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EAA TULSA CHAPTER 10AUGUST 2001NEWSLETTER
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Summary Words From the VP Cheat the Devil Flyout/Campout Oshkosh Trip Ponca City Fly-in Who Brings Snacks? Calendar For Sale |
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EAA TULSA CHAPTER 10AUGUST 2001NEWSLETTER
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| Sport Pilot
Summary Words From the VP Cheat the Devil Flyout/Campout Oshkosh Trip Ponca City Fly-in Who Brings Snacks? Calendar For Sale |
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By Bhrent Waddell
In June and July I have received copies of EAA's new periodical, "Sport Pilot & Light Sport Aircraft." It was written to present the details of the new Sport Pilot certificate. By details I mean:
Who can hold a Sport Pilot certificate?
What defines a Light-Sport aircraft?
When will the certificate be available?
Who can maintain a Light-Sport aircraft?
The Light-Sport certificate will make it possible for many more people to experience flying first-hand at lower cost. This certificate has been proposed by the by the FAA and maybe available in 2002.
The proposed specifics for the Sport Pilot certificate are:
Light-Sport aircraft are proposed to be:
Aircraft flown by Sport Pilots maybe registered in a variety of ways:
Maintenance requirements for the Light Sport aircraft registered as Standard, Primary and Experimental Amateur-built will remain the same. Owner maintenance of Experimental Light-Sport kit and existing experimental Light-Sport aircraft will be allowed and, with a repairman's certificate, the annual inspection can be signed-off. For newly manufactured Light-Sport aircraft, a repairman certificate will be available by attending a more in-depth manufacturer's approved training course.
The Young Eagles program has introduced over 700,000 young people to flying.
This new certificate and categories of aircraft and repairman certificates will
enable many people, young and not so young, to participate in sport flying. It
will enable a person will be medically able to fly as long as he or she can
drive. The potential for purchasing an already completed experimental aircraft
and to receive training to maintain that aircraft should lower the cost of Sport
flying.
To learn more about Light-Sport flying go to http://www.sportpilot.org or for a free subscription to "Sport Pilot" mail your name, address and EAA number to: EAA Sport Pilot, PO Box 3086, Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086.
by Bart Dalton
Time is flying by as Oshkosh is over and its time for school to start. I hope that this hot weather will break soon as, I don't have any desire to go out and fly in the great heat.
The meeting this month will be our yearly watermelon feed and fly-in. We will have a short program discussing some business and telling lies about each person's trip to Oshkosh. We will have a program that we be very interesting for September. October's program is still open as I would really like to have another members flying project highlighted. Be thinking of someone who could do this and let me know at the August meeting. Our November meeting will be the pie auction and then the Christmas party in December. Please make plans to be a part of all the activities of your EAA Chapter 10.
I had a great time this year at Oshkosh because it was my son Berek's first time to go. He wore me out from the time we arrived in the morning till sundown when we left. He could not get enough of the planes. By the end of the day my voice was just about gone from answering his questions about all the aircraft. I was very impressed with the Kids Airadventure. They had hovercraft rides, lots of aviation games for the kids to win prizes, R.C. model planes for the kids to fly, many airplanes for the kids to get in and crawl all over, airplane pedal car races, classes to build model rockets and planes, lots of free gifts and food, and a great speaker showcase geared to the kids. Berek really enjoyed Dick Rutan as he got right down to the kids level to talk about his trip. I was disappointed with the turnout of aircraft at the show. I think that this will continue to drop off until EAA either goes back to limiting people on the flight line or does something much more drastic to keep non-aviation people away from aircraft. Airadventure is a great experience but it has become so commercialized over the last twelve years that I have been attending that it is making it more expensive for the grass roots aviator. I am not knocking EAA but I think these are some areas that need addressing.
We did not have a candidate for the EAA Air Academy this year as I think we may have started a little late. I sure would like for us to be thinking about some good candidates for next year and we will try to have a little more info on this very soon.
Come to the meeting and till next month happy and cool flying.
