Links to pics, vids, chats on typhoon race 2012 korea.
Daddyhobby forum
http://www.daddyhobby.com/forum/showthread.php?74187-F3F-Typhoon-race-2012-Korea
Typhoon Race 2012 Korea
http://www.efly98.com/cdb_efly98/viewthread.php?tid=128398
Typhoon Race 2012 Korea 比賽前一天 練習日
http://www.efly98.com/cdb_efly98/viewthread.php?tid=131046
Typhoon Race 2012 Korea 比賽第一天
http://www.efly98.com/cdb_efly98/viewthread.php?tid=131062
Typhoon Race 2012 Korea 比賽第二天
http://www.efly98.com/cdb_efly98/viewthread.php?tid=131099
http://www.efly98.com/cdb_efly98/viewthread.php?tid=131078
Typhoon Race 2012 Korea 第三天比賽 和 頒獎晚宴
http://www.efly98.com/cdb_efly98/viewthread.php?tid=131113
http://www.efly98.com/cdb_efly98/viewthread.php?tid=131137
Typhoon Race 2012 Korea 賽後 回顧 與 感想
http://www.efly98.com/cdb_efly98/viewthread.php?tid=131161
RC Slope Soaring, Hong Kong 香港滑翔機發燒友論壇
http://www.rcsail.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2267
FaceBook
http://www.facebook.com/groups/460921243939381/
韓國航空模型協會 F3X 論壇
http://cafe.naver.com/KRCSS/
http://cafe.naver.com/ArticleRead.nhn?clubid=20252831&articleid=877
http://cafe.naver.com/ArticleRead.nhn?clubid=20252831&articleid=876
韓國飛友황병철 (Camera man) 影了許多靚相放在他的Blog上
http://blog.naver.com/cameracs/173833877
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好懷念與港隊戰友在雨中食飯合那張相
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Friday, December 21, 2012
Typhoon race 2012 Korea race report
Practice day 1- 11 Dec, Darangshi oreum, 260m , north west wind
After a week of snow storm, it's forcast to have zero or no wind at Daegu, last minute decision was made to change venue to Jeju, island south of the mainland.
Some practice today at Darangshi oreum, one of the 368 craters in jeju. Took 30mins to climb up 260ms.
Before climb up the mountain.
Reach crater
Tried DSing.for the first time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGeEe...p7jrPg&index=1
Temperature was about 5degrees, snowed for awhile at the top. Fingers was numbed after about 20mins n had to land.
Hot soup for cold weather was comforting.
Practice day 2 - Saebyeol oreum, 120m , south wind.
Little or no wind in the morning, and wind picked up around noon. Met with pilots from other countries for practice at Saebyeol oreum.
Competition Day 1 - 14 Dec
Weather forecast was south southwest wind but rainy. Left the hotel at 8:45am and drove 50 minutes to the flying site which is a coastal site on the west corner of the island. We waited there for an hour or so wishing that the rain will stop, but it didn't, we went sightseeing in the nearby Hallim Park. There is a cave worth seeing in the park. We then had lunch and went back to the flying site again because weather forecast said that the rain will stop at about 2pm. Yes, it did stop but only for an hour when we checked on the slope and prepared to setup the course. Unfortunately, it rained again and was quite heavy, so the organizer had no choice but to cancel today race. We headed back to hotel at 3pm.
Competition Day 2 - 15 Dec
For the second day competition, it was raining in the morning. We left for darangshi as forecast was north west wind. we waited at bottom until the rain stop at 11:45am, then we took the 40 minute hike up. at the top it was covered with dense fog, so another wait till 2:30pm the fog started to clear up. Then after problematic setup with some equipment malfunctions, we finally kicked start at 3:15pm. The first lucky pilot to fly is Allan Yeung from hk. Well, he made it without problem although the slope had some cross wind and turbulence. We finally managed to complete two rounds at 5:30pm just before sunset. We were all happy and didn?t mind to walk down in darkness, ha ha that?s the crazy pilots we are.
Current top 5 ranking is
1 st : Stanley Chan, Hong Kong
2 nd: Haeryoung Hwang, Korea
3 th: Joe Sung, Taiwan
4 th: Son Kwonsam, Korea
5 th: Pang ,Singapore
Fastest speed is 42:xx by Korean pilot
We expected to have lighter wind tomorrow so the best speed will most likely be kept by the Korea pilot. In order to gain the lost time, we will get up early tomorrow morning and leave the hotel at 6:00am.
