From mvbond at myexcel.com Tue Jan 18 00:52:53 2005 From: mvbond at myexcel.com (mvbond) Date: Tue Jan 18 00:52:46 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] JANUARY 2005 COOPA NEWSLETTER Message-ID: <41ECCE65.8060101@myexcel.com> The only newsletter input received is from our own, dependable Joel Premselaar. Received many photos from Don Wilfong showing our Chiloquin fly-out and Christmas Party, but cannot make a newsletter from photos alone. Am assuming there is a meeting at the usual venue, 6pm Jan 20th but no info on the program. Maybe if more interest is shown by Board and Members, we can have a proper newsletter in future ...... Regards, Mike Bond Joel's Safety Corner follows: SAFETY CORNER by Joel Premselaar It?s a beautiful, hot, and windless day; ideal for your check ride in Madras. Now picture this: first flap setting is made; trim is set; attitude is adjusted to obtain 1.3 Vso; check traffic; watch the head of the runway; at 8 o?clock base leg is initiated; prop set to high RPM (flat pitch); mixture is rich; carburetor heat is properly set; throttle is at idle position; base turn is called; landing gear down is confirmed (assuming it?s retractable); brakes are checked; engine is cleared and airspeed is corrected; flaps are deployed incrementally and with each new flap setting, airspeed is adjusted to 1.3 Vso and trim is reset; final is called; engine is cleared again and airspeed is corrected; traffic is monitored; at the flare, as the airspeed reduces, the rate of increase of elevator is right on the mark; the landing is flawless. You have just executed an approach and landing that conformed exactly to FAA?s dictates. You glance at the flight examiner and revel in the fact that he?s nodding in approval. The next time around, the examiner orders a wave-off (go around). Now, everything hits the fan!! Contrast the above with the U. S. Navy?s technique for prop and jet aircraft. I prefer the navy?s method because it offers the safest and most consistently good landings; power on and a selected flap setting held throughout the approach and, obstructions permitting, a flat (about 1.5? to 2? maximum) final to touchdown. Of course, every pilot knows that none of this is hard and fast since unforeseen conditions may force compromises. For example, landing in a turbulent environment, instead of using 1.5 to 2.0 Vso, I?ll increase airspeed to about 1.4 Vso. The logic behind my (U.S. Navy?s) technique follows. The issue reduces to POWER ON vs. POWER OFF approaches to a landing. Although this technique is more critical to large bore engines, in varying degrees much of it is relevant to smaller engines. Here are some of the negative effects of POWER OFF landing techniques: * Engines are more apt to fail or not produce the power you expect because plugs will load up (become fouled by fuel and/or oil) * Leaning to prevent loading up will result in another ?must do? task before adding wave off power; i.e., enrich to the level required for density altitude to ensure maximum performance and to preclude detonation on the wave-off * Shock cooling the engine invites trouble * If conditions require carburetor air (hot)1, the engine will be running too cool to provide the protection you may need * The prop is driving the engine so if you need to wave off, you will impose damaging stresses such as the impact of taking up backlash and possibly detune the crankshaft?s dynamic counterweights * On a wave off, spool up time (engine RPM build up) and prop pitch/RPM reaction consumes valuable time to say nothing of inflicting damaging surges upon the engine and prop, especially with airspeeds in excess of 100 knots * Ordinarily you would close cowl flaps for a power off approach. On hot days, power on may permit you to open the cowl flaps somewhat so you could delay opening them for a full power abort until you have the wave-off well in hand * By implication, the discussion addressing a POWER ON approach and landing will reveal additional negative aspects of a POWER OFF approach and landing. POWER ON approach. Before turning base: * Do not use a wide downwind. Keep a tight pattern * Use no more than 2/3 flaps, the last third is nearly all drag with little or no added lift; this will compromise a wave-off (a short field landing may be an exception) * EASE the prop to its full high RPM position * Adjust the POWER necessary for a controlled descent not to exceed 1.2 Vso, do not get into the area of reverse command (the region where to fly slower you must add power) * Adjust trim * Establish and maintain the attitude commensurate with the desired flight conditions. These actions taken before turning base provides more ?eyes out of the cockpit? time and reduce workload on final when your attention should be on traffic and your flight path. Base and final: * Call base and final as you normally would * Initiate base when abeam of the intended landing point * Fly a curved path all the way to the runway. This will keep the touchdown point in sight throughout the approach whether you?re in a high or low wing configured aircraft. It?s like flying ?turns around a point.? The curved path will present an illusion that you are fixed in space and that you are controlling the runway?s movement to align itself with you such as you would experience with a computer * A gain of a small amount of power (manifold pressure) will occur due to the altitude loss; therefore, start the approach with a bit less power to minimize workload * POWER ON provides slipstream that enhances wing root lift and tail empennage effectiveness with a degree of consistency that precludes elevator action required in a power off approach especially during the flare * Lock onto the intended landing point. Maintain landing attitude and establish the aforementioned flat flight path to it. The selected point will disappear under the nose just before touchdown * Maintain a landing attitude if a POWER adjustment is required. The selected touchdown point will travel toward you if you?re getting high on the glide (not really a glide) slope. Reduce power while maintaining attitude until just before you regain the flight path and the touchdown point stops moving. Add sufficient power to arrest the sink and then back off on it to less than the setting that caused you to rise. Assuming you chose a good mix to keep you on the flight path in the beginning, you need to know that this is to be expected. Why? If there is a wind to land into, it will drop off due to friction as you get closer to the ground (see me if you?d like to have a Boeing chart that quantifies the amount of wind drop off). All this demands fine-tuning so all adjustments are small. Know also that the reverse of the above power management description may occur due to the selection of a poor flight path or even a slight unexpected headwind landing. Here I?ll insert a few words about power management. You?ve all heard the arguments that power controls altitude and elevators control speed. If you really believe this, taxi to the head of the runway and start pumping the elevators. Pump real hard and maybe, just maybe, you?ll take off! Don?t get sucked into the either/or controversy. Your flying machine is fully integrated and you can?t do one thing without affecting a pot full of others * With sink rate considerably lower than a power off landing, ground effect, especially with a low wing aircraft, will almost eliminate the need for you to take any action to flare. If you feel that your sink rate is excessive, just a touch more power will certainly do the trick. The possibility of impacting nose wheel first is virtually eliminated. Also, it significantly minimizes the ?Gibson Effect? (the illusion of a high sink rate) I mentioned in an earlier article * Since the sink rate is minimal, when executing an abort, the energy required to arrest the descent is considerably less. A few inches of manifold pressure will have you executing the wave-off. With a POWER OFF approach, the sink rate is high, rudder and elevator effectiveness is wanting, a significant altitude loss will occur because a huge amount of energy (POWER) must be expended just to rotate, arrest the sink, and change the flight path to a climb. All this, of course, produces the detrimental dynamic effects we learned about in flight training; i.e., large and lively excursions