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Table of Contents EAA Chapter 10 Newsletter July 2010/span>

• President's Report for July 2010
• Board report



• Pilots Caught in Middle of Conflicting Federal Rules
• Bahamas Trip 2010 By Lynn Coltharp
• Local Press at AirVenture



• Items For Sale
• 2010 Calendar Of Events
• Who Brings Snacks????
• Web Page Newsletter

President's Report for July 2010

by John Nys

This month’s program will be a report on the Caribbean trip of Lynn Coltharp and Paul Shireman. They made the journey with several other adventurers with a total of seven airplanes. Thirty five hours of flying time round trip. There will be pictures and stories galore. I'm sure we'll all be entertained.

Fly safe.
John Nys

Board report

by Mark Chouinard

As seen in the photo ... the concrete slab has been poured for the new storage area on the south side of our hangar. It looks to be about 10’x20’ and plenty thick. With Oshkosh right around the corner, as well as the heat of summer, it sounds like we might try to organize a work party to complete the structure sometime in September... stay tuned.

Our PA system never did reappear, so I started looking around for a used unit. I found a decent little Realistic 3-channel/35W PA/mixer on Craigslist, which the chapter purchased for $30. Theresa and I hooked it up and tested it out last month and it seems to work well. From what I understand it isn’t quite the unit that the old one was, but it should be adequate for boosting our audio levels above the noise generated by our heat and air conditioning units. Paul and Lynn can give it a whirl Monday night.

I failed to conduct an interview in time for this month’s issue of ‘Who’s Who in Chapter 10’. I apologize to anyone who may have been looking forward to the next installment, but I also had more material than I could possibly fit into one edition... not a bad problem to have. I’ll try to get another article together for the next issue of our newsletter.

Pilots Caught in Middle of Conflicting Federal Rules EAA advises members to not take action at this time

Typical ELT

EAA is working with other aviation association to remedy a situation where conflicting rules written by two different federal agencies would place pilots in a precarious position – being in compliance with one but not the other.

On June 15 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released for publication a change to 47 CFR Part 87 that will “prohibit the certification, manufacture, importation, sale or continued use of 121.5MHz emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) other than the Breitling Emergency Watch ELT.” Meanwhile, the FAA in 14 CFR Part 91.207, stipulates that U.S.-registered civil airplanes are required to have an approved automatic type emergency locator transmitter in operable condition attached to the airplane. The FAA does not specify either 121.5 of 406MHz, but the overwhelming majority of aircraft are equipped with 121.5MHz unit, meaning they would be in violation of federal law when it goes into effect 60 days after publication in the Federal Register.

EAA, other aviation associations, and the FAA are in ongoing communications with FCC to work out the situation, and EAA advises members to not make any changes with regard to their ELTs at this time.

This regulatory change would impose a substantial and unwarranted cost on general aviation,” said Earl Lawrence, EAA vice president of industry and regulation affairs. “And this also creates a burden for the GA community and those ground-based rescue units that continue to use the 121.5MHz frequency to perform searches and save lives.

At the very least the FCC action is being conducted without properly communicating with the industry or understanding the implications of its actions,” he added.

The FCC rule also highlights the fact that threats to GA can come from many different agencies, and that agencies outside of the FAA do not necessarily understand the effects of their actions on aviation.

Both the 121.5MHz and 406MHz ELTs meet the FAAs regulatory requirements if manufactured to the proper technical standard order. While satellites no longer monitor the 121.5MHz frequencies as of Feb. 1, 2009, the frequency is monitored by ATC, the military and other pilots.

Air Venture 2010 Resources

Bahamas Trip 2010 By Lynn Coltharp

by Lynn Coltharp

Route from Ft Lauderdale to Bahamas and back.

On June the 11th six airplanes took off from the Tulsa area for a trip to the Bahamas. Tommy Gutman with wife Tiffanie and children Reagan and Thomas in a Cherokee Six, Joe Jones Jr. and wife Audi in a Mooney, Joe Jones Sr. and wife Helen in a Mooney, Richard Harrigill and wife Pam in a Rans S6, Paul Shireman in a Rans S6 and myself in a Rans S6. As you immediately noted there are considerable speed differences. The Rans S6’s flew together and the “fast guys” flew together. We would meet Tom Gutmanand his wife Deborah in Florida since he was down there picking up a CT cruiser. That would make seven airplanes going to the Bahamas.

