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Coming events: Wave Camp Lecture - Tuesday 21 July 19:00h 2009 Wave Camp - Sunday 26 July to Friday 7 Aug Members’ Day—Saturday 9th of May
BSS members once again turned out in force to enjoy a fun day of flying activities and an evening BBQ at Beverley. During the day there was serious competition to take out each of the three events.
Richard McLean proved himself to be unbeatable in the streamer cutting competition by achieving an outstanding 9 cuts. He managed to do this by using great flying abilities and some very interesting rule interpretations. His closest competition came from Jason Peck who managed 5 cuts. The spot landing competition proved difficult to master with most competitors being disqualified. However, John Welsh finally triumphed in this event in the DG1000 with his visiting French niece Anne Claire. Stephan Friedrich proved to be the master of the flour bombing competition achieving a distance of 11m from the target.
Easter Regatta 2009
Owen Jones again acted as MC at the Easter Regatta, Saturday being the best day with both Tugs launching 17 gliders for a two hour task. The day boomed and heights of 13 -14,000' were experienced. 14 gliders started and all got back with Greg Beecroft winning in his Cirrus 75 at the blistering speed of 104 kph. Most went round at 80 to 90 kph. Owen was slow but achieved the longest flight of the Regatta with 314kms. Thursday and Friday were enjoyed by a smaller fleet, with tug pilots getting some retrieves in. Easter Sunday was sunny, but abandoned as too windy. Monday, it rained, no flying.
Friday 20th February 2009
Greg Beecroft, one of our senior instructor/coaches, is having a stellar year in gliding, having flown a 750 and 800 km task in his Cirrus 75 this season, finished second overall in the State Competitions, flown with Ingo Renner during the State Coaching Week and capped it off by flying the first WA 750 km task in a two-seater glider with Jim Howe in the club's DG 1000.
2009 WA State Coaching Week
Four times World Champion Ingo Renner was the Coach-in-Residence at Beverley between the 6th - 15th February. Ingo flew in the DG1000 with some of WA's experienced and up and coming X-country pilots, to pass on some of the experience gained from his 34,000 gliding hours.
2009 WA State Championships
Several Beverley members competed at Narrogin between the 14th to 24th January, see Welshie's Blog here, and the Competition website for results here. Congratulations to Greg Beecroft for 2nd place overall and first in Standard Class.
The Beverley Team (Greg Beecroft, Daryl MacKay and John Welsh) took off the Team Trophy.
2008 Southern Cross Expedition
Thursday 27th November - Sunday 7th December
Bigger and better than last year, the Expedition Blog is here. It was a beauty with over 60 cross country flights, Fitzy did 898kms, Greg 750, Owen and Allan 600+ks, Welshie a couple of 500s, Cookie his first 500. At 8th December, BSS was Number 1 Australian Cross Country Club on OLC.
2008 Wave Camp
Sunday 20 July to Friday 1 August 2008
Report from Grant Rookes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am2sgVwzm88 The Beverley Soaring Society held its annual wave camp this year from 20th July to the 1st August, in the rural surrounds of the Stirling Ranges using the airfield situated on the west side of the Stirling Range Retreat and Caravan Park. The Club set up its remote flying actives alongside the caravan park enjoying a spectacular view of Bluff Knoll and the surrounding national park. This year there was only a small BSS contingent who braved the pilgrimage south to fly against the challenging and unpredictable conditions of the great southern land. Unfortunately no one from Cunderdin took advantage of the availability of a tug and the away party but we were entertained with John Kenny for Narrogin who joined us as tow pilot and retrieval expert. Thirteen members with five single and one two seat sailplanes and CSN made the trip south and the weather was the usual mix of fine days and rain with strong squalls. This year we were lucky and only had a few early mornings with heavy ice to cause delay to the early morning exploration sorties. During the two week period wave conditions were present for 4 days when the atmospheric activity was indicated by beautifully layered lenticular clouds stacked up above the range. Members contacted strong lift on two of these days. Grant Rookes achieved the highest altitude of camp with a nippy 15,500 ft in the club’s single seat Astir GDA and Matt Bell reminisced and embraced the fresh conditions with cold feet at 12,000 ft in KYK just below. Of course where there is lift there is rotor which Peter Busher enjoyed so much… but that’s another story for around the camp fire.
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