Open Nationals 2008

The Open Nationals 2008 will be held at Tibenham between Saturday 5th July and Sunday 13th July.

Late Entries please email Tim Davies

27 Entries as at 30th March 2008

Initials	Surname	Glider
I	Ashdown	Nimbus 3
D M	Byass	ASW22BL
C	Cobham	ASH 25
D E	Findon	Nimbus 4DT
M C	Foreman	Nimbus 3DT
D K	Gardiner	NIMBUS 3
L J	Gregoire
K J	Hartley	Nimbus 3
P	Harvey	Nimbus 4
J T	Hitchcock	DG1000T
R	Jones	Nimbus 4T
S G	Jones	Nimbus 4M
R	Kalin	Nimbus 4T
C J	Lowrie	DG800b
J R	Luxton	ASW 22
T M	Mitchell	ASH 25
A V	Nunn
G N	Smith	ASG29
R J	Smith	Nimbus 3DT
C R	Smithers	ASH25E
L	Sparrow	Nimbus 4DT
J A	Tanner
K B	Tipple	Nimbus 4T
A F	Watson	ASH25
D	Williams	Duo Discus
J D	Williams	Antares 20E
S L	Withall	ASH 25

BGA Entry List available here

Eastern Regionals 2008

The Eastern Regionals 2008 will be held at Tibenham between Saturday 24th May and Sunday 1st June.

Entry fee will be £160 and we will be offering a 50% discount to any Junior Pilots wishing to enter.

To enter please email Tim Davies with the following details. Glider Type & Reg, Home Club. many thanks.

22 Entries as at 19th May 2008

Surname	Forename	Glider
Campbell	Ian	LS8 (15m)
Clowes	Norman	ASW 20C
Codd	Steve	Grob 103?
Davies	Tim	ASW 27
Dean	James	Discus (w)
Freeborn	Albert	ASW 27
Grieve	Bob	LS8 (15m)
Hart	Ray	Nimbus 2C
Hay	Hannah	LS4
Hayward	Phil	DG200 (17m)
Hill	Andy	Duo Discus XT
Hood	Rich	LS8 (15m)
Hughes	Mick	K21
Lawrence	Chris	ASW 19
Nash	Steve & Jane	Mosquito B (w)
Pointon	Michael	Discus B (w)
Ryland	Peter	DG 400
Stafford Allen	Peter	Ventus (16.6m)
Thomas	Gwyn	Nimbus 3(25.5)
Watson	Angus	ASH 25
Williams	David	Libelle
Whiting	Tess & John	Discus B (w)

Average H/C = 99.7

Prize Giving

Junior National Champion 2007 - Mike Collett


2nd Place - Will Ellis


3rd Place - George Green



Gordon Camp Memorial (Best Under 21) - Tom Smith


Highest Placed Woman - Franchesca Aitken



Highest Placed Newcomer - Chris Lawrence

Juniors Final Scores

Overall Scores

Day 1: Task - Scores - IGC Files

Final Scores

We had a misreading of the Briefed Parachute Zone rules and so have corrected the penalties - the updated scores will be published tomorrow hopefully ...

All over now ...

A long day of clearing up is over ....

Club members and a few visitors flew yesterday's task - Ray Hart did a little under 100kph raw speed in his Nimbus 2C, James Francis flew N12 on his second cross country and should be claiming Silver Distance and 100km Diploma Part1, Paul Wilkinson can claim Silver Distance and landed out 3 fields short :-( My syndicate partner had a grand day out ... lucky git!

More pictures will appear over the next couple of days on here and FaceBook

Sunday 26th August

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Scores Here

18:12 - Congratulations to Mike Collete - Junior National Champion 2007 - Prize giving at 18:30 in the Grey Hangar

17:53 - Preliminary Results excluding the Landout have been done ...
17:52 - MY is confirmed as landing out at Rattlesden
17:01 - MY is still unaccounted for ...
17:00 - All finished bar Land Outs: 503, JA9, DWQ, T16, KNE

15:36 - Never mind I'm goting to watch this ...
15:35 - SH2 1 min
15:35 - it is all to think and fast for me to cope ...
15:34 - EH 5km
15:31 -Finishers begin to call 10km etc

START FINISH RADIO FEED IS WORKING - radio feed

Dawn Goldsmith is now helping with Blogging as I go to see what is happening in real life ...
Starts: Start line opened at 13:13

149 - 37
168 -
178 - 22
17K - Withdrawn
194 - 50
296 - 22
424 - 45
486 - 55
503 - 18 - Land Out near Lavenham - 1TP
524 - 38
55 - 18
676 - 48
70 - 45
7Q - 14:04
844 - 15
873 - Withdrawn
96 - 23
980 - 27
C1 - 40
DWQ - 15 - 14:03
EC - 18
EGF - 40
FQB - 31
FRZ - 15 - 30
FZW - 27
GCA - 15
GW - 21
HNC -
HXH -
HXM - 19
JA9 - 14:02
JCF - 50
KEE - 18
KMC -
KNE - 20 - 30
KV - 14:07 - 14:13
MY - 22 - 14:32
N12 - Withdrawn
N16 - 23 - 50
NG1 - 24
P19 - Withdrawn
P20 - 43 - 14:03
PH - 22
R55 - Widthdrawn
RS - 17
SH2 - 19 - 10km - 1min
T19 - 24
T5 - 32 - 10km
WE - 57
X8 - 40

H/C
12 - 27
925 - 35 -10km
98 - 43
OL - 14:07
T40 - 25



13:33 - Starts are coming thick and fast

13:15: Start line opens. You can listen to the starts on the radio feed
13:05: Start line opening at 13:13 at 3,200ft
12:45: More than half the grid have launched
11:50: First launch at 12:15 on task A

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Tasks have been set:

Task A: TST - SMB - RAT - HTN - TIB
Task Type: Speed Task
Distance: 154.20km

Task B: TST - THE - RAT - HTN - TIB
Task Type: Speed Task
Distance: 104.61km

See the task map here

First Launch not before 12:00

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The day dawns bright - a weak cold front went through in the night so we are hoping for better conditions than yesterday.

