CD's Report
 Ever
gambled? I have! Not that much, you understand, but enough to know
that I’m not particularly good at it. However, I don’t think that
even a competent gambler would have bet on us
 completing
both sequences at this years Tiger event, given the weather we
faced. Low cloud, drizzle, mist and fog, we had it all at some
point, all being held beautifully in place by a huge high pressure
area over the North Sea, which also gave us a gentle, moist airflow
straight off the sea..!! Would you have taken that bet?
By the time the coffee machine was hot on Saturday morning, we had 2
aircraft, and they had arrived the day before. Then, just as our
thoughts were turning towards bacon, the radio burst into life with
the unmistakable Yorkshire accent of Tom Cassells who, despite the
 tops
of the chimneys of the Drax power station still being in cloud,
announced that he was joining downwind to land, and he was right.
When he was told he was the only arrival so far, I’m sure he
muttered something about 'soft southern ……….!!'
After several postponements of the first briefing, and a steady
trickle of arrivals, we finally enjoyed Jen’s roll call at 1300hrs,
by which time my mobile had lost most of its charge fielding
communications with stuck pilots. No matter, we were underway, even
if we still couldn’t fly. The surprise unknown, which was to be
flown as the second flight, was, for standard and
 intermediate,
a sequence of the same figures drawn in 3 different ways. Pilots
were invited to choose which one they would fly, which they did
straight after the briefing. They all chose the same one, but it was
an interesting exercise which was constructive use of the
non-flyable conditions.
By 1500hrs conditions were looking better so pilot one, last years’
winner David Brown, took off, flew through the box then landed
again. Not good enough yet, but the judges stayed out on the line
and after a quick squirt, yes tank and loo, DB was climbing the
Extra 200 back into the box and BINGO, 3,300ft. The Tiger was up and
running and finally caged by 1800hrs. Some flew
 well,
some didn’t. Some flew low and some flew things that shouldn’t have
been there at all, but we had us a result. The G-KITI boys have been
trading places all season long but this was to be Aidan’s day with
Alex runner up and Chris Sills bagging
 the
bronze. Top 3 scores all north of 80% - job done!
Sunday dawned and the weather was up to its old tricks again, I
won’t bore you with the details but after widely varying cloud base
reports from local flyers and a months' worth of caffeine, the only
way to know for sure was to launch rookie competitor David Heard to
go and have a look and BINGO again, 3,000ft plus in the box. Nine
competitors decided to contest the surprise unknown, and by 1500hrs
we were ready to hand out the gongs. Combining the two flights saw
my fellow Scot, David Brown climb up to bronze medal position, but
it was the Sleap boys who cleaned up again with a one/two and also
took the team trophy, along with Paul Elvidge in his first outing
with his new toy with their superb team name ‘Team Special Edge’.
Worth saying
 that
at advanced, we only had wee Ron trying his hand at the ‘surprise’,
which was the unknown used at the European Nationals in Sweden in
2003. A really tough sequence which Capt. Allan got round
magnificently. A real privilege to watch, thanks Ron.
Thanks again to Nick B and his team of judges and assistants, the
Sherburn Aero Club and their airfield manager Julia Lilywhite, who
presented the awards, and of course Jen and Jack for driving the
laptop. Me, I’m off to my local Paddy Power as I feel my luck might
be changing… |
| Tiger
Trophy - Consolidated Results |
|
Tiger Trophy Event, Sherburn in Elmet, 13th-14th Sept
2014 |
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Ranked by percent
|
| Rank |
Level |
Pilot |
Aeroplane |
Registration |
Unk'n #1 |
TeamFree |
Totals |
O/all % |
| 1 |
STD |
Aidan Smith |
Pitts S-2E |
G-KITI |
1053.61 |
1175.11 |
2228.72 |
83.787 |
2 |
STD |
Alex Cartwright |
Pitts S-2E |
G-KITI |
1044.38 |
1094.76 |
2139.15 |
80.419 |
3 |
STD |
David Brown |
Extra 200 |
G-TWOO |
936.45 |
1136.64 |
2073.09 |
77.936 |
4 |
INT |
Chris Sills |
Laser Z200 |
G-CBHR |
1532.16 |
1647.18 |
3179.33 |
76.061 |
5 |
INT |
Mike Collett |
Extra 230 |
G-CBUA |
1455.71 |
1636.85 |
3092.56 |
73.985 |
H/C |
STD |
Victoria Wicks |
Pitts S-2B |
G-ICAS |
948.02 |
1000.28 |
1948.30 |
