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The forth match for the
2010 Hong Kong F3F league was held
successfully on Sunday,
11 April 2010
in the upper southeast-facing slope
in Leung King. The
weather forecast for the day was sunshine and moderate
south-to-southeasterly wind with early morning mist. But, by the
early morning the fog was so dense that it was certainly not possible
for holding contest in Fei Ngo Shan even though the fog was expected to
clear up in late afternoon. Our brave CD decided that we better go to
Leung King to try the upper slope which is suitable for
south-to-southeasterly wind and most importantly, this part of the
territory is relatively fog free. Most pilots converged to the Leung
King slope at about 9:00am and discovered that the fog there was pretty
heavy, a bit disappointed but it didn't stop them for the waiting game
because the fog was predicted to be cleared up soon. After two
hours of waiting, the sky finally cleared up and everybody was mobilized
to move up to the newly discovered upper slope as quick as possible.
With tremendous and coordinated effort, the race was officially started
at 12:05pm with 27 pilots on the race table. The wind speed was
consistent at an average of 6 to 7 m/s through out the whole contest.
This new site seems to be a good slope for achieving fast times.
However, landing is a big problem! Pilots need to walk 70m across a
rough terrain to land their planes although the landing location has
good grass cushion. As a result, there were some casualties, in
particular, Donny lose slight of his brand new Strega which eventually
went down and decomposed into many pieces. C.M., almost lose his plane
when it went into the cloud for just a flash of second. Lucky enough, it
was spotted at the back side and steered to a safe/happy landing.
Another unfortunate pilot is Kolowai, his Demo went straight at the rock
in full speed during a speedy run! Apart from all these misfortunes,
the race was uneventful, many pilots have good timings in the 4x. The
most stunning run was in the second round by Uncle Chan who flew his
Extreme with extreme accuracy and speed to create a speed record of
39.88s for this new slope, the only sub-forty in the contest! Ah Kin
flew his new RaceM with highspeed in many rounds and finally took
the champion title. Ah Pong was able to surpass Stanley to get the 1st
runner-up prize. Stanley was in the second place throughout until the
last round that finally dropped to the third place after Ah Pong.
Overall, the contest was a tough and challenging one, but all
participating pilots were happier after a day of intense contest. Congratulation to all winners! The
summary of the score table is shown below,
for details, please check the
score sheet.
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