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2012 FAI Southwest Regional Model Airplane Championships

We had a good 62^nd SWR on Jan. 14 and 15 even though the weather and wind directions were a bit unusual. Saturday morning it was very cold with clear blue skies. Then it warmed up to 68°F as some clouds moved in. The winds were from 0 to never more than 5mph – but with the winds coming out of the N it required a move for the 3^rd round from the W field into the N field. This cut the flying down to 6 rounds. Sunday was also mostly overcast with calmish winds. Thermal picking on both days was difficult.    

We had a total of 40 sportsmen signed up for the 8 FAI classes. The contestants were from AZ, CA, MI, NV, OK, OR, TX, UT plus our perennial snow-birds from Great Britain (Dave Oldfield F1A and Mike Woodhouse F1B). We also had 2 ladies flying FAI events, Jasminka Pecenkovic (F1A) and Tiffaney O’Dell (F1G) – and also 2 FAI Juniors, Jimmy and Joey Farmer (F1A).

On Saturday F1C/P was won by Glenn Schneider in a fly-off with Bob Hanford (both flying F1P modes). F1Q was won Bernie Crowe with John Oldenkamp coming in 2^nd and Mike Pykelny in 3^rd.The large 17 flyer F1A field had 5 flyers clean after 6 rounds. As last year the F1A fly-off was won by former World Champion Mike McKeever, with local fellow Jim Farmer in 2^nd place and Pierre Brun in 3^rd. In F1B 6 contestants had maxed all 6 rounds. The 2^nd fly-off was won by Walt Ghio with George Batiuk in 2^nd place and Blake Jensen in 3^rd.

Back on the W field on Sunday we flew F1G, F1H and F1J. Tony Robertson and Bob Hanford battled it out in F1J. In the fly-off Bob prevailed and won the “Bear”. F1H required  a 3-man fly-off which put Mike McKeever into 1^st place, Brian Van Nest into 2^nd and Lee Hines into 3^rd. F1G or Coupe d’Hiver had 5 flyers clean after 5 rounds and required 2 fly-off rounds. In the 2^nd fly-off it was totally calm with no thermals.  It was won by Blake Jensen waiting until the last seconds of the 10 minute window to launch into slightly better air. Roger Morrell was 2^nd and Walt Ghio 3^rd.

A big thank you to all participants and to Elmer Nelson, Tom Gaylor, Hermann Andresen and my wife Brigitte who all made this FAI SWR again a memorable event.

RESULTS 2012 FAI SWR                              Peter Brocks, CD

        F1A                  1   2   3   4   5   6     F/O     Total
1       Mike McKeever      180 180 180 180 180 180     300  1380
2       Jim Farmer         180 180 180 180 180 180     289  1369
3       Pierre Brun        180 180 180 180 180 180     266  1346
4       Ken Bauer          180 180 180 180 180 180     240  1320
5       Don Zink           180 180 180 180 180 180     232  1312
6       Brian Van Nest     180 178 180 180 180 180          1078
7       Joey Farmer        180 180 180 172 180 180          1072
8       Billy Farmer       175 180 172 180 180 180          1067
9       Enes Pecenkovic    180 180 180 160 180 180          1060
10      Peter Brocks       180 180 180 180 180 131          1031
11      Dave Oldfield      180 180 180 115 180 180          1015
12      Risto  Puhakka     180 180 180 120 176 157           993
13      Jimmy Farmer       180 178 180  86 173 180           977
14      Lee Hines          180 137 112 166 180 178           953
15      Jim Parker         180  89 171 153 153 180           926
16      Jasminka Pecenkovi 158 158 180 180 127 121           924
17      Dean Clark         180  11 145 180 DNF DNF           516

        F1B                  1   2   3   4   5   6 F/O F/O     Total
1       Walt Ghio          180 180 180 180 180 180 300 312  1692
2       George Batiuk      180 180 180 180 180 180 300 310  1690
3       Blake Jensen       180 180 180 180 180 180 300 296  1676
4       Jack Emery         180 180 180 180 180 180 300 238  1618
5       Thomas Ioerger     180 180 180 180 180 180 275      1355
6       Roger Morrell      180 180 180 180 180 180 261      1341
7       Dick Wood          180 180 164 180 180 180          1064
8       Rich Rohrke        180 180 157 180 180 180          1057
9       Mike Woodhouse GBR 180 180 137 130 180 180           987
10      Paul Crowley       180 180 169 180   4 DNF           713
11      Elmer Nelson       180 DNF DNF DNF DNF DNF           180

        F1C/P                1   2   3   4   5   6     F/O    Total
1       Glenn Schneider    180 180 180 180 180 180     300  1380
2       Bob Hanford        180 180 180 180 180 180     277  1357

        F1Q                  1   2   3   4   5   6             Total
1       Bernie Crowe       180 180 180 180 123 180          1023
2       John Oldenkamp     180 180 170 180 180 109           999
3       Mike Pykelny        40 176 180 180 180 180           936

        F1G                  1   2   3   4   5     F/O F/O     Total
1       Blake Jensen       120 120 120 120 120     180 185   965
2       Roger Morrell      120 120 120 120 120     180 145   925
3       Walt Ghio          120 120 120 120 120     180 132   912
4       Tiffaney O'Dell    120 120 120 120 120     180 123   903
5       Rich Rohrke        120 120 120 120 120     140       740
6       Paul Crowley       102 120 120 120  95               557
7       Mike Pykelny       120 120 120 105  85               550
8       Peter Brocks        63 120 120 120 DNF               423
9       Dick Wood           65 DNF DNF DNF DNF                65

        F1H                  1   2   3   4   5     F/O         Total
1       Mike McKeever      120 120 120 120 120     178       778
2       Brian Van Nest     120 120 120 120 120     154       754
3       Lee Hines          120 120 120 120 120     148       748
4       Ken Bauer          120 120 120 108 120               588
5       Ed Skorepa          70 120 120 120 114               544

        F1J                  1   2   3   4   5     F/O         Total
1       Bob Hanford        120 120 120 120 120     215       815
2       Tony Robertson     120 120 120 120 120     196       796

Wanted F1B - Thank you

Gentlemen thank you all who sent me pictures and information regarding the
F1B models I was looking for. Every continent came into contact! Me and
Beto have found and purchased two early VV models from the USA and two
newer models from Argentina. The free flight community was very helpful as
always.
Thanks
Alex

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