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A LOOK BACK AT THE 2015 AEROBATIC SEASON
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HELDEBERG RADIO FLYERS TYGERBERG RADIO FLYERS STELENBOSCH MODEL AIRCRAFT ACADEMY
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SHARAAZ SULIMAN | COBUS MALAN | AUBREY SMITH | RORY NETTERVILLE | STUART NIX RODNEY POTTER | ERNIE SMITH | GERHARD MITTON | OZZIE PARENZEE | MIKE RABELING PETER ALDRIDGE | JACQUES BORMAN | JOHN CALEFATO | JEREMY ROCHEFORT MAURICE GRAPENDAAL | SCHALK VAN DER MERWE
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MARTIN KNOETZEN | BERNUS VD WESTHUIZEN | NIC VAN DER WALT | KAS HAMMAN | LUDWIG STEYN
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WILD CLOVER PATTERN 01 FEBRUARY 2015 PATTERN AEROBATICS “ HAS A GREAT FUTURE AT THE NEW VENUE IN STELLENBOSCH
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FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, PATTERN AEROBATICS VISITED WILD CLOVER FARM IN STELLENBOSCH. NIC VAN RENSBURG PREVIOUSLY WITH BOMAC HAS SPENT MANY HOURS WITH HIS TEAM PREPARING THIS NEW MODEL FLYING VENUE OVER THE PAST YEAR.
The venue, besides the flying hosts a Brewery, Restaurant, Lodges, Archery, Clay Pigeon shooting, live music, and lots more, take a look at there website; www.wildclover.co.za/. Now to the flying, 9 pilots had entered the event, Sheraaz first up in the Intermediate class, now flying electric powered Sebart Wind S50 and by the looks at his scores will soon be moving up to Advanced, just a shame he
was the only one flying intermediate. There seams to be a general lack of support for these lower classes which something that needs to be addressed. Anyway, moving on to the Advanced class. The three stooges… Rory, Cobus and Aubrey. The flying was very close on the first round giving the win to Cobus, but Aubrey found the right direction and won the 2nd and 3rd round but he sadly missed the 3rd round with a “dead stick” flight giving the win and overall class win to Cobus.
round 1 round 2 round 3 round 4 FINAL % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized INTERMEDIATE Sheraaz 56.77 / 1000 60.61 / 1000 55.86 / 1000 59.60 / 1000 58.99 / 3000 1 ADVANCED Cobus 58.07 / 1000 59.70 / 929 58.15 / 955 65.04 / 1000 60.96 / 2955 1 Aubrey 55.11 / 949 64.30 / 1000 60.89 / 1000 0.00 / 0 60.10 / 2949 2 Rory 56.67 / 976 58.07 / 903 53.93 / 886 60.22 / 926 58.32 / 2805 3 MASTERS Stuart 58.28 / 1000 0.00 / 0 60.11 / 987 70.39 / 1000 62.93 / 2987 1 Ernie 46.39 / 796 58.00 / 1000 60.89 / 1000 62.94 / 894 60.61 / 2894 2 Gerhard 57.61 / 989 49.50 / 854 55.44 / 911 58.17 / 826 57.07 / 2754 3 Ozzie 18.83 / 323 29.44 / 508 49.78 / 818 49.94 / 710 43.06 / 2035 4 PlaneCrazyRC – Highest Percentage 70.39, Stuart (Masters)
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Rory showed great improvement all day and ended up with I think his highest score so far, great start to the season. Masters next, five entries had confirmed but unfortunately Rodney has 4 stroke issues and to watch from the side-lines. Round 1 was won just by Stuart ahead of Ernie, Gerhard and Ozzie. Ozzie battled all day, “Ozzie, I told you to practice but you didn’t listen”. Stuart had rather a heavy landing on his first round and didn’t notice the broken wheel and at the start of the second round tried to take-off only to have the plane dig into the runway and aborted that round scoring ‘0’ and the win to Ernie. Ozzie just gave up halfway with sun cream running into his eyes. Round three was very close between Stuart and Ernie, Ernie just winning it. Stuart pulled all the stops out in the final round of the day with the highest percentage score and claiming not only the class win, but the “PlaneCrazyRC” highest percentage score, gift voucher. The day ended up with a few of us having a couple of beers and something to eat in the restaurant. Thanks to the Judges, Nic, Ludwig Martin and Bernus for there time. Thanks to all of you who made this event a great success, next time I have been told the venue will be even better.
The next event is on the 8 March at TMFC, Monthly 2, this is 3 weeks before the western Province, a great practice event for the existing pilots and for the New pilots.
