The Competition at Horsham Week 2012 got off to a great start on Saturday 4 Feb, with what became a boomer day to 11,000+ft.

A 3 hour Assigned Area Task (AAT) was set for Beulah (40km) and St Arnaud (30km) for all classes.

The tasks flown by Geelong pilots were varied and can be seen on OLC .

 Rolf Buelter, (FQF), Jeff Farrow & John Ashford (GWQ), Jarek Mosiejewski & Greg Footit (GHE), Alan Dean (UKA), John Buchanan (GOD) all completed the task - and most of them received a decent score (see Soaring Spot !

Alf McMillan stayed on terra firma with a job to repair the DG300 (GDH) tail wheel inner tube. Sunday 5 Feb was blown out and overcast.

We're hoping for a better day for Monday 6 Feb. Watch this space.

GGC Update Newsletter

• November 2011 (PDF 1.51MB)
• 15 Jul 2011 (PDF, 2.36MB)
• 18 Jun 2011 (PDF, 693KB)
• June 2011 (PDF, 420 KB)

A slightly smaller number of members than normal attended the club AGM last night and enjoyed an excellent BBQ dinner after catered once more by the "GGC Masterchef" with several other members helping.

All the normal business was done including the forming on the next committee with a good mix of "new and old blood" to cary the club forward.

There were a couple of vacancies going into the meeting but these were filled by nomination from the floor.

The new committee is:

• President John Ashford,
• Vice President Alf McMillan,
• Treasurer John Buchanan,
• Secretary Kevin McGowan,
• Committee Mike Durrant, Dave Fynmore, Alexis Fechner, Lucas James and Alvin Peterson.

The following trophies were presented:

• The Percy Pratt trophy for the most meritorious flight in a club glider, Rolf Buelter for a flight of 750Km in the LS4.
• The Tom Thompson trophy for the most improved pilot to Justin Ramsay.
• The Presidents trophy, this is at the Presidents discretion usually for someone who has given "above and beyond" Spiro Mallia for his on going commitment to the Treasurers position.
• The Best and Fairest pilot based on the On Line Comp and contribution to the club, Rolf Buelter.

A new class of membership has been created called Family Membership which discounts membership cost for multiple members of one family.

The 49th Australian National Gliding Championships, 4th - 15th October 2010.

The competition is hosted by the Darling Downs Soaring Club at Dalby Aerodrome, QLD.

GGC is represented by Mike Durrant, LS8 (standard class) and Rolf Buelter, PIK-20B (15M class).

Competiton web site: Australian National Gliding Championships

The Results page on Soaring Spot .

The following is a collection of links to documents presented during the GFA Safety Management System seminar held on the 24th of July 20010:

• A zip archive with all documents listed below in one handy download  (644 KB)
• Safety Management System for GFA , a Power Point presentation outlining the features of the proposed system (248 KB).
• Tools, to be used for establishing and managing the club's safety management system:
  • Risk Evaluation Tool (PDF,  57 KB).
  • Risk Assessment Template (Excel, 44 KB)
  • Suggested Club Safety Checklist (PDF, 34 KB)
• Presentations (Power Point):
  • Risk Evaluation Tool (229 KB)
  • Human Factors in Gliding:
    • Part 1 - Introduction and Overview (120 KB)
      
    • Part 2 - Club Culture and Reporting (377 KB)
      
    • Part 3 - Vision and Fatigue (157 KB)

The 31st Flapped World Gliding Championships will be held at Sheged, Hungary from 20th of July to 7th of August.

Australia is represented by:

• Tom Claffey - Open class
• David Jansen - 18M class 
• Graham Parker - 18M class
• Lars Zehnder - 15M class

You can follow the competiton via:

• the competition website
• Aussies at Sheged 2010, the Australian team blog
• The Mighty Hungarian Adventure, Graham Parker's blog
  

HORSHAM WEEK 2011

February 5th-12th 2011

Horsham Aerodrome , VIC

Entries (maximum 40 gliders) will be accepted up to the first competition day – fee $100. Visit the event web-page www.horshamweek.org.au for the Official Entry Form , turn points and competition Local Rules. Please note that FLARM is mandatory.

Note: To ensure your place, please email the Competition Director well beforehand indicating your intention to attend. Contact David Cleland 03 9333 3638, 0417 766 208

The competition will be preceded by the VSA Cross-Country Coaching Week featuring seminars, pre-flight briefings and post-flight analyses and will now include two streams for novice cross country and advanced soaring pilots. Coaching contacts: Ian Grant 03 98771463, 0418 271 767 and David Wilson 0407-825-706.

We would like to add some history of the Horsham Week Comps to this new website which will be permanent for all future comps. Pls send material and especially photos to Horsham Week website Webmaster .