The Standard and Intermediate Nationals - 2004
CD's Report
Now a well established event at Peterborough Conington, this year's nationals part-1 provided the usual fierce tussle to bag the country's ultimate aerobatic prizes for Standard and Intermediate pilots. It is indeed an eye-opener to see just how accurately you must fly to make the grade now, and the commitment it takes to get to the top - whilst this time the Standard class was still dominated by biplanes, all three medal-winning slots at Intermediate were the province of sharp and speedy monoplanes. Even the weather came up to scratch, after a dodgy start Friday's expected pm wind and rain holding close to the NW and SE whilst we scurried on between the lightening to one side and gloom to the other.... floods in Cambridge barely 8 miles distant and cloud-on-the-deck just up the A1, but up to three-grand for us until just after 17:00 when the clag freshly generating itself in the box stopped play. At this stage the knowns were almost completed, the expected high-rollers showing the rest just how far they should jump.

At the Saturday 07:00 kick-off we had Swedish-style severe CAVOK, and from bang-on 08:00 a fine rate of sequences kept Steve Green's judging line well occupied. Inevitably the high level of solar energy drove lots of moisture up into our bit of the sky, and we abruptly ground to a halt after a couple of hours. It didn't either last long or spoil the atmosphere around the Conington apron, and after a tense break the Intermediate Free show was back on with an allowed break that very quickly became superfluous. At the completion of the second sequence Corrine Dennis was pushing Brian McCartney hard for the Standard lead with Robert Woollard close behind, whilst Alex Caramella had Clive Butler and Julian Murfit in close attendance at Intermediate. For the latter class all the great efforts in the final unknown sequence made not a jot of difference, the same three pilots bagging all the gongs in the same order. On this occasion however our friendly Italians' home country became part of the issue, our rule book clearly requiring the national champion to be a passport bearing Brit - so allowing Clive to scoop the crown whilst Alex retained the gong and can look forward to a "special trophy". At Standard however, where affairs were more straightforward although time permitted only the highest-placed ten to take on a 2nd unknown, it was Andy McLean with the best score (too late, too late!) and Mark Davies who made the most of the opportunity to snatch the bronze, whilst Little Brian stretched his lead to just over 2% over Corrine's outstanding effort..... for her at least, a rather better result than last year!

Good flying, no serious complaints from the judging line, lots of Joe Public in cars along the adjoining road, no noise complaints to the Conington office, and another gruelling day for the bar staff - in other words, situation normal and a great competition. Steve's judges were Nick Wakefield, Gerald Cooper, Peter Macintosh, Simon O'Neill and Robert Tinkler, numerous assistants gave freely of their time, Jen B drove the calculator, and I thoroughly enjoyed doing the easy bit. Well done to the champions, commiserations to the others, a thousand thanks again to all the team at Conington, and three cheers for the meteorology that let us get on with the job.... at least for most of the time.

Nick B
Contest Director

                   British Nationals part 1 : Conington : 20/21 August
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                 The Flyer Trophy - Standard level National Championship

 Order   Pilot             Aircraft type  Reg'n    Known1  Unkwn1  Unkwn2 AllGrps O/all %
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   1  Brian McCartney      Pitts S-2A    G-TIII    1056.8   855.2   834.6  2746.6  76.721
   2  Corinne Dennis       Pitts S-1S    G-BOXH     979.5   901.5   789.7  2670.6  74.597
   3  Mark Davies          Pitts S-2A    G-BTUL     926.8   772.4   825.8  2525.0  70.530
   4  Neil Bigrigg         Pitts S-2A    G-BTUL     868.2   858.7   781.1  2508.0  70.056
   5  Richard Buchan       Pitts S-1D    G-OODI     876.6   861.0   751.9  2489.5  69.539
   6  Andy McClean         Pitts S-1T    G-WILD     853.8   720.8   844.0  2418.6  67.558
   7  Steve Lofthouse      Yak-52        G-CBPY     870.6   802.3   744.8  2417.7  67.533
   8  Robert Woollard      Pitts S-2B    G-BRVT     998.4   846.8   571.4  2416.5  67.500
   9  Sam Whatmough        Yak-52        G-CBRL     825.6   789.2   727.2  2342.0  65.419
  10  David Jenkins        Laser         G-LAZA     945.6   756.2   585.4  2287.2  63.888
  11  Andrew Holman-West   Yak-50        G-OJDR     777.3   832.1      -   1609.4  44.955
  12  John Wicks           CAP-10C       G-CPXC     857.1   697.1      -   1554.2  43.413
  13  Farrell McGee        Pitts S-1SE   G-FARL     921.7   613.3      -   1535.0  42.878
  14  David Cowden         Pitts S-2A    G-TIII     895.6   627.6      -   1523.2  42.549
  H/C Harry Mason          Pitts S-2B    G-ICAS     808.4   708.4      -   1516.8  42.281
  15  Al Coutts            Pitts S-1S    G-BKKZ     749.3   758.6      -   1507.9  42.120
  16  Dave Cavell          Yak-52        G-CBPY     703.0   726.9      -   1429.9  39.941
  17  Giles Caunter        Pitts S-1D    G-BLAG     796.7   611.2      -   1407.9  39.327
  18  Paul Tomlinson       Pitts S-1C    G-BXAU     711.2   597.8      -   1308.9  36.562
  19  Tom Leader           Robin-2112A   G-RAFC     623.2   292.8      -    916.0  25.587
 
                               BAeA Intermediate National Championship

 Order   Pilot             Aircraft type  Reg'n    Known1   Prog1  Unkwn1 All Grps O/all%
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   1  Alex Caramella       Extra-300L    G-CCPI    1369.3  1397.6  1336.3  4103.2  76.126
  *2  Clive Butler         Extra-230     G-CBUA    1381.6  1366.9  1331.5  4080.0  75.696
   3  Julian Murfitt       CAP-222       F-WWMX    1343.1  1313.4  1289.8  3946.3  73.215
   4  Rob Howarth          Pitts S-1     G-MAXG    1315.2  1328.7  1260.5  3904.3  72.437
   5  Ian Trask            Yak 55M       G-YKSS    1334.7  1148.6  1239.6  3722.9  69.070
   6  Simon Abbott         Pitts S-1F    G-MAXG    1245.0  1247.0  1053.0  3545.0  65.770
   7  Patrick Caruth       Pitts S-1S    G-LITZ    1323.9   960.5  1178.8  3463.2  64.252
   8  Alan Wood            Pitts S-1S    G-BOXH    1181.3  1181.7   939.9  3302.8  61.277
   9  Ian Scott            CAP-10B       G-BXRC    1015.9  1168.6  1058.6  3243.1  60.168
  10  Mike Caskey          CAP-10B       G-BXRC     733.4  1287.9  1126.1  3147.4  58.393
  11  Nick Richards        Extra-300L    D-ETTO    1292.5   731.2   952.6  2976.4  55.220
*  Clive Butler is BAeA Intermediate National Champion for 2004
   as the highest placed British national
 
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