Sunday 22: finally the competition !

Towards 9 a.m., I hasten to be able on the site in order to attend the so much awaited flight of Roland Matt, I followed with much attention all his figures, like many pilots, very attentive with this innovation of this championships of Europe: first flight of competition with an electric plane.
By a calm wind and of face it accomplished a very cast flight and all in flexibility, very slow, of a high degree of accuracy, much of class, he is certainly the man to be followed for the head of this competition.

The combat is launched: Christophe Peasant-Leroux counters Roland Matt.

I guaranteed to you that the electric planes interest great number of pilots, for proof the multitude of photographs at the time of disassembling of the engine cowling of LAZULITE ELECTRIC of Roland when it disconnected his battery, idem at the end of the flight of Philippe MARQUET. We can expect in the future to see more or less exact reproductions of combine assembly of our engines. It should be also said that the installation of the engine of Philippe MARQUET is really exceptional (as shows it the photographs).


When with the flight of this last, it was with the height of its title of champion of Belgium. Damage for its obvious fault at the time of the inversion... It however very well had concentrated, isolated from all, far on a chair, but it was precipitated because of a false start of the German pilot Wissinger Markus who could not start his thermal engine in the three minutes (the electric one lives!).

But it is only the first flight of this championship.

One can once again note the sporting spirit which takes the step on the competitive spirit since Philippe did not hesitate to lend his starter and his battery to this competitor however of an opposing team.

Flight of always homogeneous Bernhard Schaden as to its practice.

The end of the flights of this site finishes towards 14 H by the flight of Igor Zotin.

On the second site with a second college of judge and other with dimensions of the track in order to avoid the sun of face, this after midday begins with the flight from Nick Schadler, it is noted that this pilot of Liechtenstein progresses year by year and that its notes will be beneficial for the classification by team of Liechtenstein.

Florent Rochedieu made a good flight but with my too high taste and too near, contrary to his practice where it flies rather too far!

Marc Rubin, new young person pilot of the team of Switzerland, made a rather clean and run flight.

Patrick Drack when with him a chance because its engine did not have started at two minutes thirty, it thus was necessary for him to make a very fast flight to finish in times. In spite of celĂ*, the ten minutes were passed whereas it missed four figures what was worth four zeros to him.

Wolfgang Matt: this pilot of talent always faithful to the station after more than thirty years of competition, will always astonish us. I just noticed one started badly stopped after the inversion. This flight is much slower than last year, I think that its LAZULITE ELECTRIC is appropriate to him perfectly.

With regard to Marco Benincasa, I do not enumerate you so much the faults in his flight there was! I include/understand now why Wolfgang Matt and Silvestri were in front of him at the time of the competition of San Marino. Without counting the vertiginous speed of his plane, a given moment I wondered whether I had not returned fifteen years behind! It should be said that the weight of its plane, nearly 5 kgs (whereas it is announced with 4,2 kgs) does not have the characteristics adapted for such a weight to enable him to slow down in the descents. I can say to you that the flight of Florent Rochedieu was definitely higher than his and I wait to see the results of each one.

The Portuguese pilot Bruno Heleno is very content with his two new planes, Lazulites with engine Yamada 140 DZ, defended the colors of his country well.

For CPLR, it is true that its flight was beautiful, without obvious fault, but I find personally that it was much faster than with its practice, I think, as an originator of long date, than the wing of its plane is a little too small. With my opinion he wanted to compensate for the thick profile by a small surface, it is surely very well for the started barrels but less better to slow down the plane in descent. In a word I think that this flight missed a little flexibility compared to that of Roland Matt. But we let us trust him for the next flights...

Benoit Dierikx, that too badly did not walk for him.

Stéphane Carrier cloturé this first day by a flight worthy of a future great champion. By looking at this flight one feels that this young ambiteux pilot wants a maximum of it and it will not stop as much as it will not be on highest walk and I include/understand it. Stéphane cheer, continues like that...

ORIGINAL: OhD

Six in the top eleven. Amazing. Time to buy stock in electrics.
Jim O