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ETOC 2009 Part 4 and end.

ETOC 2009 is finished and we are now back in France...

PART 4:

Saturday, after a short night we go back to the Toledo Show, where we met the responsable of IMAC to exchange our opinions about F3M and IMAC(Left).

MX2 of Steph Arnold who won the etoc 2009, he used it for freestyle with VPP.

Gernot used a YAK 55 M upgrade with airbrake for pattern. Jason Noll used also a Yak 55M for his freestyle routine.

Yak 55M of Andrew Jesky.

The gymnasium before contest, Greg Poppel and Darry Bell the announcers, two very fun and cool guys...who work each night to have not nervous atmosphere;-)

The four top pilots in the final, Gernot Bruckmann, Jason Noll, Andrew Jesky and Steph Arnold. Finally the etoc 2009 champion is Steph Arnold.

Bruckmann won a price for the best Know Sequence overall the contest and Jason Noll for the best freestyle overall the contest.

You can find here the final result, for me with the third best know (989pt) in semi-finale, my low freestyle point don't allow me to keep my 6th place and I ended at the 8th place.

I collect for you some links from youtube, you can see it under this sentence, but if you want see more and with HD quality I advise you to see Higher Plane Production video with flightpass, quality and tidying up are very good and easy to watch, and the boss Fred has also a good joke to you in many video...

Ryan Archer

Gernot and Fabien

Ryan Archer Freestyle

Etoc 2009 was a great experience to improve my skill flight and for sure it will help me in the future and for the next season. I want also thanks all guys who help for this trip, my parents, Cyrille for the last training, Gérard Sandrine and Pascal for their hospitality in Paris, Julien for his support during all the week in USA.

You can also find HERE all my pictures.

PART 3:

We are now in Toledo, Tuesday morning where we visited the Toledo Show, very nice expo with many giant scale aerobatic planes...

Julien has already find his two new planes...

This evening the ETOC2009 begin at 6pm, sorry but I haven't many pictures to show you. You can find here the result of preliminary round.

Tomorrow, the top 8 pilots will fly in semi-finale and the top 4 in finale.

For my part, I am actually at the 6th place and I can fly tomorrow in semi-final, but I crashed my plane during the second freestyle.

PART 2:

While I was learning the etoc sequence my father built a new box to carry my planes...

But, who are the guys in the box?....the Donuts team and my friend Donatas!!! They came with me ;-)

Last week end, I was in Paris for training in a large hall (Thanks Cyrille for this two nice days), it was also good time to meet my friends, Jérome, Gérard, Gérald and the Rousseau's family. Monday I put my planes in the box in the Donuts shop (look at a part of the Elipsia stock....)

Tuesday, after 8 flight hours we arrived in Chicago Airport, rent a car and drove 5 hours to go to our hotel in Detroit.

Today Wednesday, without hall to practice, we went to see buildings on morning.

This afternoon we visited the Henry Ford Museum, It is a very intersting museum where we saw also some nice planes.

Some other information;

You can find more about ETOC 2009 on RCGROUPS and flyinggiant forum.

I know that some website will make LIVE streaming coverage, if you want more information about it check this page.

Julien update also this website grossevoltige during the trip here and here,

PART 1:

I was introduced to the team organisator (Kathy Starkey and Tom Kroggel) by my friend Donatas Pauzuolis. Of course Donatas was also invited, but he can't come, because he has some paper troubles...

Etoc will take place the 3-4th April in Toledo, in the south of Detroit.

The etoc sequence and pilots list are online only one month before the contest...so,it is a very short time to prepare the trip, new planes and the box of planes for the travel.

