Hayward Air Rally

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Rules and scoring updated for the 2014 Rally

New: History - 1965-1969 Race Info

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The 51st Annual Hayward Air Rally

Will be held June 11-13, 2015

Back to Bend, OR !

Time Until The First Starting Flag for the 51st Annual Rally:

The

50th Annual Hayward Air Rally

was successfully completed July 24-27, 2014

2014 Route

The full results for the 2014 Rally are now available

Congratulations to:

Race 71, Tom Neale and Bob Edwards.

Winners of the 50th Annual Hayward Air Rally
with just 132 points!

Read the article by Lauran Paine from the November 2014 edition of EAA Sport Aviation.

Scholarships to EAA Air Academy

Each year the Rally offers scholarships to deserving students to attend the EAA Air Academy. In 2014, we sent seven students to camp! The scholarship includes both tuition and airfare. This is an expensive but very worthwhile aspect of the Rally - aviation education.

If you would like to support this effort, even if you can't join us for the rally, please consider making a donation to help us defray the costs. If you are a member of EAA and you or your chapter have unused Young Eagle Credits, we can use those too! Please contact us to learn how to transfer those credits to suport the scholarships.

Thank you!

Digital vs. Analog Class Entries

We have two entry classes: Analog Class and Digital.

See the official Class definitions and scoring rules here. Quick scoring summary:

Analog Class (most gizmos banned): 1 point per second, 3 points for fuel for every .1% of fuel error.
Digital Class: (all gizmos allowed): 3 points per second, 6 points for every .1% of fuel error

You may now enter in Analog Class or Digital Class independently for Navigation (Timing) and Fuel. See the rules and scoring explanation pages for more information.

Whether you fly with a full glass cockpit, steam gauges or a yaw string, you get to choose which way you want to enter the Rally! Everyone is welcome!

The Rally awards much more than just 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. You can see some of the other fun awards for 2014 here.

Please use the links on the menu bar above to learn more about this annual event.

Rally Description

The annual Hayward Air Rally gives aviators a chance to test their flight planning, navigation and pilotage skills. The actual course is announced just before the Rally during the briefings (the checkpoints change every year and the exact course flown is chosen by the pilot). Each day's course consists of two legs, each up to 250-300 nautical miles. See the past years for example courses.

Along the way there are several checkpoints which must be identified. Prior to departure from Hayward each pilot turns in estimates of their times and fuel consumption for each of the two legs.

Rally participants are scored on a combination of:

Identifying Check Points
Matching Predicted Time (to the second)
Matching Predicted Fuel Used (to the tenth of a percent)

Penalty points are accumulated for misidentifying checkpoints (250 points each) and deviations from the time (1 or 3 points per second, depending on class of entry) and fuel estimates (3 points per 0.1% difference from estimated, with a 2x multiplier in the Digital Class). The lowest score wins, and our 2011 winner accrued just 64 points!

Sounds easy, doesn't it? Did we mention that for the Traditional Class, you may not use any of the following?

GPS
LORAN
DME
RNAV
Digital Fuel Flow Meter

Now does it sound a bit more challenging? Of course, if you really want to use GPS and digital fuel flow, you can enter in the Digital Class and your scoring rules will be a little different.