The Fenland and McAully competition had a record number of entries, with 11 Beginners,
25 Standard and 13 Intermediate pilots registered.
The Friday afternoon running of the Beginners competition took place in glorious 
sunshine; the kind of weather we have come to expect from Fenland over the past three 
years since our return to the venue.
It was good to see the two DHC-1's from the BA flying club there to compete for the first 
time, one of which was piloted by Australian Martin Dicker. Making a welcome return was 
G-WREN piloted by NFC member Alex Willis. The last time I saw WREN compete at Fenland was 
probably the very first competition I ever attended, when there was a bit of bother 
with the tail wheel following an argument with the runway lighting! Fortunately not
repeated on this occasion.
Polly Whitehead, a student of the Tom Cassells School of Life was the overall winner at
Beginners, with BAFC member Phillip Cottrell taking second place and Alan Wood a closely 
contested third place.
Sadly the climate took a turn for the worse and Saturday was a 'dreary' day with a 
cloud base that did not rise above 1200 feet all day; Sunday morning boded no better 
and the decision to abandon the contest was made!
Tom Cassells was CD. Ben Ellis was Chief Judge assisted in his deliberations by 
Julie Wood, Ian Scott, and Richard Gee. Jen Buckenham was registrar and scorer.    

 

           McAully & Fenland Trophy : Fenland : 21/22July
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                          Beginners Finals

Order   Pilot            Aircraft type   Reg'n     Known #1  O/all %
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  1  Polly Whitehead     T-67M           G-SKYC       486.4   73.700
  2  Phillip Cottrell    DHC1            G-AORW       470.0   71.215
  3  Alan Wood           Robin 2160      G-SACK       469.3   71.106
  4  Ivan Trotman        Stampe          G-ATIR       447.6   67.818
  5  Alex Willis         Pitts S-2A      G-WREN       427.9   64.838
  6  Martin Dicker       DHC1            G-BXGL       425.8   64.510
  7  Andrew Wingfield    Stampe          G-ATIR       409.1   61.981
  8  Paul Avery          DHC1            G-AORW       408.7   61.930
  9  Oliver Johnstone    Yak 52          G-BWVR       408.3   61.867
 10  Sue Hawkridge       C 150           G-BFKF       393.2   59.581
   

  British Aerobatic Association
  Results after TBLP at 90% confidence with 1.20 threshold
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  BAeA Scoring System - software Ver 4.2 May 00