The Hong Kong Radio Control Soaring Society organized an electric glider duration and spot landing contest  on Sunday, 12 September, 2004. The contest was originally scheduled to be run on 22 August 2004 but was postponed due to poor weather and other reasons. The venue of the contest is an abundant quarry in Lamma Island. The flying site is on a big grassy field on the other side of Sok Ku Wan. There is no road access to the site.  This is the first time an HKRCSS event was ever held in this remote but wonderful place. A total of 41 participants gathered in Sam Wan quay early in the morning. Two speedboats and a Chinese Junk took us all to the flying site. We arrived at Lamma island on two waves because each speedboat can carry only 8 persons.  The competition was started at 11:00am after the inspection of all the electric gliders participated in the contest. The contest attracted some top electric glider pilots with their powerful machines. Totally 18 pilots joined the contest. Ah Shing was almost eliminated before the contest was started when his E-Twist piloted by Master Leung crashed gracefully into ground on the first practice flight! What's a disappointment for him after weeks of preparation! Luckily, he still has an electric Little White for participating in the contest. The contest was really tense. 40 second of motor driving period seems to be insufficient as the thermal activities were a minimum in the morning. But the situation was totally different. After the lunch break when the solar ray was shining, the thermal activities were just wonderful, almost all skillful pilots can achieve the maximum duration of 10 minutes. In fact there were lots of applause when the gliders were speeding down from high attitude in preparation for spot landing during the last 20 seconds of the 10 minute limit. It was just amazing! Finally, 6 rounds of contest were completed. The winner of the day is Y.C. Lui with a convincing score of 64.63, congratulation! C.M. got the highest mark in spot landing - a golden ten with only 2 inches from the target! Well done!  What a wonderful day! HKRCSS wishes to thank the sponsors; Radar Co. Ltd, Windrider Aviation Co., Windfeel Model, and Waigo Model.

 
Wow! we are meant to have glider racing, not boat racing. But this 15 minute boat race was good fun to start with.

Hi, guys! Do you enjoy the boat ride and are you ready for the contest?

 
Arrived at the flying site and prepare for the weapon.

 
"I will use my Electric Twist for the contest, Master Leung, please leave it alone!" said Ah Shing. "No problem, just give it to me and I will show you how to fly this glider" said Master Leung

 
See a movie how the glider was destroyed! Poor Ah Shing had no plane to fly in the contest afterward! Master Leung do you feel guilty?

 
Each contestant had to post for a photo: The No. 1 contestant is Y.C. with his Highlight

The No.2 contestant is Ah Mak with his Easy, and a boat. How come? This is r/c soaring, not r/c sailing!

The No. 3 contestant is Ah Pong with his widely publicized weapon - Electric Easy

The No. 4 contestant is Chester with his Kyoso Soarus

The No. 5 contestant is Stephen with his homebrew glider

The No. 6 contestant is Uncle Sing from Waigo. His weapon is Limity

The No. 7 contestant is Johnson with his new weapon - the Skysergio

The No. 8 contestant is Stanley with his E-Banana, no swimming for sure today!

The No. 9 contestant is C.M. with his Filip

The No. 10 contestant is Gallant. His weapon is little bullet plane called Max

The No 11 contestant is Eric of the Yellow brother. His weapon, Toco, is the biggest among the gliders in the contest.

The No. 12 contestant is Eric II with his Hawk 2000

The No. 13 contestant is Allan with his Simply the Best

The No. 14 contestant is Pun Ho from Mainland. His weapon is Sun God

The No. 15 contestant is Deng Zhaokun from Mainland. His weapon is Simply the Best

The No. 16 contestant is Ah Kin with his new weapon - the Skysergio

The No. 18 contestant is Ah Shing. His weapon is ...... where? Suppose to be E-Twist

Pilot briefing. Remember the newly changed rules!

Who will be the owners of these beautiful trophies?

See a movie for practice launch of the big Toco

See a movie for practice launch of Fairbird

All set! The contest is ready to start

Contestants in position

First round of the contest begin

See a movie for the kick start of the event

Zhaokun from Mainland showed off this launching skill

Concentration, not bad for duration, how about spot landing?

Close enough but ....

5.1 meters! Out and no mark!

Uncle Sing was ready for launching his weapon

Duration is ok, how about the spot landing. Click to see it yourself!

Allan was so concentrated on finding the thermal. 10 minutes, a full mark for duration, how about spot landing?

Click to see a movie for the spot landing part by Allan.

You never tell how nervous C.M. is in flying his glider during the contest. Although the duration mark is not up to the expectation but .....

he got a bingo in spot landing! Two inches from the target, just unbelievable!

Recording the score in the scoreboard

Ah Mak and Patrick, this is an electric glider contest. Why are you discussing hand launch gliders?

After two rounds of contest, it is time to take a break for the lunch. We needed to go to restaurant in the other side of Sok Ku Wan by boat.

Seafood lunch in a local restaurant in Sok Ku Wan

It was really nice to have a boat ride back to the flying site after a full lunch

Contest resumed. Click to see how Eric launched his Hawk 2000

Eric, take it easy, thermal duration may be the easy part. How are about spot landing?

Come on, it is 5.1 meters and even you pull very tight on the ruler, the result is still the same, Out and no mark!

Ah Kin is going to launch his Skysergio

Click a movie to see how the Skysergio performed in landing

Eric seems to be very relaxing. Easy man!

Is Eric's spot landing of big Toco ok? Click to see it yourself.

 
Women's quarter. The girls are really wonderful, they are not interested in this sport but they have full support to their love ones.

 
Stanley is so busy working on the numbers. The results of the day are:

 
The fourth prize goes to Eric (right). His big hi-tech thermal ship, Toco, stayed afloat easily but accurate spot landing may be a bit difficult.

 
The second runner up is Chester (right). His effort of tuning a light thermal soarer really paid off, but his spot landing accuracy was somehow disappointing!

 
The first runner up is Ah Kin (right).  He actually lose one round of score because of battery problem, but he still maintained in the second place, well done!

 
Wow! Y.C. (right) is the champion of the day! His effort in fine tuning the landing skill and building his hi-tech weapon really pay off today. Congradulation!

 
The spot landing prize goes to C.M. Wow! Only two inches ..... away from the targeted position, amazing shot!

 
 A photo for the three winners

Smile! The winners have done a professional contest today!

 
A group photo for us to remember. What's a wonderful day!