The Rans guys took off quite early and ran into weather over Arkansas. The fast guys heard our chatter on the air and helped guide us to a better route further south. We headed to Monroe Louisiana and were able to get through/under/over/around the weather. They were kind enough to wait for us at Monroe and we had lunch on the field. From Monroe, LA we headed to Monroeville, AL for Fuel. Monroeville would make a good Lunch stop for SUN-N-FUN because they had a buffet style lunch right in the FBO. It looked good but we were still full from lunch at Monroe, LA., then on to Perry-Foley, FL. With all the weather delays and fuel stops it had been a long day. The “fast Guys” had already gone to the motel and soon a courtesy car came out to get the “Coyotes”.

Happy hour at the motel was still going on when the “fast Guys” got there but had ended by the time the “Coyotes” got there. We whined and whimpered a lot about that and the motel felt sorry for us and found some beer for us. We ate next door at a good barbecue place and our mood improved markedly.

On the morning of the 12th we left for Fort Lauderdale Executive airport by way of the Sebring FL airport. Sebring has a beautiful terminal building with a restaurant. The race track is adjacent to the airport and presents a different visual when approaching the airport. Sebring also has premium auto fuel (Lockwood Aviation is on the field) which us Rans guys appreciated. We went into Ft Lauderdale as a flight of four with Tom Gutman leading us in. Maybe I was intimidated by the busy airport but it seemed we did some unnecessary turns getting in. After landing we taxied to Sano FBO and parked our planes amongst all the business jets.

Air Journey had done most of the planning for our trip into the Bahamas. One of their representatives met us at Sano and gave us the needed papers and maps for our trip. They had done our flight plans and filed our EAPIS for us, as well as making our hotel reservations. We all really appreciated that since it appeared that none of us were used to filing flight plans.

June 13th (what a date huh?) we all took off across the water for Freeport, Bahamas. The actual miles across water (from land to land) was about 60 miles. We had to activate our flight plans in the air and had problems with receiving the Nassau Radio. Finally someone found a better frequency and we all got them activated. Between the problems of activating our flight plans, keeping up with where the other planes were and going around rain showers we hardly had time to think about being over water. The arrival in Freeport went well and we all got through customs with minimal confusion and effort considering there were fourteen of us. I think they were glad to clear us and get us out of their hair.

The hotel was quite nice and we all had a nice lunch in the Prop Club. Being on the water one would think the “Prop” part of the name would be as in boat. In this case it was as in airplane. They had all sorts of airplane parts hanging in the restaurant. Think Bahama Mamma now!! After lunch everyone did their own thing. Paul Shireman and I rented scooters and toured the island. Somehow we managed to survive that endeavor without a mishap (they drive on the wrong side there).

June 14th we filed our “cruising permit” which allowed us to “island hop” without filing more flight plans and headed out to “see the islands”. We headed East on Grand Bahama Island and across the water to Abaco Island where we stopped for lunch at Marsh Harbor and got a taxi into town to a nice restaurant at a marina. After lunch we headed out for Eleuthera Island and the North Eleuthera airport. We got two taxis to take us to the water taxi where we loaded onto a boat and went across to Harbor Island where we stayed two nights at Valentines Resort.

Harbor Island was a very interesting island. It was about one mile wide and two miles long. There is hardly a need for automobiles there so everyone drives golf carts. We all rented golf carts and toured the island. The island had three really nice resorts. On the second night there some of us got out after dark to see what the local night life was like and decided it might be more than we wanted to deal with.

June 16th we loaded onto the water taxi and then the land taxi to the airport. We would follow Eleuthera Island to about the closest point and then crossed the water to Exuma Island. After making Exuma Island we flew over a sunken airplane in shallow water and circled and took pictures. It had been in the water for a long time and we could not tell for sure what it was. I believe it was a DC-3 but would not want to bet on that. We landed at the Stanielle Cay airport and got a courtesy car to the resort. After a nice lunch we chartered a couple of boats to take us to some nice places to snorkel. Of course no trip would be complete without seeing the swimming pigs and we thoroughly enjoyed throwing food scraps to them. The more adventurous of the group snorkeled under famous Thunderbolt rock that was used in the James Bond movie. After all the water adventures we made it back to our airplanes and followed the Exuma Cays on down to the Exuma International airport.

Here on Exuma we found the only “misstep” of the whole trip. The taxis dropped us off at “down and out” motel on the outskirts of Georgetown. We did not know what to think but, it did have a restaurant, bar and was right on the water with a beach. The restaurant was not air conditioned and it badly needed it so we moved the tables out on the patio and had an ocean breeze. Some of us guys were thinking “I have been in worse places” but I am pretty sure none of the women were thinking anything so nice. When trying to order the waitress spent more time coming back to tell us what they did not have than taking orders. They soon ran out of most food and most drinks. It took a really long time to get our food and by that time the mosquitoes had found us. The air conditioners worked in some of the rooms. The patio door in my room was open all night to get some relief. The next morning Air Journey had apologized and arranged for us to move to a quite nice resort for the rest of our stay on Exuma. Some of the more sturdy of our aviators went on down to Long Island the next day and visited the Blue Hole.

