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All week I like others have procrastinated about the weather, but not wanting to let the team down I loaded the car Friday night and headed south early Saturday. Some rain on the way and dense fog north of Rotorua, and then just like magic as I drive into Rotorua the skys cleared to a beautiful day.
Arrived at the field at 10am and found the carpark opposite the pits full (I had to double park) which was a good indicator to the number of fliers that were there. Once scrutineering and safety briefing was dealt to it was into the serious stuff. The Scale guys went off to the far end and had their comp the rest of heathens had the field to ourselves.
The Scale stuff was awesome, I was really impressed at the amount of detail some were now putting into their workmanship. Andreas (From JustScale.co.nz) created two classes of Scale comp and there were half a dozen entrants in each category which took several hours to get judged. Whilst this was happening the rest of the field was always buzzing with helis and the occasional interlude filled with planks. Where were the 6 or so scale Turbine models that are NZ unfortunately none turned up ?
All day there wasn't a breath of wind, semi clouded skys, no really bad accidents. Ok One dumb idiot practising autos landed his TRex600 into the sign saying "Helis Land Here" and the inevitable happened to four other guys with four identical Foamy T57 Trojans played "Catch Me" over the gorse and scrub (all yelling but I am flying the one with a E on the tail)
Lunch as usual was Burgers and Sausages cold drinks, Free Muffins Tea and Coffee all put on by the Rotorua Club – THANKS ROTORUA CLUB.
At 3pm was the Prizing Giving for the Scale comp were announced. Prizes were supplied by the three Sponsors – THANKS SPONSORS.
JustScale.co.nz (Andreas), rchelis.co.nz (Kevin) , rcbandit.co.nz (New Plymouth, Brett)
By 4pm the 10 Acre field was covered in a fine layer of Methanol Smoke and the sweet sickly smell of dozens of over cooked Lipo Batteries I packed up and headed home with a big smile on my face.
What a great day 10/10, lots of new faces from near an afar, shame the weather wasn't more settled the days before because I am sure we would have doubled the 18 that did fly, still it meant there was no scrapping over the 10 or so 2.4Mhz pegs on the peg board !
The final scoring was:
Scale event:
1st place: Craig A. from New Plymouth with a beautifully built Bell 412, detailed to the last bit after his employers machine. To be mentioned is that Craig flew the machine with Mutiblade head. As price he received a Approach Engineering Cobra kit sponsored by JustScale
2nd place: Craig Mc. from Tauranga with a excellent detailed Eurocopter AS355 modelled after the Auckland Police Eagle. He received a a $100 from RC Model Shop/RC Bandits New Plymouth
3rd Place: Wayne R. from Rotorua with his CH 47 Chinook with 3 blade heads. He received an aluminium blade case sponsored by Hobby Hangar
FunScale event:
1st Place: Craig A. from New Plymouth (again) with a skilled build TT A119 Augusta Koala modelled after the NP Recue Trust. He received a Trex 450 Body sponsored by Hobby Hangar
2nd Place: George G2 S. with his Funkey Huges 500E Breitling and added lighting kit (which came handy in his night flight display). He received a 10% gift voucher from JustScale.
3rd Place: Alton R. with his TT Cobra (the smallest model in the competition) He mastered trhe flying and showed an nice models well presented. He received a aluminium blade case sponsored by Hobby Hangar.
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