This is a perfect event for those with little or no experience in such an event as well as those that have attended many such rally’s - A great way to hone those nav skills and have a good time doing it.
Briefing will be at 9AM in the hangar(same hangar used for the breakfast on the south of the E-W taxiway). See details for trikes lower down
Breakfast and refreshments will be available.
The nav course will be 70 nautical miles long and each aircraft will be fitted with a GPS logger.
There will be a briefing on Friday evening, the 5th December, with boerewors rolls, for the trikes / weight shift aircraft. A cash bar



Entrance fee is R100.00 to cover the hire of loggers and batteries + maps etc.
Frank Eckard and Mary de Klerk (both members of the Protea Flying team) will be hosting this event with the sole purpose of teaching you HOW TO FLY A RALLY. Why would you want to do this? Lots of reasons:
1. Improve your general flying skills
2. Improve your safety factor
3. Building Hours with a real purpose
4. Detailed Map preparation
5. Learn to map read and navigate your way around a course
6. Learn to fly accurately on a time based system
7. Enroute Observation
8. Sharpening up landing techniques
9. Achieving Provincial or National Colours
At the last Fun Rally Challenge held at Baragwanath, 21 Teams entered, learned a lot, had a bunch of fun, and left the airfield better off than they arrived.
WHAT MUST YOU BRING?
Not much except for
1. An Aircraft (Can maintain a speed of 60 – 130kts)
2. Pilot & Navigator
3. Protractor, Rulers, Pens, Pencils, Highlighters, Scissors, Prestik
4. Digital Stopwatch
5. Map – 1:250 000 (We will provide)
6. Minute Marker (We will provide)
For more information please call Frank Eckard on 083 269 1516 or Mary de Klerk on 084 880 9000.
To enter, please send an email to frank.eckard@mweb.co.za with your:
Name
Event
Aircraft
Call Sign
Nominated Ground Speed.
See you there

