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

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Bulletin, F3A SM/Cup 3/4 2004, Hämeenkyrö

Published on 12.7.2004 in Bulletins and Events.

Bulletin for the third championship competition in Hämeenkyrö on August 21-22. The complete version of the bulletin is available in the Finnish version of the post.

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Bulletin, F3A SM/Cup 2/4 2004, Oulu

Published on 17.6.2004 in Bulletins and Events.

Bulletin for the second championship competition in Oulu on July 24-25. The complete version of the bulletin is available in the Finnish version of the post.

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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

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Bulletin, F3A SM/Cup 1/4 2004, Turku

Published on 27.5.2004 in Bulletins and Events.

Bulletin for the first championship competition in Turku on June 5-6. The complete version of the bulletin is available in the Finnish version of the post.

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Spring Meeting 2004

Published on 22.4.2004 in Bulletins and Events.

F3A Team has an annual meeting on April 24th in Helsinki.

Results for Season 2003

Published on 18.9.2003 in Results.

The title for F3A FAI Finnish Championship was given in one Championship competition. The FAI and Nordic Cups were decided based on points given in four Cup competitions (Finnish Championship included). International competitions were Nordic Championships in Finland and World Championships in Poland.

FAI SM Oulu 26.-27.7 Kierros 1 Kierros 2 Kierros 3 Kierros 4 Yhteensä 3/4
1. Jens Poikelin 1000 1000 1000 1000 3000
2. Tuomas Tanska 810 993 821 939 2752
3. Markus Aaltonen 742 871 858 915 2644
4. Jani Loikkanen 568 682 716 616 2014
5. Ari Syrjä 558 664 691 650 2005
6. Erkko Saviaro 624 395 540 526 1690
7. Mikko Eirola 145 78 0 2 224

FAI Cup Turku Hämeenkyrö Oulu Jämi Yhteensä 3/4
1. Markus Aaltonen 7 6 3 6 22
2. Jens Poikelin   7 5 7 19
3. Jussi Kettunen 6 5   4 15
4. Robert Sundström SWE     7   7
5. Tommy Stenlund SWE     6   6
6. Esa Eirola       5 5
7. Ari Syrjä   4 1   5
8. Erkko Saviaro 5   0   5
9. Tuomas Tanska     4   4
10. Juho Karppinen 4       4
11. Kimmo Kaukoranta       3 3
12. Jani Loikkanen     2   2
13. Mikko Eirola     0   0

Nordic Cup Turku Hämeenkyrö Oulu Jämi Yhteensä 3/4
1. Jani Loikkanen 7 6 6 7 26
2. Lassi Nurila 5 7 7   19
3. Kimmo Kaukoranta 6 5 5   16
4. Raimo Ruokonen 4 4   6 14
5. Iiro Nikkilä   3   5 8
6. Juha Nissi 3 2     5
7. Mikko Eirola     4   4
8. Tuomas Pietinen 2       2

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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F3A WC 2003 in Poland

Published on 18.8.2003 in Reportage and Events.

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).

WC 2003: Athmosphere

Published on 13.8.2003 in Photos and Events.

Portraits including pictures from the Finnish team by Markus Aaltonen.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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F3A SM & Cup 3/4 2003, Oulu

Published on 7.8.2003 in Events and Results.

Results from the 2003 Finnish Championship and third part of the Cup series. The results of the Cup competition were also results of the Finnish Championship competition, except two Swedish competitors were not taken into account.

Pictures and reportage at Lennokit.net

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Bulletin, F3A Cup 4/4 2003, Jämi

Published on 7.8.2003 in Bulletins and Events.

Bulletin for the last championship competition in Jämi on September 6-7. The complete version of the bulletin is available in the Finnish version of the post.

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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.

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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.

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F3A Cup 2/4 2003, Hämeenkyrö

Published on 22.7.2003 in Events and Results.

Results from the second cup competition of the year 2003. Pictures and reportage at home page of Raimo Ruokonen
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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 3 – Saturday

Published on 12.7.2003 in Reportage and Events.

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.