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The Official Newsletter of Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 175

Vandenberg Airport VDF

The next meeting will be Saturday, September 24, 2004

@ 0900. Breakfast @ 0800.

September Program

EAA Chapter 175

“Freeport, Bahamas Fly Out in November”

with Roger Moore

Have you ever thought of flying to the Bahamas? Roger Moore thought about it and does it. In fact, Roger flies monthly to the Bahamas. Roger is organizing a special trip that includes the members of Chapter 175. The goal is to fly as a group to Freeport, Bahamas. At the September meeting Roger will review all procedures, paperwork, over water requirements, and more…. Hope to see you there.

Presidents Corner

by Bud Yerly

How did we get so busy. This month we have been knee deep talking to EAA headquarters and Sun 'n Fun (SnF) about our roll in the SnF fly in and the Wings 'n Things pancake breakfast. To be very brief, EAA can not supply insurance coverage to the chapter since the chapter is not participating in an EAA event but is participating as a volunteer for SnF. EAA is grateful we supply the service to our aviation community and we make money, but it is more than a gray area that we are not performing within the confines of our charter and bylaws. We are in the final brief discussions with SnF Inc. about our relationship and how we can perform our service. Right now it looks like we will be performing our services as SnF volunteers and not as EAA Chapter 175. Which allows us to fall under the coverage of the SnF insurance coverage. How we will be paid, is still being worked out. Pete Lansbury has asked for a Board of Directors conference call so we can iron out the details for the SnF fly in and I will work out our Wings 'n Things details. It all sounds like a pain, but both EAA and SnF have been very helpful and are eager to get this all ironed out to everyone's satisfaction.

Wings 'n Things right around the corner and along comes the AOPA Expo. (Is there a hurricane coming?) Clear your calendar on November 3-5. The Chapter has been asked to help participate in the AOPA Expo the same weekend we are doing the pancake breakfast for Wings 'n Things on November 5th. Can we do it all? You bet, with a little help from our friends. Our friends at Leading Edge Aviation are soliciting all volunteers to help with the logistical support for Vandenburg Airports roll as a main stopover for AOPA participants. We will support along with other Vandenburg tenants and associates. Dave Hansma is our lead man on working out volunteer scheduling for the event. We also have the responsibility to support the pancake breakfast for Saturday morning November 5th during Wings 'n Things at Sun 'n Fun. Typically 24 of our members are needed to supply breakfast for 600 kids and adults. This year, the WnT event will draw nearly 1500 people. Not all will have breakfast, but at the anticipated 1200 plates, we could make $1000 which will pay the rent for a third of next year. To support both operations I asked my Boy Scout Troop 665 for volunteers to help serve at the breakfast since they will be camping at the WnT event. I have full support and it looks like about all the leg work could be done by the troop kids 15-20 and all we have to do is supply the EAA members to meet the cooking staff and supervision needs (about 12-15 of us).

Meeting Minutes of the August 27 meeting

of EAA Chapter 175.

Meeting called to order by President Bud Yerly at 905L.

Bud reviewed the agenda notes from Chapter Board Meeting.

AOPA Expo update from Dave Hansma.

WnT update from Bud Yerly

Election Nomination Committee Dave Hansma Chair,

Tom McLinskey, Gordon Knapp, Stan Sutterfield Members

Payment from Sun 'n Fun received $1500

Financial records transferred to new version of Quick Books which allows

better spreadsheet analysis and 501 C3 reporting in the future.

Changes to membership and welcoming considered.

Vice President Gordon Knapp took over the remainder of the meeting agenda.

We had a visitor John Kratzer and the meeting was attended by 12 additional members.

On a sad note we were reminded of the passing of good friends Jerry Dean, Ron Carpenter and Graham Gates. We will miss their friendship and fellowship as we are all reminded of how delicate the thread of life is, but how lasting is their impact on each of us.

Gordon Knapp covered his experiences at Air Venture and the slight detour he made on his way back via Detroit, the Air Museum at Wright Pat and other wonderful side trips.

Our guest speaker was member Wells Berry. Longtime Piedmont 737 captain, Wells commentary on his perspective on the changing face of airlines and aviation over his career was inciteful. It was interesting how it is still the decisions of the pilot in command which make the difference in the success of an airline operation and the safety of the passengers.

The meeting was closed at 1025L.

