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Have you ever dreamed to become a pilot? Had you ever flown in Captains place? Could you even imagine that it is so simple to reach! One more wonderful surprise from our sponsors Baltic Aviation Academy - Winners of BAA team cup 2011 will have opportunity to get one hour of real experience what it’s like to be a pilot! The winner team will have one hour flight/lesson on real Boeing 737 Full Flight Simulator. This Full flight simulator is used for pilot trainings and their skill checks during emergency situations so believe me – it’s worth to fight for it.

Trainings for the real pilots
Full Flight Simulator construction

Dear colleagues aeromodellers,

Lots of changes are waiting at Baltic Cup 2011. Firstly may be you have already noticed that our friend Rolandas Mackus, who has organized all previous Baltic Cup tournaments, gave the opportunity for us to make 11th Baltic cup competition and make an enjoyable weekend not only for him but for all Baltic cup competitors.

Baltic cup 2011 is separated from Estonian Cup because we preferred to make competitions more stronger. Baltic cup will be held in two days – Saturday for the F-1-A, F-1-Q classes and Sunday for the F-1-B and F-1-C. It lets for us to make seven tours for all classes and gives opportunity for the competitors to take place in separate classes with no rush.

Due to competition will take two days there is possibility to have Time Keepers from the competitors of other classes. If the competitor is flying on Saturday only and he would like to be a Time Keeper on Sunday or vice versa the Starting Fee will be returned for him. So if you prefer to help us with Time Keeping please inform us in your registration letter and you will have a chance to take a part in competition for free.

The Baltic cup is moved form the May to July – the most beautiful time of the year in Lithuania. It gives opportunity for you to visit our historical towns Vilnius and Trakai, to have not only competition but holiday as well. It also gaves us opportunity to organize Camping place for the competitors which would help in saving some money on accommodation and most importantly – giving the possibility to have an enjoyable evenings for all competitors in one place. At the moment we have few options to choose from but the final decision about the Camping place will depend on the number of competitors willing to stay there.

Our new sponsor “Baltic Aviation Academy” (www.balticaa.com) are willing to make the Team scoring. “Baltic Aviation Academy” Cups and sponsor prizes will be given for three best teams of the competition. The team should consist of four competitors no matter what class they are representing. The team might consist of the competitors from the same country or town, representatives of the same aeromodelling club, or even representatives of their own sponsor company. Teams should be registered by email or before the the flying day during competitor registration.

Dear friends, we invite all competitors to take part in “Baltic cup 2011” with free flight (F-1-A, F-1-B, F-1-C, F-1-Q) models. Competition will be organized according to the FAI Sporting Code rules, section 1-4 and is incorporated in the FAI World Cup Contest Calendar 2011. Winners of the first three places in individual scoring in all classes will be awarded with cups and diplomas. “Baltic Aviation Academy” Cups and sponsor prizes will be given for three best teams of the competition. We remind that participants must hold a valid FAI aeromodelling license.

History of Baltic Cup

First international competition in Lithuania (Kaunas) was organized on 13-19th of August 1939. At that time in Baltic nation contest took part teams from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland. There already where three main model classes: models with fuel engines (8 participants), models with rubber engines (15 participant) and gliders (14 participant). The winner of first international competition in Lithuania was Estonian team, second place – Finnish team, third – Lithuanian, fourth – Latvian team.

First time in Madžiūnai field “Baltic cup” competition was held at year 2000. Competitors were pleased with friendly atmosphere between competitors and organizers, good flying field and fine accommodation conditions. So at 2001 “Baltic cup” became not only competition for Baltic teams but were open for all countries and had participants from all Europe. And form year 2002 because of big amount of competitors and high organization “Baltic cup” competition were added in FAI World Cup Contest Calendar.