An electric glider duration and spot landing contest was organized by HKRCSS on Sunday, 22 October, 2006. The contest was originally scheduled to be run a month earlier but was postponed due to insufficient number of contestants and bad weather. The venue of the contest was in Sham Chung, a remote peaceful village with a beautiful grass field rare to find in Hong Kong. The place was supposed to be a golf course own by a private developer but was somehow open to the public for camping for years. Recently, the owner had decided to cut off the public access to the grass field, no camping was allowed after Mid Autumn Festival this year. We were lucky that the village chief has promised to allow us to hold a contest there. Of course we were glad for this generosity, on the other hand, we felt very sad that this may be the last chance we were allowed to hold a contest in this beautiful place!

Anyway, this time the trip to Sham Chung was full of controversial. First, C.M. was chased by some unfriendly bees and fell to ground hardly. The fall resulted in multiple injuries, although the injuries were not so serious that we needed to call 999 to rush him to hospital, he was unable to walk for long distance to Sham Chung from Yung Shue O. So he had no choice but gave up his electric Filip to the two waiting predators; Ah Mak and Fat Fai! After the delay, we took a long but pleasant walk to Sham Chung together with many energetic kids. On arrival, Stanley immediately pulled out his long-waiting electric Banana for test flying. He probably forgot what had happen few years ago on the same spot! The history repeated itself - his Banana fell into the water pond just after about 10 seconds in flight! Well, it's just another costly experience to him! Uncle Shing seems to love trees a lot. He flew his Red Wing into the trees many times resulting in some spectacular monkey-style recovery operations.

The contest was officially started at 11:45am with 8 contestants. Ah Mak flew the electric Filip with his magic fingers and took the longest duration of 9 minutes 43 seconds in the first round. He immediately phoned up C.M. to report his success, ha! ha! but not to celebrate too soon! Ah Kin was on a strike back with his well-tuned highly competitive model, Skysergio! He got a full 10 minutes duration with a highly accurate spot landing at 0.42m in the second round to take the lead, amazing! He continued to win the rounds to the end and grabbed the champion title, congratulation! Here is the score list:
 

 
After a long absent from Sham Chung, we came back again

 
All set! The contest was ready to start

 
Sham Chung is a good playground for the kids too!

 
As the main grass field was in renovation, we moved to the other field and set up our camp to hid under the sun.

 
High-tech weapon? C.M.'s Filip was ready, but... where was the pilot?

 
Skysergio's belly, look like a mess to us

The payoff to own such a high-tech equipment was to win the contest!

Ah Mak was test-flying C.M.'s Filip

Oop! A swimming Banana, this scene looks familiar!

Ah Kin was confident in his highly competitive Skysergio

Uncle Shing from Waigo has a pretty heavy model called Red Wing

周公子 owns a top-of-the-line model called Pulsar

Fat Fai was ready for the contest. His weapon was C.M.'s Filip

Click and watch a movie for Johnson launching his Skysergio. Is it a tactic to spiral the plane up in this way?

Shooting up to high altitude! "Someone help me to stop the sun light from interfering my sight!"

Ah Mak looked very professional in competing in this kind of contest.

Allan's Simple the Best was definitely the model that shot up to the highest altitude among others, no high-tech stuff, no LiPo and even no brushless, amazing!

Oop! Uncle Shing loves tree. This time was no exception. Click and watch a movie to check it out

Allan was happy to get that close to the target. Click and watch a movie to see how he did it

Ah Mak's Filip got close to the target as well. Click and watch a movie to see how he did it

Oop! Allan did badly this time with a broken wing. Click and watch a movie to check it out

Ah Mak looked confident in spot landing. Well, well, well...., click and watch a movie to check it out

Ah Kin was so happy to be able to zoom in to the target so accurately

Johnson landing his Skysergio, well not bad! Click and watch a movie to see check it out

The trophies were ready for the winners

The second runner up is 周公子 (right). His Pulsar is really a top model that we love to own

The first runner up is Allan (left).  He used pretty outdated model together with relatively cheap gear and still got good results, well done!

Ah Kin (left) is the champion of the day! How come you have a pretty girl giving you the award?  Congratulation anyway!

 A photo for the three winners.  Smile! These winners have done a professional contest today!

A group photo for the contestants and their family. What's a wonderful day!