On Saturday, November 9th, 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 the coming year. 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 that features general aviation’s contributions to 21st century climate science.
Our presenter will be chapter member Jack Allison who flies a turbo-equipped Mooney loaded with computers and sensors to do systematic air sampling. He is a research pilot for Scientific Aviation, which does a unique type 
of aerial survey that quantifies emissions at land fills, oil & gas facilities, pipelines, dairies, etc., and collects air samples for agencies such as the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the California Air Resources Board.
Jack’s presentation will be entitled “Flying a Mooney from 200 AGL to FL250 for science”
At the left is a photo of the California coast at Arcata taken by Jack from Flight Level 250.
Don’t miss this educational session on what it takes to be a professional scientific research pilot.
This presentation will be followed at 10:30 by a Build and Fly RC model building session.
Hope to see you there!
This pilot education meeting will have two “What Would You Do?” scenarios. The IMC
On Saturday, October 12th, 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.
Mike has the distinction of owning the only airworthy PT-21 left in the world, and flies formation with Will’s PT-22 when Will’s airline pilot day job permits. Both World War II trainer aircraft are hangared at Lincoln, and will be present just outside the EAA hangar on Saturday, October 12th starting at 0930. The Ryans were built in San Diego and colloquially known as “Maytag Messerschmitts” by the cadets in training because of the distinctive sound of their 5 cylinder radial engines. [You can hear the sound of those engines 
This pilot education meeting will have three components. First, CFII Scott Thompson will give a talk for both IFR and VFR pilots on the functioning of Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI) lights and how they contribute to improved landing safety.
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!)
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.
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.
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:
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.