11 July 2023
The Royal Aero Club 3Rs has announced its 2023 FlyBall navigation competition will be held on Saturday, 26 August at Popham Airfield. It follows two previous successful events.
The FlyBall Navex competition is a scatter event with no fixed route, requiring competitors to navigate between any number of participating airfields in any order (provided the airfields visited are suitable for the performance and types of aircraft flown), to collect ‘FlyBalls’ with different values.
The aircraft with the highest value of ‘FlyBalls’ on arrival to Popham EGHP (before 1600) will be the winner, with first, second and third place prizes for all aviation categories.
Beginning at 10am from any participating airfield, the route is to be flown under the prevailing rules of the Air Navigation Order (ANO) with pilots special attention drawn to individual airfield landing and departing procedures, including advanced briefing where required or requested.
The event will finish at Popham EGHP where all competing aircraft must arrive before 1600 local.
There will be awards for different classes of aircraft, including:
The Royal Aero Club 3Rs stresses that this is a FUN event. The random nature of routing and the unpredictable values (reducing) of ‘FlyBalls’ provides an element of luck essential to the outcome.
Participating airfields currently include: Popham, Denham, Shobdon, Blackbushe, Rochester and Brimpton. The final list of participating airfields released one week before the event.
Whether you are a pilot or airfield who wish to participate, please contact [email protected] for registration and further information.
More details here (download a pdf)
