Not much

activity on this site lately... And I have decided to stop update this blog.
Have made a new site at www.grossegler.no, which will be frequently updated.

F3J again

Picture: from the left: Me, Jo Grini and Jostein Myre

2nd septhember we had out last F3J event this season. 18 pilots attended at Spydeberg airfield, whit the club Cirrus as the organiser. Nice weather, and again difficult conditions. The wind was strong all day, the thermals difficult to follow.
I did verry well in this competiton. With Jo's Perceft and also his old radio... Since I had a misshap with my own equipment thursday before this event. Lost radio contact with my own Perfect. Exit Perfect... Nothing was left for me after the crash. (I have bought a new radio...)
But with Jo's plane, I was at the top after prelim (4 rounds flown). I flew with 800 g lead all day. Also in the finals. That was not a good thing to do, as the wind has calmed a lot. But ended third, and I am verry happy with that. Jo won again, before my team-mate Jostein Myre. Erik Morgan (also on my team) ended fifth. Great team result!

Firstcomming weekend I am organising the nationals F3B. Sadly very few pilots... Very few. But I think we will fly "all against each other" in all round. Should be a lot of rounds and a lot of fun! (I hope).

26th of august

Cirrus RCFK arranged a F3B event. Sadly only 8 pilots attended, so there was no distance this time either. We flew 4 rounds of speed and duration. Difficult conditions all day, which is kind of fun... Nothing was shure before last flight. My team-mate Erik was going good until the last round... A miss in duration and also a bad turn in speed got him 4th at the end.
I had no good day at all... Ended 7th. Not completely happy with my new RaceM (V-tail) so far. (Flew this all day). I dont know what is wrong, may be that I need to put the CG a little more back in speed-task. But I dont give up...
Arnfinn Lie is this seasons guy in Norwegian F3B. He took it home this time also. Before Jo Grini and Knut Vidar Moløkken was third. And also speedmaster. Lot of missed bases in the speed today.
A nice day at the field. And next in norwegian F3B is the nationals 15th and 16th of september. My local club is the organiser. We have rented a "full size" field for this event, so we hope to get a lot of pilots attended to this event... We will see.
Check out www.f3x.no for detailed results.

WC F3B 2007

First day of the WC is over, lots of rain and lots of mud... We almost completed one round. The speed task was devided into 4 groups because of the weather.
The norwegian team was quite beaten in duration. The distance task was better, and the speed task was OK, exept for Knut Vidar, he missed the A-base.
The weather is improving slightly today. No rain at the moment, hopefully the sun will hit us. We need to warm up, and dry up.
The event is quite well organised, some discussion at the team meetings, but things have been handled well, I think.
Friday the 13th og july the WC is almost over. Only two tasks remains for saturday, distance and speed of round 7. The norwegian team has done some nice rounds, and some not so nice rounds... We have got beaten a lot in all speed rounds. The Herrig brothers are in a leage of them selfes... Nobody get any way near those two guys in the speed. They have also flown nice distance and duration tasks.
I could say a lot about the arrangement, but wil not... But this wil probably not go into the history as the best arranged WC. Event if we got some improvement with new CD.
But today the sky is clear, the sun is shining and we are happy!

World Cup Emmen

Ok, this event i over. I flew 2 good tasks (duration and one distance) and 2 bad tasks... (distance and speed). Dont know how long it has been since my last 26 speed, but that what was i managed.
Conditions was no good for speed, fastes time was 17.60.
The 20 best pilots flew a "speed final", almost total german dominance at the top of the list. Those guys do something we dont... Maybe they do a little more training? And of course they have nice planes.
Today its monday, first day of the WC. We have flown duration, in poor conditions. Rainy. We have a delay because of the rain, before we start distance.

Nordic F3J 2007

was a "disaster" for me... My back hurt so much, I decided not to fly. But my team did very vell. Jostein Myre was No. 2 and Erik Morgan No 3. Arnfinn Lie (also norwegian) was at the top of the podium. All norwegian!! The team-contest was won by my team, we found out a couple of days later... First we was anounced 5th. But they had counted all rounds (no discard) and all 4 pilots... Maybe we get our trofee by mail?? Hopefully not email...
Heavy rain and wind up to 20 m/s made it a hard weekend. Lot or broken models... Both in starts and landings.

Jo Grini and my self are now in the "middle of Germany", on our way to Wasserckuppe. Some slope-flying, we hope, before we head for the WC F3B.

Last F3B competiton

before leaving for the WC. The arena was Spydeberg airfield, in the eastern part of Norway. 11 pilots attended. As often in our country, difficult conditions all day. We thought there would be fast times during speed, but that was wrong. Even with good headwind in the starts, the launches was rather average... Between 230 and 260 meters. Fastes time was 17 something.
I managed to be at the podium! Third place at the end. Not any exeptional rounds, but good, stable flying all day got me this place. Winner was again Arnfinn Lie, Jo Grini at second.
We start our "international F3X-tour" thursday 28th of June. First event then is Nordic Champ. F3J in Denmark. Then we leave for WC, the plan is to spend a few days in Germany on our way.