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Upcoming Trips:

Wombat Stat Forest—to be advised

Otways Long Weekend — 21st to 25th April

President's Report - March 2006 Hi Fellow Members,

New Member

At the March meeting we welcomed Robert Gardner and Steve McWiggan to the club. Robert drives a Hilux Ute and completed his Driver Proficiency Course with the Association last year. Steve owns a Patrol and has been 4WDriving for years; he is a Club 4WD Instructor and is also accredited as a chainsaw course Instructor. So with those qualifications he was quickly asked to join the Training Sub-committee and will be helping run the club’s courses. Once again Robert and Steve, welcome to the club.

Training Calendar

The club training calendar has been finalised and the details are published on the club website and elsewhere in this Newsletter. The program includes 4WD Proficiency Courses, an Intermediate Course, some Winch Recovery Courses, an accredited Level 2 First Aid Course, a Trip Leader Course and an accredited Chainsaw Course. Bookings for all courses are to be made to Corey, either by phone or email. You must book in for courses so we know that there are sufficient numbers to run the course. It is no use just turning up because if there aren’t enough booked in to a course it will be cancelled. Courses will not be run for only one or two people.

All members who have not yet completed their Proficiency 4WD Course should book in to a course as soon as possible even if the course is later in the year; we need a minimum of 5 members on each Proficiency Course to cover the costs of hiring the venue. All club members must have completed the Proficiency 4WD Course at a minimum, the Intermediate, Advanced and Winch Recovery Courses are for members who want to go further into the bush off road and want to improve their 4WDriving knowledge. The Advanced Course will be included into next year’s calendar.

Through Steve McWiggan we have been able to book the 4WD Training area at the Metropolitan Traffic Education Centre in Bayswater North to conduct the Practical Driving component of the Proficiency Courses.

Review of Club Rules and By Laws

A small sub-committee - Rod Kayler-Thomson, Bronco Milic-Zumberski and myself has been set up to review our rules and by-laws. If you have any suggestions for changes to them, give me a call or email any of us and your suggestions will be looked at by the sub-committee.

Rod K-T Email: [email protected] Bronco M-Z Email: [email protected]

The Club Raffle

The raffle draw for the Auspit was held at the March meeting by Rhett Thompson, the Auspit creator. The Auspit was won by Steve Aicher, the Club Public Relations Officer. You will have to test it out on one of the club trips Steve.

Wayne Morgan President Mobile 0417-054-108 Email [email protected]

Drive Club Newsletter March 2006

Victoria Police Four Wheel

In This Issue

President’s Report 1

Your Committee 2

From the Editor 3

Visions of India 4

Have you got the right Cover?

5

Upcoming Training Courses

6

Club Calender 7

Discounts Available At: 8

Sponsors 9

OUR COMMITTEE

President - Wayne Morgan

[email protected] W: 9247 6769 M: 0417 054 108

Vice President - Marcus Nash

[email protected] W: N/A M: 0410 249 183

Secretary - Vacant

Treasurer - Barbara Tabaka


Equipment Officer - Marc Drew

Activity Co-ordinator - Ron Levett

[email protected] W: N/A M: 0412 480 917

Training Co-ordinator - Corey Kelly


Public Relations Officer - Steve Aicher


Ordinary Committee Member - Gary May


VP4WDC Newsletter March 2006

From the Editor

Having returned safely from our holiday it was straight back to work! Quite an exciting time in Melbourne with the Commonwealth games and I am sure that many of our members are involved in some way. I have been lucky enough to spend a few days at the Games Village fire station and it has been a great experience meeting people from all over the world.

Our trip to India was something of an experience. We thought we had completely escaped Delhi belly - but we must have got a bit overconfident because it caught us two days before we were to come

home.

Travelling on the roads in India was something of an experience. Not withstanding the fact that some of the roads made the tracks on Cape York look like freeways there seemed to be an almost complete lack of road rules. In the main size won! The biggest vehicle had right of way – except if you are a cow in which case you could go where you wanted when you wanted, even if you wanted to have a sleep in the middle of a main road. I seem to recall in one city we were in a car overtaking a truck overtaking an elephant when coming towards us was a bus overtaking another bus overtaking a horse cart. However we all seemed to survive to tell the tale. I have included a few photos from our trip in this issue.

Great to see our training program has now been finalised and some details are in this issue but for all information about training and for the latest club calendar please have a look at the club web site.

Remember I need your articles, reports, advertisements etc. This is your magazine. Hope to hear from you.

Steve Aicher—Public Relations Officer



Some Visions of India

Interesting advertising!! “Yes We are less dirty”

Varanasi, India

The Taj. Agra, India

Elephants Crossing!! Jaipur, India

Red Fort Jaipur, India

Local School Bus! India

Rickshaw Wallah and Me!! Agra, India


Have you got the Right Cover??

Reprinted from 4x4 Australia—Off Road Driving Guide

Upcoming Training Courses


SEE CLUB WEBSITE FOR FULL DETAILS OF COURSES AND VENUES

Proficiency 4WD Training Course

Certificate: 4WD Victoria Certificate. Cost: $50.00 per member.

Intermediate 4WD Training Course

Certificate: Victoria Police 4WD Club Certificate. Cost: $50.00 per member.

Advanced 4WD Training Course


Winch Training Course


Level 2 First Aid Training Course

Certificate: Accredited Level 2 First Aid Certificate. Cost: $50.00 per member (Family welcome).

Trip Leader Training Course


Chainsaw Training Course

Certificate: Accredited Chainsaw Certificate. Cost: $50.00 per member.

MARCH

Friday 31 Saturday 1

Proficiency 4WD Training Course City and Bayswater North

Training

Corey Kelly Mobile 0407-466-351

[email protected]

JULY



Training


[email protected]

Saturday 29 Winch Training Course

Mt Disappointment

Training Corey Kelly

Mobile 0407-466-351 [email protected]

AUGUST


Intermediate 4WD Training Course

City and Mt Disappointment



SEPTEMBER

Friday 1 Saturday 2 Sunday 3

Chainsaw Training Course City and bush location to be de-

cides



Friday 15 Trip Leader Training Course

City



OCTOBER



Training


[email protected]

Saturday 28 Winch Training Course

Mt Disappointment



NOVEMBER

Saturday 4 Saturday 18

First Aid Level 2 Training Course City

Training


[email protected]


C lub Calendar

Date Deta i ls Rat ing Contact

31st March—1st April

Proficinecy Driving Training Training Training Co-ordinator

5th April Club Meeting Serious Fun Club President

8th & 9th April

Cruiser Khana Fun See Website

11th-20th April

Typo Station Medium Club President

21st—25th April

Otways Long Weekend Trip Medium Rod Kayler-Thomson [email protected] mobile: 0409254257

29th & 30th April

Tallarook 4x4 Roundup Fun See Website

3rd May Club Meeting—Guest Speaker Serious Fun Club President

19th—21st May

Communications Jamboree Educational See Website

26th—28th May

Otways Antics 2006 Easy to Hard

Debbie Kayler-Thomson [email protected] mobile: 0409965347

30th May— 8th June

Typo Station Medium Club President

3rd June Club Annual Dinner Serious Fun Club President

7th June Club Meeting—Guest Speaker Serious Fun Club President

For Full Notices & All Details, Please Visit:

www.victoriapolice4wdclub.org.au

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Special thanks to Bell’s Hotel for hosting the club’s monthly

meetings

BELL’S HOTEL

Corner Moray & Coventry Streets

South Melbourne

9690 4511

Our Sponsors

Auspit—Special Price for Club Members

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