April 2006 Newsletter

Flying in and around Switzerland in the mountains.. Please try landing on the indicated runway first.. I flew these in the summer and winter. The scenery is just beautiful. Of course the BONUS flight does not have winter. Only summer. Everything is default.**

Again, NO Turbo’s or Choppers. Please.

Welcome to New Pilots

bgak016	Baz
bgad053	Matthew Forbes

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	David Evans	First Officer
bgas015	Terry Treadwell	First Officer
bgad052	Bernie Ryan	First Officer

Bluegrass pilots hours for March

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 1^st, 1930 through December 31^st, 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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