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TMFC
EIGHT OF THE BEST 08 MARCH 2015 GREAT WEATHER, “ GREAT ATMOSPHERE, GREAT FLYING, GREAT EVENT
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MONTHLY ROUND 2 HELD AT TMFC, 10 PILOTS HAD CONFIRMED THERE ENTRY, JUST FANTASTIC TO GET 10 AT A MONTHLY, LOOKING GOOD FOR A FULL ENTRY AT THE WESTERN PROVINCE CHAMPS AT THE END OF THE MONTH.
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Well, out of the 10 confirmed 2 cancelled due to other commitments but we were then joined by and old favorite, Peter Aldridge who had decided to dust himself down and join in the fun. So first up was Mike in the Intermediate with his new plane, the Typhoon he bought from Nazeem, Not bad scores for the first time with this plane, prospects are good for more class wins and moving up to Advanced. Peter struggled a bit, but regarding he has been out of competition for some years, not bad. In the Advanced class, regulars Rory and Aubrey, both flying Quantums had a good battle. Rory showing Aubrey a clean pair of heels in round
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one, but Aubrey found his feed and took the next three rounds and winning the class.
round 1 round 2 round 3 round 4 FINAL % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized INTERMEDIATE Mike Rabeling 59.29 / 1000 51.41 / 1000 49.09 / 1000 44.24 / 973 49.93 / 3000 1 Peter Aldridge 0 46.77 / 910 44.24 / 901 45.45 / 1000 45.49 / 2811 2 ADVANCED 52.67 / 956 57.04 / 1000 62.44 / 1000 62.00 / 1000 60.49 / 3000 1 Aubrey Smith Rory Netterville 55.11 / 1000 56.52 / 991 52.07 / 834 53.63 / 865 55.09 / 2856 2 MASTERS Stuart Nix 66.17 / 1000 66.22 / 1000 64.67 / 1000 0.00 / 000 65.69 / 3000 1 Gerhard Mitton 62.39 / 928 62.28 / 940 61.78 / 955 62.33 / 1000 62.13 / 2896 2 Ernie Smith 62.56 / 945 61.06 / 922 48.11 / 744 51.11 / 820 58.24 / 2687 3 Rodney Potter 56.33 / 851 59.94 / 905 51.89 / 802 54.33 / 872 56.87 / 2628 4 PlaneCrazyRC – Highest Percentage 66.22, Stuart (Masters)
Masters last and really Stuart was one form winning the class ahead of Gerhard, Ernie and Rodney. Finally Rodney managed to finish a competition without the engine packing up, maybe he forgot his screw driver so he couldn’t fiddle with the setting. The highest percentage score was one for the second time this season by Stuart with a score of 66.22%. Finally I would like to that all 4 Judges, Martin, Nic, Ludwig and Burnus for there time and to TMFC for the use of there club, and to Aubrey for organizing cool drinks and the braai. Next competition, WP champs at HRF on 28-29 March, 11 confirmed to date, hoping to get a few more.
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HELDERBERG RADIO FLYERS
WESTERN PROVINCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
COMPETITIVE SPIRIT 28-29 MARCH 2015
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Western Province
Championships 28 - 29 March Helderberg Radio Flyers
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THE BEST WP CHAMPS FOR MANY YEARS, FANTASTIC WEATHER, WONDERFUL SPIRIT, COMPETITIVE FLYING
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THIRTEEN PILOTS ENJOYED THE ATMOSPHERE AND COMPETITIVE SPIRIT AT THIS YEARS WESTERN PROVINCE CHAMPIONSHIPS. 8
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After years of hard work it seams that Pattern aerobatics is alive and healthy in the Western Cape. This years Western Province championships, which is now an all Pattern event was held at the first class venue at Helderberg. HRF is one of the best flying facilities in the Cape and saw 13 pilots entering this years event. 13 pilots flew 4 rounds in front of 5 judges over two days under clear blue skies and with little or no wind was open to some great flying. GERHARD MITTON, 2ND IN MASTERS
First was Jacques in the Sportsman Class, Jacques had been promising to take part for a while, always saying, “not ready� but with some arm bending by other club members, he decided to enter. The idea really is to enjoy the event.
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WESTERN PROVINCE AEROBATICS - PROVINCIAL As Jacques approach the runway for his first flight, the sound of woodpeckers could be heard, NO, that’s no woodpeckers it’s the knees of Jacques!! You know, that feeling will never go away no mater how long you fly this discipline, I blame it on the five judges, maybe if there were 5 beautiful women it might be different! Anyway, Jacques with the help of fellow club member Rory, took to the sky. Flying in a straight line sound easy, but it just isn’t and Jacques found that out.
