CD's Report
Fenland airfield is one of the nicest venues for our aerobatic
contests. Very easy going with a nice café and staff, we are always
made very welcome. The Box however poses its own set of unique
problems to pilots. It’s a
 grass
airfield in a landscape of green fields with the box aligned at a
very misleading 20 or so degrees to the north and south sides of the neat parallel fields. I’m sure
that every BAeA aerobatic pilot will have competed at Fenland at
sometime in their past and everyone has had difficulties finding the
box. But that’s all part of its challenge, it’s the same for
everyone, so a level, if challenging, playing field.
John Scott, the winner of the Intermediate trophy provided the best
quote of the weekend "I was looking so hard I couldn't see
anything!". This was in the context of being upside down, couldn't
see the judges, couldn't see the airfield, totally lost …. and he
still managed to win.
All the intermediate pilots managed to arrive on Friday for the
1.00pm start. The forecast wasn’t good, the Met office warning
of extensive thunderstorms across the country with high humidity and
temperatures in the
 30's,
even advising people not to go out in
the midday sun and issuing severe weather warnings. There were lines
of thunderstorms travelling up the
middle of the country and up the
East coast. Fenland sat in between these
 and was fortunate to have a
4000ft plus cloud-base and good weather apart from a strange wind
that was 5kts on the ground increasing to 30kts at 5,000 ft.
So, we started promptly, rattling through the intermediate Known and
Free programmes by 4pm. Some competitors got caught out by the strong
wind at altitude, which pushed them to the back of the box, others by the challenging box,
and one was caught out by
both.
John Scott took the lead in the Intermediate known and then held onto it in the
Free, and we all retired for the day - hot and bothered (it had
reached 32 degrees) with John just ahead of Chris Sills.
The
Saturday weather was forecast to be worse than Friday with thunderstorms and
rain. Luckily we had kept to the 8.00am Standard level brief and this
allowed us to take advantage of the early good weather to get the
their part of the contest underway. In the Known-plus-three McAully
sequence it was Alex in the team KITI Pitts
who took the lead. There was some good flying with the top five
pilots, including newcomer Dave Munro all scoring over 70%.
After a 1hr lie-in the intermediate pilots arrived to
 strut their
stuff with their first Unknown. Chris Sills managed to wrestle this
one away from the leader John Scott who still managed an impressive
77.8% despite a HZ and a break.
Then it was back to the Standard pilots and Marc Amey took this sequence, but
once again the Team KITI boys Alex and Aidan were snapping at his heels and able to
hold on to first and second place overall.
Back to the final Intermediate sequence, with John Scott holding
a 80 point lead over Chris Sills. John was sacrificing everything he
could find to the rain gods and Chris was working just as hard with
the sun gods. It was a tricky 2nd unknown with quite a lot of
negative G mixed with some quite technical figures. A real “sort the
men from the boys” sequence
 (or “ladies from the girls” if there had
been any).
Well
it wasn’t to be, at 12.00 the promised rain started, then a
thunderstorm hit and low cloud developed, and with only 2,100ft
at 4.30 we finally called it a day. John Scott took the
intermediate trophy home and Alex Cartwright won the magnificent McAully
trophy, which was first award in 1962.
Many thanks to all the judges and their assistants who roasted in
the sun and dodged thunderstorms for two days. Thanks must also go
to Ray in the tower and Katie in the café, who help to make Fenland such a
pleasant place.
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| Contest Results: Beginners
sequence |
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Fenland & McAully Trophies Event, Fenland, 18th - 20th July '14 |
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Ranked by scores
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| Rank |
Pilot |
Aeroplane |
Registration |
Known |
Totals |
O/all % |
| 1 |
Sam Kempsey |
Extra 200 |
G-EEEK |
560.25 |
560.25 |
76.747 |
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| Contest Director: David Jenkins, Contest Chief Judge: Ian Scott, Scoring Director: Jen Buckenham. Judges: Ian Scott, Nick Buckenham, John Royce, Leif Culpin. Judges Assistants: Mike White, Emma Sik, Sarah Hardy, Neil Spooner. |
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| Contest Results:
The McAully Trophy |
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Fenland & McAully Trophies Event, Fenland, 18th - 20th July '14 |
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Ranked by scores
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| Rank |
Pilot |
Aeroplane |
Registration |
Known |
Unknown |
Totals |
O/all % |
| 1 |
Alex Cartwright |
Pitts S-2E |
G-KITI |
1327.29 |
1087.35 |
2414.64 |
81.028 |
2 |
Aidan Smith |
Pitts S-2E |
G-KITI |
1285.66 |
1088.36 |
2374.03 |
79.665 |
3 |
Marc Amey |
Pitts S-2B |
G-BTTR |
1212.91 |
1109.79 |
2322.70 |
77.943 |
4 |
Simon Hampton |
Pitts S-1F |
G-MAXG |
1150.26 |
971.60 |
2121.86 |
71.203 |
5 |
David Brown |
Extra 200 |
G-EEEK |
1252.43 |
628.55 |
1880.98 |
63.120 |
6 |
David Munro |
Pitts S-2B |
G-SIIE |
1229.06 |
552.34 |
1781.40 |
59.779 |
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| Contest Director: David Jenkins, Contest Chief Judge: Ian Scott, Scoring Director: Jen Buckenham. Judges: Ian Scott, Nick Buckenham, Farrell McGee, John Royce. Judges Assistants: Leif Culpin, Emma Sik, Sarah Hardy, Derek Brown. |
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| Contest Results:
The Fenland Trophy |
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Fenland & McAully Trophies Event, Fenland, 18th - 20th July '14 |
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Ranked by scores
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| Rank |
Pilot |
Aeroplane |
Registration |
Known |
Free |
Unknown |
Totals |
O/all % |
| 1 |
John Scott |
CAP-10B |
G-BXRA |
1588.92 |
1667.95 |
1549.53 |
4806.40 |
77.773 |
2 |
Chris Sills |
Laser Z200 |
G-CBHR |
1565.23 |
1601.89 |
1559.35 |
4726.48 |
76.480 |
3 |
David Cowden |
Extra-230 |
G-ROMP |
1316.64 |
1381.08 |
1414.82 |
4112.54 |
66.546 |
4 |
Stephen Hipwell |
Extra-230 |
G-ROMP |
841.17 |
1569.45 |
1510.08 |
3920.70 |
63.442 |
5 |
Graeme Fudge |
Extra 230 |
G-CBUA |
1319.86 |
823.26 |
1332.51 |
3475.62 |
56.240 |
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| Contest Director: David Jenkins, Contest Chief Judge: Ian Scott, Scoring Director: Jen Buckenham. Judges: Ian Scott, Nick Buckenham, Farrell McGee, John Royce, Leif Culpin. Judges Assistants: Leif Culpin, Mike White, Emma Sik, Sarah Hardy, Neil Spooner, Derek Brown. |
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