in trim, swirl, ?P? factor, torque and gyro effect. I can go on about this ad nauseam, but ?nuff said, except to suggest that you ?try it, you?ll like it? and to remind you that the above description of (as Sinatra would vocalize) ?doing it my way? is not the FAA?s way. Note: 1. Computing the need for carburetor heat is predicated on the air temperature/humidity relationship entering the engine?s induction system. Make note of the fact that Continental?s air intake is in the forward section of the engine whereas Lycoming?s air intake will always be hotter since its intake is in the aft section of the engine. From leckone at bendcable.com Tue Jan 18 10:54:57 2005 From: leckone at bendcable.com (Leckliders) Date: Tue Jan 18 10:55:10 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] JANUARY 2005 COOPA NEWSLETTER References: <41ECCE65.8060101@myexcel.com> Message-ID: <002b01c4fd8f$347ec390$0f7adc42@leckone> Dear Mike and all, This is a shame. We are having a great program and want to have as many attend as possible. At least, I hope we are still having Joel show his movies/and or pictures.. We have made an effort to invite some of our friends who we thought might be interested in Joel's extraordinary pictures so I hope others have made the same effort. Come on let's get the lead out and get going. Seeyou all on Thursday. Nancy L. ----- Original Message ----- From: "mvbond" To: "CO-OPA members" Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 12:52 AM Subject: [Co-opa] JANUARY 2005 COOPA NEWSLETTER > The only newsletter input received is from our own, dependable > Joel Premselaar. > > Received many photos from Don Wilfong showing our Chiloquin > fly-out and Christmas Party, but cannot make a newsletter from > photos alone. > > Am assuming there is a meeting at the usual venue, 6pm Jan 20th > but no info on the program. > > Maybe if more interest is shown by Board and Members, we can > have a proper newsletter in future ...... > > Regards, > Mike Bond > > > Joel's Safety Corner follows: > > > > SAFETY CORNER by Joel Premselaar > > > It?s a beautiful, hot, and windless day; ideal for your check ride in > Madras. Now picture this: first flap setting is made; trim is set; > attitude is adjusted to obtain 1.3 Vso; check traffic; watch the head of > the runway; at 8 o?clock base leg is initiated; prop set to high RPM (flat > pitch); mixture is rich; carburetor heat is properly set; throttle is at > idle position; base turn is called; landing gear down is confirmed > (assuming it?s retractable); brakes are checked; engine is cleared and > airspeed is corrected; flaps are deployed incrementally and with each new > flap setting, airspeed is adjusted to 1.3 Vso and trim is reset; final is > called; engine is cleared again and airspeed is corrected; traffic is > monitored; at the flare, as the airspeed reduces, the rate of increase of > elevator is right on the mark; the landing is flawless. You have just > executed an approach and landing that conformed exactly to FAA?s dictates. > You glance at the flight examiner and revel in the fact that he?s nodding > in approval. The next time around, the examiner orders a wave-off (go > around). Now, everything hits the fan!! > > > Contrast the above with the U. S. Navy?s technique for prop and jet > aircraft. I prefer the navy?s method because it offers the safest and most > consistently good landings; power on and a selected flap setting held > throughout the approach and, obstructions permitting, a flat (about 1.5? > to 2? maximum) final to touchdown. Of course, every pilot knows that none > of this is hard and fast since unforeseen conditions may force > compromises. For example, landing in a turbulent environment, instead of > using 1.5 to 2.0 Vso, I?ll increase airspeed to about 1.4 Vso. The logic > behind my (U.S. Navy?s) technique follows. > > > The issue reduces to POWER ON vs. POWER OFF approaches to a landing. > Although this technique is more critical to large bore engines, in varying > degrees much of it is relevant to smaller engines. Here are some of the > negative effects of POWER OFF landing techniques: > > * Engines are more apt to fail or not produce the power you expect because > plugs will load up (become fouled by fuel and/or oil) > * Leaning to prevent loading up will result in another ?must do? task > before adding wave off power; i.e., enrich to the level required for > density altitude to ensure maximum performance and to preclude detonation > on the wave-off > * Shock cooling the engine invites trouble > * If conditions require carburetor air (hot)1, the engine will be running > too cool to provide the protection you may need > * The prop is driving the engine so if you need to wave off, you will > impose damaging stresses such as the impact of taking up backlash and > possibly detune the crankshaft?s dynamic counterweights > * On a wave off, spool up time (engine RPM build up) and prop pitch/RPM > reaction consumes valuable time to say nothing of inflicting damaging > surges upon the engine and prop, especially with airspeeds in excess of > 100 knots > * Ordinarily you would close cowl flaps for a power off approach. On hot > days, power on may permit you to open the cowl flaps somewhat so you could > delay opening them for a full power abort until you have the wave-off well > in hand > * By implication, the discussion addressing a POWER ON approach and > landing will reveal additional negative aspects of a POWER OFF approach > and landing. > > > POWER ON approach. > > Before turning base: > > * Do not use a wide downwind. Keep a tight pattern > > * Use no more than 2/3 flaps, the last third is nearly all drag with > little or no added lift; this will compromise a wave-off (a short field > landing may be an exception) > * EASE the prop to its full high RPM position > * Adjust the POWER necessary for a controlled descent not to exceed 1.2 > Vso, do not get into the area of reverse command (the region where to fly > slower you must add power) > * Adjust trim > * Establish and maintain the attitude commensurate with the desired flight > conditions. > > These actions taken before turning base provides more ?eyes out of the > cockpit? time and reduce workload on final when your attention should be > on traffic and your flight path. > > > Base and final: > > * Call base and final as you normally would > > * Initiate base when abeam of the intended landing point > * Fly a curved path all the way to the runway. This will keep the > touchdown point in sight throughout the approach whether you?re in a high > or low wing configured aircraft. It?s like flying ?turns around a point.? > The curved path will present an illusion that you are fixed in space and > that you are controlling the runway?s movement to align itself with you > such as you would experience with a computer > * A gain of a small amount of power (manifold pressure) will occur due to > the altitude loss; therefore, start the approach with a bit less power to > minimize workload > * POWER ON provides slipstream that enhances wing root lift and tail > empennage effectiveness with a degree of consistency that precludes > elevator action required in a power off approach especially during the > flare > > * Lock onto the intended landing point. Maintain landing attitude and > establish the aforementioned flat flight path to it. The selected point > will disappear under the nose just before touchdown > * Maintain a landing attitude if a POWER adjustment is required. The > selected touchdown point will travel toward you if you?re getting high on > the glide (not really a glide) slope. Reduce power while maintaining > attitude until just before you regain the flight path and the touchdown > point stops moving. Add sufficient power to arrest the sink and then back > off on it to less than the setting that caused you to rise. Assuming you > chose a good mix to keep you on the flight path in the beginning, you need > to know that this is to be expected. Why? If there is a wind to land into, > it will drop off due to friction as you get closer to the ground (see me > if you?d like to have a Boeing chart that quantifies the amount of wind > drop off). All this demands fine-tuning so all adjustments are small. Know > also that the reverse of the above power management description may occur > due to the selection of a poor