Compeition Day 3
Thank you all for your support. the Korean organizer, despite of the poor weather, they have done a wonderful job to make this competition a success.
The third day contest.
We left hotel very early in the morning and arrived at the flying site just before 7am. The wind was 4 to 6 m/s initially and gradually dropped to zero after only 5 pilots have flown in the first round of the day. So we had to wait. Fortunately, the wind did come back at around 11:30am and we quickly restarted the game. Wind speed was marginally at 3m/s and graduately went up to 6 m/s when the contest was drawn to a close at 3:30pm. Three rounds were completed, so all together with two rounds completed yesterday we got 5 rounds to make it an official record.
Tried to catch up but narrowly miss out by 60pts to make the individual podium.
Final Top 5 Ranking is
1 st: Stanley Chan, Hong Kong
2 nd Joe Sung, Taiwan
3 th Haeryoung Hwang, Korea
4 th Pang Yong Wee, Singapore
5.th Fu Hua Chang, Taiwan
Teamed up with the other 2 TW pilots n we got 1st for team placing.
Cheers!
After a week of snow storm, it's forcast to have zero or no wind at Daegu, last minute decision was made to change venue to Jeju, island south of the mainland.
Some practice today at Darangshi oreum, one of the 368 craters in jeju. Took 30mins to climb up 260ms.
Before climb up the mountain.
Reach crater
Tried DSing.for the first time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGeEe...p7jrPg&index=1
Temperature was about 5degrees, snowed for awhile at the top. Fingers was numbed after about 20mins n had to land.
Hot soup for cold weather was comforting.
Practice day 2 - Saebyeol oreum, 120m , south wind.
Little or no wind in the morning, and wind picked up around noon. Met with pilots from other countries for practice at Saebyeol oreum.
Competition Day 1 - 14 Dec
Weather forecast was south southwest wind but rainy. Left the hotel at 8:45am and drove 50 minutes to the flying site which is a coastal site on the west corner of the island. We waited there for an hour or so wishing that the rain will stop, but it didn't, we went sightseeing in the nearby Hallim Park. There is a cave worth seeing in the park. We then had lunch and went back to the flying site again because weather forecast said that the rain will stop at about 2pm. Yes, it did stop but only for an hour when we checked on the slope and prepared to setup the course. Unfortunately, it rained again and was quite heavy, so the organizer had no choice but to cancel today race. We headed back to hotel at 3pm.
Competition Day 2 - 15 Dec
For the second day competition, it was raining in the morning. We left for darangshi as forecast was north west wind. we waited at bottom until the rain stop at 11:45am, then we took the 40 minute hike up. at the top it was covered with dense fog, so another wait till 2:30pm the fog started to clear up. Then after problematic setup with some equipment malfunctions, we finally kicked start at 3:15pm. The first lucky pilot to fly is Allan Yeung from hk. Well, he made it without problem although the slope had some cross wind and turbulence. We finally managed to complete two rounds at 5:30pm just before sunset. We were all happy and didn?t mind to walk down in darkness, ha ha that?s the crazy pilots we are.
Current top 5 ranking is
1 st : Stanley Chan, Hong Kong
2 nd: Haeryoung Hwang, Korea
3 th: Joe Sung, Taiwan
4 th: Son Kwonsam, Korea
5 th: Pang ,Singapore
Fastest speed is 42:xx by Korean pilot
We expected to have lighter wind tomorrow so the best speed will most likely be kept by the Korea pilot. In order to gain the lost time, we will get up early tomorrow morning and leave the hotel at 6:00am.
Compeition Day 3
Thank you all for your support. the Korean organizer, despite of the poor weather, they have done a wonderful job to make this competition a success.
The third day contest.
We left hotel very early in the morning and arrived at the flying site just before 7am. The wind was 4 to 6 m/s initially and gradually dropped to zero after only 5 pilots have flown in the first round of the day. So we had to wait. Fortunately, the wind did come back at around 11:30am and we quickly restarted the game. Wind speed was marginally at 3m/s and graduately went up to 6 m/s when the contest was drawn to a close at 3:30pm. Three rounds were completed, so all together with two rounds completed yesterday we got 5 rounds to make it an official record.
