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steverobertsuk
Senior Heliman
Location: London, England

Hi,

For those that are interested I'm going to attempt to do a daily report back from the European Championships in Romania on behalf of the British Team consisting of Mark Christy, Dave Fisher and myself.

Just been boxing up my models and we're off to Terminal 5 tomorrow morning.

Mark has driven out to the event going via southern France for a short touring holiday. He very kindly took some of my heavy equipment like batteries with him so that should make my flight case a little lighter!

I'd like to say a big thank you to all of you who buy raffle tickets at the events that the AHA attend during the year (you can still buy them! We will be at the British Nationals and Southern model show) to help support the team. We wouldn't be able to do this without your help.

I'll try and get some pictures at the airport and the drive to the hotel (unless I'm driving!) and will post them up tomorrow night or Thursday morning.

Thanks

Steve

Team JR, Motors & Rotors, SAB, Kokam Batteries, Scorpion Motors

07-13-2010 01:30 PM

Gorgin4325
Key Veteran
Location: Dubai, UAE

Good luck to you Steve, and the rest of the British team.

07-13-2010 01:33 PM

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steverobertsuk
Senior Heliman
Location: London, England

Thanks mate

Team JR, Motors & Rotors, SAB, Kokam Batteries, Scorpion Motors

07-13-2010 01:48 PM

Heimypilot
Heliman
Location: Hengelo Netherlands

Hello guys,

Good luck to all of you.

As I see in the bullitins no dutch team this year.

I will follow you guys over here!

Steven

07-13-2010 04:30 PM

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Dr.Ben
rrProfessor
Location: Richmond, VA, USA

Steve,

What's up under the hood of the Sylphide, a 5020-450 kV?

Ben Minor

MRC Hirobo Helicopters Team Futaba Castle Creations
Morgan Fuels Esprit Models ProgressiveRC

07-13-2010 05:07 PM

Cees
Heliman
Location: Ijzendijke/ Zeeland N.L.

Hi Steve,
Good luck to You, Mark and Dave
I cannot possible come to there
best regards Cees

07-13-2010 09:15 PM

Heliguychris
Veteran
Location: Perth, West Australia

Best of luck Steve, Mark and Dave

Assumption is the mother of all F#@&ups.....

07-13-2010 09:58 PM

bowies12
Senior Heliman
Location: Surrey - UK

Hi Steve,

Good Luck to You, Dave and Mark

Fat birds can't fly

07-13-2010 10:03 PM

ea434
Senior Heliman
Location: Norway

Good luck to the british team!

Much aprreciated if you (Steve) could let us in on daily results. Seems little is done from the organizers on publishing...

Sorry for not attending this year. Hope seeing you in Italy next year!

Best regards from Team Norway!

Sylphide 90, Super Gracy, OS91 HZ, 12X

07-15-2010 08:58 PM

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colornova
Heliman
Location: SD PRC

Good luck to steve and British team.Wish you get a good place!

And give my regards to Mark Christy,who driven me from signature inn to AMA WC field.last year in Muncie ,USA,FAI F3C World champinship ,
Sensui Xu ,From F3C China team.

07-16-2010 02:07 PM

steverobertsuk
Senior Heliman
Location: London, England

Hi Guys

SOrry for the lack of updates so far, the internet connection is pretty poor in the hotel that we are staying in.

I guess that most of you have seen Marks updates on allmyrc so I wont go into too much detail as to what has happened so far but will just reflect on some of the highlights and lowlights so far!

Well we all arrived at the hotel in the city of Sibiu. Mark arrive early evening after his eppic drive across Europe and the rest of us arrived around midnight after a little hassel at the Airport. It took nearly 2 hours for the model boxes to be brought up to the luggage lounge but after a little brib of £10 the chap arrived remarkably quickly.

The hire cars also took nearly 2 hours to sort so we were all pretty tired once we had left for the 4 hour drive across Romania. Some of the roads are pretty interesting! Pitch dark up mountain passes with pot holed roads and everyone overtaking everyone else on blind bends! Great!!!!

Mark had to come and find up in town with the owner of the hotel as Julies sat nat didn't recognise the GPS co-ords that we had.

Practice is going well with plenty of space on the airfield that the contest is on, if needbe we can use a peice of land out side the hotel which is fantastic.

Model processing went without a hitch so we are now offically entered into the contest and ready for battle.

Today was offical practice so we all had a chance to fly on the actual flight line that will be used to get used to it. Some of the judges were in attendance and it was inteesting to here there thoughts on manouvers that were being flown.

Dave is flying first out of the brits tomorrow and is also perfoming the calibration flight along with the Israli pilot.

I'm 1st up after lunch so hopefully the juges will be fat and happy!

Mark is a few pilots after me so should have the same conditions. If it anything like it has been it will be very hot with thermals blowing through.

Team JR, Motors & Rotors, SAB, Kokam Batteries, Scorpion Motors

07-17-2010 03:37 PM

steverobertsuk
Senior Heliman
Location: London, England

Hi guys

Well today was the first day of actual competition. It all kicked off at 8:30 when two pilots who had been randomly picked out of a hat were asked to fly calibration flights. These are so that the judges can all make notes and score the flight and then all talk about it so that they are all looking for the same things.

