{"id":13983,"date":"2012-10-21T20:23:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T10:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=13983"},"modified":"2024-07-23T15:59:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T05:59:18","slug":"kingaroy-club-soars-above-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/10\/21\/kingaroy-club-soars-above-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingaroy Club Soars Above Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kingaroy Soaring Club president Greg Schmidt with Australian Gliding Federation president Anita Taylor; the screen behind them shows real-time GPS tracking of gliders flying against a map of the day’s task<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

October 21, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kingaroy Soaring Club members have won both classes of the national gliding championships flown at Kingaroy Airport between October 8-19.<\/p>\n

Jim Crowhurst took out the Club Class with a total of 8342 points.<\/p>\n

John Buchanan won the Sports Class with 8530 points.<\/p>\n

Competition director Greg Schmidt, \u00a0president of the Kingaroy Soaring Club, said 38 gliders competed in the two classes; four of the pilots were women and there were two juniors.<\/p>\n

Other competitors included reigning Club Class champion Craig Collings, former world champion Brad Edwards, and Stephen O’Donnell who was the youngest pilot to represent Australia at a world championship, and the youngest Australian to complete a 1000km glide flight.<\/p>\n

The Club Class caters for older gliders, while Sports Class covers higher performance aircraft. The planes are also given a handicap which is set against their flight times.<\/p>\n

Each day, the gliders had the opportunity to score 1000 points, with points awarded for the distance travelled and the speed achieved.<\/p>\n

GPS logging equipment kept track of the gliders while they were aloft and the flight information was downloaded after landing to assess the pilot’s score.<\/p>\n

The pilots were assigned different tasks to complete on each day of the competition. \u00a0The fastest each day over the course won that leg of the competition, with points accumulating for the overall winner.<\/p>\n

Only two days of competition had to be cancelled because of poor weather.<\/p>\n

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Kingaroy Club member Stephen O’Donnell came 3rd overall in the Club Class<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Overall Winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Club Class<\/strong>
\n1. Jim Crowhurst, Kingaroy, 8342
\n2. Allan Barnes, Darling Downs, 7935
\n3. Stephen O’Donnell, Kingaroy, 7836<\/p>\n

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Former world champion Brad Edwards came 2nd overall in the Sports Class<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sports Class<\/strong>
\n1. John Buchanan, Kingaroy, 8530
\n2. Brad Edwards, Lake Keepit, 8342
\n3. Shinzo Takizawa, Soar Narromine, 7808<\/p>\n

Winners of the Club Class and Sports Class daily tasks are available on the Soaring Spot website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kingaroy club member Adam Woolley came fourth overall in the Club Class; he started the competition strongly, scoring 1000 points on Day 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Junior Champion Visits For Competition<\/h3>\n

An interested onlooker for much of the competition was Australian Junior Gliding Champion Andy Maddocks.<\/p>\n

Andy, from Boonah, has just returned from six months in Europe where he has been doing extra training for next year’s world championships which will be held in Poland.<\/p>\n

He has previously competed in the 2009 world championships in Finland and the 2011 world championships in Germany.<\/p>\n

The aircraft that Andy flies are very different from the gliders competing in Kingaroy.<\/p>\n

His plane has water ballast which can be released during the flight.<\/p>\n

“It is very different flying,” he said. “The whole momentum of the glider is different.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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