This is going to be a very competitive class, the three scores quite close on the fourth round with Peter winning that round. But before that, rounds 1, 2 were clearly won by Sheraaz, round three was very close between Sheraaz and Peter, with Sheraaz winning that. Mike was having a slight problem with the line but in round 4 he found it and joined the other two with a 50%. Some very close flying in the end, but Sheraaz was the clear winner, but he can’t stop practicing, Peter is hot on his heals.
His percentage improved up till the 4th round but still, that’s the first event over, A sad moment happened at the end of Peters 4th round flight. At HRF and the next one should be easier. along the edge of the N2 there are huge The Intermediate class saw three powers line, yep you guessed it. Hitting entries, Peter, Mike and Sheraaz. Peter the lines is not a good thing and has a has been out of Pattern for some years tendency of destroying your plane, that’s but he has made a welcoming return to what Peter found out, OR was he trying competition. Mike is still getting used to to convert his 2 stroke to electric!! his new plane and Sheraaz has now got used to his Wind S50e.
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The three regulars in Advanced where at it again. Aubrey showing a clean pair of heals to Cobus and Rory, well that was until round four when either Aubrey wasn’t listening to his caller, or his caller gave the wrong instruction, but either way Aubrey lost that round which was won by Cobus. Cobus had struggled on all of his rounds except for a good +60% of the final round. Rory also found the going tough and didn’t manage to break in to the 60’s. After all this, Aubrey still won the round ahead of Cobus and Rory. Finally to the Masters class. Once again a very well supported class with 6 entries. Ozzie joining in with a choice of two planes and loads of excuses found the maneuvers tough, the line tough, and tough to get over 50%. He managed to on his second round but it was clear that
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Rodney, with a well sorted Osmose scored high 50’s and finally a 60+ brought a big smile to his face, “wow is that what you look like when you are happy”. Great flying. The top three, Ernie, Gerhard and Stuart
were left to fight for the top three places. Ernie and Gerhard had a very close battle with some good 60+ scores but they just couldn’t match the flying of Stuart who was on form scoring three high 60+ scores and winning all four rounds and the clear Masters winner. One other award was given to Gerhard Mitton, who was awarded the PlaneCrazyRC most improved pilot. The top three in each class won certificates and trophies, with the class winners winning gift voucher from Micton Hobbies.
AUBREY SMITH – 1ST ADVANCED
JACQUES BORMAN – SPORTSMAN SHERAAZ SULIMAN - 1ST INTERMEDIATE NOT PICTURED
Despite the crash of Peter Aldridge, the event has to be put down as one of the best WP champs, Big thanks to all five judges, Martin, Nic, Bernus, Kas and Ludwig for there time over the weekend, to you all, enjoy the wine supplied by Boschkloof Wines. Thanks to Lowe and Rodney for the catering, to the Sponsors, Micton Hobbies, Boschkloof Wines, PlaneCrazyRC, Matmone Construction and finally to Helderberg Radio Flyers. Let the show go on…. next event 19 April at TMFC, league 1.
COBUS MALAN - 2ND ADVANCED
PETER ALDRIDGE – 2ND INTERMEDIATE
RORY NETTERVILLE - 3RD ADVANCED
MIKE RABELING – 3RD INTERMEDIATE
4 OF OUR JUDGES: MARTIN, LUDWIG, BERNUS, NIC AND KAS
round 1 round 2 round 3 round 4 FINAL % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized SPORTSMAN Jacques Borman 34.33 / 1000 40.17 / 1000 54.50 / 1000 47.00 / 1000
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Sheraaz Suliman 56.77 / 1000 53.64 / 1000 56.97 / 1000 50.71 / 919
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49.49 / 923 41.72 / 732 51.31 / 930
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61.48 / 986 57.26 / 867 63.26 / 1000
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55.89 / 831 62.89 / 938 65.67 / 975
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61.76 / 2757
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57.78 / 860 62.39 / 930 58.78 / 873
59.87 / 2725
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57.06 / 849 59.56 / 888 58.06 / 862
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GERHARD MITTON - 2ND P15 MASTERS
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PlaneCrazyRC – Most improved pilot - Gerhard Mitton ERNIE SMITH - 3RD P15 MASTERS
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GETS BETTER AND BETTER 19 APRIL 2015 THE BEST ENTRY FOR A LONG TIME, 14 PILOTS HAD ENTERED BUT THREE HAD TO CANCEL, 11 STILL VERY GOOD AND ANOTHER FOUR INTERESTED
From 14 down to 11 entries, that was the entry on the day, and the 11 pilots had perfect weather for 3 of the 4 rounds which was open to some great flying. The wind picked up for the final round. A new face to the Pattern comps was Jeremy, a TMFC member entered his first competition.
Now you have found out that flying in a straight line is not all that easy. But at least you have started, next time it will be easier. He did however improve on all 4 rounds which is the right way to go and I guess next time you will have some competition for other new pilots.