flight path or even a slight unexpected > headwind landing. Here I?ll insert a few words about power management. You?ve > all heard the arguments that power controls altitude and elevators control > speed. If you really believe this, taxi to the head of the runway and > start pumping the elevators. Pump real hard and maybe, just maybe, you?ll > take off! Don?t get sucked into the either/or controversy. Your flying > machine is fully integrated and you can?t do one thing without affecting a > pot full of others > * With sink rate considerably lower than a power off landing, ground > effect, especially with a low wing aircraft, will almost eliminate the > need for you to take any action to flare. If you feel that your sink rate > is excessive, just a touch more power will certainly do the trick. The > possibility of impacting nose wheel first is virtually eliminated. Also, > it significantly minimizes the ?Gibson Effect? (the illusion of a high > sink rate) I mentioned in an earlier article > * Since the sink rate is minimal, when executing an abort, the energy > required to arrest the descent is considerably less. A few inches of > manifold pressure will have you executing the wave-off. With a POWER OFF > approach, the sink rate is high, rudder and elevator effectiveness is > wanting, a significant altitude loss will occur because a huge amount of > energy (POWER) must be expended just to rotate, arrest the sink, and > change the flight path to a climb. All this, of course, produces the > detrimental dynamic effects we learned about in flight training; i.e., > large and lively excursions in trim, swirl, ?P? factor, torque and gyro > effect. > > I can go on about this ad nauseam, but ?nuff said, except to suggest that > you ?try it, you?ll like it? and to remind you that the above description > of (as Sinatra would vocalize) ?doing it my way? is not the FAA?s way. > > > Note: > 1. Computing the need for carburetor heat is predicated on the air > temperature/humidity relationship entering the engine?s induction system. > Make note of the fact that Continental?s air intake is in the forward > section of the engine whereas Lycoming?s air intake will always be hotter > since its intake is in the aft section of the engine. > > > _______________________________________________ > Co-opa mailing list > Co-opa@rellim.com > http://catbert.rellim.com/mailman/listinfo/co-opa > From gem at rellim.com Tue Jan 18 16:06:33 2005 From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller) Date: Tue Jan 18 16:06:46 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Meeting this Thursday, 20 Jan Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yo All! Sorry, I got this months notes to Michael too late for the newsletter. So here it is. As usual, we will meet at The Flight Services building on the Bend Airport. 6:00pm - general pilot chatter 6:30pm - Pot Luck 7:00pm - A short general meeting 7:15pm - Joel Premselaar I look forwarding to seeing you all there. RGDS GARY - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Blvd, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 gem@rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676 President's Mesage: Let me be the first to wish everyone a Happy New Ear (Y not?). I trust everyone survived the Holidays in good shape. Given the bad weather I expect folks have not got much flying in. Every time I saw some blue sky in the last month I have started to the airport only to see it fog up again. As usual our Holiday meeting was a grand success. The club provided a Ham and the members brought all sorts of tasty dishes to complement it. After the meal a lot of fun and useful gifts were distributed around. Not everyone came out a winner though. No one seemed to want an old tailwheel spring, but someone got stuck with it. We all want a little spring to come our way soon but not that way. There were a few aviation things happening in spite of the weather. COCC is working with Epic Aircraft to create a curriculum to teach aviation composites. Nothing is firm yet, but given how quickly the East Side project got going for Epic this may also happen more quickly than anyone could imagine. This month's speaker will be our own Joel Premselaar. Joel has some old movies and photos from his Navy days to share with us. This is your chance to see something other than the same old WWII film clips on the History Channel. Even better we have the star of the film to provide commentary. If you have any ideas for speakers, or presentation topics, please forward them to me. Bend seems to be just full of aviation stories waiting to be told. Calendar: 20 January - Monthly Meeting 22 January - Monthly Flyout 17 February - Monthly Meeting 19 February - Monthly Flyout 17 March - Monthly Meeting 19 March - Monthly Flyout 11 June - Flying Festival at Bend Airport Web doings: As always, the CO-OPA website contains recent newsletters and other goodies. http://co-opa.rellim.com To access the members only areas the username is "S07" and the password is "123.0". Random Thoughts: Many in the group may already know that I make a living playing with computers. Given that knowledge you may be surprised to find that I have a deep distrust of the use of computers in aviation. I feel that people put an excessive amount of trust in computers. Steam guages may lie from time to time, but it takes a computer to totally foul things up. Two perfect examples have hit the media recenlty. By now everyone should be familiar with the total shutdown of LA Center last September. That was caused by the crash of both the primary and backup Windows servers running the radios. The FAA knew about the problem in advance and the local technicians were supposed to reboot the Windows servers every 30 days. The technician forgot to do his job and down went the whole system. On Christmas day we had another major computer failure throwing airplanes for a loop. The Comair scheduling computer just flat died from overload. There was no way to tell which crews were supposed to be an what airplane assigned to which flight. The situation was so bad that all Comair could do was cancel everything. What followed was a VERY unusual case of the buck being passed back up the chain of command. The end result is that the Comair President had to fall on his figurative sword and resign. The major lesson in my mind is that you always need a backup plan. In the case of the FAA radio outage the backup compuer was identical to the primary computer and so was no backup at all. They both failed the same way at the same time. There was also no backup plan in case the technician forgot to reboot the computers in time. In the Comair case it was complete lack of any backup plan. Once the primary computer failed they had no alternatives at all. After 100 years of aviation it is disturbing that major aviation organisations still fail to grasp the concept that redundancy is an important factor in safety. The marketplace will discipine Comair, but the failure of the FAA is really scary. Computers are great things to have around. We still need to treat them with suspicion the way we would treat any mechanical system that we trust our life (or business) to. The way we manage the risk of failure in any system is by having redundancy and diversity. A healthy scepticism of your systems (Soft, hard and wet) will keep you safe. Plan for failure and you will never be disappointed. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB7aSN8KZibdeR3qURAuuOAKC8kwgS27GlnrK2jsKwFfcG/cxI9wCfatSV oD7bnTIMY6p4mmZLm8zru+c= =+7jE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri Jan 21 08:19:40 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri Jan 21 08:39:03 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] INFO OF INTEREST Message-ID: <000001c4ffd7$473195e0$a174dc42@bendcable.com> FAA PLANS TO REQUIRE PILOTS TO REPLACE PAPER WITH PLASTIC The FAA is developing a rule that would require all pilots to obtain a plastic pilot certificate within two years. The plastic certificates (which the FAA is already issuing for new and replacement certificates) include a hologram making them tamper- and counterfeit-resistant. "AOPA has supported the idea of a more durable pilot certificate for years," said Andy Cebula, AOPA senior vice president of government and technical affairs. "The new certificate is an important step toward issuing a pilot certificate that will have the pilot's photo as mandated by Congress last year." The FAA has been issuing the new plastic certificates since August 2003. Anyone who receives a new certificate or rating automatically gets a plastic version. And if, for privacy or security reasons, a pilot wants to remove his or her social security number from the pilot certificate, the FAA will send a new plastic certificate at no charge. Visit the FAA's Airmen's Services Web site ( https://amsrvs.registry.faa.gov/amsrvs/logon.asp ) to request the change. From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri Jan 21 16:43:44 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri Jan 21 16:46:52 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT PLAN.... Message-ID: <000501c5001b$6d378800$a174dc42@bendcable.com> HEY EVERYBODY.... TOMORROW MORNING (SAT. JAN. 22) AT 0830 HRS. PLEASE SHOW UP AT THE FLIGHT SHOP FOR A DEPARTURE BY 0900.... DESTINATION IS: PENDLETON, OR (PDT) IT SHOULD TAKE ABOUT 1 HOUR EACH WAY..... BE SURE TO AVOID THE RESTRICTED AREA WEST OF PENDLETON.... I HAVE MADE CONTACT WITH THE FOLKS THAT RUN THE UNDERGROUND CITY AND WE HAVE A TOUR SET UP FOR 1200 HRS......I NEED TO CALL BEFORE WE LEAVE BEND AND TELL THEM HOW MANY (SO PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE GOING BUT YOU ARE "NOT" LEAVING FROM BEND) WHEN I CALL I WILL ALSO TELL THEM WHEN WE WILL BE THERE AND THEY WILL HAVE A VAN WAITING FOR US.... SHE SAID WE WILL HAVE TIME TO HAVE BREAKFAST AT THE "MAIN STREET DINER" WHICH IS RIGHT NEAR THE TOUR SITE....SHE SAID THE FOOD IS GREAT..... THE TOUR LASTS APPROX. 1 1/2 HRS AND THE COST IS $10. EACH..... WHEN WE HAVE COMPLETED THE TOUR WE CAN CALL THE CASINO AND THEY WILL PICK US UP AND TAKE US TO THE CASINO SO WE CAN LEAVE A FEW $$$$$ IF WE CARE TO.... THERE IS ALSO A GREAT INDIAN CULTURAL CENTER WE CAN GO TO.....OR THERE IS A MUSEUM NEAR THE UNDERGROUND CITY SITE..... SHOULD BE LOTS OF FUN....SEE YOU SAT. MORNING... THERE ARE USUALLY SOME EXTRA SEATS AVAILABLE... DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com 541 389-1456 From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Tue Jan 25 16:57:16 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Tue Jan 25 17:04:32 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Fw: Hangars ? Message-ID: <000801c50341$fac68940$a174dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG....I RECEIVED THIS E-MAIL ASKING FOR HELP IN FINDING A HANGAR....I AM NOT AWARE OF ANY BUT THOUGHT I WOULD SEE IF ANYONE IN THE GROUP HAS ANY IDEAS.... IF YOU DO YOU CAN CONTACT OUR CO-OPA MEMBER STEVE AND LET HIM KNOW.... DON WILFONG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Chapman" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 4:21 PM Subject: Hangars ? > Don - > > I'm a relatively new member of OPA, with a request for help. My wife has a > new person joining her group here in Bend this coming summer. The couple > have a light plane (describes to me as "a 2 or 4 seat light plane"). They > have apparently somehow investigated hangar spaces hereabouts enough to find > out that there are none in either Bend or Redmond, and the closest available > are in Prineville. > > A) Is this correct? > > B) Can you give them (thru me) any advice on their quest? > > I'll probably just forward any response from you to me, on to them. > > Thanks very much for your help, > > Steve Chapman > > From mvbond at myexcel.com Sun Feb 13 01:40:22 2005 From: mvbond at myexcel.com (mvbond) Date: Sun Feb 13 04:20:10 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] FEBRUARY 2005 COOPA NEWSLETTER Message-ID: <420F2086.8080006@myexcel.com> CASCADE FLYER February 2005, Vol. 05, Issue 2 Website: http://co-opa.rellim.com/ PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE: I would like to thank Joel Premselaar for sharing his videos at the last meeting. There was enough fascinating material for at least two programs. My apologies to Joel and the group for the projector problems. Never seen anything like that before. Joel gave me a copy of his program on CD. If anyone wants a copy then drop me an email and I'll burn some copies. Many thanks to Norma Wilfong for managing the CO-OPA Xmas fund again this year. It sounds like the group really made a difference for one family last Christmas. Bend airport manager Greg Phillips also gave us a solid briefing on the many things happening at the airport. Utilities and a gravel access road have been constructed on the east side in record time. Things will be ready for the new Epic Aircraft building in short order. The Nelson Road realignment and future AWOS are also moving along. Greg really deserves a hand for getting things moving on so many fronts. This month's speaker will be David Dressler. David is one of our newer members. He is a dealer for the SparrowHawk gyroplane and is finishing up his own SparrowHawk kit. This aircraft will take off in 100 ft, cruise at 70 kts, and carry 2 people while doing it. There is more info available online at: http://gbagyro-sea.com/ If you have any ideas for speakers, or presentation topics, please forward them to me. Bend seems to be just full of aviation stories waiting to be told. Web doings: As always, the CO-OPA website contains recent newsletters and other goodies. http://co-opa.rellim.com/. To access the members only areas the username is "S07" and the password is "123.0". NOTE: FOR PRIVACY PURPOSES, THE MEMBERS ONLY ACCESS INFO IS INCLUDED IN THIS EMAIL NEWSLETTER AND NOT IN THE POSTED WEBSITE VERSION. Calendar: 17 February - Monthly Meeting 19 February - Monthly Flyout 26 February - IAA work party at Big Bar 17 March - Monthly Meeting 19 March - Monthly Flyout 11 June - Flying Festival at Bend Airport My Inbox: Some things just drop themselves in my inbox and are beggin' me to share with the group. So here they are. I know a lot of our members have been to Sulphur Creek Ranch, so this note should be of interest to any of you with $1.6M burning a hole in your pocket. The Sulphur Creek Ranch, an 84 acre in-holding , located in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, is for sale. This ranch has a 4400 sq. ft. main ranch house with 10 cabins, all of which are furnished. The airstrip is a 3300 ft gravel runway that sits in the middle of some of the best hunting and fishing in the west. The sale includes the availability to acquire an Outfitters and Guides license, giving the holder exclusive right to guide in a 150 sq. miles of wilderness. $1,631,000. Call Dave Halgerson at 208-869-8807 Let's hope someone steps up to the plate and preserves this wonderful place. While we are on the topic of Idaho, I received a call to action from the McCall Chapter of the Idaho Aviation Association (IAA). Bill Nikkel, their president, has notified us of a work party at Big Bar: "I often fly into all of the airstrips around Hell's Canyon and I've noticed that some are maintained and some aren't. The IAA often sponsors work parties on strips in Idaho and we are planning one at Big Bar for February 26, 2005. We were hoping to work there in the morning and if we finish by noon, fly over to Sluice Creek or Salmon Bar and do some cactus cleanup and obstacle marking there as well." Anyone wanting in further details can contact Bill at 208-634-1504 or nikkel@frontiernet.net. There may be more work parties like this later in the year. Random Thoughts: The postman saved me from thinking to hard about a subject for this month's newsletter. He delivered my monthly copy of the ASRS CALLBACK. The monthly CALLBACK summarizes recent pilot stories of recent misadventures. Most of you by now will have heard of the NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System. The ASRS has a downloadable form to report aviation safety incidents. If you see, or participate, in any unsafe aviation event you are encouraged to fill out the form and mail it off the NASA. Many refer to this form as the pilots "get out of jail free" card. In most cases the information you put in the form can not be used against you by the FAA. It gets better. If you sent in the form within 10 days of the incident, and the FAA later investigates the incident, then the FAA will in many cases not apply any sanctions against you for the incident. Those submitted forms are also "de-identified" and posted