Last day, and a promising forecast so, after a late and rowdy party, we had an early briefing, an early grid, and an early launch!! Paul set a large DHT task - Edgehill, Manton, Chipping Norton, Great Witley (one for you Rog) then Banbury West for home. We got them launched early, and at last sat down in the sun for an hour with tea & cake before starting all those end of comp tasks.
The sky looked fantastic, sadly it wasn't quite as great out at the first turnpoint, and we had a few landouts at this point. Club members were a great help in going to collect people from fields, though a couple of people had aerotows back. That first leg slowed everyone down, so we didn't get people back till after 3pm, giving us all time for lunch and (more) cake. But there's more to do on the last day, from packing up tents and kit...to stowing cones, arranging prize giving, etc.
I was kept busy sorting out the scores for the final day so that we could have prize giving at 6pm and give people time to travel home. The rest of the team packed up around me, and the competitors slowly derigged gliders, tents and caravans. At 6pm we had the final prizegiving - there were prizes for the daily photo competition, Maureen got a prize for the best costume at the end of session party, and final scores for the day. Once again Tim Fletcher won the day, followed by Alex O'Keefe and Robert Hanks. The final scores overall gave Pete Smith the third place, Robert Hanks second place, and Tim Fletcher (for the second year!) came first! Congratulations to all.
Following the prize giving we had a final treat. Our friends in red were transiting home again, close to Edgehill, and they had agreed to give us another flypast. So at approx. 6:15pm, Shenington Regionals 2016 closed in style with a formation flypast by the Red Arrows!!!!
After that most of the trailers hitched up and off they all went - it looked rather sad once they'd gone. We packed up Control/hangar, etc for a couple of hours, then had a chinese takeaway together with a few remaining competitors in the restaurant. Very sad to go home after a fantastic week at the club - even without flying I really enjoyed the event. A big thanks must go to all of the club members who worked so hard to make the week a success - I think our visitors really appreciated it.
I was kept busy sorting out the scores for the final day so that we could have prize giving at 6pm and give people time to travel home. The rest of the team packed up around me, and the competitors slowly derigged gliders, tents and caravans. At 6pm we had the final prizegiving - there were prizes for the daily photo competition, Maureen got a prize for the best costume at the end of session party, and final scores for the day. Once again Tim Fletcher won the day, followed by Alex O'Keefe and Robert Hanks. The final scores overall gave Pete Smith the third place, Robert Hanks second place, and Tim Fletcher (for the second year!) came first! Congratulations to all.
Following the prize giving we had a final treat. Our friends in red were transiting home again, close to Edgehill, and they had agreed to give us another flypast. So at approx. 6:15pm, Shenington Regionals 2016 closed in style with a formation flypast by the Red Arrows!!!!
After that most of the trailers hitched up and off they all went - it looked rather sad once they'd gone. We packed up Control/hangar, etc for a couple of hours, then had a chinese takeaway together with a few remaining competitors in the restaurant. Very sad to go home after a fantastic week at the club - even without flying I really enjoyed the event. A big thanks must go to all of the club members who worked so hard to make the week a success - I think our visitors really appreciated it.