Intermediate regulars Mike and
JUST PERFECT “ WEATHER FOR HIGH
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Peter where the only two entries in the Intermediate class. After the WP champs when Peter destroyed his plane, he has now acquired the Envision which was owned by Stuart. From an old 2 stroke to a Modern electric, a hugh leap and after only 4 flights before this comp he managed to put in a fantastic effort and found out how different an electric plane is, but I am sure after a few more flights he will soon get to grips with it. Well done Peter for finishing all four rounds.
Sorry Mike hadn’t forgotten you, having said that, Mike did only manage one round because on the landing came in rather too fast and running off the runway collected an outer marker post ripping off the landing gear and a section of the wing, next time fit brakes. Aubrey, Rory and Cobus, the Advanced three, fort it out in the Advanced class. Aubrey was the clear winner but Cobus is hot on his heals especially when Aubrey forgot the first maneuver on round
two, or was that the caller!! Anyway the competition between Aubrey and Cobus is quite tight, Rory needs to listen to his caller and spend more time practicing, he is knocking on the 60% door, maybe next time. Finally Masters and once again Stuart was on top form and the clearly winning all three rounds. Ernie and Gerhard fort it out for the next two places and it was extremely close in the end. Rodney is still getting used to his new plane and had
hearing difficulties during some of his flights, maybe its my English!!! Finally, Johnny only managed the first two rounds after making a stall landing on his second flight and breaking the gear. Its great to see a positive growth in our local Pattern interest, 14 entries with another 4 pilots that I know about. A full entry of 18 could be achieved. Finally thanks to the Judges, Martin, Kas and Bernus for there time.
round 1 round 2 round 3 round 4 FINAL % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized SPORTSMAN Jeremy Rochefort 21.00 / 1000 26.67 / 1000 37.83 / 1000 49.67 / 1000 36.17 / 1000 1 INTERMEDIATE Peter Aldridge 11.41 / 225 45.76 / 1000 44.65 / 1000 44.14 / 1000 44.85 / 3000 1 Mike Rabeling 50.81 / 1000 - - - 19.94 / 1000 2 ADVANCED Aubrey Smith 64.67 / 1000 0 66.22 / 1000 62.15 / 1000 64.35 / 3000 1 Cobus Malan 60.44 / 935 62.37 / 1000 64.52 / 974 60.81 / 979 62.57 / 2953 2 Rory Netterville 54.96 / 850 60.74 / 974 58.96 / 890 52.07 / 838 58.22 / 2714 3 MASTERS Stuart Nix 69.06 / 1000 66.33 / 1000 65.22 / 1000 0 66.87 / 3000 1 Gerhard Mitton 61.06 / 884 63.17 / 952 62.72 / 962 61.44 / 979 62.44 / 2893 2 Ernie Smith 63.50 / 920 64.17 / 967 59.56 / 913 62.78 / 1000 63.48 / 2887 3 Rodney Potter 54.50 / 789 60.72 / 915 58.94 / 904 49.89 / 795 58.06 / 2614 4 John Calefato 48.94 / 709 45.44 / 685 0 0 31.46 / 1394 5
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POWER NATIONALS - KLERKSDORP
PC PELZER AIRPORT, KLERKSDORP
2015 COMBINED POWER NATIONALSREPORT BY: ANDRE’ STOCKWELL
MAASA PRECISION AEROBATIC REPORT FOR THE FIRST “ TIME IN MANY YEARS,
A COMBINED POWER NATS WAS HOSTED AGAIN. THIS YEAR THE NATS TOOK PLACE AT PC PELZER AIRPORT IN KLERKSDORP
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Precision Aerobatics and Large scale aerobatics shared the same flight line at the southern end of the flying field. It provided enough separation from the other activities taking place at the Northern end of the field. A total of 22 pilots from all over the country entered for Precision Aerobatics. The biggest class entry was Masters, with 8 contestants. Arriving at the contest site on Friday morning, we met up with Stuart Nix, Cobus Malan, Rodney Potter and Ozzie Parenzee - all from the Western Cape. It was great to see such a
STUART NIX, COBUS MALAN, RODNEY POTTER AND OZZIE PARENZEE ALL FROM THE WESTERN CAPE
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large entry from the Cape Province. Later in the afternoon, they were joined by the WC judges Ludwig Steyn and Martin Knoesen. During one of Rodney’s practice flights, the motor and the aircraft separated in mid air, due to possible resonance, ripping the complete nose section off the model. Fortunately he could land the plane, but some damage was caused to the undercarriage and the wings. This was his second misfortune with an Azyular.
