OK, the Jura Cup is over, not a bad time for the NZ team. We made some mistakes and got them out of our system before the WC which is good. We explored the limits of our line with up to 16 launches on 2 of our #60 lines before we binned them prior to the fly off for JW. Not chewing through the planned amount of line means we have extra which we are offering to the US team who are a bit short on line in return for the loan of a tower.
Conditions can be tricky, big lift also means big sink and many have been caught out, NZ did OK with most of us making times or close to it. JW took some very short tows, (0.8s), in a couple of rounds and easily got away. He made the fly off only to zig instead of zagging and got stuck a long way out and landed a km or so away ending his chances. A bit more to that actually, there is a safety line that is not supposed to be crossed and if you are seen over it you get 30s to move out of it, JW elected no to follow the thermal near it in case it went in to the out of bounds but some others did follow it and the thermal stayed in bounds, but some teams are blatantly crossing the line to get the lift and its taking minutes before the organisers are seeing them and telling them to get out. We are hoping for the WC they position someone to watch all the time and give notice the moment the line is crossed.Its a bit of a farce at the moment.
Final results for the Jura Cup are JW 13, LS 24, DJ 37, SC 75, DP 145. It was won by Cody Remington of the USA. Now the real work starts, worlds processing in the morning followed by 1st round at 1300. 6 slots of 15 pilots per round, alternating senior and junior rounds. Should be a bit more relaxed for us as we have no juniors so can use those rounds for checking and cutting new lines. In the WC we will only use them a max of 4-5 launches each.
Hasn't been a lot of carnage yet model wise but a few mid airs and flutter and some 2.4 radio issues have claimed a few. Another example of the organisation is the 2.4 issue. About 3 months out we realised France has lower output limits on its 2.4 freq. The question was asked of the organiser if it was OK to use US rated radios and we were told no. SO members of our team and the Aussies sourced alternate modules or arranged loan tx's only to find when we got here that many others hadn't checked and were on full power radio so the organisers changed their mind, very frustrating.
Anyway, off to bed, managers meeting in the morning where a lot of this will hopefully be sorted and them on with it. Lines to cut and check, and the painfully slow model processing to do (each model has to be checked for conforming with the rules).
And this from the team- not sure who it was written by (kind of sounds like Les but it also may be DJ):
Hi all, the team has finished the pre event, the Jura Cup in fair shape.
We made some mistakes and got them out of our system before the WC which is good. We explored the limits of our line with up to 16 launches on 2 of our #60 lines before we binned them prior to the fly off for JW.
Not chewing through the planned amount of line means we have extra which we are offering to the US team who are a bit short on line in return for the loan of a tower.
Conditions can be tricky, big lift also means big sink and many have been caught out, NZ did OK with most of us making times or close to it. JW took some very short tows, (0.8s), in a couple of rounds and easily got away. He made the fly off only to zig instead of zagging and got stuck a long way out and landed a km or so away ending his chances.
A bit more to that actually, there is a safety line that is not supposed to be crossed and if you are seen over it you get 30s to move out of it, JW elected not to follow the thermal near it in case it went in to the out of bounds but some others did follow it and the thermal stayed in bounds, but some teams are blatantly crossing the line to get the lift and its taking minutes before the organisers are seeing them and telling them to get out. We are hoping for the WC they position someone to watch all the time and give notice the moment the line is crossed. The enforcement can be a bit flexible at the moment.
Final results for the Jura Cup are Joe W 9th (4990.55), Les S 24th (4976.38), Dave J 37th (4964.01), Scott C 75th (4804.34), Dave P 145th (4487.91) out of 185 entrants.
The Jura Cup was won by Cody Remington of the USA. Now the real work starts, worlds processing in the morning followed byt 1st round at 1300. 6 slots of 15 pilots per round, alternating senior and junior rounds.
Should be a bit more relaxed for us as we have no juniors so can use those rounds for checking and cutting new lines.
Hasn't been a lot of carnage yet model wise but a few mid airs and flutter and some 2.4 radio issues have claimed a few. Another example of the organisation is the 2.4 issue. About 3 months out we realised France has lower output limits on its 2.4 freq. The question was asked of the organiser if it was OK to use US rated radios and we were told no. So members of our team and the Aussies sourced alternate modules or arranged loan tx's only to find when we got here that many others hadn't checked and were on full power radio so the organisers changed their mind, very frustrating.
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Check out the photo of a storm passing through on Jojo's Blog- intense! I feel sorry for the UK guys. Jojo also has the full results from the Jura (You are a legend Jojo thanks so much!!)
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This one's for Will he's quite taken with the fact that Daddy can see the moon when we can't and the possibility that we could possibly be looking at it at the same time.
Over the food, would like to go out to a real French restaurant but there is a US style place called Buffalo Grill about 20m out the hotel door that's just a bit too convenient when you get back after a long day. Had McD the other day, a Royal with Cheese of course (Pulp Fiction) and they serve beer!
The unveiling of the team shirt is awaited tomorrow by the others, we wore our banquet ones tonight for the opening ceremony and could have swapped them 5x.(Of course we knew that would happen because Dave Larsen Rocks the T-Shirt World!)
V happy to have no damage apart from a couple of punctures in the Supra tails from stiff grass stalks, a bit of tape sorted that though.
And then there was some lovey kissy stuff for the kids and me but you don't need to go there.
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