After no flying on Thursday Fridays forecast was not much better, there was a small weather window in the morning to enable some timed spots, this did lead to much nervous nous beforehand, especially if you were in a medal position. The windy conditions did catch some pilots out however everybody held there nerve to consolidate and hold positions. That was it bar any protests, for once there were none at all and this has to be down to the good organisation and clear tasks. Therefore the party on Friday could begin.
Saturday was the official closing ceremony and this was another very prompt and well organised event. British national anthem played three out of four times is hugely satisfying. Results still oin official site - click on links below.
WL1 -click for scores
A very dominant performance from Richard to win Gold -look at the points margin which is quite considerable. David Hadley's position reflects a harsh gate penalties on the last navigation task dropping him from a certain medal to a lower position. Unfortunately because of the no fly on the Thursday the two nav tasks planned would have given pilots the chance to claw back some points.
Rob and John scored a convincing gold in WL2- favourites all week they gained a useful lead in the two more machine orientated tasks - the Triangle and the spiders web, The triangle being a task made for a Quik R, AL1 refugee Paul Welsh did incredibly well to score a popular Bronze in the flylight Tanarg ably assisted by 'spotter Proctor'; Frank and Emily his daughter in a standard Quantum did very well with some fantastic scores in the nav tasks, he was just pipped by former champion Simon to come 7th and 6th respectively. Neil and Alan just missed out on a diploma with a consistent performance in their Blade. Well done to Laurie and Mary who learnt a lot in the week and really needed Thursday and Friday to start putting into practice what they had learnt -fourth overall in the triangle economy task really demonstrates potential and Laurie's last spot of the comp was an absolute peach - I don't think I have ever seen a Quik stop in so little distance- 25metres ! !
An incredibly tight class and one which was wide open, David Broom once again won a silver ably assisted by Aircraft owner Chris Levings. Chris and Claire Wills once again did well to come sixth and newcomers to this class Dave Robbins and Michel Carnet did well to secure 9th in this competitive class. With the weather being bad on the Thursday and Friday this class would have been worth watching for some significant changes if the tasks had gone ahead.
All of this resulted in TEAM GOLD for the British team which clearly demonstrates the strength and depth to the team squad.
Well done to all the competitors in what was a fair and hard fought competition with a strong spirit running through it. The organisation was first class and very efficient and the tasks had the right balance which clearly tested pilot skill. Most pilots flew 12-14 hours in 5 days with the last two days spoiling what was planned.
Our team thanks to Len and Malcolm who did a superb job as always and to David Daniels team manager.
Well done to the organising team and in particular thanks to Rob Hughes, RMH, Jeremy and of course Paul Dewhurst and the FLYLIGHT team, Sywell was a fabulous venue which really showed the rest of the Europe how to run and organise a comp in style.
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