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David Austin also had a mishap on the practice day, damaging his beautiful Spark. During Friday afternoon, Danie Potgieter did the F3A model processing according to the new FAI rules.
CLINTON AND GRANT IN READY-BOX
Many aerobatics pilots also competed in some of the other disciplines – being Pylon Racing, Control line, Large Scale, Jets and Scale, making it a very busy contest for them. Our judges for the contest were Chris Theron (Chief Judge) - GP, Ivan Olivier - GP, Bruce Clark - KZN, Ludwig Stein -WP, Sebastiano Sacca - NW and Martin Knoesen –WP, and Danie Potgieter was the flight line director. All MAASA classes were contested at the Nats. Precision Aerobatics started flying on Saturday morning with near perfect
weather conditions, which prevailed for most of the contest. It was great having Jacques Botha competing in the Sportsman Class flying a Stick. His scores improved throughout the contest, and he posted his best score of 59.67%. Well-done Jacques. We hope to see more of you in the future. The Intermediate class was a close contest, with Hugo Erasmus and Chris O’Connell alternating positions every round. Chris finally took top honors with 63.3% and 2977 normalized points.
MODEL PROCESSING
FLIGHT LINE AND READY BOXES
JUDGES AND CD. IVAN, SEBASTIANO, LUDWIG, DANIE (CD), BRUCE, MARTIN AND CHRIS
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Hugo finished second with Nico Erasmus set the pace 60.8% and 2941 normalized in Advanced class, winning points. all 4 rounds with a final score of 62.7% and 3000 normalized points. In the Masters class, Ozzie’s motor failed in his second flight, putting him out of the contest. Neil Allen’s wing tube was damaged CHRIS O’CONNELL (ABOVE) after his first flight. Danie INTERMEDIATE CLASS CHAMPION, (BELOW), HUGO ERASMUS 2ND Potgieter, Michael Sacca (Jnr), Craig Bell and Burt Botha battled it out for top honors. Danie showed class from the start, winning the
In Advanced class, Cobus Malan was flying his own designed and built pattern ship called “Passion”, which was powered by a YS185 4-stroke. Cobus achieved an average score of 53.7% and 2620 normalized points.
NICO ERASMUS ADVANCED CLASS CHAMPION (ABOVE), COBUS MALAN SECOND (BELOW)
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DANIE POTGIETER (ABOVE) MASTERS CLASS CHAMPION, (BELOW) MICHAEL SACCA 2ND AND CRAIG BELL 3RD
first 3 rounds, finishing with 70.3%. Michael Sacca won the last round with a 69.33% flight, and finished in second place with only 1% separating them. In third place was Craig Bell with 65.6%, followed by Burt Botha with 58.6%. Six pilots competed in the F3A class. Wolfgang Matt’s Citrin Biplane with the Brenner Contra drive was the model of choice. Andre was flying the Sensation biplane also fitted with a Brenner Contra drive. Calvin was flying the Opium monoplane designed by Gunter Ulsamer and Matthys was flying a Pegasus. Andre took an early lead, winning the first two rounds followed by Roston, Clinton and Grant. Calvin won the 3rd round closely followed by Andre’. The 4th Round was won by Andre’, closely followed by Roston. The final results were, Andre’ won with a score of 74.9% and 3000 normalized points, Roston was second with 72.8% 2978 normalized points and Calvin was third with 69.4% 2883 normalized points. Congratulations to all the podium finishers, as well as to all the pilots who competed in the NATS. You are all Winners and we hope that you achieved your personal goals.
ANDRE’ STOCKWELL F3A NATIONAL CHAMPION, ROSTON DUGMORE 2ND, CALVIN SCHROLL 3RD
“ROSTON DUGMORE ALSO WON THE ARTHUR EGGAR SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL JUNIOR CHAMPION TROPHY.”
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IVAN OLIVIER
ROSTON DUGMORE JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPION 2013.
