F-07 rounds 2 and 3 plus N-07 rounds 3 and 4. Banquet in the evening.
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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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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.
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!
F3A NC 2003 Organisers
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.
F3A Nordic Championships started in Jämijärvi, Finland. Conditions were not exactly ideal with brisk wind directly across the flying direction, but lets look at the bright side: it did not rain.
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