VGC Annual Dinner – 5th October 2024 Hannover / 05. Oktober 2024
LEONARDO Hannover Airport, Petzelstr. 60, 30669 Hannover
Tickets: 50 €/£45 each (including welcome drink and buffet)
This year’s the Annual Dinner will take place in a conference room of the LEONARDO Hotel directly at Hanover Airport. It starts with a welcome drink from 6pm and continues with the traditional program (dinner/speeches/award ceremonies/raffle) and open end.
Rooms can also be booked in the same building: until 04.09.2024, a contingent of 10 single rooms and 10 double rooms is reserved there for the overnight stay from 05.10 to 06.10 at the price of 96,–€ / 116,–€ per night including breakfast buffet.
Rooms can also be rented directly on the airport at the Maritim Airport Hotel. Other accommodation options exist in the surrounding districts (e.g. Langenhagen) and of course also in the city centre of Hanover (it is best to research under
www.booking.com).
The subway runs from the airport to the main train station every 30 minutes until 03.00 in the morning (journey time approx. 18 minutes).
On Friday evening, 04.10.2024 at 7pm, a rendezvous dinner will take place in the restaurant of the LEONARDO Hannover Airport Hotel – if you are interested, please register in advance by 04.09.2024 at
mwklemmer@gmx.de so that a large table can be reserved.
On Saturday time to be confirmed), there will be the opportunity to take part in a guided tour in English and German through the Laatzen-Hannover Aviation Museum (price to be confirmed). The Aviation Museum is located south of the city, the LEONARDO Hotel north of the city (distance between both locations approx. 35 minutes by car; 70 minutes by public transport). Of course, there are alternatively many sights in and outside the city – and within the airport itself. Suggestions can be found on the VGC webside under events / Annual Dinner.
If several people would like to get together for individual excursion destinations, this can be coordinated on request, then please let us know at
mwklemmer@gmx.de.
Please also use this e-mail address for registrations for participation in the Annual Dinner as well as for the guided tour of the Aviation Museum Laatzen-Hannover.
Last but not least: whether it will be possible to visit the Oppershausen glider airfield near Celle on Sunday, 06.10., and also to fly there (distance from Hanover approx. 45 km), depends primarily on the weather (and of course city tours can also be continued on Sunday).
Hints on the-webside
End of Season Glider Meeting in Oppershausen for the Annual Dinner
In the early years of the VGC, the Annual Dinner was held regularly at an End of Season – Glider Meeting. On the occasion of the 50th Annual Dinner, this tradition is to be repeated. It had already been announced in the VGC News and the website that flight operations would be offered on Sunday, 06.10. (as in 2023 in Ringmer after the Annual Dinner in Eastbourne).
Now Andrea and Thorsten are planning through their club, the Hannover Aero Club, in suitable weather from Thursday, 3. October to Sunday, October 6th at our Oppershausen airfield (near Celle, approx. 40 km from Hannover). In addition to their Kranich III and Cumulus, Burkhard and Tjark will appear with the Ka 2b and an open Bergfalke III will be made available. Of course, you can bring your own gliders, but there is hardly any hangar space available.
It can be spent at the airfield with campers and tents for moderate fees. The airfield has a nice campsite with good infrastructure such as kitchen, toilet and shower rooms and thus offers an alternative to an overnight stay in a hotel for the Annual Dinner.
For the trip on Saturday from the airfield to the Annual Dinner in Hannover and back to Oppershausen, we can organize carpools.
Who is interested in participating in this VGC flight camp (with or without plane) for 1 to 4 days, please also contact at mwklemmer@gmx.de by 20.09.2024.
