Unfortunately, the Q500 race scheduled for this Sunday, Aug 20, at Mt Wallace has been cancelled by the club due to excessively wet conditions at the flying field.
We will endeavour to reschedule another race there in the new year.

This Sunday we head to Mt Wallace Model Aircraft Association to fly Q500. 187 Brisbane Ranges Road, Mt Wallace. See you there.
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We have our Bendigo race coming up this weekend.
This is the first race meet of the new financial year. Therefore, we need to ensure that everybody competing has renewed their VMAA/MAAA membership (ie. Paid your local club membership). Please ensure you bring your MAAA card, a club membership or a receipt proving payment of your club fees.
I look forward to catching up with you all at Bendigo this weekend.
Cheers John.
Unfortunately, our next event at Warrnambool Nov 5-6 has been cancelled due to extreme saturation of the field and no let up in wet conditions between now and the event.
The next event is Munro Dec 3-4 where we will also hold our AGM.
WARRNAMBOOL Event rescheduled – May 4-5
The VMPRA was back at Bazza’s Munro pylon field for the last of the F3D Team trials as well as the usual F400 and Q500 classes.
At the end of the Saturday, the F3D class had completed 8 rounds on the FAI (10 lap) course. The final results for the F3D 2017 WC team was as pictured below: Daniel Arapakis (Junior member), Beau Murphy, Leigh Hocken and Tyler Mees.
After F3D had finished, 4 rounds of F400 were raced before it became too late to continue. Unfortunately weather conditions on the Sunday again prevented any further racing for the weekend meaning that F400 only flew the 4 rounds from Saturday afternoon and there was no Q500 flown at all.
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Places:
1st Leigh Hocken
2nd Beau Murphy
3rd Tyler Mees
Fastest Time: 55.67 – Glenn Matthews (10 course)
No. of competitors: 13
Class – F400
Places:
1st Beau Murphy
2nd Ranjit Phelan
3rd Glenn Matthews
Fastest Time: 62.97 – Beau Murphy (10 course)
No. of competitors: 12
Leigh Hocken has remained in top spot, Beau Murphy has jumped up from 5th to 2nd position and Daniel Arapakis moved up from 4th to 3rd position.
1st – Leigh Hocken
2nd – Beau Murphy
3rd – Daniel Arapakis
Gary Davidson has moved up from 3rd to 1st position displacing Andrew Davies and Jim Orenshaw who are now in 2nd and 3rd position respectively.
1st – Gary Davidson
2nd – Andrew Davies
3rd – Jim Orenshaw
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There has been some changes in the committee from those elected back in July at the AGM. James and Gary resigned from the president and treasurer positions. Luckily for the VMPRA, there have been some members step up to take these positions. We also had not elected a secretary at the AGM and I have been doing this work until a replacement was founds. The new (acting) committee are:
As most of you will know we had to cancel the November event due to adverse weather conditions. Therefore, the next event will be again at Munro on December 3-4 which will also be the last event for the calander year. Hopefully the weather will be kinder to us and lets make this a good one.
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Event Report – John Schmidli
Photos – Andrew Arapakis
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Unfortunately, the race event planned for this weekend has now been cancelled due to predicted poor weather forecast for Warrnambool on Saturday & Sunday.
This decision has been made in consultation with the VMPRA committee and the Warrnambool Club.
John Schmidli
The second F3D team trial for next years World Championships to be held in Sweden, saw competitors arrive on the Friday from South Australia, New South Wales and regional Victoria. Baz Murphy’s much loved Munro field, a purpose built, immaculately presented and maintained pylon racing facility, was set for a show down. This the pinnacle of the highest speed, pilot and plane combinations all with the passion for precision racing would test the very best to achieve their rightful place on the Aussie F3D team. Results over the past few months have been chequered and pilot placings in probably one of the hardest teams in the world to get onto would be up for grabs this weekend.
Just as impressive as the first day us southerners met the Jacobsens’ from SA, Shauny mixed with the best in his usual perfect style that will prove out his competitiveness and future success. With only a hand full of F3D races under his belt, Shaun flew his PB of 59.28 seconds and while carrying a cut, Shaun averaged a 61.1 seconds to place him in a very good position for the 3rd team senior member on the Aussie Team.
As F3D team trial selection takes priority, 8 rounds were flown on Saturday with Dannmann finishing in 1st place and recording the fastest time for the event and his PB of 57.21 seconds, Beau in 2nd place and Shaun taking out 3rd. Well done to all pilots and to a great F3D event and State Championships.
With the unfortunate weather conditions closing in on Sunday, F400 was not raced and the State Championships Trophy for F400 will be competed for at the next event which will be run at Munro on October 15-16.
Many thanks to all the pilots and helpers that turned up and participated and made the event one to remember.
Check out the event photo gallery>>>
Places:
1st Daniel Arapakis
2nd Beau Murphy
3rd shaun Jacobsen
Fastest Time: 57.21 – Daniel Arapakis (10 lap course – won’t be recorded)
No. of competitors: 10
Class – Q500
Places:
1st Gary Whitbourn
2nd Ian Rickard
3rd Alan Whitbourn
Fastest Time: 96.13 – Jim Orenshaw (10 lap course – won’t be recorded)
No. of competitors: 7
This was only the 2nd event for this Season Championship.
F3D
Leigh Hocken has popped up into the top position, pushing Brian Steele and Andrew Davies down a position respectively.
1st – Leigh Hocken
2nd – Brian Steele
3rd – Andrew Davies
Q500
Jim Orenshaw has remained at the top and the father son team of Gary and Alan Whitbourns have popped up into 2nd & 3rd positions.
1st – Jim Orenshaw
2nd – Gary Whitbourn
3rd – Alan Whitbourn
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Season Fastest Time
As this was a team trial and racing on a 10 lap course rather than our usual 10.5 laps, fastest times for this weekend won’t be included.
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Event Report – Andrew Arapakis
Photographs – Shaun Jacobsen
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Photos published as feature images are selected purely for their quality, general interest or topicality. They are chosen from a pool of photos taken by myself and others when time permits.
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