Welsh Open 2009

18, 19 & 20 September

We are getting closer...! The entry list is below. If your name is on there but you will not be able to take part please e-mail me immediately as we have a big reserve list who'll be really grumpy if you just don't turn up on the day. If you've already sent me an e-mail and I haven't responded, apologies a few things may have slipped through the net when I moved across to a Mac.

More Welsh Open information is below the entry list. And... just to get the juices flowing, there's a slides show below of some Welsh Open images from across the years.

Sponsors
Kin from Smartmodel and Ian Mason of Sloperacer.co.uk are putting together a package of moulded model with all the servos!
Please e-mail if you want your products to be part of the fastest F3F event on the planet.

	Pilot	Country	Team	F1	F1
1	Alvaro Silgado	Spain	-	Synth	Synth
2	Andrzej Tabero	Wales	-	-	-
3	Andy Burgoyne	England	Unflapables	69	74
4	Andy West	Wales	-	62	70
5	Angel Lopez Cabrera	Spain	-	78	64
6	C M Cheng	Hong Kong	-	60	-
7	Cedric Grandseigne	France	-	Synth	Synth
8	Dag Skoglund	Norway	-	75	76
9	Dave Watson	Scotland	Tayside Tossers	77	66
10	David Cederwall	-	-	82	77
11	Espen Torp	Norway	-	65	72
12	Frank Hulton	England	GBR	80	59
13	Gary Harrison	England	Southern_Numpties	80	74
14	Gerardo Plaza	Spain	-	Synth	Synth
15	Graham Reed	England	Team Muppet	Glitch	Glitch
16	Greg Dakin	England	Swillers	77	80
17	Iain Rose	England	-	61	78
18	Ian Mason	England	GBR	82
19	Ian Stewart	Scotland	Tayside Tossers	62	76
20	Iñaki Elizondo	Spain	-	Synth	Synth
21	Jack Björnberg	Norway	-	63	78
22	Jean-Luc Foucher	France	-	72	77
23	Jesus Herrera Borrego	Spain	-	68	80
24	Joel West	England	SMOG	64	74
25	John Phillips	England	Swillers	62	70
26	Jon Edison	England	-	75	63
27	Jonathon Sage	England	SMOG	90	82
28	Jose Carrion	Spain	-	68	78
29	José Luis Alvarez Fernandez	Spain	-	69	80
30	Julian Perrott	England	Southern_Numpties	77	78
31	Keith Wood	England	-	82	57
32	Kevin Newton	England	-	77	68
33	Lage Salomonsen	-	-	Glitch	Glitch
34	Mark Abbotts	England	GBR	84	68
35	Mark Passingham	England	Swillers	69	70
36	Mark Redsell	England	Tean RAG	81	85
37	Mark Southall	England	-	71	84
38	Mick Walsh	England	-	Synth	Synth
39	Mike Evans	England	Team RAG	80	87
40	Mike Shellim	England	-	72	64
41	Mike Young	Wales	-	85	58
42	Paul Garnett	England	Team RAG	Synth	Synth
43	Paul Middleton	England	-	58	69
44	Peter Gunning	Scotland	Tayside Tossers	85	80
45	Pierre Rondel	France	-	77	67
46	Warrick Smith	------	-	60	Synth
47	Ron Russell	Scotland	-	72	76
48	Simon Thornton	England	SMOG	Glitch	Glitch
49	Stefan Bertschi	Switzerland	-	Glitch	Glitch
50	Steve Clutterbuck	England	Unflapables	58	56
51	Tom Macpherson	England	Team Muppet	84	68
52	Tony Robertson	England	-	Glitch	--
53	Vic Eldridge	England	Team Muppet	70	76
54	Dave Rumble	England	Unflapables	88	70
55	Bjorn Tore Hagen	Norway	-	Glitch	-

Teams
As well as the top three individual trophies there will be a trophy for each member of the winning three man team. You do not have to fly as a team, but if you want to, either include your team details when you enter or get them to me by 1 September.

Entry fee
We need to cover the expenses of land usage, trophies, Eurotour fees and so on. The entry will be £25. You won't need to pay before the event.

The event
Each day you must be at the Bwlch T junction of the A4107 and A4061 (map here http://www.knewt.com/bwlch/thebwlch.htm ) by 9.00 in time for a 9:45 start. Each day the last round in progress will be that running at 17:30. If the conditions are light and a round started before 17:30 is unlikely to be completely finished that day the Competition Director will consider using group scoring so that we don't lose several hours of competition time. Group scoring will be a last resort, and will not be used if at all possible.

Banquet
This is a lot of hassle for a very small club to organise but we have friends... Vic has done a whole bunch of work and arranged this.

Additional information
Bases will be set back as far as possible, this will allow the safety line to go back a little also. The turn points will be marked in the normal forward position by an additional marker.

Three models per competitor are allowable.

We are currently considering rotation of the flying order - more information soon.

There will be 30 seconds ready time.

Turn judges will be very strongly instructed to acknowledge any errors and the pilot will refly immediately. We all know that some apparently late buzzes are just great flying, others are turn judge error and it is this that we want to acknowledge and eradicate in a supportive way for the turn judge. This worked very well last year and we are keen to build on that success.
You will be called upon to help with buzzing as our experience has been that pilots make the best turn judges.