on their web site. Some are summarized and included in the monthly CALLBACK. Their web site is http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/. There you can download the reporting forms, see recent incident reports, and sign up to get a snail mail copy of the CALLBACK monthly. All for free. In 12 step programs, like AA, members are taught to admit their mistakes, both to themselves and to others. Then to learn from the mistakes and move on. This also describes the average pilot's attitude towards his own mistakes. This is a good thing. It is OK to tell a little white lie to the passengers in the back, but as pilots we must be brutally honest to ourselves. Safe flying demands no less. Regards, Gary DID YOU KNOW ...... Any flight over water or over the mountains at night in a single engine airplane will absolutely guarantee abnormal engine noises and vibrations. The aircraft G-limits are only there in case there is to be another flight by that particular airplane. If subsequent flights do not appear likely, there are no G-limits. SAFETY CORNER by Joel Premselaar Sometimes I suspect that I'm characterized as a pontificator so I may as well go ahead and pontificate. This time around I'll address the subject of control. Sometimes we are controlled. Sometimes we are in control (we like that one, don't we). Sometimes we lack control. What has all this got to do with flying? Well, get into a comfortable chair while I do some pontificating. First off, except for the terrible twos, our parents control us. When we go to school our teachers control us even to the extent to having to raise one and, as the case may be, sometimes two fingers just to obtain permission to respond to nature's call. After school we are subject other kinds of tyrants. Tired of all this, we seek the absolute freedom that flight promises only to have some instructor beat us about the head and shoulders with a rolled up sectional. Then we are, to put it in that famous anecdote, "free, free, free at last" or are we? Now we have to contend with the "guvmint" 'specially since 9/11. Well then, when do we get a chance to be in control? When we are in uncontrolled airspace we are as free as we'll ever be. Really? What's the situation when, as we're making like a bird, the airplane we're controlling challenges us and tells us in no uncertain terms, "I've had enough of your neglect or whatever, so now I refuse to function." Now we enter the realm of "lack of control." Are we going to let a piece of machinery control us? By no means! The monthly publication "Aviation Safety" has a section titled "Learning Experiences." Experience is something personally lived through that's useful only if you survive it. Why tempt fate? To ensure longevity, anticipate, simulate, and practice potential emergencies vice experiencing the real thing. Hey! I know where your mind is. I'm just testing you. Look up vice in the dictionary. It's a proper word in this application. Instead of just boring holes in the sky, why not prepare ourselves for the moment we hope will never happen? Hmmm. Why fool ourselves? If we fly enough, we enter the realm of "there are two kinds of pilots, those that have and those that will (here choose any emergency except for none). How do we regain control from a capricious aerial steed? One answer is to dream up an anomaly and plan the countermeasure(s) before flight! In the air, simulate the fault, and practice the remedial action(s). In a recent edition of Aviation Safety, I read descriptions of autopilots that automatically adjust trim in response to c.g. and flight conditions, and when they fail or if the pilot shuts it off, he's got a huge out of trim situation. I experienced an electric elevator trim failure in an F2H-3 Banshee. The failure mode ran the trim to full nose up (this was rectified by a retrofit). The stick force exceeded even my Schwartzenegger size biceps (that lump you see on my cheek is my tongue). It was only a matter of time before I'd stall because "Gs" were rapidly robbing me of airspeed. Instinct, or whatever, directed me to simply put in aileron and make turns until I could slow enough to physically overcome the stick force. In your healthy aircraft, introduce a lot of nose up trim but instead of allowing the aircraft to climb, roll into a turn. Try it. You'll like it! Unwanted nose down trim is a whole 'nother story. Convert the dynamics into a side slip. Remember the engine out practices your instructor imposed upon you? Did he literally shut down the engine? If he did, it was a dumb, dumb, very dumb thing to do for many reasons. A wind-milling engine's prop drives the engine and if you're fortunate enough to get your shock cooled, cold, and fuel/oil loaded up (fouled plugs) engine started again, you'll be rewarded with a detrimental clank resulting from backlash being taken up. On carbureted engines, you may get icing and not have enough heat to deice. On larger engines, especially the round ones, you may wonder what the clattering sound is on startup. Reason: to save weight, the pistons of the larger aircraft engines have short skirts and larger clearances at the top when cold. The noise is the consequence of rocking pistons, commonly known as piston slap.. The pistons will expand to proper clearances when hot. Piston slap on a cold engine will produce a sound like coal going down a metal chute. A wind-milling engine will load up; fouling the plugs inhibits a restart. Be honest now, you're among friends; have you ever lost power on a fuel injected engine because you forgot to change tanks? Did your pucker factor run off the scale before you got it started again and heard that comforting purr of a smooth running engine? How then should we safely simulate an engine out forced landing? Use about 900 - 1000 RPM (mixture adjusted for take off power and density altitude and carb heat as appropriate). To simulate the drag of a wind-milling prop, get to, and hold 1.3 Vso with the controls slightly crossed for drag (1.3 Vs for a wheels up but flaps down landing). Of course, I know you won't forget to straighten out on the abort or if you intend to land. In an actual engine failure, with altitude permitting, you may slow the aircraft enough to stop the prop (dead stick). This will extend glide distance significantly. To simulate a dead stick landing, do the above in symmetrical flight conditions. Do the following for a twin (just once) at a safe altitude and at Vyse and Vy (it's best to climb out at Vy on take off and stay well above Vmc). Shut down and feather the critical engine, place a wing down into the good engine until the telltale string (a string installed on the centerline of the nose section of jets and twins {no, not the push-pull type}) is straight, then trim off the control load. Do not change the wing down trimmed condition. Start the dead engine and adjust the power until the controls unload. Record the trim and power settings. Repeat the process for the other engine, unless you do not have a critical engine, i.e., counter rotating props. Use these settings to simulate the feathered engine. Remember, Vse speeds change significantly with weight. Once again I exceeded the intended length of the article. I do have more but I'll hold off on flight and landing with loss of flight controls and other anomalies until next month. FAA SAFETY PROGRAM "All About Aeronautical Charts" On February 23, 2005 at 7:00 PM Location: Bend, OR 97701 Central Oregon Community College 2600 College Way Hitchcock Auditorium-Pioneer Hall A 'Wings' Program. Mr. Richard Neher from the FAA Charting Office In Wash. D.C. will present a detailed program on Aeronautical Charts. 