 CD's Report
The Association
has been holding contests at Sleap ever since I can remember back in
my early Pitts-S1 days, and I can also recall
 quite a few of the
solid Shropshire farmhouses and excellent accommodations that have
provided me with solace between competition days that mostly seemed sunny
and warm. The week before this particular event had me in various
warm blue-sky locations in the south-east talking several pilots through
their stuff in earnest preparation for the weekend prospect, but by Saturday morning all that
had seemingly vanished ... leaving some of us (!)
 inadequately prepared for
the arctic blow. You'd think that after all these years I'd know a
cold and windy aerodrome when I see one!
With briefing
this year set at a leisurely 0930 to allow time for inward
transits and the avoidance of Friday evening B&B's, we had most
of the entry list present
and correct by the time we started into the brief; Chris Sills
almost arrived
on the Friday evening, deftly
managing a fuel pump failure in his
Laser quite
close to Sleap to
 squeeze it into a suitably
sized field ... with the prospect of
flying it out when the offending item is fixed; bet that monster
moustache helped no end! Phew. Then it rained
quite hard during the briefing, and we did begin to wonder. In the
end it was a very cautious John
 Potts who led the Beginners away at
about midday under a surly grey overcast, and the rest of the day followed with breaks only to adjust the judging line paperwork flow
and, most importantly somewhat later in the day, for JB to circulate
vital supplies of hot-water-bottles around the frozen judges, surely
a BAeA first!
Steve Todd ran a flexibly staffed judging line
that gave a few of the newer judges their head for the
Beginners and Standard
level sequences, while
 older heads took over for the Advanced
brigade. For this event the latter flew their Free sequence and then
tussled with a BAeA designed Unknown, while Standard gave us the
Known and then similarly worked their way  through a home-brewed
Unknown. There were as usual a few lessons in what not to do when
the grey matter stalls, but by and large the results were pretty
good and the overall scores as high as ever.
It did
seem that quite a lot of the time was spent waiting for Bob
Pooler's
incredibly hard working T-67M to be re-fuelled and re-inhabited by
yet another driver, with no less than ten somewhat lengthy flights in it's
 log during
the day. As if to say "Here's how to do it!" it was Bob at the top
of the Standard pile when all was done, a squeek ahead of John
Calverley's Yak-52 slumming it for once in the lower class while
easing his way back into the scene, with Jonathon Taylor
purposefully driving his Pitts G-WAZZ into the bronze slot. As has
been usual for many years Veryan Golding-Barrett came along to
review the flying, this
time with a party comprising two less senior generations of smaller
G-B's, but a combination of the biting cold wind and
a later-than-expected conclusion unfortunately but wisely drove them back to warmer
climes some time before the end.
In the Advanced class David
Jenkins and his Edge ran
away and hid from everyone else, no doubt encouraged by an
unusual late HZ from Phil Burgess and a
slow starting but
increasingly confident Ron Allan in
the
second of the three Edge 360's present. We froze to
  a halt at just
after 1900 to circulate the gongs along with the beautiful Golding-Barrett and Duxford
Trophies, then seemingly in an instant
the place was almost empty. Ace innkeeper Eric Marsh however wisely gathered those remaining for a somewhat
raucus meal in
excellent company and a local hostelry to
provide a fitting finale to
a pretty successful day of hard flying.
Lovely venue,
excellent flying, constructive judging, testing temperatures ... but
on balance another great day. Congrats to the winners,
commiserations to the others; see you all soon again.
