A couple of weeks ago I attended the Fall Heli Classic and F3C contest at triple Creek RC club. Triple Creek is located in Riverview Florida and it is a very nice field.

The turnout was pretty good with somewhere around 40 registered pilots showing up for the fun fly and general flying. The F3C contest was my focus as it has been for the past couple years. There were about 8 of us competing. 5 flying P and F schedule with myself and two others competing in Sportsman class.

My first 3 rounds were really good, and gave me a strong lead. But in the 4th round, I had a stroke of bad luck. I crashed my model during the aerobatic maneuvers, which caused me to lose the round. Having no backup model with me I had to finish the last two rounds with my Whiplash nitro. Which is a 3D helicopter, and nowhere close to being set up for contest flying.

I didn`t do nearly as well as I could have done with my contest model, but I did well enough to secure first place. I have won Sportsman a few times now, and I fell that it`s time to say goodby to Sportsman class and move up to advanced class. The next contest is at AMPS flying field in Miami, Florida in March, so I have lots of work to do to get ready for the advanced class.

I would like to take a moment to give a heartfelt thank you to all of my fantastic sponsors. I couldn`t do this without you guys. :)

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