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ISSUE #91 USUA CLUB #66, Richard E. Miller
Chapter NEWSLETTER |
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January-02 |
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This month's meeting will be held at
the Sidney Municipal airport. Ray
Osterhaut's old hangar is |
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being
converted to other uses and is no longer available. The new hangar would work but the club has |
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a
shortage of mukluks and snow shovels.
It would be cold and has a VERY long driveway! |
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Meeting will be held in the main
hangar. Grills are available but we
need to provide our own propane |
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Last month's meeting was attended by 22 members and 4
wives. The bring a dish to pass party
was |
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a
success as usual and there was plenty of good food to eat. There was
everything from venison jerky |
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to
Chili, several salads and plenty of coffee and soft drink. The comaraderie was good and new friends |
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were
made by the wives who seemed to get along real well. It seemed good to have them involved. |
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Thank
you for coming , thank you for your support. |
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Dave Schwartz, our treasurer, gave a
report. Our present club balance is
in the neighborhood |
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of
$960.00. There were no major
outstanding member vouchers. |
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It
should be noted that the 2002 dues are coming up and should raise our balance
considerably. |
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There will be a couple months in the
dead of winter where we will have to find meeting places. Ray |
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hasn't
withdrawn his offer of using Camelback, but it's innaccesible and too cold to
use in the bad |
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weather. This year's problem is solved by our ability
to use the Sidney airport. Several
members have |
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offered
to host meetings and those arrangements will be made as neccesary. The club members |
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should
understand and appreciate the value of the material contribution Ray and
other potential hosts |
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make
to this club. The Masonic Lodge in
Windsor wants $100.00 to rent their hall for a single meeting. |
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The situation in Kirkwood is still
pretty much in limbo. The new owners
perfer to see you eyeball to |
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eyeball
and make arrangements before you land or operate there. A VHF radio is an absolute |
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requirement. They are making a big effort to make that
airport safe and they seem to be making efforts |
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standardize
their procedures. I'm sure individual
and club negotiations will continue. |
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We should be thankful in our area, Norm
Dibble reported that an airfield he frequents in Florida is |
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within
a 30 mile circle of Cape Canaveral.
They are still grounded! This
new modified class B airspace |
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is
defined on sectional maps and extends from the ground up! The nearest such area to us is New York |
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Metro
area. |
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That discussion brought up the fact
that there are members who haven't a clue about how to find |
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out
where such areas lie and what the rules are regarding their use. President Paul Nulton raised the |
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point
that we are a friendly, generous bunch and we have fun, but we should
concentrate, especially in |
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these
winter months, on training each other in the basics of general aviation rules
and procedures. |
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Dave Schwartz volunteered to give a
talk on sectional maps at the next meeting.. Gary Pressler |
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will
provide New York State demonstration sectionals for the purpose. These look identical to FAA |
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sectional
maps and provide all the same details and information but ARE NOT LEGAL for licensed |
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pilots
in certificated airplanes. These are
good for us and are free. As usual,
the FAA "certified" maps |
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cost
$7.50-$8.00. |
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There are several other areas of
general training such as navigation, wind correction, basic |
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weather,
preflight procedures, theory of flight, etc that can and will be presented by
various members |
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of
the club in coming months. If we
share this information with each other, we will build and fly our |
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planes
a lot more safely. In doing so, we
help to insure that the sport we enjoy so much and the |
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latitudes
we are given to modify and build our ships will continue to be approved by
the FAA and NTSB. |
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For those hardy souls who might fly
into the Sidney meetings we are including a map of the |
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traffic
pattern for the Sidney Airport.
PLEASE, do not fly over populated areas of Sidney at our |
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normal
low altitudes. The traffic pattern altitude
for untralights is 1600MSL (600AGL).
The normal |
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active
runway is 25 and it's a right pattern.
All turns in the pattern must be to the right. The right |
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downwind
leg is just to the right of the river.
Turn right base just after crossing over route 8. This |
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is
the four lane road running north/south.
Turn final when you're lined up with the runway. |
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We
are SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED not to fly between route 8 and the airport
on our base leg. |
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