The French Championship 2009 took place near my home, It was organised by a small but top club at Surin, Sud Vienne Aeromodelisme. We never had a welcome like that....the airfield was perfect, organizers so nice and weather really good! Everything was present for a top french championship 2009.

Along the previous week Bert Delaere and Benoit Dierickx (F3A Belgium Team) on the road to the F3A world championship in Portugal, they stoped at home and we flew together to prepare our  championships, and everything looked ready...But, one day before the beginning a fuel leak killed my power box :-(... with the help of Aerobertics, my friend Jens Van Dorpe sent me a new power box royale at my hôtel in less than 24hours, thank to him for his help!

Accomodation on the airfield:

Runway and lunch, more than 180 meals served each time!

Some pilots like Logan Jaffre and Vincent Bardet from F3A/F3P was also present for the championship and they want come again!

Pilou made his second F3M contest and finished 2nd in Promotion, great job for his first french championship.

41 pilots registered  for the french championship and 39 was on airfield, with more young pilots than previous years and more pilots from the south of france, all of that in a great atmosphere! We flew from 7.30am et 7.30pm each day and without crash all along the contest.

Pascal Rousseau and his YAK 55SP...ready to fly?

The team from Martinique...

Team from Breizh...

Guillaume Dobbler and Fabien Fradet flew in national and rise the podium, now they are welcome in internationale:-)

And the young Theo Catros up to the higher step in Nationale class!

Frank Ridoux from Espace Modeles team with his YAK.

Wheather was good without to much wind, and temperature hot!!! Shadow was appreciated.

Judges and double zero!

Each freestyle round was funny and pilots who has already fly supported the guy who fly.

Some pictures of my plane during the freestyle.

Pierre Encognière during his flight.

Nicolas Detry.

A new shape in a contest, an Utlimate from Aeroworks piloted by Freddy Prousteau.

Some view of a cap contest...

The coloch team.....

.....with an happy grand-father ;-)

Jean-Louis Pinaud(left) the président of the club and Julien Devillers(right) chairman of the F3M sub-comittee.

In each class the result was really close and suspense so hard for the award ceremony.

Left, podium in promotion. Right podium in national with 3 young guys!!!

Internationale and Freestyle podium.

A challenge for promotion pilots took place all along the season and the result announced at the end of the championship. More information about the challenge HERE.

And this year price the result was Vincent Bardet won a 2.60m Yak, Pierre-Emmanuel Couchaux won a DA100 and Gerard Eon an Hitec servo.

All results here:

-Espoir

-Nationale

-Internationale

-Freestyle

All my pictures in my picasa album HERE.

Some videos:

Fabien TURPAUD

Nicolas DETRY

Theo CATROS

Pierre ENCOGNIERE

Jean-Guy PARDO

Alban IGNACE