73.244 |
6 |
ADV |
Ron Allan |
Edge 360 |
G-ZVKO |
1808.55 |
2305.38 |
4113.92 |
70.686 |
7 |
INT |
Paul Elvidge |
Edge 360 |
G-CDDP |
1286.65 |
1603.15 |
2889.80 |
69.134 |
8 |
STD |
David Heard |
Extra 200 |
G-TWOO |
798.58 |
1033.84 |
1832.43 |
68.888 |
9 |
UNP |
Gerald Cooper |
XA-41 |
G-IIRI |
2051.38 |
|
2051.38 |
54.126 |
10 |
UNP |
Tom Cassells |
CAP-232 |
G-IITC |
1644.38 |
|
1644.38 |
43.387 |
11 |
ADV |
Phil Burgess |
DR-107 |
G-RIHN |
2125.17 |
|
2125.17 |
36.515 |
12 |
ADV |
Philip Massetti |
CAP 231EX |
G-GKKI |
1080.51 |
|
1080.51 |
18.565 |
13 |
ADV |
Cas Smith |
Pitts S-2A |
G-ICAS |
947.14 |
|
947.14 |
16.274 |
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| Contest Director: Brian McCartney, Contest Chief Judge: Nick Buckenham, Scoring Director: Jen Buckenham. Judges: Nick Buckenham, Ian Scott, Eric Marsh, Leif Culpin. Judges Assistants:
Julie Wood, Julie Lawley, Steve Todd, Emma Sik. |
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| Tiger Trophy
- Unknown sequence |
|
Tiger Trophy Event, Sherburn in Elmet, 13th-14th Sept
2014 |
|
Ranked by percent
|
| Rank |
Level |
Pilot |
Aeroplane |
Registration |
Unk'n #1 |
Totals |
O/all % |
| 1 |
STD |
Aidan Smith |
Pitts S-2E |
G-KITI |
1053.61 |
1053.61 |
82.313 |
2 |
STD |
Alex Cartwright |
Pitts S-2E |
G-KITI |
1044.38 |
1044.38 |
81.592 |
3 |
INT |
Chris Sills |
Laser Z200 |
G-CBHR |
1532.16 |
1532.16 |
80.218 |
4 |
ADV |
Phil Burgess |
DR-107 |
G-RIHN |
2125.17 |
2125.17 |
76.721 |
5 |
INT |
Mike Collett |
Extra 230 |
G-CBUA |
1455.71 |
1455.71 |
76.215 |
H/C |
STD |
Victoria Wicks |
Pitts S-2B |
G-ICAS |
948.02 |
948.02 |
74.064 |
6 |
STD |
David Brown |
Extra 200 |
G-TWOO |
936.45 |
936.45 |
73.160 |
7 |
INT |
Paul Elvidge |
Edge 360 |
G-CDDP |
1286.65 |
1286.65 |
67.364 |
8 |
ADV |
Ron Allan |
Edge 360 |
G-ZVKO |
1808.55 |
1808.55 |
65.291 |
9 |
STD |
David Heard |
Extra 200 |
G-TWOO |
798.58 |
798.58 |
62.389 |
10 |
UNP |
Gerald Cooper |
XA-41 |
G-IIRI |
2051.38 |
2051.38 |
54.126 |
11 |
UNP |
Tom Cassells |
CAP-232 |
G-IITC |
1644.38 |
1644.38 |
43.387 |
12 |
ADV |
Philip Massetti |
CAP 231EX |
G-GKKI |
1080.51 |
1080.51 |
39.008 |
13 |
ADV |
Cas Smith |
Pitts S-2A |
G-ICAS |
947.14 |
947.14 |
34.193 |
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| Contest Director: Brian McCartney, Contest Chief Judge: Nick Buckenham, Scoring Director: Jen Buckenham. Judges: Nick Buckenham, Ian Scott, Eric Marsh, Leif Culpin. Judges Assistants:
Julie Wood, Julie Lawley, Steve Todd, Emma Sik. |
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| Tiger Team Tankard |
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Tiger Trophy Event, Sherburn in Elmet, 13th-14th Sept 2014 |
| Sequence: Team Unknown |
| 1 |
|
Team Special Edge |
Aeroplane |
Registration |
TeamFree |
Totals |
O/all % |
| TSE |
M |
Aidan Smith |
Pitts S-2E |
G-KITI |
1175.11 |
1175.11 |
85.153 |
| TSE |
M |
Alex Cartwright |
Pitts S-2E |
G-KITI |
1094.76 |
1094.76 |
79.331 |
| TSE |
M |
Paul Elvidge |
Edge 360 |
G-CDDP |
1603.15 |
1603.15 |
70.623 |
| TSE |
M |
Cas Smith |
Pitts S-2A |
G-ICAS |
|
0.00 |
0.000 |
| |
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|
3873.02 |
76.998 |
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| 2 |
|
Team Vote No |
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| TVN |
M |
David Brown |
Extra 200 |
G-TWOO |
1136.64 |
1136.64 |
82.365 |
| TVN |
M |
Ron Allan |
Edge 360 |
G-ZVKO |
2305.38 |
2305.38 |
75.586 |
| TVN |
M |
David Heard |
Extra 200 |
G-TWOO |
1033.84 |
1033.84 |
74.916 |
| TVN |
M |
Mike Collett |
Extra 230 |
G-CBUA |
1636.85 |
1636.85 |
72.108 |
| TVN |
M |
Tom Cassells |
CAP-232 |
G-IITC |
|
0.00 |
0.000 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
6112.71 |
75.652 |
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| 3 |
|
Team Old Slappers |
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|
| TOS |
M |
Chris Sills |
Laser Z200 |
G-CBHR |
1647.18 |
1647.18 |
72.563 |
| TOS |
M |
Gerald Cooper |
XA-41 |
G-IIRI |
|
0.00 |
0.000 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
1647.18 |
72.563 |
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| Contest Director: Brian McCartney, Contest Chief Judge: Nick Buckenham, Scoring Director: Jen Buckenham. Judges: Nick Buckenham, Ian Scott, Eric Marsh, Leif Culpin.. Judges Assistants: Julie Wood, Julie Lawley, Steve Todd, Emma Sik. |
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