Dave flew one of the calibration flights which was very good indeed.

The weather today is sunny again but a little cooler and nearly flat calm.

Dave flew his offical flight at 11:25 and did a good job. A few mistakes but everyone is, just nerves I guess.

His score came back as a 195 which was a little dissapointing but I guess that the judges just didn't like the style that he was using.

I flew first after lunch and was hopeing that the judges were feeling fat and relaxed! Bruce (UK judge) came over to the start circle while Mark and myself were preparing to wish us good luck and inform us that he has sorted out the lack of ice cream issue!

I had a good flight with just a few minor mistakes and scored at 220.5. Sure enought when I had landed a local chap arrived with an ice cream as had been promised by Bruce, a little bit of releaf from the intnese heat. Mark followed up a few pilots later with a 214.5

At the time when we left the field I was sitting in 3rd with a Fin and the defending champion infront of me and Mark was 6th.

So far so good for the Brits, its just started to rain at the hotel so hopefully they would have got through all of the flights.

More soon

Steve

Team JR, Motors & Rotors, SAB, Kokam Batteries, Scorpion Motors

07-18-2010 02:38 PM

NIKOS PAPISTAS
Heliman
Location: KOZANI-GREECE

Hi.

We have 3 friends from Greece right here in Romania.John Antoniadis- Psomas John and Tetradakos Dimitrios.How is the flight from Greece team?

SSt-Eagle Freya EX WC SSZ-V

07-18-2010 05:24 PM

Jarno
Veteran
Location: Finland

Whole Team Finland is doing great.

Ari won the Trophe de France and EC started the same way. :-)

Keep up the good work guys!

Jarno

07-18-2010 06:50 PM

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Krister T
Heliman
Location: Sweden

I'm very sorry not being there competing. But I'm very happy for Ari. So keep up the good work Ari

/Krister

07-18-2010 06:58 PM

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BlueGarry1
Veteran
Location: Romford, Essex, UK

Steve

Thanks for keeping us updated

Cheers mate

Garry

Vibe 90SG, Vibe 50, T-rex 500 FBL

07-18-2010 08:00 PM

GauchoVolador
Veteran
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Steve,
i know im a little bit late with the post but didnt want to lose the chance to say hello to you, Mark and Dave and congratulate you for being competing at the top level!
Mine and the whole Argentine F3C team regards for you.
Hope to see you next year in Italy.

Victor
Team Manager
Argentine F3C Team
www.f3c-argentina.com.ar

Un Gran Saludo a Todos!

07-25-2010 08:32 PM

Wayne Mann
Veteran
Location: United States of America

I would like to send a shout out to Eno Graber. Congratulations on winning the European Champs. I know that your dad would be very proud of you.

Wayne Mann

07-25-2010 08:52 PM

steverobertsuk
Senior Heliman
Location: London, England

Well the European Champs are now over and we are all back in the UK, and I'm stuck at work

Sorry for the lack of updates over the last few days but its been a hectic schedule and the internet kept on dropping out!

Unfortunately both Mark and myself dropped a few places in the flyoffs mainly because this is a schedule that we do not fly very much in the UK.

Its been agreed by the current team that we will try to fly it more and get it flown at contests from now on.

It was clear that many other teams had been flying it as they all picked up in the finals.

The final results were;

1st Ennio Grabber (SUI)
2nd Ari Holstrom (FIN)
3rd Bernard Eggar (AUT)

10th Steve Roberts
12th Mark Christy

The weather for the final few days was incredibly hot and humid, probably in the mid to late 30's so us Brits who are used to wind and rain were suffering!

The team ended up in 5th overall. The team placings now also include the flyoff rounds so its even more important to firstly make it into the finals and also to have a good understanding of the flyoff schedule.

As I said in an earlier post there was a question over the Austrian team. This was mainly because they had the reining Champ in there team. Normally he would be his own team and 3 other team members would make up the national team. It turns out that they had entered him as a national team member so his scores did actually count but it was worth a try!

All in all I think that the Brits did pretty well and we had a great time. We have leant a lot and hope to put this into good use next year at the World Champs in Italy.

Mark set off at 5am yesterday morning and I think that he is now safely back in the UK after his eppic drive across Europe. The rest of the team headed for the airport at 8am for out afternoon flight which was delayed! It took about 4 hours to drive the mainly mountain roads before getting to the only motorway in Romania! We arrived back at Heathrow at just after 7pm and remarkably out luggage came out almost immediately!

I hope that you have enjoyed the posts. I'll get some more pictures up over the next couple of days now that I have a decent internet connection.

Reports will also be appearing in the model mags.

Steve

Team JR, Motors & Rotors, SAB, Kokam Batteries, Scorpion Motors

07-26-2010 12:59 PM

steverobertsuk
Senior Heliman
Location: London, England

Nikos

I didn't actually see any of the Greek flights but they finished in 23rd, 24th & 25th.

Yes Ari had been on top form this year, its a shame that he wasn't quite as good as Ennio and Bernard in the flyoffs as it would have made it incredibly close but I think he will do well next time ;-)

Steve

Team JR, Motors & Rotors, SAB, Kokam Batteries, Scorpion Motors

07-26-2010 01:03 PM

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