Tried to catch up but narrowly miss out by 60pts to make the individual podium.
Final Top 5 Ranking is
1 st: Stanley Chan, Hong Kong
2 nd Joe Sung, Taiwan
3 th Haeryoung Hwang, Korea
4 th Pang Yong Wee, Singapore
5.th Fu Hua Chang, Taiwan
Teamed up with the other 2 TW pilots n we got 1st for team placing.
Cheers!
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Monday, October 29, 2012
Kenting F3F 2012 race report
Arrival
Half of the team arrive here in kenting settled in our minsu. One more arriving later tonite, another tomorrow afternoon . The winds is howling nicely outside, the TW n HK guys told us they had a fantastic time practicing today n tomorrow's winds will be better.
An eventful trip so far right from the start. One very important lesson today was always check your passport has 6 months of validity before you travel. One of us unfortunately had to be turned back at HK after the Cathay staff failed to check n allowed boarding at SG. Thankfully the other one made it.
Thanks for all the wishes, we will do our best. Just to get the expectations right, win trophies nah we are not there yet. This is only our 4th F3f race in 4yrs, yes once every year. Those guys have league race every month and informal race every other week. Every year we come , we improve a little bit, We learn from them, go back , spread the knowledge around , the standard gets better on the whole.
For mself n Jon, we aim to do better than last year. For the other 2, I got to salute them, one has little slope experience, has some leave ard this period, spontaneously decide to join us n bought a new plane to race. The other has totally zero slope experience, and tmr he will be facing winds up to 20m/s. For them simple objective, to go back with their planes intact. I applaud their just do it spirit.
Practice Day
After a hearty breakfast we made our way to the flying site. The HK n TW guys were already there, wind was blasting away. All of us managed to clock in some flights, we finished with relatively minor damages compared to last year. My Alliaj had a broken nose, jons' predator flap linkage n vtails rod came loose, Vincent's mystery cracked fuselage, Shaorong' ginger had a good save after a gust blown his plane backwards and landed 100m behind in the bushes. Wind speed reached an average of 22m/s gusting 27m/s in the afternoon. Just sitting there, we were slapped by the wind many times.
Repairs were underway after dinner. Race starts tmr.
Day 1
Day 1 started with rain in the morning, we waited for about 45mins before the race gets underway. Wind conditions were similar to practice day.
Jonathan started with a well timed n smooth flight on his very familiar Predator to finish with his personal best n first sub40. Unfortunately a hard landing on rd 4 cracked his fuselage and he is done for the day.
Vincent performed brilliantly for a first timer in f3f race as well as just his 2nd day flying slope, managed a very nicely done 40.xx on rd 3. In rd 4, he was coming in nicely for a landing when one of his flaps got stuck n unable to close , causing his strega to flip low on the ground. This forced him out for the day.
Shaorong maidened his typhoon in rd 1 of the race n did superbly to land undamaged. He finished rd 2 nicely with a 61.xx , unfortunately on the way to land, he took his eyes off his plane for a split second and lose sight of his plane. It got blown back into thick bushes far behind. We searched high and low but cant find the plane.
I was settling into the race comfortablely, however by rd 4 , I felt my Cyril hitting a plateau and not getting the pinging turns that the hk n tw guys were getting. I asked ard for some advice, Again the TW guys were ever so helpful and shared some tips. I fine tuned my settings a little by little every round after that n can feel the flights getting better. On the last rd of the day, I broke my pb to finish off with a 30.49, so close to the magical sub 30.
Xiaohei (Mr.O) broke the wr again with a 26.10. 3 spectacular crashes in flight all by tw guys on base a. One needle DSL spiral down crashing into the cliff below with a loud thud. One stinger's tail twisted n sheer off in flight, last was xiaohei' needle, the fuselage ripped off in the front end on a tight pull, leaving the wings with the joiner falling like leaves while the fuse ejected forward. Shows the amount of stress the planes are under going.
Some more repairs tonite n we should be back in action tmr.
