RC Slope Soaring in Hong Kong

Anyone have more information on this issue ! ?

http://planet-soaring.blogspot.com/2010 ... nship.html

You ask Pierre or Franz in VR and tell us

Go to RCGROUPS forum for more info.
Will there be Viking race anymore?
If yes, then no matter the WC is held in odd or even year, there may be: WC, Viking, Typhoon races to fill up your year planner.... No more time for other flying events

A memorandum of the meeting held in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2010 about the update of the FAI soaring competition rules. One on the list is that F3F can have world championships.

Quoted:

11.3 Volume ABR, Section 4C, Part One

a) Annex 1.1 – World Championship Events for Model Aircraft Germany

Paragraph 3 – RC Category for Seniors

Add a new line at the end of paragraph 3

i) F3F Radio controlled slope soaring gliders

Reason: The model gliding class F3F is flown since more than 30 years over the whole world. At the beginning rules differed from country to country. In 1977 the class F3F was registered as provisional class at the FAI. The Viking Races, up to now the largest and most prominent F3F competitions worldwide, organized since 1989 every two years have lead to a continuous harmonization of the rule set. The last major change of rules was carried out in consequence of the Viking Race 2004 in Germany. There in a meeting competitors of all 14 participating nations voted democratically for the first time about desirable rule changes. Since that time it is flown steadily and successfully worldwide according to these generally accepted rules.

All over the world attendance of F3F competitions has increased continuously in the course of the last five years. E.g. the number of participants in Contest-Eurotour competitions rose from 190 in 2002 to over 300 in 2009. A similar trend holds for competitions in the USA and Asia. Since 2005 pilots from North and South America and Asia participate regularly in European competitions. From 2003 on all competitions of the Contest-Eurotour were registered as FAI soaring events.

The Viking Races, acting as "unofficial world championships" up to now, due to popularity of the class turn more and more to "social events", which cannot correspond to the sportive level of top pilots anymore. Since a fairly long time the call for a conversion of the F3F class to official status and for establishing it as world championship class is getting louder. That’s why the Class F3F was established as official class last year.

Therefore it is suggested now to register the class F3F as world championship class at the next possible date.


Full document can be obtained here:

http://www.f3x.no/ciam/agenda_and_all_a ... 0_2010.pdf