Results F5J VARMS 23 March 2025
Finally some nice weather greeted the 8 pilots who turned up last Sunday for our latest f5j comp. I’d say light winds, for the most part, with about 50% cloud cover. So not really conditions for fai planes, but not really for windy weather planes either. Unfortunately the wind direction started east south east, and since we can’t fly to the west at the VARMS field, it meant you had to go upwind to find lift, and leave it once above yourself to hopefully find some more lift up wind, so somewhat challenging conditions.
Wind turned to the south for the last few rounds, so back to the regular chasing lift.
Congrats to Hugh Blackburn in 1st, with some great flying after coming back from the f5j worlds as a wildcard entry,
myself (jim) in 2nd place, after screwing up round 2 and then going conservative on launch heights for the rest of my launches,
and with Theo Arvanitakis in 3rd, with some pretty low launches, which didn’t always pay off.
Thanks to Bruce Clapperton for CDing and scoring and everyone else who helped.
See you next in Horsham for the Modelflight Midway Cup and VMAA f5j state champs. We’ve got a good number of entries so far, and theres still time to enter here
Happy thermalling,
Jim Houdalakis