The Challenge Trophy, presented to the BGA by the Air League to reward excellence in gliding instructing, has not been awarded for a number of years. For 2012 the BGA decided to make the award for the highest number of Licences (Bronze Certificates with Cross Country endorsements) in any one gliding club, using a per instructor calculation. DGS beat all the other clubs to carry off the trophy. Runners up were the Army Gliding Club in Germany who were beaten by 1!
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| The Challenge Trophy |
So the honours go to everyone who worked hard at DGS to gain such a good result with the unexpected bonus of the Challenge Trophy award for 2012, but special congratulations to that small group of hard working and dedicated instructors who nurtured, encouraged and cajoled club members to achieve this result.
It was collected at the BGA AGM Awards Dinner on 2nd March and presented by Andrew Brooks of the Air League who gave a short history in his preamble to presenting the award (during which he congratulated DGS on their achievement and mentioned that a previous presenter of the award was a certain Mr Profumo-of some notoriety).
The trophy will be on show at the DGS AGM on 6th April where we hope to have a small celebration to mark the historic occasion of DGS’s very first national gliding award.
For those who would like to know more about the Air League the link is:
www.airleague.co.uk.
Karon Matten
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