Articles Rally (Page 5)

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Entries for the 2016 President’s Trophy Air Race as at 24/05/2016. Entries are now closed, any further changes will need to be done at registration in Bethlehem. See you there!

No	Reg		Pilot	Nav	Confirmed	Entry paid	Tickets	Banquet Tickets	Handicap	Test Flight
1	ZU-FWB	Van’s RV10	Grant Raubenheimer	Vincent Anderes	Confirmed	3150	600	2	0.0	First time entry
2	ZS-CBB	Piper PA-28-180	Robbie Myburgh	Robert Myburgh (snr)	Confirmed	3150	0	0	0.0	Handicappers request
3	ZS-IBX	Beech E33	Johan Doubell	Johannes Coetzee	Confirmed	3150	0	0	171.7	0
4	ZS-EPR	Cessna 182K	George Karatzas	Arthur Karatzas	Confirmed	3150	0	0	133.0	0
5	ZU-EZS	DynAero MCR-4S 02	Allen Lange	Rohan Lange	Withdrawn	0	0	0	0.0	First time entry
6	ZS-BLV	Britten-Norman BN.2A	Christiaan du Plessis (Jnr)	Mauritz du Plessis (Snr)	Withdrawn	0	0	0	0.0	No historical data
8	ZS-BJR	Beech A36	Jan Visser	Rene van Niekerk	Confirmed	3150	500	?	173.7	0
9	ZS-NDO	Cessan 177RG	Paul (Tjop) de Vries	Renier Kuhn	Confirmed	3150	0	0	135.3	0
10	ZU-DCB	Lancair Legacy	Dieter Bock	Dale de Klerk	Confirmed	3150	0	0	216.0	0
11	ZS-PBX	Mooney M20F	Neil Grobbelaar	Gary Stroebel	Confirmed	3150	0	0	146.5	0
12	ZS-KJB	Cessna 210N	Willie Griesel	Chris-Albert (Boebie) Hattingh	Confirmed	3150	0	0	172.3	0
14	ZS-JWG	Cessna 182P	Piet Ferreira	Johan van Gruting	Confirmed	3310	900	3	137.9	0
15	ZU-XML	Ravin 500	Calle Hedberg	Mike Visagie	Confirmed	3150	0	0	180.2	0
16	ZS-IZG	Cessna 210M	Leon Koekemoer	Andre Koen	Confirmed	3150	0	0	167.2	0
17	ZS-ACA	Cirrus SR22	Tony Petter-Bowyer	Chris Shillaw	Confirmed	3150	0	0	180.3	First time entry
18	ZS-ECK	Cessna 182H	Eduard du Plessis	Hubert Wentzel	Confirmed	3150	0	0	135.0	0
19	ZS-MEA	Piper PA-28R-201T	Percy Rudman	Percy Rudman	Confirmed	3150	1200	4	161.3	Throttle Stop
20	ZS-LGZ	Cessna TR182	William Einkamerer	Cliff Lotter	Confirmed	3150	0	0	0.0	Not enough historical data
21	ZS-CAF	Cessna 172M	Bennie du Plessis	Cilliers Manser	Confirmed	3150	0	0	114.5	0
23	ZS-WAP	Piper PA-28R-200	Philip Jacobs	Nico Smith	Confirmed	3150	0	0	0.0	Handicappers request
25	ZU-ACY	Aermacchi AM.3C	Ivan Marx	Martin Marx	Confirmed	3150	0	0	113.6	0
26	ZS-LML	Cessna 182T	John Lehman	Judy Lehman	Confirmed	3150	0	0	146.3	0
27	ZS-EJS	Cessna 182H	Coetzee van der Merwe	Jan Randell	Confirmed	3150	0	0	131.2	0
29	ZS-RTB	Piper PA-28R-200	Deon Loots	Hennie Stander	Confirmed	3150	0	0	139.4	0
30	ZU-FZJ	Van’s RV-6A	Eddie Scholtz	Lourens Eksteen	Confirmed	3150	600	2	167.2	0
31	ZS-SDW	Diamond DA42 TDi	Steve Dewsbery	Donald O’Connor	Confirmed	3150	300	1	166.4	0
32	ZU-FNI	Van’s RV-10	Nicolaas de Witt	Izak Venter	Confirmed	3150	0	0	0.0	Handicappers request
