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- Kiwi Cup results
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Kiwi Cup results
Fly off for remaining World Cup events were held in perfect conditions between 7:30 and 7:55 AM
F1C
1 Yuan Gao CHN
2 Guy Menanno USA
3 Taron Malkhasyan USA
F1P
1 Randy Secor USA
2 Zihang Zhang Jnr CHN
3 Terry Kerger USA
4 Yuangu Geng Jnr USA
F1Q
1 Dieter Paff GER
2 Clint Brooks USA
3 Ben Tarcher USA
Mini events started at 8 AM and 5 rounds including tie breaker time to ground by 12 noon. This followed by one flyoff round. The morning’s perfect conditions continued all day.
F1H
1 Per Findahl SWE
2 Jim Parker USA
3 Ken Bauer USA
F1G
1 Ladislav Horak
2 Tiffaney Odell
3 Weiyi Yan
F1J
1 Daryl Perkins
2 Faust Parker
3 Guy Menanno
F1S
1 Janna VanNest Only person clean
2 Jack Murphy winner of tie + tie breaker for first place
3 David Sechrist
See full details on real time score at :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ltGkNtibAtkazK-B8FLGVyMZIYy85cNxmhz2hESpwG4/edit#gid=1989023514
The Kiwi Cup has special traditional award for top score by lady flyer In World Cup events and for Mini events
Jean Batten Award Highest Score Lady World Cup Events PeiYi Li of China. This was PeiYi’s first major contest.
Jean Batten Award Highest Score Lady Mini Events – Janna VanNest. Janna continues her F1S success from Eloy AZ
Tom Follow up
Good news, Tom Ioerger who was taken to a hospital during the World Cup on Saturday was checked out by the specialist doctors at the hospital in Bakersfield and released that evening. He was taken back home by his son today.
About Time Events
About Time project is the testing of the automated flight recording and timing tests.
Those who did the tests during the Kiwi World Cup should hand the special time card works sheets to the event CD or scorekeeper, that is Roger or Lindy if that have not already done so.
The testing has already uncovered a couple of different end of flight conditions that have not been seen elsewhere. The most notable is a ground effect enhanced glide condition. This is where the aircraft may be about 2 meters above the ground and remain at that altitude without changes for 5 seconds or more, moving super slowly. Under these circumstances the model looks like it is almost stationary a fixed altitude, that is called landed The perfect weather conditions with almost dead flat conditions helped the “Flight Observer” note this conditions as the models were not far away.
We had 4 incidents in the flyoffs that indicate the reason one of the reasons we consider it to be About Time we have automated flight timing. Two cases of timekeepers timing the wrong model, one of a timer loosing sight of the model completely and finally a flyer watching the wrong model and thinking he was mistimed. None of these were the result people deliberately doing bad thins, they all did the best they could. Now ideally in every case we should have had at least 2 timers on each model but there was no way we could find that many people. In F1B for example about 23 people in the fly off. So we would have needed 46 people. If you give 2 timers to one sportsman, you have to give it all. Otherwise who get the extra timer and who not?..
Here are a couple of the cases. It will not be a surprise to learn that flyer who did it right by having a certified All-Tee Altimeter was Per Findahl. When the wrong model was timed and Per’s was not timed , we were able to get Per’s time. Good news just a bit of juggling the Android phone. In the case of a F1C sportsman was convinced his model made the Max because he saw it D/T and the timer was set to the max time. This sportsman was not aware that of the requirement to have a certified altimeter to contest a flyoff time. BTW we excluded non-certified altimeters and the altimeter dance as a local rule. So he could not legitimately make a protest. But an experienced helper offered to investigate some more and he had a F1C World Champ as a technical advisor. The advisor said that the SIDUS timer on the model has an altimeter (not-certified) that times the flight and can be down loaded. So they got the altimeter information from the SIDUS timer. Sure enough the flight time in the altimeter on the model was identical to the sub-max time recorded by the official time keeper. So this case showed how anyone can make a timing mistake, even a F1C sportsman.
At this contest we could have insisted that everyone bring a timer to the fly off. But we were very happy at this even because we had a large number of juniors taking part from both the USA and China. I can see a slightly uncomfortable situation if you got a 13 year old person who did not speak your language to time you or would you prefer the 78 year old person who did speak your language but could not see the model? And who know the Sporting Code best? This weekend we had Lost Hills on it’s best behavior with very little drift so in theory that was not an issue. We have to be able to time accurately and fairly to get a sporting result with our high performance models…. Which can be flown by a 13 or a 78 year old !