Flying Competitions

The CCAC Flying Competitions are held on the 2nd Sunday of each month, commencing around 11am. All pilots and students (at any level) are most welcome, there is an instructor on board at all times.

Entry fee is $50, and a BBQ lunch is provided.

The competitions are an excellent opportunity to keep current and to also safely hone and test your flying skills in many aspects including:

• Forced Landings
• Engine, Equipment& Instrument Failures
• Blind Circuits
• Short & soft field takeoffs
• Instrument Navigation, and
• Spot Landings

Flying competitions enhance your skills and make you a better pilot. It's interesting to note that some of the better performers in our comps are students as they are often more current than some of our senior licensed pilots. Even if you don't wish to compete, come and enjoy the BBQ and watch the goings on!

November Competition

We gathered on the 13th November for the final competition of the year. James was inducted for his
first exposure as our air judge. Lovely conditions for flying but a little choppy at low level.

This month's procedures were:

Soft field take off and climb as directed to 1500' whereupon 45 degree left and right turns were executed. This was followed by a glide approach to a spot landing abeam the clubhouse.
Touch and go, into right hand 1000' circuit with a flapless spot landing.
Low level 500' left hand circuit to a spot landing, flaps and speed at pilot's discretion.
Safety and airmanship influenced the air judge’s scoring. Spot landing points were 20, 10, 5 with zero points for landing short (crashed and burned).

Sounds easy? Well flying from the right seat, with points subtracted for out-of-balance make it a little more attention seeking. You need to consider parallax when looking at the Turn and Bank indicator from the right seat.

Most pilots handled the flying with a reasonable degree of skill, but the points were in the spot landings. Quite a few pilots were not quite coordinated with throttle and control wheel at the critical landing phase and ended up landing short – right seat flying requires a bit of practise. Only one pilot (the winner) scored on all three landings.

Results

1st	Trevor Walshe
2nd	Warwick Gallea
3rd	Anthony Greentree

The first comp for next year is on Sunday 12 Feb 2012, see you there!

Fred Weiss & Trevor Walshe
Club Captains

2011 Full Year Results

The flying competition awards were presented to the winning pilots at the presentation night on Saturday 3rd December. Congratulations to the following winners:

Event	1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place
Point Score	Peter Hobson	Rob Browne	Fred Weiss
Championship Rounds (Apr/Jul/Oct)	Fred Weiss	Dennis Hunt	Peter Hobson
Teams Trophy	"Red Team" Trevor Walshe & Julian Burson	"Gold Team" Phil Jones & Roger Gates	"Green Team" Brian Potts & Paul Bennett