33	ZU-IFY	Sling	Glynn McGregor	Candice Jones	Confirmed	3310	0	0	0.0	First time entry
34	ZS-FDZ	Piper PA-28-235B	Christa Greyvenstein	Johann van den Berg	Confirmed	3150	0	0	143.9	0
35	ZS-KHM	Piper PA-32-300	Donovan Bailey	William O’Driscoll	Confirmed	3150	0	0	0.0	Handicappers request
36	ZS-MDK	Piper PA-34-200T	Karl Eschberger	Gustav Eschberger	Confirmed	3150	0	0	173.5	Throttle Stop
37	ZS-DYD	Mooney M20E	John Sayers	Jack Coetzer	Confirmed	3150	300	1	0.0	Handicappers request
38	ZS-MWO	Mooney M20J	Wynand Lotter	Andreas Papachristoforou	Confirmed	3310	0	0	0.0	No historical data
39	ZS-FFL	Cessna 210T	Mark Bristow	Quinton Warne	Confirmed	3150	600	2	0.0	Throttle Stop on Changed aircraft
41	ZS-ALE	Cessna T182T	Roger Dyason	Peet Claassen	Confirmed	3310	0	0	150.2	0
42	ZS-JIE	Cirrus SR22	Alex Dyason	Johan van der Hoven	Confirmed	3150	0	0	181.3	0
43	ZS-OXZ	Cessna C182T	Adriaan Kleyn	Elmie Kleyn	Confirmed	3150	0	0	147.9	0
44	ZU-IHH	Van’s RV7A	Johan van Eeden	Cor Esterhuizen	Confirmed	3310	600	2	0.0	First time entry
45	ZU-LAX	Van’s RV7A	Eric Addison	Mario Febbraio	Confirmed	3150	900	3	174.5	0
46	ZS-KLY	Beech F33A	Mark Moses	Glen Bennett	Confirmed	3150	0	0	172.4	0
47	ZS-MEJ	Cessna T210M	Petrus Burger	Albie van Zyl	Confirmed	3310	600	2	176.4	0
48	ZS-KSW	Cessna C182R II	Louw van Reenen	Riaan Pretorius	Confirmed	3150	0	0	140.1	0
49	ZS-JTG	Cessna C182Q II	Danie Crous	Jaco Minaar	Confirmed	3150	0	0	137.6	0
50	ZU-FHM	Van’s RV-8	Ross Leighton	Richard Adcock	Confirmed	3150	0	0	177.0	0
51	ZU-FUM	Pipistrel VirusSW100	Stoffel van Zyl	Martin Grunert	Confirmed	3310	0	0	139.7	0
52	ZS-CNY	Cessna 210	Phil Wakeley	Scott Wakeley	Confirmed	3150	600	2	155.0	Competitor request
53	ZU-DUU	Jabiru J400	Piet Meyer	Alan Hussey	Confirmed	3150	0	0	123.7	0
54	ZU-EAR	Vans RV7	Mark Dethian	Werner Hattingh	Confirmed	3150	0	0	0.0	First time entry
55	N4217P	Piper PA23-160Apache	Bryan Belcher	Trevor Davids	Confirmed	3150	0	0	145.8	0
56	ZS-OBC	Cessna 210	Charl Starke	Yeager Starke	Confirmed	3150	0	0	179.1	0
57	ZU-FCE	Van’s RV-8	Dawie van Staden	Wayne Schmidt	Confirmed	3310	0	0	181.0	0
58	ZS-JDF	Cessna 177RG	Gustav Bester	Helius Smit	Confirmed	3310	0	0	137.1	0
59	ZS-IFY	Cessna C177B	Chris Shaw	John Shaw	Confirmed	3150	0	0	125.9	0
60	ZS-EUB	Mooney M20F	Kobus van der Merwe	Sarel van der Merwe	Confirmed	3150	0	0	142.9	0
61	ZS-GKN	Pipistrel Sinus 912	Henk van Rooyen	Jacques van Wyk	Confirmed	0	0	0	0.0	Throttle Stop ?
62	ZS-PFD	Cirrus SR22T	Victor Coreia	Derek Bird	Confirmed	3150	0	0	181.6	0
63	ZS-JVL	Stinson 108-3	Jan Grey	Ryk Pretorius	Withdrawn	3150	0	0	0.0	No historical data
64	ZS-BNA	Beech F33A	Hennie Bisschoff	Dries Bisschoff	Confirmed	3150	0	0	175.2	0
66	ZS-IGY	Beagle B121 SerII	Duncan Finch	Brad Rademeyer	Confirmed	3150	0	0	116.6	0