The insanity event of the year - hmm? Well this year we managed to somehow to pick the only day in the midst of many that was actually very pleasant to be camping out. As you know we try to find a "hotter'n hell" day and go endure a campout. Since we have to make plans in advance so everyone can adjust their schedule and take part in the fun, we do not have the benefit of saying " ok today is "hotter'n Hell - let's go".
Our plans have been changed to match with the Cookson Jubilee at the Tenkiller Airpark and this year they had Mel McDaniels as featured entertainment for the event. We all enjoyed the food and entertainment next to the airpark. The next morning we availed ourselves of the airport car and went into town for a great breakfast.
Five airplanes and six people showed up for the campout and we all had a great time. Plan on making this insanity event next year.
by The Editor
This year we had five Chapter Ten airplanes show up to campout on row 56. A couple of other members parked their homebuilt in the show plane area and brought their tent over to campout with us. This is really getting to be an great way to enjoy the Oshkosh adventure. We bring just enough grills and etc to cook up some scrumptious meals each evening. We "elect" several members to buy and prepare a meal each evening. This works out really well.
The Tulsa Bunch Camped at Oshkosh
Of course after the meal there is plenty of time to hear about what each person saw during the day and many many other lies. One of the most fun things is teasing each group while they are trying to get their act together and prepare a meal for 10 or 12 people. Somehow it always turns out to be an excellent meal in spite of all the hard times the cooks get each evening. Plan on coming up and joining in on the fun next year.
Most of us left Tulsa on Sunday before the event started on Tuesday. That way
we would be assured of getting to park on our favorite row together. My first
stop was at Portage, Wi. The local chapter was providing Bhrats for lunch and
they were real good.
There was a storm cell moving towards the airport from West to East and we
decided that if we headed on into Oshkosh it would hit Oshkosh just about the
time we would be setting up the tent. It was decided to wait it out at Portage
and tied down the plane. We wanted to wait for some of the other guys to show up
also. Paul got in just in time to get fuel and tie down his airplanes just as
the storm hit. Everything weathered the storm fine except the local Chapter's
tent for serving Bhrats. Their tent blew across the street and got torn up. Some
of the other guys diverted to other airports to avoid the storm cell.
Doing our Favorite thing at Oshkosh!
We could see, on the PC at the airport, that another cell was moving in
behind the first but, we needed to wait until the first one cleared Oshkosh.
Impatience finally won out and we got to Oshkosh just as it hit but, we only had
to make one big circle before it cleared and we went on in. Guess what - yup,
the second cell hit just as we were getting our tents up.
Ask Paul how you get from Portage to Oshkosh.
The event seemed to be a bit less crowded this year and I think a lot of that was the desired effect of starting on Tuesday. This really did spread the load of people out quite a bit. For me, this made the event much more enjoyable, you could actually move through the exhibit buildings and get up to the counters to talk to the vendors. Showplane turnout seemed to be a little low but that also was probably influenced by "spreading the load" by starting on Tuesday.
Even More of our Favorite thing!
(aka BS session #2)
From the Central Ohio Chapter 9 newsletter I gathered some interesting tidbits about the Oshkosh event: For the uninitiated, The first EAA's gathering of it's type was in September 1953 as part of the Milwaukee Air Pagent. In 1959, the event moved to Rockford Illinois. When that field became too small , in 1969 the event moved to Wittman Regional Airport - Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Today, we find more than 4,000 EAA members volunteering to help during the seven-day gathering. Basler aviation estimates that about 500,000 gallons of fuel are pumped during the event. The food quantities are staggering also:
As many of you know the the Ponca City Aviation Booster club has been putting on a "first Saturday breakfast for quite some time now. It has grown into a very popular event and they get a good turn out each month. It is a fun place to go on the first Saturday each month. Most of the members are also part of the local EAA Chapter 1046. They have a really active group and many of them have shown up at our chapter events.