7-9 PM. All you ever wanted to know about aeronautical charts including little known facts on sectionals and IFR charts. Online registration is prefered but not required. To view further details and to register for this event, click here http://www.faasafety.gov/SPANS/event_details.aspx?eid=4455. Completing a flight or maintenance action safely is a complex process. Use the materials at http://faasafety.gov/ to sharpen and maintain your skills. For comments or questions, email the webmaster: mailto:webmaster@faasafety.gov CHRISTMAS PARTY December was an exciting month. We had our annual Xmas party/potluck/meeting at the Flight Shop on Dec.16 and a lot of good food and fun was had by all....Gary Miller sent an e-mail to everyone outlining some of the things that happened and I took quite a few photos of the merry time we were having ... DECEMBER FLYOUT We had our last fly-out of 2004 on Sat. Dec. 18. to Chiloquin I thought everyone would be so busy that we would have hardly anyone able to go...but....we had one of our biggest fly-out groups we have had... I believe we had 8 planes and 17 people (the most I recall us having before was 8 planes and 18 people on a fly-out to Lakeview). The ramp at Chiloquin was overflowing ... Our Fly-out to Chiloquin was fun and the walk across the highway to Melita's Caf? was the most dangerous part of the trip ... as usual, the food and service were both good and we had a great time visiting before we all headed back Home ... Norma and I headed to Maui the next day so I had asked for a volunteer to write an article to give to Mike Bond to put into the newsletter ..... I don't remember who agreed to write the article and they didn't remember to write it. Everyone else forgot to submit something too, that is the reason our newsletter for January consisted of only the article written by Joel Premselaar ... Thanks Joel. If you have had a trip or an experience that others would like to read about ... why don't you sit down and write up a short story about it and give it to Mike Bond?? If you have a photo or two to go along with the article that is even better (but not necessary) ... remember the great article and photos Steve Wright submitted about the trip he and his wife took over to the Alvord Desert. Let's all try to help Mike out by providing some material to put the newsletter together with ... It is not easy trying to come up with enough material ... so ... let's all dig deep and help out ... THANK YOU MIKE for all you do ... Don & Norma Wilfong JANUARY FLY-OUT Sat. morning was beautiful in Central Oregon and the CO-OPA fly-out enthusiasts were ready and eager for the first fly-out of 2005. (1/22/05) Plans had been firmed up to fly to Pendleton, get picked up by the folks who do the Underground City Tour and be driven down town so we could enjoy breakfast and then go on a 90 minute tour at noon...afterwards we could have called the casino and they would have taken us to a tour of the Indian Cultural Center or to where we could donate some $$$$$. Well... the plans changed since Pendleton was fogged in. A call to Klamath Falls determined that the Caf? at the airport (long known as the Satellite Caf?) was open...it is now called "Bailey's Caf?" and it is open.....so....we changed our plans and after waiting to see who was going to show up we boarded our trusty steeds and headed out. Gary Miller in his Turbo Centurian took Ed Endsley along as a passenger, David and Denise Dressler in their Cardinal RG had their standard size poodle on board (this was their first fly-out with our group and they were certainly a welcome addition), Mike and Ann Bond were in their Cardinal RG and Don & Norma Wilfong in their Skylane had Bob and Nancy Lecklider as their passengers. The Skylane was the only plane with 4 people on board. There was the usual friendly banter between the planes on the way down with a few pointed comments about having landing gear hanging down in the wind (the Skylane was the only one) and comments about not having to remember to put the gear down....I think the battle came out kinda even. The Skylane was the first to depart....and....it was also the first to land....so....on a one hour flight the hanging gear did not prove to be too much of a speed problem... We all arrived, unloaded, and proceeded to the caf?. The service and food were both good and the hangar flying and other conversation was excellent... We walked out to the planes and stood around and visited for a while, the weather was like spring and it was nice to gather outside and enjoy the nice weather. We took off first in the Skylane, stayed fairly low and pretty much followed the highway and railroad back to Bend.... Gary & Ed flew over Crater Lake, the Bonds kinda followed our lead. The Dresslers were delayed a while as their battery was low and had to be charged .... they did get airborne in time to talk to the Bonds so they were not delayed too long. All in all it was a great time and we are still looking forward to going to Pendleton in the future... Another spot on the radar screen is just out of Alturas, Calif., the California Pines airport (A24). They have a 4250' X 60' gravel runway at an elevation of 4398'. The California Pines Resort is a short walk from the airport and they have breakfast off the menu on Saturdays and a breakfast buffet on Sundays. (They will even provide transportation for those who do not wish to walk) This spot was recommended by the good folks at the Lakeview airport. Wishing you all Blue skies and tail winds.... Don Wilfong dwnw@bendbroadband.com From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Sun Feb 13 19:33:59 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Sun Feb 13 19:37:31 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] DALE EVANS Message-ID: <000701c51246$059fda20$3373dc42@bendcable.com> CO-OPA MEMBERS.... Dale Evans, member of our OPA chapter and Past President of OPA has been in the hospital for surgury....things did not go as well as planned as he had some complications that required him to be in the hospital for much longer than originally had been expected. He is doing better now and will be going home tomorrow (Valentines Day). He will be recouperating and will probably not want company or phone calls for a little while...I will try to give a progress report as he gains some strength back. I know Dale is a good friend to many of you and thought some of you might wish to mail him a get well card to help cheer him up....his address is: Dale Evans 1806 N.W. Awbrey Rd. Bend, OR 97701 Thanks, Don & Norma Wilfong From gem at rellim.com Wed Feb 16 18:37:34 2005 From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller) Date: Wed Feb 16 18:37:47 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Meeting Notice - This Thursday, 17 February Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yo All! Yes, it is that time of the month again! This months speaker will be David Dressler and he will be speaking on the SparrowHawk Gyroplane. This months meeting of the CO-OPA is this Thursday the 17th of February. As usual, we will meet at the Bend Airport Flight Services Building. 6:00pm General Pilot Socialization 6:30pm Pot-luck 7:00pm General Business Guest Speaker - David Dressler RGDS GARY - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Blvd, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 gem@rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCFANx8KZibdeR3qURAqaEAJ9c4YNetS/vQUwE9zaby2IDW3t0kwCg7lEi KxWLOdtVxlQX1XVsE19cHPA= =CYA3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Thu Feb 17 12:55:28 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Thu Feb 17 12:58:58 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] DALE EVANS Message-ID: <000801c51533$02da3f20$3373dc42@bendcable.com> HI GANG... I SPOKE WITH VIRGINIA TODAY AND DALE IS COMING ALONG NICELY....BUT....HE IS STILL VERY TIRED AND SLEEPS QUITE A BIT OF THE TIME.....HE REALLY APPRECIATES EVERYONES CONCERN AND CARDS....BUT....VIRGINIA HAS ASKED THAT WE PLEASE HOLD OFF ON VISITS AND PHONE CALLS FOR A WHILE.. IT WILL TAKE A LITTLE LONGER FOR HIM TO REGAIN HIS VIM, VIGOR AND STRENGTH....WE ALL WISH HIM THE BEST AND LOOK TO SEE HIS SMILING FACE BACK AT OUR MEETINGS AND FLY-OUTS REAL SOON... DON & NORMA WILFONG From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri Feb 18 15:47:32 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri Feb 18 15:51:06 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT Message-ID: <000501c51614$37273300$3373dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG.... FLY-OUT TO PENDLETON MEET AT FLIGHT SHOP SAT. FEB. 19, 2005 08:30 FOR 09:00 DEPARTURE VAN TO PICK US UP BY 10:30 AND TAKE US DOWNTOWN TO MAIN ST. DINER FOR BREAKFAST WE HAVE A NOON APPOINTMENT TO SEE THE UNDERGROUND CITY..... THEN WE CAN CALL THE CASINO AND THEY WILL PICK US UP AND GO TO THE INDIAN INTERPRETIVE CENTER (VERY INTERESTING) AND/OR TO THE CASINO TO SEEK OUR FORTUNE OF COURSE THIS IS WEATHER PERMITTING.... I AM TO CALL THEM AND LET THEM KNOW ABOUT HOW MANY ARE GOING TO BE THERE BEFORE WE LEAVE IN THE MORNING.... IF YOU ARE GOING TO LEAVE FROM OTHER THAN THE FLIGHT SHOP....PLEASE.....E-MAIL ME AND LET ME KNOW SO I CAN INCLUDE YOU IN THE COUNT.... DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com 541 389-1456 From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Sat Feb 19 07:04:35 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Sat Feb 19 07:08:17 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] (no subject) Message-ID: <000d01c51694$530da060$3373dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG....WEATHER DOESN'T SOUND GOOD....FLY-OUT CALLED OFF NEW PLAN... MEET AT THE BLACK BEAR DINER AT 0900 HRS....FOR HANGAR FLYING AND BREAKFAST...... SEE YOU THERE..... DON WILFONG Issued: February 19, 2005 05:46:50 PST (ORZ043) Today: Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow in the morning...then rain and snow likely in the afternoon. Snow level 5000 feet. Accumulations around 1 inch. Highs 46 to 51. