RC Slope Soaring in Hong Kong

stanley 大大:

我現在正在歐洲出差, 看到這個post, 一開始還相當緊張, 但還好化險為夷, 我想接下來的幾天, 你們應該會更順利!

再來想麻煩你, 幫生哥, 劉主任和我把外套和退費帶回來, 再找機會跟你拿, 不知道方便嗎?

本來想在假日工作的空檔殺到南法去看比賽, 後來因有些資料要加班整理寄回台灣而做罷!

但無論如何, 希望你們大家都能拿到好成績!! 加油...

我想三位師父這次比賽必有好成績!!!

"天將降大任於斯人也.必先苦其心志.勞其筋骨",(尚欠"餓其體膚" )

祝往後賽程事事順利

Really a difficult trip to VR10

Wish everything smooth onwards for our Hong Kong Team

Best wishes to all of you

Dear Hong Kong Team,

You guys had already spent up all the bad luck affiliated with the journey.
(Remember our theory ? A small scratch on the nose cone would save your plane away from major disaster ! )

Therefore, cheer up.

All the good wind, good lift and good sleep…….etc., will stay with you throughout out the journey.

Agree with Pong Pong, so now we donate all +ve energy to Hong Kong Team for winning and record breaking

p.s. So Hong Kong Team better buy Pong & Wing both of us VR T-Shirt

All bad lunk gone!

Ming Lou

Today, we have the first day practice, but again, no wind!
The slope we fly is Laurac slope which is a bow shape facing southeast. However, today the wind is disappointing, varying from 0 to 6m/s. So we actually did very little flying. There were many forced landings due to no lift. The organizer predicts that tomorrow will be similar and only Sunday the wind will pick up.
Let's talk a bit about the slope, it is one of the most difficult slope I have ever experienced in particular in light lift condition as today. sinking, sidewind are everywhere. When the wind picked up a bit in late afternoon, turbulance came also. The setup we used in HK is definitely no good for this slope. I test-flew my FR3 and Strega. Strega is no hope at all in this situation, it flies like a sitting duck. FR3 is also very challenging, sometime it picked up sometime it sunk. Anyway, I saw many FR3 in the contest, I think it is one of the most popular model here, at least 1/3 of the pilots flying FR3. Franz himself flew his brand new design FR4 which seems very responsive to thermonic situation. You guys properly need to save up more money for it later when it is mass-produced.
He told me that he has a brand new FR3 in the box he brings it over here for sale. It is with RDS and much lighter. Eric and Mak are seriously thinking to buy it; they are now trying to resolve who would have the priority to grab it! Currently Mak has the highest chance because Mrs. Mak is behind him in a very supporting mood. I met many top pilots here, they are really good even in this wind condition, believe me, we have a long way to catch up
Kevin Newton is staying in the same hotel we are, actually he was the first F3F pilot I spotted in this trip when I went down to lobby to have breakfast this morning. Actually, many pilots have arrived much earlier, and they said they have already flying with 10-15m/s wind in St. Ferriol slope yesterday. Anyway, we are unfortunately to come late and miss the wind. Anyway, hope the wind will pick up in later days.
Here are some photos
Hong Kong team

Strong Hong Kong team







C.M., the organizer made a jacket for each contesting pilot, you see they did the same mistake we were for the Hong Kong flag!

Oh, it is not only upside down, the emblem is incorrect. To be serious, I think it is not respecting. But anyway, it should only be a careless mistake and unfortunately happens on the Hong Kong Team.

Stanley, Mak and Eric, hope that's the end of all mishaps. You have all the supports from Hong Kong! Enjoy the competition, it may the the last "casual Viking Race"!


http://www.legislation.gov.hk/blis_pdf. ... 2_e_b5.pdf

Stanley, do you have a new camera? The pictures look a lot better!

Go Team HongKong! Team Singapore behind you!

Hope you share some stories in Oct 10 when we meet up.

Dennis

嘩﹗阿麥﹐也隻愛麗詩補得咁靚﹐完全無疤痕﹐記住留番D維京驗機貼紙唔好 mid 呀﹐留番比我做紀念呀 ﹗

當然無疤痕啦 !

