Welsh Open Eurotour F3F 2009 - 18, 19 & 20 September

To enter
Entry has now closed.  We were going to restrict the pilots to 50, but with over 100 entries and the likelihood there will be some natural wastage we extended this to 60 (+ 1 for the idiot CD who forgot to put his own name in).  The entries were decided by random draw.  Many international and domestic competitors were left out, which is sad but better than running and event with over 100 competitors.

Even if you previously tried to enter, if you want to be on the reserve list you must contact Kevin Newton with your name, 2 x 35mhz frequencies and confirmation that you hold valid insurance. 

Sponsors
Kin from www.smartmodel.com.hk 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.

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 8.15 in time for a 9:00 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.  We got promises of help to organise it last year but nothing materialised.  We are looking at what we can do, but there is a risk we may all simply end up in a pub drinking beer - yikes!

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.