67	ZS-PFN	Beech H35	Mike Finch	Sandy Bayne	Confirmed	3150	0	0	160.3	0
68	ZS-FVV	Piper PA-28-235	Johan Whiteman	Christo Fick	Confirmed	3150	600	2	137.6	0
69	ZU-DJC	Van’s RV8	Daan Conradie	Hendrik Visser	Confirmed	3310	0	0	0.0	First time entry
70	ZS-KTN	Piper PA28RT-201T	Don Bekker	Etienne Bekker	Confirmed	3310	300	1	161.3	Throttle Stop
72	ZS-JHH	Socata Rallye 235E	Hendrik Coetsee	Gert Rautenbach	Confirmed	3310	600	2	0.0	No historical data
73	ZS-PLE	Cirrus SR22	Shaun Barron	Hedley Davidson	Confirmed	3150	0	0	182.2	0
74	ZU-KAI	Flight Design CTSW	Kai-Uwe Neckel	Tyrone Mcintosh	Confirmed	3150	0	0	120.0	0
75	ZU-MPH	Van’s RV8	Johnie Smith	Neil Terblanche	Confirmed	3310	0	0	0.0	First time entry
76	ZS-MYB	Beach BE33	Joggie Prinsloo	Rufus Dreyer	Confirmed	3150	0	0	173.6	0
77	ZS-VSA	Cessna C402B	Koos Kruger	Willie Linde	Confirmed	3150	0	0	197.5	0
78	ZU-JVZ	Jabiru J400	Sean Curran	Colin Maggs	Confirmed	3150	0	0	123.7	0
79	ZU-TCD	Van’s RV10	Ed Deschamps	Piet Truter	Confirmed	3150	0	0	175.0	Throttle Stop?
80	ZS-ERO	Cessna C182J	Hubert Wentzel	Jurie Nysschen	Withdrawn	3150	0	0	137.9	0
84	ZS-ELN	Piper PA-28-180	Christoff Le Grange	Francois du Plessis	Confirmed	3150	0	0	125.1	0
85	ZS-CHL	Beech BE58	Tertius Myburgh	Adrian Barry	Confirmed	3150	0	0	196.5	0
86	ZS-JEF	Piper PA-28-235	Philip Cronje	Bart Linde	Confirmed	3150	0	0	140.4	0
87	ZS-ITU	Beech C23	Anthon Meyer	Marius Von Wielligh	Confirmed	3150	0	0	115.0	0
88	ZU-EIE	Jabiru J430	Danie Kritzinger	Yvonne Kritzinger	Confirmed	3150	0	0	123.7	0
89	ZS-HME	Beech C33A	Ivar Joubert	Shaun Stander	Confirmed	3310	0	0	163.2	0
90	ZS-MKB	Cessna T210N	Andre Tonkin	Douw Wentzel	Confirmed	3150	0	0	175.6	0
91	ZU-SNG	Sling	Sean Russell	Andrew Pitman	Confirmed	3150	0	0	0.0	First time entry
92	ZS-FPI	Cessna C182M	Tina van Wyk	Mathys Joubert	Confirmed	3150	0	0	138.7	0
93	ZU-FWA	Van’s RV-7	Mark Bunning	Jason Bunning	Confirmed	3150	0	0	175.1	0
94	ZS-KTO	Piper 600 Aerostar	Gerhard van Zyl	Colin Jordaan	Confirmed	0	0	0	211.2	0
95	ZS-DBP	Cessna 182P Skylane	Jaco Schoen	Bertie Wessels	Confirmed	3150	0	0	135.3	0
96	ZU-BHX	Piper PA-22-150 2-WH	Craig Reid	Warren Penny	Confirmed	3150	300	1	113.7	0
97	ZS-CTP	Cirrus SR20	Janice Ray	Jonathan Smook	Confirmed	3310	1800	6	152.7	0
98	ZS-IXL	Grumman AA-5	Michelle Steele-Smith	S Geldenhuis	Confirmed	3150	0	0	116.7	0
99	ZS-MTR	Cessna C210N	Johan La Grange	Yolande La Grange	Confirmed	3150	600	2	166.5	0
101	ZU-FVA	Jabiru J430	Willie Uys	Frans Maeder	Confirmed	3310	0	0	123.7	First time entry
102	ZU-FSP	Sling	Carel Hoffman	Cyril Manser	Confirmed	3150	0	0	0.0	First time entry
103	ZU-IHI	Vans RV7	John Petrie	Brandon Petrie	Confirmed	3310	0	0	0.0	First time entry
104	ZU-FWY	Sling 2	Pierre van der Merwe	Sandy van der Merwe	Confirmed	3150	0	0	118.9	0

