Some good news from Hungary.
For those that are not aware, the SA Team for the World Jet Masters in Hungary left on Monday(obviously not SAA!) The team consists of Greg Casson - MIG 29, Glen Roberts - T33 and Mark Savage - Vampire. There was some consternation on Monday when Mark and James Peel (Manager)were stuck at Durban because SAA was not flying. The ended up leaving Durban by Kombi at about 11:00 and would have to check in at 17:00 for the flight to Hungary via Frankfurt. Greg and Glen arrived at JHB INT at 16:00 after been told that they could bring the boxes straight to the check-in counter! Obviously when the boxes arrived at the Check-in counter their story changed. After much running around and lots of help from Danie Potgieter Snr, it was decided that the boxes had to go to Lufthansa Cargo! At this stage, Mark was still at Heidelburg! The lady from Lufthansa, Carla, was extremely helpful in resolving the crisis. Mark was redirected to the cargo drop-off and arrived at check-in just after 18:00. After things had calmed down to a panic, everyone went for a quick dirnk and the boarded.
Just heard from the team over there that everone had had a flight and that everything went well.
I think that the static judgeging starts tomorrow. For those who are interested, Greg had a major glitch problem on the first 2 flight and then installed and new servo isolator with Lipo batteries and the problem wen away. Next problem was to get the aircraft below 20kg! This is a twin turbine with hydraulic undercarridge. After drilling holes in everything, filling any excess metal of anything that didn't need it. Ended up with about 100g to spare in the end!
As some of you know, Mark lost his L39 about a month before the comp! Fortunately he still had his Vampire in mothballs and copuld just install a new turbine and had a couple of flights.
Glen had a trouble free run up to their departure.
The news is that they are very confident of doing well over there!
If anyone wants to post some messages, I will get it to them as I am going to try and speak to them on a daily basis as soon as the comp really gets going!
Will keep you all posted on the progress
Zane
Friday, July 29, 2005
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Thursday, July 07, 2005
Conrad Klintworth and Wolfgang Steffny at the 2005 Nats. Conrad is the smaller one.
As Izak says, helping you spot the thermals AND providing a sunshield for you..... Now that's what I call a helper!
Photo by John Monk
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Monday, July 04, 2005
Bill Vos Memorial Trophy July 2005 -- report by Dave Greer
The July Bill Vos took place in a chilly westerly, an anti-climax for the Nats contenders who had enjoyed the beautiful conditions the week before. The slope remains a breeding ground for new thermal blood and Ross Henderson found himself migrating from some useful slope foamie wing flying experience to teaming up with Dennis Bird and the Esprit, which is probably the most pleasant intro for someone with reasonable slope co-ords and Ross quietly rose to the occasion with some real smooth flying. Dennis was to handle the landings, with the points still accruing to Ross and we might have been a tad more embarrassed by the newbie, had Dennis managed any of the proxy landings!
Yours truly had not even unpacked the Nats car and paid the price with a stripped flap servo and no brakes for the day - much wrinkled brow when flying the last slot against Dennis, who promptly out launched, out climbed and out landed with the similar Esprit craft! What was more irritating was that Checkmate hanging around at half the height and not going away, either. Brian Fanning is fast getting to grips with the hotrod Checkmate and a look at the accumulated results with one throwaway round, is going to wrinkle more than one brow - second place is not too shabby, Brian!
Another interesting last round "Winston" battle was tween Paul and Brad, with Paul probably executing the only genuine downwind thermal chase of the whole day, by anyone, to seal it against Brad in that battle, although Brad still won that war with a useful score in fourth place. The weather and waiting for an early shower to pass had decided in favour of the three round no throwaway event and this especially hurt all from fourth down, most folk still getting to enjoy two max flights, though. The two throw away event summary shows the event still to be wide open for most competitors, specially some oke by the name of Russell Conradt, although it will take some doing against the Dennis/Esprit combination.
A short meeting decided the following two items of interest for DMAC Glider Guiders:
The OFS lads had freely helped themselves to the September BVMT date for the Rosendal slope event and an impassioned please from Warren decided a move on the September BVMT contest date, the subsequent weekend also being out because of the G2K Jamboree. Warren's wonderful PRO job on the Rosendal event may also see more Durbanites joining the freeze your doodads off weekend up there.
It was confirmed that the Natal Champs would retain its current format at Summerveld and be held over the weekend of 22/23 October 2005.
