VGC News/Newsletters - Lakes Gliding Club

The Wachtesberg Rally
See Table 8
Many British pilots were unwilling to commit themselves to
attending the French Rallies without full assurance beforehand
of obtaining a licence to fly there. Accordingly, contact
was made by Ted Hull with the Segelflugclub Wachtesberg,
where such a successful Rendezvous Rally was held in 1991.
Eberhart Elsner, the club President, very kindly arranged to
open the airfield for us for the two week period.
From an anticipated attendance of four gliders, numbers
increased until a total of 17 gliders arrived and flew at this
most beautiful of gliding sites. The low key, but efficient,
organisation and superb hospitality of the club made this a
most enjoyable event. There were in all 12 participants from
the UK, 4 from Germany and one from France.
lection of aircraft, gliders. racing cars, motor bikes, vintage
cars, farm vehicles, and railway and military exhibits.
At one evening event (a Grill-Fest in a nunnery, don't ask
any more!) in the local town of Wildberg, birthday boy Too
Hull conducted a 30 piece band playing an "oompah" tune!
David Shrimpton led the assembled crowd of bemused locals
and (how shall we put it) merry, visiting glider pilots, ill B
clap-along song with the aid of a pair of giant plywood hands!
Oh the effect of German beer.
The club members arranged a very enjoyable, mid-rally,
smoked trout evening which was combined with the usual
Rally "British Evening" somewhat dominated by a whole
Wensleydale cheese which was contributed by Barry Smith.
Other notable events which occurred during our time at the
Wachtesberg included the loss, and the subsequent search for
in dense undergrowth, of the tail chute from lan Dunkley's
Nimbus 2, and a llOkm cross-country flight by Richard
Moyse in the Slingsby Sky, to Hohenzollern Castle and
Hohloth Radio Transmitter on the edge of Ithe Black Forest.
There were also a number of very enjoyable barbecues using
the club's excellent fire pit and gibbet cooking device, and
many tales were told late into the night under the clear, starlit
skies.
Overall, a thoroughly enjoyable and well-run and above
all, friendly event and ten good days of flying were achieved
out of 13.
Many thanks to Ted, Eberhart and aB the members of the
Wachtesberg Segelflugclub.
Otller visitors during the week, without gliders, were Klaus
and Renate Heyn wi,~h Silke, 10rg Ziller, Jochen Kruse, Peter
Okke, Peter Rivers, Geoff Moore, and the Munster Mafia
were represented by Gisela Dreskonfeld and Wilfred Kampmann.
Ted Hull and Mark Wills
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Wonderful soaring weather was ItQ be had over the first four
days wilth cloud bases up to ·6500ft above the silte. Short lapses
in tile weather offered opportunities to visit the Mercedes­
B.enz factory, Schempp Htrth and the excellent Auto and
Technic Museum in Sinsheim which houses an incredible col-
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