weston park.

[brin]

wow what a weekend. That has to be the best year yet at weston both on the heli side and plane side.Helifest was just amazing .Chris Boughton has come back on the scene with a bang.He even made the yanks gasp .There are so many great pilots at these shows now its hard to take it all in.Chris's epic encore was just awesome.Chris Newbie cutting the top of a tree half a mile away and still managed to get it back with both blades laminated was a show stopper,Grant Cooper and all his helpers and judges Really deserve a massive Thank you for organizing this .I sure hope its as good if not better next year.

[PeteStewardson]

Sadly I couldn't make it but from the facebook updates I've seen it was a great weekend.

[bigpops]

I was going to go, depending on the weather.

The problem was, the forecasters couldn't make their mind up.

I checked the forecast every hour or two from Friday lunch time until I went to bed. In that time, the forecast changed from rain all day, to clear between 10AM and 5PM. It did that at least 5 times.
I checked Saturday morning about 8AM, and it said it was going to rain all day, so I decided not to go. 4 hours of travel to get soaked is no fun for me.

Then, the weather picked up in the afternoon (I was watching the awful live stream) and I was fuming.

Maybe I'll go next year, but I've been saying that since 2012.

[Rich_H]

fantastic event, we drove up from Torbay Saturday morning which took over 4 hrs then checked in etc...got soaked, then sunburnt lol but hey, its the UK! were used to it Sunday was better, overcast but didn't rain but the wind picked up a bit.

Pilot standard was even higher than last year with some fantastic flying from so many people that I wont attempt to name them all. FL did us proud again and got in some great flyers from around the globe which really weren't to be missed.

My good friend and club-mate Chris Newby's tree chop was just staggering!! I have no idea how he did that from that distance!! epic!! and with the state of the blades afterwards lol, it was a wonder it came back Lucy took home with us a bent link from chris's heli and some of the very bent part's from Ali Humphrey's failed (Sundays inters flight) blade scrape as souvenirs of the awesome weekend that was Helifest.

I think Russ Cleaver took away Chris' signed blades looking at facebook this morning

Very well deserved podium places and a most entertaining flight award were handed out justly.

If you missed it, sorry but you missed an awesome show, make the effort next year!!

Rich

[_tj_]

Had a brilliant weekend.
Go every year rain or shine.

It's the only place I'll happily sit in the rain and get soaked.
The pilots deserved me getting soaked, for still flying in the rain.

First time I've been soaked 4 times and sun dried 5 times lol

First year camping at weston.
Roll on next year.

[Dannyyy]

My first event in 3 years after leaving the Hobby 3 years ago. The hobby has clearly changed and is completely different to what it use to be like. The style of flying has also changed

Although it was different, it was still great. Kyle Stacys Goblin flights were brilliant and its made me want to buy another heli, Roll on next year!

[Mike Sanders]

I don't have facebook. Could someone please tell me the comp results? Thanks.

[bigpops]

Results aren't on the Facebook page yet, so you aren't missing much.

[mahbouni]

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[bcphill]

Its my first time I was well impressed with the whole event and the flying was amazing.

Its a great event for the whole family wherer they are into rc or not.

Camped in the campervan all weekend and stayed till today. Cant wait for next year

Well done to the organisers

[Alex Hawtin]

FInal Results from Helifest 2015

Pro Class - 1st Place Chris Boughton, 2nd Place Duncan Osbourn, 3rd Place Steven Gerrard, 4th Place Alex Hawtin, 5th Place Connor Sloan

Inters Class - 1st Place Russell Cleaver, 2nd Place Ethan Williams, 3rd Place Matthew Hennem, 4th Place Ant Hall, 5th Place Callum Henson

Sport Class - 1st Place Luke Jackson, 2nd Place Dave Rand, 3rd Place Peter Foulkes, 4th place Adam Cartlidge, 5th Place Craig Round

Most Entertaining Flight award - Chris Newby

EDIT: The results posted by Nick are the final results not the Saturday evening results

[brin]

What do you mean maybe ,Unless its gale force winds and torrential rain you have an excuse not to go .I put a brolly up once thats all.

I was going to go, depending on the weather.

The problem was, the forecasters couldn't make their mind up.

I checked the forecast every hour or two from Friday lunch time until I went to bed. In that time, the forecast changed from rain all day, to clear between 10AM and 5PM. It did that at least 5 times.
I checked Saturday morning about 8AM, and it said it was going to rain all day, so I decided not to go. 4 hours of travel to get soaked is no fun for me.

Then, the weather picked up in the afternoon (I was watching the awful live stream) and I was fuming.

Maybe I'll go next year, but I've been saying that since 2012.

[bigpops]

There were 3 of us going, and nobody (myself included) was thrilled at the prospect of hours outdoors in the rain.

Had the forecast been accurate (it's 2015, where's the weather service from Back to the Future 2?), we'd have gone.

[trexamanic]

1st year i have missed it in 3 years
illness
Thinking of just throwing in the towel on this hobby

[bigbladelittleblade]

Camped for 3 nights, It was a superb event, outstanding flying from all pilots and very well organised, will defiantly be going next year and I might even enter the competition