Pooleys Dawn to Dusk

[Seaking Susan]

Cannot find any threads on Pooleys Dawn to Dusk 2016. Anyone heard who won it?

[exlatccatsa]

I wanted to try it years ago, with a Mooney or such like, with 2 crew. Flying from Unst (EGPW) to Unst around the whole coastline of the UK (excluding Rockall). It should have been possible with an 0230 start and a 2330 finish... But although it's called a Dawn to Dusk, the rules say you can only fly something like 0530 to 2130, so not enough time for my idea with my chosen aircraft. Good luck though.

[Groquik]

On the FAI website Pooleys Dawn to Dusk Challenge 2016 (http://www.fai.org/cig-news/42561-dawn-to-dusk-challenge-2016) :

One of the oldest pilots to hold an FAI Sporting Licence is Flt Lt Russell "Rusty" Waughman AFC, DFC, Legion D'Honneur of 101 (Special Duties) Squadron of the Royal Air Force. At 93 years of age, Rusty has just completed the unique aviation challenge of the Pooleys Dawn to Dusk Challenge 2016. He flew with UK CIG delegate David Monks in David's Robinson R22 helicopter, G-ZAPY.

The tag line for the Dawn to Dusk Challenge is to "encourage the most interesting employment of a flying machine within the limits of competent airmanship and to demonstrate the capabilities of pilot and machine in a days flying during the hours between dawn to dusk".

David and Rusty flew to Rustys war time airbases - a flight of over six hundred miles lasting over 8 hours - read their unique adventure! Click on the link below to read the book.

[Helidogger]

I spoke to an attendee of the awards dinner and asked who won? They said they couldn't work out from what the speaker said how and what the winners had done exactly it was all a bit cringe worthy listening to the winner gush about his wife and how amazing she is and how surprised they were considering they made several attempts at the challenge.

[muffin]

I did it with a friend in 2001. We won the helicopter trophy but actually to put it in perspective we were the only helicopter entry. We went round about 38 old WW2 US 8th Air Force bases in a day starting about 0800 and finishing at 1700. The hardest part was actually the preparation which involved getting landing permission at 38 sites which were mostly farmers fields and involved months of correspondence, plus the documentation afterwards which took me weeks to do. Great fun though and a we saw a lot of very interesting places.

[SASless]

The admin burden and cost of such efforts in the UK alone should be worthy of an award!:ok:

My suggestion for a record would be to go right to the very tip top of the UK....set up a way to uplift fuel without touching down...and hover from legal Sunrise to Legal Sunset on the longest "Day" of the Year and then claim the longest duration flight in a helicopter without going anywhere.

Even if you had to pay a landing fee....it would only be the one landing.

Even then....I bet there are some who would get lost along the route.

[Helidogger]

I was following these fellas, would have been a good first for helicopters in the competition. And the navigator was 93!!!!! https://issuu.com/davidjmonks/docs/travelbooklargelandscape

[Seaking Susan]

What beats a 93 year old?? Any ideas??