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Omarama Cup F1A 22nd March 2012

   Name               FAI NUMBER             RD 1    RD2     RD3     RD4     RD5     RD6       RD7       Total
 1 Brian Van Nest               USA 23122     210     180     180     180     180     180       180        1290
 2 Lee Hines                    USA 7334      210     180     180     180     170     180       180        1280
 3 Paul Lagan                NZL107 12 AM 03  180     180     180     180     180     180       180        1260
 4 Nikolai Nikolov              BUL00310      210     177     143     180     180     180       180        1250
 5 Rob Wallace               NZL378 12 AM 09  168     180     180     180     180     180       180        1248
 6 Michaela Groenewege      NZL1449 12 AM 07  180     106     180     163      55     101       88         873
 7 Malcolm Campbell             AUS 52060     210     180     180     180      0       0         0         750
 8 Albert Fathers               AUS 65586                                                                          0

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Omarama Cup F1B 23rd March 2012
    Name                 FAI NUMBER      RD 1     RD2     RD3     RD4     RD5     RD6     RD7    Flyoff TOTAL
 1  Bill McGarvey        NZL65 11 AM 17   210     180     180     180     180     180     180     180     1470
 2  George Batiuk        USA10862         210     180     180     180     180     180     180     174     1464
 3  William Jones        AUS8465          210     180     180     180     180     180     180     165     1455
 4  Roger Morell         NZL10530 12AM 01 210     180     180     158     180     180     180             1268
 5  Wu Yunsheng          A320213          210     180     180     180     156     174     180             1260
 6  Albert Fathers       AUS65586         199     180     180     180     165     180     145             1229
 7  Paul Lagan           NZL107 12 AM 03  210     180     180     180     180     180      75             1185
 8  Gary Pope            AUS38115         162     180     180      75     180     180     180             1137
 9  David Ackery         NZL76 12 AM 04   210     180     180     159     180     141      0              1050
 10 Lincoln Vincent      NZL3867 12 AM 10 123     180     134     180     180      0       0              797

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  Omarama Cup F1C 22nd March 2012
  Name               FAI NUMBER       RD 1     RD2     RD3     RD4     RD5     RD6     RD7   TOTAL
1 Zou Jiong Yu       A36006            210     180     180     180     180     180     180      1290
2 Gary Pope          AUS38115            0                                                         0

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Stone the Crows ... well sort off

Fellow Fliers,

It was clear that after an incident at Lost Hills this year that we have a potential environmental time-bomb on our hands.

I think it was the PanAm flyoff for F1A when the pod of pelicans came over. And rather nice they were as well, however, i become clear that their flight path was being affected by the models launching and I wondered why. With some help from a consultancy doing acoustics simulations for the company I work for, and also getting in contact with old friends at the Birdstrike Avoidance Team (BAT) at Sand Hutton, GB, it is now clear to me that the sounds being made by the new low drag A2s is affecting these animals.

My friends at BAT, most of them are ornithologists, (I worked with them years back on aircraft impact studies) have a lot of data on birds and have a database on the sonic frequencies most susceptible to which species. I played them the video of work done by Van Wallane and others at Delft University (see Facebook for details) and the ?whistling? model and the confirmed that this frequency is slap bang in the middle of the pelican?s hearing frequency. In simple terms, LDAs being launched have and will continue to attract birds, generally pelicans, as they are being launched at high speed.Those watching the flyoff and noting how the birds changed direction as first one then another model was launched may have thought this was coincidence, I did, but it would seem the models noise literally ?attract? the birds. This is not good news at the Brown Pelican is protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and so any disturbance is a federal offence in the US.

I also asked the BAT team about strobe lights and they almost went ashen-faced. They suggested we stopped using them immediately in the main migration season as a minimum as they can cause miss-carriages.

We need to do something about this but without too much advertising. Maybe the guys at Delft know how to reduce the LDA sound signature (anti-noise perhaps ?) but it is clear in the short term that launch velocities need to be limited so that the critical frequency is not reached, and that strobes are even banned. Perhaps we can tie in some sort of speed meter to the timer systems, like the energy limiters in F1Q, and make these mandatory from 2013 ?The risk I fear otherwise is that we find that all flying is banned until research proves we are not a problem ? and you know how long that can take.

I did also play the ornithologists recordings of F1B and F1C but apparently these aren?t a problem.

I write this to elicit a suitable response from the flyers worldwide and hope that there may be some experts out there that can help us before it is too late.

EoB

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