Blog Posts - Competition Enterprise

Enterprise 17 - it all starts on Saturday

6/29/2017

Follow the action at http://compenterprise2017.blogspot.co.uk/

I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it
I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it
And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know I......ahem, sorry, but it's exciting! :)

Enterprise 17 - Now fully booked!

3/18/2017

We have now reached the maximum capacity of 40 gliders for Enterprise 2017, but we are opening a waiting list in case there are any withdrawals. If you want to be added to that list please
e-mail CompEnterprise@Outlook.com

Enterprise 2017 - 30 place now booked!

1/18/2017

January 18th and already 30 places for Comp Enterprise 2017, to be held at North Hill, are now booked! Gliders from the mighty K6 up to flapped 18m exotica are ready to explore the skies...don't delay your entry, only a few places left!

Philip Wills Enterprise Trophy 2016 - Nominations Please!

12/17/2016

Each year the Philip Wills Enterprise Trophy is awarded by the Enterprise Club for the flight judged to be the most ‘Enterprising’ of the previous calendar year.

What’s meant by ‘Enterprising’? It could be a long flight exploiting different forms of lift by a high performance glider, perhaps on a day that no-one else did very much. It could be a flight that involved popping out of clouds high over the Scottish Highlands, or perhaps a long distance flight in a low performance glider, or a flight in an unusual location. Over the past few years, the trophy has been won by gliders from EB28 through an ASW20 to an Olympia 2b. Distances have varied from 75 km to 750 km. Locations have been just about everywhere from Cornwall, round the London TMA, to John O’Groats. What is it that all the winning flights have in common? They all have the WOW! factor. They are flights that make people go WOW! when they hear about them. Many would not have been eligible for any of the regular BGA trophies.

If you know of a flight made in the UK in 2016 that you feel has the WOW! factor, please nominate it for the trophy. Nominations should be made to the Secretary of the Enterprise Club, Andrew Reid at Andrew.G.Reid@BTInternet.com. Ideally, nominations should be accompanied by a short description of why you feel the flight should be awarded the trophy and an IGC logger file. Self nominations are acceptable. Nominations must be submitted by 31 January 2017, but preferably earlier!

Competition Enterprise 2017 will be at the Devon and Somerset Gliding Club, North Hill, from 1-8 July. You can find out more about Competition Enterprise at http://www.compenterprise.uk/. There are still a few places left – to register interest please ...

Thank you for being EPIC Matt.

12/6/2016

As you may be aware, Matt Wright sadly died last Sunday, whilst participating in the sport he loved. Matt was a truly wonderful person and great friend to many pilots. We will all miss his infectious laugh, wonderful film making and his amazing flying. Everyone at Competition Enterprise will miss him, as will everyone who knew him. Thank you Matt for being epic. X

New Blog!

7/2/2016

You can now follow the 2016 CE blog at the link below....

compenterprise2016.blogspot.co.uk/

And the winner is.....

3/3/2016

Winner of the 2015 Philip Wills Enterprise Trophy

2015 will not be remembered as one of the best of soaring years in the UK, but the Enterprise Club received a number of worthy nominations for the Philip Wills Enterprise Trophy. Strangely, the two runners up were the longest and shortest duration flights of those nominated!
The longest duration flight was also the longest distance flight. This was a flight by Nigel Mallender who, after taking off from Lasham at 6.30 in the morning, spent 12½ hours running backwards and forwards along the South Downs ridge between Butser Hill and Lewes clocking up well over 1000 km before landing at Parham at around 7.15 in the evening. Certainly a very impressive display of stamina and persistence!
In total contrast, a twilight Glider FX flight in the MDM Fox at the Weston Park festival by Ian Gallacher packed impressive aerobatics and pyrotechnics into about a 3 minute descent and certainly wowed the crowd. However, the consensus was that the trophy should be awarded for a soaring flight and there wasn’t much soaring in Gally’s performance!
This year, the trophy is awarded for two bold, declared flights in an ASH 25 in which the pilots attempted to complete an FAI 1000 km flight from Aboyne on an east – west route. Their plan was to start from Potarch Bridge east of Aboyne and then head west to turn Fladda-Chuain, a small island some 10 km north west of the Isle of Skye. From there, back across the sea and Scotland to turn Todhead on the east coast south of Stonehaven before returning to turn Kilmaluag at the northern end of Skye. Then back to Potarch Bridge to complete the flight.

The first attempt last October met 60 knot winds but crossed some 50 km of water to turn Fladda Chuain. They returned across the water and right across Scotland to turn Todhead before meeting a front half way back which prevented the return to Skye. The front forced abandonment. However, no less than 774 km of the task had been achieved. A further attempt on the task a few days later was also unsuccessful. This time, getting over the sea to Skye proved challenging, and getting back even more so. Then the wave collapsed and our intrepid pioneers were committed to ridge bashing for a while before getting back to altitude. This time, they struggled back to Aboyne contending with ever increasing amounts of cloud commenting that “going over the sea to Skye is much less stressful when there is 7/8 or more cloud cover when you can’t see how much water there is to cross, how big the mountains are and how few flat bits there are to land on”!

Having got beyond Skye to Fladda Chuain, perhaps Stornoway is the next turning point challenge, it’s only about another 25 km of water across to Lewis – or perhaps Skye’s the limit! Our pilots have not, yet, completed their task but, on the right day, it is clearly possible. They have pioneered a new 1000 km task and done most of it. For this, they are awarded the trophy. They are Roy Garden and Jack Stephen.

Welcome to Competition Enterprise 2015

7/4/2015

Competition Enterprise 2015 is upon us and we have 32 competitiors ready to fly enterprising tasks from Sutton Bank. You can follow all of the action via the YGC blog or the Competition Enterprise Facebook page - see the links below.

Book mark these pages and follow all the epic flying and derring do!

Less than 2 months to go - 31 entrants and counting!

5/10/2015

With less than two months to go until July 4th, the 2015 Competition Enterprise entry list is filling up nicely. With over 30 entrants so far, Sutton Bank is getting ready for a great week of fun, flying and finishing! There is still plenty of time to enter, either via e-mail to CompEnterprise@Outlook.com or directly on the YGC website

Come and join us at Sutton Bank on July 4th for (probably) the best competition in the world!

2015 Comp Enterprise entries are rolling in!

4/4/2015

The 2015 Competition Enterprise looks like being a cracker, with well over twenty pilots having entered as of the end of March! With gliders ranging from K6s through to jet and electric powered exotica and pilots from 16 to, well, "much older than 16", all of gliding life will be there.

There is still plenty of time to enter, either via e-mail to CompEnterprise@Outlook.com or directly on the YGC website

Come and join us at Sutton Bank in July for (probably) the best competition in the world!