Please remember the June BVMT will be reflown Sunday 24 July 2005.
Cheers
Dave
BVMT 2005
HANDICAP
JULY 2005
Pilot Norm Total
1 Dave Greer 1000 2934 Esprit
2 Dennis Bird 994 2918 Esprit
3 Ross Henderson 962 2823 Esprit
4 Brad Conlon 952 2794 Ellipse
5 Brian Fanning 949 2784 Checkmate
6 Warren Butler 930 2728 Cobra
7 Simon Nelson 913 2679 Eish
8 Paul Boswarva 887 2604 Eish
9 Alan Sneedon 848 2489 Sangoma
10 Fred Wittstock 838 2460 Sagitta 1000
11 Norman Smith 635 1862 OD 2M
12 Don Slatter 531 1558 Spirit 2M
BILL VOS 2005 LOG
With TWO t/away Total T/A2 T/A1 Jan Mar Apr June July
1 Dave Greer 2000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
2 Russell Conradt 1969 0 0 969 999 0 0
3 Dennis Bird 1963 865 835 835 969 865 994
4 Brian Fanning 1920 927 0 927 972 0 949
5 Brad Conlon 1914 855 830 962 830 855 952
6 Warren Butler 1913 711 0 0 984 711 930
7 Simon Nelson 1912 817 0 817 999 0 913
8 Scott Munn 1872 0 0 0 1000 872 0
9 Alan Sneedon 1862 848 812 862 1000 812 848
10 Paul Boswarva 1837 816 798 816 798 949 887
11 Fred Wittstock 1832 838 514 514 937 895 838
12 Ryan Nelson 1793 0 0 884 910 0 0
13 John Coulson 1651 0 0 651 0 1000 0
14 Paul Munn 1512 0 0 0 778 734 0
15 Adrian Baker 1480 0 0 849 0 631 0
16 Norman Smith 1472 621 536 621 536 838 635
17 Don Slatter 1160 531 0 796 364 0 531
18 Ross Henderson 962 0 0 0 0 0 962
19 Piet Strauss 916 0 0 460 0 456 0
20 Sheldon Macglone 697 0 0 0 697 0 0
21 Kim 428 0 0 0 0 428 0
22 Tim Potter 334 0 0 334 0 0 0
BILL VOS 2005 LOG
With ONE t/away Total T/A1 Jan Mar Apr June July
1 Dave Greer 3000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
2 Brian Fanning 2847 0 927 972 0 949
3 Dennis Bird 2828 835 835 969 865 994
4 Brad Conlon 2769 830 962 830 855 952
5 Simon Nelson 2729 0 817 999 0 913
6 Alan Sneedon 2710 812 862 1000 812 848
7 Fred Wittstock 2670 514 514 937 895 838
8 Paul Boswarva 2653 798 816 798 949 887
9 Warren Butler 2625 0 0 984 711 930
10 Norman Smith 2093 536 621 536 838 635
11 Russell Conradt 1969 0 969 999 0 0
12 Scott Munn 1872 0 0 1000 872 0
13 Ryan Nelson 1793 0 884 910 0 0
14 Don Slatter 1691 0 796 364 0 531
15 John Coulson 1651 0 651 0 1000 0
16 Paul Munn 1512 0 0 778 734 0
17 Adrian Baker 1480 0 849 0 631 0
18 Ross Henderson 962 0 0 0 0 962
19 Piet Strauss 916 0 460 0 456 0
20 Sheldon Macglone 697 0 0 697 0 0
21 Kim 428 0 0 0 428 0
22 Tim Potter 334 0 334 0 0 0
Yours truly had not even unpacked the Nats car and paid the price with a stripped flap servo and no brakes for the day - much wrinkled brow when flying the last slot against Dennis, who promptly out launched, out climbed and out landed with the similar Esprit craft! What was more irritating was that Checkmate hanging around at half the height and not going away, either. Brian Fanning is fast getting to grips with the hotrod Checkmate and a look at the accumulated results with one throwaway round, is going to wrinkle more than one brow - second place is not too shabby, Brian!
Another interesting last round "Winston" battle was tween Paul and Brad, with Paul probably executing the only genuine downwind thermal chase of the whole day, by anyone, to seal it against Brad in that battle, although Brad still won that war with a useful score in fourth place. The weather and waiting for an early shower to pass had decided in favour of the three round no throwaway event and this especially hurt all from fourth down, most folk still getting to enjoy two max flights, though. The two throw away event summary shows the event still to be wide open for most competitors, specially some oke by the name of Russell Conradt, although it will take some doing against the Dennis/Esprit combination.
