CD's Report
Buckminster Gliding Club lies roughly
midway between the villages of Saltby and Skillington in lovely
countryside just north of Rutland, based of
course on yet another of those WW2 left-overs from the almost
forgotten era
 of
B17 bombers and 'over here' Yanks. Just enough of Saltby airfield
survives to provide the basis for several
 hundred
metres of 25/07 and a rather rough adjoining section of 02/20 - more
than enough for a national glider championship, all the more when
run by such a progressive and friendly club with a great range of
modern facilities. Saltby is now pretty much the 'go-to' place for
glider aeros in the UK, and as such has developed an enviable
reputation over the past few years.
The weather, having been a blast the previous week, didn't exactly
play ball ... quite a few hopeful pilots who came to Saltby for
sign-off at a higher category failed to get enough flying in to
reach the required standard, and so carried on at their existing
level of privilege. One or two even decided their standards were not
up to snuff and declined to fly, thus we proceeded with a field of
16 hopeful pilots that represented all five categories.
At glider and power national events we always try to import the
services of an experienced CIVA judge, and this year we had the
pleasure of Bernard Courtois' company from France. In fact the judging line
was quite a foreign affair, accommodating BAeA member Rod Herve
(also originally from France), Hannah Räihä
(from Finland) and our very own Graham Saw as the 'anchor' Brit.
In addition, Leif Culpin almost
abandoned his usual
 photographic
duties to act as Bernard's assistant, making for a strong judiciary
panel.
The scramble to assemble and review the Free Unknown figures for the
Advanced and Unlimited pilots was ably handled by BAeA's Head of
Competition Brian McCartney on the Wednesday evening while CD Nick B
was away collecting Bernard from Stansted, so by the start of
business on day-1 Cindy had deftly assembled the necessary paperwork
and everything was theoretically in place for a full-on event. Once
again however the weather had other ideas ... gloom and drizzle
prevailed for pretty much the whole day; one
 down, three to go.
The remaining three days provided the usual mix of
just-about-acceptable cloud-base, although we did have to resort to
splitting D ietmar Poll's Free programme right at the end of the
Friday evening; Dietmar kindly acknowledged
that fellow unlimited pilots Paul Conran and David-John Gibbs could if
possible fly theirs without a break on Saturday
morning,
and so it proved to be. Neither however could match the
Austrian's performance, the remaining top-level
competitive spirit being directed toward
trying to oust the other from the second slot. Ultimately this was
an extremely close run thing ...
The Sports level, being the most populous, was largely dominated by
the fine performances of Alex Harris, ably chased by Dubliner
 Fran McLoughlin and the rest. At Intermediate Peter Sharphouse
in his lovely new SZD-59 Acro made David Gethin in the club's ASK-21 work
very hard for second slot, while Adam Hoskin's strong driving of the
Fox kept him just ahead of Chris Cain's unstinting efforts. At
unlimited the game was (a) to try and keep up with
 Dietmar,
and (b) for Paul to best DJ and vice-versa ... and very close it was
too; Paul was fine until he made a complete hash of the Unknown and
left the door wide open for DJ to catch up, but try as he might it
was not to be. Maybe next time ... !
So after three pretty hard days we had worthy champions at every
level, plus BGC's very own manager Tim Beasley who broke his duck at
Beginners level with a creditable 71 and a bit percent. Rutland's
finest aristocrat David was as usual on hand to present the prizes,
and everything was neatly packed away by 1700 on the last day.
