IMC/VMC club online meeting Thurs. October 5 at 7 pm PDT

Posted on October 1, 2023 by dan

Our online IMC/VMC club meeting for the month of October will be held this coming Thursday beginning at 7 pm PDT.

This interactive educational event will feature two “What Would You Do?” video scenarios. The IMC scenario will involve an IFR approach where, after breaking out from a 700 foot overcast on final approach, one of the gear legs of your retractable single is not down and locked. The VMC scenario involves a takeoff from Leadville, Colorado in a Cherokee 180 where you get distracted and your plan to make a go-no go decision based on actual takeoff performance goes awry.

All participants are invited to share their experience and decision making in these situations of unexpected challenges.

In order to receive FAA Wings credit for participation, please register for this event by clicking:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcuuprD0sHtPofyCX4Cw3jeRD0H8RoNtD

For those not wishing to receive Wings credit, the link to join the meeting will be sent to the chapter mailing list within 24 hours before the meeting.
Fly safe!

September 23: Saturday BBQ Lunch and Program

Posted on September 18, 2023 by Scott Thompson

This coming Saturday, September 23, EAA Chapter 1541 will be having its 4th Saturday BBQ Lunch and Program at the EAA Hangar.

This month, our program will celebrate the successes of our youth scholarship and sponsorship programs for this year. Specifically, our 2022-2023 Ray Scholar, Anthony Moreno, has completed his private pilot training. Our current Ray Scholar, Danielle Hanes, is well into her training for her private pilot certification. We also sponsored two of our chapter’s young people, Sam Mach and Prahlad Iyengar, to attend the EAA Air Academy summer camp this past summer. We have asked all four to come and present their experiences through these programs.

And, we also want to provide a few of our chapter members with an opportunity to share some of their own experiences from AirVenture at Oshkosh this past July. We had a good group of guys and gals make the trip east, either by the easy pain-in-the-neck way or the hard, fun way (your experience may have varied). So, if you were one of those and would like to share a few minutes of your experiences, come prepared.

So, for both our young presenters and our Oshkosh travelers…we will have our chapter computer hooked up to our screen and audio system…bring your thumb drive to project a Powerpoint or images, or bring your own HDMI-connection-capable computer and plug it on in. We’ll ask the presenters to come to the front and use a microphone so all can hear.

We’ll have a brief business meeting at 11:45 with the presentations and programs to begin at 12:00.

BBQ Lunch starts at 11:00 at our hangar at the Lincoln Regional Airport. If you are not familiar with our hangar’s location, come to the airport and just follow the “EAA” signs.

The grill is hot from 11:00 a.m. until 11:45 a.m. when it shuts down, so come early. BBQ Lunch is $10.00 for adults, $5.00 for kids 12 or under, and $25 for families.

And, for your convenience, we are now accepting credit and debit cards, plus other methods of electronic payment, for our meals, t-shirts, dues, and donations.

Please join us on Saturday.

This Coming Saturday: Breakfast at the Hangar

Posted on September 4, 2023 by Scott Thompson

A reminder to all that we will be holding our Second Saturday Pancake Breakfast this coming Saturday (September 9) from 8:00 am until 10:00 am. Except there won’t be any pancakes this time around. Instead: Breakfast Burritos…yes, you read right. Breakfast burritos! Plus sausage and the other good fixings that go along with breakfast. Why breakfast burritos, you might ask? Well, we are using up some of our egg stock from the very successful Open House Pancake Breakfast. Waste not, want not, etc.

We’ll be cooking from 8:00 am to 9:30 am when the grill shuts down, so come early. Breakfast will be $10.00 per person, $5.00 per young person 12 and under, or $25.00 per family.

Something new: our chapter is now accepting payment via credit or debit cards, and also Venmo and PayPal.

September IMC/VMC club online meeting Thursday, Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. PDT

Posted on September 4, 2023 by dan

Our September 2023 IMC/VMC club meeting will be held online via Zoom from 7-8 pm PDT on Thursday, September 7, 2023.

This interactive educational event will feature two “What Would You Do?” video scenarios. The IMC scenario will involve an IFR approach where ATC issues a revised landing clearance that you are not sure whether to accept, even though it would be simpler to do so than doing a missed approach. The VMC scenario involves a long solo cross country flight where you begin to feel ill enroute.

All participants are invited to share their experience and decision making in these situations of unexpected challenges.

