The MSC cross country course is held over a 5 day period starting Monday 23rd November and finishing Friday 27th November.
We are doing something different this year in that we are going to run 2 conjoint cross country courses
New Pilots Course
The traditional course is aimed at pilots wanting to undertake their first cross country flight in a glider up to low hour cross country pilots perhaps wanting to prepare for entry into their first competition. This course uses a combination of single seaters and twins with a ratio of one instructor and twin for every two to three students. Cost is $225 per head for the week, plus aerotows and glider hire of the twins. This includes all meals for the 5 day course as follows:
The second course we intend to run parallel with the standard cross country course is an ‘Advanced Cross Country Course'. We have not tried this before but believe there is a market out there for it. This course will be aimed at cross country pilots wishing to extend themselves and develop their speed and distance flying skills with emphasis on badge flights of 300 and 500km.
Cost for the Advanced Course will also be $225 per head including meals as for the course above, plus aerotows and pilots would be expected to provide their own glider and numbers for this course are not limited. As an added bonus / hook the MSC will be importing Bernard Eckey from Australia to act as ‘head coach' for the advanced course. Please see the below e-mail trail which will fill you in on the conversations we have had with Bernard.
Courses Text
Course material for the Advanced Cross Country Course will be based on Bernard Eckey’s book ‘Advanced Soaring Made Easy’ and course participants will be encouraged to buy this book so they will have the option of paying an extra $70 for the course in which case they will receive the book as well or they can purchase it separately themselves
Register
Contact details to register for either the Standard or Advanced Cross Country Course are: Steve Wallace - MSC Secretary e-mail walest@jafa.net.nz or Brett Hunter hunter.b@ihug.co.nz
