The Horsham SGP was not promoted widely with only a mention on the WGC
website and a post in the WGC Facebook page. It was never directly
promoted to the pilots coming to WGC even though the WGC organisation
had the ability to do that. Making a couple of un-targeted references
was never going to achieve anything. They should have targeted the
individual pilots and invited them.
They could have sent all the completing WGC pilots a personal invite via
email, they had access to that info, they could have put a post on each
countries team Facebook page, they could have sent a message via
Facebook to each of the competing pilots who had their own Facebook
page. So they had an opportunity to sell the SGP to the overseas WGC
pilots but perhaps lacked some GFA / WGC support.
This is no criticism of the people who organised the SGP, they did a
great job and produced the best SGP to date that achieved good local
sponsorship and involved the town and excellent media penetration.
Maybe they will do better this year, there are opportunities with
visiting O/S pilots if they get it right.
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From: "'Ray Stewart' via Gliding Australia Forum"
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To: "Gary Stevenson" <gstev...@bigpond.com>; "'Ross McLean'"
<ross...@bigpond.net.au>; "'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in
Australia.'" <aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au>;
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Cc: "'Beryl Hartley'" <arnie.hart...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, 20 Feb, 2017 At 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: [gfaforum] Congratulations to the Two Seat Championship
Winners
As first time attendees, Ros and I can vouch for just how special this
comp is. I certainly hope this has worked out well for the Narromine
club, who put in a huge effort to make the comp a success. It would be
terrific to see more gliders taking part in 20m class, open class and
perhaps even club?
Most importantly, we would like to spread the positive feedback so that
others who are considering having a go, turn up next year.
Thanks again to the Narromine crew!
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On Monday, February 20, 2017, 8:47 pm, Gary Stevenson
<gstev...@bigpond.com> wrote:
Hello Ross,
Yes! I totally agree with all your comments. Well done all.
Having said that ......
Re the Narromine Gliding Club, I have to ask, was this great effort
financially rewarding, given the small entry list?
I also have to ask the same question of the Wimmera Flying Club, who ran
a great Grand Prix event, at Horsham recently. Again the entry list was
small. [The Club President recently announced that the Club has put
their hand up to host the next round for this region.]
At Horsham I was particularly surprised at the lack of international
entries, given that international pilots were in abundance in Australia
at this time. Perhaps Terry Cubley (wearer of many hats), might like to
make an informed comment here?
Regards
Gary
From: Ross McLean [mailto:ross...@bigpond.net.au]
Sent: Monday, 20 February 2017 1:42 PM
To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.';
gfafo...@glidingaustralia.org
Cc: 'Beryl Hartley'
Subject: [gfaforum] Congratulations to the Two Seat Championship Winners
Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Two Seat nationals
at Narromine.
Narromine showed her best and toughest sides during the competition and
the winners are very worthy pilots indeed.
It was a very closely fought competition with only 107 points between
first and third places in 20m and only 103 points separating the top 3
in Open Class.
At the end of the day David & Lesley Jansen emerged as winners in both
classes. Well done guys, Congratulations!
A special vote of thanks and congratulations to the Narromine Gliding
Club for running such an outstanding competition again this year.
In the Open Two Seat Class, the top 3 winners were:
#
CN
Contestant
Club
Glider
Total
1
KDX
David & Lesley Jansen
Kingaroy
Duo Discus
6,038
2
XXF
Ron Sanders & Peter Sheard
Grampians Soaring Club
Nimbus 3 DM
5,983
3
ZAB
David Holmes & Allan Barnes
Lake Keepit Soaring Club
Duo Discus T
5,935
A special mention for Ray and Roslyn Stewart who were only 32 points
behind 3rd place in the Narromine Duo Discus WVS!
In the 20m Two Seat Class the top 3 winners were:
#
CN
Contestant
Club
Glider
Total
1
KDX
David & Lesley Jansen
Kingaroy
Duo Discus
6,169
2
ZAB
David Holmes & Allan Barnes
Lake Keepit Soaring Club
Duo Discus T
6,056
3
WVS
Ray & Roslyn Stewart
Kingaroy
Duo Discus
6,022
But look how close the scores are! It was anybody's competition to win
right to the last moment.
ROSS
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