The entry fee for the Regionals will be just £170, the best value of any competition on the calendar with the promise that, if we don’t achieve 3 scoring days then pilots entered in the 2012 Regional competition will get a £50 discount on an entry into the 2013 Lasham Regionals competition. This week in June is a double bank holiday week with Monday 4th being the spring bank holiday and Tuesday 5th Diamond Jubilee bank holiday so there is even more incentive to enter the Regionals as less leave from work will be needed.

The competition will be run by the same experienced team as ran the two 2011 competitions with ex lasham CFI Terry Joint directing and Rob Jarvis as deputy director and task setter. The highly regarded Hugh Brookes has agreed to come to Lasham to do the meteorology for the competition. We will have to put a limit on the number of Regional places available at 60 but do intend to split the entry into 2 classes with the split dependant on the glider handicaps.

Please contact lasham office by phone or email to put your name on the list, which is open now. Please be prepared to be asked for a £50 deposit, this is returnable if you need to withdraw your name from the list at any time.
If you have any questions or enquires please do ask at the Lasham office or feel free to email me at ggarnett@madebyi.com and if i can help, I will.

See you on the grid!
Graham Garnett

  
Terry Joint has agreed to be Director of the May competition with Rob Jarvis as his deputy and as task  setter. The rest of the team will be the usual people who get together each year to ensure that the Lasham competitions are the best run competitions in the country.
 

Do you have a Bronze C? Are you close to your Silver? Perhaps you’ve just got it or expect to get it on the first decent day of next season?  Maybe you have already done a number of solo cross countries and would like a challenge?
If so, please consider entering the Lasham Regionals yourself. We anticipate that this competition will be very popular, so please contact the Lasham office to book your entry and keep an eye on the Lasham web-site which will be updated regularly.

There are two ways you could do this.
Firstly, enter yourself in your own glider if you have one or hire a Lasham single seater, there are three Grob 102s to
chose from and three lovely Discuses. The whole fleet  now have brand new trailers to replace the old tatty ones so that retrieve will be much less of a worry!

Did you know that if you are under 26 years old (and for the purposes of this competition, by the time of the May Regionals) then you are able to apply to Lasham for a bursary to help fund the hiring of a Lasham glider? The bursary money comes out of the Youth Fund.  It’s added to by generous members and held in trust by Lasham itself. You need to contact Richard Moyse, the Lasham Executive Manager, in the first instance to apply for and take advantage of this fantastic scheme. If the thought of that worries you, then please consider this, another option
for your first gliding competition.

We're planning to get hold of private owners that have their own two-seater gliders, Duos, DG1000s Nimbus 3ds etc and persuade some of them to enter their glider into the May Regionals. The idea is to have multiple P1s, and/or syndicate partners and  match them to less experienced P2s... you for example! Why not join up with one or two others in a similar position to you in terms of experience to make up a team entry?  The idea is that a rota would
be drawn up allocating days to pilots. Not everyone might be able to commit to a whole week but could fly on certain days. The costs of entry (£160) and aerotows would then be shared between everyone in the team.

Lasham also has at least three competitive two seaters which could be hired, two K21s and a DG1000.  The Duo Discus has already been allocated to the Saturday evening Youth Group and P2s are being organised by their instructors and group leaders. Remember, if you are under 26, then there is that youth bursary fund to apply for.