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F3A World Champs South Africa - 1/8/2013 9:40 AM   
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Bulletin 1 for the F3A World Champs in South Africa (15-25 August 2013) is released and can be downloaded from the event website:

http://www.f3a2013.co.za/index.html

Go to the download section, and you can access it from there. See the bulletin for details on the event, location and other interesting info.

We look forward to hosting a fantastic event.

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Clint

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RE: F3A World Champs South Africa - 1/8/2013 1:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		The resort looks pretty nice! And if we can have food and beverages on the field this time it will be great. I know being the home of Skinner we will not be let down.

Thanks Clint.

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RE: F3A World Champs South Africa - 1/8/2013 8:07 PM   
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..........if we can have food and beverages on the field this time it will be great. ...........................

You do know that this is Africa??? There WILL be food at the field but you may have to fight off the lions!!!!!!!!

Only kidding. I'll share my hamburger with you if you can't catch your own

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RE: F3A World Champs South Africa - 1/9/2013 12:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		I was told the food in South Africa is excellent!! Just tried some and the SA beer is great(tried one with a black elephant on the label) don't remember the other one.

I hope to see wild life for sure!!

Clint, do you know anything about the fuel for us flying YS?

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RE: F3A World Champs South Africa - 1/9/2013 6:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi, rest assured there will be good catering at the venue, so you certainly won't be hungry or thirsty. And wildlife is confined to game reserves, so there won't be any lions on the runway...sorry (you'll have to go to a local reserve to see them).

Alejandro, it is my understanding that top quality fuel will be available (Cool Power and the likes). I expect that any specific requirements can be catered for. I would suggest that as part of your entry you specify your preferences in terms of nitro content etc. I ran my YS170 with no problems, so expect there should be no issue regarding fuel.

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RE: F3A World Champs South Africa - 1/9/2013 9:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks Clint, I'll ask fpr the Coolpower on the preliminary entry. What I mean by food is only to be compared with the 2011 WC, where there was only one guy with hot dogs during the P's for both flying sites.........

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RE: F3A World Champs South Africa - 1/9/2013 3:54 PM   
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The resort looks pretty nice! And if we can have food and beverages on the field this time it will be great. I know being the home of Skinner we will not be let down.

Thanks Clint.


As I read it again, it does not sound good, I did not meant SA, as I have not had the opportunity to be there yet, maybe I am still disappointed at the last WC and the comment was about that, sorry if my writing implied otherwise.

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RE: F3A World Champs South Africa - 1/9/2013 5:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hi, no need to apologise at all. We are expecting numbers in excess of 300 (pilots, assistants, supporters and spectators). One hotdog stand certainly won't be adequate. Fortunately it won't be too hot in South Africa at that time of the year, but there will be more than adequate drinks and food at the venue......we never go hungry at a local competition! And the South African beer is pretty good....after the flying that is.

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RE: F3A World Champs South Africa - 1/15/2013 9:30 AM   
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Clint, what are the restrictions on Lipo batteries on planes? There is the potential for 3 pilots on the same flight to have their batteries not accepted onto the flight



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RE: F3A World Champs South Africa - 1/15/2013 12:27 PM   
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Clint, what are the restrictions on Lipo batteries on planes? There is the potential for 3 pilots on the same flight to have their batteries not accepted onto the flight



Hi Tim, I nearly misunderstood you but I think you are talking about taking flightpacks onto commercial aircraft.

From memory anything above 105 Watt hours is considered dangerous goods. (ie. a 550mAh 2S RX pack will be 7.4v x 0.55 Amp hours = 4 Watt hours). That is why most mobile phones and laptops are accepted on board. As you rightly pointed out a flightpack is 5000mAh and 37volts so is closer to 185 Watt hours.

There should be no problem in booking the packs onboard as dangerous goods (just not as passenger luggage). There are a heap of rules and regulations regarding storage and spacing of dangerous goods. I am sure that all passenger airlines will object if the packs are declared but there should be far less problems sending the packs separately on a Cargo flight. Have the 3 pilots discussed it with a courier service like DHL, Fedex or the like?

When I did my dangerous goods course most of the airline pilots on the course said that they would far rather have the battery packs in the passenger compartment rather than in the luggage hold. We were shown a series of photographs where a laptop battery had ignited onboard a flight and there was much discussion around how to put it out.

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RE: F3A World Champs South Africa - 1/26/2013 5:59 AM   
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Clint, what are the restrictions on Lipo batteries on planes? There is the potential for 3 pilots on the same flight to have their batteries not accepted onto the flight



Hi Tim, I nearly misunderstood you but I think you are talking about taking flightpacks onto commercial aircraft.

From memory anything above 105 Watt hours is considered dangerous goods. (ie. a 550mAh 2S RX pack will be 7.4v x 0.55 Amp hours = 4 Watt hours). That is why most mobile phones and laptops are accepted on board. As you rightly pointed out a flightpack is 5000mAh and 37volts so is closer to 185 Watt hours.

There should be no problem in booking the packs onboard as dangerous goods (just not as passenger luggage). There are a heap of rules and regulations regarding storage and spacing of dangerous goods. I am sure that all passenger airlines will object if the packs are declared but there should be far less problems sending the packs separately on a Cargo flight. Have the 3 pilots discussed it with a courier service like DHL, Fedex or the like?

When I did my dangerous goods course most of the airline pilots on the course said that they would far rather have the battery packs in the passenger compartment rather than in the luggage hold. We were shown a series of photographs where a laptop battery had ignited onboard a flight and there was much discussion around how to put it out.

Grant



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RE: F3A World Champs South Africa - 1/26/2013 6:02 AM   
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