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Greetings from the PDQ Flyers located on Vancouver Island off Canada's spectacular west coast.


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This is one way the PDQ Flyers have fun!

PDQ Flyers is a model aircraft club with about 75 members. We are located on the east coast of Vancouver Island in Beautiful British Columbia, Canada . We draw members from cities all over Vancouver Island. You will find many of these members spending any nice day at our field near Nanoose Bay.

We host many flight events for both members and guest flyers. Spectators and flyers can watch the events and have a hotdog or two. We welcome anyone to come and watch/participate in any of our club events.
photo of spectators from local senior homes at PDQ scale meet

A few invited spectators at the PDQ Scale Fly-in


PDQ Flyers encourages any interested new flyers to come out to the field, see what we are all about and meet our members. Our field and all members are MAAC certified; all flyers must have a valid MAAC membership and a PDQ Flyers membership in order to fly on the site. A MAAC membership provides you with liability insurance, a bi-monthly magazine and is our national organization for model aviation.

Membership Fees

PDQ Flyers is a non profit organization. We require each member to pay annual dues of $75. Annual dues for junior members (under 18 years of age) is $25. New members must also pay a one time initiation fee of $50 (none for Junior members). Before you can get your membership renewed, or join for the year, you must provide proof that you have MAAC insurance for the registration year. Once you have paid dues, and provided proof of insurance, you will be given a club membership card. PDQ Flyers requires a copy of your membership card, along with MAAC insurance card, to be displayed with your frequency pin on the frequency board.

Monthly Meetings

Get information about our monthly meetings here.

Training

We have a training program to teach any interested flyer the necessary skills needed to successfully fly either Glow or Electric powered R/C Planes. The club also has two R/C Heli instructors. There are often used trainer planes & equipment for sale, from other members, posted in our Forums to assist in providing economical equipment for new flyers.

After a full day of flying many members meet in a coffee wind down at the A&W Restaurant in Parksville.



Our Current Executive and Committees

PDQ Flyers Directors - 2006

Bruce Berry

Hal Holwegner

Brian Coolican

Bob Press

Lloyd Ryan

Dennis Grant

Bob Williams

President

Vice-President

Secretary

Treasurer

Director

Director

Director

PDQ Flyers Committees - 2006

Noise

  • Bill Martin
  • Steve Hughes

Instructors

  • Brian Coolican
  • Hal Holwegner
  • Steve Hughes
  • Bill Martin

Field

  • Dennis Grant
  • Bob Press
  • Lloyd Ryan
  • Brian Alexander

Safety

  • Hal Holwegner

Concession

  • Bruce Berry
  • Dennis Grant
  • Phil Thomas

P.R.

  • Bruce Berry

Web Site

  • Mark Matheson
  • Brian Alexander

PDQ Past Presidents

photo of past presidents
Several of the PDQ Flyers past presidents attended a club 25 year get together in Parksville.
From left to right: Ted Walters, Gord Wilkinson, Bruce Berry (current president), Steve Hughes, Bill Rollins, Bryce Patterson and Bruce Patterson.
Unable to attend were Keith Reed from Burns Lake and Bud Fairbanks who regrettably past away several years ago.