Newsletter Issue #98 USUA Club #66
Richard E. Miller Chapter
July/August 2002
The next meeting of USUA Club #66 meeting will be held at Mel
McKinney’s on Saturday August 17, 2002.
For flyers, the coordinates of Mel’s location are Lat 41 deg 57 min
North – Long 75 deg 39 min West. For drivers, get off route 81 at the
Hallstead/Great Bend exit. At the
bottom of the ramp, turn onto route 11 south (it’s a right turn if you come
from the north – a left turn coming from the south). Follow 11 for a half mile and cross a temporary
bridge. Turn left after crossing the bridge onto Harmony road. Go 6
1/2 miles to Mel’s farm.
The Tri cities Airport Fly-in will compete with the club meeting
July Meeting Notes
The July 21, 2002 meeting of the USUA Ultralight Club #66 was held at the farm
of member Guy Rozel. Twenty members
& guests attended.
Elections were held and new officers were chosen.
Both President, Paul Nulton and Secretary/Treasurer Dave Schwartz were
unanimously reelected to their positions.
New directors were unanimously elected.
They are Norman Dibble, George Smith and Dave Donnora
Tom Lewis discussed setting up a web site. He will email everybody
to have us see how it looks. Security and passwords were discussed. He would
like pictures of our planes for the web site.
Club Instructors are:
Tom Lewis (BFI)
Mel McKinney (BFI)
Scott Potter (BFI/AFI)
New Member: Doug Kenny
Tom Hettig volunteered his new place for winter meetings, at Ray
Osterhout’s old place on Ann Road in Windsor, NY.
Terms and conditions will be set up.
Respectfully submitted,
Guy Roszel
Contributions are welcome.
For this month I’ll tell something I learned from a test pilot in
Florida. He flight tested the first CGS
Hawk. He makes a habit of making a 45
degree turn just after rotation to a point where he can safely make another 45
degree turn and then parallel the runway on climb out. The reasoning is that if an engine out were
to occur he would have more options than if he flew a runway heading. He could elect to fly back to the runway and
land in the direction he was flying. If
there wasn’t enough runway to do that he could make two ninety degree turns and
be right over the runway going in the downwind direction. Think about it. I believe it makes sense!!
Now a quiz. Fill in the
blanks with the words Pitch (angle of attack) or Power (throttle).
_______ controls airspeed.
_______ controls altitude.
To help understand the quiz think about how you adjust airspeed on
climb out and how you adjust altitude when landing.
Now answer these:
Transition from Cruise to Climb adjust _______ first.
Transition from Climb to Cruise adjust _______ first.
Transition from Descent to Cruise adjust _______ first.
Transition from Cruise to Descent adjust _______ first.
These questions are covered in the USUA Pilot’s Flight Training Manual.
Tom Lewis