August Meeting

This month’s meeting is upon us… tomorrow night, 8/20. We are meeting in Tony’s hangar, E4. The BBQs will be hot, and hamburgers available from 18:00, with the meeting following at 19:00.

Speakers will be Ken Schwartz and Richard Bristow, with video and commentary of their trips to AirVenture two weeks ago.

Weather looks to be pleasant… hope to see everyone.

August 20th membership meeting

Our next meeting is next Wed the 20th. We will be having a BBQ dinner for $6.00, from 18:00 in hangar E4 (Tony K’s hangar). Please don’t be shy about stepping up and helping – we are short on help!

Ken Schwartz and Richard Bristow will presenting 2 different programs about how they arrived in Oshkosh just a couple of weeks ago. Flying the Fisk arrival from Ken, and the Mooney caravan presented by Richard. There will be lots of great information and pictures from Airventure 2014.

We’ll also be talking about our very first Poker run on Oct 4th. There will be great prizes and lots of fun. It’s suggested that you sign up as soon as possible, as there are only 52 slots available and all Northern California EAA Chapters have been invited.

There is a joint airport day with the LRAA and Young Eagle flights on Oct 18th, and more information will be presented.

October 4th Poker Run

October 4th, 2014, based at Lincoln Airport (KLHM)

Registration opens at 08:00, first airplane takeoff at 09:00

Awards at 13:00

Route: KLHM, KDWA, KEDU, KMCC, KAUN, KLHM

Cost $50 per entrant (you can have multiple entrants per aircraft), limited to 52 entrants. This includes a chance at the pot, a BBQ tri-tip lunch and 1 raffle ticket. We have many items to be raffled off.

Additional lunch tickets are available at $10 per person. Additional raffle tickets are available at $1 each.

Pick up a playing card at each airport. The pot is 30% of the total entry fees. The pot is split between the high and the low hands – if we sell all 52 entries, the pot will be $780, so $390 per winning hand.

Due to the limited number of entries (52), pre-registration is strongly encouraged. You can download an entry form or register the day of the event at Lincoln Airport.

For more information, contact Bruce Estes, (650) 504-4464.

FAA Safety Team meeting in Redding, August 9th

“Weather, How to analyze and apply”
Topic: Weather…. How to analyse and apply
On Saturday, August 9, 2014 at 10:00 AM
Location:
Hillside Aviation
2600 Gold Street
Main Hangar
Redding, CA 96001

Select Number:
WP2555429

Description:
Mr. Terry Lankford, a nationally recognized author of seven books on aviation weather will present a step by step procedure to analyse weather and then apply it to your pilot decision making process.

To view further details and registration information for this seminar, click here.

EAA 1541 Young Eagles Flight

From the President:

I just want to thank everyone who helped to make our first Young Eagles program a huge success today! I believe we flew over 19 Young Eagles. To see the smiles on the faces of kids today and their appreciation was nothing short of fantastic!
It’s my understanding that our breakfast was not only delicious but was also very much a success. I know we had at least 2 new members join our chapter today. If you were not here today you missed a great event and I hope you can make the next one. Again, my heart felt thank you to all the members who worked on this great event! The kids will never forget it. See you next month with all the final numbers!

We’re posting pictures of the event.

Young Eagles on Saturday

Saturday July 19 marks our first chapter Young Eagles event. The event will start around 07:30 and should only take a few hours to complete. We will also have the BBQ’s fired up for pancakes, eggs & bacon. We hope to see as many of you as possible, and, most importantly… we really could use a few more ground volunteers for the Young Eagles. The duties will be simple, and the kids are reportedly very much looking forward to the day. By all estimates, we should be done well before noon. You only need to drive to the north end of the airport and look for the crowd near the large hangars by the street, but the exact address is: 1878 Flight Line, #1.

See you on Saturday!

FLIGHT ADVISORY VIP Visit California July 22-24, 2014

Notice Number: NOTC5454

FLIGHT ADVISORY
VIP Visit California
July 22-24, 2014

Notice: Expect VIP movement July 22-24, 2014 in the vicinity of San Francisco, CA. and Los Angeles, CA. Pilots can expect airspace restrictions in conjunction with this VIP movement. The FAA recommends that all aircraft operators check NOTAMs OFTEN for mandatory airspace restrictions prior to operations within this region.

More information is available here.

Specific instructions and restrictions are available here once the NOTAM has been issued.

Great Presentation for tomorrow’s Meeting!

We will have a short meeting, but important meeting and begin the (ONLY IN OSHKOSH) DVD from 2013

Just some of the features will include:

  • Flying with Jetman
  • Best of daily and night air shows
  • Warbirds features, including the B-29 FIFI, the PV-2D Harpoon and C-53 invasion stripes
  • Sully and Skiles flight in the Consolidated PBY Catalina
  • Fly-bys of featured aircraft
  • Feature on 17-year-old powered parachute pilot
  • Seaplane Base
  • Oshkosh’s Best of the Best

If you have never been to Oshkosh, this will be a great introduction to what it is all about!!

Hope to see you there! Bring the Family and enjoy! Hangar E-5, 19:00.

July membership meeting

The last Saturday BBQ was an absolute success!! What did not work so well was planning a general membership meeting to follow.

The Board has decided that it will be better to return to Wednesday meetings, beginning next week… July 16th.

General Membership Meeting
Hangar E5 (Tony K’s, big hangars facing the runway)
7 pm.