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AIR RACE AIR RACE

BRITS ANR - NATIONAL

CHAMPIONSHIPS

By Rob Jonkers

very successful air navigation

Arace nati onal championships
was held by the South African Power The navigator has the unenviable task of keeping the pilot on the
Flying Association at Brits airfield, span- straight and narrow, and the pilot has to keep checking that the Overall, for the four combined routes Jonty and Jonathan Esser

ning three days from July 25 -27. navigator is doing his job. Two routes were flown on Friday and the came in first place. With the landings combined, the overall ANR

The event was the qualifier for the se- other two on Saturday. champions were Thys vd Merwe and Mary de Klerk, followed by

lection of the national team to represent The courses all had 10 legs (with the exception of route three Jonty and Jonathan Esser in second place and Tony and Pam Rus-

South Africa at the World ANR champi- with 11). This meant on average the legs were around 1 min to 1.5 sell in third place.

onships at Santa Cruz beach airfield in min in length, making flying these short legs quite daunting, as one In the sportsman’s class Leon Bouttell and Karen Purchase took

Portugal in September. is hardly on a leg when you have to think about turning onto the first place, Shane Britz and Karen Stroud came second and Hendrik

This newest form of power flying sport next leg - and keep track of the time. Loots and Pieter du Plessis came third.

still needs to gain momentum in the First off were Jonty and Johnathon Esser in a C150 at 10h15 This event was enjoyed by all. The national participants have

country. With so much going on in the followed by the rest of the field in five minute intervals. Some were made the cut-off of 20% of max score and they were selected to

rally arena in preparation for our 2020 longer if their aircraft was used twice by different crews. The next represent South Africa at the world championship this year in

World Championships, the ANR has round started at 12H30, with the last crews in by 14h00. Then the Portugal. Q
taken a backseat - the last event was big task of logger downloads, analyzing and printing results.

held in 2017. The Nationals Team selected to represent South Africa at the Worlds For route 1, Shane Britz and Karen Stroud had the best result

This meant most participants were ANR event in Santa Cruz Beach, Portugal in September 2019 with 393 penalties, and for route 2 Jonty and Jonathan Esser with

somewhat rusty and in the run up 72 penalties. It was very clear if you made a mistake, to recover

many teams were practicing some old compete in an ANR event. For the Thursday, Jonty Esser provided from it proved to be quite difficult. A landing competition was held

and practice routes. four practice routes, thus the teams had the benefit of practicing in the afternoon with a barrier landing and a glide approach land-

Held over three days Thursday was going to be a practice day, how to prepare the map and fly the routes to assess how well they ing. Hans Schwebel was the winner with a score of 44 points.

with Friday and Saturday as the nationals. could maintain their track inside the navigation corridor. For route 3, Tony & Pam Russell aced it with 15 penalties for

Being winter, the weather outlook promised to be good except In an ANR, there are two objectives, the first being on-time at timing at the end point and no corridor excursions. For route 4 Rob

for Saturday which had morning fog in the Johannesburg region the start and finish gates, each second early or late attracts three Jonkers and Martin Meyer came in with 99 penalties - although as

delaying the arrival of some teams and the wind picked up some- penalty points. The second is to remain inside the corridor which in competition director having plotted it a few days earlier probably

what. this case is 0.4 nm wide (+/- 800 m); any excursion outside the cor- gave them a little bit of an unfair advantage.

For this ANR, Rob Jonkers took up the role as competition direc- ridor also attracts three penalty points per second being outside

tor, having to solve some unfamiliar finicky scoring software. the corridor.

Eleven crews took part with five Proteas team aspirants ready to The four routes to be flown were each at around 25 nm, and

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