THANKS TO NEW MEMBER WELLS BERRY

Last month, we enjoyed a presentation by Wells Berry about his aviation career "from J-3 Cubs to Boeing 737s". Wells' route to an airliner captain's stripes followed the well-worn path of leaning the basics in classic taildraggers, then moving on to charter work and eventually ever larger piston and turboprop aircraft and finally heavy turbojets. He highlighted his talk with some of the more dramatic episodes in his 28,000 plus hours as PIC. Ironically, Wells never had an outright engine failure in all his hours aloft and pointed out modern jet engines are especially reliable. The "pucker factor" incidents were caused by severe weather. What was brought home to us from his stories, however, is that after all the weather specialists, the mechanics, the ramp crews, the dispatchers, the cabin crew and all the other experts have done their jobs, every flight comes down to the training, experience and judgment of the person in the left seat.

If you missed Wells talk (or if you were there, but want to hear more), he will gladly share his experiences with you. Just ask.

Gordon

Leading Edge Fuel Discount

Leading Edge fuel prices are lower than 75% of the FBO's in the area. EAA Chapter 175 members will receive a 75 cents discount per gallon of 100 LL. Please contact the Customer Service Representatives at Leading Edge to find out more about this special offer!

Thank you.

Leading Edge.

Volunteer at VDF

By now you should know the AOPA will be holding there convention in Tampa this November. We have an opportunity to volunteer at VDF to help out with ground operations and welcome visitors to Tampa. As this is not a paid position, Leading Edge is willing to do something for the chapter for their support. Leading Edge is planning to give free trade show passes for the EXPO for volunteers. These passes normally run $75.00 for one day. We are also giving all volunteers a VDF/APOA Ground Crew T Shirt along with a LEA hat and we are providing refreshments. Thanks for your continued support

Leading Edge Aviation

AOPA Expo 2005

AOPA Expo 2005 offers everything a pilot could wish for. You can comparison shop products at 530 booths, check out 70 aircraft on display, and choose from 70 hours of seminars. The event takes place from November 3 to 5 in Tampa, Florida.
( http://www.aopa.org/epilot/redir.cfm?adid=7432 ).

The NBAA has relocated its annual convention to Orlando

The NBAA has relocated its annual convention to Orlando because of Hurricane Katrina. While this gathering is a bit out of our league as "sport and recreational flyers", some of our members might like to take advantage of the close proximity to go over and look at all the executive toys. At least worth checking out. http://web.nbaa.org/public/cs/amc/2005/

CESSNA DELIVERS 6,000TH PISTON AIRPLANE

In 1996 Cessna opened its Independence, Kansas, production facility, living up to its promise to restart production of single-engine airplanes. The factory now has produced its 6,000th airplane, a 172 Skyhawk, going to Anson Air in Sugar Land, Texas. "We've had a tremendous amount of student interest in the new Skyhawk with the Garmin avionics suite," said Anson Air President Dana Atkinson. "Our clients are very demanding and expect modern aircraft with modern technology, and the first-class service that goes with it." Cessna discontinued single-engine
production in Wichita, Kansas, in 1986. The company reentered the piston market after the passage of the AOPA-supported General Aviation Revitalization Act, a measure that reformed product liability laws.

FAA AEROMEDICAL SURVEY FLAWED,

WASTE OF MONEY,

AOPA SAYS

The FAA wants to spend $289,000 of your money on what will be a statistically invalid survey of "pilot satisfaction" with its aeromedical certification services, according to AOPA. "What an extraordinary waste of resources, particularly at a time when the FAA is saying it's running out of money and needs to control costs," said AOPA President Phil Boyer. "We've already done the surveys and given the results--and the solutions--to the FAA for free. AOPA members are extraordinarily dissatisfied with the processing delays in Oklahoma City. And the solution is to allow designated aviation medical examiners to directly certify more pilots with low-risk conditions, rather than having to defer every decision to the FAA." See AOPA Online
( http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2005/050908medical.html ).

IS YOUR CABIN DOOR CLOSED AND LOCKED?

Simple distractions, such as doors, windows, or cowlings opening in flight, cause more accidents than you might think. On September 6, 2003, a Beechcraft 55 Baron crashed shortly after takeoff from Runway 5 at Winder Barrow Airport in Winder, Georgia. The pilot died in the resulting fire. Read what went wrong in the special report prepared by the AOPA Air Safety Foundation, exclusively for "ePilot" readers ( http://www.aopa.org/epilot/redir.cfm?adid=7465 ).

