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My Alarm clock started beeping at 3.00am Friday the 23^rd October 2009 and I remember thinking I hate whoever it was that talked me into going to this German F5D event!

I had moved on to hating the World by the time Mark turned up at 3.30 am, but by 6.30am when we picked up Olli and Paul at Dover and I had moved towards thinking we all must be barking mad?

It’s been a long flying season with 9 events planned for 2009; unfortunately due to the good old British weather 2 have been cancelled so far leaving 4^th of October 09 the date for the final and 7^th event of the year. With 2009 being the team selection year for the UK F5D team to compete in the World Champs during 2010 it has been quite a year for UK F5D with records being broken as well as models in an effort to make the team.

The first 2 team places are already secured however 3^rd is still up for grabs as Olli Witt failed to close the door at the last event on Ben Jones who is very much on Olli’s heals and improving at each event making this more than just another League event.

We had also decided to introduce a new class to the event being Foamy F5D no real rules just Foamy models with probably 3s maximum cells however that is also open for debate as one of the rules is there are very few rules! It’s a class not to be taken seriously and is an ideal way of finding out if you like flying round pylons as well as finding out what a race meeting is like and meeting the rest of the Pylon nutters. For this event we had 2 entries both with Funjet models so that would make things more equal and they had agreed some rough guide lines on power Via the forum before the event.