england championship 2003

point	position	pilot	paramotor	glider	engine
4899	guest	Johan BOSSUYT [BEL]	PAP 1400	ACTION 27
4130	guest	Vladimir MAKURIN [RUS]	GUCHIN	SILEX XS	RDM
3975	guest	Vadim BUKHTIYAROV [RUS]	132	EDEN II 28
3973	guest	Igor POTAPKIN [RUS]	MIRAJ	AKROBAT	CORSAIR M21
3762	guest	Dani MARTINEZ [ESP]	PAP 1500	ACTION L
3542	1	Michel CARNET [GBR]	ADVENTURE	EXPRESSO	SOLO 210
3468	guest	Alexander BOGDANOV [RUS]	FRESH BREEZE	SILEX
3432	guest	Zdenek ANDRLIK [CZE]	DAKR QUATRO	EASY FLY SHARON 25	SOLO 210
3330	2	Paul BAILEY [GBR]	BAILEY	SILEX	JPX 160
3217	3	Pascal CAMPBELL-JONES [GBR]	VORTEX	ACTION
3126	guest	Bart VAN DEN EECKHAUT [BEL]	PARABART SMN122	ACTION
2917	guest	Jean-yves LEBLICQ [BEL]	ADVENTURE	DYNASTY	SOLO
2682	4	Mike CAMPBELL-JONES [GBR]	VORTEX	ACTION	RADNE
link : http://www.flymicro.com/footnat03/index.cfm

Hi, Diego!

        Thanks for your congratulations!!!
        TOP-80 did it's best!

        There were very many things at the UK Championship. For example, Task 4 (Navigation precision & speed) was a real undertaking for me. When starting I lost my compass. I had already been in the air when it suddenly flown off. I started to kick it with my feet like in football trying to catch it, but it won and fell down in the grass.
During my struggle with compass my stop-watch stopped by its own. So I had nothing to do but fly my own route nearly in a blind manner relying only on my senses and a map, which and used very hard until it became a form of a globe.
        Besides when I tried to mark a PPM I found out that my pencil had broken. So I had been nibbling it for 20 minutes until a piece of a slate pencil appeared!
        At long last I flown back 10 minutes later. I was certainly 50% penalized and thus get 400 scores although I gained 800 scores.
        The description of the Task 1 Richard Meredith-Hardy didn't place at his site, though there were some negative things. I flown 79 km. for 2,5 h. picking up the PPMs, whereas the winner of the Task and finally of the whole Championship the Belgian Johan Bossuyt flown 136 km. for only 1 h. You know that this simply cannot be!
        In the Task "Fast-Slow" slow distance I went very well, but when I started the fast one I simply torn the accelerator! I should say that your accelerator construction is not very good, because the accelerator lines constantly rub about metallic tube...

        Well, in other words there were very many things to tell about. The whole story about my adventures at the UK National Championship I'll write a bit later.

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Best regards, Vadim.
E-mail: vadimfly@mtu-net.ru