因為我根本無補隻機

We supposed to start our first day competition in 1pm. But the wind didn’t pick up until after 6pm and we waited almost a whole day from 9am to 6pm. Anyway, the organizer managed to run two rounds from 6pm to 8:20pm. There were two groups of pilots. HK team was flying in Slope A which is in the upper level. The slope is really challenging, wind almost 45 degree off slope normal and only about 5m/s wind, so the timing for our group is not that good. The fastest times for rounds 1 and 2 are 52.xx and 52.xx respectively, which compare with Slope B result of 48.xx and 43.xx, our group are in fact in very difficult condition. Anyway, HK team did quite poor in these two rounds:

Stanley 73.xx and 56.xx
Mak 62.xx and 65.xx
Eric 65.xx and 61.xx

We hope to do better when we are getting accustomed to the slope condition later days.

Who is this masted devil?


Viking head for Ah Mak


Viking head for Stanley


Viking head for Eric


A large team of helpers and judges


Pilot breaking by Andres Frickie


No wind, Ah Mak gets a snoozzzze


Even the base judge is sleepy


So many FR3 in the contest field


FR3 from the German team


Guess who is pilot 14? Kevin Newton is the most unlucky guy today. A helper launched his plane which also grabbed his hat on the wing. Kevin's plane finally crashed down and got a DNF!


Landing is very difficult here, no grass cusion for our plane, this poor chap landed outside the designated area and got a 100 point penalty!


We have a nice BBQ dinner in the late evening

Todays wind condition was every difficult.

When Stanley fly in the first round, the side wind was at an angle of 45 degree at most of the time!

It's a very hard day

Long nails

Hello HK team,

Travelling such a long way for the competition is not an easy task. Now you guys are the only Asian team and we are so proud of you for all the effort that you've made.

Take it easy. Enjoy the contest. We believe all of you can make it !

加油! Stanley, 加油! Ah Mak, 加油! Eric ! Wish you all the Best !!!

細文

港隊精神：穩守突擊

We have 5 rounds of competition today. Round 8 was almost completed just before the rain started coming in, so it finally cancelled after 30 minutes wait,

We flew in slope B (lower slope) for round 3 to round 6. This is the most challenging slope we have flown so far, not only because of the difficult landing (walk up hill with obstructed view), the slope itself has lot of turbulence. Wind speed is at average 10 to 12 m/s, the slope is capable of fast time provided that you did it right with right flying pattern. The setting of the model is definitely very important also.

I did pretty bad today trying to adapt to the slope with various flying patterns every round and still couldn’t work out which one can run fast under strong turbulence. Ballast setting is also very important; too heavy you will run like a sitting duck, too light you will battle with strong head wind and turbulence, I would said I has never experienced this kind of slope before. Our Robin Nest north slope in strong wind condition is definitely better than this slope. It is just so difficult to fly here! Anyway, luckily, we all completed the rounds and landings with no major mishap. Round 7 was in slope A (upper) which as said before has very strong side wind. I did quite ok for this slope though.

After 7 rounds, my position is dropped to 44, Eric did very well and is climbing up steadily to 46. Ah Mak is really no hope, he flew his RaceM like dancing around. Anyway, hope we will do better in the coming days.
I took some photos of the official score sheets from round 1 to round 7, enjoy.










This is slope B, lower slope with lot of turbulence


Groupe photo

Where is HK team?

Still a strong HK team

Austra team

German team

Strong team from France


I would say this group of European flyers are extreme of the extreme, they not only fly very well, very accurate, precise but also 博哂命，絕對係要分唔要機個種，比台灣飛友更亡命，香港飛友真係太斯文啦!

Thanks Stanley for the report. We still have a long way to go.

The photo is small, but is it Vic (UK) and Inaki (Spain) on the left??

史單梨44
長老46
麥仔53


牛頓叔叔都係排60


OK啦

Can I use Queen Bee next year for slow wind?

Tsz Ming

成績都唔太差喎~~ 仲有幾多個 round ??

嘩~~ Stanley 居然飛出73.33.sec . . . . 飛行環境一定很差非常差!! :sweat2

繼續加油, 力爭上游!!



阿 MAK 支法飽好似幾好味~ 返黎帶支比我, 呵呵!!

發現好多靚相!!

http://picasaweb.google.fr/vkr2010


看這架機顏色, 我估一定是 "德國" 代表!!


Eric 長老: