djpacro Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 Live online TV from 8:15 pm EST tonight of the Four Minute Freestyle Program. Airsports.tv | Watch Aerobatic Flying and Other Live Events Today Welcome to the LIVE broadcast of the 25th FAI World Aerobatic Championships 2009 (WAC 2009).Weather and wind permitting we will bring you the finals of the Unknown Sequence and the 4 minute Freestyle Championships.Get strapped in for the virtual ride of your life as we go on board with the world’s top freestyle pilots and getting up close to their aerobatic antics with on board footage and aerial filming from helicopters. On Saturday afternoon we bring you Silverstone Air. The Air show promises to see the mighty Vulcan aircraft in flight, The Red Devils, RAF Hawks and the Swift team led by Guy Westgate.Tune in at the following times to watch all the action LIVE: Saturday 29th August 11.00 - 17:00 BST (UTC) 04:00 - 10:00 PDT (UTC-7) 07:00 - 13:00 EDT (UTC-4) Note that United Kingdom is not on GMT during summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpacro Posted October 1, 2013 Author Share Posted October 1, 2013 The 27th World Aerobatic Championships commences on Oct 9th in Texas, USA. http://wac2013.com/ An Australian team is practicing hard at a small airport in Oklahoma. Two of them, Rob Noonan and Paul Andronicou, competed at the recent US Nationals. Grant Piper arrived a few days ago. All three will fly the same MX2. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpacro Posted October 3, 2013 Author Share Posted October 3, 2013 Practice has been going well here in Oklahoma for the three guys despite the windy conditions. Severe bad weather forecast for the end of the week will definitely stop the flying. Gee, on this trip we have been caught in floods, stranded in snow and now tornadoes forecast. Another Australian team pilot, Richard Wiltshire, is training on an MXS in Louisiana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpacro Posted October 5, 2013 Author Share Posted October 5, 2013 El Reno, OK, the Australian team's practice site has been shared with a sole Canadian flying a Sukhoi and he will soon be joined by the rest of the Canadian team. The French team has also decided to practice here instead of the site in Texas that was allocated to them. It is going to get very busy today. I have been practicing my schoolboy French with Fly-n-Kiss pilot Kathel Boulanger. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpacro Posted October 5, 2013 Author Share Posted October 5, 2013 Seems that the French are still down in Texas with a storm between us so a quiet day here in El Reno. More performance improvements by the three Australians - positive snap rolls requiring the most focus - and the Known Sequence has six of them so they need to be just right. The Known Sequence is here: http://www.aerobaticsaustralia.com.au/sequences/2013/unlimited2013.pdf If anyone is interested there are guides to aerobatic competition flying online: - an overview here https://www.iac.org/legacy/competition-aerobatics - details of judging here: http://www.aerobatics.org.uk/judging/judging-main.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpacro Posted October 9, 2013 Author Share Posted October 9, 2013 Final day of practice completed successfully at El Reno, OK, and on to North Texas Regional Airport for the contest. Here, Grant helps Paul get going in the MX2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpacro Posted October 11, 2013 Author Share Posted October 11, 2013 Wind above the contest maximum delayed the start of flying today and slow progress (other traffic at the airport was a big factor) meant that only 18 of the 60 pilots got to fly the Qualifying round. Continued tomorrow. Rob Noonan again performed quite well. More later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpacro Posted October 11, 2013 Author Share Posted October 11, 2013 Some scores are now online at http://www.civa-results.com/2013/WAC_2013/indexpage.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpacro Posted October 13, 2013 Author Share Posted October 13, 2013 Due weather, not much progress yesterday and I guess not much again today. Australians Grant, Rich and Rob have flown so you can check their scores online. Seems to me that the big debate to follow will be how to judge snap rolls and how to fly them to earn high scores. More on this later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpacro Posted October 18, 2013 Author Share Posted October 18, 2013 The Free sequences are almost finished with Paul doing very well to be in 35th place overall. With not much time left it seems that they may do a cut to limit the number of pilots to fly the Unknown sequence. I am afraid that no Australian will get the opportunity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpacro Posted October 19, 2013 Author Share Posted October 19, 2013 A sample of the flying from day #2. [media=vimeo]76800132[/media] 4 mins of the Known Sequence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalman Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Very different style to airshow routines, shame the WX played havoc with the event, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maj Millard Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Always nice watching aerobatics done well by experienced pilots.....must give you the urge to do some yourself Dj ?...................Maj... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpacro Posted October 19, 2013 Author Share Posted October 19, 2013 Always nice watching aerobatics done well by experienced pilots.....must give you the urge to do some yourself Dj ?...................Maj... Aerobatics is addictive!The final results have been published: http://www.civa-results.com/2013/WAC_2013/multi_R006s01s02s03s04.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Pity about the weather. Thanks for the coverage djp. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpacro Posted October 20, 2013 Author Share Posted October 20, 2013 Finally, Rob Holland came 5th overall in the "classic" contest however won the separate 4 Min Free contest for the second time. He recently won the same contest at the US nationals recently with, I guess, the same sequence 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalman Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 wow, pretty wild flying, how he stops it with the nose nearly vertical and doesn't climb is pretty cool,thanks DP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgmwa Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Well, he sure knows a thing or two about flying .... and also about not flying! Very impressive, both pilot and plane. rgmwa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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