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2023 Corryong Cup »

Wed, Jan 25 2023, 12:48:31 am GMT

Results

Corryong Cup 2023|Olav Opsanger|Rohan Holtkamp|Scott Barrett|Stuart Cathcart

«Scott Barrett» writes:

The Corryong Cup had great conditions, with fast racing in the NSW/Victorian Alps in Australia. Results are here: https://xc.highcloud.net/comp_overall.html?comPk=363

1. Scott Barrett, Aeros GT13.5
2. Olav Opsanger, Moyes RX3,5 Pro
3. Rohan Holtkamp, Aeros GT13.5

and the big prize was the B grade won by Stuart Cathcart, Moyes RX Pro.

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2022 Forbes Flatlands »

Wed, Jan 5 2022, 5:41:30 am MST

Day 8, final day

Forbes Flatlands 2022|Vicki Cain

Vicki writes:

And that's a wrap! Forbes '22 is done!

With the final day canned due to predicted overdevelopment and the safety committee pulling the pin, it was time for an air conditioned presentation at the Forbes Aeroclub!

Open class results:
1st - Attila Bertok - Moyes Litespeed RX5 Pro - 6710 points
2nd - Jonnie Durrand - Moyes Litespeed RX3.5pro - 5945 points
3rd - Scott Barrett - Aeros Combat - 5620 points

left to right: Scott Barrett #3, Attila Bertok #1, Jon

Sports class:

1st - Richard Hughes - Moyes Gecko 155 - 4290 points
2nd - Peter Garrone - Moyes Gecko 155 - 3583 points
3rd - Richard McLeod - Wills Wing Sport 2 - 2306 points

Richard Hughes #1, Peter Garrone #2, Richard McLeod #3

Results:
Open Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=333
Sport Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=334

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2022 Forbes Flatlands »

Tue, Jan 4 2022, 7:24:41 am MST

Day 7

Forbes Flatlands 2022|Vicki Cain|XC

Vicki writes:

Today was a mammoth effort for everyone involved with some pilots flying for over 30 hours in the last 7 days.

Unfortunately today Steve Docherty managed to meet up with the resident angry eagle and took some battle scars in flight.

Craig Taylor writes:

Day 7 saw us flying our 7th consecutive task with light winds and blue skies. A closed quadrilateral course back to BMIA of 137km in the shape of a Rogallo wing was thought up by the clearly getting rather bored task committee.

Strong climbs to 10,000 feet were promised, however it quickly became clear straight off the rope that the oppressive inversion would instead make the day a slow and tedious one. With the field packed together like sardines under a 4000ft ceiling, and the flock jostling for position, the first start gate came and went with no takers, with the field moving off somewhat lethargically on the second at 2:30pm.

Trent charged out ahead and found the climbs for much of the first leg, with the inversion slowly lifting to 5000ft.

After rounding Ktwo the first TP, Scott managed to find a boomer to 7 grand, quickly joined by the lead gaggle, whilst the rest continued to struggle under the inversion for much of leg 2. Those patient enough to hang in the 100-ups and doddle along course were finally and rather suddenly rewarded at the second turn with clouds, and the promised strong climbs to 10 grand. Jonny picked a 9-up and skied out, with Attila, Blenkie, Jonas and myself making up the lead gaggle.

Finally we could pull in the bar, and the race was on! That feeling however was quickly dispensed as the third leg took us straight across a big blue hole and we were back to crappy lift and long, toe pointing glides. Attila, knowing that he’s got the trophy already all but bagged, became a passenger and let the rest of us do the hard work. Scott rejoined, and together we made a low save 12 kms out from the final turn point, providing the gaggle with some much needed beeps.

It was getting late however, and this would be one of our last climbs, topping out at a truly inadequate 4000ft. It was becoming apparent that reaching goal was becoming out of reach. We struggled on, turning in pretty much anything that wasn’t sinking, and gained a few more kilometers.

I snagged a little bubble just big enough for one, and managed to top out at 5 grand 6 kms from the final turn. Then the glide to the deck was on, landing well after 7pm for a long day in the saddle. Attila won the day 10km short, me second, followed by Jonas, Blinkie, Scott, Jonny, Noma, and several others closely behind. It was a long hard day indeed.

Results:
Open Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=333
Sport Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=334

Day 7 open class (not complete with some scores missing):

# Pilot Kms Tot
1 Attila Bertok 132.31 0
2 Craig Taylor 130.79 916
3 Steve Blenkinsop 128.34 907
4 Scott Barrett 126.68 903
5 Yasuhiro Noma 123.79 892
6 Jon Durand 118.59 871
7 Steve Docherty 116.36 0
8 Mikhail Karmazin 109.12 834
9 Rob de Groot 103.46 769
10 Trent Brown 59.15 339
11 Guy Hubbard 45.69 0
12 Peter Burkitt 16.99 148
13 Michael Free 13.55 137

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 5930
2 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 5792
3 Scott Barrett Aeros Combat 5626
4 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 5185
5 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 4658
6 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 4595
7 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 4236
8 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3543
9 Mikhail Karmazin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3021
10 Rob de Groot Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2792

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2022 Forbes Flatlands »

Mon, Jan 3 2022, 7:00:23 pm MST

Day 7 task

Forbes Flatlands 2022|Vicki Cain

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2022 Forbes Flatlands »

Mon, Jan 3 2022, 4:16:19 pm MST

Day 6 updated

Forbes Flatlands 2022|Jonas Lobitz|triangle|XC

Jonas writes:

The Forecast

Today’s forecast was similar to yesterday with 20-30km/h winds from the south west, 6-700fpm climbs up to 9000ft with scattered CU’s and patchy lift in some areas. However, there wasn’t the approaching trough line from the west that we had to navigate yesterday.

The Task

The task committee called a 192km dogleg task to Gilgandra, to the North East of Forbes with a 20km turn point radius at Trangie to keep the field away from the Naromine and Dubbo airspace.

The Race

Launch at Bill Moyes International opened at 1PM. The lift was blue and patchy in the start gate and the thermal cores were moving around a lot. Essentially the entire field took the first start at 2PM just as clouds were starting to develop down the course line.

Jonny Durand led the pack for the majority of the first leg, Trent Brown, Scott Barrett, Jonas Lobitz were closely on his heels. The CU’s were lining up well on the way to the first turn point with tight and punchy cores up to 7-800fpm topping out over 8000ft as we sped down the course line with the strong tail wind.

However, the clouds became more sparse about 30kms from the first turn point, we hit the blue and things slowed down with pilots having to stop in 3-400fpm climbs. Most of the field including Attila Bertok, Trent Brown, Scott Barrett, Craig Taylor, Steve Dogherty, Jonas Lobitz amongst others converged just after the first turnpoint in the blue before climbing out under a developing cloud about 50kms from goal.

From this position we were confident we’d make goal needing perhaps only one last climb before going out on final. Trent Brown led the charge from cloud base as we dove out over the forest towards Gilgandra. There was a large patch of overdevelopment and a Cu Nim building to our east, making its way towards course line.

Our glide numbers started falling as the overdevelopment encroached. The lift significantly weakened, and the wind switched round to the east, so the pilots now had a solid cross wind to battle. Attila Bertok took a slightly different line further to the west and managed to avoid the worst of the sink crossing the finish line in first place while the rest of the field struggled low in weak 50-100fpm lift in the strong cross wind.

Jonas Lobitz was a little higher and hit a light climb 8kms out from goal which was just enough to make it into the 2km goal cylinder. The rest of the pilots landed several kms short.

Results:
Open Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=333
Sport Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=334

Day 6 open class updated:

# Pilot Time Kms Tot
1 Attila Bertok 3:30:15 202.01 1000
2 Jonas Lobitz 3:51:16 202.01 915
3 Scott Barrett 198.63 719
4 Trent Brown 195.70 706
5 Jon Durand 195.88 700
6 Yasuhiro Noma 192.83 693
7 Craig Taylor 187.63 675
8 Steve Docherty 187.99 674
9 Steve Blenkinsop 195.73 672
10 Peter Burkitt 138.48 358

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 5792
2 Jon Durand Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 5059
3 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 4846
4 Scott Barrett Aeros Combat 4723
5 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3766
6 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3679
7 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3543
8 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3329
9 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2598
10 Mikhail Karmazin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2187

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2022 Forbes Flatlands »

Mon, Jan 3 2022, 6:54:43 am MST

Day 6

Forbes Flatlands 2022|triangle|Vicki Cain|XC

Vicki writes:

Today has been the hottest day of the competition so far and the conditions in the paddock were temperatures exceed 40°C.

With the increase in temperatures we had no clouds for today's task, a dogleg heading north to Trangie with a goal at Gilgandra for a total distance just over 200km!

With many pilots landing out today they're all late returning home so no wrap up today! Maybe one in the morning.

It looks like Attila and Jonas were the only 2 to make goal today after a whole gaggle landed within 5/10km of goal as the slower conditions and SE wind drifted them off course line. Attila will extend his lead but the mid field battle is hotting up.

Notable mention to Scotty Ireland for making goal in the sports class, unfortunately the two eagles that tried to help him along the way left quite their mark on his glider.

Results:
Open Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=333
Sport Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=334

Day 6 open class (not complete with many scores missing):

# Pilot Glider Time Kms Tot
1 Attila Bertok 3:30:15 202.01 1000
2 Scott Barrett Aeros 198.63 0
3 Jon Durand Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 195.88 731
4 Steve Blenkinsop RX3.5 195.73 0
5 Trent Brown RX3. 5 195.70 736
6 Yasuhiro Noma 192.83 724
7 Steve Docherty Moyes RS3.5 Pro Skylite 187.99 0
8 Craig Taylor Moyes RX3.5 Pro 187.63 706
9 Peter Burkitt Moyes RX5 Pro 138.48 574
10 Rob de Groot Moyes RX3.5 123.60 373
11 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX3.5 Pro 52.29 0
12 Mikhail Karmazin RX35 51.40 143

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 5792
2 Jon Durand Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 5090
3 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 4876
4 Scott Barrett Aeros Combat 4004
5 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3797
6 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3710
7 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2869
8 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2657
9 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2448
10 Peter Burkitt Moyes RX 5 Pro 2353

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2022 Forbes Flatlands »

Sun, Jan 2 2022, 9:23:15 am MST

Day 4

Forbes Flatlands 2022|Vicki Cain

Vicki writes:

We are officially into the new year and we start things off with amazing conditions and a primo Forbes triangle task!

Today's task starts at BMIA with a 5km exit cylinder, 1stturnpoint sends the competitors south west for 54km to "Caraga" with a 3km entry cylinder, next up is a 61km leg heading east to brush past the northern end of the Coninbla national park with another 3km entry radii, the final leg is an into wind push back to BMIA for another 50km.

With back to back 1000 point scores Attila takes another decisive win on his Moyes Litespeed RX5pro, second was Jonnie Durrand followed closely By Scott Barrett.

Attila's round up of the day:

"After a slow start unable to catch the forming gaggle in the start cylinder I was forced to take the start in a sub optimal position some 5-600m lower than the rest."

"Leaving the start we had very good clouds and it was very easy making it to the first turnpoint at Caraga, linking clouds and flying fast, after the poor start I started to feel better about the task, heading to the second turnpoint I had great clouds again for about ¾ of the 2ndleg, until I reached the turnpoint I was flying alone, unaware of where my competitors were."

"Leaving the first turnpoint I manage to get a visual on some other pilots coming up from low, at this point I realized I had at least a 6km lead and at least a full climb ahead, a nice place to be."

"Reaching the second turnpoint I was having to fight cloud suck, another good feeling! The clouds had started to disappear and by the time I had taken the turnpoint it was blue all the way home."

"There were some slight caps in the inversion layer and the big climbs left some small wisps to navigate the way home, on the last leg I was a little slower than the previous 100km and actually flew back down course line to take my final climb, I left at around 8-1 as the climbs were good and plentiful, it was seemingly a perfect final glide until a monster 1000ftpm climb threw me into orbit and ruined my goal line arrival style points!"

"Never the less a beautiful day in Forbes and another perfect score."

Results:
Open Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=333
Sport Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=334

Day 3 open class:

# Pilot Time Tot
1 Attila Bertok 3:22:45 1000
2 Jon Durand 3:27:26 924
3 Scott Barrett 3:30:06 891
4 Trent Brown 4:12:14 692
5 Craig Taylor 4:32:49 570
6 Yasuhiro Noma 4:34:20 558
7 Steve Blenkinsop 4:39:31 540

Cumulative

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 3843
2 Scott Barrett Aeros Combat 3687
3 Jon Durand Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3486
4 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3140
5 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2695
6 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2424
7 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2396
8 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2259
9 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1821
10 Peter Burkitt Moyes RX 5 Pro 1455

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2022 Forbes Flatlands »

Sun, Jan 2 2022, 9:18:27 am MST

Day 5, what's with the zeros?

Forbes Flatlands 2022|triangle|Vicki Cain|XC

Vicki writes:

It's groundhog day! Today was a tough one!

The forecast had a few possibilities of rain with some fairly solid lines of showers predicted, this left the task committee a pretty hard job! They smashed it and got a perfect task between two lines of showers

Today we start once again at BMIA and head NNE to our first turnpoint at "Alec" a small town on the A39 highway running reciprocal to the Goobang national park, with a radii of 1km. Once tagging this turn point some 50km away from Forbes it's time to run north following the range for just over 100km before arriving at goal with a radii of 2.5km at the town of Trangie (turnpoint "Trang").

Our amazing ground crew got everyone off the deck within 30 minutes today with no one needing a reflight! Great work in temperatures exceeding 37°C.

Jonny Durand gives us today's wrap up!

"Conditions were a little tricky around launch and 10 minutes before the start nearly everyone was together and all did our own thing with no one ending up with the perfect start."

"First leg was good if you stayed high I managed to pull away from most pilots after hitting some strong climbs. Once rounding Alectown we faced a 101kms cross tailwind leg to Trangie, the sky blued up on course line and I was forced to go more upwind, The lift became broken and I was never able to reach cloudbase again."

"Attila had a similar story to me whilst the day winner Trent claimed to have a good run getting 700fpm climbs and even a 1000fpm climb on the second leg. Both of them flew over me and Trent will beat Attila by a couple of minutes with me 10 minutes behind Attila."

"Around 8 pilots in goal with Scott landing out. It was not the day to be low and trying to push and catch up."

While Attila extends his lead the leader board takes a change for 2ndand 3rdplaces with pretty much all spots up for grabs!

Results:
Open Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=333
Sport Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=334

Day 5 open class (unclear why the zeros):

# Pilot Glider Time Kms Tot
1 Trent Brown RX3. 5 2:53:12 160.97 1000
2 Attila Bertok Moyes 2:57:47 160.97 941
3 Jon Durand Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3:08:28 160.97 861
4 Yasuhiro Noma 3:46:26 160.97 636
5 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 3:54:23 160.97 596
6 Mikhail Karmazin RX35 3:53:34 160.97 593
7 Rob de Groot Moyes RX3.5 96.16 325
8 Peter Burkitt Moyes RX5 Pro 112.19 320
9 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 99.62 305
10 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX3.5 3:52:23 160.97 0
10 Michael Free 34.89 0
10 Scott Barrett AEROS GT 106.28 0
10 Steve Blenkinsop RX3.5 5:05:58 160.97 0
10 Steve Docherty MOYES RX3.5 PRO SKYLITE 4:21:13 160.97 0

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 4784
2 Jon Durand Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 4347
3 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 4140
4 Scott Barrett Aeros Combat 3687
5 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3060
6 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3000
7 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2396
8 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2259
9 Mikhail Karmazin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2032
10 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1821

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2022 Forbes Flatlands »

Fri, Dec 31 2021, 8:13:51 am MST

Day 3

Forbes Flatlands 2022|triangle|Vicki Cain|XC

Vicki writes:

We are well underway for the Forbes Flatlands 2022 and for the last task of the year!

Task 3 sees a Triangle task starting off from BMIA we had a classic looking Forbes day, Cu's forming from the early AM, slight breeze and beautiful temperatures!

The first leg of the task heads the competitors NNW to "Billa" a 400m radius turnpoint 74km away, arriving at the most northern point it's time to hang a U-turn and head 35km SW for "Skulls" another 400m radii before heading east and into the slight head wind arriving at the goal "Bogan"

Guy hubbard reports the conditions today to be quite technical and punishing when low but great clouds and approximately 15/20% cloud cover, cloud base topping out around mid day of 8500ft!

Attila turns on the heat flying his Litespeed RX5Pro taking today's win by over 20 minutes followed by Scott Barrett and Jonny Durrand rounding out the podium for the day!

The scores are compressing for the top spot and it's all to play for on the final days!

Results:
Open Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=333
Sport Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=334

Day 3 open class:

# Pilot Glider Time Tot
1 Attila Bertok Moyes 3:03:24 1000
2 Scott Barrett Aeros 3:22:25 846
3 Jon Durand Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3:33:16 765
4 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.6 3:33:52 748
5 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 3:34:16 740
6 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro Skylight 3:50:57 660
7 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3:52:38 648
8 Yasuhiro Noma 4:06:49 581
9 Mikhail Karmazin Moyes RX 3.5 4:07:43 563
10 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 4:16:33 534

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 2843
2 Scott Barrett Aeros Combat 2796
3 Jon Durand Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2562
4 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2448
5 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2125
6 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1972
7 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1866
8 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1719
9 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1606
10 Rob de Groot Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1422

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2022 Forbes Flatlands »

Thu, Dec 30 2021, 7:51:26 am MST

Day 2

Forbes Flatlands 2022|Vicki Cain

Vicki writes:

Today is task 2 and with the cobwebs blown away we set a slightly more challenging 145km crosswind task to Tallim (Tallimba town) with a first turnpoint to the west at "ootha".

Winds in the paddock were a fairly consistent 10/15kmh E - ESE with Cu's showing a promising looking sky ahead.

Soon enough all competitors were in the air and seeing cloud base of around 7000ft (2100m) making the first turnpoint in good time with a reasonable tailwind, the task became more challenging as the pilots had to turn 90° heading SSW, on the plus side increasing Cu's to show the way but having to glide east of course line so as not to drift away from the optimised course line when thermalling.

We have a large radius around goal (17km) because we are not sure how the local area has been affected by the local floods, this give competitors better options for landing fields but makes final glide a little trickier!

Scott Barrett takes the win on day 2 followed by Trent Brown around 5 minutes behind and Attila Bertok in 3rd place.

Scott Barrett, Craig Taylor
Our day winner Scott Barrett and Craig Taylor in goal!

