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Phuket VTSP to Singapore WSSL
Relaxing 3 days at the island of Phuket at the airpark
passed all to
quickly, the longest break so far, with Note, Lam Yai and
their son Mig,
and the last day with Robert Suchard, the owner and host,
we needed to
move on south.
This break was very much needed by us two, after all the
long hours of
flying!
The people at the airpark were perfect hosts and spoiled
us in any way
they could during our stay there.
Robert Suchard a Thai – German the owner is quite a
character, perfect
host. We had a really good time at Phuket. We were taken
around the
island, dined out, shown through the airpark and Robert’s
other
interests, like his new hotel under construction in the
vicinity of
Patong beach.
We finally got away on Wednesday the 3rd of July just
before noon.
After going through all the paperwork, and had to catch
up on the no
paperwork when we arrive, we had to pay extra parking for
an extra day’s
stay
at the Island.
Robert and Rolf at the Flight office
The weather forecast was rather good for our destination
Singapore. Our
plan was for the GA airport Seletar WSSL, just north of
the major
International Singapore airport Changi, and just over the
border from
Malaysia.
Robert's airpark at Phuket as we flew past
The flight started out first in perfect weather
conditions, but as the
afternoon wore on and closer to Singapore, our storm
scope showed an
increasing number of thunderstorms ahead on our route.
Approaching Singapore
The first class air traffic controllers diverted us
around the large
build ups, and radar vectored us perfectly across the
Malaysian border
into Seletar airport.
We landed safely and contacted the people at Hawker
Pacific for the next
days planned 50 hour service on our Comanche. We had some
fun, thinking
that we could just taxi across the field to the eastern
side, but apron
control put us right on the spot, as we first had to
clear customs and
immigration, before we could undertake anything. After
quite some
problems finding the air terminal we finished the arrival
formalities
and were met by Antu Finan, a Tongan national and
director of
Maintenance
at Hawker Pacific
corporation.
Maintenance work at Hawker Pacific
After arranging the details of the needed maintenance, we
took a
taxi to
downtown Singapore and our hotel the Pan Pacific, a first
class hotel. We spent
the evening in downtown at the waterfront
of the channel with a nice dinner at
a Thai restaurant and watched
the busy happenings around there, and went to bed
rather early thereafter.
The following day we cached up with our paperwork and
then went
shopping. Rolf was interested in computers, while Manfred
went hunting
for spare batteries for his new camera.
