Hello Everyone,
I hope this latest lot of bad weather hasn’t caused you too much trouble.
Where I am, it has rained heavily in the afternoon for the last 7 days, but it is a pleasant change from the usual sweltering 35˚C+
I have been told I can inform you about the competitions:
There are, hang on while I count on my fingers & toes, 14 trophies to be won, the first six are the main competitions that make up the seventh, the Grand Prix.
1, The overhead arrival at Lessay.
You will be assigned a time to arrive overhead, closest to your requested arrival time.
You will have points deducted for every second you are out from the scheduled arrival time.
2, The timed circuit.
As you arrive you will immediately start to fly a 5 minute timed circuit, stopping the watch when your wheels touch the ground on a touch and go.
Points will be deducted as competition 1
3, Spot landing competition.
On the climb out from the timed circuit, you will enter a shorter circuit to culminate in the spot landing; then taxi to the parking area.
You will have 1 hour on the ground at Lessay, during this time you will receive clues and prepare your navigation for the treasure hunt.
(A word of advice, bring a NW France chart, a ruler, a protractor and maybe a whiz wheel)
4, The Aerial Treasure Hunt.
You will depart from Lessay one hour after landing and the clues given for the Treasure Hunt. After the last waypoint you will fly onwards towards La Roque in Jersey.
(Your departure time will be recorded)
5, Timed arrival at La Roque.
We will calculate the time for you to fly the course and onwards to Jersey, based on the TAS that you supply to us.
Points will be deducted as competition 1
6, The Safety & Airmanship competition.
Upon arrival at the club you will be judged for safety practise and handed a written competition testing your knowledge.
(I can tell you to make sure you have information about all the airfields the rally visits this year)
7, The Grand Prix is awarded to the highest cumulative score of the first 6 competitions.
8, Concourse d’elegance.
If you think your aircraft will be the prettiest in the rally, enter it when you arrive and our judges will make a fair assessment of your pride and joy.
9, Longest distance flown to get to the rally.
If you want to enter this competition, tell us upon your arrival and we will judge your distance from your submitted Plogs and Flight Plans. Valid legs start at 05.00UTC on Thursday.
One year we had a winner that came from the South of England, but went to the far North of Scotland before turning around & coming back!
10, Surprise competition.
This is a fun competition on the Saturday, It can be anything from fishing for plastic fish, to a car treasure hunt around the island. Even I don’t know yet.
11, Inter Club competition.
This is a prize awarded to the highest scoring, in competitions 1 – 6, team entered.
A team is 3 aircraft or more.
12, Best First Time Entrant.
All people who attend the rally for the first time are entered into this sub competition; the winner will be the highest scoring, in competitions 1 – 6, ‘first timer’.
13, Best Competitor in a twin engined aircraft.
The competitors that do the best, in competitions 1 – 6, whilst flying a twin engined aircraft will win this prize.
14, Best low hour crew.
The crew that scores the highest points in competitions 1 – 6 but has a cumulative total hours figure of under 250 hours for all licence holders will win this trophy.
A competition for the newer and less frequent pilots amongst us.
I will post more information as I get it.
Happy Landings
FB