Results:
Open Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=333
Sport Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=334

Day 2 open class:

# Pilot Glider Time Tot
1 Scott Barrett Aeros 2:43:50 996
2 Trent Brown RX3. 5 2:47:30 955
3 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 2:51:23 906
4 Jon Durand Moyes RX Pro 3.5 3:04:12 793
5 Craig Taylor Moyes RX3.5 3:18:49 719
6 Guy Hubbard Moyes 3:35:01 615
7 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes 3:58:15 523
8 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 PRO SKYLITE 4:01:58 499
9 Steve Blenkinsop Litespeed RX3.5 4:09:11 441

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Scott Barrett Aeros Combat 1951
2 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 1843
3 Jon Durand Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1793
4 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1700
5 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1478
6 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1311
7 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1287
8 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1185
9 Rob de Groot Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1098
10 Peter Burkitt Moyes RX 5 Pro 953

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2022 Forbes Flatlands »

Wed, Dec 29 2021, 5:50:16 pm MST

Day 1

Forbes Flatlands 2022|photo|Vicki Cain

With no foreign pilots the Forbes Flatlands is a much smaller meet with only thirteen open class pilots and six sport class pilots.

The day was blue as seen in this photo from Vicki:

Results:
Open Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=333
Sport Class: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=334

Day 1 open class:

# Pilot Glider Time Tot
1 Jon Durand 2:54:31 1000
2 Scott Barrett 2:58:46 955
3 Attila Bertok Moyes 3:00:56 937
4 Rob De Groot Moyes RX 3.5 3:16:24 825
5 Steve Docherty 3:18:20 812
6 Yasuhiro Noma 3:25:48 764
7 Craig Taylor 3:26:36 759
8 Trent Brown Trent 3:26:38 745
9 Steve Blenkinsop Litespeed RX3.5 3:28:59 744
10 Peter Burkitt Moyes RX5 3:33:06 710

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Forbes Flatlands 2022 »

Wed, Dec 22 2021, 7:13:41 am MST

The field is mowed and ready to go

competition|Forbes Flatlands 2022|Vicki Cain

Vicki writes:

Forbes is happening this year and Bill and Molly will be joining us!

While we were not anticipating any international participation, we are pleased that Forbes will continue in 2022, albeit a smaller competition than we are use to!

It’s been wet at Forbes the past months though the paddock is mowed and ready to tow and we are hoping for some super weather and flights!

We look forward to seeing our friends and hosting a great competition!

Practice flying Tuesday 28th January 2021
1st Competition day Wednesday 29th January 2021
Last Competition day Wednesday 5th January 2021
Headquarters this year will be at the Forbes Aeroclub.
Full details and registration at our website: http://www.forbesflatlands.com/

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2021 Barraba Big Toe Hang Gliding Competition

Sun, Nov 21 2021, 4:02:45 pm MST

The podium

Barraba Big Toe 2021

Scott Barrett, Steve Docherty, Rory Duncan

See results in previous article.

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2021 Barraba Big Toe Hang Gliding Competition

Fri, Nov 19 2021, 10:37:21 am MST

Last Task

Barraba Big Toe 2021

http://www.williamolive.com/comps/barraba/comp results 2018.html

Task 4:

# Name Glider Distance Total
1 Peter Burkitt Moyes RX 5 Pro 15.04 35.3
2 John Harriot Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 12.16 30.8
3 Rory Duncan Airborne Rev 8.82 25.5
4 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 8.63 25.2
5 Rick Martin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 8.57 25.1
6 Mikhail Karmazin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 7.01 21.4
7 Adrian Bosco Moyes RX5 Pro 6.59 20.3

Final Results:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 Total
1 Scott Barrett Aeros GT 1000.0 649.1 763.7 15.8 2429
2 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 869.3 698.7 708.4 25.2 2302
3 Rory Duncan Airborne Rev 558.4 505.2 926.2 25.5 2015
4 Vic Hare Wills Wing T3 144 245.4 751.0 1000.0 15.8 2012
5 Steven Crosby Moyes RX 5 Pro 428.4 712.7 572.6 0.0 1714
6 Mikhail Karmazin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 785.3 660.4 242.0 21.4 1709
7 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 434.1 717.8 460.1 15.8 1628
8 Rick Martin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 614.6 581.0 305.2 25.1 1526
9 Peter Adriaans Moyes RX5 Pro 489.7 514.2 475.6 15.8 1495

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2021 Barraba Big Toe Hang Gliding Competition

Thu, Nov 18 2021, 9:05:04 pm MST

They stopped to help

Barraba Big Toe 2021|Peter Burkitt|scoring|Scott Barrett|Troy Horton|William "Billo" Olive

Regarding the zeros on the second task, Billo writes:

I'll have to average those pilots (Scott, Pete and Troy) for round two after the final round. So, not fixed until then. Assisted a pilot after deployment. The pilot who deployed is OK, but won't be flying further this comp.

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2021 Barraba Big Toe Hang Gliding Competition

Thu, Nov 18 2021, 9:47:57 am MST

Third Task

Barraba Big Toe 2021

http://www.williamolive.com/comps/barraba/comp results 2018.html

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time
(h:m:s)
Total
1 Vic Hare Wills Wing T3 144 01:32:52 1000.0
2 Scott Barrett Wills Wing Sport 2 155 02:05:30 774.4
3 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:14:52 721.6
4 Steven Crosby Moyes RX 5 Pro 02:39:19 591.9

Cumulative:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 869.3 386.3 721.6 1977
2 Scott Barrett Wills Wing Sport 2 155 1000.0 0.0 774.4 1774
3 Vic Hare Wills Wing T3 144 245.4 414.2 1000.0 1660
4 Steven Crosby Moyes RX 5 Pro 428.4 393.6 591.9 1414
5 Mikhail Karmazin Moyes RX 3.5 785.3 366.8 235.4 1388
6 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 434.1 396.4 478.4 1309
7 Peter Adriaans 489.7 289.1 494.8 1274
8 Rick Martin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 614.6 325.5 306.6 1247
9 Neale Halsall 459.4 326.2 146.3 932
10 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 5 Pro 558.4 284.4 0.0 843

Still wondering about task 2.

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2021 Barraba Big Toe Hang Gliding Competition

Wed, Nov 17 2021, 11:37:08 pm MST

Second Task - not all accounted for

Barraba Big Toe 2021

http://www.williamolive.com/comps/barraba/2021/gap_task_result_2021-11-17.html

# Name Glider Distance
(km)
Altitude
(m)
Adj. Distance
(km)
Total
1 Vic Hare Wills Wing T3 144 61.17 +1906 70.70 417.7
2 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 60.56 +1511 66.27 399.8
3 Steven Crosby Moyes RX 5 Pro 58.62 +1600 66.33 396.8
4 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 57.65 +1480 64.95 389.5
5 Mikhail Karmazin Moyes RX 3.5 58.84 +627 61.62 370.0
6 Neale Halsall 48.88 +1622 56.99 329.0
7 Paul Bissett-Amess 50.43 +1177 56.25 322.8
8 Peter Adriaans 47.27 +1209 53.32 294.1
9 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 5 Pro 53.04 +0 53.04 289.4
10 John Harriot Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 48.10 +0 48.10 240.3
Pilots not yet processed
Rick Martin
John Spencer
Troy Horton
Peter Burkitt
Scott Barrett

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Barraba Big Toe Hang Gliding Competition

Tue, Nov 16 2021, 10:32:01 am MST

14th November to 20th November 2021

Barraba Big Toe 2021

https://wow.asn.au/comps/web/bbt2021

The Barraba Big Toe is a Trike Aero Tow Category 2, AA rated competition held at Barraba (near Manilla NSW).

This region offers big air thermals and is ideal for getting in some big flights early in the season. As it is early season, the thermals should be a bit softer round the edge while still pumping in the middle. New Comp 2020, tasks averaged around 100km with 1000ups achieved (and it was a wet season).

Barraba in late Spring is a perfect location for inland flying. Great lift, not quite as rowdy as peak summer. The area offers wide open landing fields and plenty of options for tasks.

Camping is $10 per night for pilots and support staff at Aerodrome, toilets, and power for radio gear available.

http://www.williamolive.com/comps/barraba/2021/gap_task_result_2021-11-16.html

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Scott Barrett Wills Wing Sport 2 155 02:11:34 1000.0
2 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:33:33 859.6
3 Mikhail Karmazin Moyes RX 3.5 02:51:27 769.3
4 Rick Martin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 03:32:04 585.9

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2021 Dalby Big Air »

April 24, 2021, 9:05:08 pm EDT

2021 Dalby Big Air

Final Results

Dalby Big Air 2021|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop

http://williamolive.com/comps/dalby/comp results.html

Final Results:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 T 5 Total
1 Jonny Durand Jnr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 963.6 873.0 36.8 937.6 958.1 3769
2 Scott Barrett Aeros GT 1000.0 892.5 36.3 860.0 974.5 3763
3 Rohan Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 879.1 904.1 16.5 862.0 920.6 3582
4 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 774.9 877.1 22.8 901.4 921.1 3497
5 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 875.6 588.9 36.2 878.7 935.0 3314
6 Tony Cross Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 870.3 863.7 36.2 637.9 825.9 3234
7 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 283.5 762.2 32.1 945.1 851.6 2875
8 Rory Duncan Moyes RX3 Pro 37.7 936.1 43.0 912.7 900.3 2830
9 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 978.0 39.0 36.1 864.1 900.9 2818
10 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2c 144 588.3 826.6 16.5 961.9 307.3 2701

2021 Dalby Big Air »

Sat, Apr 24 2021, 8:00:12 pm EDT

Task 3, 4, and 5

Dalby Big Air 2021|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Nick Purcell|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://williamolive.com/comps/dalby/comp results.html

Results from task 3:

# Name Glider Distance (km) Total
1 Rory Duncan Moyes RX3 Pro 14.26 43.0
2 Peter Burkitt Moyes RX 5 Pro 11.56 38.3
3 Jonny Durand Jnr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 10.76 36.8
4 Scott Barrett Aeros GT 10.52 36.3
5 Tony Cross Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 10.46 36.2
5 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 10.47 36.2
7 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 10.42 36.1
8 Hossain Tefaili Moyes RX 4 10.37 36.0
9 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 10.27 35.6
10 Peter Adriaans Moyes RX 5 Pro 10.13 35.2

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 01:14:41 961.9
2 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 01:14:46 945.1
3 Jonny Durand Jnr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 01:14:46 937.6
4 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX5 Pro 01:15:07 926.5
5 Rory Duncan Moyes RX3 Pro 01:15:14 912.7
6 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 01:15:37 901.4
7 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 01:17:44 878.7
8 Vic Hare Ww T2C 136 01:18:12 865.9
9 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 01:19:04 864.1
10 Rohan Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 01:18:40 862.0

Task 5

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Scott Barrett Aeros GT 02:14:31 974.5
2 Jonny Durand Jnr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:15:16 958.1
3 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:17:23 935.0
4 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:17:54 921.1
5 Steve Crosby Moyes RX 5 02:17:36 920.7
6 Rohan Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:18:13 920.6
7 Nick Purcell Moyes Rs 4 02:11:59 912.8
8 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:20:11 900.9
9 Rory Duncan Moyes RX3 Pro 02:20:12 900.3
10 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:26:04 851.6

2021 Dalby Big Air »

April 21, 2021, 3:36:33 pm EDT

2021 Dalby Big Air

Task 2

Dalby Big Air 2021|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://williamolive.com/comps/dalby/comp results.html

Results from task 2:

# Name Glider SS ES Time Total
1 Rory Duncan Moyes RX3 Pro 13:15:00 15:47:54 02:32:54 936.1
2 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 13:15:00 15:51:32 02:36:32 910.2
3 Rohan Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 13:00:00 15:46:57 02:46:57 904.1
4 Scott Barrett Aeros GT 13:00:00 15:51:32 02:51:32 892.5
5 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 13:15:00 15:56:06 02:41:06 877.1
6 Jonny Durand Jnr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 13:15:00 15:56:38 02:41:38 873.0
7 Tony Cross Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 12:45:00 15:47:40 03:02:40 863.7
8 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2c 144 13:00:00 15:59:17 02:59:17 826.6
9 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 12:30:00 15:54:11 03:24:11 762.2

Cumulative:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 Total
1 Scott Barrett Aeros GT 1000.0 892.5 1893
2 Jonny Durand Jnr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 962.9 873.0 1836
3 Rohan Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 876.9 904.1 1781
4 Tony Cross Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 868.0 863.7 1732
5 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 771.0 877.1 1648
6 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 873.4 588.9 1462
7 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 521.9 910.2 1432
8 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2c 144 581.3 826.6 1408
9 Rick Martin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 735.5 530.2 1266
10 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 277.2 762.2 1039

Day 4 canceled due to high winds.

2021 Dalby Big Air »

April 19, 2021, 8:45:26 pm EDT

2021 Dalby Big Air

Scot Barrett

Dalby Big Air 2021|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Trent Brown

http://williamolive.com/comps/dalby/comp results.html

Results from task 1:

# Name Glider Time Distance (km) Total
1 Scott Barrett Aeros GT 01:56:05 66.32 1000.0
2 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 4 Pro 01:58:34 66.32 979.2
3 Jonny Durand Jnr 02:00:38 66.32 965.6
4 Rohan Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:15:18 66.32 885.8
5 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 02:15:58 66.32 882.5
6 Tony Cross Airborne REV 13.5 02:16:59 66.32 877.5
7 Rick Martin Moyes RX 3.5 02:44:13 66.32 754.5
8 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2c 144 66.24 611.3
9 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 55.50 549.3

Don't know if Jonny is flying a Gecko or not. Looks like he caught up to three other pilots after taking a clock fifteen minutes later. Steve Blenkinsop is back flying after injuries from his bicycle incident. Missing goal by 80 meters must have been a let down for Jason.

Sport Class flew a shorter version of the open task but pilots didn't make it back to Dalby. Interesting to see a U2 in the lead over the Geckos.

Scott Barrett's big flight from Dalby

December 14, 2018, 7:42:54 EST

Scott Barrett's big flight from Dalby

For the Oceana record

Dragonfly|record|Scott Barrett|weather

https://ozreport.com/22.248#1

Bruce the tug pilot writes:

On the 8th December 2018 Scott Barrett on an Airborne C4, Michael (Jako) Jackson on a Moyes 5S, Viv Clements (Dalby President), on a Icaro Laminar 14.1 along with six of our regular local pilots came to Dalby with the possibility of a good flight according to the Met forecast.

I launched Viv for a test flight at 8.45am. "I will come back and land," he said, "I only need five minutes to check her out as it is not my glider, it's Swendo's"." I landed and towed Scott, then Jako. Around 9.00 am Viv came back, did not land but hooked up with Scott who had flown east to his start circle, then drifted back to Jako. They drifted out of town at about only 2300 feet above ground.

I don't worry much about wind under 35 kph so I don't really know what the actual velocity was. I let the boys estimate that. If anyone but Scott Barrett, or one or two others, had rung me and said, "I would like to launch at around 8.30 am", I may have stayed in bed a little longer, but Annie's dad and I hit the road at 4.45 am. Towing my Dragonfly trailer we arrived at Dalby at 8.06 am and ran out some ropes.

Smokey arrived at 9.00 am and we then towed the other six. The rest is history. Scott's 500k nominated goal with paper work. Jako (Michael Jackson) 500k, no paperwork, Viv Clements (Dalby President) 400.8k. Congratulations to all, you are incredible athletes. Now Viv is a Kiwi and we all know that bird can't fly, but this one can. As Boof always said, "How good is Dalby!"

The HGFA sends out:

A Lismore pilot and member of the Hang Gliding Federation of Australia, has set an Australian Hang Gliding record, soaring 500km to a declared goal over the spectacular Queensland outback – a total of 10 hours in the air.

Reaching ground speeds of over 100km/hr, Scott Barrett from Northern NSW flew sky high, taking off in an unpowered hang glider from the Dalby Hang Gliding Club and landing in Charleville on December 8.

The 10-hour flight has broken the previous record by 150km. Scott made the record flight by starting out being towed up behind an ultralight aircraft.

“I released from the tow at 2000ft above the Dalby airport and made my way alone over the big open Queensland skies - over the cotton fields, the gas fields, the scrublands and huge cattle stations,” he said.

“It’s wide open and dry and perfect for an awesome flight - it gets a little remote but it is beautiful country to fly over.”

Three pilots flew independently on the day; Viv Clements of Brisbane made a 400km flight, Michael Jackson of Brisbane also made a great unprecedented flight to the same declared goal at Charleville, but with a different start point, making his distance just a little shorter.

“I had a number of encounters with Wedge Tailed Eagles who made an effort to come and fly inquisitively and cooperatively with me,” said Scott.

“It’s amazing what is out there and how big the stations are.  I was not following any roads, just looking where I needed to find the next rising air or plotting a course to get past forests and maintaining a focus on getting to goal safely. This has been a most memorable experience.

“I had a lot of water, oxygen and survival equipment for the flight.  I was carrying CB and airband radios, a spot tracker, EPIRB, parachutes, food, blankets and other essentials.  But in the end, I landed at the goal and retrieval was easy.  I had steered a hang glider around for 10 hours, but it had also taken a year of waiting for the right weather and I was happy and tired.

“I’ve enjoyed going and flying the record, and the terrain that I flew over. I will always remember it was really spectacular.  Watching the sunset from just under a 10,000 ft cloud base late in the day and gliding the last 40km to goal, was a special moment. I could not yet see my goal as it was too hazy that late in the day, but my instruments told me I would make it as I glided slowly and silently through beautiful smooth air and enjoyed the view.  An Australian record was awaiting and I had time to enjoy just being there alone in the air.”

Information on record attempt:

Record type - distance to a declared goal, for a class 1 (flexwing) hang glider

Distance achieved – 500km, previous record was 343km set in Victoria

Aircraft - unpowered hang glider, a class 1 flexwing hang glider. Make: Airborne Wind sports C4-13

Start - Dalby Hang Gliding Club, Dalby Airfield in Darling Downs QLD.

Finish - Charleville QLD

Launch method: aero tow (using 90m of rope behind an Ultralight aircraft)

Maximum height 10,000ft

Average speed 50km/hr, maximum ground speed - over 100kph.

Time in the air 10 hours.

There is no previous record.

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Oceana record claims

December 11, 2018, 9:28:42 EST

Oceana record claims

Pilots continue going long in Australia this season

CIVL|record|Scott Barrett

FAI Records <<record>> sends:

Sub-class : O-1 / HG with a rigid primary structure / controlled by weight shift
Type of record : Straight distance to a declared goal
Course/location : Dalby - Charleville, Queensland (Australia)
Performance : 500.00 km (311 miles)
Pilot : Scott Barrett (Australia)
Aircraft : C 4 13 / Airborne
Date : 08.12.2018
Current record : 343,3 km (28.11.2018 - Adam Stevens, Australia)

Sub-class : O-1 / HG with a rigid primary structure / controlled by weight shift
Type of record : Straight distance
Course/location : Dalby - Charleville, Queensland (Australia)
Performance : 507.00 km (315 miles)
Pilot : Scott Barrett (Australia)
Aircraft : C 4 13 / Airborne
Date : 08.12.2018
Current record : no record set yet

The claimed distances look pretty approximate which is okay in the required preliminary report to CIVL. A detailed record submission to CIVL should follow.

The current record is not held by Adam Stevens, which is just a record claim, not the current record (which has actually not been set).