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent. From catacres at teleport.com Sun Feb 20 06:48:54 2005 From: catacres at teleport.com (Richard/Debbie Benson) Date: Sun Feb 20 06:50:36 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] air disaster Message-ID: <003d01c5175b$6b7464a0$bdb1f204@cascadecot7hp2> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 28338 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20050220/0700595a/attachment-0001.jpe From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Wed Feb 23 09:46:30 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Wed Feb 23 09:50:17 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] IDAHO BACK COUNTRY FLY-IN !!! Message-ID: <000701c519cf$9b6d8da0$3373dc42@bendcable.com> HI GANG.... I AM IN THE INITIAL PLANNING STAGES FOR A FLY-IN TO IDAHO'S BACK COUNTRY....IT IS MY INTENTION TO MAKE THIS AN EASY TRIP THAT DOES NOT OVER CHALLENGE PARTICIPANTS OR THEIR PLANES WITH ANY OF THE REALLY DIFFICULT AIRSTRIPS.... MY INITIAL THOUGHTS ARE TO FLY IN TO JOHNSON CREEK AIRPORT WHICH IS A RELATIVELY EASY AIRPORT...THERE ARE BEAUTIFUL AREAS WHERE YOU CAN PITCH YOUR TENT ON THE GRASS BESIDE YOUR PLANE AND THERE ARE CAMPSITES WHERE A GROUP CAN HAVE MEALS TOGETHER THAT ARE IMMEDIATLY ADJACENT TO THE PARKING AREA. THERE ARE SHOWERS ON SITE AND THERE ARE AUTOS AVAILABLE AT REASONABLE RATES TO GO INTO YELLOW PINE. THIS IS A VERY INTERESTING LITTLE TOWN THAT WAS ONCE A BUSTLEING MINING TOWN. THIS IS JUST A SHORT DRIVE FROM THE AIRPORT AND YOU WILL FOR SURE WANT TO GO INTO YELLOW PINE. THERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER AIRPORTS WHERE WE COULD FLY OUT FOR BREAKFAST AND RETURN....ALL FLYING SHOULD BE COMPLETED PRIOR TO NOON IN THE BACK COUNTRY OR IN THE EVENING WHEN IT HAS COOLED DOWN AND THE WINDS HAVE DIED...... A DATE HAS NOT BEEN NARROWED DOWN AS YET BUT THE PLAN IS TO WAIT UNTIL IT HAS WARMED UP AND CAMPING WOULD BE PLEASANT. THE TENTATIVE PLAN IS TO MAKE THIS A SEVERAL DAY EVENT WITH PEOPLE BEING ABLE TO COME AND GO AS THEIR SCHEDULES WOULD PERMIT. WHAT I WOULD LIKE FROM YOU IS AN E-MAIL BACK TO ME DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com LETTING ME KNOW WHETHER OR NOT YOU WOULD "POSSIBLY" BE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN SUCH A FLY-OUT AND ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE....I AM NOT ASKING FOR A COMMITMENT THAT YOU WILL GO..JUST HELP ME OUT WITH SOME INFO FOR PLANNING.... IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN POSSIBLY GOING THEN I WOULD SUGGEST THAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO PURCHASE A BOOK "FLY IDAHO" AT A COST OF APPROX. $39.95... I WILL BE HAPPY TO PROVIDE YOU WITH THE INFORMATION ON HOW TO ORDER THIS BOOK DIRECTLY FROM THE AUTHOR/PUBLISHER. "GALEN HANSELMAN" Q. E. I. PUBLISHING IN HAILEY, IDAHO. GALEN HAS VOICED AN INTEREST IN FLYING IN AND MEETING US IF WE WILL LET HIM KNOW WHEN WE ARE PLANNING ON BEING THERE. THIS IS A FANTASTIC PUBLICATION THAT SHOWS TWO COLORED PICTURES OF EACH OF IDAHO'S BACK COUNTRY AIRPORTS ALONG WITH A RATING SYSTEM AS TO THEIR DIFFICULTY LEVEL AND A STORY ABOUT EACH, THE AREA, IT'S HISTORY AND THINGS TO DO.....PLUS A WHOLE LOT MORE... I REALIZE THIS IS A LONG E-MAIL...BUT...THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ IT AND TO RESPOND. DON WILFONG, CO-OPA FLY-OUT CHAIRMAN dwnw@bendbroadband.com 541 389-1456 From leckone at bendcable.com Wed Feb 23 15:26:36 2005 From: leckone at bendcable.com (Leckliders) Date: Wed Feb 23 15:26:36 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] IDAHO BACK COUNTRY FLY-IN !!! References: <000701c519cf$9b6d8da0$3373dc42@bendcable.com> Message-ID: <000801c519ff$1eb32920$b976dc42@leckone> This sounds like a great idea. We had a wonderful time we went to Johnson Creek. It really is upscale camping with the hot showers available, plus the caretake makes a big pot of coffee every morning. I have been told that there is some good fishing there, too. Seeya, nbl. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don & Norma" To: "CO-OPA" Cc: "Duane and Jean Francis" ; "Matt Verdieck" ; "Valenti" ; "Christen" Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:46 AM Subject: [Co-opa] IDAHO BACK COUNTRY FLY-IN !!! > HI GANG.... > > I AM IN THE INITIAL PLANNING STAGES FOR A FLY-IN TO IDAHO'S > BACK COUNTRY....IT IS MY INTENTION TO MAKE THIS AN EASY > TRIP THAT DOES NOT OVER CHALLENGE PARTICIPANTS OR THEIR > PLANES WITH ANY OF THE REALLY DIFFICULT AIRSTRIPS.... > > MY INITIAL THOUGHTS ARE TO FLY IN TO JOHNSON CREEK AIRPORT > WHICH IS A RELATIVELY EASY AIRPORT...THERE ARE BEAUTIFUL > AREAS WHERE YOU CAN PITCH YOUR TENT ON THE GRASS BESIDE > YOUR PLANE AND THERE ARE CAMPSITES WHERE A GROUP CAN > HAVE MEALS TOGETHER THAT ARE IMMEDIATLY ADJACENT TO > THE PARKING AREA. THERE ARE SHOWERS ON SITE AND THERE > ARE AUTOS AVAILABLE AT REASONABLE RATES TO GO INTO > YELLOW PINE. THIS IS A VERY INTERESTING LITTLE TOWN THAT > WAS ONCE A BUSTLEING MINING TOWN. THIS IS JUST A SHORT > DRIVE FROM THE AIRPORT AND YOU WILL FOR SURE WANT TO > GO INTO YELLOW PINE. > > THERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER AIRPORTS WHERE WE COULD FLY > OUT FOR BREAKFAST AND RETURN....ALL FLYING SHOULD BE > COMPLETED PRIOR TO NOON IN THE BACK COUNTRY OR IN > THE EVENING WHEN IT HAS COOLED DOWN AND THE WINDS > HAVE DIED...... > > A DATE HAS NOT BEEN NARROWED DOWN AS YET BUT > THE PLAN IS TO WAIT UNTIL IT HAS WARMED UP AND CAMPING > WOULD BE PLEASANT. > > THE TENTATIVE PLAN IS TO MAKE THIS A SEVERAL DAY EVENT > WITH PEOPLE BEING ABLE TO COME AND GO AS THEIR SCHEDULES > WOULD PERMIT. > > WHAT I WOULD LIKE FROM YOU IS AN E-MAIL BACK TO ME > > DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com > > LETTING ME KNOW WHETHER OR NOT YOU WOULD "POSSIBLY" > BE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN SUCH A FLY-OUT AND > ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE....I AM NOT > ASKING FOR A COMMITMENT THAT YOU WILL GO..JUST HELP > ME OUT WITH SOME INFO FOR PLANNING.... > > IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN POSSIBLY GOING THEN I WOULD > SUGGEST THAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO PURCHASE A BOOK > "FLY IDAHO" AT A COST OF APPROX. $39.95... I WILL BE HAPPY > TO PROVIDE YOU WITH THE INFORMATION ON HOW TO > ORDER THIS BOOK DIRECTLY FROM THE AUTHOR/PUBLISHER. > "GALEN HANSELMAN" Q. E. I. PUBLISHING IN HAILEY, IDAHO. > GALEN HAS VOICED AN INTEREST IN FLYING IN AND MEETING > US IF WE WILL LET HIM KNOW WHEN WE ARE PLANNING ON > BEING THERE. > > THIS IS A FANTASTIC PUBLICATION THAT SHOWS TWO COLORED > PICTURES OF EACH OF IDAHO'S BACK COUNTRY AIRPORTS ALONG > WITH A RATING SYSTEM AS TO THEIR DIFFICULTY LEVEL > AND A STORY ABOUT EACH, THE AREA, IT'S HISTORY AND > THINGS TO DO.....PLUS A WHOLE LOT MORE... > > I REALIZE THIS IS A LONG E-MAIL...BUT...THANKS FOR > TAKING THE TIME TO READ IT AND TO RESPOND. > > DON WILFONG, CO-OPA FLY-OUT CHAIRMAN > dwnw@bendbroadband.com > 541 389-1456 > > _______________________________________________ > Co-opa mailing list > Co-opa@rellim.com > http://catbert.rellim.com/mailman/listinfo/co-opa > From catacres at teleport.com Fri Feb 25 09:42:01 2005 From: catacres at teleport.com (Richard/Debbie Benson) Date: Fri Feb 25 09:42:23 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Fw: [IAA NOTAM] BLM closing airstrips