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Feel free to forward this on to your clubs webgroup, or any of your junior gliding club members. This year is set to be EPIC, if people support this one, I can see that critical mass could be achieved :) ENTHUSIASM, CREATES ENTHUSIASM – so if you meet the entry requirements, please submit an entry or expression of interest! Internodes Australian Junior Gliding Nationals 2011, aka JoeyGlide! First of all, don’t let the word nationals scare you off, this event is aimed at having a great time with like minded junior pilots as the primary purpose! Just imagine hanging out with 50 or more junior pilots for a week of soaring, afternoon activities and chatting the tall tales of your gliding adventures – awesome! After another successful Junior Nationals – thanks to Angus Stewart (CD), ‘Super John’ Hudson and his hard working team at the Waikerie Gliding Club – it’s time to start thinking about the next great year of the comp that has always been known as JoeyGlide! We’re aiming to make this one of the biggest and best yet, and with your participation I guarantee you’ll have a great time. This letter I plan to introduce you to the Australian junior gliding movement, who is eligible, and how you can be involved in the upcoming junior nationals. Let’s get straight to the point! Event Dates: 10th to 17th of December, 2011. Location: Kingaroy, Queensland. Gliders: Sports Class limited to 15m wingspan. Water ballasted competition; however gliders (or pilots) that fly without water ballast will have an appropriate handicap applied. Competitor age limit: 25 years or less at the beginning of the championships, however we will be allowing 26-30’s to be at the championship as mentors. Coaching available for solo junior pilots, wishing to transfer from gliding to racing - POW! History: The current junior gliding movement started back in 2002 at the Queensland Easter Gliding Competition. Despite a staggering 50+ entries, I was astounded to realise I was the only junior anywhere near the event - and not actually competing! Something clearly had to be done. Recently solo and enthusiastic I got together with the only three other juniors (Anne-Maree Dearden, Ben Thompson and Dan Truitt) I knew at the time from Queensland to hold the first junior gliding meet out of Kingaroy. These meets moved around to different clubs once a month, and slowly gained momentum as more young pilots got involved. It wasn’t known to me at the time, but the Southern states were also gearing their juniors up. Tom Claffey, Miles Gore Brown, Bruce Taylor, Paul Mander and Bruce Campbell were spending their holidays helping juniors make the transition from flying to racing. It wasn’t until the initial junior webgroup was brought to life, that all the juniors in Australia were able to unite into one strong movement. The actual name JoeyGlide I believe came from a number of influential people at a Gulgong meet, until finally Nick Gilbert came up with the winning name! It wasn’t until the 2003/2004 season that JoeyGlide was actually born into what we recognise today. Mitchell Turner, with his team, was the first to take on the reins as CD in 2004, which was the start of something great. It was held at the Temora, NSW airfield and attracted 15 single seat entries and numerous coachees. Since then JoeyGlide has been led very strongly over the years by Nick Gilbert and Heath L’Estrange – without these key guys, JoeyGlide could have fallen over after the third year. We’re now organising our 8th nationals and we want you to be a part of it! JoeyGlide 2011: So who do we want at JoeyGlide 2011? The definition of Junior throughout the gliding world is those who are 25 years or less at the start of the competition. But to attract even more numbers and fun to the event, we’ve decided to up that age to allow mentors from the age 26-30 as well! Those whom are under 26, will go into the running to be declared the Australian Junior National Champion, and have the chance at being selected to represent Australia at the Junior World Gliding Championships. As with other years, all those with ‘C Certificates’ will be eligible to compete in the single-seat class. The good news is that the coaching section is open to all entrants. This is a great way to build confidence in your soaring cross-country ability, to prepare yourself for future events (junior and senior), and to have fun with like-minded individuals at the end of the day. We’re hoping to run this in two seaters such as DUO Discus, DG1000, ASK21 and the like. And all attendees are welcome to morning lectures and post-flight de-briefs on the day’s weather, racing and general action. These will be run by some of our leading National coaches, even an International competitor that has already locked in his family for the event. Of course this will entail lots of group discussion to help get the most out of this great opportunity! How to be involved: The easiest way to get in touch with the junior soaring movement this year is through the facebook group called: ‘JoeyGlide 2011’ (130 members and growing!!), which is becoming a great tool for communication, feedback and a number of laughs! Thanks also to Heath L’Estrange and his supporting company Web Adventures, we now have the new and updated junior mailing list through our very own site: www.joeyglide.com.au; It is here that you’ll find all the information on how to join the webgroup, have a chat among like-minded individuals, add some banter and get into the hype of the juniors in Australia. At the JG website, you’ll also find all the information on the previous junior nationals, coming nationals and the like. Another great JoeyGlide outcome is the Australian Junior Gliding Club. Find information about