The Advanced and Unlimited
National Championships - 2000

Despite a best-ever entry with ten unlimited and fifteen advanced competitors, four days of truly dreadful low-visibility haze and soggy on-the-deck cloud, rain and the promise of embedded CB's put paid to any prospect of running the 2000 advanced and unlimited British National Championships at Sywell.  Many pilots tried and failed to make the trip. Those who were successful inevitably spent their time honing skills in all manner of diversionary fill-in pursuits quite unconnected to the flying or judging of high-performance aerial machinery engaged in the gentle art of Aresti aerobatics.

At the final 0900 briefing on the fourth (Sun(we saw it briefly!))day, CD Eric Marsh as expected called a halt to the (non)-proceedings.  Even some discussions aimed at defining an alternative affair later in the year had not reached a successful conclusion, although of course if this line of enquiry does achieve acceptable status we will publish all here.  Not a good time - unusual, even in England!