June 18th we loaded up the planes and headed north following the Exuma Cays to the shortest point back to Eleuthera Island and landed at North Eleuthra airport for Fuel. After fueling we headed across the water to Great Harbor airport where we could get lunch and take care of our flight plans back in to Ft Lauderdale. Our route took us over Bimini which is a really small Island but it at least provided us with a “dot” of land and made us feel less “water bound”. The flight back across the water was typical with some problems activating and closing flight plans and my transponder decided to fail in the ADIZ which generated a (please call the tower request) phone call when we landed. The arrival time on my flight plan had somehow gotten entered wrong which generated another phone call after we landed. All that got settled without any problems.

June 19th all loaded up the planes and headed for Tulsa. All the “fast guys” and one of the “Coyotes” made it home that day, but Paul Shireman and I spent the night in Selma, AL and finished the trip on Sunday June 20.

The highlight of the trip was ALL the flying and the beautiful water as we got farther South in the islands. Paul and I put 38 hours on our Hobbs meters. It was a wonderful trip.

Local Press at AirVenture

EAA Chapter 10 members flying to Oshkosh for AirVenture 2010 are encouraged to contact John Fenrich, who will be at the fly-in taking photos and preparing articles for the Neighbor Newspaper group which includes the Owasso Reporter. Fenrich is a long- time EAA member (currently a member of Chapter 1112. Oroville, CA), and has covered AirVenture at least a dozen times starting in 1988. His photos and articles have been published in numerous California daily newspapers. He and his wife moved to Owasso in 2008 after he retired as a newspaper publisher with the Donrey Media Group. While he never got his ticket, he has numerous hours of right-hand seat time in planes as diverse as a Harmon Rocket (front seat), an Ercoupe, the B-17 Aluminum Overcast and his first flight in a Piper J-3 Cub. Fenrich will arrive on the AirVenture grounds Thursday afternoon and will be taking photos through Sunday.

To contact Fenrich call his cell: 918-344-6141, home (918) 609-6211, or via e-mail at johnfenrich@cox.net.

- Mark Chouinard

Items For Sale

FOR SALE BY OWNER
Glasair I/II RG
300 hrs TTAF
Lycoming O-320 70 hrs SMOH
Lightspeed electronic ignition
High compression pistons
Large rudder
Dual sliding canopys
Panel mount GPS, xponder, intercom and more
New 3 blade MT propeller
New custom interior
Extended wing tips 80% completed
Ready for your paint
$47,000
See at Gundy's (O38), Owasso, OK
Contact Mark Fridley @ 918-274-3574 or 9rmfridley@cox.net
(NOTE: remove the leading 9 to make email work)

Franklin Aircraft Engine
Model 4AC171 60 HP
37/8 bore x 33/8 stroke 6/2 C.R.
s/n 2052
17/32 venturi
Eisenman magnetos
complete
No log book
$1000
Contact Ken Smith 698-4129.

Lycoming O-235-0
T.C. 223, 100 HP, 2600 RPM, SM 1571-15
Two magnetos, no carburetor, otherwise complete.
No logbook
$1,000
Contact Ken Smith 698-4129.

Lycoming O-290-D2
135 HP, T.C. 229, no magnetos, has vacuum pump
engine damaged at L/H magneto mount area
L/H crankcase broken out
accessory case broken out
data plate is titled Lycoming Aviation Engine
No logbook
$1,000
Contact Ken Smith 698-4129

Acreage for sale
2.5 Acres with 330’ of Runway frontage
Airman Acres Airfield, Collinsville OK
Sets on dead end road.
No covenants.
Secluded area.
Build exactly what you desire.
$67,500
Contact Darren 918-857-2728

1967 Beech Musketeer A23-24
200 HP fuel injected
IFR capabnle but not certified since 8/2008
Flies and looks great.
Hangar at Pryor but can be moved to Harvey Young or Gundy's.
Seeking partner.
Contact Larry Murray 918-557-3020.

Precious Pete
Basic Pietenpol
85 HP Continental
Enlarged, extended 2-piece wing
Steel tube fuselage
Roomy cockpits
Metal prop
Flies great!
Contact Roger White 918-698-3771.

2010 Calendar Of Events

To add an item to our calendar, get the information to the newsletter editor Mark Chouinard. See the contact info on the home page for e-mail, phone, and mail addresses.

Recurring events

Who Brings Snacks????

If your last name starts with N through P then July is your month to bring a snack for the meeting.

Web Page Newsletter

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