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2018 NSW State Titles - Results »

Fri, Feb 23 2018, 8:59:04 am EST

Ollie Chitty wins the day and the competition

Don Cramer|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|New South Wales State Titles 2018|Scott Barrett|video

http://www.williamolive.com/manilla/index.html

https://vimeo.com/257052653

Task 5:

# Name Glider Distance Total
1 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX5 Pro 79.24 865
2 Scott Barrett Icaro Laminar 14.1 67.31 784
3 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 60.64 732
4 Rob De Groot Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 56.51 696
5 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 56.37 695
6 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 55.96 690
7 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 4 Pro 55.80 689
8 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3 Pro 49.56 599
9 Chris Czajkowski Moyes RX 5 49.85 598
10 Don Cramer Wills Wing T2C 31.39 462

Final:

# Name Glider
1 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX5 Pro
2 Scott Barrett Icaro Laminar 14.1
3 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro
4 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro
5 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro
6 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3 Pro
7 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 4 Pro
8 Rob De Groot Moyes RX 3.5 Pro
9 Rick Martin Moyes RX 3.5
10 Richard Heffer Moyes RX 3.5 Pro

2018 NSW State Titles - Results »

Thu, Feb 22 2018, 8:16:47 am EST

Scott Barrett moves back into first place, Jonny wins the day

Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|New South Wales State Titles 2018|Scott Barrett

http://www.williamolive.com/manilla/index.html

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:09:45 935
2 Scott Barrett Icaro Laminar 14.1 02:02:21 896
3 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:23:20 817
4 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3 Pro 02:17:49 809
5 Harrison Rowntree Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:18:13 800
6 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:27:56 790
7 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX5 Pro 02:31:35 774
8 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 4 Pro 02:35:27 734
9 Rob De Groot Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:57:06 652
10 Chris Czajkowski Moyes RX 5 02:56:39 649

Cumulative

# Name Glider Total
1 Scott Barrett Icaro Laminar 14.1 3468
2 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX5 Pro 3454
3 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3342
4 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3177
5 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3 Pro 3073
6 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3005
7 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 4 Pro 2602
8 Harrison Rowntree Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2332
9 Rick Martin Moyes RX 3.5 2220
10 Richard Heffer Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2169

2018 NSW State Titles - Results »

Wed, Feb 21 2018, 8:52:32 am EST

Jonny wins

Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|New South Wales State Titles 2018|Niki Longshore|Scott Barrett

Niki is not flying.

http://www.williamolive.com/manilla/index.html

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:03:39 1000
2 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX5 Pro 02:10:12 896
3 Harrison Rowntree Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:10:42 885
4 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:18:47 778
5 Scott Barrett Icaro Laminar 14.1 02:19:06 772
6 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:22:24 747
7 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3 Pro 02:31:20 693
8 Dustan Hansen Airborne REV14.5 02:39:07 640
9 Les Bestt Airborne Rev 14.5 03:01:51 569
10 Richard Heffer Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 03:03:18 563

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX5 Pro 2680
2 Scott Barrett Icaro Laminar 14.1 2572
3 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2407
4 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2360
5 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3 Pro 2264
6 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2215
7 Dustan Hansen Airborne Rev 14.5 1953
8 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 4 Pro 1868
9 Richard Heffer Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1728
10 Rick Martin Moyes RX 3.5 1681

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2018 NSW State Titles - Results »

Tue, Feb 20 2018, 8:18:27 am EST

Ollie Chitty wins the second task

Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|New South Wales State Titles 2018|Scott Barrett

It was a UK kind of day:

http://www.williamolive.com/manilla/index.html

Task 2:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX5 Pro 00:59:30 869
2 Scott Barrett Icaro Lmina 14.1 01:12:43 799
3 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 01:12:58 798
4 Rick Martin Moyes Gecko 155 677
5 Paul Bissett-Amess Moyes RX 3.5 672
6 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3 Pro 669
7 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 4 Pro 626
8 Brodrick Osborne Moyes Rs 4 607
9 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 594

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Scott Barrett Icaro Laminar 14.1 1799
2 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX5 Pro 1784
3 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1581
4 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3 Pro 1568
5 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1465
6 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 4 Pro 1417
7 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1403
8 Dustan Hansen Airborne Ev 14.5 1310
9 Paul Bissett-Amess Moyes RX 3.5 1269
10 Rob De Groot Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1211

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2018 NSW State Titles - Results »

Sun, Feb 18 2018, 7:58:07 am EST

Scott Barrett wins the first day

Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|New South Wales State Titles 2018|Niki Longshore|Scott Barrett

http://www.williamolive.com/manilla/index.html

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Scott Barrett 01:51:45 1000
2 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX5 Pro 01:57:30 914
3 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3 Pro 01:58:01 898
4 Josh Woods Moyes Ls RX 3.5 01:59:40 880
5 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Ls RX 3.5 Pro 02:10:39 807
6 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 4 Pro 02:10:41 789
7 Guy Hubbard Moyes Ls RX 3.5 02:12:24 780
8 Bruce Wynne Moyes Gecko 170 m 02:13:18 760
9 Niki Longshore Moyes Ls RX Pro 3.5 02:15:15 749
10 Dustan Hansen Airborne Ev 14.5 02:21:19 723
11 Rob De Groot Moyes Ls RX 3.5 02:31:12 705
12 Chris Czajkowski 02:35:31 640
13 Paul Bissett-Amess Moyes Ls RX 3.5 02:49:23 592
13 Shane Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 02:48:12 592
15 Richard Heffer Moyes Ls RX Pro 3.5 02:50:12 576
16 Rick Martin Moyes Gecko 155 03:15:26 478

CASA wants to expand controlled airspace

December 21, 2017, 8:00:51 EST

CASA wants to expand controlled airspace

The CTAF's in Australia

Scott Barrett

HGFA Operations <ops> writes:

CASA Proposal for Multicom Frequency usage below 5000ft and Expanded CTAF's: The first element of the proposal will have little effect on our operations. However, the second element to increase the size of CTAF's to double their current size, is completely untenable and will severely affect and limit our operations throughout Australia.

We have drafted a formal response to this proposal, which will be submitted to CASA shortly and will be publish on the HGFA website.

We ask that you take the opportunity to provide your feedback, via the CASA survey form or email, supporting our efforts to maintain your current flight privileges.

Please go to the bottom of the CASA proposal and click on the "Online Survey" link, then follow the directions. Alternatively, you can draft your own email and send it to: <regulatoryconsultation>.  Please make sure that your subject line is: "Proposal - Frequency use at low level in Class G airspace". You will also need to provide your name and HGFA number for it to be accepted.

Please feel free to utilise all, or sections of the official HGFA response to create your own. Thank you.

(Link to CASA proposal)

CTAF's are essentially the controlled airspaces around untowered (small, rural) airfields.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_traffic_advisory_frequency

Thanks to Scott Barrett.

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The 2017 Dalby Big Air

April 15, 2017, 8:53:14 EST -0400

The 2017 Dalby Big Air

Day 7, task 5, Scott Barrett wins again

Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Nick Purcell|Niki Longshore|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop

Flying a Wills Wing T2C 144 borrowed from Glen McFarlane, Scott Barrett wins a second day at the 2017 Dalby Big Air, by a wide margin.

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2017/comp%20results.html

Task 5, day 7:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Scott Barrett Wills Wing T2C 144 01:52:34 992
2 Rory Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 01:57:31 914
3 Harrison Rowntree Moyes RX 3.5 01:57:32 906
4 Josh Woods Moyes RX PRO 3.5 02:00:31 875
5 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 02:01:54 874
6 Tony Armstrong Moyes RX PRO 3.5 02:00:36 867
7 Konrad Heilmann Moyes RX 3.5 02:03:21 833
8 Rod Flockhart Moyes RX 3.5 02:07:37 797
9 Brodrick Osborne Moyes RS 4 02:05:52 793
10 steve crosby Moyes RX 5 02:06:08 787

Final results:

# Name   Nat Glider Total
1 Josh Woods M AUS Moyes RX PRO 3.5 4330
2 Steve Blenkinsop M AUS Moyes RX3.5 4232
3 Scott Barrett M AUS Wills Wing T2C 144 4041
4 Harrison Rowntree M AUS Moyes RX 3.5 4035
5 Tony Armstrong M AUS Moyes RX PRO 3.5 3993
6 Jason Kath M AUS Wills Wing T2C 144 3920
7 Jonny Durand M AUS Moyes RX PRO 3.5 3878
8 Rory Duncan M AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 3726
9 Guy Hubbard M AUS Moyes RX 3.5 3591
10 Nick Purcell M AUS Moyes RS 4 3569
11 Niki Longshore F USA Moyes RX PRO 3.5 3513

Jonny Durand who was in second place ahead of Josh Woods did not make goal on the last day. Steve Blenkinsop who was in first place was slow getting to goal after four tasks. Niki Longshore was fourteenth into goal dropping one place to eleventh.

Jonny won the first day with Steve in third, Scott in fourth and Josh in fifth with Niki in eighteenth. Steve won the second task with Josh in fourth, a tie, Niki in sixth and Jonny in eighth. Scott didn't make goal on that day.

Scott won the third task, with Steve in third, Josh in sixth, Jonny in seventh, and Niki just short of goal.

Jonny won the fourth task with Steve in third, Josh in eighth, Niki in tenth and Scott in thirteenth.

So Jonny won two tasks, Scott won two tasks, and Steve won one task. Both Scott and Jonny did not make goal on one of the tasks. Josh made goal and placed in the top ten on every task. Niki missed goal on one day.

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The 2017 Dalby Big Air

April 14, 2017, 7:43:11 EST -0400

The 2017 Dalby Big Air

Day 6, task 4

Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Nick Purcell|Niki Longshore|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop

First three to make goal:

As the sun sets: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1320416931374989&set=a.122965804453447.30542.100002200855668&type=3

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2017/comp results.html

Task 4, day 6:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jonny Durand Moyes RX PRO 3.5 02:36:27 943
2 Tony Armstrong Moyes RX PRO 3.5 02:50:07 906
3 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX3.5 02:51:14 888
4 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 02:41:17 874
5 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 02:53:21 873
6 Rory Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 02:56:50 844
7 Harrison Rowntree Moyes RX 3.5 02:59:37 821
8 Josh Woods Moyes RX PRO 3.5 03:01:13 806
9 Nick Purcell Moyes RS 4 03:02:24 805
10 Niki Longshore Moyes RX PRO 3.5 03:03:05 802

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX3.5 3616
2 Jonny Durand Moyes RX PRO 3.5 3523
3 Josh Woods Moyes RX PRO 3.5 3455
4 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 3222
5 Harrison Rowntree Moyes RX 3.5 3129
6 Tony Armstrong Moyes RX PRO 3.5 3126
7 Scott Barrett Wills Wing  T2C 144 3049
8 Nick Purcell Moyes RS 4 2836
9 Rory Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 2812
10 Niki Longshore Moyes RX PRO 3.5 2756

The 2017 Dalby Big Air

April 13, 2017, 11:28:48 EST -0400

The 2017 Dalby Big Air

Day 5, task 3, Scott Barrett wins the day

Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Nick Purcell|Niki Longshore|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2017/comp results.html

After just missing goal on task 2, Scott wins the day:

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Scott Barrett Wills Wing T2C 144 02:07:26 1000
2 Tony Armstrong Moyes RX PRO 3.5 02:14:15 910
3 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX3.5 02:14:24 908
4 Rory Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 02:14:50 893
5 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 02:15:00 880
6 Josh Woods Moyes RX PRO 3.5 02:15:35 876
7 Jonny Durand Moyes RX PRO 3.5 02:14:44 814
8 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 02:28:22 811
9 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 02:28:26 799
10 Harrison Rowntree Moyes RX 3.5 02:35:29 737

Cumulative:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX3.5 863 956 908 2727
2 Josh Woods Moyes RX PRO 3.5 851 920 876 2647
3 Jonny Durand Moyes RX PRO 3.5 1000 764 814 2578
4 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 871 664 811 2346
5 Harrison Rowntree Moyes RX 3.5 839 729 737 2305
5 Scott Barrett Wills Wing T2C 144 858 447 1000 2305
7 Tony Armstrong Moyes RX PRO 3.5 366 943 910 2219
8 Nick Purcell Moyes RS 4 384 920 724 2028
9 Rory Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 341 732 893 1966
10 Andrew Barnes Moyes RX 3.5 745 680 533 1958

Niki Longshore writes:

One of the many faces of competition. Final glide is always a tense moment and such a frustration when it doesn't work out. Had to stop for a climb 8km out and never got back up.

The 2017 Dalby Big Air

April 9, 2017, 8:05:34 EST -0400

The 2017 Dalby Big Air

First day (Sunday, Australia time/day)

Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Niki Longshore|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2017/comp%20results.html

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 3.5 02:28:09 1000
2 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 02:39:43 868
3 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora 02:39:59 860
4 Scott Barrett Moyes RX 3.5 02:40:01 854
5 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 02:40:10 848
6 Harrison Rowntree Moyes RX 3.5 02:40:44 835
7 Konrad Heilmann Moyes RX 3.5 02:44:03 805
8 Matthew Barlow Moyes RS 4 02:45:08 793
9 Andrew Barnes Moyes LS RS 3.5 02:53:18 739
10 Viv Clements Laminar 14.8 02:55:16 727

Niki Longshore was in goal in 17th. Twenty two in goal.

Scott Barrett podcasting

August 3, 2015, 8:02:55 CDT

Scott Barrett podcasting

The paraglider pilots try to learn from a hang glider pilot

PG|Scott Barrett

http://aupgsquad.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/podcast-scott-barrett.html

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Scott Barrett's interview

January 1, 2015, 8:39:35 EST

Scott Barrett's interview

His world record distance to goal flight on Virpi's ATOS

record|Scott Barrett

https://soundcloud.com/1233newcastle/local-pilot-smashes-hang-gliding-world-record

Audio. Thanks to Virpi.

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New ATOS distance to goal record

December 18, 2014, 8:53:48 EST

New ATOS distance to goal record

Scott Barrett goes out into the outback, 581 km (361 miles)

record|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett

Scott Barrett <<scottbarrettc4>> writes:

Goal:

The task was designed to be a class 5, distance to declared goal of around 570k with start and goal cylinders of 400m, great circle distance is a bit more. Start is a road intersection perhaps 1 k SE of Boort airfield in Central Victoria, the flight goes through NSW and into South Australia.

There were good climbs and a good pace, but the day had many challenges and changes of pace, it was a blue day, but I had to go through the trough that had recently dumped rain along the course, there was water laying on the ground in many places and the high level cloud shaded out sections making some slow going. There were forest crossings, lake systems to negotiate without getting into the thermal shadows of the lakes. I got low once, it was turbulent and it was the first time I had flown in turbulence in a rigid.

I had less than ten hours experience on the VQ and I was impressed with how it felt in turbulence, it did as it was told with light control pressures even if the air got bumpy. I could tell it was turbulent because of the negative g, but the pitch was really stable, damped and felt secure. On this day I had the choice to fly a VQ rigid or an RX flexi. I was very pleased that I did not choose to borrow the Moyes RX which just sat on the car roof for the trip, the RX just doesn’t feel as secure in rough air and it takes a lot more energy out of the pilot.

There are beautiful, sparse remote areas that I overflew, the roads came and went underneath me (very occasionally), but I was just linking the thermals and did not ever follow roads. The later the day got, the more enjoyable it was, I was slowing down and going higher as the lift got more gentle and the ground underneath became more desolate. I flew under more high cloud associated with the trough and patiently drifted along with the “1:1 map” moving underneath me.

Now the dry sand turned into shaded out scrub and grass land. There were hills in the distance, at Broken Hill to my East, the Flinders ranges silhouetted the Western skyline and there were some hills poking out of the Flatland ahead of me. As I made my way up onto final glide, the clouds allowed sunbeams to pass through hitting the floor of the otherwise shaded desert. I made long slow glides. There was lift in the shade and my final glide was improving, I was going to make it in for sure. Up until going onto final glide slope it had been a race against the sun going down, only when reaching final glide did the urgency disappear, already having the feeling of having made it and there is no longer any rush. So when the lift continued to be provided to me, I was happy to circle around and over cook the final, I would go no further than goal, but there was no reason not to just hang out, watch, enjoy.

During the day, I had vowed to stay high and await the thermals to stop, the wind to die down, for a nice landing time and the longer I can just hang out, the better it will get. Goal was intended to be Mooleulooloo airstrip, but when I got there, the coords were past the airstrip, lee side of the first hill I would have to overfly. So I flew into the lee side goal cylinder happy to have the height to fly back to land beside the windsock on the strip. Conditions were gentle and smooth for a beautiful landing.

Mooleulooloo airstrip was carefully chosen, it is on the last sheep station on the last road, it is two wheel drive access and easy to get to, it just takes a lot of drive time, about two hours from Broken Hill. It was physically possible to go further, but the chosen goal is a sensible place to stop, as after that there are no more roads and it would be rather inconvenient. Anyway the aim was achieved; a class 5 world record distance to a declared goal, it extended the record by approximately another 190km and that was enough.

I was advised to delay the retrieve making access the station at night because of the huge numbers of kangaroos on the road and you don't want to take the wrong turn in the dark, otherwise someone would have to look for you. The last phone reception is around 70km away. So I stayed the night and thank the Treloars of Mooleulooloo Station for a shower, bed three good meals, welcoming social company. The next day I was treated to a very interesting tour of the place before my retrieve arrived. Thanks to the Treloars my hosts at goal; all of the team, including tug driver Peter Eicher, dolly runner Marlice Eicher and team mate task setter Rohan Holtkamp. Special thanks to Virpi for a successful five day round trip drive and job well done.

The previous record was 379 km (235 miles) set by Benjamin Herring in Zapata in 2008.

http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=15125

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New ATOS distance to goal record

December 17, 2014, 7:22:19 EST

New ATOS distance to goal record

The world record announcement

PG|record|Scott Barrett

FAI sends:

Sub-class: O-5 (HG with a rigid primary structure / movable control surface(s) without pilot surrounding structures and fairings.)
Type of record: Straight distance to a declared goal
Course/location: Yando, Vic (Australia) - Mooleulooloo (Australia)
Performance: 581.00 km
Pilot: Scott Barrett (Australia)
Aircraft: Atos VQ / AIR
Date: 11.12.2014
Current record: 378.9 km (10.08.2008 - Benjamin Herring, USA)

It was a windy day, so not too far from there, another record was attempted, an Oceania regional record.

Sub-class: O-3 (Paragliders)
Type of record: Straight distance
Course/location: Deniliquin, NSW (Australia)
Performance: 378.00 km
Pilot: Garth Simon Camac (Australia)
Paraglider: Mantra M6 / Ozone
Date: 11.12.2014

I have Scott's story, but he wants to continue editing it.

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Scott Barrett sets world record on Virpi's ATOS

December 15, 2014, 7:30:54 EST

Scott Barrett sets world record on Virpi's ATOS

A five day adventure

record|Scott Barrett

SPOT page here.

Started one kilometer southeast of Boort airfield and landed at the goal at Mooleulooloo airstrip, the last sheep station on the last road. This is the new distance to goal world record (568 km).

Scott's story soon.

