On Saturday, September 14th, we will be having our Second Saturday Pancake Breakfast from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. at 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 youth under 17, or $25.00 per family. We’ll also happily renew your chapter dues for 2024. Cost is $30 for individuals or families. We’ll have our flight simulators up and running and attended to help you or your kids take flight.

At 9:30 we will have a presentation entitled “Go Fast, Turn Left. Flying the 2024 EAA AirVenture Cup Race” by chapter member Mark Rieger, who is going to fly his personally hand crafted Cozy Mark IV race plane in for all to see, and tell us about his experience as a rookie race pilot at Oshkosh 2024.  (Spoiler Alert: Top Five finish!)

This will be followed at 10:30 by a Build and Fly RC model building session.

Big fun is in store.  Hope to see you there!

This pilot education meeting will have two “What Would You Do?” scenarios. The IMC scenario involves an IFR ferry flight of a turbocharged aircraft at high altitude where loss of engine power occurs. The VMC scenario involves roundtrip flight made without refueling, where signs of impending fuel exhaustion occur close to the destination.

All are invited to participate and use their experience and knowledge to help solve these two in-flight emergencies.  To join this meeting, click the link below at 7 pm PDT on Sept. 5th:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85017414111

Fly safe!

EAA chapter 1541 will be participating in this event with a pancake breakfast starting at 7 am, free simulator flights, logistics support, and a booth with information about our chapter’s events and scholarship programs.

On Saturday, August 10th, we will be having our Second Saturday Pancake Breakfast from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. at 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 youth under 17, or $25.00 per family. We’ll also happily renew your chapter dues for 2024. Cost is $30 for individuals or families. We’ll have our flight simulators up and running and attended to help you or your kids take flight.

At 9:30 we will have a brief members meeting, followed by presentations by our young chapter members who attended Air Academy, and chapter members who went to AirVenture 2024, showing and describing their most memorable moments at Oshkosh this year. This will be followed at 10:30 by a Build and Fly RC model building session.

Hope to see you there!

Our monthly pilot education meeting for August will have two “What Would You Do?” scenarios. The IMC scenario involves an IFR flight in busy airspace where the cabin door opens and the change overwhelms the autopilots ability to maintain altitude and heading. The VMC scenario involves an engine fire in a twin engine aircraft. Meeting participants will be asked to use their expertise and experience to solve these sudden inflight challenges.

To join the meeting, click this link at 7 pm PDT on August  1st:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84767443115

Fly safe!

On Saturday, July 13, we will be having our Second Saturday Pancake Breakfast from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. at 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 youth under 17, or $25.00 per family. We’ll also happily renew your chapter dues for 2024. Cost is $30 for individuals or families. We’ll have our flight simulators up and running and attended to help you or your kids take flight.  At 9:30 we will begin our educational presentation,.

For our summer schedule, we are moving the monthly educational program from the 4^th Saturday to follow the 2^nd Saturday pancake breakfast.  Our inaugural after-breakfast speaker will be EAA 1541 technical counselor Dan Masys, on the topic of “Do It Yourself Avionics Upgrades for Experimental Aircraft:  How Much and How Long?”

Shown at the left is the original instrument panel of the first aircraft (an RV-7A) that Dan and his wife Linda completed building in 2003. That aircraft is now in the hands of its fourth owner, who contacted Dan in 2023 to get help with upgrading its electrical and avionics systems.  After much discussion, many emails and lots of long distance mentoring and troubleshooting by phone, the airplane now has a new owner-installed Garmin GNC touch screen IFR navigator + com, dual Garmin G5 solid state displays, and a fully coupled TruTrak autopilot:

At the same time, Dan was working on a second avionics upgrade project, to transform a 2007 RV-10 to a state of the art triple Garmin G3X touch screen system integrated with a GTN 650Xi navigator and Garmin 507 autopilot:

This presentation will use this “Tale of Two Upgrades” to illustrate how owners of experimental aircraft can do their own avionics upgrades, including the skills, knowledge and tools needed, as well as the cost and time required to accomplish the task.

Our usual 4th Saturday lunch has been moved this month to June 29th to coincide with our Poker Run event.  We have a good group of pilots, planes and passengers signed up for the Poker Run, and if you’d like to stop by just to have lunch at noon and see who the winners are (including the winner who happens to get the worst poker hand award!), the BBQ lunch will be open to all.  And online registration is still open for the Poker Run, for those who want to exercise their airmanship skills and test their card-drawing luck at Auburn, Yuba County, Colusa County, and Yolo County airports (in any order you like), then back to Lincoln.  Details below and on the Poker Run Event page.

The video proceedings of the Lincoln Regional Airport users meeting held on Saturday, January 13, 2024 in the EAA chapter hangar is now available on our chapter’s YouTube channel.  Details and a table of contents of topics discussed at the meeting can be found on our Membership meetings video page.