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Late news
and updates ....
Last revised on
Monday June 30, 2008 |
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June 30th
A brilliant first running of the first
Duxford 90th Challenge - more like this please! The
Seasonal Points Tables have also
just been updated again ..... |
June 24th
The
Minutes of the 33rd BAeA AGM have been released. Get the pdf here ....
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June 20th
A surprisingly good couple of days at the
Wellesbourne On-Track Trophy Event was had by all ..... |
June 19th
The 2008
Glider National Championship results are all here at last
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June 12th
The Seasons Points Tables have
been updated .... are you there? |
June 10th
Here's a Press Release from the Royal Aero Club regarding their
Bursary Awards
for 2008. |
June 1st
What a year of contrasts - two superb days at Sleap saw the
Golding-Barrett
event completed in fine style. |
May 28th
Even more of that unsuitable weather ... this lot at the
Loop
Beginners Event at Saltby last weekend. |
May 19th
The uncooperative weather made for a long
Fenland and McAully competition - but it all came good on
the sunny Sunday. Well done to Andrew Barlow and David Jenkins
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May 11th
Brilliant weather and a terrific entry made the
Roy Legg
and new Cavendish Hotel Trophies at Elvington into a really
great contest. Read on ... |
May 4th
The Leicester sunshine more than made up for Breighton's recent
gloomy weather, and last Saturday's
Loop Beginners Day was a great success. Elvington next
Thursday - things are picking up! |
May 1st
The BAeA Rules have been
updated to provide revised weather minima to be adopted by the
Contest Director and Chief Judge at Beginners, Standard and
Intermediate classes in our competitions. Read on ... |
April 17th
Another slice of arctic weather spoilt the initial
Loop Beginners Day at Breighton, but we did manage to sneak
in the
BAeA Beginners and John McLean Trophy events the next day.
Read all about it ... |
April 6th
The Icicle and
Newbold Trophy Event at Sandtoft was pretty good - and
suitably icy. Voted by this year's Judges a close second to
the the infamous Leicester event, involving a local
zero-degree graveyard .... |
April 1st
Here's the initial bulletin from the
Yak-52 WAC at Novosibirsk
in Russia this August. Honest! I know what the date
is, but this one is for real ..... |
March 31st
The first 2008 contest - the glider
Dan Smith
Memorial Trophy - was completed in glorious sunshine on
Sunday 30th ..... after a truly awful Saturday spent almost
entirely sitting about sampling tea and inventing ever
longer pilots stories. Next Saturday it's the Icicle in
sunny (we hope) Yorkshire. |
March 20th
There are new-design
Form-A's for use at all of our competitions this year,
these having for both Pilots and Judges two important
changes from the previous version: |
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For judges - the
marking column has a new style. There are now separate boxes
for the whole number and the half-number, so you don't enter
the decimal point any more. There are also two separate
smaller boxes below the mark for recording HZ's and AV's
applied to a figure. In each case now the assistant enters
an 'X' to signify that one or the other should be used, and
the marks slot remains empty. |
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For pilots - when
submitting Free paperwork, it is necessary now to show the
SuperFamily number for each figure as this must be entered
into the FairPlay scoring software. See CIVA Sporting Code
Section 6 8.3.3.5 for the current SF settings. |
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So -
you definitely need
these forms. They're available on this web now, in both
PDF and Visio / Aresti formats (the latter is a zip you'll
need to extract the three files from - both power and glider
forms are there plus the essential "Make Form A.exe" -
extract them all to your Aresti folder), so if you're doing
a Free this year you
will need them. Anyone turning up with the older
style forms of course won't be turned away, but now think
..... just when you need the best possible marks for your
flying is also exactly the right time to have the correct
bits of paper in every judges hands! Call Nick B or Alan C
if you need any further help etc.. |
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March 11th
The Elvington box is
clearly shown by a new graphic on the
Nathaniel Alony regulations
page, and I'll try to make similar arrangements for other
competitions wherever we have the box layout agreed in advance. |
February 28th
The
Loop 2008 Briefing Sheet is here at last - apologies for the delay. |
February 21st
The approved
Glider Advanced Known sequence for the year is now
published. |
February 19th
Hmmmm .... in the recently published
BAeA Rules, Appendix II wasn't quite up to snuff with the
new rolling circle K-factors. It is all now resolved, so if you
downloaded an earlier version I'm afraid you'll need to do it
again. See p 41 item 2.3.1 - should be 14k. Sorry! |
February 8th
The revised BAeA 2008 Rules Issue
12.0 are here .... bound to cheer up your whole day, as
Dorothy might have said. |
February 4th
The online Contest Information
Booklet for 2008 is here now - handy if you can't find yours
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The Judging
Tutorial Notes for 2008 are also here, so if you're off to
White Waltham on March 15th here's your first point of call. |
January 25th
The first competition
entries of the season have arrived - plan ahead! |
| January 8th 2008 |
| Some sequence revisions for
this year - |
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The power Intermediate Free
total K has increased to 163, and the
BAeA Int default Free reflects this. |
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The
glider Intermediate default Free has been revised to
remove the down-clover. |
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The glider Advanced Known is
awaited from CIVA - the initially published sequence has
been removed. |
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