Definitely a very pleasant weekend's flying, which monsieur Courtois
professed that he had greatly enjoyed too. |
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Glider Nationals Championsjips, Saltby, 29th May - 1st June |
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Ranked by scores
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M/F |
Pilot |
Aeroplane |
Registration |
Known 1 |
Known 2 |
Totals |
O/all % |
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M |
Tim Beasley |
ASK 21 |
G-CKNL |
637.00 |
524.75 |
1161.75 |
71.713 |
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| Contest Director: Nick Buckenham, Contest Chief Judge: Bernard Courtois (FRA), Scoring Director: Cindy Cain-Copsey. Judges: Bernard Courtois (FRA), Hanna Raiha, Rod Herve, Graham Saw. Judges Assistants: Leif Culpin, Andy Cunningham, George Rizk, Kat Foxton. |
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| Sports Champion |
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Ranked by scores
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Rank |
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M/F |
Pilot |
Aeroplane |
Registration |
Known #1 |
Known #2 |
Totals |
O/all % |
| 1 |
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M |
Alex Harris |
ASK 21 |
G-CKNL |
1022.24 |
1086.68 |
2108.92 |
77.820 |
2 |
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M |
Fran McLoughlin |
ASK 21 |
G-CKNL |
888.94 |
1133.87 |
2022.81 |
74.643 |
3 |
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M |
David Humprheys |
ASK 21 |
G-CKNL |
839.62 |
1067.62 |
1907.24 |
70.378 |
4 |
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M |
Paul Bott |
ASK 21 |
G-CKNL |
707.22 |
958.69 |
1665.90 |
61.472 |
5 |
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M |
David Aherne |
ASK 21 |
G-CKNL |
772.37 |
798.23 |
1570.61 |
57.956 |
6 |
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M |
Callum Lavender |
ASK 21 |
G-CKNL |
428.70 |
551.35 |
980.04 |
36.164 |
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| Contest Director: Nick Buckenham, Contest Chief Judge: Bernard Courtois (FRA), Scoring Director: Cindy Cain-Copsey. Judges: Bernard Courtois (FRA), Hanna Raiha, Rod Herve, Graham Saw. Judges Assistants: Leif Culpin, Andy Cunningham, George Rizk, Robbie Rizk, Kat Foxton. |
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| Intermediate Champion |
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Ranked by scores
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Rank |
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M/F |
Pilot |
Aeroplane |
Registration |
Known |
Free |
Unk'n #1 |
Totals |
O/all % |
| 1 |
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M |
Peter Sharphouse |
SZD-59 Acro |
G-SZDA |
918.96 |
1259.42 |
1009.72 |
3188.10 |
64.147 |
2 |
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M |
David Gethin |
ASK 21 |
G-CKNL |
804.49 |
1210.79 |
1128.00 |
3143.28 |
63.245 |
3 |
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M |
Charles Baker |
ASK 21 |
G-CKNL |
787.48 |
1185.28 |
939.13 |
2911.89 |
58.589 |
4 |
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M |
Steve Hardy |
Pilatus B4 |
G-CHVH |
847.86 |
1000.88 |
887.12 |
2735.86 |
55.048 |
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| Contest Director: Nick Buckenham, Contest Chief Judge: Bernard Courtois (FRA), Scoring Director: Cindy Cain-Copsey. Judges: Bernard Courtois (FRA), Hanna Raiha, Rod Herve, Graham Saw. Judges Assistants: Leif Culpin, Andy Cunningham, George Rizk, Robbie Rizk, Kat Foxton. |
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| Advanced Champion |
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Ranked by scores
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Rank |
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M/F |
Pilot |
Aeroplane |
Registration |
Known |
Free |
Unknown |
Totals |
O/all % |
| 1 |
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M |
Adam Hoskin |
MDM-1 Fox |
G-CFOX |
985.00 |
1433.75 |
997.38 |
3416.13 |
69.859 |
2 |
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M |
Chris Cain |
MDM-1 Fox |
G-CFOX |
881.63 |
1326.00 |
871.50 |
3079.13 |
62.968 |
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| Contest Director: Nick Buckenham, Contest Chief Judge: Bernard Courtois (FRA), Scoring Director: Cindy Cain-Copsey. Judges: Bernard Courtois (FRA), Hanna Raiha, Rod Herve, Graham Saw. Judges Assistants: Leif Culpin, Andy Cunningham, George Rizk, Robbie Rizk, Kat Foxton. |
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| Unlimited Champion |
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Ranked by scores
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Rank |
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M/F |
Pilot |
Aeroplane |
Registration |
Known |
Free |
Unk'n #1 |
Totals |
O/all % |
| 1 |
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M |
Dietmar Poll |
Swift S-1 |
G-LUPY |
1061.94 |
2068.87 |
1501.16 |
4631.98 |
77.979 |
2 |
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M |
Paul Conran |
Swift S-1 |
G-LUPY |
831.85 |
1917.55 |
904.10 |
3653.50 |
61.507 |
3 |
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M |
David-John Gibbs |
Swift S-1 |
G-LUPY |
809.33 |
1650.21 |
1058.94 |
3518.48 |
59.234 |
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| Contest Director: Nick Buckenham, Contest Chief Judge: Bernard Courtois (FRA), Scoring Director: Cindy Cain-Copsey. Judges: Bernard Courtois (FRA), Hanna Raiha, Rod Herve, Graham Saw. Judges Assistants: Leif Culpin, Andy Cunningham, George Rizk, Robbie Rizk, Kat Foxton. |
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