2015 F3A TEAM
We would like to thank our judges, Chris, Ivan, Bruce, Ludwig, Sebastiano and Martin for judging and braving the cold early mornings. Sportsman Class Jacques Botha Intermediate Class Chris O Connell Hugo Erasmus David Austin Hercules Myburgh Advanced Class Nico Erasmus Cobus Malan Chris Austin Master Class Danie Potgieter Michael Sacca Craig Bell Burt Botha Stuart Nix Ozzi Parenzee Rodney Potter Neil Allen Max Buizer Rui Martins F3A Class Andre Stockwell Roston Dugmore Calvin Schroll Clinton Carter-Brown Grant Brooke Matthys Botha
Without them the NATS would not have been possible. We would like to wish Andre’, Roston, Calvin, Clinton and team manager
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74.89 / 1000 67.83 / 906 67.44 / 901 57.33 / 766 53.33 / 712 22.50 / 300 31.06 / 415 0.00 / 0 0.00 / 0 0.00 / 0
69.67 / 1000 64.94 / 932 63.61 / 913 50.67 / 727 54.78 / 786 0.00 / 0 0.00 / 0 0.00 / 0 0.00 / 0 0.00 / 0
64.06 / 924 69.33 / 1000 64.00 / 923 60.50 / 873 0.00 / 0 0.00 / 0 0.00 / 0 0.00 / 0 0.00 / 0 0.00 / 0
70.30 / 3000 67.37 / 2893 65.61 / 2822 58.59 / 2512 53.78 / 2301 22.63 / 985 22.70 / 973 17.22 / 779 0.00 / 0 0.00 / 0
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74.90 / 3000 72.78 / 2978 69.39 / 2883 69.30 / 2776 66.19 / 2693 60.78 / 2435
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Matthys, all the best for the World Championships in Switzerland. Roston Dugmore will be defending the Junior World Championship Title. Roston, we wish you all the best, and please bring back the Silverware !!!! Congratulations to Ivan Olivier on his invitation to judge at the F3A World Championship in Switzerland in August. Ivan competed in his first World Championship in 1973, as well as the following 5 WC’s. Ivan also judged at the 2013 WC here in South Africa. Judging at a World Championships is the pinnacle in a flying and judging career. We wish Ivan the very best with the important judging task at the World Championships. Lastly we would like to thank the NATS organizing committee, Herman Weber, Bob and Marietjie Skinner, Danie Potgieter and Burt Botha, for hosting a very successful Combined Power Nats. We all enjoyed it very much and look forward to seeing you all at the next one.
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WESTERN PROVINCE AEROBATICS - LEAGUE 2
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JUST PERFECT CONDITIONS 2 AUGUST 2015 THE RE-SCHEDULED LEAGUE FROM JULY GAVE US PERFECT FLYING CONDITIONS
The entry had reduced slightly from the original entry list but the pilots who did show up had no excuse not to fly well.
Sportsman entries Maurice and Jacques battled it out. Both in only there second competition showed great enthusiasm.
Nine entries flew 4 rounds each in front of three judges, Nick, Ludwig, Martin and Bernus, who took it in turns to judge.
Jacques showing Maurice a clean pair of heals, winning all four rounds and the class with an overall score of 55.72%. I see the signs of a pattern plane coming soon!!
The weather couldn’t have been any better, the flag didn’t move all day, a warm, sunny winters day, just perfect.
MASTERS INVITATIONS TO COBUS, GERHARD, ERNIE AND STUART
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Advanced pilots Schalk and Cobus next up. Cobus battled on his
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first round but got his act together on the other rounds with good 60+ scores. Schalk got shouted at by Rodney for flying to fast did managed a high 50, but just could match Cobus, who despite moaning to himself about his flying won all 4 rounds and the class with a final score of 62.99.
Ozzie show progress with his flying and managed a good 58 on his second round, an improvement but still need more practice. Rodney was finally finding the line with the Osmose and broke into the 60’s, a great 4th place. What are you going to do when Cobus finishes the repair on your other plane... let’s see!
Finally to the Masters and once again a well supported class of 5 entries. Gerhard Mitton was given a Quantum by Bernus who had brought it from Aubrey. Gerhard took to the Quantum very quickly and right out of the box was competitive.
So now the top 3 pilots, Ernie, Gerhard and Stuart. Not much Ernie and Gerhard could do to stop Stuart winning all four rounds with some great flying, just missing out on the 70% on his third flight was a clear winner. The fight for second between Ernie and Gerhard was very close but Ernie got his act together with a great final round score and second
So Schalk, that was lucky to land safely after the batteries dropped out!!
