NIMSA Thermal events

[billscottni]

Thought i'd make the first post here;

I know it's a long way for most of you from the South, but NIMSA has a fulll programme of thermal events throughout the "Summer ?" months.

Full schedule on the events page at www.nimsa.co.uk.

Last Sunday was the Area Open Championships, 4 rounds of 8 minutes with a discard, followed by the top two scores having a 2 round fly off, which was closely fought. full results on the Nimsa website

DLG also seems to be taking off in the North, with quite a few people building the dl50 as a starter model. There are also a few blasters around as well as the odd o/d.

If anyone wants info on thermal events, drop me an e-mail

[andrew wallace]

fingers crossed for this sunday
hopefully i can put in the same flight times again this week
hope to see you all there

[billscottni]

Forecast is showery at the moment, so keep the fingers crossed

[Richard Boyd]

Hi Bill, bother Dad and myself are planning to join you on Sunday for our first attempt at Flat Field gliding. Please be patient with us country folk.

Richard
PS Is it ok to bring the Blaster ?

[billscottni]

Blaster's fine Richard. There'll be time after the comp to get it in the air. Do you need directions?

[andrew wallace]

looking forwards to having you all tomorrow richard

i think you'll like the thermal flying and the crack will be mighty

bill, sam, tommy, jimmy, frank, paul, ronnie and mike are all good chaps and will help on the day

you'll be made feel very welcome

[Richard Boyd]

Hi Bill and Andrew, I am looking forward to this new experience.
Bill I got your email but was unable to open the direction file.
I will google the playing fields and work from there.
Andrew has pointed me in the general direction.
Roll on Sunday !!!!!!!
Thanks all

Richard

[andrew wallace]

great day out today at the area open thermal comp today

i think there was 13 competitors and some great flights
i'm sure bill will post the results on the website

we had a few new flyers today and they all flew well
well done to richard reggie and john first class results in the first comp

and well done sam on winning by just 1 point from tommy

[billscottni]

Andrew's right, an excellent days flying! I had a bad start when I started to set up my model and found that my tailplane was damaged and I wouldn't be able to fly in the comp! Had to resort to being my usual dictatorial CD

As Andrew says we started out with 13, Frank had a problem , folding a wing on launch, putting him out in round 2. Louden and his two grandsons were all flying the same model and unfortunately at the start of round 4 it too folded it's wings. I think Louden had plenty of work from it as he built it in 1961!!.

So after 4 rounds, it came down to the 2 man fly off between Tommy and Sam. Sam won by 1 second in 16 minutes of flying, equivalent to 2 points!!

Tommy 1998
Sam 2000

An excellent days flying and nice to see Richard, Reggie and John P enjoying their first experience of thermal competition and winch launching.

I will get round to posting the results on the NIMSA website, but too tired tonight

[Richard Boyd]

What a first time experience for both Dad and myself to fly in the Northern Ireland Thermal Competition.
We both are hooked
Thanks Bill for making the event so special , it takes alot of time and hard work to arrange competitions.
Now my old mate Andrew !!!!!!
He is the man that is responsible for supplying 2 gifted gliders to me and Dad , thanks my friend, next year maybe the results will be different lol
My first flight was a 7min 59sec ! now if I never flew again I was tickled pink on achieving such a great time ! Next 2 rounds I flew crap ! I blame trimming issues lol Last flight I bumbled out of lift , blaming flying directly over my head and neck pain lol. It is a blame game for bad flying.
The final fly off was very exciting with both Tommy and winner Sam showing us their skills ! Well done to both of them. Both winners in my eyes.

Richard