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| 1st: Dave Matthews |
| 2nd: Malcolm Brown | 3rd: Gary Wirdnam |
More pics can be found
here and here
Just to recap ,
day 1 T1 valid
day 2 cancelled too windy
day 3 T2 task set , pilots launching then cancelled after launch became too dangerous
day 4 T3 valid
day 5 T4 valid
day 6 long wait on the hill then cancelled gusty winds too dangerous too launch
day 7 canned howling windy.
Flewing overall
Flexwing task 4
Flexwing Teams
Rigid Overall
Rigid Task 4
Rigid Teams
FlexwingTask 4 tracks
Rigid task 4 tracks
Task two was cancelled soon after it was started, hence no scores.
Task three, flown yesterday was successful and the scores are:-
Overall
Rigid Overall
Task 3
Task 3 Rigid
Teams
Team Rigid
T3 flex tracks
T3 rigid tracks
Lines of communications are now established and we have some scores from the first task, held on day one.
Day two and day three were binned.
T1 Scores
T1 Rigid
Teams
Tracks-Rigid
Tracks
Is now running.
Blogs here:-
http://kathryn.typepad.com/
http://westcoastbrit.blogspot.com/
http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.com/
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Pete the Meet - Irene - Jamie - Dave Matthews - Kathleen Rigg - Grant Crossingham& Connor - Bruce Kavanagh
Carl Wallbank - Gordon Rigg - Shedsy- Louisa
Other sources of updates are :-
JAmie Wanders about all over the world
Matjaz Klemencic blog
Corinna's Sky
Gordons Blog
Scorers Blog
Live tracks
Some of the pilots are using Live tracking devices.
this one is for Corrina :- http://livexc.dhv1.de/live_show_track.php?trackID=1733&2d=0
Far more interesting than afternoon TV.
Results
| Task One | Task Two | TaskThree | Task four | Task five | Task Six | Task Seven | Task Eight | Task Nine |
| Team results | Overall |
The Spanish Nats, held at Ager in Spain have now been competed.
Only one Brit in this comp.
some guy called carl i think.
oh that's him on the right.
he came in third!
Well done Carl!.
| # | Name | Nat | Glider | Total | |
| 1 | Primoz Gricar | M | SLO | Aeros Combat 13.2 GT | 5631 |
| 2 | Marc Utrillo Gibert | M | ESP | Aeros Combat L 13,7 | 5399 |
| 3 | Carl Wallbank | M | GBR | Moyes Litespeed RS 3,5 | 5306 |
| 4 | Anton Struganov | M | RUS | Aeros Combat L 13 09 | 5238 |
| 5 | Blay(Jnr) Olmos Quesada | M | ESP | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 5107 |
| 6 | Alvaro Idigoras | M | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 4954 |
| 7 | Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli | M | ESP | Aeros Combat L 13.2 | 4933 |
| 8 | Jose Antonio(Ako) Abollado | M | ESP | Aeros Combat L | 4809 |
| 9 | Julia Kucherenko | F | RUS | Aeros Combat 12 09 | 4674 |
| 10 | Jose Maria (Tximo) Iriarte Ziritza | M | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 4522 |
Final results for the Complete 2010 BOS competitions have now been finalised.
And the winners are..
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| Tony Stephens |
| Second Place | Third Place |
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| Bruce Kavanagh | Dave Matthews |
| 4th Place | 5th Place | 6th place |
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| Gary Wirdnam | Craig Dolwin | Mike Armstrong |
| 7th Place | 8th Place | 9th Place | 10th Place |
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| Richard Lovelace | Steve Green | Brett Wright | Justin Needham |
Winner of the Rigid Class
| Paul Harvey |
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The winner of the much coveted "OPPS!" award
For his attempts at oiling the scoring computer with copious amounts of beer,..
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and finally…
These series of competitions have been brought to you courtesy of….
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| Pete Coad |
And…
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All pics Phil chett and Alan Moffat
More Pics from Alan can be found here.
The final Round (Mid wales) of the BOS series has now been completed.
And the winners are…
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| Dave Mathews | Gary Wirdham | Richard Lovelace |
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Winner of the Rigid Class
| Takatoshi Kosaka |
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full results can be found in the results pages Here
I can't do much of a narrative on this comp, because i was chasing all over the place looking after the club class boys. Perhaps someone else can oblige?
The only thing that i am sure of is that there were some excellent briefings on the hill…
Although I understand that some tasks called caused an adverse reaction for some.
BOS SERIES Club Class - Final Results
Winners of the 2010 BOS CLUB Class series are as follows
| First - Rob Gregg |
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| Second - Paul Whatley | Third - Greg Emms |
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Time to catch up, now that i have decent access to the interweb.
