President Kevin Botherway( Hawkes Bay) – 0275570470 Secretary / Treasurer David James( PN) – 06 3543452, 0272447782 Committee Aneil Patel( Auckland), Bill DeRenzy( Tauranga), Scott Chisholm, Dave Griffin and Peter Hewson( Christchurch), Heather Mardon and Joe Wurts( Hawkes Bay)
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The Soaring SIG trusts you all have been able to review the NDC calendar as it has been updated to include ALES( Altitude limited electric soaring) events. The Soarchamps are on this month at Lake Station and with a change to the event list hope to see more of you there.
2013 Soaring Calendar:
April-2013, |
NDC, FAI F3F |
April-2013, |
NDC, Thermal D( F500) |
April-2013, |
NDC, Thermal B( 10 min) |
Friday, 12 April, |
NZ Soarchamps F3J, Lake Station, Saint |
Arnaud |
Friday, 12 April, |
Team Trails F3J WC- F3J scores |
( Soarchamps) |
Saturday, 13 April, |
NZ Soarchamps Premier Duration & |
ALES 200 |
Saturday 13 April, Team Trails F3J WC- PD scores |
( Soarchamps) |
Sunday, 14 April, |
NZ Soarchamps F3K |
May-2013, |
NDC, F3K Tasks B, D, G, H only( total raw |
scores) |
Saturday, 11 May, |
SI Thermal F3J & F5J |
Saturday, 18 May, |
Team Trails F3J WC- Raindate # 1 |
Sunday, 19 May, |
Team Trails F3J WC- Raindate # 1 |
Saturday, 18 May, |
Aero-tow, Burnham( CRFC field) |
Sunday, 19 May, |
Aero-tow, Burnham( CRFC field) |
Saturday, 25 May, |
NI F3K Event – Hawkes Bay |
June-2013, |
NDC, Thermal A( Open) |
June-2013, |
NDC, FAI F3F |
Saturday, 8 June, |
SI F3K Event |
Saturday, 15 June, NI F3B |
Sunday, 16 June, |
NI F3B |
July-2013, |
NDC, ALES 123 Class M |
July-2013, |
NDC, Slope Distance Class F |
July-2013, |
NDC, Thermal B( 10 min) |
July-2013, |
NDC, X5J UNLIMITED Class O |
22-28 July, |
FAI WC World Champs F3K Denmark |
August-2013, NDC, Thermal D( F500) Saturday, 3 August, SI F3K Event, TBA Saturday, 17 August, NI F3B, Matamata Sunday, 18 August, NI F3B, Matamata
F3K Team Practice
We had a second team practice for F3K in Hawkes Bay over the weekend 9th-10th March at our venue we have just found( Hastings Sports Park). I had an open invite to come and help out as we needed plenty of competition fliers. John Shaw( F3K NZ Team Manager) came up from Timaru on Thursday Night and Peter Williams( F3K team pilot) got to Hawkes Bay on Friday after a long sleep in and Joe Wurts( F3K Team pilot) and Kevin Botherway( F3K Team pilot) were locals so no problem.
Wynn Robins from Hamilton and Andrew Niles from Palmerston North made a great effort and also arrived on Friday other locals also came out to play – Alex Wardley, Ken Duffell and Andrew Stiver. We had some variable but great practice conditions throughout the weekend and Friday was mostly a good strong breeze which meant a good load of ballast was in order and thermals weren’ t an easy bet we mostly worked on the three minute maximum flight and if a few achieved this we were into a fast turnaround as well( back to back threes). A three minute flight with a discus plane is usually not obtainable without some form of lift and it makes good practice. The day was completed at around six o’ clock and most headed for home very exhausted.
Conditions on the Saturday were similar to Friday but John had promised to also mark out a flight box which meant the rule for today was NO LAND OUTS!!! Well Pete Managed 7! And a few with 2 or 3 for the day! While at times each one of us had moments of brilliants’ we all lost slots somewhere which showed that’ s what the practice is for. Again the flights targeting three minutes and then 1 to 2 second turnarounds were the order of the day. We held a team meeting at the end of the day to finalize all the loose ends for Denmark in July – travel arrangements rental cars accommodation and Uniforms. The Guys went out for meal in Havelock and a couple of beers. Sunday again another typical Hawkes Bay day – Hot, blue sky no clouds – Fantastic morning. Time to loose any ballast and the morning had strong thermal activity and most of us making repetitive turn-a-rounds and flights, the breeze lifted through the day until home time around 3 o’ clock with us all well practiced and exhausted after a full three days of very competitive flying and some harsh lessons learned at times. Pete managed the perpetual trophy with a total of ten land outs during the weekend!!!!!!
A big thanks to all who came and supported the Team and I hope you got as much out of the weekend as I did!!!! THANKS GUYS! Awesome Time