Good Luck United States F3J Teams!!!

[mlee8249]

To all of our awesome F3J Team Pilots about to head for the World Championships, we say:

GOOD LUCK AND FLY AWESOME!!!!!

[aeajr]

Go get 'em guys!

[cody303]

Thanks, We have been practicing hard and have a very good team this year.

Little Cody

[Radian]

Everyone,

You can follow the 'results' here....

http://www.rcmklub.sk/wcf3j2006/



Radian
www.phflyers.com

[rcko]

excellent, i been wanting to keep taps on the progress.

Big Air for Team USA!!!

[kkw]

Team USA. Wow. $6k in donations, plus proceeds from the raffle etc. Big team, big practice. They should do good.

Team Australia. Donations ??? ($250 from MAAA?) One 'selection' comp. Practice?? (what's that?) Two of the guys have flown together 'practising'. We have no F3J comps as such here. We only have the current F3J champ and a couple of classy pilots to compete in the WC's. All I can say is;
"Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!!!" Good luck to the Aussie Team. Do your best :D

Now this is a 'World Soaring Masters' comp. (sorry OVSS. Just couldn't help myself :D)

[cody303]

Packed and ready to go... Leaving tomorrow


Little Cody

[kkw]

Good luck Cody. We have no juniors competing, so I hope YOU get wood.

[rdwoebke]

Now this is a 'World Soaring Masters' comp. (sorry OVSS. Just couldn't help myself :D)

Why should he care? Marc did not come up with that name. He is just the defacto midwest USA contest promoter. :-) That said, at 80 pilots and growing the "World Soaring Masters" will be one of the largest glider contests on the Americas continent. Looking down this list of names I certianly don't see any "gimmies" http://www.worldsoaringmasters.com/blog/general/PilotRoster2006.html :-)

Good luck at the WC guys. I'll try to take solice in competing in the RES Nats knowing none of you guys will be there! :-)

Ryan

[spatial]

With all due respect, many of the 92% of the worlds population that doesn't reside with in the borders of the USofA might find the claim that an event in which only 2.5% of the competitor list is not American is a "world" event laughable.

Take a look at the international F3J circuit, and you'll see that none of the events except the World Championship's claim to be a "world" event despite having a truly international competitor list.

I don't doubt that the competition will be tough and or that there will be any "gimmies", but that isn't the issue. If the organizers had decided to call the event the "US Soaring Open", or some such, I'm sure kkw wouldn't have uttered a peep ;)

Anyway, good luck to the US junior & senior teams, but I'll be cheering for the Australian F3J team - Carl Strautins, Mike O'Reilly, and Matt Partlett plus defending World Champ David Hobby.


Why should he care? Marc did not come up with that name. He is just the defacto midwest USA contest promoter. :-) That said, at 80 pilots and growing the "World Soaring Masters" will be one of the largest glider contests on the Americas continent. Looking down this list of names I certianly don't see any "gimmies" http://www.worldsoaringmasters.com/blog/general/PilotRoster2006.html :-)

Good luck at the WC guys. I'll try to take solice in competing in the RES Nats knowing none of you guys will be there! :-)

Ryan

[rdwoebke]

With all due respect, many of the 92% of the worlds population that doesn't reside with in the borders of the USofA might find the claim that an event in which only 2.5% of the competitor list is not American is a "world" event laughable.


I don't really care if they call it the "girls in pink dresses masters of soaring". :) I'm not a master level pilot and don't have any 3 day soaring contests in my foreseeable future. So I won’t be there. But I’ll be following the action as much as possible online (and the action at the F3J WC).

It is American tradition to call things like the World Series, NFL Super Bowl champions refer to themselves as “world champions”, etc… :) Yes, that does not make it right…. :)

I don't care who wins, but the builder in me might be pulling for the guy (not sure if there will be any, will Tom K fly his own Supras?) flying a plane he built...

Ryan

P.S., it is 5% not American. You forgot the 2 Canadians on the registered list... :)

[spatial]

I don't really care if they call it the "girls in pink dresses masters of soaring".

what!!?? and challenge the "manly" image of soaring :rolleyes:

[Joe W]

Howdy all!

We have made it safe and sound to Martin Slovakia. Had a few issues with luggage... Seems the airlines misplaced 24 out of 27 pieces of luggage on our flight inbound. We got most of the stuff the next day, but one piece of luggage took another day to catch up (my clothes, tx, etc.). A bit stressful at the baggage counter when we received almost none of our planes, clothes, etc. Fortunately we got the luggage in the end although some stuff out of the luggage went AWOL due to TSA. Looks like they went through some of our stuff with a fine tooth comb, and threw out some items "just because".... Oh well...

We have had a couple of good practice sessions yesterday evening and today, and are ready to start the competitions tomorrow.

Regards,
Joe

[mlee8249]

To Joe, and all the U.S. Team,

Best of luck, best of lift, GO TEAM USA!!!!!!!

[kkw]

Got some results for the Aussie pilots after the first round of the preliminary comp - the Martin Cup.
Carl Strautins had a 2 second launch and got 9.58 in this 10 minute time event. Can't do much better than that. He blew the landing though - only got a 2m spot.
David Hobby got 9.57 and 2m. Matt Partlett got 9.53 and 3 and Mike O'Reilly 9.52 and 2 with Thomas Cooke getting a 9.44 and 2. Early days yet.
Anyone know how the U.S. team went?

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. :D

[spatial]

The official website has Martin Cup results posted...

http://www.rcmklub.sk/wcf3j2006/?item=8

Round 1 & 2 results plus summary results were up when I checked.

A few interesting RCGroups type results:
Tom K won his first round group. David Hobby & Joe Wurts tied first in their second round group and Phil Barnes placed second in his group. JoJo Grini won his second round group.

Looks like the scoring software is giving Joe Wurts a hard time. The summary shows JW in equal 60th place with an overall score of 992.8 despite the fact he drops his worst round (991.40) and keeps his best (1000) - he should be equal first (with 25 other competitors).

[the_canuck]

Cody and Joseph are representing USA and CO in the Juniors. Congrats guys on the good flying.

Andrew

[F3X]

(There are 2 threads of the WC on RCG so I posted here as well.)

Team USA update:
Looks like Tom & Joe may make the fly-off, Skip is 70 points behind including the throw out and that is a lot to make up in this WC.
The USA Juniors are looking good; Casey needs to fly clean the rest of the week and needs a little luck to make a fly-off position. Cody and Joseph are looking strong.


Btw. The WC web site is awesome; they did such a great job putting that on. Lots of info and if you click on a competitor’s name you get his rank and all his round scores in a drop down menu. Very nice!!

[Radian]

(There are 2 threads of the WC on RCG so I posted here as well.)

Team USA update:
Looks like Tom & Joe may make the fly-off, Skip is 70 points behind including the throw out and that is a lot to make up in this WC.
The USA Juniors are looking good; Casey needs to fly clean the rest of the week and needs a little luck to make a fly-off position. Cody and Joseph are looking strong.


Btw. The WC web site is awesome; they did such a great job putting that on. Lots of info and if you click on a competitor’s name you get his rank and all his round scores in a drop down menu. Very nice!!


Direct "short" URL to the WC web site...

www.f3j.sk

Enjoy.

Radian
www.phflyers.com

[wakumann]

Canadian on the 1st and 2nd place

Canada rocks.

Must be related that they were born in the Netherlands and Germany.

Cheers
Thomas

[Lunns]

Go David Go :D :D :D

Congratulations David, two in a row, 1st ever done for an Aussie :D

Steve