At the end of each season, We announce the fastest times recorded for the season on our usual 10.5 Lap Course. Only weekends where cut judges are post on all pylon positions are included.
Fastest Times – 2017 – 2018
Event Report – AMPRA – Munro June 2018
Back on the weekend of June 9-11, the AMPRA Championships where held in Victoria at Barry Murphy’s pylon racing field at Munro about 3 hours east of Melbourne.
This event was also the first of the Australian F3D team select for the 2019 World Championships to be held in Queensland.
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Results
Class – FA1
Places:
1st – Beau Murphy
2nd – Christopher Callow
3rd – Tyler Mees
Fastest Time: 54.74 – Beau Murphy (10 Lap Course).
No. of competitors: 18
Results
Class – F400
Places:
1st – Andrew Davies
2nd – Jarrod Jacobsen
3rd – Brian Steele
Fastest Time: 67.33 – Andrew Davies (10 Lap Course).
No. of competitors: 13
Class – Q500
Places:
1st – David Chippindall
2nd – Jim Orenshaw
3rd – Stephen Wilkin
Fastest Time: 92.22 – Jim Orenshaw (10 Lap Course).
Season Championship
As of the end of AMPRA, the 2017-2018 Season Championship has been completed and below are the final results. Congratulations to the winners.
Just in the last event for the Season Championship, Leigh Hocken popped up into the winning position, Pushing Brian Steele down into 2nd place and Glenn Matthews remained in 3rd position
1st – Leigh Hocken
2nd – Brian Steele
3rd – Glenn Matthews
The top 2 positions stayed the same for this last event but Jim Orenshaw has moved up into 3rd position, displacing Glenn Matthews,
1st – Brian Steele
2nd – Andrew Davies
3rd – Jim Orenshaw
The standings for Q500 didn’t change as a result of this event.
1st – Jim Orenshaw
2nd – John Schmidli
3rd – Gary Whitbourn
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Event Report and Photos – John Schmidli
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Event Report – West Wyalong – MAAA Nationals
So VMPRA was off to the MAAA Nationals held in the New South Wales town of West Wyalong. We were to be providing the equipment and be running the event. Mick Dallmann from Queensland offered to be Contest Director for the weekend and did a fine job of it. It was great to see a good group on competitors down from Queensland and some from South Australia also.
We were allocated an area on the secondary runway at the local airport which had a gravel runway. There was some test flying on Friday but due to the difficult take-off and landing conditions much time was spent on laying out sheets and matting to keep the dust down on the take-off position and on the runway for the planes that land wheels up.
At the nationals, the classes of Q500, F400, F3T, F3D & F5D were raced. This meant that racing of F400 & F3T ran late into the afternoon with the sun very low in the sky.
One of the highlights of the Nationals is being surrounded by lots of people that are interested in the various facets of aeromodeling and getting a chance to watch some of these other events. Hopefully the Nats can become a more regular part of the Australian aeromodeling scene and especially for pylon racers from all over Australia to come together.
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Results
Class – FA1
Places:
1st Daniel Arapakis
2nd Andrew Davies
3rd Barry Murphy
Fastest Time: 61.57 – Daniel Arapakis
No. of competitors: 7
Class – F400
Places:
1st Glenn Matthews
2nd Barry Murphy
3rd Gary Davidson
Fastest Time: 68.71 – Gary Davidson
No. of competitors: 10
Class – F3T
Places:
1st Steve Taylor
2nd Barry Murphy
3rd Danny Giles
Fastest Time: 68.79 – Andrew Davies
No. of competitors: 7
Class – Q500
Places:
1st David Wilkins
2nd Steve Taylor
3rd Marc Hamilton
Fastest Time: 96.39 – Jim Orenshaw
No. of competitors: 11
Class – F5D
Places:
1st Trevor Pearce
2nd Daniel Arapakis
3rd David Wilkins
Fastest Time: 60.10 – Jim Orenshaw
No. of competitors: 4
Event Report and Photos – John Schmidli
The written content in this post is accurate to the best of my/our knowledge at the time of publishing. It is written from my/our perspective and reflects how I/we have experienced this event.
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.
If a perspective is not being represented, I am more than happy to publish any written content or photos that are supplied to me provided it is fair and reasonable.