News and Announcements:
Read the EAA Sport Aviation article about the 2011 Rally (1.3 MB PDF) © 2011, Experimental Aircraft Association, Inc., and Lauran Paine, Jr. Used with permission
2011 Scoring Results are now available
2011 Rally Results Press Release
Where were they going?
2011 Course Information now available
The Rally has awarded three scholarships to the 2011 EAA Air Academy Summer Camp!
The 2010 Rally was featured on the evening news on KTVZ Channel 21 in Bend (WMV format)
2011 Fuel Pump Calibrations available
Destination:
Bend, OR
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2011 sponsors
Without their support this rally would not be possible!
Visits Since
December 31, 1997
Hayward Air Rally
Is Scheduled To Be Held On
June 7-9, 2012
Time Until The First Starting Flag:
Destination: Bend, Oregon
with a stop at Redding, California (The Hayward Proficiency Air Race is now the Hayward Air Rally)
Congratulations to Race 56, Paul Buenrostro and Kregg Cammack, the winners of the 2011 Rally with only 64 points!
The complete 2011 scoring results are now available .
Watch the movie (the real GPS tracks, Quicktime required) - where were they going?
The Rally awards much more than just 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. Here are some of the other fun awards for 2011:
Special 2011 Awards |
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| Performance Award | Race 11, Mitzi Saylor |
| Redding Jet Center Quick Turn Award | Race 71, Tom Neale & Bob Edwards (16 minutes, 37 seconds) |
| Red Baron Award | Race 45, Nathan Simpson & Travis Peden (blown tire in the runup area at Hayward) |
| Best 1st Time Entry | Race 45, Nathan Simpson & Travis Peden (15th Place) |
| Worst Fuel Score | Race 6, Roger Stenbock & Milo Laguna |
| Best Overall Time Score | Race 56, Paul Buenrostro & Kregg Kammack (1 second total!!) |
| Best Renter | Race 3, Scott & Jessica Allaway |
| Worst Time Score | Race 57, David Montgomery & Mike O'Leary |
| Tail End Charlie | Race 57, David Montgomery & Mike O'Leary |
(click image to download PDF flyer)
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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 the day before the Rally during the briefings (the checkpoints change every year and the exact course flown is chosen by the pilot). The course consists of two legs, each up to 250 nautical miles:
- Hayward, California (HWD) to an intermediate refueling stop (RDD - Redding, California for 2011)
- The intermediate stop to the destination airport (BDN - Bend, Oregon for 2011)
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 2008 winner accrued just 126 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?