place. Also, Cobus, Gerhard, Ernie and Stuart all achieved there SA Masters invitation 2015. Well done. Thanks to HRF members for giving up a Sunday, it was a great event. Cobus, ready, steady..... GO
Great relaxing atmosphere
round 1 round 2 round 3 round 4 FINAL % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized SPORTSMAN Jacques 50.67 / 1000 521.33 / 1000 57.17 / 1000 57.67 / 1000 55.72 / 3000 1 Maurice 48.00 / 947 50.00 / 955 40.00 / 700 49.17 / 853 49.06 / 2755 2 ADVANCED Cobus 56.15 / 1000 60.96 / 1000 65.11 / 1000 62.89 / 1000 62.99 / 3000 1 Schalk 49.11 / 875 57.63 / 945 48.30 / 742 12.89 / 205 51.68 / 2562 2 MASTERS Stuart 66.50 / 1000 67.06 / 1000 69.89 / 1000 68.39 / 1000 68.44 / 3000 1 Ernie 55.94 / 841 62.72 / 935 61.11 / 874 66.67 / 975 63.50 / 2785 2 Gerhard 55.22 / 830 63.83 / 952 65.72 / 940 59.94 / 877 63.17 / 2769 3 Rodney 54.44 / 819 60.06 / 896 59.67 / 854 60.78 / 889 60.17 / 2638 4 Ozzie 53.56 / 805 58.50 / 872 46.72 / 669 50.11 / 733 54.06 / 2410 5
Claude came to say hello
Gerhard with his new Quantum donated by Bernus
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RODNEY FINALLY QUALIFIED FOR MASTERS INVITATION
Rodney’s repaired Asyuler
STELLENBOSCH ACADEMY
INTO THE 70’S
AT LAST
13 SEPTEMBER
A CLOSE BATTLE FOR MASTERS HONORS BETWEEN NEIL AND STUART WITH BOTH PILOTS ACHIEVING THERE BEST EVER SCORES, “INTO THE 70’S”
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A small entry of eight looked forward to four rounds followed by lunch and a beer, (for some) at the Wild Clover.
He improved until making a mistake on the fourth round and ended on a very respectable 60% and a Masters invitation.
To start the event off the skies where rather tricky, swirling winds and cloud made visibility rather difficult for everyones first flight.
Ozzie battled once again, on his second round he almost achieved a 60% but he always shows great enthusiasm.
Masters class, Ernie was first to go, setting the bench mark for the other five Masters pilots by scoring a good 56%. Close to him was Rodney, first competition with his Asyuler and the first event after the repair.
Gerhard was getting used to his Quantum and was a regular 60% scorer, in fact almost got into the 70’s on his last flight. Ernie, also a regular 60% scoring his event best on round 3 but was always one step behind Gerhard.
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Neil Allen a “new-be” to the Cape has moved here from KZN must have found the breathing easier now he is at sea-level and scored his best scores battled it out with regular winner Stuart, I think he stopped breathing on his final flight. Stuart won the first round just ahead of Neil, but on the next three rounds Neil was one step ahead. A very close battle between them which produced some fantastic flying and a comment from the three Judges, “we’ve never seen so many 8’s on a score sheet”. In the end it was Neil winning the class, but only just. I think the Masters class is going to be a real cracker next season with the new
schedules. So after all that, the only guys left were Jeremy and Jacques. They had a very close battle.
Relaxing calm day
For the first time Jacques flying his Azurit was the clear winning with some good 50+ scores and will soon be moving up to the next class. Jeremy broke into the 50’s and gave Jacques a run for his money on the third round. very interesting, new planes, In the end it was Jacques new schedules, new year. winning the class but he Finally lets thank the Judges, better watch out. Nic, Martin, Bernus, Kas So the 2015 season is over and it has been a great one too. Lots to talk about, lots to remember. New schedules for next year will see everyone starting at the same level, should be
and Ludwig for there support this season, thanks to all the clubs that host these Pattern competitions and there continued support. ”The blind leading the blind”
Fantastic sunny day
Take-off...
round 1 round 2 round 3 round 4 FINAL % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized % / Normalized SPORTSMAN Jacques 57.50 / 1000 54.17 / 1000 54.83 / 1000 56.67 / 1000 56.33 / 3000 1 Jeremy 53.00 / 922 47.00 / 868 53.67 / 979 0 51.22 / 2769 2 MASTERS Neil 62.56 / 996 68.22 / 1000 72.50 / 1000 73.33 / 1000 71.35 / 3000 1 Stuart 62.78 / 1000 67.06 / 983 69.56 / 959 72.39 / 987 69.67 / 2970 2 Gerhard 62.17 / 990 63.56 / 932 60.89 / 840 69.00 / 932 64.91 / 2863 3 Ernie 56.56 / 901 59.06 / 866 67.06 / 925 62.94 / 850 63.02 / 2691 4 Rodney 56.94 / 907 62.89 / 922 61.28 / 845 55.89 / 755 60.37 / 2674 5 Ozzie 50.33 / 802 57.33 / 840 54.33 / 749 40.17 / 542 54.00 / 2392 6
