F3F practice on 北風場

The 北風場 is an north wind field with beautiful slope. On winter it's easy to rain or fog, today we have good weather all day. The wind speed was about 12 m/s. Stinger perform very well, fast and stable.

[ Video ] F3F World Championship 2012/10/13 Day 6

The final day of F3F WC, every one had to face the daemon of Turblator.
The wind speed was about 10 ~ 12 m/s with 30 degree side wind.

It's still hard to get height and speed, but Stefan did an 39.xx. Wow, it's really amazing.

Alexis blow his plane outside the cliff, but he didn't give up and finish the round. Good job.

[ Video ] F3F World Championship 2012/10/12 Day 5

Day 4 was canceled due to no wind.
Day 5 wind direction was south east. Although the wind speed was about 6 ~12 m/s, many pilots did Sub 40 rounds. The competition was very exciting. Actually Hölbfer, Stefan did fastest round of 31.93, it just damn fast.

 

[ Video ] F3F World Championship 2012/10/10 Day 3

F3F WC day 3 was in wind tunnel. The wind speed was around 8 to 10 m/s.
It was much comfortable and easy to fly. Many pilots did sub 40 rounds.

[ Video ] F3F World Championship 2012/10/09 Day 2

We were still in the Turbulator, the wind speed from 12m/s to 20 m/s.
It's a hard day for me, but some pilots did unbelievable rounds.

[ Video ] F3F World Championship 2012/10/08 Day 1

I took a lot of videos while F3F WC ( Over 100 Giga bytes).
The best of pilots of the world show their skill, it's awesome !!!

 The F3F WC day 1 was in turbulator, the wind speed is about 12 m/s.
Due to the narrow lift bend and a little cross wind, it was not easy to reach high speed in whole round.

Weekend F3F practice with head coach

This weekend, the north wind coming in. The F3F WC Taiwan team take the chance to practice.
On Saturday, because of the rain we going to 後龍 slop.

Tseng Kuo-Tung's Stinger is very fast with smooth turn. 

Michael Lee test his Pike Precision with 4 kg weight. 

On Sunday, we went to 望幽谷. The venue is an cliff about 100 meters height from sea level.
It's about 8 ~ 10 m/s north wind, the lift is perfect, but it's hard to reach really high speed.
The F3F Taiwan team head coach also help us to minor setup of our weapons.

  

Head coach test fly my Stinger

Auguest 18, 2012 五分山

Last weekend there was south east wind in north Taiwan, It was the perfect time to go to 五分山 weather station.

五分山 weather station located in the mountain top and about 700 meters above the sea level. The wind come from the bottom of valley. It's a really special place to slop soaring, due to the terrain effect the left side of slope is able to DS. So we can have really exciting F3F practice.

It's hard to tell the feeling to fly F3F with DS, watch the video maybe help :)

F3F World Championship Taiwan Team

Finally, the F3F WC Taiwan Team

Michael Lee

Tseng Kuo Tung

Steve Chang

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Special thanks to MKS - MARK STAR Servo-tech Co., Ltd

F3F World Championship 2012 Logo

F3F Compitition on 潮境公園

潮境公園 is an "Rügen" like venue in Taiwan. This is the second time that we have an F3F competition here. The first time, there were two planes crash into the sea, so it's challenge for all pilots.

Fortunately, this time there's no plane crash.

 

 

Today we have 8 pilots with 14 rounds, the wind speed is about 8 ~ 10 m/s.

The lift is not really good, so it's very important to gain the height in 30 seconds.

The fastest record is 38.xx by Mr. O. 

 

 

F3F League 7 on 鐵鉆山 14/7/2012

I got my second Stinger three weeks ago, it's time to test it.
The F3F League 7 on 鐵鉆山 with average wind speed 8~10m/s and a lot of thermal.
The Stinger performs really well especially in handling side wind turn, it easily cut through the side wind without losing speed, actually in some condition it speed up.
Eventually I got 34.xx best record by Stinger.

鐵鉆山 F3F practice 24/6/2012

It's a sunny day on 鐵鉆山, the wind speed is about 12~15 m/s with plenty of thermal all day.
I was flying Stinger and Dingo. Both of them are easily to go into high speed and the turn was really powerfull.

F3F League 6 on 鐵鉆山 9/6/2012

鐵鉆山 is located in the west of Taiwan. In Summer there's chances with strong south west wind, today we got it. Due to the frontal approaching there's some rain also. Overall we the competition run well.

 There were 13 pilots join the competition. Although we had to pause three times because of the rain we still have total 11 rounds.

 

The wind speed is about 8~10 m/s in the morning and then reduce to 4~5m/s in the afternoon. I'm flying Stinger today, the VV planes runs very fast and stable.

I got two 38.XX and another pilot got 35.XX also by Stinger. Michael Lee flying his Dingo also get an 38.XX. So, it a VV day.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

June 2, 2012 昭明宮 F3F practice

The 昭明宮 is in north Taiwan, it's an coast line venue. The wind condition is about 8~10 m/s north.
There are there of us, Michael Lee, Mr. Sung and I spend all day flying.

Mr. Sung with his Pace VXE

Mr. Sung Pace VXE Landing

Michael Lee Ceres

Michael Lee VV Ascot

Who we are and what we do

My name is Steve Chang the starter of this blog.
I'm living in Taipei Taiwan with several F3F pilots flying almost every weekend.
So, I decide to record and share our F3F activity to the whole world.

Taiwan is an island and there are many places for slope soaring all year.
The wind condition is often perfect for F3F activity.
In face, there are F3F league contest every month in Taiwan.

In this blog I will try to share everything in English.

Enjoy