On route:

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Scott Barrett flies 580 km on an ATOS

December 11, 2014, 7:25:15 EST

Scott Barrett flies 580 km on an ATOS

Northwest from Victoria

Scott Barrett

SPOT page here. 360 miles.

Starts near Boort and lands near the Flinders Range, north east of Adelaide.

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2014 Corryong Cup »

Thu, Jan 9 2014, 5:10:09 pm EST

2014 Corryong Cup

They flew starting Monday

Corryong Cup 2014|Scott Barrett|Wills Wing

Corryong Cup 2014|Scott Barrett|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

Corryong Cup 2014|Scott Barrett|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

http://corryongcup.com/

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDN60801/IDN60801.94919.shtml

The winds calmed down and a number of pilots (but not all) flew on Monday. Much calmer winds Tuesday and Wednesday for good flight. Half in goal on Tuesday. Looks like the winds stayed light at least through Thursday.

The Corryong Cup takes place on Mt. Elliot, which is a foot launch site right above the small tourist (Man from Snowy River) and logging (plantations) town of Corryong. I got to watch the launches on Wednesday. Three launches were excellent: Scott Barrett's, Blaino's, and Steve Blenkisop's, and none of them are in the competition.

Words of advice to a launch director:

1) Get the pilot's surname for your check off list before they get to launch. No need to stop them when they get to launch to get their name.

2) Let the pilot assess the situation without adding to the dialog already going on in their head.

3) Don't ask them if they have done a cross wind launch, especially when everyone actually launches straight down hill with the glider pointed straight down hill.

4) The pilot can see the streamers also and doesn't need to be told which direction they are pointing.

5) There is no need for the pilot to put the glider down first on the launch.

Following these simple suggestions would have reduced the three hour launch time for 60-70 pilots by an hour. The situation at the launch indicates to me that foot launch sites with with restricted launch access (unlike, say, Montecucco with three launches and very reliable launch conditions) are not appropriate for high level competition. Aerotowing looks a lot better compared to being stuck fully dressed in a line for two hours.

It was great to see so many pilot on Mt. Elliot and all setup behind launch:

Walking toward launch:

There's launch:

Launch with the town of Corryong in the distance:

Flying with a tablet:

Rory Duncan, a light weight pilot on a Wills Wing T2C 136. No small Airborne glider:

The edge of the Wills Wing T2C 136:

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Scott Barrett and the Eagle

October 7, 2013, 5:59:15 MDT

Scott Barrett and the Eagle

In the Spring they are temperamental

Scott Barrett

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/1821444/hang-glider-flies-with-eagle/?cs=391

You'll find a slide show there.

Scott says:

"I’d been taking pictures of a young wedge-tailed eagle that was flying with me," Mr. Barrett said. "Then all of a sudden, whack, he flew into my wingtip."

"You could feel the whole thing shake and it was a bit of a shock; he certainly didn’t miss."

Despite the majestic bird’s powerful talons ripping a part of his glider, the damage thankfully wasn’t enough to force an emergency landing.

Mr. Barrett continued on his way and decided to make friends with his attacker, who accompanied him on his way to reaching 6000 feet.

"I’m no match for a wedge-tailed eagle," he said.

"But he settled down as soon as he realised I wasn’t there to steal his rabbits."

"They’re usually very placid, intelligent and can be very affectionate to each other. In the spring they just get a bit temperamental."

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Scoring the Worlds

February 26, 2013, 8:45:28 EST

Scoring the Worlds

Does it matter what scoring system we use there?

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rob Kells|Scott Barrett|Wesley "Wes" Hill

I can choose among a wide variety of scoring formulas in FS to score a given competition. At the Worlds in 2013 Wesley Hill used the GAP 2002 version of GAP 2011 which provides for 'leading' points and arrival position points and well as speed and distance points. Presumably the pilots were fooled into thinking that leading actually gave them valuable points seeing that GAP 2002 was being used as the scoring system. This is in contrast to the previous case (2012 Rob Kells) where I chose a competition that was originally scored using arrival time points.

Here are the results:

GAP 2002 OzGAP 2005 GAP 2000
1 Manfred Ruhmer 9010 Manfred Ruhmer 8939 Manfred Ruhmer 8911
2 Alessandro Ploner 8871 Alessandro Ploner 8840 Alessandro Ploner 8792
3 Filippo Oppici 8560 Filippo Oppici 8611 Filippo Oppici 8508
4 Attila Bertok 8531 Attila Bertok 8545 Attila Bertok 8479
5 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli 8249 Grant Crossingham 8374 Grant Crossingham 8213
6 Grant Crossingham 8242 Primoz Gricar 8240 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli 8191
7 Primoz Gricar 8171 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli 8234 Primoz Gricar 8151
8 Balazs Ujhelyi 8131 Balazs Ujhelyi 8195 Scott Barrett 8076
8 Scott Barrett 8131 Scott Barrett 8152 Antoine Boisselier 8063
10 Antoine Boisselier 8128 Antoine Boisselier 8140 Balazs Ujhelyi 8050
11 Jonny Durand 8069 Robin Hamilton 8044 Jonny Durand 7960
12 Robin Hamilton 8031 Jonny Durand 8018 Robin Hamilton 7916
13 Gerd Dönhuber 7888 Michael Friesenbichler 7884 Gerd Dönhuber 7801
14 Michael Friesenbichler 7878 Paris Williams 7883 Michael Friesenbichler 7762
15 Gordon Rigg 7854 Gerd Dönhuber 7820 Paris Williams 7745
16 Paris Williams 7842 Gordon Rigg 7778 Gordon Rigg 7714
17 Gary Wirdnam 7734 Gary Wirdnam 7718 Gary Wirdnam 7658
18 Christian Ciech 7641 Mario Alonzi 7683 Christian Ciech 7533
19 Carl Wallbank 7631 Christian Ciech 7614 Carl Wallbank 7516
20 Mario Alonzi 7584 Carl Wallbank 7611 Mario Alonzi 7516

The first four positions are the same and then we get into some swapping.

The full results are found here, here and here.

Setting the nominal distance, part 3. »

February 15, 2013, 8:04:06 PST

Setting the nominal distance

Going big

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|scoring|Scott Barrett

If you expect to set tasks at about 200 km, what should you set the Nominal Distance at?

Given the Dmax = 200 km, Dmin = 5 km, Gnom = 20 the line above gives the relationship between the meet director's choice of nominal distance and the average distance required for full validity.

Given the Dmax = 200 km, Dmin = 5 km, Dnom = 120 km, the chart below gives the relationship between the meet director's choice of percentage of pilots at goal and the required average distance flown for full validity:

Full Distance Validity also depends on what percentage of the pilots fly further than the minimum distance. Given the Dmax = 200 km, Dmin = 5 km, Dnom = 120 km, and Gnom = 20, we get the following relationship:

Looking at the 2013 Worlds:

If the nominal distance had instead of being set to 80 km had been set to 120 km, the Distance Validity would have still been at least equal to 1 each day, despite the fact that day five and six were stopped. So nether of us would have set the Nominal Distance long enough to differentiate between days where we went below average and those where we were above average.

If we had set the nominal distance to 180 km, we would have had an average flown distance of those flying further than the minimum distance of 130 km for the Distance validity to equal 1. We would have noted before the first task that we were probably setting the first task (and task 2, 3, and 5) at too short a distance. In addition, the second, third, fifth and sixth days would have been devalued. The fifth and sixth days because the task was stopped. The second and third because the tasks were called too short.

It was only after the fifth task that we started calling tasks long enough to get pilots to fly far enough to be completely valid assuming that pilots could in fact on average fly 180 km on an average day.

If we had set the nominal distance value equal to 180 km then these would be the Distance Validity values for each of the days:

The two days that were stopped are devalued the most, which is what we would hope for.

This would have been the results if we had chosen that 180 km as the Nominal Distance:

# Name
1 Manfred Ruhmer 8505
2 Alessandro Ploner 8389
3 Filippo Oppici 8090
4 Attila Bertok 8073
5 Primoz Gricar 7867
6 Grant Crossingham 7819
7 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli 7785
8 Balazs Ujhelyi 7696
9 Scott Barrett 7694
10 Antoine Boisselier 7666
11 Jonny Durand 7615
12 Robin Hamilton 7604
13 Paris Williams 7515
14 Gerd Dönhuber 7456
15 Michael Friesenbichler 7440
16 Gordon Rigg 7402
17 Christian Ciech 7375
18 Gary Wirdnam 7306
19 Carl Wallbank 7172
20 Rohan Holtkamp 7169

You can find the actual results here or here.

Stopped tasks and more

February 6, 2013, 8:32:38 PST

Stopped tasks and more

If you don't like what happens to the scoring when tasks are stopped

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kraig Coomber|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

Proposals for scoring stopped tasks here and lots more proposed scoring software changes.

Does it matter? Let's do a little comparison.

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Top twenty all days counting:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 9010
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 8871
3 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 8560
4 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 8531
5 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 8249
6 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8242
7 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 8171
8 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 8131
8 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 8131
10 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8128
11 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8069
12 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 8031
13 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7888
14 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7878
15 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7854
16 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 7842
17 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 7734
18 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 7641
19 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7631
20 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 7584


Not counting day 5, the day that Pedro protested:

# Name Nat Glider Totals without T5
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 8101
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 7963
3 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7812
4 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 7694
5 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 7654
6 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 7553
7 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 7546
8 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7394
8 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 7351
10 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7324
11 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 7296
12 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 7265
13 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 7215
14 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7181
15 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7120
16 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 6996
17 Kraig Coomber USA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6951
18 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6946
19 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 6924
20 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 6777


You can see my earlier comparison here.

Discuss "Stopped tasks and more" at the Oz Report forum   link»

The 2013 Worlds imagined

January 23, 2013, 11:32:35 AEDT

The 2013 Worlds imagined

Without the stopped days and CTAF violations

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Top twenty all days counting:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 9010
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 8871
3 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 8560
4 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 8531
5 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 8249
6 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8242
7 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 8171
8 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 8131
8 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 8131
10 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8128
11 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8069
12 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 8031
13 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7888
14 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7878
15 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7854
16 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 7842
17 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 7734
18 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 7641
19 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7631
20 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 7584


What if we didn't count Task 6 which was stopped due to high winds and where CTAF violations occurred:

# Name Nat Glider Totals without T6
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 8175
2 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 8171
3 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 8066
4 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 7835
5 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 7791
6 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 7641
7 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 7418
8 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7400
9 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 7365
10 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 7361
11 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7320
12 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 7280
13 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 7220
14 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7154
15 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 7111
16 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7093
17 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7050
18 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7003
19 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 6993
20 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 6976


Without Task 5 and Task 6 (both of which were stopped):

# Name Nat Glider Totals without T5 and T6
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 7266
2 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 7265
3 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 7158
4 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 7076
5 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 6998
6 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6970
7 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 6885
8 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 6735
9 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 6715
10 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 6581
11 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6516
12 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 6485
13 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6479
14 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 6420
15 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6386
16 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 6364
17 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6292
18 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 6238
19 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 6200
20 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 6167


Primoz was a complete gentleman in all my interactions with him and I told him repeatedly how much I appreciated it. Obviously he suffered greatly from any errors that I made as the meet director calling tasks on days that later became too windy. Paris also would have done well without those days counting. Ironically, Pedro, who filed a complaint about Task 5, faired better when all the days were counted.

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January 18, 2013, 11:58:09 pm AEDT

2013 Worlds

Final results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Filippo Oppici|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kathleen Rigg|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Robin Hamilton|Scott Barrett|Tove Heaney|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Total:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 9010
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 8871
3 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 8560
4 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 8531
5 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 8249
6 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8242
7 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 8171
8 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 8131
8 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 8131
10 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8128
11 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8069
12 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 8031
13 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7888
14 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7878
15 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7854
16 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 7842
17 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 7734
18 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 7641
19 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7631
20 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 7584

Teams:

# Name Total
1 ITA 26212
2 USA 26140
3 GBR 25215
4 AUS 24849
5 GER 24754

Women:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Corinna Schwiegershausen GER Moyes Litespeed RX3 5930
2 Kathleen Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4414
3 Tove Heaney AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3 3849

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January 18, 2013, 7:05:15 AEDT

2013 Worlds

Results from the last day

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013|Zac Majors

The last day:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Lukas Bader GER Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:54:53 1000
2 Joerg Bajewski GER Wills Wing T2C 154 03:57:03 946
2 Zac Majors USA Wills Wing T2C 144 03:57:16 946
4 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 03:58:03 942
5 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:57:27 941
6 Matjaz Klemencic SLO Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:58:56 939
7 Anton Struganov RUS Moyes Litespeed RX4 03:57:58 926
8 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:59:07 915
9 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:59:39 911
10 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 04:01:52 896
11 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:05:18 885
12 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 04:10:10 859
13 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 04:10:12 858
14 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:08:07 851
14 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 04:08:39 851
16 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 04:14:49 841
17 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 04:12:40 825
18 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:16:16 807
19 Dave Matthews GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:16:25 801
20 Jochen Zeischka BEL Aeros Combat GT 13.5 04:18:23 796
21 Gijs Wanders NED Wills Wing T2C 154 04:20:39 783
22 Anthony Stephens GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:22:17 780
23 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 04:32:08 753
24 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 04:32:37 751
25 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 04:32:25 750
26 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 04:36:03 731
27 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 04:42:03 722
28 Péter Szász HUN Moyes Litespeed S3.5 04:42:19 710
29 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:46:19 696
30 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat 09 GT 13.5 04:45:31 692
31 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:54:46 680
32 Roland Wöhrle GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:53:14 676
33 Nils Aage Henden NOR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:51:26 671
34 Olav Lien Olsen NOR Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 04:54:16 667
35 Olav Opsanger NOR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:52:52 665
35 Mitch Shipley USA Wills Wing T2C 144 04:48:18 665
37 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 05:07:57 646
38 Steve Blenkinsop AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:55:58 636
39 Trent Brown AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 05:05:52 609
40 Glauco Pinto BRA Icaro Laminar 14.1 05:21:30 567
41 Francis Gafner SUI Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 05:25:27 556
42 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 05:38:30 541

2013 Worlds »

January 17, 2013, 7:08:13 pm AEDT

2013 Worlds

Chasing Roos

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Carol Binder|Filippo Oppici|Flytec 6030|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kraig Coomber|Manfred Ruhmer|Robin Hamilton|Scott Barrett|Worlds 2013|Zac Majors

I get out to the goal line finish at the airfield at 5 PM. Will competitors make it around the 180+ km course (starting at the edge of the start cylinder) in three hours. The cu's were good at noon but they are gone near the goal and a good ways to the north at 5 PM and there is a head wind.

We hang out under the Red Bull tent until Vicki among forty people spots a glider on the horizon. I run out to the goal line with my lawn chair and set myself up right in the middle. Whoosh, and it is Lukas Bader across all by himself. A minute or so later it's Joergi, a one two finish for the German team like the one two finish yesterday for the Italians. Then right away it's Zac Majors, the first American in.

I go and talk to Zac as slowly a few other pilots come in one at a time sometimes two including Scott Barrett. Zac says that Christian left the thermal that Zac was in high, then later Alex Ploner left and then the thermal turned on to 1,100 fm and they circled up to 12,500'. Later Joergi told me that they had to be sure to stay below 14,000', the best conditions of the competition, even without the cu's.

Zav said that they went on final glide north of the Bogan turnpoint, which is 26 km out. We threw that turnpoint in to keep pilots out of the Parkes CTAF which was closed to us between 16:55 and 18:55 as there is a regional plane landing or taking off there at 17:55.

Zac said at two times he thought that he wasn't going to make it with his 6030 showing that he was making 3.4:1. And he just did make it.

Then Paris and Robin Hamilton come in together. I think Filippo comes in just before them or just after. Three Americans and one Italian in goal. The Americans needing 134 points per pilot to get first place. It looks like Filippo will take third place.

Robin says that he saw Manfred chasing Roos north up the course line. Kraig Coomber was way ahead of everyone, maybe 10 km ahead but pushed too hard and landed just north of Bogan turnpoint.

We keep waiting and then it's Manfred coming in with no on else around. We wait some more and I leave the goal line for the Red Bull tent, shade, and some Red Bull Cranberry favored to help write this article. Finally an Icaro glider is spotted in the distance. And soon Christian and Alex cross the line.

So Manfred has won the Worlds again. Alex likely second. The Americans and the Italians in a tight race for the first team place, with the British (with all their male pilots at goal) in third most likely. Attila was in but I didn't see Jonny.

Top Australian pilot - likely to be Scott Barrett.

The new World Champion (photo by Carol Binder):

2013 Worlds »

January 17, 2013, 7:05:39 AEDT

2013 Worlds

A very tight competition

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Chisato Nojiri|Christian Ciech|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Filippo Oppici|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Gordon Rigg|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kathleen Rigg|Kraig Coomber|Lisa Bradley|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Tove Heaney|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013

Task 9:

1 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 05:16:07 1000
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 05:23:15 956
3 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 05:36:06 905
4 Kraig Coomber USA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 05:36:58 901
5 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 05:37:22 898
5 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 05:37:31 898
7 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 05:39:36 885
8 Petr Benes CZE Aeros Combat 09 14.2 05:40:37 879
9 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 05:39:42 875
10 Roland Wöhrle GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 05:47:33 863
11 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 05:46:09 862
11 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 05:46:10 862
13 Lukas Bader GER Moyes Litespeed RS4 05:47:04 860
14 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 05:48:37 856
15 Olav Opsanger NOR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 05:48:58 854
16 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 05:53:30 849
17 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 05:50:28 848

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 8163
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 8148
3 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7820
4 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 7775
5 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 7705
6 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 7496
7 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7385
8 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7324
9 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 7277
10 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 7228
11 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 7227
12 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7185
13 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 7183
14 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 7168
15 Kraig Coomber USA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7166
16 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7040
17 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7020
18 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7006
19 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 6977
20 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 6918

Team:

# Name Total
1 ITA 23874
2 USA 23464
3 AUS 22611
4 GBR 22577
5 AUT 22347

Women:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Corinna Schwiegershausen GER Moyes Litespeed RX3 5509
2 Kathleen Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4048
3 Tove Heaney AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3 3696
4 Francoise Dieuzeide-banet FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3 3316
5 Chisato Nojiri JPN Aeros Combat 09 12.8 2919
6 Linda Salamone USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 2198
7 Jamie Shelden USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 1179
8 Lisa Bradley NZL Aeros Discus 12 1123

2013 Worlds »

January 15, 2013, 11:11:55 pm AEDT

2013 Worlds

Results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Chisato Nojiri|Christian Ciech|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kathleen Rigg|Kraig Coomber|Lisa Bradley|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Robin Hamilton|Scott Barrett|Tove Heaney|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013|Zac Majors

Task 8:

1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 03:53:56 997
2 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 03:54:19 983
3 Petr Benes CZE Aeros Combat 09 14.2 03:54:21 979
4 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:54:23 975
5 Peter Neuenschwander SUI Aeros Combat 13.5 03:55:22 962
5 Zac Majors USA Wills Wing T2C 144 03:55:25 962
7 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 03:55:28 960
7 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 03:55:28 960
9 Kraig Coomber USA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:55:31 947
10 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:55:34 946
11 Walter Mayer AUT Moyes Litespeed RX4 03:55:39 945
12 Davide Guiducci ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 03:56:17 938
13 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 03:55:59 934
14 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 03:56:36 931
15 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 03:56:42 930
15 Matjaz Klemencic SLO Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:56:25 930
15 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 03:56:58 930
18 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 03:57:12 919
19 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:57:33 916
20 Joerg Bajewski GER Wills Wing T2C 154 03:57:34 912

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 7464
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 7192
3 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6922
4 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 6900
5 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 6856
6 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 6710
7 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 6676
8 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 6611
9 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6537
10 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 6491
11 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6490
12 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6462
13 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6381
14 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6369
15 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6336
16 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 6322
17 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 6317
18 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 6312
19 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 6303
20 Kraig Coomber USA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6265

Teams:

  Name Total
1 ITA 21068
2 USA 21033
3 AUT 20372
4 AUS 20301
5 GBR 20148

Women:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Corinna Schwiegershausen GER Moyes Litespeed RX3 5074
2 Kathleen Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 3616
3 Tove Heaney AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3 3451
4 Francoise Dieuzeide-banet FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3 2968
5 Chisato Nojiri JPN Aeros Combat 09 12.8 2568
6 Linda Salamone USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 1954
7 Jamie Shelden USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 1035
8 Lisa Bradley NZL Aeros Discus 12 1014

2013 Worlds »

January 15, 2013, 2:04:02 AEDT

2013 Worlds

The results from the seventh task

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Chisato Nojiri|Christian Ciech|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Filippo Oppici|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kathleen Rigg|Lisa Bradley|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Suan Selenati|Tove Heaney|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013|Zac Majors

Paris and Manfred tie for first place.