In September they are putting a little different twist on their breakfast. They are having a Fly-In beginning on Friday evening August 31st and are encouraging folks to come over and campout on the field on Friday before the Saturday breakfast on the 1st of September
Below are words from an email from Steve McGuire about the event:
"Ponca City EAA Chapter 1046 and the Ponca City Aviation Booster Club will host a grass roots Fly-in beginning the afternoon of Friday, August 31 and extending through the morning of Saturday, September 1. All aircraft are welcome. This will be an old fashioned Fly-in with few planned activities, just lots of camaraderie and airplane talk. Friday attendees are encouraged to camp on the field. bathroom and shower facilities are available at the campsite near the Aviation Booster Clubhouse. A hamburger cookout will take place on Friday evening at about 6:30. The Friday evening dinner will be free to fly-ins. Lots of hangar talk Friday night. Those interested in staying in a motel can contact Steve Mcguire (580-762-6986, or email; mcguires@cableone.net) or Jim Eck (580 765-0723, or email; jimeck@poncacity.net) for motel info.
Saturday morning is the regularly scheduled first Saturday of the month Aviation Booster Club breakfast. Lots of good food and lots of additional airplane fly-ins for only a $5.00 donation. This breakfast is one of the big regular aviation events in the part of the U.S.
Following the breakfast all attendees will be encouraged to join the group fly-out at about 10:30 am to the annual Perry Municipal Airport (F22) Fly-in. There are lots of activities planned for the event and Perry is only 22 miles southwest of Ponca City.
Come join us and have a great time!
Below is a list of who brings snacks for each meeting. Since we are having the watermelon feed at our meeting in August no one needs to bring snacks for the August meeting.
January A-C
February D-F
March G-H
APRIL I-L
June M
July N-P
September Q-S
October T-V
November W
1st Monday Each month Board Meeting at the chapter hangar at Gundy's 7:00pm
2nd Monday each month Newsletter Folding at the hangar - Gundy's Airport 6:30pm
3rd Monday each month Chapter 10 EAA meeting at the hangar - Gundy's Airport
1st Saturday each month Ponca City Aviation Booster club Breakfast Fly-In.
1st Saturday after 3rd Monday - each month Pancake Breakfast -
Gundy's Airport
Aug 20 EAA Chap 10 Watermelon Feed/mtg.
Aug 31 Campout at Ponca City Airport. Get an early start on the Monthly First Saturday Breakfast
September 21-22 Southwest Regional Fly-In
Abilene, Tx. "www.swrfi.com"
Dec 08 EAA Chap10 Christmas Party.
Pazmany Pl-1(Laminar) project. Wings done many parts & aluminum.
Carolyn Borucki 369-5158
Building lot at Gundy's. 1 ¼ acre lot $60,000
call Sallie Coltharp REMAX 274-1600 272-7255
(note the URL)
(mark as favorite place)
Our web page address is:
http://www.eaa10.org/
Mark will email a notice to each member who chooses to use the WEB version of the newsletter a note stating that the newsletter is ready and on line. Of course those who do not opt for the WEB version will continue to get a hard copy.
The chapter encourages everyone to opt for the WEB version rather than the hard copy.
Please send me an email to scoltharp@aol.com stating that you want to use the WEB version of the newsletter if you opt for it.
One advantage of the web page based newsletter is that we can finally have good quality color pictures of airplanes and activities.
Contact our chapter officers by e-mail
President: Bhrent Waddell bwaddell@tulsa.oklahoma.com
Vice President: Bart Dalton Planenutts@Worldnet.att.net
Treasurer: Craig Loomiller ccaloom@webzone.net
Secretary: Jerry Vaughn GVAUGHAN48@AOL.COM
EAA Chapter 10 Home Page
E-mail:eaa_chap10@yahoo.com
URL:http://www.eaa10.org/Newsletter/2001_08/index.htm
Contents of the EAA Chapter 10 newsletter and these web pages are the viewpoints of the authors. No claim is made and no liability is assumed, expressed or implied as to the technical accuracy or safety of the material presented. The viewpoints expressed are not necessarily those of Chapter 10 or the Experimental Aircraft Association.