Bernus, Martin and Kas
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David Austin Christopher Austin Ian Becke Steven Black Jacques Borman Arnold Goosen Arno Goosen Jeremy Rochefort Maurice Grapendaal Tim Rossouw Jonathan Sher Andre Vogel Len de Villers Raymond Myburgh
Peter Aldridge Chris O'Connell Hercules Myburgh Mike Rabeling Sheraaz Suliman Hugo Erasmus
Pieter Botha Derek Butow Hadri Lombaard Cobus Malan Rory Netterville Aubry Smith Nico Erasmus
Neil Allen John Brink Danie Potgieter jnr Max Buizer John Calefato John Dorse Chris Halgreen Freddie Kotze Claude MacKrill Gerhard Mitton Stuart Nix Osman Parenzee Rodney Potter Michael Saccá Ernie Smith
Matthys Botha Grant Brook Clinton Carter-Brown Roston Dugmore Calvin Schroll André Stockwell
SPORTSMAN
INTERMEDIATE
ADVANCED
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MAASA National Scores – 2015
219 142 83 92 33 28
12 61 18 180 130 174 151 246 331 328 110 318 54 233 226
309 98 300 128 223 324 8
133 320 307 329 304 177
325 330 310 323 319 321 322 122 333 326 332 327 334 335
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24-Jan 15-Oct 1-Jun 22-Feb 5-Mar 12-Jan 17-Sep 6-Feb 17-Apr 5-Mar 16-Sep 15-Jan 10-Oct 19-Jan 2-Feb 30-Jan 10-Dec 30-Jan 6-Jan 3-Feb 22-Jan 20-Jan
10-Feb 22-Jan 14-May 30-Jan 30-Jan 30-Jan 15-Jan
27-Mar 19-Jan 3-Feb 7-Mar 15-Jan 10-Jul
Date pd 2014 12-Feb 15-Apr 24-Feb 29-Jan 15-Jan 28-Jan 29-Jan 13-Apr 17-Sep 12-Feb 18-May 5-Mar 1-Jul 7-Jan
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Membership
Province
GP GP GP GP NW GP
KZN GP GP GP WP KZN GP GP WP WP WP WP WP NW WP
GP GP GP WP WP WP NW
WP GP GP WP WP NW
GP GP KZN GP WP GP GP WP WP GP GP WP GP GP
NW – February 7-8 PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
72 71 75
58
62
62
58
GP – SNOOPY'S – February 22 LEAGUE 1
57 63 66 72 68 75
67 63
60
58
50 55
57 60
KZN – MARITZBURG – March 1 LEAGUE 1
60
69
NW – March 15 LEAGUE 1
76
63 69 72
67
66
67
64
WP – HRF – March 28-29 PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
61
63 67 51 60
58
63
62 66
31
62 58 64
20
47 55
60 55 63
44
36
WP – TMFC – April 19 LEAGUE 1
53
47
KZN – MARITZBURG – 24 May LEAGUE 2
64
64
56
GP – PRF – 31 May LEAGUE 2
73
68 71
62
62
71 55
57 59
63 62
Klerksdorp 13 - 16 June POWER NATIONALS
61 66 69 73 69 75
54 23 23 67
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17
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63
WP – HRF – 2 August LEAGUE 2
64
63 68 54 60
63
49
56
GP – JOMAC – 26 July LEAGUE 3
75
68 72 75
64
55
58
58 61
60
62
54
KZN – HORWICK – 16 August LEAGUE 3
66
63
WP – SMAA – 13 September LEAGUE 3
63
65 70 54 60
71
51
56
71
65 68
68
59
63 60
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GP – GAA – 19-20 September PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
NW – 16 August LEAGUE 3
FS – BLOEMFONTEIN – 18-19 July LEAGUE 1
FS – WELKOM – 16-17 May PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
KZN – DURBAN – 2-3 May PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
NW – 26 Apri LEAGUE 2
63 69 72 75 76 75
69 0 71 60 58 64 67 66 0 63 68 54 60 67 64
58 61 0 63 58 64 67
53 64 62 47 55 60
1 0 0 56 0 56 0 0 36 49 0 0 0 54 0
62 68 72 73 71 75
64 0 70 55 31 60 0 64 0 63 67 51 60 67 63
57 59 0 62 55 63 58
44 63 60 20 0 0
2 0 0 63 0 47 0 0 51 0 0 0 0 57 0
61 66 69 72 69 75
71 0 0 59 0 66 0 68 0 65 70 54 60 62 63
63 60 0 60 0 0 58
0 63 0 0 0 0
3 0 0 0 0 56 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Highest 3 Flights from all Competitions
62 68 71 73 72 75
64 68 53 60 65 63
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Matthys Botha Grant Brook Clinton Carter-Brown Roston Dugmore Calvin Scholl André Stockwell
Rodney Potter Michael Saccá Ernie Smith
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Gerhard Mitton Stuart Nix
Freddie Kotze
John Dorse
Neil Allen
Nico Erasmus
Cobus Malan
Pieter Botha Derek Butow
Chris O'Connell
Jacques Borman
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4 3
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Invited Pilots 3 x 60% or more (not average of 60%)
Invited Pilots who have flown in 3 qualifying events