Saturday, August 26: City of Lincoln’s Airport Open House and Family Festival

Posted on August 21, 2023 by Scott Thompson

This coming Saturday is the City of Lincoln’s Airport Open House and Family Festival from 7 am to 2 pm. Come on out to the airport for a full day of activity. EAA Chapter 1541 will be participating with a Pancake Breakfast from 7 am until 10 am. We’ll also have our flight simulators our for folks to enjoy a short flight, and we’ll have an informational booth to answer any questions. Also on the airport: many dozens of display aircraft including military and CalFire, plus hot air balloons, classic cars, vendor booths, food trucks, and youth activities. It will be a great day to see our local airport and have some family fun.

Coming this Saturday (August 12): Pancake Breakfast

Posted on August 7, 2023 by Scott Thompson

We will be having our Second Saturday Pancake Breakfast from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. in the EAA hangar, S-12 at the Lincoln Regional Airport. If you are not familiar with the airport, navigate to Flight Line Drive and follow the “EAA” signs. All are welcome.

We’ll be cooking pancakes, eggs, and other good stuff from 8:00 am to 9:30 am when the grill shuts down, so come early. Breakfast is $10.00 per person, $5.00 per child under 12, or $20.00 per family.

Something new: our chapter is now accepting payment via credit or debit cards, and also Venmo and PayPal. We will be trying out our new systems in preparation for the August 26 Airport Open House.

Our chapter Board of Directors will be having its monthly meeting directly after the pancake breakfast, so you are welcome to stick around for that also.

Come on out and enjoy some

good food and hangar flying too.

IMC/VMC club online meeting on Thursday, August 3 at 7 pm PDT

Posted on August 1, 2023 by dan

Our IMC/VMC online club meeting will be from 7 to 8 pm PDT on Thursday, August 3rd. Our program will feature a combined IFR+VFR “What Would You Do?” scenario involving a night flight from a Southern California airport that has been in the news recently, over the SoCal mountains to Arizona. Mid-flight something happens and the flight instruments don’t make sense any more.

In addition to our group discussion, there will be a brief tutorial presentation on the factors that caused the unexpected challenges that the pilot experienced. We look forward to a lively interchange and all are invited to participate. To join the Zoom meeting, click here at 7 pm on Thursday 8/3.

Fly safe!

July 22 BBQ Lunch and Program cancelled due to heat forecast

Posted on July 18, 2023 by dan

We’re sorry to say that the BBQ Lunch and Program scheduled for this coming Saturday needs to be cancelled due to the excessive heat forecast for the day.

The program will be rescheduled for our October BBQ Lunch meeting on October 21.

For anyone involved with the Young Eagle Rally planned for this Saturday from 8 am to 10 am, that also will need to be cancelled.

Our next chapter events will be the Zoom Online IMC/VMC Club on Thursday, August 3rd, and the 2nd Saturday Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, August 12.

BBQ Lunch and Program on Saturday, July 22: Scrapping Our World War II Air Force

Posted on July 12, 2023 by Scott Thompson

For our Saturday, July 22, BBQ Lunch meeting, Scott Thompson will present on a widely-known but less-understood topic: Scrapping Our World War II Air Force.

Rows of aircraft engines removed from surplus bombers at the Kingman boneyard

Almost everyone has seen pictures of the endless rows of surplus warplanes gathered at remote desert fields after the end of World War II. Why were these bombers and fighters seemingly abandoned? What happened to them? Did we just scrap them and turn them into pots and pans? This presentation provides the details of what we did with a massive air force no longer needed.

War weary B-17's at Kingman AZ, waiting to be destroyed : r/WWIIplanes

Scott Thompson is the author of several books and numerous articles on different aspects of American aviation history. He has specialized in the post-war civilian use of World War II aircraft and thus has extensively researched the process of how the U.S. disposed of surplus warplanes. He maintains an historical aviation website at aerovintage.com.

BBQ Lunch starts at 11:00 at our hangar at the Lincoln Regional Airport. If you are not familiar with our hangar’s location, come to the airport and just follow the “EAA” signs.

The grill is hot from 11:00 a.m. until 11:45 a.m. when it shuts down, so come early. BBQ Lunch is $10.00 for adults, $5.00 for kids 12 or under, and $25 for families.

And, for your convenience, we are now accepting credit and debit cards, plus other methods of electronic payment, for our meals, t-shirts, dues, and donations. Please join us on Saturday.

Curtiss P-40 Warhawks stacked on their noses to save space at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas after World War II

Posted on July 7, 2023 by Scott Thompson

Pancake Breakfast This Saturday (July 8)

We’ll be cooking pancakes, eggs, and other good stuff from 8:00 am to 9:30 am when the grill shuts down, so come early. Breakfast is $10.00 per person, $5.00 per child under 12, or $25.00 per family.