Vintage Series

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The first season of the Vintage Series is finished now. We startet in January 2022. For me it was a very exciting and interesting journey to create a competition different than all the others with focus on

Fly where you want
Fly when you want
Fly efficient, no flight longer than a tv film

Thanks to all for your feedback and the discussion about the Series and a lot of other interesting things. A very special thank to Brad, flying all tasks in all categories and David, flying a lot of flights and nearly all multiplayer flights.

Here some statistics

Pilots: 14
Planes: 12
Flights: 226
Distance: 27 912 km
Time: 369 h

Average distance: 123,5 km / flight
Average speed: 75,6 km/h

The final result:

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Much more important than the result is the fun we have had, and I think, we have had a lot of it. So congratulations to all trying the Series.

With the season 2022 behind us we have started the new season 2023 including the BaleIT Vintage Series Championship.

All are welcome to join!

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Task A of the 2023 Vintage Series is running. Weather conditions aren't everybody's darling, very strong but narrow thermals, low activity and 2/8 high clouds. "Challenging" to say it as positive as possible with a lot of outlandings until now.

Next Thursday, 23rd of February, we will have our usual multiplayer flight, always last Thursday of the month.

We will start at Homestead on the landscape Everglades, easy navigation along Miami to the north and back again possible, but you can of course fly where you want. Join in is 19:30 UTC on the VintageSeries server.

All are very welcome to try

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Task A is still running until end of February, results can be uploaded until 1st of March ca. 10 a.m. UTC.

Today task B started parallel, so on weekend you can chose between task A and B. It will run until end of March.

Thermalsstrength in task B is normal with high variation, thermalswidth is wide with low variation, no higher clouds.

Task type is "2 turn points". How to fly that?

To fly is an FAI triangle, where no leg is shorter than 28 % of the whole distance. The triangle is defined by the release point, two turn points and the start point, when you return. So the release point and the start point is defined as one point of the triangle. The triangle don't have to be closed. See the picture with the calculation of an earlier flight

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Time limit is as always 105 minutes, 1:45 h.

Good luck

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Task A is finished now. We have had flights from 4 pilots, it's a good start of the season. And we have had some interests without an uploaded flight, so until now it can be an interesting season.

Thanks to all for your flights, discussions and following.

Usually we have a multiplayer flight on the last Thursday of the month, in March it will be on 16th because of holidays. There will come an invitation in time.

Finally the results, congratulations to all trying the Vintage Series. Because we tell only the best 7 out of 11 tasks it's not to late to join. Welcome

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March 16th 19:30 UTC will be the next multiplayer flight, earlier than usual because of holidays.

Task B is not that easy either, cloud base 1200 m, low activity and flats activity and a moderate turbulence. Moderate and wide thermals sounds better than it is. Especially the slower planes have their problems with that. But it's flyable and it reminds me of real flying. Average climb rate round about 1,5 m/sec isn't really bad. Patience is the top priority. And luck not to meet too many dying clouds.

We will fly in my old homelands, will see if the "Lüneburger Heide" is as good as IRL with that weather conditions. So we use the landscape "NorthGermany" (the old one, not the new GermanyN) starting in Fassberg. Remember, there are two runways, we will use the northern.

All are welcome!

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Task C is started now, while task B is still running until Monday.

The automatically task configuration found new weather settings, again maybe a little bit challenging: Cloud base is 1600 m, but inversion height is only 1200 m, so we will have a blue task with very strong lifts of normal width. The settings for the automatic task setter allows only one blue task in a season, so it will be the only one in 2023.

Task type is "Return". Fly where you want, but return to the start airport. You get points for the longest way calculated by 5 turn points, where the 3rd turn point is fix in the middle of the flight time.

Time limit as usual 1:45 h (105 minutes).

All are welcome to try the Vintage Series. Good luck to all!

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Task B is finished now. We have had flights from 5 pilots this month, that is really good.

Thanks to all for your flights, discussions and following.

Here the results after task B, congratulations to all trying the Vintage Series. Because we tell only the best 7 out of 11 tasks it's not to late to join. Welcome

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While task C still is running until 1st of May, task D is started today. We will have an "out and return" like on task A, see the explanations here in the thread (viewtopic.php?f=30&t=21076&start=30#p180937)

Cloud base is between1400 and 1700 m, inversion height between 2100 and 2200m, high activity and flats activity, weak but very wide thermals. I guess this weather will be (a little bit (?)) better than the challenging blue task C.

All are welcome to try the Vintage Series

Have a nice long weekend

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Task C is finished now. We have had flights from 3 pilots this month, for the bad weather of that task and the spring IRL that is still good. It was exciting like all tasks, but challenging especially for the wooden planes.

The moral winner is VL with the longest flight in the Grunau Baby, unfortunately with an outlanding at the airport fence. Very well done, I am very sorry that you could not get the score you deserve for such a good flight.

Thanks to all for your flights, discussions and following.

Here the results after task C, congratulations to all trying the Vintage Series. Because we tell only the best 7 out of 11 tasks it's not to late to join.
Welcome

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May 25th 19:30 UTC will be the next multiplayer flight.

We will fly an "out and return" in the landscape GTA, starting at Eagleville. The most challenging will be to find back to the start airport without pda because it's not really very visible. Flying with accurate navigation will be the key that day.

Weather is good, higher cloud base. Weak and very wide thermals with high activity give nice thermals, but we have moderate turbulence. All in all it will be a nice but not too easy flight.

All are welcome to join and try the Vintage Series!