Xerion Avionics

Dear EAA Chapter 175,

My name is Mitchell Goodrich. I fly the green varieze N60P I may have met you at a meeting or two. I was wondering if anyone has offered up any information on the upcoming Canard Fly-In at Rough River, KY? It’s the big yearly event for us canards only. I am proud to announce that I have been chosen to represent the newest, and best engine Management system to hit the experimental and Certified market. Xerion Avionics http://xerionavionics.com/ I will be doing the final “BETA” testing on the Xerion AuRACLE I have the brochures and info if you care to highlite the new product. First Delivery date to be 11-01-2005 I am not an employee, but an independent user of a great product for us Experimental and certified pilots.

Sincerely,

Mitchell Goodrich

N60P

L-19 recovered from Minnesota lake
Meg Godlewski
9/9/2005

A 47-year-old mystery in Minnesota's Green Lake was solved Aug. 13 when divers recovered a Cessna L-19 that's been in the water since 1958. Capt. Richard Carey, a pilot in the National Guard, was flying over the lake in October 1958 when he radioed that he was low on fuel and had hit something. The airplane crashed. His body was recovered two weeks after the accident but the L-19 remained hidden until last year when fishermen found it in 40 feet of water.
The location of the long-missing airplane was documented with digital images. The published photographs of the tail, the white numbers clearly visible in the green murk, sent a shiver of excitement through both the diving and aviation communities. During the recovery mission divers noted there was minor damage to the silt-covered airplane. The windows were missing and the propeller and tail were bent. In addition to the aircraft the divers recovered some of Carey's personal items, including his logbook, parachute and headset. The Bird Dog has been turned over to Chapter 1172 of the Experimental Aircraft Association, which plans to restore it and turn it into a memorial to Carey. Among the witnesses to the aircraft recovery were five of Carey's eight children, as well as dozens of members of the EAA.

FLY MORE SAFELY BY LEARNING FROM HISTORY

Reviewing accident reports can help you to fly more safely. Here's your own personal list of mishaps from the AOPA Air Safety Foundation's online database

( http://www.aopa.org/epilot/redir.cfm?adid=7430 ). Accidents that occurred during the past 30 days are displayed on the Web page according to the "ePilot" aircraft interest categories that you selected for personalized newsletter content, such as "piston single-engine" or "experimental." If you haven't signed up for this service, click on the link anyway to access a Web page that allows you to personalize your newsletter so that you can get more of what you want each week.

NTSB STUDY:

FLIGHT EXPERIENCE IS KEY

WHEN WEATHER IS A FACTOR

A new study of weather-related aviation accidents adopted by the NTSB this week reaffirms that pilots with higher levels of training and experience are less likely to be involved in fatal accidents in which weather is a factor. "This is not surprising to those of us involved in aviation safety education, or to the pilot community at large," said Bruce Landsberg, executive director of the AOPA Air Safety Foundation. The report also contains nine far-reaching recommendations. AOPA's Air Safety Foundation will closely examine them for safety considerations while the association's Government and Technical Affairs Division will take a hard look at possible regulatory implications, including the cost and complexity of instituting any of the recommendations. See AOPA Online
( http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2005/050908ntsb.html ).

AVOID FATAL FUEL MANAGEMENT MISTAKES

WITH NEW SAFETY HOT SPOT

On average more than three accidents per week result from improper fuel management. To help counter this trend, the AOPA Online Safety Center has launched its latest Safety Hot Spot
( http://www.aopa.org/asf/hotspot ), focusing on fuel awareness. You'll find a Safety Checkup written by AOPA Air Safety Foundation staff pilots, various printed publications available for download, online courses, a Sporty's Safety Quiz, three video clips from the foundation's Fuel Awareness training DVD, a 10-year list of fuel-related GA accidents from the Air Safety Foundation's accident database, and anecdotes from pilots who lived to tell about their fuel management mistakes.

Blue Angels founder Butch Voris dies
Thomas F. Norton
9/9/2005

Retired Navy Capt. Roy M. "Butch" Voris, a World War II ace and organizer of the famed Blue Angels flight demonstration team, died at his home in Monterey, Calif., Aug. 9. He was 85.

In 1946, Fleet Adm. Chester Nimitz, who then was Chief of Naval Operations, went looking for a crack Naval Aviator to form a flight demonstration team, primarily as a recruiting tool. He chose Voris, who had shot down eight Japanese planes in the Pacific and at the time was training flight instructors at Daytona Beach.
The Blue Angels were the first such team in the military. "My goal was to beat the Army Air Corps," Voris told an Associated Press reporter in 1996. He selected a handful of fellow Pacific veterans who, like him, had flown F6F Hellcats. The Blue Angels name came from a New York night club that Voris had seen advertised. "It sounded just right," he told his biographer, Robert Wilcox.

