F3P-Aeromusical competition was organised in Pirkkahalli, Tampere.
F3P-AM Cup 2006 2/2 Kierros 1 Kierros 2 Kierros 3 Yhteensä 2/3ManseFlyIndoor was the biggest indoor happening in 2004 with over 100 pilots and this year it’s going to be even bigger. In addition to F3P-AM You will have plenty of oppotunities to just fly for fun and to participate in other competitions like indoor combat, pylon, scale, etc. There will also be some free flight competitions (F1D, F1M in the morning) and Ilmailuliitto will present the awards for the Finnish Championships in all aeromodelling classes in the evening. Only one day but around 10 hours of RC-flying.
More information at http://indoor.tuu.fi/.
ModelExpo 2007 is the biggest modeling exhibition in Finland and there will be one hall dedicated to indoor flying. The exhibition will be from Friday to Sunday and the F3P-AM competition will take place on Saturday. More information about the contest later.
There will be other competitions and shows as well during the event held at Helsinki Fair Centre from March 30th to April 1st. More information at http://www.model-expo.com.
inSkaala is an annual indoor scale model flying event organized by Pietarsaari RC-flying Club (Pietarsaaren Seudun RC-lentäjät). The event was focused on indoor RC scale models but there were a lot of activities around other types of indoor flying. F3P-Sport and Advanced indoor competitions are flown during the event.
There were four Finnish Champion competitions in the season 2006. In addition there were many Cup-series. For F3A we had Cup-competitions for Nordic and Sport-classes. F3P (indoor) Cups were organised for Aeromusical, F3P-Sport and F3P-Advanced classes.
Results from the last competition of the season 2006 held in Kokkola.
Continue reading ‘Results from F3A SM/Cup 4/4 2006, Kokkola’
13th F3A European Championship was held at Buochs (near Luzern) in Switzerland, from August 26th to 2nd of September 2006.
F3A Team Finland participated in the Championships with a team of two pilots, Kimmo Kaukoranta and Lassi Nurila, and team manager Juho Karppinen. We provided some “live” coverage from the location in means of pictures and stories.
The official homepage of the Championships is a reference point for all official information such as bulletins and results. Other places for discussion are for example Lennokit.net (in Finnish) and RCUniverse. If you have a good link to add here, please drop an e-mail [email: juho.karppinen #AT# iki.fi ] or use contact form.
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:
The banquet was held at 1900 meters altitude at Mount Stanserhorn.
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:
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.
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.
