Newsletter
Issue #99 USUA Club #66
Richard E. Miller Chapter
August/September 2002
The next meeting of USUA Club #66 meeting will be held on
September 21st at the Zaverton Airport in South Montrose. For those not familiar with the location, the
airport is located on route 29 just south of the blinker light in South
Montrose. From the stoplight at
Montrose go south for 2.7 miles to the blinker light at South Montrose. Go another .5 miles. Just over the hill look for the white sign
with black lettering with the words “Endless Mountains R. C. Club Flying Site”
and take a left. This is an excellent
airport with a 2100 foot runway and no obstacles at either end the of the
east/west runway. However, this is
a private airport so the standard warning to fly in at your own risk must be
mentioned. Give Dave Donnora a call at
570-278-1062 to let him know you are flying in and for flying directions. The coordinates are N 41 degrees 47.341
minutes and W 075 degrees 53.531 minutes.
If you are driving, please bring your own chair(s).
August
Meeting Notes
Dave Schwartz
called the meeting to order in the absence of President Paul Nulton.
Dennis Owens flew
in to the August meeting.
The new Web Site was well liked.
Ray Osterhout’s powered parachute is up and running and he is now flying it.
We would like more planes flying to the meetings. In that regard, the question of having the
meeting later in the afternoon for the summer months was discussed; a later
time would probably be a better for flying.
The meeting would then be a dinner meeting instead of lunch meeting.
The Zaverton airport is for sale.
It will be a shame if this will be sold to a non-pilot to be used as
something other than an airport.
Respectfully submitted,
Guy Roszel
For Sale
Butch Osterhout has a BRS VLS (vertical launch system) mounting installation
kit for sale. It’s the complete kit for
a 2” square tube. Make Butch an offer
on this system that sells for $300 new.
Flying
and Building
Now as to those questions from last month. It is important to understand the effects
of pitch and power particularly for take-offs and landings.
Pitch controls airspeed.
Power controls altitude
When taking off at full throttle, you use pitch to control airspeed. There is probably no argument about that
since you are at full throttle. It is,
however, important to know what airspeed gives you the best rate of climb and
pitch is the way to achieve that proper airspeed.
When landing, throttle controls altitude.
The new pilot has a tendency to use pitch to control altitude – pull the
nose up because you are too low.
Wrong! The airplane stalls. Instead use power.
For the next set of questions, notice that the word first is used.
Transition from Cruise to Climb, adjust Pitch first.
Transition from Climb to Cruise, adjust Pitch first.
Transition from Descent to Cruise, adjust Power first.
Transition from Cruise to Descent, adjust Power first.
Granted that both pitch and power are interrelated and a good pilot will
probably adjust both simultaneously to make smooth transitions. These fundamentals, however, are
important. This information is taken
from USUA Pilot’s Flight Training Manual, which in my opinion, is an excellent
source.
The question of the month is this:
When (under what circumstances) is it permissible to operate an ultralight 30
minutes before sunrise and 30 minutes after sundown?
Tom Lewis