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To all who have entered the Shelia Taylor Nav Rally – Krugersdorp on the 14th May, please take note that has been postponed due to weather.

The majority opinion is that the weather in the Krugersdorp area on Saturday 14th May is going to get in the way of safe flying.

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Virginia Navigation Rally 2016

(by Rob Jonkers – Photos Cheryl Smit, Mike Wright and Rob Jonkers)

Durban Wings Club hosted the annual Virginia Navigation Rally on Saturday the 5^th March. While the skys were clear and sunny, a very strong wind was blowing down the coast, this challenged the competitors to slow their aircraft down while flying south and trying to get the most speed while returning  up the coast.

My navigator Martin and I flew down in the Reims the day before from Wonderboom without a cloud in sight all the way, and not even the traditional haze experienced in coastal areas.

The rally was organised by Mary de Klerk, this being her home stomping ground, knowing the area well. Friday afternoon was spent at the flight school of Durban Aviation Centre who hosted their facilities for Mary to give a lecture on the intricacies of flying a rally and for the fun teams to register and start their route plotting to be ready for the next day.

Thereafter everybody chilled at the pool side of the Durban Wings Club for a boerie roll braai before turning in for the night.

On Saturday morning competitors started arriving at 7.30 for the briefing and to complete and check their plot. The Open teams had to wait for their papers as the plot is done in the aircraft. The first aircraft was off at 9h30 with the route southbound with the start point at Cooper’s Lighthouse, then further down the coast all the way to Ifafa Beach, and then turning inland.

The wind was around 20 knots down the coast, making it very tough to keep to the nominated speed, all the teams zig-zagging and crabbing along the course at full flap, most could not keep to their allotted time over each check point, as the wind pushed them south.

After Ifafa the route got more interesting and difficult, now the wind was from the front requiring full power to compensate, and the terrain rising as well. Finding the next check points throughout the peaks and valleys not an easy task, especially for the Vaalies only being used to the flatlands up north, and then finding that elusive waterfall at checkpoint 6 which was probably a dry waterfall had many competitors lose the track including us, making recovery at the following checkpoints difficult to achieve.

The finish was over the old Durban airport and then return to Virginia via the harbour mouth for a long final onto Runway 05 for a spotlanding on a black line which was elusive to see on the black tar runway against the contrast of the sun, and also had to contend with windshear as the wind the dropped off being blocked off from the seawards facing dunes.

All in all a real fun day in challenging conditions. In the fun class 1^st place went to Troy Marais & Darren Holstead who flew a C150

  

And in the open class 1^st place went to Frank & Cally Eckard in a C172. In the landing competition 1^st place went to Bennie du Plessis and 2^nd place to Rob Jonkers in a C152 & C172 respectively.

Thanks extended to the Durban Wings Club, especially Cate Juselius for hosting the event and run by the enthusiastic Mary de Klerk, the two flying schools Durban Aviation centre and Virginia Flight School for supporting the event with entrants, and Tyrone from Comav Insurance all the way from Gauteng supporting the event with wonderful prizes of an enraved leatherman for each of the winning team,  as well as photographer Mike Wright who donated aviation magazines as prizes.

By Alewyn Burger

27 February 2016 was a beautiful day and one of those days that if you had a flying machine you just had to get airborne! So we made the flying even more fun by having our first Fun Rally for the year. Tony Russel from SAPFA (South African Power Flying Association) as always did not disappoint and worked out a cracker of a route, the hardest one to date! 17 teams from across the Western Cape and one from the Big smoke met at 8am for a briefing on proceedings. a Safety Briefing was then held by Space du Preez our resident Chief Flight Instructor. Maps and Clue sheets were then handed out and the confusion began!

Tina & Adam from Mossel Bay in their Cessna 182 and Mark & Tony in one of the Club’s Cessna 172’s.

Sean Carson and his better half Annie on top of things!

Ulu spying on my navigator Nicholas.

Derick’s day job is being in command of a Embrear Regional Jet at Airlink and he reckons this is why God invented co-pilots but he’ll give a try! Too bad after he finished his planning he realised he forgot the hangar keys at home! Hahaha!

Bertie and Jaco made it all the way from Wonderboom. Welcome to the fairest Cape Gentleman!

Husband and Wife team Gudren and Jesse Roos flying their Husky.

Ex Mirage F1 Fighter Pilot and SAA Captain Piet Truter showing young Alan the ropes on his 18th birthday!

Deon and Stuart figuring it out.

