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1. World Champs Results and Reporting
2. USA Team Blog

 

World Champs Results and Reporting
If you are a FAI Free Flight Sportsman you should be able to go to the FAI web site at FAI.org, look up aeromodelling and events and see what category 1 and 2 = World  Champs, Continental Champs and World Cups are being run. Then go to the event and get information about the event.  In taking the just completed Champs as an example It was possible to do that. You could go to the Romanian National Aero club and find where  and when, and how to enter. There was a lot of information. They did make a few changes.  The only thing that was not there but  but should have been even though it is not yet a Sporting Code must was where to see the results of the event.

In the case of this event it did take you to the web site of the National Aero Club that has place where you could see the results of international events held in that country.  Unfortunately the results of the current Champs and supporting events were not there initially.    After the events started the results appeared there in an inconsistent fashion and in other places too including Facebook.  The offical results should not require membership to a social media service. It was not clear which results were official . About halfway through the contest the results on the NAC web site started to get better, it took a while sometimes to  get all the flyoff info there.

The contest results need to be on the internet in close to real for two very important reasons. Firstly for the contestants on the field.  Originally you had a big score board on the site of the champs and team of at least half a dozen people who maintained it in real time.  That was when the number of contestants was less than now and field size smaller and need to move the flight lines less.  Now with usually over 40 countries taking part, that means 40 times 10 meters = 400 meter flight line it take a quite a lot of time just to go to the score board to check on how things are going.  We noticed at the Lost Hills Champs a few years back that not so many people came to the central score board to check on progress, they just used their phone to access the scoreboard that was on the internet.

While the World champs is run for those taking part, the interest and support  of the rest of the Free Fight Community back home is critical for the long term health of Free Flight. We need to have that information in close to real time.  The event organizers have the responsibility to take advantage of today s technology to make the accurate information available in a timely manner. This includes telling people where it is.

Reporting on a World Champs is a full time job taking photos and chasing upon the details. Our USA Team Blog was a secondary task to supporting the Team Manager. It gave a us insight to some of the things that went on. But just sorting out a potential mistake by a time keeper that can require finding the CD on that 400 meter flight line can take quite some time. We got some great inside views.

USA Team Blog

F1A   some repeat posting

[7/24/2025 7:26 PM] [Tiffaney]: Clean through two rounds. Jim had an attempt and was low over the line at 4 minutes on his first flight. Shlomi DT d high in a tree testing his hybrid between the first and second rounds. His launch in the second round stalled twice off the top and found positive air for just part of his circle. He was really low over the line, but avoided the poles, tents and people and did 3:04. His timers didn t move from behind their umbrella and the pole, so they timed him short, but the CD accepted our time.
[7/25/2025 6:05 AM] [Tiffaney]: Beautiful conditions
[7/25/2025 6:07 AM] [Tiffaney]: Flyoff is over, waiting for results. Really fun viewing event
[7/25/2025 6:13 AM] [Tiffaney]: Yes, such a perfect evening
[7/25/2025 6:30 AM] [Tiffaney]: Just finished a beautiful flyoff. Waiting on results
[7/25/2025 6:41 AM] [Javier Abad]: Thank you Tiffaney
[7/25/2025 6:45 AM] [Tiffaney]: Romanian guy did 10 minutes, Findahl third, Hungarian second
[7/25/2025 6:54 AM] [Robert Dunham II]: Thanks for the reports!
[7/25/2025 6:58 AM] Brian and Janna]Appreciate all the efforts for keeping us informed  Brian and Janna
[7/25/2025 7:45 AM] Bill Booth: Thanks to Tiffaney & Blake for keeping us informed and thanks to the team for keeping us entertained!!
[7/25/2025 7:47 AM] [Ben Tr]Thanks for some great coverage and
Congrats to the Team s efforts and successes!

At the time of posting this the online results do not have the full fly off scores .. soon we hope.

this site also had an incomplete F1A view

https://www.modelflyers.info/2025-World-Championship/F1A/Individual

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