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WC 2005: Semifinals

Published on 26.8.2005 in Photos, Reportage and Events.

Based on the results of preliminary rounds, 30 best pilots continued their competition further. Two F-05 final schedules were flown by every pilot, one for both set of judges. Based on the results the 10 best pilots were selected for finals. Photographs by Juho Karppinen.

WC 2005: Day 4

Published on 25.8.2005 in Photos, Reportage and Events.

Wednesday and the fourth and last preliminary round. Pictures by Juho Karppinen.

WC 2005: Day 3

Published on 24.8.2005 in Photos, Reportage and Events.

The morning was so rainy that the competition was stopped for a couple for hours. When the rain stopped it was already too late to be able to fly all morning flights before afternoon session would start. About one third of flights were postponed to Wednesday. Pictures by Juho Karppinen.

WC 2005: Day 2

Published on 23.8.2005 in Photos, Reportage and Events.

The second preliminary day was flown in similar windy conditions as the first day. Pictures by Juho Karppinen.

WC 2005: Day1

Published on 23.8.2005 in Photos, Reportage and Events.

The first competition day on Sunday was windy. Pictures by Juho Karppinen.

WC 2005: Opening Ceremony

Published on 21.8.2005 in Photos, Reportage and Events.

The opening ceremony was held on Saturday afternoon including an air show by French Air Forces. Later in the evening a barbeque was served in the competetition site. Pictures by Juho Karppinen.

WC 2005: Practise

Published on 21.8.2005 in Photos, Reportage and Events.

The competition didn’t start until Sunday, so there was a couple of free days to practise. Official practises were held on Friday and Saturday. Pictures by Juho Karppinen.

F3A SM/Cup 4/4 2004, Jämi

Published on 14.10.2004 in Photos, Events and Results.

Results from the last competition of the year 2004 in Jämi. The competition didn’t get Finnish Championship title since there were not enough competitors (7 minimum). Pictures taken by Raimo Sällinen.

FAI SM    Kierros 1    Kierros 2    Kierros 3    Yhteensä 2/3
1. Markus Aaltonen    1000    1000    689    2000
2. Lassi Nurila    909    979    1000    1979
3. Jani Loikkanen    869    937    964    1901
4. Erkko Saviaro    721    782    744    1526

Nordic Cup    Kierros 1    Kierros 2    Kierros 3    Yhteensä 2/3
1. Antti Aho-Mantila    0    1000    1000    2000
2. Raimo Ruokonen    1000    973    941    1973
3. Pentti Jalo    889    829    915    1804

Sport Cup    Yhteensä
1. Aki Karjalainen    1000
2. Petri Lämsä    468

Swedish Championships 2004

Published on 3.8.2004 in Photos and Events.

Finnish team was participating Swedish Championship competition in Norsjö: Raimo Ruokonen (Nordic), Kimmo Kaukoranta (FAI) and Esa Eirola (judge). Pictures are taken by Esa Eirola.

F3A SM/Cup 2/4 2004, Oulu

Published on 3.8.2004 in Photos, Events and Results.

Results from the second competition of the year 2004 held in Oulu on July 24-25. Pictures taken by Esa Eirola.

FAI SM    Kierros 1    Kierros 2    Kierros 3    Kierros 4    Yhteensä 3/4
1. Tommy Stenlund (SWE/open)    1000    100    1000    988    3000
2. Jens Poikelin    947    930    984    1000    2931
3. Lassi Nurila    917    901    969    951    2837
4. Markus Aaltonen    919    819    995    879    2793
5. Kimmo Kaukoranta    947    848    891    868    2706
6. Jani Loikkanen    853    837    877    814    2567
7. Erkko Saviaro    781    691    803    697    2281
8. Ville Salmi    550    469    622    597    1768

Nordic Cup    Kierros 1    Kierros 2    Kierros 3    Kierros 4    Yhteensä 3/4
1. Johan Broström (SWE)    1000    1000    1000    1000    3000
2. Kimmo Kärkinen    553    506    246    600    1639

Sport Cup    Yhteensä
1. Timo Huhtamäki    1000
2. Jari Säkkinen    954
3. Ilmo Pullinen    236

F3A SM/Cup 1/4 2004, Turku

Published on 9.6.2004 in Photos, Events and Results.

Results from the first competition of the year 2004 held in Paattinen, Turku on June 5-6. Pictures taken by Antti Aho-Mantila and more can be found from lennokit.net and Raimo Ruokonen’s homepages.