But first a personal note.
By going to the Mid Wales comp, and being chucked in the deep end, I have learnt so much, and now have a far better understanding how things work.
I now know how that blasted scoring programme works, and how all the different comps are interlinked.
I have to admit i got a bit stressed out on the Saturday night, Fortunately i had a bit of help in various ways, and i feel they must be mentioned.
Richard Hunt: for helping so much with sorting out the GPS driver problems, and getting them installed, whilst i went and had a calm down and fag.
Paul and Chris Whatley for kindly getting me some food so i could eat.
Dave Bluett for pointing me in the right direction a few time, without throwing a wobbly.
And finally… All the club class guys for bearing with me, and having lots of patience.
If anyone had asked me if i would do this again on the Sunday morning, i think i might of told them to go forth and Multiply.
Once the problems had been sorted, it wasn't to bad at all. In fact, i do believe i enjoyed it all :-)
The best bit? Has to be said. The happy smiley faces of people who got to goal. Although i did think that close quarter, semi naked, dancing in the field, whilst being watched but bemused farmers with families was a bit much.
Moving on ….
The results For Round Three, Mid Wales, of the BOS Club Class series, can be found Here
But to Summarise…
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| Rob Gregg | Paul Whatley | Tim Dotchin |
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With Internet access being rather hit and miss it has proved rather difficult to get any updates current. For a change, i have just managed to get access for than 5 mins without it all going tits up,
So without further ado…
We have some results…
All gliders task 1 :http://rogallo.co.uk/2010-bos:all-r3t1
All gliders task 2:http://rogallo.co.uk/2010-bos:all-r3t2
Flexwing task 1 http://rogallo.co.uk/2010-bos:flexwing-r3t1
Flexwing task 1 http://rogallo.co.uk/2010-bos:flexwing-r3t2
Club Class task 1 http://rogallo.co.uk/2010-bos:club-r3t1
Club Class task 2 http://rogallo.co.uk/2010-bos:club-r3t2
Club Class task 3 http://rogallo.co.uk/2010-bos:club-r3t3
More to come shortly.
Last day tomorrow, and it looks like another task will be called.
Dave Bluett is in the Powis Arms uploading new pilots gps waypoints and enjoying a jar in good company.
Weather is looking rather promising.
Luke C has set up a Community for UK hang glider pilots. Still in its infancy, a number of BOS pilots have signed up to it.
You can find it Here
Steve leeman has created a *The UK Hang-Gliding Shack** a Face Book group for interested parties
General chit chat about hang-gliding in the UK and abroad. Will also be logging any XC flights and keeping a diary on the British Hang-gliding Series Competition. I am a member of the Notts Aerotow Club and Derbyshire Soaring Club. I have been flying for 9 years and currently fly a Moyes Litespeed 4 with Woody Valley Tenax Harness. My longest flight in the UK was 159km in 2006. I'm hoping to crack 162km (100miles) very soon!!
You can find it here
A number of problems seem to have arisen with Pilot GPS devices and the Scoring Program Interface (GPSDUMP).
These problems make life difficult for all concerned, and stress levels rise at an exponential rate, when there is a hell of a lot going on.
All Pilots are requested to check their gps functionality with GPSDUMP before competing.
To this end, a depository of information has been set up to try and make life a little easier for all concerned.
Of course, its useless unless pilots ask questions, and others answer… but hey!, what the hell. lets see what happens :-)
Results for round two are all now done and dusted and can be found on the results page here.
Richard Hunt has kindly taken all available igc files, given them a bit of a trim (we really dont want all the "retrieve" drives and other rubbish),
stuck them through a little prog of his, and kicked up some nice little google earth files that you might enjoy playing with.
you will find them here
Tuesday June 1st
Weather is Crap. Day canned. Prize giving instead.
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Monday May 31st
Early start to get to the model ridge, maybe the only place flyable.
its a bit grey, but,,, we will see.
11:30 Briefing at 12:15. cloud base is only 100ft above the ridge. No records to be broken today then :-)
12:45 Race to anywhere! 35km for the club class and 60 km for the main class. Which could be interesting as cloud base is only a couple hundred ft above the top!
2:00pm Most are sitting on the hill for the cloud to lift a bit, will the sun come out to play??
3:00pm Many Gliders in the bottom landing field. many in the air. Some are still waiting. maybe 1 or 2 have got away.
6:00pm Task not activated, best was 11km. tomorrow looking particularly crap!
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Sunday May 30th
A tad on the breezy side. rebrief at 12:30
Till then .. training talk in the Crown.
12:30 Still a tad on the breezy side. rebrief at 2:30pm
2:30 Day canned. Early start tomorrow
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