With too much work in April my father will be not able to come with me, so my friend Julien Devillers join to me for this trip. Sure with him we will have many nice shoots ;-)

The pilots list:

Ryan Archer -USA

Seth Arnold - USA

Gernot Bruckman - AUSTRIA

Ryan Clark - USA

John Glezellis - USA

RJ Gritter - USA

Chris Harris - SOUTH AFRICA

Jamie Hicks - (alternate)-USA

Andrew Jesky - USA 2008 Champ

Riley Kissenberth - USA

Mark Leseberg - USA

Nick Maxwell - USA

Devin McGrath-USA

Lee Morey -USA

Frank Noll Jr - USA

Jason Noll - USA

Fabien Turpaud-FRANCE

John Wondra - USA

The sequence:

And the description:

	Manoeuvre	K
1	Take off with 2 180 degree turns. Model performs a take off and climb to altitude. Model then performs a turn with no change in altitude, flies back and performs another turn. Both turns need to be the same radius and have no altitude change. Exit Upright	1
2	Rolling Figure 8 with 1 roll in the first circle and 2 rolls in the Second Circle. Model will enter the maneuver from upright and perform half of a rolling circle and a half roll. At the half way mark the model will be inverted and start the second rolling circle. These rolls will also be to the outside and will have 2 rolls in the circle. When the model completes its circle it should end back up at the apex of the first rolling circle with half a roll let to complete. The model will exit upright. The model should make the same radius on the both of the rolling circles. Please keep in mind that roll rates will differ between the two circles. Exit Upright	5
3	Square Knife edge turn with ¾ roll on entry and exit with 2 point roll in middle. Model will perform ¾ roll and fly knife edge, model then will push or pull 90 degrees for a turn and after the turn will perform a 2 point roll (2 of 2) and continue in the knife edge flight. Model will then push or pull back to the opposite direction in which they entered the maneuver, then perform ¾ to Exit Inverted.	3
4	Cuban 8 with half rolls integrated in the loops on first 45 downline 1 negative snap, Second Downline 2 of 4. Model will enter maneuver inverted fly past center and perform a half roll rolling loop, upon completing the loop the model will then continue to the inverted downline where it will perform a 1 negative snap, when the model pushes out and reaches the horizontal line the model will then begin another half roll rolling loop and once completing the loop continue to the 45 down line with 2 of 4 point roll and Exit upright.	7
5	Stall Turn with 1 and ¼ roll up and 2 of 2 down. Model will pull to the vertical line and perform 1 and ¼ roll on the upline, Stall, then on the down line perform 2 of 2 point roll exiting Inverted Crossbox.	4
7	3 Roll rolling circle first roll Out, Second Roll In, Third Roll Out. Exit Upright	4
8	Top Hat with Knife edge entry and Exit. Model will enter the maneuver level and perform a ¼ to knife edge then perform a 90 degree rudder turn to the vertical upline, PULL Across the top of the Top Hat and perform 4 of 8 point roll, Push to the vertical downline and exit knife edge in the opposite direction of flight in which you entered. ¼ roll to Exit Inverted.	5
9	Roll Sequence, One full roll opposite One Negative snap, Opposite 4 of 8 point roll. Exit Upright	6
10	Immelman turn. Exit Upright	2
11	1 Roll rolling loop from the top with ½ rolls reversed at bottom, Model will perform a Rolling loop from the top with 1 roll when the model hits 180 degrees the model should have rolled ½ revolution then reverses direction and finishes loop with half roll in opposite direction. Exit Upright	6
12	Bunt with 1 and a half rolls out. Model will perform half outside loop and once the model hits level will perform 1 and ½ rolls to Exit Upright	3
13	Loop with 8 point roll integrated over the top 180 degrees of the loop. Exit Upright	6
14	180 Degree turn to landing	1

Actually, I am preparing all no-model things for this trip, buy flight tickets, rent a car, check an hotel...

Donuts-Models and Rc-Pilot support me for this trip, thanks to them.

In fact three events will take place along the same week-end in Toledo, the ETOC, the E-Fly and the Toledo R/C show.

E-Fly is an indoor show with airplane and helicopter.

E-Fly and Etoc will be under the same roof in three different gymnasiums,one for E-Toc, one for fix-wing plane E-Fly and the last for helicopter E-Fly.

You can find more information about the E-Fly here.

The R/C show will be near the gymnasiums, you can see more about the expo here, I advise you to read the exhibitors list and you will want to come!!!

The last ETOC champion Andrew Jesky and a view of the flight gymnasium