The McLean Trophy - 2000

An amazing field of beginners on the Friday at this 'new format' Welshpool contest was
reduced (!) to thirteen by bad weather in various parts of the UK. The clear winner in
a very pretty Pitts S-1S in what had become beautiful weather was Gerald Cooper. On Saturday
calls came from pilots creeping ever-nearer up the country, flying eventually starting at
1400 local in the most glorious afternoon we could have wished for. Two rounds were flown,
Tony Maxwell in the 'other' Eagle narrowly beating Gerald Cooper and Alex Smee on aggregate
for the McLean Trophy.

Alan Cassidy ran the judging bench whilst Angela provided the scores. See you next at Pembrey,
NOT at Swansea! - all the details are in the usual pages here.

Ben Ellis, Contest Director.

          The John McLean Trophy : Welshpool : 28/29Apr00
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                          Beginners Finals
Beginners level
Order   Pilot            Aircraft type   Reg'n     Known #1  O/all %
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  1  Gerald Cooper       Pitts S-1S      G-IIIX       511.1   77.442
  2  Vitor Coias         Pitts S-2B      G-ICAS       489.0   74.084
  3  David Hickson       Pitts S-1E      G-BMTU       478.5   72.503
  4  Paul Brice          Pitts S-1D      G-LOOP       437.1   66.220
  5  Alan Wood           Robin 2160      G-SACK       436.5   66.130
  6  Phil Soper    H/C   Cap 10B         G-BXRA       434.7   65.862
  7  Oliver Johnstone    Yak 52          G-BWVR       419.7   63.585
  8  John Holt           Cessna 152      G-BRUM       394.5   59.766
  9  Blair Pollock H/C   Pitts S-1S      G-BXTI       389.3   58.986
 10  Mark Hoffman        Decathlon       G-BTXX       385.7   58.441
 11  Chris Welsh         Robin 2160      G-SACK       378.4   57.340
 12  Andy McLean         Pitts S-1D      G-LOOP       370.6   56.150
 13  Sue Hawkridge       C-152           G-BHAD       346.4   52.480
 14  Chris Cain          Yak 52          G-YAKI       285.8   43.305
 15  Sohan Bhangi        Cessna 152      G-BRUM       274.6   41.606 
  

 
                    The John McLean Trophy : Welshpool : 28/29Apr00
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                                  McLean Trophy Finals
Standard level
Order   Pilot            Aircraft type   Reg'n     Known #1  Unkwn #1  All Grps  O/all %
========================================================================================
  1  Tony Maxwell        Eagle 2         G-BPZI       974.5     765.1    1739.6   78.361
  2  Gerald Cooper       Pitts S-1S      G-IIIX       941.9     722.7    1664.6   74.983
  3  Alex Smee           Pitts S-2A      G-STUA       902.7     707.6    1610.3   72.536
  4  David Hickson       Pitts S-1E      G-BMTU       846.6     720.8    1567.4   70.604
  5  Vitor Coias         Pitts S-2B      G-ICAS       849.9     678.6    1528.6   68.854
  6  John Penfold        Eagle 2         G-EGAL       846.7     678.9    1525.6   68.719
  7  Kim Harris          Robin 2112A     G-RAFC       758.0     641.9    1399.9   63.060
  8  Richard Howell      Yak 52          RA-02622     702.3     609.3    1311.7   59.084

 
  British Aerobatic Association
  Results after TBLP at 90% confidence with 1.20 threshold
  Seq & Grp two-pass processing at 22:44:27 on 03-05-2000
  BAeA Scoring System - software Ver 4.1 Apr 00

Tony Maxwell