After everyone finished Tony hung up the master map just to make sure everyone has the correct turn points. With his experience he was happy to help everyone on the right course.

So after we all gave Tony our desired ground speeds, the take off and turn point times were calculated and off we went with our loggers in hand!

On track!

Spotting one of the observation photos! Mark it on the map for no penalty!

Another observation photo spotted! Fork in the road with a puddle next to it.

Back at the Clubhouse for some prize giving!

Part of the challenge was a spot landing back at Stellenbosch! To no surprise Piet is making a fine aviator out of Alan as he nailed the landing by landing a mere 1 meter from the line giving him first place in that category! Tony congratulating the winners.

In 3rd place Nicholas and me (Alewyn) in our RV6. Proudly the first taildragger and low wing. Sean, your beer is looking dismal and it appears you are aware of it..!

Frank wearing appropriate apparel as 2nd Place it was him and Instructor Marko Nel in a Flying Club Cessna 172.

And in 1st place, Martin Venn and Springbok Rally Pilot Mauritz du Plessis in a Cessna 172. Well done gentleman! They walk away with some Flying Club Golf shirts, rulers and other aviation goodies.

Final Results.

In the end we are all winners because we get to have that cold one with like minded aviators after a great morning up there roaming the African skies!

See you all at the next Rally, in the meanwhile, be safe and keep polishing those basic flying skills!

 

SAPFA Rand Airport Challenge – 30 January 2016 by Rob Jonkers

The South African Power Flying Association held the 12^th Consecutive year of the Rand Airport Challenge on Saturday the 30^th January 2016. It was an excellent weather day for flying, with no convection clouds brewing, although there was around a steady 15 kt easterly wind. This attracted 14 teams to participate in the rally, 5 in open class and 9 in the fun class, with 4 newbie first timer teams, which is a welcome sign that there is good interest in the sport.

Everybody had arrived by 8.30 and after a hearty breakfast at the Harvard Café, briefing started at 9.00 given by the competition director for the day Frank Eckard who explained the planned route details and with the route being close  to the JHB CTR (colloquially known as the “holy land”….), explained the consequences of getting lost near that big runway…  The fun teams were handed out their route details and had plenty time to carry out the plotting with the route already laid out, while the open class teams were given 45 minutes to carry out the plot before engine start and were given blank maps and a task sheet with a choice to plot in the aircraft or in the briefing room – this proved to be a no brainer… who wanted to be out in the cockpit with a hot sun beating down on them.

Then, the mission of getting started and slotting into the airport traffic pattern which was very busy this day given the good weather conditions, everybody was out flying so the controller had her hands full getting the participants to get off the ground at the take-off slot time, many got off late, including us with an 8 minute delay, thus getting to the start point in time was difficult to say the least. The route flown started south of the silver ball then further south past Kliprivier and the Sedibeng brewery (which had a leg photo that had to be recognised)  then along the scenic southern perimeter of the Suikerbosrand, then up north over the marshlands of the Marievale bird sanctuary, then west past Springs with some short twisty legs all the way back to the finish point nearby Romeo Delta and with the tail wind getting the aircraft slow enough proved challenging.

With everybody back safe, some lunch with a few cold ones cracked open while Frank & Cally tallied up the scores and downloaded loggers. Prize giving was then held with the fun class being won by Ago Perreira and Chris Linakis who walked away with the Rand Trophy.

The Open class was won by veteran team Adrian Pilling and Mary de Klerk with an excellent score of 27.

Many thanks extended to Frank & Cally (Cally worked out this marvellous route) for the organising, and the sponsors Comav, Avimap & ACL for support and prizes.

The next rally is at Virginia on the 5^th of March and then the Nationals competition on the 15^th of April.

 

 

     

The Peter Hengst Memorial Fun Rally was held at Brits on Saturday 21 November with 7 teams having entered.

The event was split with 3 teams electing to be scored under Fun Rally scoring rules and 4 team being scored under advanced scoring rules.

The challenging route made for some interesting results.

Sean Murphy and Carl were clear winners in the fun class with a score of 560 followed in second place by Andrew and Hugh Lane with a score 1520 and with Nic Christodoulou and Andre Kluyts in third place with a score of 1648.

The competition in the open class was a lot tighter with the first 3 places being separated by only 61 points.  Frank and Cally Eckard took first place with 532 points, Hans Schwebel and Ron Stirk in second place with 562 points and Rob Jonker and Martin Meyer in third place with 593 points.

As usual the Brits Flying did not disappoint and provided a fantastic venue with good food and cold drinks.