LIFT - Little Finger Thermaleers - Traverse City RC Soaring Club

Scotland - Linlithgow MFC

Not many scores from Scotland.

The flights were done straight after a British Association of Radio Control Soarers league event. Qualifying rounds are ten-minute man on man with the top four pilots in two fifteen-minute flyoff rounds to decide the winner.

Needles to say due to the prevailing conditions, light thermal drift deciding the wind direction, not too much sun and 18 degrees Celsius the slots were going the full time.

This all changed when a few of the less shattered pilots (most are over 60) decided to have a go at the IPC with following results.

There was then a spate vacations with fliers in Boston USA, Rome, Mallorca, Venice, Spain and even one in the UK, which has knackered any more scores being added.

Hope the Spring will bring more scores.

Scottish Aeromodellers Association

Linlithgow Model Flying Club

Andy Lewis

Switzerland - Model Air Club of Thun

IPC Autumn 2009 Report (from Gerhard Läderach):

Two weeks after the Modellfluggruppe Thun celebration of our 75 year Jubilee (a 3 day Festival of day and night flying with friends in great hospitality) we where again out for the Autumn IPC. We had an absolute perfect late summer day for flying with rather high temperatures and very low humidity air wich gave more and more tricky thermal activity as the day progressed.

As usual we startet the flying with the group picture - as usual we pose before one of the main Mountain in the Thun Region - the STOCKHORN (Pyramide in the Center of the Photo) The models flown where mostly F3J Design but the Model was and is always not realy of great importance for a good score all will do 6 minutes with ease when flown by an good Thermaler!

At the beginning we had good thermal activity and therefore no problem to obtain the six minutes. After a line tangle and wind direction change we turned over the wich array opposite after two rounds. At about 1130 the wind freshed up a bit and the attainable flight times where more and more shorter as Lift became more and more turbulent and dissipated rather quickly. Therefore we tried to finish the 5 rounds of the contest as quick as possible and managed to finish short after midday. With a fine barbeque until late afternoon we finished a perfect summer days flying.

I hope that this time more than 4 clubs will participating on the IPC - last year it was a real mediocre activity - perhaps we should push on the clubs which did not sending in results last year. We would do so but I do have no adresses of those clubs - who can help?

Happy flying and always some lift under the wings!

LIFT

Date: 9/5/2009

Our soaring day was as close to perfect as anyone could expect.
The temperature was 72 degrees F. with total sunshine and a few cumulous clouds.
Winds were from all directions but never over 5-7 miles per hour.
Many of our launches were down wind but it made very little or no difference.
Actually most of the time there was no wind. We had eleven fliers and most of our flights were 6 minute
maxes with plenty of altitude to spare. While a few of our fliers were off their game, it was a marvelous day.

Jim Johnston & Larry Storie with great help form our LIFT Club Members and Andrew Gregory our Web Master

Thanks to Dennis for the Photo, Plus we had 2 flyers not in the pic so substutes are attached.

MBC Lengerich e.V.

Date-hour: Sunday 30. August 2009 , 11:00 – 13:30 h

MBC Lengerich e.V.
www.kleeberg-team.name

c/o Helmut Steinigeweg
Brucknerstraße 66
D-49525 Lengerich

NorthRhine-Westfalia - Germany

Hello to everybody,

First let me introduce our club: MBC Lengerich is situated between Münster and Osnabrück near the border between NorthRhine-Westfalia and Lower Saxony in Germany. It´s a company of RC-Glider-Pilots only, which do F3B, F3F, F3J and Semi-Scale up to 7m wingspan. Several pilots have been or are still members of the German FAI-Scene, others fly just for fun. We have been flying at different places in Europe from Norway to Portugal and from England to Romania and would be delighted to become part of the IPC. I prefer to contact IPC by help from the MAC of Thun, because I´m not so good in English.

We started flying at 11 o´clock, winds were changing between 4 and 7m/s covering 4-6 eights with 100% sunny parts in between, thermals were good, one could reach 350m height within the flight-time, but some had to struggle hard, just when there was only sun und blue sky, it went up und down like elevators. First we were a little bit sad – only seven pilots, several had to compete a national F3B - but at least we were lucky: when the last flight was over, it began slightly to rain.

The models flown show a short history about F3B/J beginning with the historic “Dogan”, “teutates 10” a kleeberg self-construction up to “ariane F3” and “Crosssfire”.

Happy landings

Helmut Steinigeweg
MBC Lengerich – Germany