UP COMING EVENTS
Our Next Events
ANR & SA Landing Championships - Brakpan
Event: ANR and Landing Championships
Date: Saturday 19th October 2019
Where: Brakpan Airfield
Programme: Arrivals & Breakfast 8.00,
ANR Briefing 8.00 am, First take-off 9.30 am,
Safety First Aviator lunchtime talk 13h00
Landing Briefing 13h30
Prize Giving at 16h00
This event will consist of an ANR of 2 rounds, followed by the National Landing Competition. With the Protea team fresh back from the World ANR Champs held in Portugal in August, and the excitement of watching the whole competition in live format, we will have the team on hand to mentor local teams in how to fly an ANR. There will be 2 rounds, with a precision landing.
Thereafter, the National Landing Championships with one round of 4 landings will be held with those that wish to enter can enter in Sportsman or Open Class.
Live tracking will be done for all to see on the airfield and anybody at home as well.
Organiser – Contact Jonty Esser e-mail: jonty@promptroofing.co.za cell: 082 855 9435
Entry Form Here:
http://www.sapfa.co.za/index.php/component/competition/?view=pilot
Rally Training in Stellenbosh - with International Participation
Rally Training will be held at Stellenbosch Airfield from Tuesday 29th Oct to Sat 2 Nov 2019. This is the first of two events leading up to the World rally Flying Championships that will include International team participation who are coming out for training and familiarisation of the Western Cape area, there will be teams from Austria, Switzerland, Poland, France. This is also a great opportunity to learn from these world champions.
Event: Rally Training as pre-cursor to Nov 2020 WRFC
Where: Stellenbosch Airport
Dates: 29 Oct – 2 Nov 2019
Programme: Arrivals & Breakfast 8.00
Daily briefings: 09:00
Training Rallies: 09:00 – 14:00 daily
Competition & Fun Rally: 2 Nov 09:00 – 14:00
Organisers – Frank and Cally Eckard
Contact frank.eckard@mweb.co.za Tel: 083 269 1516
Contact cally.eckard@mweb.co.za Tel: 079 695 366
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Obituary - Geoff Henschel
We say farewell to Geoff Henschel formerly from Bloemfontein who died suddenly on the 24th April 2016 of a heart attack in Melbourne, Australia.
He was a past committee member and chairman of SAPFA and represented South Africa many times in International Rally and Precision Flying Competitions.
Rest in peace our friend and gentleman of the skies.
2016 National Rally Championships in Brits
By Cally Eckard
The rally championships were hotly contested this year, with the prize being a place in the South African team to represent the country in the World Rally Championships in Portugal in September.
Stellenbosch Fun Rally
By Alewyn Burger
27 February 2016 was a beautiful day and one of those days that if you had a flying machine you just had to get airborne! So we made the flying even more fun by having our first Fun Rally for the year. Tony Russel from SAPFA (South African Power Flying Association) as always did not disappoint and worked out a cracker of a route, the hardest one to date! 17 teams from across the Western Cape and one from the Big smoke met at 8am for a briefing on proceedings. a Safety Briefing was then held by Space du Preez our resident Chief Flight Instructor. Maps and Clue sheets were then handed out and the confusion began!
Virginia Navigation Rally 2016
Virginia Navigation Rally 2016
Durban Wings Club hosted the annual Virginia Navigation Rally on Saturday the 5th March. While the skys were clear and sunny, a very strong wind was blowing down the coast, this challenged the competitors to slow their aircraft down while flying south and trying to get the most speed while returning up the coast.
PTAR 2016 - Provisional Handicaps
In an unprecedented move,
The South African Power Flying Association releases the 2016 PTAR Handicaps before Entries open
Chairman of the South African Power Flying Association, Frank Eckard stated that ....” due to the constant improvement in systems, methods and technologies, SAPFA is able to publish a List of Handicaps, for more than 260 aircraft that have competed in the PTAR over the last seven years, before entries open….…and 12 weeks before the race”
Competitors are encouraged to Click Here to view their handicaps.