What? Why? When? Who? Where?

What?

This will be the first Precision Flying Event (PFE) to have been held in Thailand or, in S.E. Asia.  PFEs have been held in Europe and other regions for many years and have enjoyed great success, they are famous for putting skilled pilots to-the-test.

Basically the event will consist of two phases.  The main phase will be the Navigation phase where crews will have to navigate a course with as much time accuracy as possible.  At the end of this phase there will be a Spot-landing phase.  More details can be seen above.

Why?

Primarily, this event has been designed so that everyone has a great time and hopefully, all contestants will emerge as better and more precise pilots.

When?

This first Precision Flying Event will be held on the weekend of 3rd/4th March 2012.  The main event will take place on the Saturday with a BBQ in the evening (free for all participants and observers/marshals) and a breakfast fly-out on the Sunday morning. See time-table above.

Who?

We are most privileged to have Boz Robinson as our chief architect for this event.  Boz is a retired Air Vice-Marshal from the Royal Air Force and was a member of the British Precision Flying Team, having competed in many events over Europe.

 Boz and his Bucker 131 Jungmann

Boz will be assisted by Mike Gillam (also ex-R.A.F. but of a far more humble rank), member of Eastern Flying Club (EFC).  Boz and Mike will also have the help of a large number of ground observers who will man the checkpoints.  Our host for the day will be Jim Matonti who runs EFC and will be serving food, drinks and the evening hog-roast BBQ.

We are also extremely fortunate to have pcs (property care services (Thailand) ltd.), as our sole sponsors for this event.  pcs is a large Bangkok-based company who provide a wide range of management solutions to commerce and industry in the field of property management (see top of BLOG for more details).

Where?

The event will be held at Eastern Flying Club, near Pattaya (12 54 08 N, 100 55 59 E).  By road, head South down the Sukhamvit Road and take a left turn into Soi 87.  After about 5 kms turn left into Soi 15 and the airfield is on the left after about 1 km.