Task  7:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 03:10:01 968
1 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 03:10:01 968
3 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 03:10:06 959
4 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 03:10:52 940
5 Christian Bartschi SUI Aeros Combat GT 13.5 03:10:54 936
6 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:10:56 933
7 Zac Majors USA Wills Wing T2C 144 03:12:17 915
8 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 03:12:51 906
9 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:14:09 893
10 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 03:14:10 891
11 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:14:47 880
12 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 03:14:49 877
13 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 03:15:07 872
14 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:16:58 856
15 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:18:34 837
15 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 03:30:20 837
17 Suan Selenati ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 03:19:28 827
18 Miroslav Cap CZE Wills Wing T2C 144 03:19:22 826
19 Petr Benes CZE Aeros Combat 09 14.2 03:32:33 825
20 Roland Wöhrle GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:20:34 818

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 6467
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 6229
3 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 5947
4 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5944
5 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 5934
6 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 5920
7 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 5787
8 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 5724
9 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5696
10 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5612
11 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5570
12 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 5543
13 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5463
14 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 5462
15 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5461
16 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat 09 GT 13.5 5460
17 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5445
18 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 5377
19 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 5376
20 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 5372

Teams:

# Id Name Total
1   ITA 18230
2   USA 18184
3   AUS 17662
4   AUT 17505
5   GBR 17418

Women:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Corinna Schwiegershausen GER Moyes Litespeed RX3 4224
2 Tove Heaney AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3 3058
3 Kathleen Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2951
4 Francoise Dieuzeide-banet FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3 2726
5 Chisato Nojiri JPN Aeros Combat 09 12.8 2266
6 Linda Salamone USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 1782
7 Lisa Bradley NZL Aeros Discus 12 1000
8 Jamie Shelden USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 772

2013 Worlds »

January 14, 2013, 7:10:31 AEDT

2013 Worlds

The results from the sixth task

Akiko Suzuki|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Chisato Nojiri|Christian Ciech|Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Filippo Oppici|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Gordon Rigg|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kathleen Rigg|Lisa Bradley|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Tove Heaney|Trent Brown|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013|Zac Majors

Chasing the English: http://pressbhgc.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/sunday-13th-january-2013-here-we-go.html

Task 6:

# Name Nat Glider Dist. Total
1 Zac Majors USA Wills Wing T2C 144 131,09 917
2 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 131,09 915
3 Lukas Bader GER Moyes Litespeed RS4 131,11 914
4 Adam Stevens AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 130,81 912
5 Trent Brown AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 130,62 911
6 Olav Lien Olsen NOR Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 120,87 854
7 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 120,58 853
8 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 120,32 851
8 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 120,30 851
8 Conrad Loten NZL Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 120,24 851
8 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 120,25 851
8 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 120,27 851
8 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 120,25 851
14 Max Turiaco BRA Moyes Litespeed RX3 120,16 850
14 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 120,22 850
16 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 119,48 840
17 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 119,09 834
18 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 119,02 832
19 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 118,93 830
20 Walter Mayer AUT Moyes Litespeed RX4 118,72 826
20 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 118,72 826

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 5515
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 5358
3 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 5166
4 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 5101
5 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5054
6 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 5052
7 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 5047
8 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 5018
9 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 4950
10 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 4949
11 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4902
12 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 4855
13 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4778
14 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 4738
15 Christian Voiblet SUI Aeros Combat GT 13.5 4725
16 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4723
17 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat 09 GT 13.5 4709
18 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4681
19 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4672
20 Yuji Suzuki JPN Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 463

Teams:

# Id Name Total
1   ITA 15621
2   USA 15519
3   AUS 15303
4   GBR 14999
5   AUT 14897

Women:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Corinna Schwiegershausen GER Moyes Litespeed RX3 3542
2 Tove Heaney AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3 2392
3 Kathleen Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2236
4 Francoise Dieuzeide-banet FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3 2143
5 Chisato Nojiri JPN Aeros Combat 09 12.8 2032
6 Linda Salamone USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 1749
7 Jamie Shelden USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 757
8 Lisa Bradley NZL Aeros Discus 12 674

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January 13, 2013, 11:46:10 AEDT

2013 Worlds

The Task 5 results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Chisato Nojiri|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Filippo Oppici|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Jamie Shelden|Kathleen Rigg|Lisa Bradley|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Primoz Gricar|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Tove Heaney|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013

Task 5:

# Name Nat Glider Dist. Total
1 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 156,38 916
2 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 154,94 911
3 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat 09 GT 13.5 154,23 906
4 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 153,33 901
5 Petr Benes CZE Aeros Combat 09 14.2 153,31 899
6 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 152,43 897
7 Christian Voiblet SUI Aeros Combat GT 13.5 152,33 894
8 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 152,10 893
9 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 152,06 892
10 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 151,96 891

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 4666
2 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 4513
3 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 4502
4 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 4361
5 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 4282
6 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4258
7 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 4210
8 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 4203
9 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 4175
10 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 4154

Team:

# Name Total
1 ITA 13265
2 SUI 12846
3 USA 12822
4 AUS 12625
5 AUT 12356
6 GBR 12346

Women:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Corinna Schwiegershausen GER Moyes Litespeed RX3 3200
2 Tove Heaney AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3 1813
3 Francoise Dieuzeide-banet FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3 1793
4 Chisato Nojiri JPN Aeros Combat 09 12.8 1496
5 Linda Salamone USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 1455
6 Kathleen Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 1434
7 Jamie Shelden USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 721
8 Lisa Bradley NZL Aeros Discus 12 506

2013 Worlds »

January 12, 2013, 4:57:05 AEDT

2013 Worlds

Results

Akiko Suzuki|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Gary Wirdnam|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Suan Selenati|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Task 4 results:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 03:11:56 954
2 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:12:22 947
3 Christian Zehetmair GER Aeros Combat GT 13.5 03:12:24 942
4 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:12:54 936
5 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 03:13:32 930
6 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 03:13:22 928
7 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 03:13:35 924
8 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 03:13:39 920
9 Roland Wöhrle GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:13:51 917
10 Christian Bartschi SUI Aeros Combat GT 13.5 03:13:55 916
11 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 03:14:00 911
12 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 03:14:12 910
13 Shogo Ota JPN Aeros Combat 09GT 13.5 03:14:51 900
14 Davide Guiducci ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 03:15:00 898
15 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 03:15:02 897
16 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:15:04 894
17 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:15:10 893
18 Olav Opsanger NOR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:08:19 892
19 Olav Lien Olsen NOR Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 03:15:22 889
20 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:15:37 887

Cumulative:

# Name   Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 3755
2 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 3638
3 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 3634
4 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 3633
5 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 3609
6 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 3556
7 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 3472
8 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 3463
9 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 3441
10 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 3439
11 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 3400
12 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 3394
13 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 3333
14 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 3312
15 Yuji Suzuki JPN Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 3310
16 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 3273
17 Suan Selenati ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 3255
18 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 3158
19 Christian Voiblet SUI Aeros Combat GT 13.5 3140
20 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 3133

Teams:

# Name Total
1 ITA 10581
2 USA 10549
3 SUI 10303
4 AUS 10290
5 GER 9918

2013 Worlds »

January 10, 2013, 11:06:33 pm AEDT

2013 Worlds

The third task, results

Akiko Suzuki|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kraig Coomber|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Suan Selenati|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013|Zac Majors

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Results Task 3:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Zac Majors USA Wills Wing T2C 144 02:27:33 970
2 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 02:27:50 956
3 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 02:28:13 948
4 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 02:28:15 941
5 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 02:28:51 933
6 Peter Neuenschwander SUI Aeros Combat 13.5 02:29:19 923
7 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 02:29:32 915
8 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 02:29:58 912
9 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 02:30:00 906
9 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 02:30:06 906
11 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 02:30:35 898

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 2801
2 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 2724
3 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 2713
4 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 2708
5 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 2689
6 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 2685
6 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 2685
8 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 2680
9 Christian Voiblet SUI Aeros Combat GT 13.5 2672
10 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2548
11 Yuji Suzuki JPN Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2541
12 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 2503
13 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2492
14 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 2483
15 Suan Selenati ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 2466
16 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2452
17 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 2405
18 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 2373
19 Kraig Coomber USA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2348
20 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat 09 GT 13.5 2343

Teams:

1 USA 7954
2 ITA 7848
3 SUI 7700
4 AUS 7605
5 GBR 7231
6 AUT 7219
7 FRA 7177
8 GER 7123
9 JPN 6771
10 CZE 6765

Scoring the Worlds

January 9, 2013, 7:23:46 AEDT

Scoring the Worlds

Be careful with what you see.

Christian Ciech|record|Scott Barrett|Wesley "Wes" Hill

When Wesley Hill was scoring the Worlds last night he was confronted with Scott Barrett's track log that looked exactly like this although at that time he also was displaying Christian Ciech's track log in addition to Scott's:


First, he had been told by Scott that he beat Christian into the goal (which has been confirmed). Second, he has downloaded Scott's Garmin GPS because Scott's vario went out on him half way through the flight (pretty amazing that Scott won the day flying without a vario).

Third, it was extremely difficult to believe that at 17:59:03 Scott turned directly 90 degrees at very high speed to his course line and thirty second later was heading away from the goal. That did not "look" right.

Fourth, a track log that had been recording at one or two second intervals was now displaying to adjacent track log points at thirty seconds apart.

We assumed that there were issues with the Garmin correctly recording Scott's position likely due to his body covering the Garmin up as he pulled in hard and raced to goal.  But is seemed very unlikely that he was going 600 to 1800 kmh as GPS Dump was calculating.

The FS program scored Scott based in its calculation of when he crossed the circumference of the 400 meter goal cylinder, but we doubted the validity of the calculation given the odd looking track log data displayed by FS.

Wesley was clear that track log data points that he could see in the track log file in GPSDump were not being displayed by FS. He attempted to delete some points to get FS to recalculate the goal cylinder entry time. That helped but it was still not the best solution and it looked like he would have to calculate the goal cylinder crossing time manually.

I asked him to create an IGC file from Scott's KML track log file and display it in SeeYou. Here's what we got:

Obviously Scott's Garmin GPS lost track of where he was for an interval.

Zooming in a bit closer at the goal:

The Garmin GPS was recording position fine until, at 17:58:10 at 2.55 km from the edge of the start cylinder with Scott flying at 70 mph, the recorded track log started jiggling. Estimated speeds at that point turned to about 250 mph as his actual location was no longer being properly recorded.

We saw right away that FS was not correctly displaying the track log data and no longer believed the calculation for his goal cylinder crossing time.

I left at that point with Wesley ready to deal with the data and come up with the best estimate possible from the actual data, given that the data was bad but the best that we had.

The first data point from the track log inside the goal cylinder was 17:59:38. That is what Wesley has used as Scott's goal cylinder circumference crossing time, although obviously he would have crossed before that and Christian has stated that Scott made goal before him.

Today I took Scott's original KML track log file and the IGC file made from it and decided to try to figure out why FS had apparently lead us astray. It turned out to be a very simple answer.

Check out the last item in this FS dialog box:

Indeed FS had "filtered" out track log points that didn't "look" right. It appeared to Wesley and I to also make an interpolation of Scott's goal cylinder crossing time that was incorrect from these filtered track log points.

Once I unchecked this last check box and reopened the FS display of the track log, I got the same picture as SeeYou displayed of Scott tracklog.

I then went one step further. I decided to see if I could use the last apparently good track log data point, Scott's airspeed at the point, and the distance to goal, and assuming that he kept that air speed and knowing from Christian that Scott had indeed beat him to goal come up with a "better" calculation of his goal cylinder crossing time.

Assuming that he is flying at 112.7 km/h (70 mph) and he has to go 2.55 km, he is able to do that in 1 minute and 21.46 seconds so that his goal cylinder crossing time would be 17:59:31 (6 seconds less than Wesley's use of the value shown on Scott's track log). If he in fact (and most likely) flew even faster (as he beat Christian's time of 17:59:26) at 80 mph he would have had a 17:59:21 crossing time.

The points difference between Scott and Christian (4th and 1st place) was 21 points out of 968. Wesley chose the most conservative value for Scott's goal cylinder crossing time (a data point inside the goal cylinder). Using an interpolation from the data (bad as it is) would have put the crossing time at 17:59:36 (approximately). This calculation seems to be to be valid, while mine is speculative (although witness based).

I would argue that Scott deserves few more points with a "better" calculation.

I then went yet another step further. I looked at the section of the track log that was displaced to the south. This is it:

An analysis of this section shows that Scott was traveling at 75 to 77 mph directly toward the goal for .9 km (ignoring the displacement) with the bottom track log point at 17:59:33. It apparently took five seconds for the Garmin GPS to properly record the correct location.

Software is not perfect and human beings are still required to evaluate the results of the calculations as well as the recordings of the instruments.

2013 Worlds »

January 8, 2013, 3:14:30 pm AEDT

2013 Worlds

Day two blown out

Christian Ciech|record|Scott Barrett|weather|Worlds 2013

Scott Barrett unofficially wins day one. He beat Christian Ciech into goal, as per Christian Ciech, and started at the same start window as Christian. Due to problems with his backup Garmin vario (likely covered by his body) as he raced to goal, he didn't have the best recordings of his position at each time interval, so that his track log showed him 14 seconds behind Christian, which is the time that the scorekeeper had to use.

More on this later.

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/station.jsp?lt=site&lc=65103&list=ob

Wind at the airfield on day two, 20 knots gusting to 33 knots. 105 degrees at 2:30 PM and forecasted to get to 108. Tomorrow a very pleasant 86 degrees with winds at 10 knots out of the south southwest.

2013 Worlds »

January 8, 2013, 7:15:42 AEDT

2013 Worlds

The first day results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|video|Worlds 2013

Here

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 03:14:26 968
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 03:14:28 956
3 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:14:36 950
4 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 03:14:38 947
5 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:14:42 939
6 Christian Voiblet SUI Aeros Combat GT 13.5 03:20:40 936
7 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 03:15:01 928
8 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 03:29:24 877
9 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 03:18:09 876
10 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 03:29:27 868

Dave May's video from launch and landing on the first day:

http://www.warrenwindsports.com.au/blog/travel-flying-xc/hg-world-championships

Who won the first day at the Worlds?

January 7, 2013, 10:55:09 pm AEDT

Who won the first day at the Worlds?

Strange happenings with track logs

Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|record|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett

Software is nice, but it isn't always correct. When I'm scorekeeping I often have to manually score a pilot from an obviously messed up track log when the scoring software can't make the correct calculation. I can usually figure out the time that he crossed the goal line even if the software can't.

Scoring software isn't perfect and can't handle all the possible cases of messed up data that gets thrown at it. The scorekeeper just has to use his judgment to fix problems.

Scott Barrett apparently had his flight instrument go out on him half way into the flight and he had to rely on his backup GPS to record the flight for him (and other pilots to help him find the thermals as he had no vario). Apparently he  was first in today (amazing given how much of the flight he flew without a vario) but there are some strange happenings with the track log and even stranger things happening with the FS program not displaying all the track log data.

Apparently Scott made goal (400 meter virtual cylinder) in front of Christian Chiech, but the obviously odd track log data (which appears to be correctly displayed in SeeYou) has him 14 seconds behind to the best of our calculation (so far) given the odd nature of the data.

The assumption is that he was covering the backup Garmin with his body while pulling in fast for final glide and the Garmin was not getting good satellite position fixes.

Anyway it was very tight in the top places at goal today with about fifty pilots in goal.

Christian, Alex, Jonny, Rohan, Scott, Christian Voiblet, were some of the top scoring pilots today.

It was very disconcerting to see that FS did not display all the data (track log points) that were in the track log file. It was interesting to note that the IGC file created from the KML file used by FS when displayed in SeeYou did display all these wayward track log points and that really told us how screwed up the track log was (and how FS is a little less than trust worthy).

We assume that the track log continued to display the poor satellite reception that the Garmin was recording so that even though there are some reasonable looking tracklog points they aren't necessarily reflective of where Scott was at the time recorded for these points.

Again, judgment is needed to determine the more accurate result, but you are limited by the bad data and must make the best of it that you can. You don't just adjust it to reflect what pilots think that they saw.

Italians reject cars, Americans take anything that they can get

January 2, 2013, 6:39:23 AEDT

Italians reject cars, Americans take anything that they can get

Maybe the Germans outshone them.

Manfred Ruhmer|Scott Barrett

So we start our first reporting from the 2013 Worlds in Forbes, NSW, Australia.

Scott Barrett was asked to set up two cars for the Italian team, and after making all the payments for insurance and registration, and getting the cars ready to go, the Italians didn't like what they saw. So they decided to get rental cars. Leaving Scott holding the bag.

Fortunately with a few phones calls, emails and FB, the Americans came to the rescue to take what the Italians did not want.

The German team has Mercedes as a sponsor and were given at no cost two vans in Sydney. Maybe the Italians felt that they had to keep up with the Germans.

Lots of gossip here, but none that I am allowed to publish.

Windy the last two days but the winds have died out in the late afternoon for some good flying. Many pilots in town now. Manfred is here after he said he would never come to fly in Australia again (after flying at Hay). Should have lighter winds today.

Gulgong and Australian ranking

December 10, 2012, 8:42:39 PST

Gulgong and Australian ranking

Not the strongest team?

