WC F3B - 2005

12/7-05 : Status before liftoff
Norway WILL make a difference at this years WC. We HAVE learned and we WILL have our own webmaster and Team manager. There might be updates at regular cycles...
There will probably be norwegian only updates at www.vingen.no
Team manager and web: Egil Roland
Pilot: Espen Torp - RaceM / Aris - pb: 14,24s
Pilot: Widar Holmedahl - Brio / RaceM / Caracho - pb: 15,19s
Pilot: Erik Morgan Villadsen - RaceM / Estrella / Crossfire - pb:15?fast

Congratulation to the induvidual winners:
Winner Andreas Böhlen (SUI)
2nd Andreas Herrig (GER)
3rd Reinhard Liese (GER)
20. Espen Torp
43. Erik Morgan Villadsen
56. Widar Holmedahl
Team:
1. Germany 2. Sweden 3. USA
 16. Norway
Official results HERE - Backup HERE

9. august, last WC report from the Norwegian TM...

From left: Andreas Herrig (2), Andreas Böhlen (1), Reinhard Liese (3), Martin Weberschock (4), Pasi Väisänen (5), Joakim Ståhl (6)

So was this WC over, and the time is here for all the thoughts that come's to mind when everybody has gone home...
To the Finnish organisers: Thank you for a well done championship! And a special thanks to the webmaster and the people that worked so hard to keep up the results at the web. You all did an excellent job.  And also a thank to all the helpers who where there. Well done job.

It was a lot of fun for a "newcomer" like me to watch how the "big guys" did a F3B competition like this. A lot to learn for shore! Hopefully some of it is convertable from mind to radio... We will see.
The result for the Norwegian team was a little bit below expected in this WC. But we managed to keep the spirit up, and that's a big point I think. Hopefully we, as a team, also learned a bit that can be improved for next championship.
I had a super week in Finland in this WC, and hope to enjoy your company in the next. As Team Manager, helper or hopefully a pilot...
Congratulations to the winners, both in the individual contest and in the team contest.

6. august
Good morning from Suomi! Today is the last day of WC 2005. We have two tasks left, distance and speed. Widar, as reported yesterday, has finished his WC, his not gonna fly today. The winches are set up and ready, Erik is up at group 9 and Espen group 12. So we enjoy a cup of cafe and relax a little before start. The weather today is quite good, sunny and warm already. It is very close in the top, everything is open!
More to come during the day!
Maybe there will not be so many pictures today, but be shore, there will be a follow up when we get home.

Puuhhh... 13.00 local time and WC is over. Price giving is announced at 15.00. Epsen did very well in duration with a 1000 point in round 7, Erik also improved both distance and speed. I don't know when the results are official, but keep looking at http://www.f3b.fi for the results.

5. august
OK, those guys reporting the weather in Finland knows what they are doing, at least yesterday. The weather today is heavy rain... And the start today is moved to 13.00. At least we would try to start then.
But it is only distance task round 6 left so it should be OK. We also have a spare day Saturday to fly this task.
And that was a little wrong... The weather are now much better (13.00 local time), and it is decided that we should fly 7 tasks, not 6. Distance round 6 is about to start, an will be followed by duration round 7. I think there will be distance and speed round 7 tomorrow.
Some pictures from yesterday:

Distance task


Relaunch...

A few word about this WC is also in place I think. Things are running quite smooth. It has been very few reflights, both in distance and speed. The crew is doing a great job. And the result service on the internet is superb I think. Well done so far!

Local time 18.00 and round 6 is completed, same with duration round 7. Duration was very good for Espen and Erik, Espen also flew his Aris this round. A lot of good work in small thermals made him a 9.39 and 95 in this round.
Widar almost lost his Brio in this duration... A link to the right aileron loosened in the zoom. But he got the plane down in one peas. And decided this would be the end of WC for him. He "converted" him self to helper for the last two tasks...
Contest continues tomorrow morning with distance and speed.

4. august
Good morning! We have just started round 5, duration. Espen is on 8th place after 4 rounds, very good! Widar is climbing a bit on the total, Erik missed badly a distance yesterday and suffered a lot...
Today we have two good durations and one not quite so good.
Yesterday we had invited our Danish friends for a barbeque at our "camp", and had a nice evening there with a good meal, some swimming, r/c helicopter and a lot of good stories...
Next task today is distance.

Erik launching for Espen at duration round 5

Espen hitting the spot (or maybe not quite?) in round 5. And short brake when Golden Air leaving the airport.