A short meeting decided the following two items of interest for DMAC Glider Guiders:
The OFS lads had freely helped themselves to the September BVMT date for the Rosendal slope event and an impassioned please from Warren decided a move on the September BVMT contest date, the subsequent weekend also being out because of the G2K Jamboree. Warren's wonderful PRO job on the Rosendal event may also see more Durbanites joining the freeze your doodads off weekend up there.
It was confirmed that the Natal Champs would retain its current format at Summerveld and be held over the weekend of 22/23 October 2005.
Please remember the June BVMT will be reflown Sunday 24 July 2005.
Cheers
Dave
BVMT 2005
HANDICAP
JULY 2005
Pilot Norm Total
1 Dave Greer 1000 2934 Esprit
2 Dennis Bird 994 2918 Esprit
3 Ross Henderson 962 2823 Esprit
4 Brad Conlon 952 2794 Ellipse
5 Brian Fanning 949 2784 Checkmate
6 Warren Butler 930 2728 Cobra
7 Simon Nelson 913 2679 Eish
8 Paul Boswarva 887 2604 Eish
9 Alan Sneedon 848 2489 Sangoma
10 Fred Wittstock 838 2460 Sagitta 1000
11 Norman Smith 635 1862 OD 2M
12 Don Slatter 531 1558 Spirit 2M
BILL VOS 2005 LOG
With TWO t/away Total T/A2 T/A1 Jan Mar Apr June July
1 Dave Greer 2000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
2 Russell Conradt 1969 0 0 969 999 0 0
3 Dennis Bird 1963 865 835 835 969 865 994
4 Brian Fanning 1920 927 0 927 972 0 949
5 Brad Conlon 1914 855 830 962 830 855 952
6 Warren Butler 1913 711 0 0 984 711 930
7 Simon Nelson 1912 817 0 817 999 0 913
8 Scott Munn 1872 0 0 0 1000 872 0
9 Alan Sneedon 1862 848 812 862 1000 812 848
10 Paul Boswarva 1837 816 798 816 798 949 887
11 Fred Wittstock 1832 838 514 514 937 895 838
12 Ryan Nelson 1793 0 0 884 910 0 0
13 John Coulson 1651 0 0 651 0 1000 0
14 Paul Munn 1512 0 0 0 778 734 0
15 Adrian Baker 1480 0 0 849 0 631 0
16 Norman Smith 1472 621 536 621 536 838 635
17 Don Slatter 1160 531 0 796 364 0 531
18 Ross Henderson 962 0 0 0 0 0 962
19 Piet Strauss 916 0 0 460 0 456 0
20 Sheldon Macglone 697 0 0 0 697 0 0
21 Kim 428 0 0 0 0 428 0
22 Tim Potter 334 0 0 334 0 0 0
BILL VOS 2005 LOG
With ONE t/away Total T/A1 Jan Mar Apr June July
1 Dave Greer 3000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
2 Brian Fanning 2847 0 927 972 0 949
3 Dennis Bird 2828 835 835 969 865 994
4 Brad Conlon 2769 830 962 830 855 952
5 Simon Nelson 2729 0 817 999 0 913
6 Alan Sneedon 2710 812 862 1000 812 848
7 Fred Wittstock 2670 514 514 937 895 838
8 Paul Boswarva 2653 798 816 798 949 887
9 Warren Butler 2625 0 0 984 711 930
10 Norman Smith 2093 536 621 536 838 635
11 Russell Conradt 1969 0 969 999 0 0
12 Scott Munn 1872 0 0 1000 872 0
13 Ryan Nelson 1793 0 884 910 0 0
14 Don Slatter 1691 0 796 364 0 531
15 John Coulson 1651 0 651 0 1000 0
16 Paul Munn 1512 0 0 778 734 0
17 Adrian Baker 1480 0 849 0 631 0
18 Ross Henderson 962 0 0 0 0 962
19 Piet Strauss 916 0 460 0 456 0
20 Sheldon Macglone 697 0 0 697 0 0
21 Kim 428 0 0 0 428 0
22 Tim Potter 334 0 334 0 0 0
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