Jury Report on Free Flight World Championships 2019 F1A F1B F1C
FAI Jury
| Andras Ree | HUN | President |
| Lubomir Krupar | SVK | Member |
| Ivan Horejsi | CZE | Member |
Dates
August 25 to 28 2019
Location
Martin, Slovakia
Information
Two bulletins were sent out to NACs before the event in time, and additional information were issued on the spot at arrival and contained the necessary information. One meeting was organized for the team managers, the main officials and the jury on the training day, after the opening ceremony in Penzion Cierna Pani. It was short and effective including the important topic, how the teams will be informed each morning about the contest area to be used, as some distance exists between the areas usable at different wind directions. The teams also have got the CD instruction that all helpers and team managers should stay behind a line established behind the timekeepers to leave them timing undisturbed.
Participation
The final entry was a total of 36 senior competitors from 13 countries (including the first ever participating Japanese competitor) and 23 juniors from 8 countries (including 5 girls). This entry was about at the level of the previous World Championships. The registration and model processing was at Tomciansky Dvor in Tomcany, just besides Martin, on the training day.
Accommodation
Accommodation was organised in different versions. The Pension U Martina for the jury and some competitors was good. We haven’t heard about any major problems. The food in the hotel and at the contest site was good and plentiful.
Flying site
Four sites were available around Martin, the actual slope to be selected each morning according to the wind direction in a short meeting at Tomciansky Dvor. The selected site was published on the WCh web site and FB page as well. The flying area was the same (site 1) during the championships. All sites are of world class quality.
In general, the wind was low/medium, and the direction was not stable, influenced by the thermal activity.
Weather
On Junior day there was low/medium wind (1-5 m/s) during the first three rounds, mainly W/SW direction, except in the fly-off when changed to NW/no wind, mainly sunny.
On Senior day there was changing but generally low wind (0-3 m/s), mainly from W-NW direction, except in the fly-off round when changed to very low N (0-1 m/s). The sky was changing, mainly sunny
Competition
Junior day, August 26.
The maximum flying times were all day long 4 minutes, round times were scheduled for 60 minutes with 15 minutes breaks and 60 minutes lunch break after round 3. The starting line was the same in round 1 to round 4. In the lunch break we have got about 20 minutes rain. The 4th round started with about 1 m/s NW wind, which increased later to 10 m/s bursts, so the round was interrupted after 40 minutes having only 10 flights. After an hour the round was continued in low NW wind using the rule F1.5.2 (4 competitor repeated the flight, all maxed. Due to the long time, lost during the day because of the weather conditions, round 5 was cancelled. The respective number of round by round full houses, were 16, 9, 8 and 7 (from the 23 competitors).
Two fly-off rounds were flown and finished just in time before darkness (starting at 18.00 and 19.00) in very low or no wind conditions. The starting line was moved down two times for the flyoffs, the max. times were 6 then 8 minutes. Four competitors maxed in the first fly-off and no one in the second.
The individual winner was Dawid Carpowicz (POL) with just three second before Ema Kozuchova (SVK). The team winner was Slovakia (all girls team) before France and Germany.
Senior day, August 27.
The maximum flying time in the 1th round was 4 minutes, and 5 minutes in the other rounds. Round times were scheduled for 60 minutes with 10 minutes breaks and 45 minutes lunch break after round 3. The starting line was the same in round 1 to round 4. The respective number of round by round full houses, were 28, 19, 14 and 13 (from the 36 competitors). For the 5th round the line was moved downwards in a longer, 20 min. break. Contrary to this line change, a total of 10 competitors had full house after the fifth round.
For the fly-off the line was moved further down. Only one of the nine competitors maxed out in the 7 min. round in nearly zero wind.
The individual winner was the well-known veteran of the class Stanislaw Kubit (POL), who has flown an unbelievable 7 min. max as his model was glided along the shallow valley between several small hills, while the second best flight time was just over six minutes. The silver and bronze medals were going to the Winker family (GER), to Florian and Alexander. The team title was going to Poland with a margin of about 20 point before team Ukraine.
Trophies
The “Serbia-France Challenge†junior team CIAM trophy was handed over to the Slovak team. The organizers awarded trophies to the first three placed individuals and to all team members in the first three teams.
The challenge trophy is in good condition, but it has no protecting box.
Opening and Closing Ceremony
The opening ceremony was organized on the training day evening after the registration and model processing at the main square of Martin. This arrangement offered much more publicity in the home town than Tomcansky Dvor in last year. Unfortunately, a heavy rain affected strongly the event just from the beginning. After greeting the participating countries by the chief organizer, short speeches were held by the vice-mayor of Martin, the president of the Slovak Modelling Federation and the jury president who also opened the championship.
The prize giving and closing ceremony, and also the very good banquet were organized after each other in the evening of the Swiss Cup event at Penzion Cierna Pani.
During both ceremonies the FAI and the Slovakian anthems were played.
Protests
The jury had no protest or complaint to handle.
Conclusions
The 2019 World Championship in class F1E was a successful event for the seniors and juniors as well. Thanks and congratulations to the local organizing staff and the timekeepers, local ones and from abroad. The first ever lady contest director, Martina Kozuchova (SVK), did good job. She was powerful enough to keep the contest well in hands.
The organisers were well prepared for the champs, led by Jakub Drmla, used the experience they have collected through the previous local events, world cup contests and Cat.1 championships, some smaller problems were solved soon.
Thanks to them for the work and efforts made for the F1E modelling community.