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Contest Director: Matt Hoyland.

Venue: BMFA Buckminster.

FAI Judges: Bob Ailles and Nico Bleas with Steve Hunt, Brian Hoare and Chris Halgreen.

GBRCAA Judges: Several 'P' pilots.

Computer scoring: Matt Hoyland

Cd's little helpers: Ashley Hoyland and Steve Hunt

Saturday Evening Meal for 15: Tollemache Arms, Buckminster.

What a fantastic weekend made even better with perfect weather, even on the Friday to set up and on Monday to finally vacate the site.

. I think everyone is impressed with the site and all the effort that has gone into providing such wonderful facilities. Thank you David, Manny, Andy and all the friends of Buckminster who volunteer their services.

With a good entry, the best we had had at our Championships for some time, we just had time for 5 rounds and for the Team Selection Competition this meant flying 2 'P' Schedules, 2 'F' Schedules with the best flight in each to count and 1 Unknown schedule which had to count. The Unknown schedule was computer generated and finished up with many knife edge manoeuvres making it one of the most different schedules flown for some time. The Team Selection competition attracted 9 pilots, the best entry we have seen for many years and they all showed great skill in completing the full 5 rounds.

The FAI 'P' Only competition attracted 8 pilots and Chris Halgreen took every round with Adrian Harrison and Brian Hoare close behind.

Flying the Masters schedule Mark Allan had his best two rounds in 2 and 5 with some very consistent flying.

After his promotion from Clubman last year John Morton joined Phil Lewis in Intermediate and took one round from Phil but Phil managed to take the other 4 rounds to win the Intermediate competition.

Bonaero.co.uk did us proud again by offering a Axeome BP kit for the winner of Clubman with other really good prizes from Optipower and Ralph Schweizer (CRS Contra).

Nerves are a big part of flying schedules in front of our judges and this showed in the first couple of rounds for both Matt Bacon and Graeme Jones but they improved through the competition. Joe Wotton in second place took home the Optipower LiPos and other goodies whilst Michael Broad took the honours and the Axoime BP kit from Bondaero.

Podium:
BMFA Team Selection and GBRCAA Championship title: Matt Hoyland, 2nd Kevin Caton, 3rd Adrian Mansell.

FAI 'P' Only Schedule: First Place, Chris Halgreen, 2nd Adrian Harrison, 3rd Brian Hoare.

Masters: Mark Allan.

Intermediate: First Place Phil Lewis, 2nd John Morton.

Clubman: First Place Michael Broad, 2nd Joe Wotton, 3rd Graeme Jones.