thermal, lot of times I was flying in low altitude looking for small thermals. I was very good with landings, a lot of 100 points (I think :-P). After the end of the day I moved back the hook 1 mm. because I felt the launches hadn't been enough good. I made a test fly. Everything OK so we went to rest and have dinner. Mmm...
Secon day crossed wind. We had two directions to set the winds, so until midday we were changing of position our winches :-P We tried to make 6 rounds to discharge the three worst tasks but there was not enough time. Second day I improved my scores.
The team was second classified :-) Maybe we could improve our scores because I was the helper of Carles in a lot of distances and durations. I don't have enough experiences to "see" thermals and position of the plane with base b :-P My father has two problems. First of all his FC-28 becames crazy and the settings were ko so he had a lot of problems. When he restored his radio during a distance task (with good conditions and running a lot) he crashed with Iñaki's Aris. Aris was down and my father could land with a wing tip of Aris in the edge of the Furio's wing :-(
F3B Results:
1- Daniel Portella (Mr. Again) 14.412
2- Iñaki Elizondo Casado 13.600
3- Ruben Merino Gomez 13.498
4- Carles Aymat Simo 13.374
5- Jose Manuel Quintas Vide 13.237
6- Alvaro Barcia 12.910
7- Me 12.885
...
13-Fernando Valls Castella 11.353
...
19-Marcelino Puñal Pensado 7.254
F3B Team Results
1- Nunca Mais
2- F3B at Home
3- Pla de Vent
4- EA Palencia
5- Aero Tres
6- Grupo Halcon
Monday, October 09, 2006
F3B in Aiglons (Belgium)
On 1st October was held the last contest of the season in Belgium. The organizer was the Aero Club of Incourt. No results but you can see photos made by Marc Verwilghen in f3zone.be
F3F Spanish Championship 2006
Competition was cancelled on Sunday after some attempts on Saturday and Sunday. Well, maybe I have a problem with slopes or slopes have a problem with me. Medically we can talk about Allergy. When I'm in a slope with the intention to be in a contest automatically the slope give up to work to make f3f flights :-P I haven't found the good treatment, but some people have to propose not too see me never in anymore contest :-( I'm jinx!!!!!!!!!!!! Some photos here.
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