Flying group at RWTH Aachen
The flying group at RWTH Aachen e. V. ( FTHA ) is a student aviation club at RWTH Aachen University .
history
The FTHA was created in 1965 from the "Fliegergruppe in the German Aviation Research Institute Mülheim-Ruhr (DVL) - Aachen Section". On February 12, 1965, students and professors from the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH) who were enthusiastic about gliding founded the association as “Fliegergruppe Aachen e. V. ". Bernhard Sann was elected as the first chairman , who directed the affairs of the association until 1981. Its final name “Fliegergruppe an der RWTH Aachen e. V. (FTHA) ”was received by the association on December 14, 1967.
The FTHA is a full member of the German Aero Club , Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfalen e. V. and through this indirect member of the DAeC. She is also a member of the “ Fluggemeinschaft Aachen e. V. "(FGA) and the" Fluggemeinschaft Dahlemer Binz e. V. "(FGD).
On the part of the statutes, the FTHA is strongly bound to the RWTH. With its student-oriented association structure, the association is not reserved for students and university members only. There is a youth group in the association that organizes their life in self-administration. In 2019 there are 85 members (13 female and 72 male), of which around 45 are active in gliding in the association.
Objectives
The activity of the association serves the aviation and sporting activity, training and further education of the members, as well as the research and testing of modern facilities and procedures for gliding, especially in the fields of electrical engineering and control technology.
Locations)
Home airfield is the Dahlemer Binz airfield , a commercial airfield in the thermally very active Eifel , 15 km south of Schleiden . Here the FTHA starts its aircraft with a winch . The general meeting point for all flying activities is Binz Box 2 - a storage room for the tow winch and the other vehicles required for flight operations - in the lower part of the apron located directly at the public car park .
In order to keep the costs of air sports at a level that is affordable for students and schoolchildren, all legally permitted maintenance and repairs are carried out by the members. For this purpose, the association operates workshop facilities in Herzogenrath / Kohlscheid , which is adjacent to Aachen .
The weekly meeting point for discussing flight operations and other club activities in Aachen has been at the former Institute for Mining Studies II since it was founded, whose premises in the central workshop of the Raw Materials and Disposal Technology Department are still today supported by the Institute for Advanced Mining Technologies (AMT). can use.
Aircraft park
The current aircraft fleet consists of an ASK21 ("Prof. Sann"), a Ka8 , an LS4 , an ASW20 and a DG1000S ("Kurt Schmidt").
Operations
- Training and advanced training in gliding and aerobatics
- Training and advanced training for flight instructors, cell attendants and workshop managers (in conjunction with the DAeC LV NRW)
- Promotion of distance gliding
- Participation in central and decentralized competitions (OLC, DMSt, EuregioCup etc.)
- Regular external flight camps lasting several weeks, including in Hayingen (Swabian Alb), Oehna (Brandenburg) and Tours-Le Louroux (France).
- Scientific activity (e.g. construction of the winch, strategies for the optimization of cross-country flights, optimization of electronic navigation aids, ...)
- Maintenance of gliders and winch
successes
Members of the FTHA have regularly participated in national and international competitions:
- Klaus Ahrens: 1971, participation in the German Gliding Championship, 2nd place in the standard class
- Werner Hoffmann: 1972, participation in the German Gliding Championship, 1st place in the motor glider class
- Klaus Ahrens: 1973, participation in the German Gliding Championship, 2nd place in the standard class
- Paul Dröghoff-Boudon: April 16, 1974, national record “cross-country flight in a straight line, class D-1 motor glider”, performance: 724.5 km
- Klaus Ahrens: 1974, participation in the gliding world championship in Waikerie, South-Australia, 10th place in the standard class
- Klaus Ahrens: 1977, participation in the German Gliding Championship, 1st place in the racing class
- Klaus Scheulen: Participation in the Concours international des Cent Châteaux 2016, Le Louroux, 1st place
- Klaus Scheulen, Axel Voigt: Participation in the Königsdorf comparison flight 2017, 10th place
- Marie-Luise and Thomas Mannel: Participation in the Concours international des Cent Châteaux 2017 Le Louroux, 3rd place
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dipl.-Ing. Kurt Schmidt - a man from the very beginning . In: Fachhochschule Aachen (ed.): Fachblatt . No. 01-2004 , pp. 20, 21 ( fh-aachen.de [PDF; accessed on February 27, 2019]).
- ↑ Considerable funding . In: Aeroclub | NRW e. V. (Ed.): Luftsportmagazin . No. 1/2019 , p. 37 ( aeroclub-nrw.de [PDF; accessed on February 27, 2019]).
- ^ Klaus Ahrens: Course deviations under cloud roads. In: how2soar.de. Horst Rupp, accessed on February 27, 2019 .
- ^ Georg Brütting: History of the LS1 . In: The Most Famous Gliders . 6th edition. Motorbuch Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-87943-171-X ( dg-flugzeugbau.de [accessed on February 27, 2019]).
- ↑ FTHA: English: List of achievements flown by FTHA pilots in the year 1972 as being reported in the yearly club proceedings of 1972. November 4, 1972, accessed on February 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Georg Brütting: The history of gliding . 4th edition. Motorbuchverlag, 1982, ISBN 3-87943-208-2 , p. 199 .
- ^ Deutscher Aero Club e V: English: DAeC Certificate National Record D1-M "Distance in a straight line" issued in 1974 to glider pilot Paul Dröghoff. September 24, 1974. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
- ^ Andreas Allenspach: 14th world championship in gliding, results standard class. In: alles-mit-links.ch. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Thomas Bergmann: Library ASW20. (PDF) In: segelfliegen-magazin.de. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
