This is a fun competition and this year we had eleven entries. The standard of the top competitors was good, which makes the judging easier. However, many flyers still seem to throw away points unnecessarily.  Inverted flight is one such manoeuvre, two laps at five feet within a band of 18 inches, simple, but often challenging for a judge to give high scores. Similarly the landing, with a failure to show the judge the engine stop and 5 foot position so that it is easy to then gauge the one lap of glide before landing. Most flyers seem to give up on the one lap glide before touchdown. The other common problem is with the hourglass, which should go from left foot to right shoulder with a good turn at the top. Another fault is with the four leaf clover where pilots position the manoeuvre too near the ground, with the result that they have to climb for the correct intersection when they should in fact be horizontal. But these are not unusual mistakes and they are practiced ever weekend at club level.

However, Glen Alison with his ´Shark´ put in a solid performance to gain third place. A much improved Peter Catlow flying his ´Nobler´ was a strong second place. But Paul Winter, for the second year running, did a better job than the rest and took the number one position.

The standard of engine starting was also good throughout the field of flyers.

The standard of building was also higher than last year with Peter Tindal graciously deciding not to take  Appearance points as Tug Wilson was the builder of his ´Oriental´.  This year I placed the entries in lines indicating the position of each model in relation to the rest, much as they do in America.

I hope everybody enjoyed themselves as much as I did doing the Judging