FAI SM    Kierros 1    Kierros 2    Kierros 3    Kierros 4    Yhteensä 3/4
1. Markus Aaltonen    1000    965    1000    969    2969
2. Jens Poikelin    969    1000    0    1000    2969
3. Lassi Nurila    856    868    887    960    2715
4. Kimmo Kaukoranta    825    851    883    929    2663
5. Jussi Kettunen    713    796    806    858    2460
6. Jani Loikkanen    19    823    803    736    2363
7. Erkko Saviaro    663    646    656    678    1997

Nordic Cup    Kierros 1    Kierros 2    Kierros 3    Kierros 4    Yhteensä 3/4
1. Raimo Ruokonen    1000    1000    970    918    2970
2. Antti Aho-Mantila    998    0    922    1000    2919
3. Kai Korpelainen    993    700    1000    163    2692
4. Iiro Nikkilä    875    885    808    667    2568

Sport Cup Yhteensä
1. Kimmo Kärkinen 1000

F3A Cup 4/4 2003, Jämi

Published on 18.9.2003 in Photos, Events and Results.

Results from the last Cup competition of the season 2003 and some pictures of Midas 90 by Raimo Sällinen.

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WC 2003: Athmosphere

Published on 13.8.2003 in Photos and Events.

Portraits including pictures from the Finnish team by Markus Aaltonen.

WC 2003: Contest arena

Published on 12.8.2003 in Photos and Events.

Pictures by Tuomas Tanska from the contest and practise sites during the competition.

WC 2003: Registration

Published on 11.8.2003 in Photos and Events.

Championships started with registration of planes and opening ceremonies. Album contains many detailed pictures from planes taken by Markus Aaltonen.

WC 2003: More Practise

Published on 10.8.2003 in Photos and Events.

Pictures from free practise before the start of the competition by Markus Aaltonen.

WC 2003: At the Practise Site

Published on 6.8.2003 in Photos and Events.

There was enought time to practise before the competition started. Pictures by Tuomas Tanska.

WC 2003: Travelling

Published on 5.8.2003 in Photos and Events.

The team travelled to Poland by car through Baltic coutries. Pictures by Tuomas Tanska.

NC 2003: Day 4 – Sunday

Published on 13.7.2003 in Photos, Reportage and Events.

Cloud base did not lift properly and we saw mostly just showflying today.

F3A-FAI 4th preliminary or finals could not be flown, so end results are based on 3 preliminary rounds. According to them, OLA FREMMING IS NOW FIVE TIMES NORDIC CHAMPION!!! Congratulations on the behalf of organisers!

After Fremming, there were two swedes; Bernt Olsson and Anders Johansson. Swedish Teamwork was so good, that they secured the best position among teams by good margin. Well done!

There were two short speeches in prizegiving ceremony held by CD Erkki Haapanen and flightline director Erkko Saviaro. Prizes were hand out and Championships were declared over. What was remaining still was some show flying. Fremming gave marvellous demonstration of smooth precision and control, flying rolling circles with one roll, hammerhead loops and 360 inverted circles with his Synergy. Other show flyers were electrics: 3D- Diablotin, Electric F3A-Midas, indoor bibe and a couple of fast gliders.

Meals at the Jämi Motel and off we go heading home to different directions. Safe journey to all and see you again, flying pattern!

Final results are in here.

F3A NC 2003 Organisers

NC 2003: Day 2 – Friday

Published on 11.7.2003 in Photos, Reportage and Events.

Thursday evening looked certainly promising. Sky cleared up almost the same time as day´s last competition flight was flown. There was even some delightful looking slope gliding action among the F3A-pros flying Zagis and HLGs.Well it was not to be though, as frontal system made morning weather to look almost the same as Thrusday morning. Bad weather unexpectancies most certainly belong to aviation! So basically, if it rains, then you´ll do it in the rain!

Day 2 was opened up by a round of F3A-Nordic. This class is our Scandinavian version meant to lower the difficulty levels somewhat with new pilots in mind. Nordic maneuvers are decided every second year during Nordic Championships, and it happened to be Friday evening here in Jämijärvi that the Nordic routine for the next two years was decided. F3A-FAI gets harder and harder every year, so Nordic might be doing the same…

Material side of the things manifested itself today in form of a few zeros in the scoreboard. There was an inflight engine stoppage and three technical problems in the readybox. High workload associated with retractable landing gear systems is well known to all, and it did claim one of the cancellations today, another one being engine vibration mount failure.

Speaking of retracts, about half of the competitors still used them. With today´s high-powered engines and even decidedly large-diameter, drag-inducing fuselages the need for retracts it not so obvious anymore. But still, they are used so they probably fit to the flying styles of several people.

During yesterdays registration, details of all models were written down, and thus we can offer you a full listing of equipment used by each team, which surely is of interest to everyone. Some statistical analysis will show where we are heading in this class.

Results after Day 2: Fremming leads the way in FAI (did anybody expect anything less?) and Urban Forslöf (SWE) in Nordic. Norwegian team is very strong in Nordic, whereas Swedes have the best team effort in FAI.