IFR Mini-Symposium

For Our Local IFR Pilots

(and IFR-curious pilots)

Saturday, March 29, 8:30 am to 12:00 pm

At the EAA Chapter 1541 Hangar

KLHM

• Hour One: The Nuts and Bolts of IFR Approach Procedures presented by Scott Thompson, retired CFII, FAA flight inspection pilot and TERPS specialist
• Hour Two: A presentation by controllers from NORCAL TRACON (NCT) about our Sacramento area airspace….why things are the way they are and how to help make the system work best for us users and ATC.
• Hour Three: An Open Forum with NCT controllers and system users. Bring your questions, comments, and techniques about flying IFR in our complex airspace for a discussion session.

We are welcoming IFR and IFR-curious pilots from all our local area airports to come and gain some knowledge and understanding about how IFR procedures are created and maintained, about how ATC and our own NCT works our airspace, and how to make our operations as safe and efficient as possible.

We’ll start promptly at 8:30 for the first of our three sessions. Driving in: follow the “EAA” signs on Flightline Drive at the Lincoln Airport (KLHM) to the EAA hangar, Hangar S-12. You’ll enter the fourth gate to the hangar area…please respect other users and don’t park in front of hangar doors or more than two deep alongside hangars to allow taxiway use. For fly-ins…park at transient parking in the middle of the airport and expect a 10-minute walk to the EAA hangar in the northern hangar area on the airport.

FAA Wings Credit available; sign up at the event.

The Mini-Symposium will be recorded and available on YouTube for later viewing. See our chapter’s Meeting Video links for availability.

For more information: contact EAA Chapter 1541 at eaa1541@gmail.com

Note: the video recording of the March 8 Airport users meeting is now available on the chapter’s Event Videos page.

Saturday, March 8, 9:00 am to 11:00 am

(pancake breakfast at 8:00 am)

Presented by Representatives from the City of Lincoln

Hosted by EAA Chapter 1541

Come to EAA Hangar S-12

Any and All Airport Users Welcome

EAA Chapter 1541 is hosting representatives from the City of Lincoln, our airport operator, for an Airport Users Meeting on Saturday, March 8. This will be our chapter’s Second Saturday Gathering for March, so we will start by offering a pancake breakfast at 8:00 am at the chapter hangar. The Users Meeting will begin promptly at 9:00 am and we expect to be concluded by 11:00 am.

We hosted a very successful Airport Users meeting early last year, and we are happy to do so again. All airport users are encouraged and welcome to attend this opportunity to interact with the City about ongoing plans, issues, and concerns for the Lincoln Regional Airport. So, please mark your calendars and spread the word to others about this important meeting

A few points of note:

• Due to the chicken situation…no eggs for breakfast. It will be pancakes and sausage and all the other normal stuff. Price will be just $5.00 for all comers.
• If you want breakfast…get in line by 8:30 because the grill will be shutting down by 8:45 to allow time to prepare for the meeting. You want to eat? Best show up at 8:00 am.
• We expect a presentation by Sean Scully, the city manager, and other city representatives, as well as an opportunity to ask questions and have an open discussion. We also may have representatives from the William Jessup aviation program and for the new hangar initiatives underway at KLHM.
• We expect to tape the meeting and post it on YouTube (as we did the last meeting) for those who are not able to attend.

Spread the word…see you then.

Our online Zoom pilot education meeting for March will have two “What Would You Do?” scenarios. The IMC scenario involves an IMC flight into deteriorating weather very close to your intended destination airport.  The VMC scenario involves an evening departure with wildlife in the vicinity of the runway.

To register for Wings credit for this event, click this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Nxs1m9HpRLu7e3j4gXablA

All are invited to attend.

Fly safe!

Our February pilot education meeting will have two “What Would You Do?“; scenarios. The IMC scenario involves a night time IFR approach in a mountainous area where a terrain warning interrupts the approach. The VMC scenario involves a student pilot attempting to make a landing at a busy towered airport where an opposite direction traffic conflict suddenly appears.