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| Beginners
- Final Result |
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Sleap Airfield, 4 May 2013 |
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Ranked by scores
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| Rank |
Pilot |
Aeroplane |
Registration |
Known |
Totals |
O/all % |
| 1 |
Tom Pigott |
Extra 200 |
G-EEEK |
487.26 |
487.26 |
70.617 |
2 |
Antoine Schlijper |
Slingsby T-67M |
G-BUUK |
484.49 |
484.49 |
70.216 |
3 |
John Potts |
Slingsby T-67M |
G-BUUK |
454.75 |
454.75 |
65.906 |
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| Contest Director: Nick Buckenham, Contest Chief Judge: Steve Todd, Scoring Director: Jen B. Judges: John Royce, Eric Marsh, David Cowden, Paul Stanley (Seq CJ). Judges Assistants: Liz
Pattison, Ian Scott, BrIan McCartney, Steve Todd, Chris Sills. |
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| The Golding Barratt Trophy
- Standard level |
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Sleap Airfield, 4 May 2013 |
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Ranked by scores
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| Rank |
Pilot |
Aeroplane |
Registration |
Known |
Unknown |
Totals |
O/all % |
| 1 |
Bob Pooler |
Slingsby T-67M |
G-BUUK |
1016.81 |
958.80 |
1975.60 |
75.405 |
2 |
John Calverley |
Yak-52 |
G-BXAK |
1049.39 |
923.19 |
1972.58 |
75.289 |
3 |
Jonathan Taylor |
Pitts S-1S |
G-WAZZ |
1019.17 |
929.41 |
1948.58 |
74.373 |
4 |
Aidan Smith |
Slingsby T-67M |
G-BUUK |
1050.57 |
877.21 |
1927.77 |
73.579 |
5 |
Alex Cartwright |
Slingsby T-67M |
G-BUUK |
951.65 |
908.97 |
1860.62 |
71.016 |
6 |
Pete Pengilly |
DR-107 |
G-CEPZ |
981.34 |
767.51 |
1748.84 |
66.750 |
7 |
Bob Wood |
Pitts S-1D |
G-OODI |
938.05 |
667.47 |
1605.52 |
61.279 |
8 |
Antoine Schlijper |
Slingsby T-67M |
G-BUUK |
747.64 |
806.41 |
1554.05 |
59.315 |
9 |
Alan Harris |
CAP 10B |
G-WIXI |
900.63 |
371.09 |
1271.73 |
48.539 |
H/C |
Andy Egan |
Extra 200 |
G-EEEK |
659.88 |
235.77 |
895.65 |
34.185 |
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| Contest Director: Nick Buckenham, Contest Chief Judge: Steve Todd, Scoring Director: Jen B. Judges: Steve Todd, Ian Scott, John Royce, Eric Marsh, David Cowden, Paul Stanley (Seq 1 CJ). Judges Assistants: John Royce, Liz
Pattison, Paul Stanley, Ian Scott, BrIan McCartney, Steve Todd,
Chris Sills, Phil Burgess, Tom Bennett, Emma Sic, Aga Royce,
Julie Wood, Sarah Hardy, Ant Brown. |
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| The Duxford Trophy
- Advanced level |
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Sleap Airfield, 4 May 2013 |
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Ranked by scores
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| Rank |
Pilot |
Aeroplane |
Registration |
Free |
Unknown |
Totals |
O/all % |
| 1 |
David Jenkins |
Edge 360 |
G-EDGJ |
2525.32 |
2585.24 |
5110.56 |
78.143 |
2 |
Phil Burgess |
DR-107 |
G-RIHN |
2582.89 |
2237.92 |
4820.81 |
73.713 |
3 |
Ron Allan |
Edge 360 |
G-ZVKO |
2173.96 |
2568.78 |
4742.74 |
72.519 |
4 |
Tony Maxwell |
Edge 360 |
G-ZVKO |
2328.25 |
2253.74 |
4581.99 |
70.061 |
5 |
Richard Goodwin |
Christen Eagle |
G-KLAW |
2083.03 |
2282.69 |
4365.72 |
66.754 |
6 |
Ed Cyster |
XA-41 |
G-EVIL |
2288.09 |
1704.25 |
3992.34 |
61.045 |
7 |
Farrell McGee |
Edge 360 |
G-IIFM |
2099.36 |
1796.63 |
3895.99 |
59.572 |
8 |
Adrian Willis |
Extra-200 |
G-EEEK |
1897.65 |
1763.01 |
3660.66 |
55.973 |
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| Contest Director: Nick Buckenham, Contest Chief Judge: Steve Todd, Scoring Director: Jen B. Judges: Steve Todd, Ian Scott, John Royce, Eric Marsh, David Cowden, Brian McCartney. Judges Assistants: John Royce, David Cowden, Liz
Pattison, Paul Stanley, Ian Scott, BrIan McCartney, Chris Sills,
Pete Pengilly, Tom Bennett, Emma Sic, Aga Royce, Julie Wood,
Sarah Hardy, Ant Brown. |
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Aerobatic Contest Results Organiser, Version 3.2 Build 25-04-13, with FairPlay Scoring System |
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