CIVL|Curt Warren|Grant Heaney|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Nick Purcell|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|World Pilot Ranking Scheme

The Australian current WPRS rankings:

http://civlrankings.fai.org/FL.aspx?a=326&l=0&ladder_id=1&ranking_date=2012-12-01&nation_id=18

Rank Name Points
1  (20) Steve Blenkinsop
CIVL ID: 7701
238,2
2  (26) Curt Warren
CIVL ID: 6077
218,9
3  (29) Jon Durand Jnr
CIVL ID: 2231
215,5
3  (29) Adam Stevens
CIVL ID: 17640
215,5
5  (34) Rohan Holtkamp
CIVL ID: 7544
210,0
5  (34) Scott Barrett
CIVL ID: 7601
210,0
7  (40) Trent Brown
CIVL ID: 7853
197,8
8  (66) Grant Heaney
CIVL ID: 6441
169,2
9  (74) Dave May
CIVL ID: 10331
163,5
10  (85) Nick Purcell
CIVL ID: 7229
152,4

Results from Airborne Gulgong Classic: http://civlrankings.fai.org/FL.aspx?a=334&l=0&competition_id=2759

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Australian National Team

October 4, 2012, 9:45:30 MDT

Australian National Team

Teams are now at six members

Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Trent Brown

Three from each camp.

Rohan Holtkamp, Scott Barrett, Jonny Durand, Adam Stevens, Steve Blenkinsop and Trent Brown

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2012 Canungra Classic »

September 28, 2012, 6:59:08 pm MDT

2012 Canungra Classic

Last day blown out

Attila Bertok|Canungra Classic 2012|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2012/CompResults.html

http://www.kathrynoriordan.com/

Final Results:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RS 4 4277
2 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne REV 13.5 3845
3 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX 3.5 3653
4 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3651
5 Adam Stevens Airborne REV 3620
6 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes Litespeed RX 3 3619
7 John Smith Moyes RS 4 3598
8 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3519
9 Scott Barrett Airborne REV 13.5 3504
10 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS 4 3249

Now, what is the line up for the five (maybe six later) member Australian national team that will go to Forbes?

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2012 Canungra Classic »

September 28, 2012, 9:34:50 MDT

2012 Canungra Classic

Eleven at goal

Attila Bertok|Canungra Classic 2012|Curt Warren|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2012/CompResults.html

http://www.kathrynoriordan.com/

Jonny, Red Bull girls, just before the sixth task.

Task 6:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 02:25:57 1000
2 Attila Bertok Moyes RS4 02:27:49 930
3 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne REV13.5 02:27:42 921
4 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX3.5 02:46:23 853
5 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes Litespeed RX 3 02:45:59 835
6 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed RS 4 02:47:34 825
7 John Smith Moyes RS4 02:53:21 820
8 Adam Stevens Airborne REV 03:00:33 784
9 Scott Barrett Airborne REV13.5 02:56:16 773
10 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 02:58:46 766

Total:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RS4 4277
2 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne REV13.5 3845
3 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX3.5 3653
4 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3651
5 Adam Stevens Airborne REV 3620
6 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes Litespeed RX 3 3619
7 John Smith Moyes RS4 3598
8 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 3519
9 Scott Barrett Airborne REV13.5 3504
10 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 3249

2012 Canungra Classic »

September 27, 2012, 8:45:45 MDT

2012 Canungra Classic

Many at goal

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Canungra Classic 2012|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2012/CompResults.html

http://www.kathrynoriordan.com/

Task 5:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RS4 02:33:21 999
2 Scott Barrett Airborne REV13.5 02:35:34 945
3 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne REV13.5 02:35:43 936
4 Adam Parer Moyes LS RX 3.5 02:52:15 793
5 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 02:52:22 792
6 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 02:50:28 791
7 David Stevens Moyes Litespeed 02:44:13 790
8 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:47:40 781
9 Rod Flockhart Moyes RS3.5 02:47:59 773
10 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX3.5 02:49:24 766

Total:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RS4 3347
2 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3072
3 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne REV13.5 2924
4 Adam Stevens Airborne REV 2836
5 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX3.5 2800
6 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes Litespeed RX 3 2784
7 Adam Parer Moyes LS RX 3.5 2780
8 John Smith Moyes RS4 2778
9 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2753
10 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 2752

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ABC hang gliding promotion

May 7, 2012, 10:25:26 EDT

ABC hang gliding promotion

The Newcastle boys, first and second

Scott Barrett

Scott Barrett <<scottbarrettc4>> writes:

Promoting hang gliding through the mainstream media is easy just by using local content. Here is the story: http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2012/05/01/3492822.htm?site=newcastle.

http://csirosolarblog.com/2012/05/03/solargas-engineer-wins-national-race-in-a-solar-powered-sport/

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Dalby Big Air

April 23, 2012, 5:36:42 pm EDT

Dalby Competition

The podium

Cameron Tunbridge|David Seib|Rob Hibberd|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|William "Billo" Olive

Billo sends:

Scott Barrett, Conrad Lotten, and Adam Stevens, in that order. .

Everyone who picked up a trophy at Dalby; from left to right, Shelley Heinrich, Gavin Myers, Adam, Scott, Conrad and Kathryn. Kathyn is holding the "David Seib memorial trophy", a new perpetual trophy from the Dalby club.

Rob Hibberd <<RobH>> sends:

Scott Barrett flying brilliantly won the comp with a good margin on his Airborne Rev 13.5. He was 299 points in front of 2nd place getter Conrad Lotan on a Moyes Litespeed. Adam Stevens was once again showing good form and came 3rd overall on a Rev 13.5. Rohan Holtkamp climbed back up to 4th place after narrowly missing goal on a crucial day. Cameron Tunbridge made it to 13th place on the 14.5 Rev and Phil Schroeder was 19th place.

Paul Barry wrote: Great effort from the Airborne pilots. A combination of great pilots and excellent gliders. Only 7 Revs in the comp and they took out 3 of the top 4 spots with the rest doing pretty well too.

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Dalby Big Air

April 21, 2012, 7:37:05 EDT

Dalby Competition

Scott Barrett wins the last day and wins the competition

Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|John Smith|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|John Smith|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|John Smith|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.warrenwindsports.com.au/blog

http://www.kathrynoriordan.com/

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/comp results.html

Conrad Lotten was a mere seventeen points behind in second place but dropped back on the last day coming in twentieth as thirty pilots made goal. Scott was the fastest into goal starting a bit later than Curt who came into goal first but was second for the day. Rohan Holtkamp was third for the day just behind Curt.

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 T 5 T 6 T 7 Total
1 Scott Barrett airborne rev 13.5 747 803 470 893 889 861 977 5640
2 Conrad Loten moyes litespeed rs 3.5 779 866 256 902 913 930 715 5361
3 adam stevens airbone rev 13.5 824 709 450 889 819 740 753 5184
4 Rohan Holtkamp airborne rev 13.5 870 825 175 496 992 854 960 5172
5 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 558 855 341 831 874 840 770 5069
6 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 296 881 244 784 886 934 967 4992
7 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 688 835 99 894 854 678 859 4907
8 john smith moyes litespeed rs 4 821 865 292 889 807 378 755 4807
9 jonas lobitz moyes litespeed rx 3.5 781 336 136 968 870 801 882 4774
10 Len Paton moyes litespeed rs 4 744 975 189 673 759 610 780 4730

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Dalby Competition

April 18, 2012, 10:51:26 EDT

Dalby Competition

FS scoring

Scott Barrett

Scott Barrett in the lead after four days.

http://www.warrenwindsports.com.au/blog/dave-may

http://www.warrenwindsports.com.au/blog/curt-warren

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http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/comp results.html

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Budgewoi

January 24, 2012, 6:44:20 AEDT

Budgewoi

Five miles of almost empty beach and dunes

Scott Barrett|Tullio Gervasoni

On Sunday Scott Barrett, Tullio, Carl, a local pilot, and I went to Budgewoi for a bit of dune gooning. The wind was strong out of the south east and the place had a party atmosphere and numerous pilots were there to play with the dunes.


Looking north


Looking south back to the launch area.

Here, typical of Australia outside the main urban areas on a sunny and warm Sunday afternoon, there is a beach five miles long and other than a few folks walking along the beach it is empty.

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Forbes Flatlands - final results »

January 15, 2012, 0:44:39 AEDT

Forbes Flatlands - final results

Rohan wins, Attila second, Scott third

Aeros Combat|Attila Bertok|Curt Warren|Davide Guiducci|Forbes Flatlands|Gerolf Heinrichs|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Trent Brown|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T2C

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Task eight:

# Name Nat Glider SS ES Time Total
1 Gerolf Heinrichs AUT Moyes RX 3.5 14:31:17 18:14:24 03:43:07 1000
2 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S 5 14:30:54 18:31:07 04:00:13 881
3 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes RS 3.5 14:31:14 18:35:18 04:04:04 870
4 Peter Dall AUS Airborne Rev 14.5 14:44:05 18:39:30 03:55:25 869
5 Curt Warren AUS Moyes RS 4 15:00:00 18:56:52 03:56:52 801
5 Davide Guiducci ITA Moyes RS 3.5 14:35:58 18:50:30 04:14:32 801
7 Matthew Barlow NZL Moyes RS 4 14:31:10 18:50:06 04:18:56 795
7 Trent Brown AUS Moyes RS 3.5 14:42:40 18:55:39 04:12:59 795
9 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 14:35:43 18:52:23 04:16:40 791
10 Franz Herrmann SUI Aeros Combat 13.5 14:35:39 18:55:08 04:19:29 784

Total:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 6628
2 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S 5 6516
3 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 5847
4 Adam Stevens AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 5739
5 Hans Kiefinger GER Aeros GT 13.2 5707
6 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 5676
7 Roland Wöhrle GER Moyes RS 3.5 5665
8 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes RS 3.5 5633
9 Trent Brown AUS Moyes RS 3.5 5626
10 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 4 5603

Having forgotten that the first turnpoint in the swamp was 5 KM instead of 400 meters Rohan found himself low at about 100 meters while those who remembered were thermaling back up behind him.

Forbes Flatlands - task seven results »

January 14, 2012, 8:33:55 AEDT

Forbes Flatlands - task seven

A tight contest

Airborne Rev|Attila Bertok|Curt Warren|Davide Guiducci|Forbes Flatlands|Gerolf Heinrichs|John Smith|Primoz Gricar|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Trent Brown|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T2C

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Task Seven:

# Name Nat Glider SS ES Time km/h Dist. Total
1 Curt Warren AUS Moyes RS 4 14:40:50 18:17:19 03:36:29 45.6 174.5 999
2 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S 5 14:26:02 18:21:58 03:55:56 41.9 174.5 945
3 Gerolf Heinrichs AUT Moyes RX 3.5 14:27:13 18:22:51 03:55:38 41.9 174.5 941
4 Davide Guiducci ITA Moyes RS 3.5 14:39:24 19:01:57 04:22:33 37.6 174.5 886
5 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 14:38:35 19:02:20 04:23:45 37.5 174.5 882
6 Roland Wöhrle GER Moyes RS 3.5 14:25:34 19:02:24 04:36:50 35.7 174.5 867
7 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 14:26:45 19:02:33 04:35:48 35.8 174.5 866
8 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 14:38:43       174.5 807
9 Trent Brown AUS Moyes RS 3.5 14:24:22       172.6 802

Total:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 5837
2 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S 5 5635
3 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 5095
4 Adam Stevens AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 5036
5 Hans Kiefinger GER Aeros GT 13.2 4951
6 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 4939
7 Roland Wöhrle GER Moyes RS 3.5 4906
8 John Smith NZL Moyes RS 4 4902
9 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 4893
10 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 4 4851

Forbes Flatlands - task seven »

January 13, 2012, 8:41:49 pm AEDT

Forbes Flatlands - task seven

Weak at the end of the day

Curt Warren|Forbes Flatlands|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Tullio Gervasoni

The task was 183 km, with an opening quarter head wind first leg to the northwest west of Trundle, then east over a small range to the weak lift area around Yeoval, then twenty two kilometers south southeast to Comnock.  The forecast was for high clouds and weak lift near the end of the day. The pilots wouldn't be getting too high, maybe 7,000' but possibly 9,000' if the clouds don't get too thick.

The towing goes very smoothly for most pilots, and there is plenty of lift in the blue with half the sky sporting high cloud. The winds are a bit strong at first out of the west, but pilots force their way west and stay high getting near the edge of the start cylinder. The winds die out in the tow paddock as the towing ends.

Pilots have a struggle in the light lift conditions with the high clouds spreading and thickening up. We expected pilots in earlier in the day, but it is four hours before Curt Warren comes in first after 6:15 PM. Attila six minutes later with Gerolf coming in very low and just landing on the goal line behind Attila.

Then a pause, before Scott Barrett comes in but lands 10 meters short. After that Davide, Rohan, Roland and Tullio come in. After that, no news.

Attila started the day in second (Scott in forth) and Rohan in first. The contest should tighten up a little for the last day.

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Forbes Flatlands - task six results »

Fri, Jan 13 2012, 8:14:26 am AEDT

Forbes Flatlands - task six

207 kilometers to the north around Narromine

Attila Bertok|Curt Warren|Davide Guiducci|Forbes Flatlands|John Smith|Julia Kucherenko|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Primoz Gricar|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Wills Wing T2C

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Task six:

# Name Nat Glider SS ES Time Total
1 Attila Bertok Hun Moyes Litespeed S 5 14:38:59 17:56:46 03:17:47 958
2 Curt Warren Aus Moyes Rs 4 14:38:58 17:57:12 03:18:14 937
3 Jonas Lobitz Nzl Moyes Rs 3.5 14:39:41 18:01:25 03:21:44 889
4 Julia Kucherenko Rus Aeros Combat 12 14:16:00 17:53:24 03:37:24 870
5 Mitch Shipley Usa Wills Wing T2C 144 14:48:36 18:11:01 03:22:25 852
6 Rohan Holtkamp Aus Airborne Rev 13.5 14:18:12 17:56:56 03:38:44 838
7 Anton Struganov Rus Aeros Combat L 13,7 09 14:15:49 17:57:04 03:41:15 825
8 Roland Wöhrle Ger Moyes Rs 3.5 14:15:56 17:57:11 03:41:15 821
9 Davide Guiducci Ita Moyes Rs 3.5 14:39:10 18:10:26 03:31:16 818
10 Lukas Bader Ger Moyes Rs 4 14:15:38 17:57:55 03:42:17 808

Total:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Rohan Holtkamp Aus Airborne Rev 13.5 4952
2 Attila Bertok Hun Moyes Litespeed S 5 4689
3 Adam Stevens Aus Airborne Rev 13.5 4423
4 Scott Barrett Aus Airborne Rev 13.5 4280
5 Anton Struganov Rus Aeros Combat L 13,7 09 4187
6 Hans Kiefinger Ger Aeros GT 13.2 4146
7 John Smith Nzl Moyes Rs 4 4136
8 Lukas Bader Ger Moyes Rs 4 4113
9 Primoz Gricar Slo Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 4105
10 Steve Blenkinsop Aus Moyes Rs 3.5 4072

The 2007 World Champion wins the day. Julia comes back from disappointing results on previous days. Scott Barrett doesn't make it to goal. Mitch Shipley continues to do well. Rohan easily holds on to first place overall. Curt comes in second as he did on the first day. Forty six in goal.

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Forbes Flatlands - task five results »

January 11, 2012, 11:26:39 AEDT

Forbes Flatlands - task five

A white sky with high diffuse clouds

Attila Bertok|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Forbes Flatlands|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Primoz Gricar|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T2C

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Rohan and Scott, flying Airborne REV's, win the day again and go back to one and two in the overall lead. Jonny out of the competition.

Task 5:

# Name Nat Glider SS ES Time Total
1 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 14:34:49 18:27:50 03:53:01 983
2 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 14:32:15 18:27:27 03:55:12 970
3 Steve Blenkinsop AUS Moyes RS 3.5 14:30:04 18:28:15 03:58:11 937
4 Mitch Shipley USA Wills Wing T2C 144 14:29:29 18:28:14 03:58:45 936
4 Roland Wöhrle GER Moyes RS 3.5 14:26:58 18:27:30 04:00:32 936
6 Trent Brown AUS Moyes RS 3.5 14:37:24 18:33:20 03:55:56 933
7 Conrad Loten NZL Moyes RS 3.5 14:30:45 18:32:51 04:02:06 922
8 Rod Flockhart AUS Moyes RS 3.5 14:38:00 18:34:32 03:56:32 920
9 Cameron Tunbridge AUS Airborne Rev 14.5 14:33:02 18:33:16 04:00:14 913
10 John Smith NZL Moyes RS 4 14:32:47 18:33:26 04:00:39 903

Totals:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 4114
2 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 3863
3 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S 5 3731
4 Steve Blenkinsop AUS Moyes RS 3.5 3647
5 Adam Stevens AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 3625
6 Cameron Tunbridge AUS Airborne Rev 14.5 3585
7 Hans Kiefinger GER Aeros GT 13.2 3536
8 John Smith NZL Moyes RS 4 3408
9 Anton Struganov RUS Aeros CombatL 13,7 09 3362
10 Grant Heaney AUS Moyes RS 3.5 3360
11 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 3350
12 Conrad Loten NZL Moyes RS 3.5 3325
13 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 4 3312
14 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 3299
15 Trent Brown AUS Moyes RS 3.5 3279

Wednesday cancelled due to high winds. It looks like we'll have three good final days.

Forbes Flatlands - task five »

January 10, 2012, 8:17:58 pm AEDT

Forbes Flatlands - task five

221 kilometer task in white skies

Forbes Flatlands|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett

The conditions looked a bit worse than the forecast with high diffuse large scale cloud over the tow paddock. Lighter winds than the previous day made for less anxiety in the tow paddock. Pilots got away quickly and hung together in the iffy conditions. Pilots starting getting to goal around 6:30 after the start window opened at 2:15 PM. We did expect a four hour task.

Scott Barrett across the line first, followed by Roland, Mitch, Rohan, Blenky. Over twenty four arrive at goal.

