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The International Postal Contest (IPC) is an invitation only contest held in April and September each year. It is an opportunity for RC Sailplane pilots to fly in friendly competition with fliers from around the globe without traveling to distant locations. Each club's and individual pilot’s score is mailed to a coordinating club who assembles the scores. Unlike other contests, weather conditions vary on the specified days so alternate days may be chosen to allow all participants to fly in the best possible weather.
Each pilot flies five rounds. A maximum of 6 minutes of flight time is imposed for each round plus "landing points” of up to 100 pts may be earned by landing in a landing circle. The closer you are to the center of the circle the greater the points earned. If the flier is in the air more than 6 minutes, one point is subtracted for each second over the six minute limit. Therefore, one round equals a maximum score of 360 time points plus an additional 100 landing points.
Fall 2011 Team Scores
Total of the top five individual scores in each club are combined for the team score.
| Place | Team | Score | Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Switzerland - Model Air Club of Thun | 10,705 | Report |
| 2 | Scotland - Linlithgow MFC | 10,243 | Report |
| 3 | Michigan, USA - LIFT | 10,153 | Report |
| Germany - MBC Lengerich | |||
| South Africa - Durban Model Airplane Club | |||
| Brisbane, Australia - MRSSA | |||
| South Africa - Cape Town Southern Soaring Club | |||
| New Zealand - Wellington Model Aeroplane Club |
Fall 2011 Individual Scores
Download Fall 2011 Individual Scores Detail
Scotland - Linlithgow MFC
Linlithgow Model Aircraft Club
We flew on the 15th September which so far has been the only flyable day. Its been gales and rain every other day.
Switzerland - Model Air Club of Thun
We where blessed with superb late summer day weather this Sunday. The wind was light and off changing direction, the sky was pure blue and it was T-shirt temperature. Only mediocre thermals with weak lift and some downstreams for flying. I think the land had heated up to even temperature from midday, to the point where nothing was giving off distinct thermals. With a good launch and a little bit of luck it was quite possible to do the required 6 minutes if you flew very carefully. We finished the competition in the early afternoon and had therefore enough time to heat up the fire and doing a nice barbeque with enough drinking stuff of all sorts. All in all it was a very nice Sunday.
More info can be found at: http://www.mgthun.ch/index.php?page=345
LIFT
Lift’s Participation ine the fall International Postal Challenge was flown on September 17th, 2011, after a 2 week delay caused by bad weather and competing soaring contest. The morning started under sunny skies with light winds from the ESE with prediction of the winds increasing to 15mph and turning more easterly. This meant if we set up the winches into the wind we would be launching right into the sun, so we set up to the south and turned them to the east around 11:15 am as the wind had increased to over 12mph making crosswind launching very difficult especially for the RES ships. Lift was spotty and difficult at times, as shown by my scores however about half of our pilots successfully found thermals and stayed with them for successful flights. We had only 10 pilots show up due to conflicting schedules. Three of the pilots were unsuccessful in getting any flights in due to various issues. Unfortunately, no one thought to take any pictures, but most had a good time getting together.
MBC Lengerich e.V.
Brisbane, Australia - MRSSA