Q Results

The preliminary results for the Q programme have been published. Tom is 8th, Gerald 12th and Nick 13th. All three will fly in the highest seeded block for the Free Programme which is an excellent team performance, although there is a lot more flying to go. Renaud Ecalle won the Q Programme with an impressive 81.6%, with Oleg Shpolyanskiy in second and Svetlana Kapanina in third. Elena Klimovich was just out of the medals in third place, putting two men and two women in the top four.

The organisers are aiming to start the Free Programme this afternoon to make best use of the good weather. Its a high pressure job for the organisation to calculate the results of the Q programme, set the flying order and collate the Free Programme paperwork ready to start, but the organisation here have been very good at getting on with the flying and making the most of good weather when it is here. Everyone is working hard to make the contest a success and it is appreciated by the pilots.

The weather forecast for tomorrow is reasonably good, so with luck we will finish the Free Programme tomorrow and it looks likely that we will fly at least one Unknown sequence at the Championships.

The draw for Unknown figures for the first unknown is at 1930 this evening.