Category Archives: Flyouts

Flyouts and other activity involving members flying aircraft.

Abbotsford International Airshow 2021 – Flying In

The Abbotsford Flying Club (AFC) is hosting Fly-In participants at this year’s Airshow.
The show has been branded as ‘SkyDrive’, and for most attendees, it is a drive-in event.
The fly-in option, for General Aviation attendees, is essentially the same as drive-in: bring your own food and drinks and stay with your aircraft for the entire show.

Our aircraft parking area will be on the grass, at the north end of taxiway Alpha.
While not frontline, it does offer a unique and enjoyable show perspective.

Ticket Details and Contact Information

Aircraft arrivals require a special fly-in ticket.

Tickets are $50 per aircraft, including all occupants and cover one show only.  There are four shows available:  Friday evening, Saturday afternoon, Saturday evening, Sunday afternoon.

Tickets must be purchased in advance from the Airshow ticket website using a coupon code “FLYIN21”.  There will be no facility for payment on arrival.

Please use the contacts below to get more information:

Facilities

Portable washrooms will be provided.
There will be no other facilities.

Overnight Fly-In Camping Available

AFC is providing off-field camping for aviation guests on the grass around the AFC’s clubhouse.  Pilots seeking overnight camping should contact us directly.  This area will also be used by club members, guests and volunteers.

July 11 Flyout to Victoria

After 17 months of hibernation the AFC clambered out of its cave for a very well attended flight to Victoria. We had 7 planes participating. Both club planes, Clark’s Cherokee, Dan’s Sonex, Bevan’s RV7A, Devin in the Kitfox and Kevin in his Glastar. The weather was CAVOK.  The Victoria terminal controller was very busy, talking on both the inner and outer frequencies. No opportunity for in cockpit intercom chatter. We were given 500 ft incremental descent clearances and sometimes vectors. For me this was the busiest ever flight into Victoria. Having a two person crew was very helpful. Nobody got yelled at. We walked to Mary’s Blue Moon Cafe for outside seating. We learned that long-time waiter Daniel had retired.

The return flight to CYXX was uneventful. Job well done by everyone. Looking forward to the next flyout to Powell River. Gather at the clubhouse at 0830 hrs.

-Adrian Renkers

View from Mt. Cheam

On November 3rd Adrian was the passenger in Bevan’s RV7A. We took off from Chilliwack airport and 5 minutes later we were orbiting the top of Mt Cheam.

That’s performance!

View from Mt. Cheam

On November 3rd Adrian was the passenger in Bevan’s RV7A. We took off from Chilliwack airport and 5 minutes later we were orbiting the top of Mt Cheam. That’s performance!

Posted by Abbotsford Flying Club on Sunday, December 15, 2019

 

Sechelt & Texada Flyout

This weekend we took part in a joint fly-out with the Elphinstone Areo Club located in Sechelt. There was 9 of us consisting of Ken and Devin Campbell, Roberto Fehr, Laurens Bosman, Colin McDonald, Bob and Val Leroux, Lise Ash and George Aun Thin. We met at the flying club at 8:00am and were wheels up shortly after 9am with the slowest of the 3 planes getting a head start. The first squadron consisted of Ken and Devin’s Kitfox, AFC’s GGMA and Bob Leroux’s Piper Arrow. Even though the Kitfox had a head start it was the last to arrive (But we are used to that).

We arrived in Sechelt at the Elphinstone Clubhouse to be greeted by about 10 of their members with coffee, cookies and apples that appeared to be freshly picked. After the meet and greet we jumped back into our planes and were joined by another 3 planes (2 C172’s and a Fleet Canuck) from the Elphinstone club and headed to Texada Island. A special thank you needs to go out to George for helping fly The Sechelt club’s 172 to Gillies Bay and Back. The Elphinstone club needed our help when their pilot found out his medical expired the day before and asked if we could help out with the flying.

Once at Gillies bay we talked to the airport caretaker and found out some info about the airport. The walk down to the beach for those who are interested is easy to find. once you leave the gate at the terminal walk up the road to the telephone poles and at the end of the road is the trail down to the beach. the town site is a 30 minute walk from the airport (rumor is that it is an easy walk down but a good hike back up). There are also some bikes that can be used, you just need to talk to the caretaker to have them unlocked.

Deciding it was too much of a walk in the time we had, Steve from the Elphinstone club talked to one of the local pilots that he knew at the airport. ‘Doby’ Dobrostanski, one of the local pilots, came and let us into the mini museum that he and a couple of members of the flying community had set-up. He also talked to us about the Aerospace camp they put on at Gillies Bay airport every July.

An hour later we were heading back to Sechelt for a BBQ lunch. Once there, the members who stayed behind mad up a nice spread of hamburgers, hotdogs, salads, chips and cookies. While eating lunch we were joined by Chris Hibert and Murray and Le-ann Webb in Chris’s Balanca (if we had signs the landing would have received 10’s all around). After much chatting and eating, and a big thank you from both clubs, we got back into our planes and returned to Abbotsford. We touched down after a good long day at around 16:00.

Once all was said and done 3 of our members had the opportunity to fly in 2 different airplanes. We had a final turnout of 4 planes and 12 members. The best part is that some of those 12 people had the opportunity to go and see 2 airports that they had wanted to go to but hadn’t had the opportunity. This was a great learning experience for everyone and we all came back with smiles on our faces.

– Laurens Bosman

Below are some pictures.  Click here for the full gallery.

Breakfast at YCW – Characters Pub and Grill

Steve Stewart and I flew out to YCW on Sunday, April 9th in GMA.  At the recommendation from our president, Ken Campbell, we had an awesome breakfast at Characters Pub and resturant.

It’s only a 10-min walk from the terminal (8559 Young Rd, Chilliwack) and has excellent food, generous portions, great prices and good service. They’re open at 9am on weekends and share the same space with Jimmy J’s restaurant.  You can sit in either one and there’s lots of room.

It’s nice to have a good option for breakfast near YCW.

– Mark Thibault

Farmers Omelette with grilled tomato.