2014 50th Anniversary Rally
The 50th Annual Hayward Air Rally was successfully completed on July 26, 2014. Thank you to everyone who flew or helped as ground crew for this once-in-a-lifetime event!
To learn more about the course and the event please visit our 2014 Rally page.
Special rules were defined for this special event. Read the 2014 Rules here.
Any 50th Anniversary is special. We are plannning something extra special for the Hayward Air Rally's 50th in 2014.
This special expanded Rally has 7 locations and will take place over 4 days: July 24-27, 2014.
Click here to enter the 2014 50th Anniversary Event
The complete 2014 Entry Application is now available on the Entry page
Racer Updates from the Chairman
Interested in joining for only part of the Rally? Check out your Partial Rally options here
2014 Rally Lodging and Hotel Information |
While now may seem very early to start planning for accomodations for the July 2014 trip to Oshkosh, it really is not. If you have been to AirVenture before, you know that local lodging can be hard to find and books up early. We have created a separate lodging page with information about various lodging options for each day of the 2014 Rally and at the final destination, AirVenture.
Each entrant is required to make their own reservations at each location. |
Read on to learn more...
The event has a long history of flying navigational and pilot skills challenges to several intermediate points and final destinations:
- Bakersfield, CA
- Las Vegas, NV
- Bullhead City, AZ / Laughlin, NV
- Palm Springs, CA
- Redding, CA
- Bend, OR
For the 50th time out, we've decided to make the challenge even bigger and head out to:
Oshkosh, WI and EAA AirVenture
This is going to be fun! The Rally has always challenged a pilot's planning, flying and navigational skills. For the 50th anniversary, we're raising the bar even higher with a 1500+ nautical mile route and some additional challenges along the way.
More details will follow as we progress with our planning, but we wanted to get some information out to pilots as soon as possible so that you can start your own planning.
What: The 50th annual Hayward Air Rally
When: July 24-27, 2014
Where: From Hayward, CA (HWD) to Oshkosh, WI (OSH) in conjunction with AirVenture 2014
How: Three overnights enroute after ~600nm flying each day. Short repositioning flight for coordinated group arrival into Oshkosh on Sunday, July 27, 2014.
Expected flight days:
| Flight Day | Date | Start/End Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thursday July 24, 2014 | HWD - ENV |
| 2 | Friday July 25, 2014 | ENV - RAP |
| 3 | Saturday July 26, 2014 | RAP - MSN |
| 4 | Sunday July 27, 2014 | MSN - OSH |
The planned stops for the 2014 event are:
- Hayward, CA (HWD)
- Silver Springs, NV (SPZ)
- Wendover, UT (ENV) - overnight stop
- Lander, WY (LND)
- Rapid City, SD (RAP) - overnight stop
- Montevideo, MN (MVE)
- Madison, WI (MSN) - overnight stop
Each day will include a mandatory intermedaite stop for lunch and fuel. As in the past, each leg is likely to include extra checkpoints along the way.
Rally participants depart Hayward, CA (HWD) in the morning of Thursday, July 24, 2014 and arrive Wendover, UT (ENV) in the afternoon after flying two legs of approximately 250-300 nm each, with a mandatory lunch/refueling stop enroute.
At ENV, crews stay overnight at a local hotel and will attend a group briefing for the next leg of the rally. On Friday morning, July 25 the rally will launch from ENV and again fly two legs with a mandatory lunch/fuel stop, ending for the day at Rapid City, SD (RAP).
Another hotel for the night, another briefing, and then crews are launched on Saturday morning, July 26 from RAP landing for the day at Madison, WI (MSN) with two more legs enroute and the mandatory lunch/fuel stop. The scored competition ends with the landing at MSN.
Arrival at Oshkosh
The crews will be briefed at MSN for a special flight procedure the following day as a scheduled group arrival at Oshkosh (OSH) for Airventure. We anticipate launching aircraft from MSN in the morning with the objective of having everyone on deck at OSH by noon local time. With all rally crews at OSH on Sunday, EAA Airventure officially opens the next day and continues until August 3. We anticipate our awards reception and dinner to be held Tuesday evening, July 29. Entrants may depart anytime after arrival and stay for as much, or little, of the Airventure experience; however, we hope they will stay at least until the awards on Tuesday evening.
More Details
The rally competition between HWD and MSN will be scored using similar rules to those used in the 2013 Air Rally. The existing scoring methods can be found on this page. For the 2014 event, we plan to make a minimum crew of two MANDATORY. A waiver of this minimum requirement will only be considered if (a) the pilot has competed in the Hayward Air Race/Rally previously, AND has flown as PIC into AirVenture previously using the Special Flight Traffic Rules in effect at the time. Cash and trophy prizes will be awarded at OSH, and we anticipate media presence at our awards presentation.
Why participate :
- To challenge your flight planning, fuel management, and pilotage/navigational skills against fellow aviators
- To gain bragging rights against same
- To go to Oshkosh
- To be part of the 50th celebration
- To possibly be on television
- To see what a really big trophy does to your weight and balance on your trip home
- To further expand the reach of our youth scholarship program for the EAA's Air Academy
Who: Open to all pilots holding a Sport Pilot license or higher. Aircraft must be capable of flying the course which is expected to have 9000' terrain, ~300 nm legs, with legal fuel reserves.
How much: $300 entry fee for the pilot/co-pilot team.
Costs: Recognizing that this trip will take several days, burn lots of fuel and that there will be other costs for hotels, meals, etc., we want to help you think about what the entire adventure might cost you in total. Following are somethings to think about.
Your fuel costs: plan for ~1800 nm, flown in six legs of about 275-300 nm each, with one short repositioning flight of ~50 nm.
Aircraft rental costs (if applicable): check your club/FBO policy for daily minimums required
Charts: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Cheyenne, Omaha, Twin Cities, Green Bay, Chicago. Equivalent WAC charts may be used in lieu of Sectionals - CG-18, CF-16, CF-17, CF-18. Terminal Area Charts - San Francisco, Salt Lake City. Electronic Flight Bags (EFB) representation of charts will be acceptable. However, in keeping with the spirit of the history of the Hayward Air Rally/Race, we encourage the crews to carry paper charts during the event.
Hotels: HWD $100; Day 1 Overnight $60; Day 2 Overnight $75; Day 3 Overnight $90. Some people might choose to camp at the intermediate airports and at Oshkosh - that is part of the AirVenture experience for many people.
Airventure lodging costs: TBD based on hotels, private housing, college dorms, on on-field camping. We are looking into pre-booked loding at Oshkosh and will post more information as it becomes available.
Airventure admission: $26/daily or $114/week
Meals enroute: plan on $10 per lunch stop. Dinner/breakfasts at day 1/2/3 TBD, maybe committee-arranged. Otherwise, plan another $20 per day enroute. At OSH, you are on your own for meals except for one awards reception on-field and one hosted informal BBQ off field.