2012

VPAC has been invited to attend events at the venues listed below during this year. We will endeavour to have at least one VPAC Management Committee member in attendance, weather permitting. As usual please contact the airfield before you set out and remember that it is the pilot's personal responsibility to ensure that you have appropriate insurance cover and adhere to the airfields' safety and noise abatement procedures. We hope that as many of you as possible will be able to attend with your aircraft and we look forward to a really good turnout at each event. Both the VPAC Email system and the VPAC Website will give the latest information on the events.

Old Warden get-together Old Warden, Saturday 26 May This will be a "Wings and Wheels" event and the aircraft of some other type clubs will be present, so visitors (either by air or road) would have to pay an admission fee of £12 which will cover entrance to the Collection and the Vehicle event. There will be no landing fees for arriving aircraft, and fuel will be available from the mobile bowser (Ken Hyde & Co!), and the Collection Restaurant will be open as usual. The airfield will be unlicensed and no Air Traffic service will be available, so in the interests of good airmanship and flight safety, I would suggest that arriving aircraft make "blind" calls on 130.7 mhz. tel: web: www.shuttleworth.org Tel: PPR 01767 627927 (Out of interest, as far as the folks at Old Warden are concerned, our 2011 fly-in was one of the highlights of their year) The bad weather reserve day will be Sunday the 27th

East Kirby & Leicester
Saturday & Sunday 7/8 July We'll plan to arrive at East Kirkby during Saturday morning so as to leave time to appreciate the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre. Full details are at www.lincsaviation.co.uk the mid afternoon we'll plan to fly the 50 or so miles south-west to nightstop at Leicester where our good friend and long-standing VPAC member, Malcolm Fountain will be hosting our annual evening dinner.Leicester Aero Club Piper Fly-in.

Compton Abbas Saturday 15 September There have been many developments at this beautiful airfield in the years since VPAC last had a fly-in here. Suffice to say, we are assured a very warm welcome and we have Sunday the 16th as a bad-weather fall back day. Some of us will probably elect to stay overnight in any event.
PLEASE DO NOT PUBLICISE THIS EVENT outside VPAC, as we wish to keep it a VPAC only event.

In addition we have been advised of a number of other events which may be of particular interest to VPAC members. These are:

Piper Fly In, Popham Sunday 13 May tel 01256 397733, email pophamairfield@aol.com, web; www.popham-airfield.co.uk

Air-Britain Fly-in, North Weald Saturday-Sunday 9 - 10 June
Featuring the J3 Cub. www.air-britain.co.uk

The French Piper Club Rassemblement, Chambery, Saturday-Sunday 16 - 17 June web; www.piperclubfrance.org. Also Contact Richard Keech: tel 01244 332517 Email rkeech@talktalk.net

Sentimental Journey, Lock Haven, PA, Wednesday-Saturday 20 - 23 June Web; www.sentimentaljourneyfly-in.com

LAA/Sywell Rally, Sywell Friday-Sunday 31 August - 2 September www.sywellaerodrome.co.uk