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Forbes Flatlands - task four results »

January 10, 2012, 0:18:47 AEDT

Forbes Flatlands - task four

So many at goal

Airborne Rev|Attila Bertok|Forbes Flatlands|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Grant Heaney|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Phil Schroder|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T2C

Happy pilots in goal: http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.com/2012/01/smiles.html

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Task 4:

# Name Nat Glider SS ES Time Total
1 Wolfgang Siess AUT Wills Wing T2C 14:45:39 16:50:52 02:05:13 946
2 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S 5 14:32:59 16:43:35 02:10:36 942
3 Jon snr Durand AUS Moyes RS 4 14:45:00 16:56:26 02:11:26 871
4 Jean Souviron FRA Moyes RS 3.5 14:33:36 16:52:42 02:19:06 867
5 Francoise Dieuzeide-banet FRA Moyes RX 3 14:43:29 16:55:54 02:12:25 865
6 Christian Baertschi SUI Aeros Combat 13.5 14:44:14 16:56:55 02:12:41 856
7 Phil Schroder AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 14:42:15 16:57:42 02:15:27 836
8 Grant Heaney AUS Moyes RS 3.5 14:42:03 16:59:10 02:17:07 827
9 Artur Dzamikhov RUS Moyes RS3.5 14:44:14 17:01:07 02:16:53 823
10 Guy Hubbard AUS Moyes RS 4 14:48:06 17:03:54 02:15:48 815

Totals:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 3131
2 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 4 2947
3 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S 5 2913
4 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 2893
5 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 2848
6 Grant Heaney AUS Moyes RS 3.5 2810
7 Adam Stevens AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 2726
8 Steve Blenkinsop AUS Moyes RS 3.5 2710
9 Jean Souviron FRA Moyes RS 3.5 2700
10 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes RS 3.5 2681

Forbes Flatlands - day three wrangles »

Forbes Flatlands - day three

Who could get back into line where

Curt Warren|dust devil|Evgeniya "Zhenya" Laritskaya|Forbes Flatlands|Scott Barrett|video

Curt Warren is blogging here: www.warrenwindsports.com.au/blog/curt-warren

Day May has a new video of interviews on launch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNLKpKeiOv8

Spoke briefly with Scott Barrett, the winner of day 2, on the launch situation. Seems that he got let off down wind in zero sink, when we were pretty clear that the tug pilots were required to tow everyone to 2,000' (maximum), upwind (north) of the launch area within 2 KM of the launch area. He landed, went to the back of the line, and then had to struggle with other pilots moving in front of him claiming weak link breaks, when perhaps that was not the full truth.

Scott was towed up again to over a dust devil and the line went slack at 300'. He was able to climb out from there, but now was late and started the race after 3 PM (the last start time), at 1000' AGL. He still made goal.

The issue of weak link breaks was discussed in a small committee today. The point is that pilots who have weak link breaks are slotted in behind the first four pilots (those on the dollies). If you just land for other reasons, you go to the end of the line. As there is not a good way for the launch crew to know who actually had a real weak link break, a new system will proposed tomorrow.

If you get off below 1,000' AGL for any reason you will be slotted in behind the sixth pilot after you land. Above that, you'll go to the end of the line. If you say that you got off at less than 1,000' AGL, get slotted in, and then when your track log is examined and it is found that you were above 1,000' AGL, you will receive a 30% penalty. Or perhaps another penalty like having to launch last (or is it first?).

http://leagull.blogspot.com/2012/01/preworlds-task-3-184-km.html

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Forbes Flatlands - day three results »

Forbes Flatlands - day three

Attila goes early and wins the day

Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Davide Guiducci|Forbes Flatlands|Grant Heaney|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Primoz Gricar|Roberto Nichele|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T2C


http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Day 3:

# Name Nat Glider SS ES Time Total
1 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S 5 14:08:23 16:58:04 02:49:41 940
2 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes RS 3.5 14:44:29 17:28:22 02:43:53 884
3 Roberto Nichele SUI Wills Wing T2C 144 14:14:15 17:07:01 02:52:46 880
4 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes RS 3.5 14:29:45 17:19:04 02:49:19 873
5 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 14:30:55 17:19:56 02:49:01 867
6 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 14:30:14 17:20:02 02:49:48 860
7 Conrad Loten NZL Moyes RS 3.5 14:10:08 17:09:50 02:59:42 841
8 Davide Guiducci ITA Moyes RS 3.5 14:24:42 17:19:07 02:54:25 838
9 Grant Heaney AUS Moyes RS 3.5 14:30:07 17:22:42 02:52:35 834
10 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 4 14:31:38 17:24:11 02:52:33 830

Totals after three days:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 2357
2 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 4 2216
3 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 2176
4 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes RS 3.5 2136
5 Anton Struganov RUS Aeros Combat L 13,7 09 2117
5 Roberto Nichele SUI Wills Wing T2C 144 2117
7 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 2097
8 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 2053
9 Steve Blenkinsop AUS Moyes RS 3.5 2036
10 Davide Guiducci ITA Moyes RS 3.5 2004

Forbes Flatlands - day two »

Forbes Flatlands 2012

Actual results

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Forbes Flatlands|Gerolf Heinrichs|Primoz Gricar|Roberto Nichele|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T2C


http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Eye witnesses had difficulty determining who was actually first into goal yesterday as there was a 400 meter cylinder instead of a line. Also pilots get their individual start times:

# Name Nat Glider SS Time Total
1 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 14:35:33 03:12:05 991
2 Roberto Nichele SUI WillsWing T2C 144 14:33:00 03:14:25 969
3 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 14:35:38 03:13:15 966
4 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 14:31:29 03:17:03 946
5 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes RS 3.5 14:33:39 03:16:18 932
6 Adam Parer AUS Moyes RS 3.5 14:31:06 03:18:39 921
7 Gerolf Heinrichs AUT Moyes RX 3.5 14:30:50 03:19:38 914
8 Anton Struganov RUS Aeros CombatL 13,7 09 14:30:55 03:19:14 909
9 Jean Souviron FRA Moyes RS 3.5 14:31:15 03:20:17 904
10 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 4 14:30:38 03:21:57 890

Total after two days:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 1497
2 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 1458
3 Edoardo Giudiceandrea ITA WW T2C 154 1455
4 Jean Souviron FRA Moyes RS 3.5 1394
5 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 4 1385
6 Anton Struganov RUS Aeros CombatL 13,7 09 1310
7 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 1305
8 Gerolf Heinrichs AUT Moyes RX 3.5 1297
9 Cameron Tunbridge AUS Airborne Rev 14.5 1278
10 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 1271

2011 Canungra Classic »

October 29, 2011, 10:33:51 pm PDT

2011 Canungra Classic

Final results

Canungra Classic 2011|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Nick Purcell|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2011/index.html

  Pilot Glider Total
1 Jonny Durand Jnr Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 4232
2 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 3938
3 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne Rev 3837
4 Dave May Moyes Litespeed RS4 3652
5 Adam Stevens Airborne Rev 13.5 3473
6 Scott Barrett Airborne Rev 3185
7 Jon Durand Sr Moyes Litespeed RS4 3172
8 Nick Purcell Moyes Litespeed S4 3131
9 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 3028
10 David Newton Moyes Litespeed RS4 2988

2011 Canungra Classic »

October 27, 2011, 8:11:34 MDT

2011 Canungra Classic

Jon Junior wins the day, still in the lead

Canungra Classic 2011|David Seib|Facebook|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2011/index.html

Place Pilot Time Total
1 Jonny Durand Jnr 2:22:44 966
2 Steve Blenkinsop 2:30:06 914
3 Dave May 2:30:05 912
4 Scott Barrett 2:39:51 910
5 Trent Brown 2:43:25 860
6 David Seib 3:03:52 825
7 Grant Heaney 3:06:46 808
8 Rohan Holtkamp 3:09:40 795
9 Adam Stevens 3:36:23 752
10 John Smith 3:38:34 735


Apparently Jonny is flying with wheels on his Moyes RS 3.5 as he had an operation on his ACL's not too long ago.

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Airborne REV VG, 36:1

Tue, Sep 13 2011, 9:13:01 am MDT

Plenty of VG power

Airborne REV|Scott Barrett

Scott Barrett «Scott Barrett» writes:

My glider has a VG ratio of 6x4, that is 24:1. It is very easy to use. It goes on and off very smoothly. The new Rev has a ratio of 6x6, that is 36:1. It is a little better again compared to my experience with the 24:1. The new Rev has six pulleys along the front of the keel (anchored at the nose plate). It terminates to input into onto another pulley set, that turns around at the rear haulback catch and the rear of the crossbar wedge, it has another six pulleys, giving 36:1 reduction.

We are very happy with the VG system. Yesterday Shane crashed trying to top land in rotor. We took the downtube off, slid the rope out and replaced the downtube very quickly by sliding a rope through it and pinning the ends and wires, there are no pulleys in the downtube. All of the VG system is easy to see, access, lubricate, replace ropes etc.

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Helmet⁣s - the CIVL Bureau should form a working group »

Thu, Aug 11 2011, 9:26:49 am CDT

Following the petition for a suspension of the requirement for certified helmets

CIVL|Gerolf Heinrichs|helmet|Mart Bosman|Scott Barrett|Zac Majors

There has been a movement to form a Working Group of CIVL to review the requirement for certified (EN 966) helmets in Category 1 competitions. This became a very controversial issue at the last Worlds and many pilots (the overwhelming majority of pilots at the Worlds) have asked for a suspension of the rule for the 2012 pre-Worlds. To address the issue of what to do about the rule after the pre-Worlds, pilots are asking for a Working Group that will address the issues of certification and the appropriateness of the EN 966 certification for hang gliding. The point is not to come up with a new certification for hang gliding helmets but rather to choose an appropriate path for the future of helmets in hang gliding.

I have listened to a number of pilots make recommendations for members of the Working Group and I have the following suggestions:

Scott Barrett (see his previous article on being allowed to use helmets with "higher" certification than EN 966), Gerolf Heinrichs (he raised the issue at the Worlds and feels that EN 966 is not appropriate for hang glider pilots), Mart Bosman (concerned that pilots were placing certification stickers on non certified helmets), Zac Majors (felt that other helmets were more appropriate for hang glider pilots), and Hagen Lobitz (an engineer who felt that the modification made by pilots and allowed at the Worlds were making the helmets more dangerous).

I ask the CIVL Bureau to appoint these interested individuals to a Working Group to work on the helmet certification issue and to immediately suspend the existing rule for the 2012 (January) pre-Worlds.

Better helmets

Mon, Jul 25 2011, 8:26:18 am EDT

Can't I wear a better helmet that the EN 966 helmets?

helmet|helmet|Scott Barrett

Scott Barrett «Scott Barrett» writes:

I propose that multiple standards may be allowed and that the the European standard be met as a minimum. The European standard for helmets offers inferior levels of protection in comparison to the superior Bell standard or the Australian AS/NZS 2063. The British standard is an equivalent to the European standard.

As an indication of the performance of the respective products, it can be seen that the EU helmets have 1/2 the thickness of energy absorbing layers than that of an Australian standard helmet. That translates to a European helmet applying up to four times more load to the occupants head than the superior Australian standard.

I want any competitor to be able to exercise their right to protect themselves better than the EU standard when they fly, without penalty. This is to be encouraged. At no stage should rule making lead to enforcing a lower level of safety on a competitor. A competitor may choose the lower standard if they wish. I personal do not wish to use the lower EU standard for myself.

The Lubin helmet that Gerolf prefers and feels is safer for him contains less foam that the EN966 standard.

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2011 NSW State Titles - after day 6 »

February 25, 2011, 8:51:11 EST

2011 NSW State Titles

Scott Barrett wins the day

Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|New South Wales State Titles 2011|Scott Barrett

http://soaringspot.com/nswhgst/

http://soaringspot.com/nswhgst/results/flex/total/day6.htm

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Scott wins, Jonny second, and Adam Stevens third.

2011 NSW State Titles - after day 4 »

February 23, 2011, 8:54:14 EST

2011 NSW State Titles

Jonny moves into the lead, Curt falls down charging out in front

Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|New South Wales State Titles 2011|Scott Barrett

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Dave Seib wins, Scott Barrett second and Conrad third.

2010 Gulgong Classic - the video »

Thu, Feb 10 2011, 10:07:34 am PST

Videoed professionally

Gulgong Classic 2010|photo|Scott Barrett|video

The video here.

Scott Barrett «Scott Barrett» writes:

The press were invited to attend the Gulgong classic. They had access to tugs for air to air filming and were able to get still photos of Mark Russel being attacked by the local eagle. It was a story picked up by other newspapers around the world. I hope that it makes it easy for them to provide us publicity next year.

The newspapers are also publishing video now.

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Hunting for lift in the Hunter Valley

February 3, 2011, 6:59:22 AEDT

Hunting for lift in the Hunter Valley

Where are we supposed to go?

Ricky Duncan|Scott Barrett

Last Saturday there was a great turnout from club members for a day of flying from, as it turned out after a bit of driving through the forest, Brokenback Mountain fifteen kilometers northwest of Cessnock, in the Hunter Valley (west of Newcastle). The Duncans were there to fly the latest version of the Airborne REV. Almost every other familiar face from the Newcastle Hang Gliding Club were also there.

Scott Barrett and I launched from the knob while everyone else went to the towers on that day. Ricky Duncan reported 1000 fpm to cloud base (which was not that high). I found broken 100 to 200 fpm to 1,000' over launch, then pushing forward to get over launch again, found nothing but sink all the way to the LZ. I was batting 1000, with two bomb outs for two tries at Brokenback.

Cameron, Scott, and Shane Duncan were the three pilots that made goal 80+ kilometers west that day to Pete's, past Denman.

On Wednesday Scott, Shaun (from Ireland), Moe (from Newcastle) and I with Brian as our driver headed back to Brokenback for a day with a much different forecast. Light north winds, high cloud base, good chance of thunderstorms, 100 degrees.

It was blue at the launch when we got there at 11 AM but there were cu's to the north. By the time we were ready to launch at noon, there were cu's over us. Moe was off first and got right up. Shaun, who had never flown there was next and up he went. I was the next pilot and after a little wait, I took off and went right up also. I was soon in 600 fpm to 1,000' over the launch. This seemed like a much better start than my previous two flights.

Scott didn't want to step up the the launch as the thermal I was in was too strong on launch so he waited. Then the thermal stopped and there was no lift to be found all along the north facing ridge line. Shaun and Moe had already come down to my altitude or below and were heading out toward the LZ. I thought that the jig was up.

Moe headed back to make another pass over launch hoping that it would turn on again. I watched Shaun assuming that he was headed for the LZ but then he started to turn. I headed for him from above the ridgeline and found a bit of lift just before him out away from the launch but still over the lower ridges of the hill side.

The wind was actually strong (13 mph) out of the northwest turning to the north at higher altitudes. Shaun came and joined in under me and we thermalled out as Moe hung on below us but didn't catch it and eventually landed in the designated LZ. Shaun and I worked that thermal to 7,800', cloud base.

Scott had finally launched but he didn't appear to be doing well. Now we were climbing and high so it was hard to tell, but we never saw him get much above the ridge height and after a while we lost sight of him.

Shaun and I had only the vaguest idea of where to go. The goal was the soccer pitch next to Scott's house in Belmont next to the beach off to the east. We just knew that we had to go east, even in the strong north wind. Well, we also knew that we had to go around Lake Macquarie on the north side. We could see the beaches near Newcastle from our commanding height, but it was hard to make out the Lake.

I decided to head off assuming (correctly, as it turned out) that Shaun would stick with me. We were under plenty of clouds and I headed for more of them to the east. I found a little thermal just before Cessnock and climbed to 7,200', but not back to cloudbase.

Now here it was difficult to figure out what to do. To the north (upwind) the valley was open and flat (there were lots of hills and trees around us) and that looked like the safe way to go before heading more east again. The clouds were forming in the convergence zone just to our east and there were flimsy cu's just to our west.

I headed northeast into the wind to get under the convergence clouds and to get around the large forested area east of Cessnock and toward Kurri Kurri. I found lots of sink, which had not been the case so far in the flight. Shaun to my west found some lift and started circling and drifting south. I found some lift but it was weak and didn't make up for the bad sink getting to it. I wasn't able to climb back to cloud base.

I pushed north again and down to 2,000' AGL I found 500 fpm. I had been skipping lift to find this thermal and I took it back to 5,700' where I lost it. Now I may have been able to go find it again, but there were black clouds to the northeast and I figured I could find better lift there. I should have looked around more thoroughly.

Meanwhile Scott had been watching us all along after he did get up to our west. He was above Shaun and I as we struggled going into the wind (btw, the wrong direction) and then climbing out. Scott made it his job to get to cloud base in the convergence. His photo shows the two levels of cloud base, the east side from the sea breeze being lower:

The town in the picture is Kurri Kurri.

While Scott was working his way to cloud base (the higher base) at the convergence clouds, I was heading northeast under them trying to find another thermal over the shaded ground or over the sunny ground next to the shaded areas. Scott was hanging back on the west side in the better lift.

I didn't find a thermal (no surprise there) and landed northeast of Kurri Kurri on the south side of the swamp that goes as far as Maitland to the north. I was headed in the wrong direction and needed to go southeast instead northeast.

Shaun got up and landed about twelve kilometers from me not finding anything after the convergence clouds. He was also too far north.

Scott got to cloud base at the convergence and then went on glide and made it back to our goal at Belmont North. He landed in the soccer field. I had looked in that direction and had not seen open areas but lots of trees and hills. That is the way that you have to go.

I landed 1.4 km behind a locked gate in a very pleasant field at the edge of the swamp (which wasn't that swampy). Thanks to Moe for helping me get the glider and harness out. Thanks to Brian for driving as close as possible. Shaun was next to a main highway. Scott was home painting his house when I got back.

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2011 Bogong Cup, Day 7, task 6 »

January 22, 2011, 6:21:12 pm AEDT

2011 Bogong Cup

A rowdy day

Blue Sky|Bogong Cup 2011|Grant Heaney|PG|Scott Barrett

The forecast was for twelve to thirteen knots out of the north northwest at 6,000'. The surface winds were forecasted by the regional BOM to be light northeast. There was a chance of thunderstorms in the mountains. The wind forecast was for lighter winds than the day before when we called the day.

The lift would be good and the cloud base at 6,000' to 7,000' which is more in line with what we've been seeing this week. The 6,000' winds were actually forecasted to pick up to fifteen knots by five o'clock.

Given the wind direction (north northwest) and speed (at launch seven knots), we headed once again for Mystic hill next to Bright. The sky was full of scuddy looking clouds at middle heights with some higher cirrus. The scuddy clouds were mixed with cu's so there was a bit of visible lift. We could also see dust rising from the road coming up the hill.

Given the mixture of clouds and shade on the launch the paraglider pilots were not barreling off the hill. Many that did didn't get up.

Grant Heaney was the first hang glider pilot to launch followed by Phil Schroeder. They found lift over the ridge to the left. The rest of us followed and we climbed out. I got to 6,000'. I was the last of the competition crew to launch and as I climbed up I saw Scott and other pilots much lower over Clear Spot. This area was going away from the task, although there was a nice cloud over them it didn't look like they were climbing. The task line was straight to Mt. Porepunkah.

I headed right over Bright and toward the southern flank of Mt. Porepunkah. I can see cu's there with black bottoms and I figured I could get up there and come back and get a later start time. Starting at 6,000' I didn't find any lift until I was down to 2,500' on the hill side under the cu's. The lift was weak, less than 100 fpm at first, but I had nothing to lose and it wasn't turbulent.

I stuck with it and after ten minutes it got stronger and I was able to climb to 7,400'. I was also drifting back toward the start cylinder which was only 1.4 km away. It was easy to get the new start time at 2:15 PM and head north high toward the peak at Mt. Porepunkah.

There were scudy cu's to left of the peak and blue sky over it. I was heading into a fifteen mph headwind. I was sinking like a rock and not getting very far forward so I veered toward the clouds to the left. I came in under them at 4,000' (after only gliding for seven kilometers) and started working the lift.