Flying formations of three F6Fs, they practiced in great secrecy over the Florida Everglades. "If anything happened, just the alligators would know," Voris told Wilcox.

Their first public demonstration was at Jacksonville in June, 1946. They performed across the country until the outbreak of the Korean War, when they returned to combat flying. The Blue Angels were recommissioned in October 1951, still led by Voris but with new team members.

Voris joined the Navy in 1941 after seeing an advertisement featuring a handsome young pilot and the slogan, "Fly Navy!" He was in flight school when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

After retiring from the Navy in 1963, he worked for Grumman, where he helped develop the F-14 Tomcat and NASA's lunar lander. He joined NASA in 1973 and was its spokesman during the Apollo missions to the Moon.

Coming Events at Sun ‘n Fun

(Effective 9/20/2005)

Here is a listing of events and activities of general interest scheduled for the Sun ‘n Fun site in the next several months. Check the Sun ‘n Fun Web Site at www.sun-n-fun.org or call the Sun ‘n Fun office at (863) 644-2431 for details and the latest updates on any topic or event you plan to attend. The information provided below is from qualified sources, but not guaranteed to be accurate or complete. Always verify before you go.

Aviation Expressions Lecture Series---October 21^st. First program of the new series. Speaker TBA

Sport Aviation Expo at Sebring---October 27 to October 30.

http://www.sport-aviation-expo.com/

AOPA Expo---November 3 to November 5 http://www.aopa.org/expo/2005/

Wings ‘n Things Aviation Weekend---November 4-6. Exhibits and hands on activities oriented toward Scouts and young people, but aviation enthusiasts of all ages are welcome.

http://www.sun-n-fun.org/content/events/details.asp?eventid=7&section=yearround&body=events

Wings ‘n Things BBQ and Country Theme Dance---November 5^th.

Annual EAA Chapter 175 Holiday Dinner---Jan 7, 2006

Fly-in for Young Eagle fly-In--- Hamburgers and Hot Dogs---November 19 0830 to 1100--All are welcome.

EAA B-17 Tour at the Sun ‘n Fun site, Lakeland Linder Airport---Fly in a classic November 18-20

Aviation Expressions Lecture Series, cont’d---November 18^th. 2^nd program in the series. Speaker TBA.

Vintage Aircraft Fly-In---December 10^th. Low key, “old-fashioned” event. Planes of all types welcome.

High Flying Holidays---December 8-11. Aviation themed event and activities.

Florida Aviation Hall of Fame Annual Induction---December 15^th at the Florida Air Museum

Annual Wright Brothers “First Flight” Commemorative---December 15^th at the Florida Air Museum

Check the Sun ‘n Fun Web site www.sun-n-fun.org frequently for the latest in activities.

Young Eagles Flights

A great time was had by all

Yes! A great time was had by all. Tom McLinskey’s students from Stewart Middle Magnet School spent the morning learning about airplanes and then enjoyed a flight over Tampa. The Young Eagle’s fly out was held on September 17. More than fifty students enjoyed airplane rides. The students had an opportunity to fly in a Cessna 172, RV 6, Ercoupe, Champ and a Cherokee. Tom invites his school to a Young Eagle fly out four times a school year.

The next Stewart Middle School fly out will be held on November 19 at 0830. Even though most of the children are from Stewart, it’s open to all children. If you know of a child who would like an airplane ride, come out and join us. All are welcome.

For Sale Cessna 172H

"Cessna 172H - 1/4 partnership - IFR Certified - Based at Peter O. Knight - 2252 TT, approx. 452 SMOH - $11,000 - Doug @ 813-684-5440."

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Experimental Aircraft Association

Chapter 175

Vandenberg Airport, Florida

813-740-2821

President Vice President Secretary

Alan “Bud” Yerly Gordon Knapp Jerry Dean

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Newsletter Editor Treasurer/Membership

Tom McLinskey Stan Sutterfield

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813-988-4540

This newsletter if for the use, education, and enjoyment of Chapter 175 members and others to whom it is provided. No claim is made for technical accuracy. Editorial content is the opinion of the writer and does not necessarily reflect the position of Chapter 175 0r the EAA.

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