Pilot Sailplane Comp No Club Peter Sheard ASH 25 8 London Gliding Club Robin May ASH 25 13 London Gliding Club Richard Cole Ventus (17.6m) 24 RAFGSA Clevelands Frank Davies LS 6C (17.5m) 25 Coventry Gliding Club Gary Stingemore Nimbus 3 DT 26 Four Counties Gliding Club John Glossop Nimbus 3 DT 29 Cambridge University Gliding Club David Findon Nimbus 4 DT 48 Bidford Gliding Centre Ted Lysakowski Ventus 2 (18m) 58 Lasham Gliding Society Steve Jones Nimbus 3 DM 60 Lasham Gliding Society Ralph Jones Nimbus 4 82 Lasham Gliding Society Chris Rollings DG 500 97 Booker Gliding Club John Gorringe ASH 25 BB Lasham Gliding Society Paul McLean Nimbus 2 N2 RAFGSA Fenland Tony Burton LS 6C (17.5m) 148 Black Mountains Gliding Club Mike Thick ASH 25 171 Yorkshire Gliding Club David Innes Nimbus 3T 176 Lasham Gliding Society Ken Hartley ASW 20 BL 196 RAFGSA Bicester David Gardiner Kestrel 19 363 Scottish Gliding Union Victor Tull Kestrel 19 415 London Gliding Club Derek Taylor ASW 22 (24m) 499 Yorkshire Gliding Club John Giddins DG 202/17 515 Oxford Gliding Club Mike Bird ASW 22 (24m) 527 London Gliding Club Adrian Hatton Nimbus 2 C 599 Yorkshire Gliding Club John Spencer DG 600 (18m) 601 London Gliding Club Andrew Wright Kestrel 19 617 Yorkshire Gliding Club Tony Moulang ASH 25 666 Kent Gliding Club Kevin Pickering LAK 12 783 Southdown Gliding Club Mike Foreman ASH 25 925 RAFGSA Fulmar Christopher Lyttleton ASH 25 942 Booker Gliding Club Adrian Hegner LS 6C (18m) 949 Booker Gliding Club Phil Jones Nimbus 3 DT 954 RAFGSA Fenland Al Clarke Ventus (17.6m) R24 RAFGSA Cranwell Simon Adlard Janus CT tba Midland Gliding Club David Allison LS 8 (18m) tba RAFGSA Bicester Rodney Witter Ventus 2 CT W54 Glyndwr Soaring ClubThe BGA Open Class National Championships will be held at Enstone Airfield, Oxfordshire, from June 8th to June 16th, both dates inclusive.
Under the new BGA rules for competitions in 1996 it will be mandatory for every pilot to carry a Flight Recorder.
Validation of all flights will be by computer analysis and evidence from Flight Recorders may be used to verify any possible airspace infringements.
Flight Recorders are now used for primary evidence with cameras used only for back up evidence.
Ken Sparkes,
U.K. Open Class Nationals, 1996 on soaring.geichhorn.com