the club, its very own glider – an IS28 thanks to some key investors – news, links, events and more! Check it out at www.ajgc.org.au ; What gliders will race?: After careful consideration, and again listening to the juniors as to what configuration they wanted to race their sailplanes cross country in, we decided on a competition with sports class gliders (eg, from SZD 51 Junior to LS8 to ASW27) limited to 15m wingspan, and to allow water ballast. Don’t let this deter you, though, if the glider you’ve managed to get your hands on can’t take water ballast, or you don’t wish to fly with water – you’ll receive an appropriate handicap advantage. Coaching: A part of the long standing success of JoeyGlide has been the coaching that we’ve been able to provide to the juniors of Australia. A large part of this success has been because of Paul Mander. Using his time off each and every year, Paul has tirelessly been there to share his passion, skill and experience to the juniors. I am pleased to announce that Paul will again be the head coach for the event, and below he plans to let you all in on the opportunities, fun and progression to be had through coaching! So who is eligible for coaching at JoeyGlide? In short, everyone from solo standard to the experienced cross-country junior pilot. Though past experience has taught us that the requirements are quite focused and specific. Generally speaking we don’t have a call for advanced coaching, because anyone who has progressed to that level (Silver C and above) are probably competing. We like to use Duos and DGs, as they’re easily flown by all juniors. Likewise, high performance by the coaches, aimed at “showing them how it’s done”, is not what we’re about. We want the pilots to do it for themselves, and so do they. Thus the coaching is generally pitched at the introductory level. That is, we take young, sometimes very young and very inexperienced, pilots who want to build up their cross country flying skills but who may not yet have got beyond the circuit. We find that with a coach in the back, even very low hours pilots can explore this new environment, wherein they make their own plan, navigate, find lift, manage safety issues and the myriad other things that have to be addressed, and fly themselves around a set task each day. The coach’s role is to be helpful, offer advice where appropriate, take over if things get out of hand, but otherwise encourage the pilot to fly him or herself around the task. Occasionally we find that we have someone who has progressed past this early stage and who wants more advanced coaching prior to participating in competition. That is always a pleasure, and the coaches enjoy responding to the opportunity to work with someone at a higher level. We hope to attract Juniors who want to fly cross country but may not yet feel they’re ready, or who want to fly competitively but who are still unsure whether they’re ready. Come along, have some adventure, some challenge and a lot of fun! Stay tuned for more updates, which you’ll find at www.joeyglide.com.au ; Safe Circles everyone, can’t wait to see you at JoeyGlide 2011!! Adam Woolley Competition Director 0438784688 SPONSORS!! INTERNODE! www.internode.on.net On behalf of the Australian Junior Gliding movement, we’d love to thank Simon and his Internode team for continued long term support of the JoeyGlide event! Please check out their website at www.internode.on.net “Internode is an Australian owned, national Internet services provider. We love the Internet - and Internode delivers so much more than just an Internet connection.” Gliding Queensland! "To Foster, Promote and Develop Gliding throughout the Region" We have an amazing culture up in Queensland due to the massive support we all receive from GQ, so come up and have a glide one day, month or year! Thanks to Dave Donald and his team for helping the juniors out this year. I assure you it will be one to remember! For all your news, info on Queensland Clubs, development, history and heaps more – please check out: www.glidingqueensland.org.au **Swift Avionics Thanks to Mark Fisher of Swift Avionics (http://www.swiftavionics.com.au/), JoeyGlide is yet again able to lead the way in competition soaring in Australia. This year we’ll be running the fabulous new device called the DittoLog (www.dittolog.com) in 25 of the competitors glider. This device brings you wirelessly online flight sheets, online logbooks, online accounting interface. DittoLog saves time, improves efficiency and money! Where we’ll be leading the way though, by the time that the junior gets out of their cockpit, they’ll have been scored! SimJet Thanks for providing some great prizes and sponsorship for this and future years JoeyGlide, we’ll be sure to announce them in the coming issues! Come and try your hand at flying a Boeing 737 simulator, Nick Kranenburg will make the simulator available at a special hire rate for any member of the GFA & HGFA when it’s not being used by a airline academy! Check it out at www.simjet.com.au ; Go Soaring “Products for the soaring enthusiast” Thanks again to Al Sim of Go Soaring, who has been a great supporter of JoeyGlide over the years – by providing prizes, shirts and his enthusiasm for the sport. Check out his website: www.gosoaring.com.au WebAdventures Thanks to Heath L’Estrange for hosting the JoeyGlide website, his support has made my life much easier on the web front! Web Adventures is an Australian business based in Adelaide providing specialised Web Hosting, Design, and Marketing services to customers. We pride ourselves on providing a level of service that makes your website development project as pain free as possible. Please check out: www.webadventures.com.au ;
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