To join the meeting, click the link below at 7 pm PST on Thursday, February 6th:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82530396367

All are invited to attend.

Fly safe!

On Saturday, January 11th, we will be doing something a bit different for our first Second Saturday Gathering of 2025. We’ll still meet rom 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’re going to let the pancake griddle cool down this month and give our great cooking team (Scott Whelan) a bit of a break. Instead, we’ll have muffins, orange juice, and hot coffee to greet the new year. We’ll also fire up the propane space heater to keep it relatively warm and toasty.

This will be a social time but we will have our flight simulators up and running for anyone to try. We’ll also have a welcome table...perfect for those wanting to pay their dues for 2025. Annual chapter dues, either single or family, remains at $30 per calendar year. Otherwise, we’ll ask you to throw a buck into the jar if you want to enjoy the muffins, etc. That’s right: $1.00 for something that would cost, like, $15 at Starbucks.

We’ll also have some announcements and a short presentation by our chapter’s Ray Scholar graduate Anthony Duran on his flight experiences in the San Jose State University Aviation program.  The program will begin at 9:30.  Hope to see you there!

Our first IMC/VMC online club meeting of 2025 will be held Thursday, January 2nd from 7-8 pm PST.  This pilot education meeting will have two “What Would You Do?” scenarios. The IMC scenario involves a traffic conflict that arises just after canceling IFR on final approach to an uncontrolled airport.  The VMC scenario involves a light twin aircraft with landing gear that retract but will not extend for landing.  Attendees are invited to use their pilot experiences to say how they would handle these unexpected in-flight challenges.

In order to join this meeting, click this link at 7 pm Thurs. Jan. 2:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82127189842

Fly safe!

Our 2024 Chapter 1541 Holiday Party is set for Wednesday, December 11, at BJs Restaurant in Roseville (on Roseville Parkway kitty-corner across from the Galleria). We are making a special effort this year to keep the cost as low as possible so we can include more families. Tickets are $40 for adults and $15 for kids under the age of 12. The meal will be a pizza buffet with a specialty entrée (either roasted chicken breast or a BJ’s specialty pasta), salad and non-alcoholic drinks. There is also a no-host bar available at BJs.

Our party will be an informal social gathering beginning at 6:00 pm and lasting until 8:00 pm.  Our program will include presentation of the 2024 EAA Recognition Awards to chapter volunteers, and we will have some fun including an Ugly Sweater Contest — please come dressed for success!

This year we are adopting a “Helping Others for the Holidays” theme at our event.  For this we are asking attendees to bring either a canned food item for The Salt Mine charity in Lincoln, or a new unwrapped toy to donate to Toys for Tots in Lincoln.  Add a little of the joy of serving others to your holiday menu!

The Salt Mine staff tell us that nonperishable food items with protein are much needed, such as canned tuna, tuna lunch packs, canned chili or protein bars.  They also need canned fruit during the cold months.

Toys for Tots suggests new, unwrapped toys such as sporting equipment, balls, and bags, books, backpacks, board games or handheld electronics.

If you’d prefer to just make a donation at the party, we’ll have scannable QR codes that go to those organizations’ donation pages. 

Or you can just enjoy the good food, fellowship and fun without making any donation! It’s all good!  

Tickets must be purchased ahead of time; they will not be available at the door of the event. The firm deadline for ticket purchase is Saturday, December 7.

Please plan on joining us for the evening of Wednesday, December 11.

Adult Holiday Party Ticket ($40.00 each)

Child Under Age 12 Holiday Party Ticket ($15.00 each)

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 21^st 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
scenario involves loss of flight critical avionics shortly after departure. The VMC scenario involves a VFR flight to an island where, due to strong crosswinds, the aircraft strikes a runway light and incurs damage but is able to go around.

To join the meeting, click this link at 7 pm PST on Thursday, Nov. 7th:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86138367297

For those not wishing to receive Wings credit, the link to join the meeting will be sent to the chapter members list 24 hours prior to the event.

Fly safe!