CGC collects Aero Club Awards
This last weekend, Alison and Johnny Navarro attended the prestigious annual "Aeroclub Awards" in Gauteng. The club is indebted to Johnny and Alison for travelling all the way to Gauteng to wave the CGC flag for us at the Aeroclub - especially as the considerable expense of attending the function was borne by themselves. What follows is Alison's report.
Peter
Weather for entire weekend in Johannesburg consisted of phenomenal thunderstorms, Saturday evening being no exception. The Aeroclub Awards event was held in Mark Beckley's "Skyraiders" hanger at Rand Airport. This hanger is especially rigged out for events of this nature and there were 27 tables set up for the approximately 250 guests - most of them wearing their green "Bokke" national colours blazers.
The Soaring Society was represented by Dave Mortimer and his wife June, Bob and Carol Clifford, myself and Johnny, and Brenda Bradley, together with Douglas and Jennifer Bradley.
The entire event was professionally organised and the master of ceremonies was Niel de Lange. The awards were handed out by the Aeroclub Chairman, Stan Oliver. It was a very proud moment for the Cape Gliding Club when the names of our five cross-country pundits were read out (Sven Olivier, Alan O'Regan, Martin Grunet, Reinhold Lawrenz and Peter Farrell), for whom I collected the awards. It was also an emotional moment when the two young Bradleys collected their colours! Peter will send out some photos of the event soon.
We saw a lot of "old faces" at the meeting, including Rainer and Barbara Freibose, and Dale de Klerk (Francois' brother).
What I discovered while there, is that the other Aeroclub sub-sections are also very proud of their members' achievements, and many of the microlighting and aeromodelling bodies had proposed their members for awards. Quite a few of these folk subsequently received certificates and trophies for their achievements. In future we at the CGC must look more towards nominating our members for the due recognition for their achievements in soaring, as they deserve similar recognition as in the other aviation disciplines. This in turn will have the effect of heightening an awareness of gliding in SA, especially Western Cape gliding.
The trophies received on Saturday will be presented to our pilots at our CGC annual dinner at Stellenbosch Flying Club on the 2nd December, 2005. Details of this event will follow later this week.
Alison
Peter
Weather for entire weekend in Johannesburg consisted of phenomenal thunderstorms, Saturday evening being no exception. The Aeroclub Awards event was held in Mark Beckley's "Skyraiders" hanger at Rand Airport. This hanger is especially rigged out for events of this nature and there were 27 tables set up for the approximately 250 guests - most of them wearing their green "Bokke" national colours blazers.
The Soaring Society was represented by Dave Mortimer and his wife June, Bob and Carol Clifford, myself and Johnny, and Brenda Bradley, together with Douglas and Jennifer Bradley.
The entire event was professionally organised and the master of ceremonies was Niel de Lange. The awards were handed out by the Aeroclub Chairman, Stan Oliver. It was a very proud moment for the Cape Gliding Club when the names of our five cross-country pundits were read out (Sven Olivier, Alan O'Regan, Martin Grunet, Reinhold Lawrenz and Peter Farrell), for whom I collected the awards. It was also an emotional moment when the two young Bradleys collected their colours! Peter will send out some photos of the event soon.
We saw a lot of "old faces" at the meeting, including Rainer and Barbara Freibose, and Dale de Klerk (Francois' brother).
What I discovered while there, is that the other Aeroclub sub-sections are also very proud of their members' achievements, and many of the microlighting and aeromodelling bodies had proposed their members for awards. Quite a few of these folk subsequently received certificates and trophies for their achievements. In future we at the CGC must look more towards nominating our members for the due recognition for their achievements in soaring, as they deserve similar recognition as in the other aviation disciplines. This in turn will have the effect of heightening an awareness of gliding in SA, especially Western Cape gliding.
The trophies received on Saturday will be presented to our pilots at our CGC annual dinner at Stellenbosch Flying Club on the 2nd December, 2005. Details of this event will follow later this week.
Alison
posted by CGC Reporter at 8.11.05
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