Frank Burkhead, known in the chapter as a Gold member and always active Young Eagles pilot passed away on Sunday. It was rather sudden – he was diagnosed with MyeloDysplastic Syndrome (pre leukemia) and a couple days later contracted an infection. A few days after that he passed.

There will be a celebration of life next Saturday, October 12th at Kilaga Springs Lodge in Lincoln Hills from 13:00 to 16:00.

Come out to the EAA hangar at the Lincoln Airport on Saturday morning (October 5th) for a pancake breakfast and an aviation movie and some good hangar flying.

All are welcome for our (suggested) $5.00 breakfast that will be served from 08:00 until 09:30. That’s right, last pancakes on the griddle at 09:30 so come early and often for a fun, relaxing morning.

If you haven’t yet volunteered for the Young Eagles rally on the 12th, this would be an excellent opportunity to do so!

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Cameron Park is having a car and aircraft show on Saturday 28th, 09:00 – 15:00.

You can fly in and display your plane (register the day of event and get front row parking). Planes must be parked by 08:00.

There are over 45 vendors and 10 food trucks, 350 cars and dozens of aircraft will be on display. The event will have live music and features a kid zone with bounce houses and games. It’s a great event for the whole family, and it’s free to attend.

Shuttle will be available to pilots from transient parking to event.

The event flyer is here. The fly in procedures are below.

The last Legends of Flight pancake breakfast of the season is on Saturday 28th (07:30 to 11:30) at the Nut Tree Airport.

Bruce Estes is leaving Lincoln at about 08:30, so join him if you can.

The Lincoln Powered Parachute Field will be hosting a fly in with camping from October 3rd to October 6th, so be aware that they’ll be using their runway to the South West of the airport, particularly in the mornings and evenings.

The LPPF guidelines are here.

LRAA Aircraft Display Day (08:00 – Noon)
&
EAA Pancake Breakfast (08:00 – 10:00)

Come on out on Saturday 21st to the Gazebo area at the airport between 08:00 and 10:00 for a pancake breakfast (in support of the Richard and Susan Bristow Memorial Scholarship Program) and to help support the LRAA monthly display day. Invite your friends and family to come see the airplanes on display and have breakfast to boot.

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Topic: IMC Topics Are Taken From Real Life Events and Discussed to Aid the Decision Making Process for Pilots.
On Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 19:00 Pacific Daylight Time
Location:
Lincoln Regional Airport, KLHM, Hangar S-12
gate #4
hangar S-12
Lincoln, CA 95648

Select Number:
WP2595898

Description:
This is an audience participation event. After a brief Audio/Video presentation we ask “What Would You Do”? Everyone is encouraged to join in the discussion. Videos depicting actual flights that encountered challenges are chosen from a library provided by EAA . Pilots of all skill levels are encouraged to attend. Click the link below for more information and to register TODAY.

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

Topic: VMC & IMC Topics Are Taken From Real Life Events and Discussed to Aid the Decision Making Process for Pilots.
On Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 19:00 Pacific Daylight Time
Location:
PLACERVILLE AIRPORT
3483 AIRPORT ROAD
EAA CHAPTER 512, QUONSET HANGAR
Placerville, CA 95667

Select Number:
WP2595870

Description:
This is an audience participation event. After a brief Audio/Video presentation we ask “What Would You Do”? Everyone is encouraged to join in the discussion. Subjects are normally provided by EAA. Pilots of all skill levels are encouraged to attend. Click the link below for more information and to register TODAY.

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

Title: Warthog: Alive and Kicking (for a while longer)
Overview: Built to kill Warsaw Pact tanks if the Cold War heated up in Europe, 715 were built from 1972 to 1984. Two hundred eighty-three still flying 35 years later, and projected to keep many still flying until 2030. Nothing ever intended to replace it, and nothing will. It has continued to find work in Desert Storm in 1991, Kosovo in 1994, Iraq, again, in 2003, Syria and Iraq against ISIS, and Afghanistan since 2001.

Austin Wiswell was, until he retired in December 2005, Chief of the Division of Aeronautics for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), a position he held since November 2000. As Division Chief, Mr. Wiswell was responsible for administering the state’s three General Aviation airport financial assistance grant programs and a loan program; permitting and safety compliance inspections of the 177 hospital heliports and 245 public-use airports in California; evaluating aviation-related environmental impact issues, such as noise and air pollution; mitigating land use incompatibility encroachment issues; and conducting statewide aviation system planning to ensure a viable, effective integrated regional, state, and national air transportation system.

While serving as California’s aviation chief, and General Aviation airport focal point, he served on two committees of the National Association of State Aviation Officials: General Aviation airport security (working with TSA and aviation industry stakeholders) and land use compatibility (working with HQ FAA to explore establishing a national policy that could be endorsed by the FAA).

Mr. Wiswell began his career with Caltrans in early 1999, serving as a field inspector for one year before being promoted to Chief, Office of Airports, with responsibility for safety regulation of public-use and special-use airports and heliports in California. For three years prior to joining the State’s Division of Aeronautics, he was General Manager of an airport management company leasing and operating a county-owned airport in Sedona, Arizona. Before that, Mr. Wiswell managed a county-owned airport, near Davis, California, for four years. Prior to that he worked for Allied-Signal Aerospace Company in the Los Angeles area for four years in sales and marketing, customer liaison, and contract administration. All of this civilian employment came after a nearly twenty-five year U.S. Air Force active duty career spent as an operational fighter pilot and headquarters staff officer. Mr. Wiswell retired from the Air Force as a Colonel in late 1987.

Since his retirement from CalTrans in December 2005, Mr. Wiswell has been consulting with City- and County- owned General Aviation airports on matters of management and operation of their airport, safety and security, development planning, and adjacent land use compatibility. He also works with Cities and Counties as regards the near-airport compatibility of development projects favored by local governments. Mr. Wiswell has a B.A. in teaching from San Jose State University and a M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California.

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