Wednesday, 29 August 2007

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

Monday, 27 August 2007

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, 26 August 2007

Sunday 26th August

To see the latest version of this page please "refresh"

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17K - Withdrawn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873 - Withdrawn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N12 - Withdrawn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P19 - Withdrawn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

Saturday, 25 August 2007

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

Friday, 24 August 2007

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.

Thursday, 23 August 2007

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.

Wednesday, 22 August 2007

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

Tuesday, 21 August 2007

High Speed Astir

After scrubbing we decided to modify an Astir - Mike Fox and Adrian Hatton are providing the technical expertise after Comp Director Ray Hart spotted the potential


Scrubbed

It appears the earlier optimism was unfounded.

Fallen back to Task B

Gliders are gridding on the fall backtask

Some people elected to go home for the night and we haven't seen them yet ...

Cloud bases are 2,200' at the moment and first launch is expected to be 14:00 when we get the clearance from the North Sea which promises a 2:30 window.

Tasks have been set but a grid time is not set - yet

Task A - BSE - SMB - MEN - 147km

Task B - NWI - EDE - GRF - 115km

Winners from Monday ...

HNC Crew - Bob Grieve - lent me a jet washer last weekend, I left it for him in the workshop. We then spent an hour yesterday looking for it. It was definately not here. Bob then went home and tripped over it in the garage.

55 Crew - Michael Pozerskis & Ben Lnagrick - Having been told not to drive in to the camping area as they would get stuck - did it, got stuck and covered the Webbs caravan in mud.

PH Crew - Eric "Houdini" Dibbard - Get cable tied to a chair and still managed to drik his pint

2 Seater P2 - Colin Field - Won the 4 hour 50 min epic Monoploy game - He got a t-shirt and a £5 "it's a wing thing" voucher.



Tue 21

Briefing delayed to 11:00

Rig before briefing BUT DO NOT GRID

BBC News ...

... we had a good slot on the BBC - except for the bit where they said we had cancelled - WE HAVE NOT.

Brief before ...

Briefing is at 10:00

Monday, 20 August 2007

BBC Look East

Have just visited and we are going to be on BBC 1 at 18:30 tonight

Monday 20th - Scrubbed

The Team coming to some hard descisions

The Met says it all

Press Day

The Press Day dawns with more rain ... BBC Radio Norfolk are sending Wally Webb to interview some pilots at 08:15 ... I've got to go and find some likely suspects - however all is quiet.


Hear it here on BBC Radio Norfolk


Steve Poz, Colin Field and Lucy from Waitrose talking to Wally from Radio Norfolk

Sunday, 19 August 2007

Sunday Grid and stuff

The grid just before the heavens opened


It rained a bit




Mike Fox plays with the AGA's DG1000T

Saturday Night in the Club House

A selection of some photos - many more are on Facebook at this link




How many CFIs does it take to hold the bar up?




Ellie and Claire

Rain rain rain



Outside the clubhouse

Briefing pics














The competition team















Competitors



















Wetterjack

Day Scrubbed

There's thunder and lightning and no-one wants to take a winch launch.

It is now p*ssing it down

Sunday 19th

Rebriefing at 12:15


Gliders have gridded - an AAT is set.


See map

Briefing at 11:00

not looking good at the moment

last night...







Saturday, 18 August 2007

Sunday Briefing

Briefing will be at 10:00 on Sunday Morning

in the Grey Hangar

Saturday Scrubbed

Next briefing 10:00 Sunday 19th August

Last night