Grid before Briefing on 03

Prizes

We have hacked SeeYou and set Y=0 to get some acurate scoring to use as the basis for giving out day prizes ... these will not officially be posted but I may get a chance to put them on here at some point ...

Day 1 - Saturday 25th August

21:09 - NON CONTEST DAY
The scorer has been waiting for the last loggers and didn't find the miracle pilot :(

18:29 - The Deputy Director has just returned from the wedding reception he had to attend - typical non pilots they ordered BBQ weather. I am just wondering if there is anything worse than a wedding reception where you can't drink or have your phone on to monitor progress.

18:28 - so now we wait for loggers from as far a field as Bury St Edmunds

17:51 - Everyone accounted for - 23 landouts and everyone else landed back
15:45 - 3 more landouts - 676, C1 and FZW
15:30 - Another 2 - KV and GW
15:26 - 5 gliders have landed out - FRZ, WE, T5, T19, 149
14:27 - First glider starts on task
14:20 - So far 5 gliders have landed back - 168, 296, 486, GCA and JCF - Relights have started
14:13 - All 60 gliders launched in 58 minutes
13:19 - Launching in Progress
13:10 - First launch at 13:15 at Task A
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Tasks have been set

Task A: TST - STD - CAS - PAP - ROU - TIB
Task Type: Speed Task
Distance: 198.72km

Task B: TST - STD - CAS - ROU - TIB
Task Type: Speed Task
Distance: 161.42km

See the task map here

First Launch not before 12:00

Good Morning

A hive of activity in control as the whole ensemble swings in to motion.

Briefing 11:00

Rig AND GRID before breifing

The truth

Weather suddenly improved

A few words of wisdom ...

.. from a Tug pilot.

If you work and do your best
You'll get the sack like all the rest

But if you laze and fuck about
You'll live to see the job right out

The job is hard, the pay is small
So take your time, and fuck 'em all

Because once you are dead you'll be forgot
So theres no need to do the lot

Or else on your tombstone, neatly laquered
These three words, JUST FUCKING KNACKERED

End of "Comp?" Party

The Juniors End of Comp Party will be Sunday 26th August so that all the pilots and organisers can take part



The following day is a Bank Holiday so no rushing back to work!



In the Hangar from 7:30pm - Bar and BBQ available



We have 3 Bands - one from as far away as Leicester

The Neutrinos




Official Website

MySpace Site

The Brownies




Official Website

MySpace Site

For The Record




Official Website

MySpace Site



Free entry for pilots and crew and gliding hangers on ...

Suicide Watch ...

... Ray and I are being kept under close supervision as we scrub for the 7th day running.

Prizes were given at briefing with the winner of the FW190 vs P51D dog fight claiming the winners spoils - namely the wreckage ...

Random Prizes were awarded to the Lady pilot who was most keen to sing in briefing and to those who found forks under their tables.

We hope that it will be locally flyable later in the day.

Mice got into the bar and control last night - one lot were polite and paid for their takings while the other lot broadcast over the Tannoy at 1am.

The resident baby sitter is struggling and is looking for a few replacements ... to buy him beer and supervise the bar until the wee small hours.

More later if I've not taken part in the game of Russian Roulette that Ray is proposing.

Can you name these muppets?

Are you reading ...

Take a close look around you table in briefing tomorrow.

Anything there you wouldn't expect?

There might be something in it for you ...

Random Photos

Lies damn lies and statitics - Eddie has a whole other cellar that you don't know about ...




Nick Smith's G-RUNT taking it from a pair of Robins




Well Claire has pulled then ...




No really! We are understanding all this stuff about AATs



Spider Pig

Laptop troubles

Thanks to all for the suggestions

There was actually very little water but I now have some fetching watermarks on the screen - here is hoping they will go away.

It is actually time to replace this - but as it has a Serial Port it is worth it's weight in gold.

Perhaps I can get work to get one for me???

Karting Yesterday

Best Lap Heat Winners were
Matt Waters - 21.930 seconds
Carl Hutson - 21.695
Rob - 21.590

We followed that with two finals (fast and slow) - overall winner of which was Ollie Barter - 20.952 secconds

Scrubbed

We actually scrubbed at 11:30 but were having too much fun listening to the British Team lecture on AATs and Starts - It has taken this long for me to be brought back to full consciousness.

No descision yet

Rebrief or Scrub at 12:00

Before hand the British Team are doing a lecture on AATs and Starting

Last night during the bar games my laptop took 1/4 pint of water on - it is now much heavier than it should be. I have turned it on once briefly and there is evidence of water in the screen. I am hoping it will dry. If anybody has any sensible suggestions on what to do please call Norfolk Gliding Club 01379 677207 and ask for me.

Some confusion

Jack mailed to say that he had no optimism yesterday ...

The optimism was purely a ploy to annoy the IC Boys who went to Parham (based on the WX)

Sounds like they have been sitting in the club house drinking tea the whole time.

Scrubbed today

Like all the other comps happening around the country we have yet to be blessed with the weather.

Horrid

Looks like we may be scrubbing before briefing ...

... today's plans include a trip to the Indoor Karting Centre in Ipswich