April 2006 Newsletter
Toughman Challenge #16 by Ron Jorgensen
Flying in and around
Again, NO Turbo’s or Choppers. Please.
Welcome
to New Pilots
Pilots earning Promotions
bgas057 |
Tom McCoy |
ATP Captain |
bgad047 |
Geoff Boardman |
First Officer |
bgak006 |
Bert de Vree |
First Officer |
bgad048 |
Les Smith |
First Officer |
bgad005 |
Terry Howell |
Sr. Captain |
bgak015 |
First Officer |
|
bgas015 |
Terry Treadwell |
First Officer |
bgad052 |
Bernie Ryan |
First Officer |
Brian Wilson |
BGAD002 |
10.62 |
graeme |
bgad004 |
34.70 |
Terry Howell |
bgad005 |
27.03 |
Sid Tatton |
BGAD007 |
6.82 |
Ed Burke |
bgad011 |
95.47 |
Barry Theodore |
BGAD012 |
7.20 |
John Lawler |
bgad017 |
43.43 |
Gayngel van den Ing |
bgad022 |
41.68 |
Norm Holman |
bgad026 |
36.58 |
Smithy |
bgad032 |
29.72 |
John Gilbert |
BGAD033 |
22.93 |
Frank van Tongeren |
BGAD036 |
22.42 |
DON MOORE |
BGAD042 |
43.15 |
Norm Daniels |
BGAD046 |
33.33 |
Geoff Boardman |
BGAD047 |
21.62 |
Les Smith |
BGAD048 |
23.52 |
Bernie Ryan |
BGAD052 |
8.07 |
Brent Brazeel |
bgak001 |
4.98 |
Bert de Vree |
bgak006 |
0.77 |
Coleman Green |
bgak011 |
1.50 |
Joe Porter |
BGAK012 |
26.03 |
David R. Evans |
bgak015 |
17.65 |
Pat Daley |
bgak029 |
5.67 |
Ron Jorgensen |
BGAK030 |
36.75 |
Tom Burrill |
bgak033 |
4.42 |
Paul van den Berg |
BGAK036 |
14.63 |
Milt Chambers |
BGAK043 |
20.37 |
Bob Welch |
BGAK060 |
2.08 |
Allan Lowson |
bgam007 |
40.82 |
Paul Roth |
BGAN 016 |
20.23 |
Joe Weber |
BGAN002 |
43.78 |
Stef |
BGAN009 |
3.23 |
John Franco |
BGAN011 |
11.30 |
george adair |
bgan012 |
28.45 |
Achim |
bgan019 |
31.37 |
Guy Goddard |
bgan023 |
2.42 |
John Kolmos |
BGAN029 |
7.83 |
Meryl D Coon |
BGAN038 |
3.38 |
GEORGE LEACH |
BGAN039 |
69.27 |
Paul Mensch |
BGAN047 |
38.38 |
Bill Von Sennet |
bgas001 |
50.37 |
Ed Wells |
bgas004 |
15.87 |
Bill Agee |
bgas006 |
45.58 |
Terry Treadwell |
BGAS015 |
4.48 |
Lyle Hasty |
BGAS017 |
7.72 |
Charles Wert |
bgas039 |
7.07 |
Jim Urquhart |
BGAS041 |
167.03 |
Dean Johnson |
bgas044 |
25.07 |
Bill Hendrix |
bgas046 |
43.08 |
AP Hendrix |
bgas047 |
6.23 |
Greg Evans |
BGAS055 |
26.15 |
Tom McCoy |
bgas057 |
101.28 |
Patrick Stewart |
bgas060 |
34.17 |
GAAR 2006 is over, thanks
to all the pilots who participated and made it the best ever.
Great
Aussie Air Rally History
gaar 2002 was a race and was limited to 4 aircraft. The Cessna Bobcat, de Havilland Beaver, DC-3
and the Stinson Reliant.. Bill Von
Sennet devised the itinery, co-ordinated the event and maintained the
web-site. Each aircraft only competed
against identical aircraft.
gaar 2003 opened the field and included an efficiency factor based
on fuel used and payload carried. Brian
Wilson devised the itinery, Tom Goodrick devised the scoring and helped with
the manual processing of pireps. Bill
Von Sennet co-ordinated the event and maintained the web-site.
gaar 2004 was wide open and aircraft were judged based on a formula
using the cruise speed for the prototype of their aircraft. This was more of a rally than a race as the
goal was to come closest to the prototypical performance of your aircraft. Points were detracted for faster or slower
than normal performance. 221 pilots
registered, 179 pilots started and 127 pilots completed all 41 sectors. A real time pirep/roster and scoring system
was provided by Todd Whitehead. Rob Finn
devised the itinery. Bill Von Sennet
co-ordinated the event and maintained the web-site.
gaar 2005 removed the competition element and the constraints of
having to fly within a particular time period.
348 pilots signed up, 258 pilots started and 103 pilots completed all 54
sectors flying a total of 7,481.78 hours.
The itinery was devised by Rob Finn.
Todd Whitehead provided the real time pirep and roster system. Bill Von Sennet coordinated the event and
maintained the web-site.
gaar 2006: Participants were
required to fly a test flight over a measured course which established their
aircrafts normal cruise speed. 182
pilots signed up. 167 pilots flew a
total of 3,630.53 hours. 141 pilots
completed all 20 sectors. The course
did not circumnavigate the entire continent, but was limited to the south east
quadrant. Aircraft were limited to
those flown in the period from January 1st, 1930 through December 31st,
1959. Bill Von Sennet devised the
itinery, co-ordinated the event and maintained the web-site. William Fowler (gaar155) created the Award
Medals. Carl Phillips (gaar123) and Cory
Phillips (gaar083) created the certificates and e-mailed them out to all who
finished. Dave W. created the logo with
the flag and kangaroo. Tom Goodrick was
helpful with the Excel Spreadsheet Formulas, and creating the VTimer that many
pilots used.
Don’t forget to
check out the forum and screen
shot pages.
That’s all for
now,
Bill Von Sennet
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