Full results day 1,at http://www.f3f.url.tw/f3f/20121026-1.pdf
Day 2
Day 2 started with wind speed about 4-5m/s slower than first day. It was more comfortable to fly for all. having adjusted to the strong wind of day 1, we had to readapt to the lower wind speed , esp the timing of the bases and landings
Videos
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCa-fqMpZuV20L-XNdiPBhYW05ddLbMYc
Half of the team arrive here in kenting settled in our minsu. One more arriving later tonite, another tomorrow afternoon . The winds is howling nicely outside, the TW n HK guys told us they had a fantastic time practicing today n tomorrow's winds will be better.
An eventful trip so far right from the start. One very important lesson today was always check your passport has 6 months of validity before you travel. One of us unfortunately had to be turned back at HK after the Cathay staff failed to check n allowed boarding at SG. Thankfully the other one made it.
Thanks for all the wishes, we will do our best. Just to get the expectations right, win trophies nah we are not there yet. This is only our 4th F3f race in 4yrs, yes once every year. Those guys have league race every month and informal race every other week. Every year we come , we improve a little bit, We learn from them, go back , spread the knowledge around , the standard gets better on the whole.
For mself n Jon, we aim to do better than last year. For the other 2, I got to salute them, one has little slope experience, has some leave ard this period, spontaneously decide to join us n bought a new plane to race. The other has totally zero slope experience, and tmr he will be facing winds up to 20m/s. For them simple objective, to go back with their planes intact. I applaud their just do it spirit.
Practice Day
After a hearty breakfast we made our way to the flying site. The HK n TW guys were already there, wind was blasting away. All of us managed to clock in some flights, we finished with relatively minor damages compared to last year. My Alliaj had a broken nose, jons' predator flap linkage n vtails rod came loose, Vincent's mystery cracked fuselage, Shaorong' ginger had a good save after a gust blown his plane backwards and landed 100m behind in the bushes. Wind speed reached an average of 22m/s gusting 27m/s in the afternoon. Just sitting there, we were slapped by the wind many times.
Repairs were underway after dinner. Race starts tmr.
Day 1
Day 1 started with rain in the morning, we waited for about 45mins before the race gets underway. Wind conditions were similar to practice day.
Jonathan started with a well timed n smooth flight on his very familiar Predator to finish with his personal best n first sub40. Unfortunately a hard landing on rd 4 cracked his fuselage and he is done for the day.
Vincent performed brilliantly for a first timer in f3f race as well as just his 2nd day flying slope, managed a very nicely done 40.xx on rd 3. In rd 4, he was coming in nicely for a landing when one of his flaps got stuck n unable to close , causing his strega to flip low on the ground. This forced him out for the day.
Shaorong maidened his typhoon in rd 1 of the race n did superbly to land undamaged. He finished rd 2 nicely with a 61.xx , unfortunately on the way to land, he took his eyes off his plane for a split second and lose sight of his plane. It got blown back into thick bushes far behind. We searched high and low but cant find the plane.
I was settling into the race comfortablely, however by rd 4 , I felt my Cyril hitting a plateau and not getting the pinging turns that the hk n tw guys were getting. I asked ard for some advice, Again the TW guys were ever so helpful and shared some tips. I fine tuned my settings a little by little every round after that n can feel the flights getting better. On the last rd of the day, I broke my pb to finish off with a 30.49, so close to the magical sub 30.
Xiaohei (Mr.O) broke the wr again with a 26.10. 3 spectacular crashes in flight all by tw guys on base a. One needle DSL spiral down crashing into the cliff below with a loud thud. One stinger's tail twisted n sheer off in flight, last was xiaohei' needle, the fuselage ripped off in the front end on a tight pull, leaving the wings with the joiner falling like leaves while the fuse ejected forward. Shows the amount of stress the planes are under going.
Some more repairs tonite n we should be back in action tmr.
Full results day 1,at http://www.f3f.url.tw/f3f/20121026-1.pdf
Day 2
Day 2 started with wind speed about 4-5m/s slower than first day. It was more comfortable to fly for all. having adjusted to the strong wind of day 1, we had to readapt to the lower wind speed , esp the timing of the bases and landings
Pretty decent day, till Vincent's strega stalled on landing n spiralled
down and hit the bushes. Joiner broken, one of the wind spar also broke
forcing him to retire the strega early.
Winds to pick up today.
