Following the great success of the 2007 and 2008 events preparations have begun for 3DX Ireland 2009. The venue has returned to Tarsan Lane, Portadown in N.Ireland for 2009 (which was also the venue for the 2007 event) and will be held on 15th, 16th and 17th May 2009.
The competition itself will be held over the Saturday and Sunday with the preliminary rounds for all pilots held on the Saturday with the top pilots going through to the finals on the Sunday. The whole day on Friday, and the rest of Saturday and Sunday where the competition is not being held is open to all heli pilots to just fly and have fun.
The competition format is essentially the same as before with all pilots being asked to fly a three minute Freestyle round (which can be to music if required) and a Set Manoeuvre round which will be any five manoeuvres chosen from the current 3DX Set list where the total ‘K’ factor of the manoeuvres cannot total any more than 6. The current list is to be found at http://www.fly3dx.com/setManoeuvres.htm
A typical example would be to choose three manoeuvres with a ‘K’ factor of 1 and two manoeuvres with a ‘K’ factor of 1.5 to give a total ‘K’ factor of 6. Other combinations are possible and lower totals of ‘K’ are also acceptable.
The competition is open to all pilots from the island of Ireland only.
More information will follow shortly on the application process, prizes, judges and special guest demo pilots.
Keep an eye on www.3dxireland.com for more info.
Please can you pass this mail onto anyone else you feel it may interest and if possible ask them to reply to info@3dxireland.com to be added to the mailing list.
I look forward to seeing you all at 3DX Ireland 2009.
David Nolan
