North West Regionals 2005

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The 2005 Free State regional Gliding Championships are being hosted bythe Akavlieg PUK gliding club at Potchefstroom

Arrival and official practise days – Saturday ( 23 ) and Sunday (24 ) April 2005

Pilots Briefing – Wednesday 27th April 2005 at 9 am

Contest days – 27th April to 2nd May 2005

Prize giving – 2nd May 2005 at 6 pm

 

Note that the 27th April and the 2nd of May are public holidays.


This is an excellent opportunity to fly cross-country with the SA World Championship team pilot's and to glean some information from them as to how they do it.
We can expect between 30 and 40 competitors, which makes for a whole lot of exciting competition. 
xxxxx will direct the Competition, xxxxx will be the weather wizard with scoring being done by xxxxx.

Pilots

All competing Pilots must have all their documentation in order to compete, this includes GPL, medical etc. Their SSSA affiliation, FAI Licence and Aero Club membership must paid up. 

Gliders

Depending on numbers there will be 2 or 3 classes consisting of Open, 15M and Club Class, the scoring of all classes will be handicapped this means that regardless of glider YOU can compete and have fun in this event. There are only two restrictions in that the configuration of all gliders must stay the same and conform to class rules for the entire event. In Club Class no water ballast will be permitted. 
Launching will be by aero tow or winch. 
All gliders competing must have a current LS1.

Potchefstroom Airfield

Elevation: 4520 ft msl,
Co-ordinates; (WGS 84) 26°40"05' S - 027°05"05' E
Radio Frequency: 124.8 MHz
Runways:     
03-21, length 1489m, surfaces = tar – Grass take off strip to the east of the 03 threshold.
15-33, length 1100m, surface = cleared leveled mowed grass.
Normal circuits to be conducted to the west of the airfield- refer to airfield operating procedures for more details.

Turnpoints and Scoring

Turnpoints will be available electronically and can be downloaded to your loggers by the organisation on the practise day or send me an email and I will mail them to you. Scoring will be done by a combination of Task Nav and the Crabb Computing scoring system. This combination allows scoring to be completed in around 2 hours after the last finish.
Loggers, any logger that can produce a trace of your groundtrack will be accepted, if it is an exotic logger please make sure that you bring your cables and software to allow downloading of the trace.

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