RC Slope Soaring in Hong Kong

No wind today! We waited in the slope for 9 hours under the hot sun and the wind God just didn't give us some merci. Anyway, some pilots did have fun doing thermal soaring. Many of them have mastered very good skill to detect thermal and climb to very high attitude. When they dived down and made speedy task as in F3B, the speed in tight turn is very very impressive! Here are some photos taken today.

Eric tried to fly his Extreme, but only managed to get some light wind practice

Nothing to do, so many pilots flew electric

This batch of crazy pilots has many funny idea not to bore among themselves

Eric's Strega flew over a rainbow

Some movies taken in day one

Schedel 60.67s from Germany, round one. He likes to walk up and down during a run, very funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht8CqNkrsTw

Rivero from Venezuela, 59.08s, round one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kyIkPbzFEc

Eric 65.76s, Round one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P3hULz-paM

Ah Mak 63.56s, Round one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ege-AnAzo-o

睇完D影片從心底

德國隊的SCHEDEL 飛出33.62

We have only two rounds of contest today in St. Ferrior which is 100km southwest of Laurac slope. Again, there are two slopes in St. Ferrior, but their slope normal angles are slightly different. The weather was cloudy. Even though the rain didn't come as expected, the wind direction was unfortunately off to normal most of the time making the progress of contest very slow. The wind speed was occasionally below 3m/s FAI level. After a long wait with insufficient wind speed, the organizer called off the contest at 5pm.

We did average, not too bad but not too good either. Our position after round 9 is
Stanley 39
Eric 41
Mak 54

The French teams are dominating in the contest. Their flying styles are well adapted to the local slope condition. There is no way we can fly as fast using our style with our setting up.

Here are some photos and result up to round 8, for detailed result please have a look at the official results at

http://vkr2010.free.fr/results/VKR-2010-roundsResults.pdf

Round 8 results

Overall ranking after round 8

Our Hong Kong still ranked higher than one German team and one UK team, no bad!

Headquarter car park

Eric and Mak have nothing to do while waiting for the wind


Some movies

Lanes 41.74s, round 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O1lMEA1_sE

Eric Wong 51.79s, round 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdXEQrX4ad8

Ah Mak, 54.88s, round 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWceDcnU46Q

Frenslich 51.00, round 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4abIAp_TaKU

Duris 47.20s, round 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaUam56O7Fo

Mollerhaug 43.83s, round 5 with a penalty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AXnv2WW3eg

Eric Wong 48.16s, round 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPmSzmOSNo8

Hi Stanley. Any photos of where you live? It seems it is raining at your side and no competition today

Indeed, we have no wind today, although the rain didn't come. We waited on the town of St. Ferriol in the earlier morning until 5:30pm for the wind to come. We were disappointed again, so no flying today. We went down to a small town Guilan for sightseeing and had lunch in the cafe restaurant there, quite enjoyable atmosphere.

Hopefully, we will have 10-12m/s wind with little rain tomorrow. Cheers!

Eric 話今次有幸見到牛頓大師，真是不往此行，特別開心的是Eric的排名比有些不幸和失準的牛頓大師還要高呢！

牛頓叔叔，小心你隔離位Eric長老，佢掟飛機都會掟到頂帽跟架飛機走佬 . . .

你仲記得 勁~~~

Hello Hendry，你幅gif delete左，揾唔揾得番呢？我覺得非常經典

http://www.rcsail.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 7645cda5d4

(04年Eric長老已飛F3F，點可能係新手呢 )

04年... 果然係長老級!!

唔知 阿Mak 依隻機跟 04年果架係未同一架? 咁鬼襟飛!

We had 4 rounds of contest today. After 3 rounds, rain started getting in and we all hided under our small shelter for 4 hours before we can start round 13 at about 6pm.

Hong Kong team did quite ok in the first three round but we had a diaster in round 13!

I flew pretty ok with a 47.xx in round 10 which ranked third in the group, but in round 11, I experienced with strong crosswind which significantly pushed down my overall ranking. Round 12 I had a short cut. Round 13 was really poor with strong crosswind and also a cut.

Ah Mak was 蝦鹿 again, he forgot to pull out the antenna of his tx and crashed his RaceM into the slope for which he obtained a DNF plus a 100 point panelty! Luckily, his RaceM survived with no damage.

Eric also had a cut in round 13 while trying to do 大海灣飛法 as the French pilots do.

So our overall rankings are
Stanley 38
Eric 43
Mak 60

We flew in slope A in St. Ferriol for round 10,11 and 12


香港飛虎隊成員阿麥 - 勇不可擋


英國隊地頭


阿麥和Eric越黎越搞笑


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Hi Albert,

They are 2 models. That RaceM in 04 F3F is Angus'. Ah Mak's RaceM first flew in Welsh Open 05.


Hi Stanley,

Eric and Mak are so 溫馨 , but where is Mrs Mak? Went to Paris for shopping?

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阿麥和Eric越黎越搞笑

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[阿麥和Eric越黎越搞笑

唔知以為 "斷背"

sweet! sweet! haha

唔識得唔好少我亞.
請問此謇埸地系唔系斷背山

係喎，唔講唔覺，越講越覺

咁多合照，仲越企越埋 . ..



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唉，睇完你哋啲留言，真喺笑到"標"眼水!唔通法國真喺浪漫之都.....都好，終於明白點解啲機喺法國咁難飛,原來一定要轉做"全頻"先control到部機 ，以現時啲相嘅進度顯示,最後幾個Round應該有突破性表現 ......我喺指比賽成績...

細文

We finally have good weather and wind condition for the contest. A total of 6 rounds was conducted in St. Ferriol. We flew 3 round on Slope B and then 3 round in Slope A.
For the Hong Kong team, we did poorly in slope B because the lift band is very narrow, sidewind is strong. We never have this kind of slope experience in Hong Kong. Anyway, we did quite ok for the last three rounds in Slope A which is a bit favourable in term of the flying style we used.

My position was dropped to 44 in round 15 but regained it to 39 in round 18.
Eric did consistantly ok and very stable for most of the runs. His position is 47 now. Ah Mak was 蝦鹿 again, he flew two rounds so close to the slope and crossed the safety line which costs him two penalties of 100 points each. His position is now 61.
Round 19 result was not known yet as we came back to the hotel earier after finishing earlier. We will have banquet tonight. Tomorrow, we still have a morning for flying and the weather will be very promising.
Cheers!




At banquet dinner

香港隊努力！有好成績固然可喜，但國際比賽經驗亦非常珍貴，加油

原來Knewt已由60位升到上32位，路遙知馬力，實力表現，勁

頭幾位都係法國隊，愈困難的場地愈有利地頭蟲，無計，不過阿Pierre係勁人亦係事實，嬴得都有道理

Pierre話頭三位的飛機係:
1 RONDEL Alliaj HM
2 MARÉCHAL Alliaj HM
3 RINGENBACH Freestyler

今次睇黎到Alliaj HM大賣喇

Viking Race 2010 is finished. We had round 20 this morning and then 20 top pilots continued to complete 4 more rounds for fly off.
I missed the flight in round 20 this morning as I didn't notice there is re-grouping arrangement. Anyway, the organizer allowed me to have a re-fly later but I did it poorly anyway.

The final ranking for HK team members are:
Stanley 40
Eric 47
Mak 60

The Hong Kong team is ranked at 17 places which I consider not too bad for us.

Here are some photos taken today.




Kevin Newton's Ceres

Alexis's Alliaj

Award presentation

Photo with Alexis

Photo with Pierer Prodel, VR2010 champion