60" F3F Slope Race and BBQ Night in Ma On Shan

60" F3F Slope Race and BBQ Night in Ma On Shan
November 05, 2006

A F3F competition for 60" model gliders was held in Ma On Shan on Sunday, 5 November, 2006. The race is the first F3F race for this year windy season. In the early morning, about a dozen enthusiastic r/c pilots converged to Ma On Shan car park to start hiking up to the flying slope. Stanley was among the first batch that arrived at 9:00am. After parking his car, he noticed that there were nails that was punched through two of his car wheels. Oh goodness! Some horrible people had burned down a used car seat in the open field car park, left with them was hundred of big nails scattered around, these are car wheel killers! The damaged wheels have to be repaired quick, so he quickly went down to Tai Wai where he might be able to find a garage for help. The damage was found to be quite serious and a recommendation was given to replace all the wheels with new ones! Money burned! By the time, he went back and hiked up the slope, it was already 11:15am. The enthusiastic pilots were waiting to start the race as soon as the wind picked up. Stanley quickly assembled his Prodij to test for the wind. But for some unknown reasons, there were no r/c response of the plane after it was launched straight out of the slope. It finally went hundreds of meters down in the dense jungle of the valley. Oh no! The weather was hot, the old man dared not to face the challenge of struggling across the dense jungle for hours, so the decision was to abandon his beloved Prodij. In about the same time, Ah Sang, the Taiwanese who whole-heartily flew to Hong Kong from Taiwan to join this race, was in trouble in locating his MiniNYX after it was force-landed near the slope ridge only 100 meters away. It took him 4 hours in searching every inch of the area, but still he could not find it, what's a pity and frustration for him after a long journey from home!

After all these unfortunately events, the race was finally started at 12:10pm. A total of 16 pilots were competing in the contest. In the first two rounds, the wind was so variable that there were many pickups as a result of force-landings and abandons in the slope! Ah Pong took the first round with a 70.94s - what a slow start! If not C.M. crashing his plane after leg 8, he would not have otherwise succeeded. After learning a lesson, C.M. flew carefully with a dazzling 60.96s and grabbed the second round. Stanley was in trouble again, his backup plane, Shooting Star, was flipped over after launch! This gave him a DNS and the chance of winning the contest was slim even though he did very well in the forth and sixth rounds with a 1000. Ah Pong continued to take the punch with a sparkling run of 53.31s in the fifth round which ultimately crowned him the title of speediest man. The contest was finally concluded with six rounds at 4:45pm. Congratulation on Ah Pong in winning the contest! Here are the summarized scores for the race, for details, please check the score sheet .

HKRCSS also organized a BBQ gathering after the race. The venue is in Ma On Shan BBQ ground. There were over 20 pilots and their guests joining the BBQ. Good food with friendly discussion in all aspects of r/c soaring marked the success of this function. Cheers and see you next year!

Name	Plane	Total Score	Position	Total Pen.	Round 1 Times	Round 1 Score	Round 2 Times	Round 2 Score	Round 3 Times	Round 3 Score	Round 4 Times	Round 4 Score	Round 5 Times	Round 5 Score	Round 6 Times	Round 6 Score
Y.C. Lui	MiniCorado	4124.10	8		81.45	868.51	76.98	791.89	82.74	753.69	78.81	815.12	69.56	766.39	71.55	882.18
C.M. Cheng	MIniNYX	4012.88	11		dnf	0.00	60.96	1000.00	81.15	768.45	108.37	592.78	60.56	880.28	81.83	771.36
Choi Wing Pong	MiniNYX	4858.47	1		70.74	1000.00	65.99	923.78	62.36	1000.00	72.56	885.34	53.31	1000.00	67.53	934.70
Lee Siu Man	MIniNYX	4316.23	6		102.42	690.75	66.79	912.71	66.74	934.37	88.66	724.57	63.64	837.68	69.60	906.90
Jerems	Minij	3766.01	13		90.34	783.04	78.39	777.65	82.46	756.25	115.16	557.83	76.70	695.05	83.71	754.03
Angus Lee	Ocelot	4602.90	3		83.67	845.46	65.83	926.02	70.75	881.41	64.38	997.83	58.00	919.14	71.85	878.50
Wong Chak Wing	Bird	4162.94	7		71.76	985.79	87.35	697.88	98.72	631.69	71.36	900.22	69.40	768.16	77.84	810.89
K.Y. Mak	Ocelot	4558.00	4		76.33	926.77	65.16	935.54	72.77	856.95	70.26	914.32	64.66	824.47	68.28	924.43
Ah Sang	MIniNYX	622.92	16		dns	0.00	dns	0.00	dns	0.00	dns	0.00	dns	0.00	101.33	622.92
Donny	Banana	3754.60	14		dnf	0.00	70.11	869.49	85.76	727.15	86.55	742.23	78.31	680.76	85.88	734.98
Au CHi Fai	MiniNYX	4650.25	2		92.25	766.83	65.21	934.83	65.22	956.15	65.17	985.73	56.61	941.71	75.88	831.84
Stanley Chan	Shooting Star	4499.52	5		79.04	894.99	dns	0.00	75.06	830.80	64.24	1000.00	68.90	773.73	63.12	1000.00
Johnson Yeung	MiniNYX	4070.12	9		102.84	687.86	83.08	733.75	78.05	798.98	73.84	869.99	67.16	793.78	72.25	873.63
Allan Yeung	MIniNYX	4042.96	10		74.6	948.26	80.47	757.55	82.77	752.41	77.05	833.74	71.08	750.00	88.84	710.49
W.C. Mak	MiniCorado	3562.90	15		104.02	680.06	92.01	662.54	88.75	702.65	74.25	865.19	92.00	579.46	96.74	652.47
So Kwok Ying	MiniNYX	3790.15	12		103.77	681.70	78.38	777.75	dnf	0.00	69.94	918.50	69.77	764.08	97.39	648.12