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Arrival day and free practise.
Nordic Championships in Norsjö, northern Sweden, were dominated by Swedish pilots. FAI class was won by David Lundströn. Long-term champion Ola Fremming finished second and Bernt Olson followed in third position.
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Results from the second Finnish Championship competition held in Oulu.
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Results from Finnish Championship competition in Turku. Only one round of Sport-class was flown because of the heavy wind.
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10 best pilots continued their fight for the title of European Champion. The day consisted of two F07 final programs and two unknown schedules.
Final results:
- Christophe Paysant-Le Roux (FRA)
- Roland Matt (LIE)
- Sebastiano Silvestri (ITA)
- Gerhard Mayr (AUT)
- Wolfgang Matt (LIE)
- Benoît Paysant-Le Roux (FRA)
- Bernhard Schaden (SUI)
- Marc Rubin (SUI)
- Markus Zeiner (AUT)
- Helmut Danksagmueller (AUT)
The banquet was held at 1900 meters altitude at Mount Stanserhorn. Pictures by Juho Karppinen.
19 best pilots out of 59 competitors took part in semifinal rounds. Two F07 programs were flown and based on the results 10 pilots are going into finals.
Participants in order of preliminary results and their equipment:
- MATT Roland LIE – Beryll + Hacker C50 XL Comp
- PAYSANT-LE ROUX Christophe FRA – Oxalys + YS170DZ
- SILVESTRI Sebastiano ITA – Angel S + Hacker C50 XL Comp
- PAYSANT-LE ROUX Benoît FRA – Oxalys + YS170DZ
- CARRIER Stéphane FRA – Oxalys + YS170DZ
- MATT Wolfgang LIE – Beryll + Hacker C50 XL Comp
- ZEINER Markus AUT – Impression – YS160DZ
- DANKSAGMUELLER Helmut AUT – Pinnacle + YS160DZ
- WISSINGER Markus GER – Own design/manufacturing “Dream Theater II” + Hacker C50 XL Comp
- MAYR Gerhard AUT – Own design/manufacturing “Daggrom” + YS160DZ
- RUBIN Marc SUI – Onyx + Hacker C50 XL Comp
- BRESCI Andrea ITA- Impression + YS160DZ
- SCHADEN Bernhard SUI – Twister + YS170DZ
- LAMMEL Christian GER – Impression + Hacker C50 XL Comp
- PRAT Isaac ESP – Angel’s Shadow E + Hacker C50 15XL
- FREMMING Ola NOR – Oxalys + OS140RX-EFI
- GRASSELLI Andrea ITA – Impact + Hacker C50 XL Comp
- ULSAMER Günther GER – Excalibur + Hacker C50 XL Comp
- MARQUET Philippe BEL – Beryll + Hacker C50 XL Comp
The day was dramatical. Stephane Carrier from France lost both of his Oxalys planes because of radio interference problems. His planes went into fail-safe mode on both of his semifinal flights and crashed uncontrolled into ground. Very sad incident because he flew very well and would have definitely managed to go into finals.
In addition to F3A flying, there were nice show flights during the lunch brake. The show included a jet with turbine motor, gliders with 6m wingspan starting both with electric motors and aerotowing, and 3m Katana-s with 4 electric motors plus huge pack of lipos. In addition we saw a depron plane which can fly both forward and backward. Photos by Juho Karppinen.
The fourth and the last preliminary round. The weather was much better but very cold. Even some snow had been raining on top of near mountains creating true Alpine landscape.
Our day started early since Lassi’s turn was third and the round started at 7.00am. It was dark when we started assemblying planes on the airfield. But the sunrise looked great with white mountains on the background. Photographer Juho Karppinen.
The second competition day was again rainy.
After yesterdays humidity Lassi’s plane was out of trim and made his flying difficult. Even it was raining hard during the evening, we went to a practise site to make some trimming flights. Pictures taken by Juho Karppinen.
The first competition day was flown on Sunday in rainy conditions. It was raining practically the whole day but clouds were high and didn’t cause much troubles for competition. The day was completed almost in schedule but everything was soaking wet and the field had turned into mud. The weather forecast doesn’t expect better conditions until Thursday. Photographer was Juho Karppinen.
Official practise took place on Saturday and we were able to get used to the contest site. Mountains behind the airfield offered interesting experience for pilots not used to such landscape. However, flying in front of mountains was easier than we first expected.
The sun was shining almost the whole day but it started raining just before the last flights. After a small delay flying could be continued and opening ceremony started almost on time. Photos were taken by Juho Karppinen.
Some pictures from the contest site and practise field at Chum. Pictures taken by Juho Karppinen.
