Hey guys,

Friday morning, February 8th, before the Hobbico E-fest event begins, we will be holding an F3P contest. We'll likely start the contest at around 8am and fly about 3 rounds before the E-fest event setup begins. Due to time constraints, we will fly only the current F3P-AP sequence. We will use contestant judging, so all of the pilots will judge all of the other pilots, and your scores will come from your peers. We've used this format at previous contests and it works out very well.

This will be a fun contest in a great facility. Ceiling height and flying space will not be an issue here! If you've flown F3P-AP before, we better see you there. If not, this will be a great contest to jump into the class!

This will be the official event thread: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...8#post23697604

More info on the main event: http://www.hobbico-efest.com/index.html

Please post on that thread or here if you'd like to compete. Since the E-fest event won't be officially open, only pilots flying in the F3P contest will be allowed in the building. No spectators or open flying will be allowed.

Hope to see you all there!

RJ

I will be there RJ.

I also have a back-up F3P plane to offer if anybody wants to fly but does not have a plane to participate with, just let me know.

I'm in.

Count me in!!!!!!

So no crazy sequence this year? It wad pretty cool doing a 6x 4 and scraping the rudder on exit!

Sounds great guys!

Chris, nah, nothing so crazy this year... trying to get more real F3P contests going in the states, so we're sticking to the official sequence. That 6x4 was pretty hilarious though!

That's cool I like your Idea what are we going to do about takeoff and landings?
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We can't perform those so it just gets scored 10's on the score sheet.... Everyone gets at least two 10's each round!

What Hubb said!

Originally Posted by hubb

We can't perform those so it just gets scored 10's on the score sheet.... Everyone gets at least two 10's each round!

Awesome! Everybody is tied after the takeoff!!

Unfortunately I did not get a picture of the final scores, but I will do the best from memory - if I am incorrect then correct me please:

1st place down to 10th:
Devin McGrath
RJ Gritter
Dave Lockhart
Mike Hubbard
Clay Wheaton?
Chris Gini?
Ben Batts?
Patric Hruswicki?
Brian Sanik
Scott Barnhart

and just a few pictures that I took during the contest:

If you are interested in F3P aerobatics I encourage you to make the effort to attend or be part of the event.

We are incredibly grateful to Frank allowing us to have the time and hosting us as venue space is very difficult to find for these contests.

Also a huge congratulations to our friend Gernot Bruckmann for winning the first F3P World Championships this weekend in Germany while we were flying our contest!

Originally Posted by hubb

If you are interested in F3P aerobatics I encourage you to make the effort to attend or be part of the event.

We are incredibly grateful to Frank allowing us to have the time and hosting us as venue space is very difficult to find for these contests.

Also a huge congratulations to our friend Gernot Bruckmann for winning the first F3P World Championships this weekend in Germany while we were flying our contest!

Nicolas Pietu 4th round of preliminary. World F3P championship, Germany (3 min 36 sec)

Fantastic event, amazing flights.

World Championship F3P 2013 - T. Onda (2 min 26 sec)

World Championship F3P 2013 - G. Bruckmann (3 min 28 sec)