Day 1+ 2 results http://www.f3f.url.tw/f3f/20121026-2.pdf
Some Pics from tw http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...4#post23105305
Day 3
Summary
A variety of models were flown at the contest, the needle100 continues
to impress, its almost the perfect plane for Longpun slope. 2 new models
that stood out this year were Stinger (VVmodels) and Pace (Lesky
Composite). The hongkong team had 4-5 stingers, they told us its very
good for light-med wind, weak point is it cant carry alot of ballast.
Even then, it was very impressive in 20-25m/s wind, Kenneth from HK
clocked a 27s with it. The Pace like the needle is 2.5m cross tail, very
nice carbon finishing and very tough. Its able to handle rough landing
without problems.
Rest of the pics
Some Pics from tw http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...4#post23105305
Day 3
Day 3 of the race, we were blessed with good wind and weather. 18-20m/s
average bursting 25m/s. Another 8 rounds were flown. Everyone was
pushing themselves to beat their own PB timing. Game was smooth flowing
and tempo was good, pilots didnt have to wait too long for their next
turn.
Vincent did a very well timed run in Rd 20 to get his PB of 40.39 on his
mystery. Bad luck again in Rd 22, a receiver failure caused him to lose
elevator control shortly after launch. His glider was bobbing up and
down, got blown back behind the safety line and crashed behind. luckily
nobody was around the area.
I had some consistent runs, and was tweaking my settings after each
round to try to get better.Tried but didnt get the feel as day 1, didnt
go any faster.
Summary
The 3 day race ended with 24 rounds flown, fastest timing of 26.10s was
from xiaohei TW, most pilots broke their own PBs, a total of 9 pilots
went sub30. The Kenting Lunpung slope is one of its kind, magicial, exciting , a definite must visit flying site for every F3F fan.
Our team did pretty well, considerating the circumstances. Although we
lost 1 plane, the 2 new guys did superbly well, i commend them for their
efforts and hope they were inspired to do bettter next trip. Well
organised race by the Taiwanese slope association. Many things learnt on
this trip that we hope to share with you guys on the slope this season.
It was great meeting up with friends from HK and TW again, lots of fun
mingling with them, we look forward for next year's trip.
PBs / Final rankings
Pang - 30.49s / 10
Vincent - 40.39s / 28
Jon - 39.85s / 33Shaorong - 61.27s / 35
Full race results - http://www.f3f.url.tw/f3f/20121026.pdf
Misc
Full race results - http://www.f3f.url.tw/f3f/20121026.pdf
Misc
A variety of models were flown at the contest, the needle100 continues
to impress, its almost the perfect plane for Longpun slope. 2 new models
that stood out this year were Stinger (VVmodels) and Pace (Lesky
Composite). The hongkong team had 4-5 stingers, they told us its very
good for light-med wind, weak point is it cant carry alot of ballast.
Even then, it was very impressive in 20-25m/s wind, Kenneth from HK
clocked a 27s with it. The Pace like the needle is 2.5m cross tail, very
nice carbon finishing and very tough. Its able to handle rough landing
without problems.
Besides flying, many things to do at kenting (night market, ATV, go
cart, coral reef viewing) + lots of nice food. Fresh seafood and cheap
too. Too many things to do, 4 days is not enough, next year we will go
earlier, hope more guys can join us, very family friendly place.
Rest of the pics
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCa-fqMpZuV20L-XNdiPBhYW05ddLbMYc
Monday, October 22, 2012
Kenting F3F 2012
Taiwan RC Slope Glider Association is holding their 10th league race at
Kenting, same venue as last year's Typhoon race and welcomes pilots from
regional countries to join. This venue is the ultimate place for slope
racing where you get to experience winds of up to 25m/s and more, last
year the WR was broken 4times there.
The date is set for Oct 26 (Fri) - Oct 28 (Sun).
The date is set for Oct 26 (Fri) - Oct 28 (Sun).
Pilots list is out ：
10.26 Friday morning at 8:45, starting number will be lucky drawn.
Some guys are already there, Weather looks perfect
Friday, August 31, 2012
F3F Typhoon race 2012 Korea
Just got news from Korean pilots,
Typhoon Race 2012 Korea
14~16 December
Hwanggeum Mountain
Typhoon Race 2012 Korea
14~16 December
Hwanggeum Mountain
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