Team Mazda UK: More Q Flights done

Team Mazda UK represents Great Britain at FAI World and European Aerobatic Championships. International Championships are held at two skill levels - Advanced and Unlimited levels. Team Mazda UK sends teams of pilots to both levels of competition. Team pilots are selected by the British Aerobatic Association from the best in Britain based on performance at domestic aerobatic competitions. This blog describes the activity of the Team Mazda UK pilots as they prepare to participate at the 2010 Championships.

Saturday, 4 September 2010

More Q Flights done

We are now up to flight 32 in the Q Programme (out of about 53) and the weather is OK although there are some small clouds forming which may make their way into the box soon. Nick Onn has just flown and he put together a good sequence which looked clean from where we were watching. This is only Nick's fourth flight in the Sukhoi he is using, but his hundreds of hours experience on type served him well. We expect Tom and Gerald to fly in the next couple of hours, weather depending.

The atmosphere here is very good with a lot of banter between the teams. Its one of the things that makes this a great sport - very competitive when people are flying, but extremely friendly on the ground - not something that happens in many sports these days.