Saturday Warm up- Prior to the Sunday event we held a Saturday practice event. Alan, Steve, George, Nigel, Tony and Roy all in attendance for the warm up. The course for warm up was left hand with an S shape entry to A. Although windy, demonstrated by Roy pulling off a perfect harrier landing from altitude, the weather remained dry with some sunny spells. During practice the maximum legs were 48 set by Alan and Steve followed by Roy 46 and George was close to 44. Nigel tested his custom traction control system which looks pretty slick.

Sunday Comp - Rain wind sun, we had it all! The wind was averaging 8m/s by 9am and a right hand circuit was elected. 2 Rounds were flown.

Round 1 claimed two victims Mark and Tony. Tony had a spectacular wing failure at Base A with motor on. The wing snapped (at a prior repair) and also caught fire 150m up wind on the  tarmac runway, whilst the loose part of the wing ended up 300+m down wind.

Marks RW4 unfortunately split along the fuselage boom yet again during a tricky landing. Although Mark had a shiny new B09.5 ready in the car he elected not to maiden in the high wind so Round 2 he was out.

We have been successful in applying to host one round of the F5B Eurotour event in the UK. This will be held at Middle Wallop on the 2nd and 3rd July.

We are planning on running 2 events - F5B-2 / F5B - The FAI class will count towards the Eurotour scores. UK pilots scores will count towards the UK league.

We will be sharing the Middle Wallop field with an International 2 Day Electric Flight Event.

Information about the location and running times for the event are available in this pdf file.

The "offical" HQ for the event is at the Holiday Inn Salisbury. This is approximately 10 minutes by car from the field. 

We will need people to run the computer scoring system / judge the bases / time flights / etc. If you can help on either or both days please let us know.

Please complete this form so we have an indication of the numbers attending.

Here is something that people may find useful for looking at unilog data.

Ok, this is a final release for a while. The major change is to include efficency calculations along with interface

improvements. Please see release info for a complete list of improvements and bug fixes.

2.1 has been removed and replaced with 2.1d is a fix to get xl 2000/03/07 working.

http://www.f5b.co.uk/uploads/F5BplotV2_1dzip

release info

older versions

http://www.f5b.co.uk/uploads/F5BplotV2.zip

http://www.f5b.co.uk/uploads/F5BplotV1_8.zip

The UniF5B program enables flight data to be read from a Unilog and displayed in a form convenient for F5B. Using the cursor and variable time scales all Unilog data can be examined, plus additional calculated data on motor time and watt.minutes over different parts of the flight. The data can be stored in a file and retrieved later. An on-line display panel allows the Unilog to be used instead of a voltmeter or clamp ammeter. A third panel allows the Unilog to be set up, with a quick setup for F5B. The program is available on Windows and Linux.

       Windows version

The Windows version uses .net 3.5 which is downloaded free and automatically from Microsoft when the program is installed. It is available on http://www.f5b.co.uk/uploads/UniF5B.zig for Internet Explorer and http://www.f5b.co.uk/uploads/UniF5B.zip for others such as Firefox.  Download and unzip the file. Then change the filename setup.aha to setup.exe. Connect to the internet then click on setup.exe. If you do not have .net 3.5 on your computer it will be downloaded automatically for you, and then the program installed. I suggest you just close the HTML directory page that the installation opens to let you see what it has done. Start the UniF5B program from the Windows Start Menu.

The latest version from Dec 2010 has a fix where power over 400A is correctly calculated.