February is coming around quickly.  We have 14 official entries with an additional 6 certainties, so 20 so far.  This is a record early entry for HW. Details of pilots entered can be viewes using the Horsham Week / Entries tab.  Please get your entry form in and if you pay before Christmas, the fee remains at $100, pay after Christmas and the fee is $120 in total.  Entry’s can be PDF’s to the Contest Director or mailed, the address is on the entry form which can be downloaded.

Payments as follows:

The best way to pay the fee is by EFT details below:

• Account Name: Horsham Week Gliding Competition
• BSB: 063 543
• Account Number: 1018 3744

The less preferred alternative is to make a cheque out to the Horsham Week Gliding Competition and post to the treasurer, Chris Thorpe at PO Box 2184, Melton South, Vic 3338.

Horsham week is less than 90 days away, so please get your entry forms in.  You can print off the form (under documents) and email it to the CD, David Cleland or post it.  The address is 13 Montrose Crt, Greenvale, 3059.

The new Australian National Gliding Championships Competition rules version 2, dated July 2011, has been released (PDF document, GFA website).

We may have to amend our local rules to take account of the changes and that will be announced in the next week or so.  The HW comp uses the national rules with some changes via the local rules.

In order to ensure we have the right amount of tugs, some of which need to be ferried from afar, we are keeping our entry fee these comps the same as previous provided entry forms and the $100 entry fee  is paid by December 23^rd. Payments made after that will incur a $20 late fee.  The best way to pay the fee is by EFT details below:

Account Name: Horsham Week Gliding Competition

BSB: 063 543  Account number: 1018 3744

The less preferred alternative is to make a cheque out to the Horsham Week Gliding Competition and post to the treasurer, Chris Thorpe at PO Box 2184, Melton South, Vic 3338.

New sealed runway 17 / 35 Horsham is completed and fully operational.

 22 metres sealed width with vertical  lights and not flush as we asked and hoped for at 30 metres width. [ GRRR!! ] Length 1170 metres;   [not the exact figure ]  versus east / west 08 / 26 runway at 1320 metres. 

Flush runway strip markers still to be installed. 

Approx 800 metres x 80 metres  [ ? ] of unofficial grass strip acquired for an eventual taxiway for new 17 / 35, west of the new sealed strip and  south of the existing hangar line  is being used by aircraft and gliders. This may also be used as a glider parking area as 17 / 35 will, we hope, as the Council engineer promised, be operating under a notam for 17 / 35 during HW similar to previous years.

Runway strips which we might eventually use for operations are being negotiated at 37.5 metres instead of 30 metres from lights out to our immovable requirement for flush markers.