Finnish Championship and Cup prize giving in Kuopio.
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Results from the F3A Finnish Championships cup 4/4
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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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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.
F3A World Championships were held in Saint-Yan, France on August 20-28.
F3A Team Finland participated in the Championships with a full team of three pilots: Markus Aaltonen, Kimmo Kaukoranta and Jani Loikkanen. Team manager was Raimo Ruokonen and Esa Eirola was a judge. Supporters were Ilona Aaltonen, Eero Aaltonen, Päivi Eirola, Juho Karppinen.
These pages contain lots of pictures from F3A World Championships 2005 taken by Finnish Team. The content was updated almost daily with a new set of fresh images. The discussion and other reports can be found from other sources, such as RC Universe and Lennokit.net (in Finnish).
The official homepage of the World championships is the place for results and other general information.
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.
World Championship competetion in Deblin, Poland, August 7-18 2003.
Finland had a large team on site consisting of three pilots, team manager and supporters. We provided some daily reports on Finnish forum Lennokit.net and pictures on these pages.
The official kotisivu doesn’t work anymore (February 2007).
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
Saturday morning we were supposed to continue with 3rd Nordic round. However the cloud base wasn’t high enough so starting of flights were delayed.
At 1100AM cloud base had lifted somewhat and competition could be continued. However there were still some problems with visibility in high altitudes. But the whole round was completed succesfully.
Next round should have been 4th FAI round, but the ceiling wasn’t still high enough to make all FAI pilots feel comfortable. F3A-Nordic -class does not involve as high-reaching manuevers as F3A-FAI, so the last Nordic round was started instead.
In the afternoon it started to rain and flights were stopped for a couple of hours. Fortunately we were able to finish the last 5 flights before the evening (and banquet). Final F3A-Nordic NC 2003 results can be found the result page.
Congratulations to new Nordic Champion, Pål Westerhaug from Norway!
It must be pointed out that silver medalist, Lassi Nurila is only 16 years old which probably makes him the youngest F3A-Nordic -pilot this high in the scoreboard ever! Good work.
Team results, F3A-Nordic
1. Norway 1000
2. Finland 975
3. Denmark 925
4. Sweden 829
Lets hope we can get enough weather to get the FAI finals running.
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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