Distance is now done for our team, and bad news... All 3 got pretty beaten! But it looks like it's going to be at least 6 rounds so Espen counts on one discard round. Speed is up now.
I understand there has been some questions about what type of models are in use. All competitors has answered some questions about this, and I think there will be a overview of this on the official site.
But lots of Estrellas, Crossfires, some RaceM's, Supersonic's and Caracho's are observed.

Afternoon and round 5 almost completed. The weather today has been great, but the conditions have changed almost from sec. to sec... Some have had great conditions in speed (best 14.90 so far) and others rely lousy (like team Norway, not our day today...). Next up is of course round 6, and we will start today with duration.

Late evening today we have finished duration and speed round 6. The weather reports for tomorrow is not so good, so the organizers pushed on to fly as much as possible today. Espen got an OK duration, Widar and Erik missed a bit again. Widar also changed his model from his Brio to the RaceMX (RaceM with Brio X-tail) and got a monster start in duration...

3. august

Widar is ready for duration round 4

OK, this morning round 3 was completed, Espen is 11, Widar and Erik a further back at the list.
We have just started round 4 with the duration task. Espen and Widar has flown OK, Erik is next up. The next task is distance. Light rain today and not so warm, but the line over the hangar produces a nice slope... And everybody is "hanging" there.

Widar in for landing in the duration task round 4

End of the third day of WC. We have completed 4 rounds. Today was some ups and some downs for our team. Good duration for all 3 guys, Espen did very well in distance also, but missed the speed a bit.
Søren Helsted, our Danish friend managed a 29-round in distance and of course got his 1000 points.
We haven't got the final results for round 4 yet, but it should  be on the official web-site in a few minutes.
We should have a "garden party" with our Danish friends this evening, so no I leave the field!

2. august

Espen flying speed, with Erik as helper.
This day started at 4.00 in the morning with a huge thunderstorm... But at 8.30 it was over for the moment. Flying continued with the last groups in distance round 2, and duration round 2. The Norwegian guys did better today, and got a good start. Speed round 2 was not so good... The conditions where poor. But it was the same for all.

Heavy rain... And Widar relaxing.
After completion of round 2 we just have started speed round 3. And been interrupted by heavy rain again.
Espen did very well yesterday and was 4th. The Norwegian team was 11th after day 1. After 2 complete rounds Espen is 8, Erik 47 and Widar 48.
The team has dropped 1 place to 12.
We are having a great time here in Finland. At least lot to learn for the Team Manager! More to come...

1. august

Norwegian team ready to go!
First day of competition. Opening ceremony was some music and of course some official speakers, and was OK.
We started with duration, which was a little bit under the "normal" for the Norwegian's except for Espen which did OK. Also today conditions varied a lot. Speed was next, Vidar and Erik Morgan are not to happy, Espen did an OK speed. One person was a bit ahead of all others, Pasi did a 14.87 speed.

Startline of duration

Holland team taking of...
We now have a pause, a plane is going to come in and take of again. Next for today is the distance task.
For results, http://www.f3b.fi have regular updates, almost last minute updates on the results.
More later to day...
And now the day has almost ended. Round one is completed, Espen did very well in distance and got a 1000-round. Widar and Erik got a bit beaten, but Widar took revenge in first distance in round 2 which was started late evening.

31th July
Team Manager meeting last night without any big surprises.
Today it was training from the morning, and round zero from 13.20. The distance task was flown. And it was OK with some practise for the Norwegian team, some minor "snags" was discovered and fixed.
The conditions today was huge thermals and huge sink-areas... Fast up and fast down for some. We had some rain in the morning, but the sun came around mid-day. Tomorrow is official opening and start of competition.

Models being prepared for processing

Show with U-control combats, and Erik launching for Widar to the left.

30th July
Finally on the arena! We got to the cottage first, to check in. And what a pleasent surprise! Erik has done a superb job getting this place, and we look forward to stay here.

The tents are set up, and Espen has "planted" the Norwegian flag.
There are activity all over the place, models are being processed, testflights are done, and all seems happy. The weather is nice with huge thermals, even now at 18.15 local time. We are preparing models and get ready for Team Manager meeting at 20.15.

29th July
The Norwegian team are under way! Team manager will meet up with them at Helsinki Airport Saturday at noon.
Report says some "late minute practise" at Thursday with good results.
See you all there!

F3B 22/5-05, Spydeberg
Referat og resultat ute, samt detaljerte resultater
Vinner og speedmaster (avg 17,4) Erik Morgan Villadsen

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