What I wasn't aware of was that Scott Barrett had been watching me on the Mt. Porepunkah hill side from his vantage point over at Clear Spot. When he saw me getting up well, he came in under me by about 1,500'. Soon thereafter Andy came over, but I missed them entirely.

After two nice smooth thermals even in the high winds, I found this next thermal to be distressingly turbulent. It wasn't worth staying in at 120 fpm and I didn't want to go further into the hills which were on the lee side of the winds. I decided to land.

I headed out over the Ovens valley and under other cu's to see if there was a chance for non-turbulent lift, but the air continued to be unpleasant. I found a nice big field near the Berry Farm to land at.

Meanwhile Scott and Andy got up where I had earlier and Scott got a 2:30 start time. They headed over Mt. Porepunkah and found lift out in the Happy Valley. Andy missed a thermal and landed out there after Scott and Andy left a thermal that was too rowdy. After getting the turnpoint in Happy Valley and going into it two kilometers Scott made it back to Mt. Porepunkah which allowed him to get back up and make it to goal at Mt. Beauty air field to win the day. The minimum time set for the task was one hour and he took an hour and ten minutes.

There was significant cu-nimb development in the mountains and out on the flats, but nothing that caused us any concern.

Scott won the competition. I think I was second.

I liked the AAT format and hope that we can use it more if we can integrate it with GAP (and get the Australian AAA rating for the competition). The format allows for a lot more creativity from the pilots. I'll see what I can do to make that work. Wesley may have some ideas after talking with paraglider pilots.

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2011 Bogong Cup, Day 3, Task 3 »

January 19, 2011, 7:23:20 AEDT

2011 Bogong Cup

We head out to the flats from Buffalo

Belinda Boulter|Bogong Cup 2011|PG|Scott Barrett

The regional forecast was for 15 to 25 km/h southwest winds, but the XCSkies and RASP showed little to no winds at altitude. The lift was supposed to be 600-700 fpm to the top of lift at 9,000' with no cu's.

The cu's were forming over the hills before 10 AM. The winds were light at Mt. Hotham and Falls Creek so we decided to go to Buffalo and to fly out into the flats. Scott Barrett has a VHF radio for aircraft frequencies so we could accompany him through the CTAF at Wangaratta if needed. We set a task that didn't require this:

We would be flying under an 8,500' ceiling for the Albury airspace (and later 4,500') but we would be just outside the Wangaratta CTAF airspace (if we didn't go in too far to the turnpoint cylinder). Scott would be there to warn any traffic on 119.1 if we went into the cylinder.

We drove up to the Buffalo launch and while there were mixed winds in the valley it was trickling in at launch with the clouds 1000' over launch coming over the back but not fast. With so few pilots it was a joy to be setting up just behind launch without all the usual hassles.

Just before we were ready to launch Olli and Lukas (from Austria, not Germany) flew over launch having launched at Mystic Hill earlier. That was a good sign as we now knew for certain that there was lift out front.

I took off first and headed for the rocks to the left. Olli was circling there and it was easy to get to cloud base at 1,000' over launch (quite low) at 5,300'. I waited around for the others to launch and get up. Carey got to cloud base but then headed out into the valley in front of launch instead of going to the northwest along the rocks. I never saw him again but heard later that he was way behind.

Olli, Lukas, and Andy headed out to the next set of rocky cliffs to the northwest and Scott and I followed. We let the three pilots in front of us blow past the five kilometer start circle. I don't think that Lukas or Olli knew what the task was and besides they probably didn't want to fly out to Rutherglen.

Scott and I stayed back and watched the others from inside the 5km start cylinder. We worked some weak lift then I decided to go. Scott found better lift just outside the start cylinder and got to cloud base before going back to snag a latter start. With these AAT tasks your time starts when you cross the start cylinder.

Olli and Andrew were circling in lift under nice cu's further down the ridgeline. I came in under them and climbed up. There were three nice thermals along the ridge and I climbed back up to cloud base at 5,500'. Scott came in below me. I had climbed up to Lukas. Olli had headed out toward Myrtleford Hill. Andy was out in front.

 I found one more thermal under a small cu and worked 360 fpm to 5,700' with Scott again coming in below with Lukas. I could see Andy turning under a cu, four kilometers away toward the ridge west of Myrtleford. It was in the direction of the western edge of the ten kilometer first turnpoint that was centered at the Gapstead winery on the intersection of the Snow Road to Milawa.

I didn't find any lift under Andy, but a cu formed a little further along and I got to 4,200' there before diving into the ridgeline. Scott ignored the thermal I was in and headed to the ridgeline directly from our last shared thermal. He headed for the clear cut area. I then saw him turning near or under Andy who was to the east closer to Myrtleford, up above the ridgeline and climbing reasonably well.

I went for Andy as I saw Scott get lower and lower then get flushed back toward Mt. Buffalo. I made it over the ridgeline to the north side going through some heavy sink to arrive well below Andy at 2,700' to hook into 300 fpm. That got me to 4,400' just below Andy. Scott landed shortly thereafter.

I headed out north toward the western edge of the next turnpoint (twenty kilometer radius) but there were no cu's ahead. It was all blue out on the flats. Then a small cu popped up seven kilometers to the north and I went for it. Down to 2,100' I found 160 fpm and stayed with it as I drifted back to the south away from the next turnpoint.

The thermal faded out at 3,100' and I saw some scraggly cu's over the hill sides above the Gapstead winery. I had lost Andy as he came in above me at the last thermal out on the flats. I was able to climb to 4,100' above the winery and on the hillside then head northwest to get back out on the flats and away from the trees.

The eastern edge of the second turnpoint was to the west and I had to get out on the flats if I wanted to get to it. I was just trying to stay up as I wasn't getting high. I pushed over to the flats south of the Pines (a south facing launch) and worked my way slowly across the flats to the northwest in light winds, mostly out of the west. I didn't find any lift greater than 200 fpm.

I got to the ridge east of the Pines launch and worked 180 fpm to 3,600' (about 3,000' AGL) and then headed west down the ridgeline to get the eastern edge of the turnpoint cylinder. There were trees and difficult retrieve areas to the north and I wanted to get back out on the flats as I was so low.

Down to 1,500' AGL I saw Andy's glider under a tree. I headed further west and down to 1,000' (and assuming that I was going to land) I found 150 fpm and drifted back toward the east at seven mph, drifting back into the hills and away from the flats. I was so low that I wanted to stay near the flats so that I could have a good landing and have an easy retrieve. It was nothing but dirt roads up in the hills even where there were fields to land in.

With the west south west wind I worked thermals of less than 100 fpm for the next five thermals always diving off to the northwest, finding something at a little over 1,000' AGL and drifting back over the hills in the wind. Next diving down into the flats to the northwest to 600' AGL I found 200 fpm and finally climbed above 3,000' to 3,800 (3,200' AGL). I was thirty five kilometers south of the goal and there was no one else out there. I assumed that all the other pilots were down or way behind me. Lukas had landed near Scott.

The wind turned more south southwesterly at about seven km/h. I was working lift that averaged over 150 fpm and mostly staying a bit higher. I could see the Hume highway ahead. Belinda and Scott were in the car just below me on the highway. I kept working northwest to get around the trees on the hillsides, and to be close enough for retrieval if needed,

I pressed ahead but finally my luck and time ran out and I landed north of Springhurst next to the highway sixteen kilometers short of goal. I assume that I won the day.

The lift continues to be weak for the most part here in northeastern Victoria (where it isn't flooding). It is very green here and there were no cu's after I left the winery. You could see the low inversion. I flew under the Albury airspace for much of the way. There was no air traffic at Wangaratta. Scott monitored it in the car and called on the frequency. I didn't enter that CTAF.

The flight on the HOLC, on XContest, on Leonardo

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2011 Bogong Cup, Day 2, Task 2 »

January 17, 2011, 10:09:31 pm AEDT

2011 Bogong Cup

We go to Emu

Bogong Cup 2011|sailplane|Scott Barrett|weather

We met again at Treats an 10 AM and found out that Olli turned around and landed back at Mystic after getting over the Happy Valley and seeing that the lift was dying. So Scott Barrett won the day with Olli second. The rest of us were third, except the pilots that didn't launch in fourth.

The weather forecast for today from RASP was for southwest winds, but the mountain weather sites at Mt. Hothan and Falls Creek were showing north at ten to twelve knots. XCSkies predicted west winds at seven knots at launch level at Mt. Emu with nine knots southwest winds at 6,000'.

The regional forecast was for west to southwest winds. The large regional flows shown in RASP called for southwest winds. We decided to go up Mt. Emu as we had also heard that it was passable with two wheel drive cars.

The road up Emu was negotiable by two wheel drive, but it wasn't pretty. Later, when the drivers were going down, a tree had fallen across the road which caused quite a bit of havoc.  Very fortuitously the fire brigade was checking the roads and clearing them and came along just in time to cut away the tree.

On the way up we saw east winds going up the face of the Tawonga Gap Launch, north winds in the valley, west winds in the valley going going  up to launch. At the Emu launch itself it was right up the face, which faces southwest. These were thermals coming up the launch. The wind was out of the west.

We set up and launched around 1:30. Carey first, then me, then Scott, then Andrew. Later others. The lift was very weak and the wind was fourteen mph out of the west. The thermals were trashed as could be seen by the few blow apart cu's that had been nearby. You could watch the cu's on the west side of the valley (there were one or two) get blown east then disappear about half way across the valley.

We worked the north launch face in the sunshine working less than 200 fpm for maybe five or ten minutes barely getting back to launch level. Then Scott, followed by Andrew and Carey headed north up the valley along the ridge line. I stayed back a bit and watched slowly moving north and staying in the zero sink.

They continued and after a while they got lower and lower and it looked like Andrew and Carey were landing. Scott had jumped back to the ridge line a bit and stayed up but I couldn't see him. I went back to the north launch and climbed up 600' over launch, much higher than these three left with.

There was a sailplane on the ridge. He had gone out to where Scott was and came back low under me. Not a good sign of lift down that direction.

I decided that I didn't like the air and headed for the valley where it turns out there was plenty of buoyant air. The wind was strong out of the west so I landed in a field east of the airfield. Half an hour later Wesley launched, flew down over to the airfield and found a solid core of 600 fpm to 600' over launch. He went north up the valley found nothing came back and went back up again at 500 fpm. Finally after a bit more of this he was able to land at the airfield.

Scott stayed in the air for a while but he didn't get past Coral Bank. Not a great day to say the least.

Looks like a good day tomorrow with light winds.

The winds were north until 6 PM at Mt. Hotham and Falls Creek and then turned south southeast. This is just a hard place to call the winds.

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2011 Bogong Cup, Day 1, Task 1 »

January 16, 2011, 10:03:01 pm AEDT

2011 Bogong Cup, Day 1, Task 1

A rough day in the air at Mystic Hill

Bogong Cup 2011|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|PG|Scott Barrett|Wesley "Wes" Hill

We started the first day of the 2011 Bogong Cup with a 10 AM pilot meeting at Treats, a gourmet restaurant near Settler's Tavern. Wesley Hill, the meet organizer and scorekeeper, brought tee-shirts for us all to start off the meet. The meet is free and we only have to pay $20 for membership to fly Mystic Hill.

We set up an AAT task (assigned area task) with ten kilometer radii around a turnpoint at the Ovens intersection next to Myrtleford hill, over to a ten kilometer turnpoint at Gundowring and then to the Mt. Beauty airport. AAT tasks are won by the pilots with the fastest average speed. There is a minimum time that you have to fly, in our case two hours. You can fly as far into the turnpoint cylinders as you want as you judge how long it will take you to complete the task. It's pretty easy to understand.

We got to launch at Mystic Hill with a XCSkies forecast of seven knots north northwest winds at launch up to eleven knots at 8,000' (top of the lift on a blue day) west southwest. The climb rates looked good.

There were a good number of paraglider pilots around, a few in the air, and many launching. Olli Barthelmes, launched first, then Carey from Finland, and even though they are below launch, I launched into the nice winds coming straight up the launch.

I went over to the left to Olli and Carey and the lift was broken and weak. Olli then dove to the right ridge and Carey and I followed. Olli didn't get up and landed. Carey followed and then a few minutes later I landed with them. Soon Scott Barrett launched and then landed with us as did all the pilots in the Bogong Cup. And plenty of paraglider pilots also.

We all went back up again at 2 PM to give it another try. Carey was up the hill first and off first. He stayed just above launch. Olli and Scott launched and got up. I launched and didn't get up. Carey and Andrew landed and that ended the day for us. Scott and Olli fought the winds which were much higher than forecasted.

Scott got over to Clear Spot and worked up the spines. Olli turned downwind and jumped over to the ridge line to the right to get to Mt. Porepunkah. Scott got high at the Clear Spot and jumped over to the ridges to Mt. Porepunkah and worked them to get over the mountain. On the radio we heard him go to Mt. Porepunkah three times as the winds and blew him back away from the Ovens turnpoint.

Scott got up and watched Olli behind him. Scott was able to make the turnpoints and land twenty one kilometers from goal. He didn't know where Olli ended up.

Don't know how the scoring will go. It is by position only. This is our first attempt at this type of task. It should be interesting.

2010 Gulgong Classic - Final results »

Mon, Nov 29 2010, 9:47:29 am PST

2010 Gulgong Classic

Scott Barrett reflects on the Airborne REV

Gulgong Classic 2010|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|photo|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|video

Total results

Scott Barrett «Scott Barrett» writes:

I have been pleasantly surprised to find the time to go to a hang gliding competition and I have had a good time in Gulgong. I was lucky to fly well and have been able to determine that the new Airborne REV is the best glider for handling and performance.

Racing every day was great, and, as you reported, I won three days out of the six. Curt and Jonny shared the other day wins, both of them are flying well. Rohan also did a good share of leading the gaggles in his new REV 13.5. Cameron (who was third on the sixth day) was an important team player on a number of days, leading with us on the REV 14.5. All of these guys are fun to fly with, working to keep the pace and very cooperative. It is a great atmosphere in the Australian national team.

Often we were behind Peter Dall in his NEW ATOS when we claimed our day wins. Unfortunate that I landed before goal on one day, taking me out of first place.

I invited the local press out and enjoyed getting photos and video for them in the early morning. The photo op flights were in very smooth air, the nil wind landings with smooth and a lot of fun on the big airstrip. I returned home to Newcastle with a new Airborne Fun 190 and Monica wants to return to the sand dunes on it this summer.

On the new product front, Cameron has been happy with the big REV 14.5. He describes it as floaty and after spending a season on the 13.5, he finds that in comparison it takes an exaggerated control movement, particularly in pitch (it slows down a lot in turns), and he would not want anything to be changed on it. I expect he will stay on the big REV for the season.

Out and return tasks allowed us to arrive back at the start at the airfield, put the glider in the hangar and take the new Airborne light trike up after the task and thermal it. It was also used for tree top height flights around the airfield in smooth evening air. Based on a wing of large Sting 3 origins, combined with a light short packable minimal trike base (with retracts) and a Bailey four stroke engine. The self launcher is very slow and responsive. Fuel economy is amazing, it has a big tank, however I am sure that one liter of fuel would be sufficient for a couple of days of local soaring flights.

I have flown a lot of different trikes and this one stands out as being just how you would imagine the perfect easy to fly "Skyhook." Let's see how it is marketed, that could be a good name for it.

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2010 Gulgong Classic Day Six and Final

November 26, 2010, 9:02:03 PST

2010 Gulgong Classic Day Six

Scott Barrett wins for the third time, Jonny in second, first overall

Cameron Tunbridge|Curt Warren|Grant Heaney|Gulgong Classic 2010|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop

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Tough day but some smoked it home, for example Scotty and Jonny. You had to be right up on top of the lift today to gain advantage, if you dropped low you were screwed because the climbs were really broken and weak.

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Day Six Results.

Total.

# Pilot Glider Time Points
1. Scott Barrett Airborne REV 13.5 02:02:10 1000
2. Jonny Durand Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 02:02:57 982.89
3. Cameron Tunbridge Airborne REV 13.5 02:07:47 927.26
4. Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed 02:08:02 924.88
5. Yosuhiro Noma Moyes Litespeed RS 4 02:08:48 917.72
6. Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 02:09:08 914.68
7. Rohan Holtkamp Airborne Rev 02:09:44 909.31
8. Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS 4 02:15:35 862.05

On the seventh day the winds were too strong, so that meet ended. The final results can be found here: http://soaringspot.com/agc2010/results/flex/day-by-day.html

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2010 Gulgong Classic Day Five

November 25, 2010, 8:52:01 PST

2010 Gulgong Classic Day Five

Scott Barrett wins again, Jonny still in first

Gulgong Classic 2010|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Scott Barrett

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Five turnpoints. This task has everything, upwind, downwind, crosswind. It'll be a tough one. They say it's only five knots on the ground and at base, but it looks windier than that here at the strip. Chance of overdevelopment today, we could be avoiding showers.

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Day Five Results.

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2010 Gulgong Classic Day Three

November 23, 2010, 9:28:26 PST

2010 Gulgong Classic Day Three

Scott Barrett wins, is in second place

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Three days in and you start to get a feel for the air. Same wind direction for the last three days and you start to find thermals in the same spots, so everything tends to be quicker because people get more confident in their decision making.

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Small/women hang gliders

March 25, 2010, 8:47:47 EDT

Small/women hang gliders

Technical committees/work groups for CIVL

CIVL|Dennis Pagen|PG|Scott Barrett

Heather's report from the Plenary.

Dennis Pagen has drafted a letter to ask manufacturers how they recommend their gliders' sprogs should be measured, and in particular for smaller gliders. This ties in with the Australian proposal about manufacturers looking at certification standards to accommodate smaller gliders. It was felt that the letter from Dennis will adequately address this in the near future.

Other Australian proposals regarding working groups and conflicts of interest were discussed and modified as felt appropriate to achieve the best results. The following motions were passed:

Working groups are to include competition pilots, technical experts and CIVL representatives where appropriate. Recommendations from these working groups will be made to the delegates and CIVL Bureau.

When recommendations are made by technical working groups these recommendations are to be given all due consideration.

That members of work groups should have the FAI Code of Ethics and its references to Conflicts of Interest brought to their attention and that CIVL should follow the actions in that document regarding any disclosures of conflict of interest.

The background for this is found here. Scott Barrett asked for decisions at CIVL to be made not by some political process but be based on the technical aspects of the issue. He has also previously raised the issue of small gliders (and women pilots being unfairly penalized by the DHV procedures).

So now we have a criteria to determine if CIVL is in fact involving competition pilots and technically competent individuals in their work groups going forward. We see that Rob in’t Groen (competition pilot) will be involved in the sprog measurement issue. I wonder when hang glider manufacturers like Wills Wing will be involved.

You can see who is involved in the helmet working group here. I don't know if any of these people has any technical expertise in helmets. I am not familiar with any of the people involved with the Paragliding Open Class Technical Working Group, found here.

It appears to me that we need real experts on the sprog work group, and on the small/women's glider work group (and we'll need to form that one).