Message-ID: <006401c51b61$508924f0$419cf204@cascadecot7hp2> Dear Flying Friends, The Idaho Pilots Association is perhaps the most active & organized in the country... The example below depicts this - they are even looking out for Oregon !!!!!!!!!!!! They are well worth supporting... $$$$$$$$$ Best Ever, Richard -----Original Message----- On Behalf Of G. Confer Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 6:48 PM To: discussion@skywagons.org Subject: [SKYWAGONS] BLM closing airstrips I was just into Chukar Flats on the John Day River in north central Oregon. The BLM has put up a sign saying the area is closed to all motorized vehicles (with a sign showing airplanes crossed off) because the area is a wilderness study area. The log show the sign went up recently. The sign says to contact the Prineville office of the BLM if you have any questions. I believe a letter writing effort to all our Congressmen and Women is in order. I think an original letter would be best, but I will suggest the following: (Your Congressman) Sir, The Prineville, OR BLM office is trying to close the airstrips on the lower John Day river. These airstrips have been used for many years and provide the only access (except for boat) to the area, since most of the surrounding area is private land. This stretch of the river is 50- 60 miles long and runs through a deep canyon. To float this river requires a minimum of 3 days and requires major effort and preparation that keeps most people from seeing this beautiful area. I strongly object to the BLM's actions. your name N number address Gary Confer You received this e-mail as a subscriber to the notams@flyidaho.org e-mail list. To remove yourself from this mailing list, send an e-mail addressed to with the following command in the body of your email message "unsubscribe notams" (without the quotes). Use "REPLY TO ALL" to reply to the whole list, while a simple "REPLY" goes only to the originator. See FAR 61.103(c) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20050225/6b1d334f/attachment.html From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri Feb 25 12:57:13 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri Feb 25 13:01:41 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] TNT/SOS Message-ID: <000501c51b7c$94d1cfc0$3373dc42@bendcable.com> HI GANG.... TNT/SOS STANDS FOR "TOO NICE TO/ STAY ON SOIL" IN OTHER WORDS LET'S BREAK THE SURLEY BONDS OF EARTH AND FLY SOMEWHERE..... TOMORROW.....SAT. FEB. 26, 2004 AN UNSCHEDULED...SPUR OF THE MOMENT....FLY-OUT WEATHER PERMITTING....MEET AT THE FLIGHT SHOP AT 08:30 .... DEPART BY 09:00 AND HEAD TO McCALL, IDAHO....REMEMBER 09:00 HERE IS 10:00 THERE.... IT IS JUST A COUPLE OF BLOCKS TO THE PANCAKE HOUSE (A GREAT PLACE FOR BREAKFAST, LUNCH OR DINNER) NOT SURE IF THEYSERVE BREAKFAST ALL DAY OR NOT.... OUR GROUP HAS EATEN THERE A NUMBER OF TIMES DURING THE McCALL FAMILY MOUNTAIN FLY-IN....IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN REALLY GOOD... WE CAN GET ECONOMICAL TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM IF YOU DON'T WANT TO WALK..... IF FOR SOME REASON THE WEATHER DOESN'T LOOK LIKE GOING TO IDAHO WE CAN SHORTEN IT UP AND GO TO EITHER JOHN DAY, BAKER CITY OR LA GRANDE. I KNOW IT IS SHORT NOTICE....BUT....."WHAT THE HECK" LET'S MAKE IT A FUN DAY DON & NORMA WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com 389-1456 p.s.: It would be nice to hear back from you to know if you plan to go.... From daviddr at msn.com Fri Feb 25 17:20:46 2005 From: daviddr at msn.com (David Dressler) Date: Fri Feb 25 17:21:19 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] TNT/SOS In-Reply-To: <000501c51b7c$94d1cfc0$3373dc42@bendcable.com> Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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EVENING MAR.17 AT THE FLIGHT SHOP.... WILL SEND MORE INFO BY E-MAIL AFTER THE POTLUCK/MEETING....SO...WATCH YOUR E-MAILS.... DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com LEWISTON: NEZ PERCE CO AIRPORT (LWS) ELEVATION: 1438' TOWER: 119.4 GRND: 121.9 S CTR 123.95 ASOS 135.575 DISTANCE FROM BEND (S07): TO LEWISTON (LWS) OR (KLWS) 223.91 Naut. 257.67 Stat. From djsailors at direcway.com Mon Mar 14 14:30:49 2005 From: djsailors at direcway.com (David Sailors) Date: Mon Mar 14 14:31:42 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] FW: Help!!!! Message-ID: <000f01c528e5$80737800$674b4b0a@hewlettz2wf5fi> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Mike Bond CASCADE FLYER March 2005, Vol. 05, Issue 3 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE: It sure was nice to sit in David Dressler's SparrowHawk at the last meeting. That machine will be a blast to fly. Thank you David for bringing that by for the membership to gawk at. Good luck with the rest of your Experimental certification process. Copies of Joel's VCD were also a big hit. I'll bring more copies to the next meeting. It was not nice to hear of Dale Evan's recent surgeries. Fortunately, he is now on the mend. Our best wishes go out to him and Ginnie. This month's speaker will be our own Don-Patrol leader: Don Wilfong. Last month we discussed purchasing an AOPA "Seminar-in-a-box" for a meeting. When Don offered up that he had home made video of his trips to Oshkosh I knew we had our next speaker. Never been to Oshkosh myself and am eager to see what Don has to show on the Mecca for pilots. We also have some other urgent business that we forgot to get to last month. David Sailors' has led the effort to put on the Flying Festival for the last two years. David has done a great job and now needs to turn the reins over to a new chairman. We have no shortage of ideas, but we need the key person to head a committee. April's speaker will be Jim Hardie. Jim flew the OV-10 (Cessna Bronco) in the Viet Nam War. Jim recently spoke for the local Association of Naval Aviators (ANA) and I hear his talk is quite something. If you have any ideas for speakers, or presentation topics, please forward them to me. Calendar: 17 March - Monthly Meeting 19 March - Monthly Flyout 21 April - Monthly Meetime 23 April - Monthly Flyout 19 May - Monthly Meeting 21 May - Monthly Flyout 11 June - Flying Festival at Bend Airport 16 June - Monthly Meeting 18 June - Monthly Flyout Web doings: As always, the CO-OPA website contains recent newsletters and other goodies at: http://co-opa.rellim.com/ To access the members only areas the username is "S07" and the password is "123.0". My Inbox: Medford will have their 2005 Air Festival the weekend of June 25. They will be open Sat and Sun from 9am to 5pm. Looks like they will have all the usual air-show goodies. What is interesting about this is the affair is being profesionally managed. Redmond Airport will get a return visit by the B-17 and B-24 that dropped by last year. (ED: This is scheduled the week after the Flying Festival). Like last time, the organizers would like us to provide some volunteers for crowd control and similar duties. I'll provide contact details next month. Random Thoughts: Most of you already know that I am a map junky. So I was disappointed to have to miss the last FAA Safety Seminar on charts. To ease the pain I spent some time on the NACO web site: http://www.naco.faa.gov/ Here is a governmental agency that really gets the internet and computers. Go to their home page and click on "Downloads" on the left side. There is a wealth of free information just a click away: Instrument Approach Procedures, Chart Legends, Airport Diagrams, Change Notices, Change Bulletins and more. I like to print out enlarged versions of any IAP that I may need. The chart comes from NACO as a PDF. Enlarge the PDF to letter size and print it out. The results will be much clearer than just enlarging the old paper chart. My tired old eyes enjoy the large sized chart. There is one thing I was expecting to find for download but did not: Digital Sectionals. Not just scanned in charts, but super accurate georeferenced charts. So accurate that on average any symbol on the chart will be accurate to within two pixels of it's true position. These are not yet available for download. You can order the sectionals on DVD for the entire Western US for only $11.70. That sure beats the paper price. I would expect these digital charts to be available for free downloading from third parties soon. Regards, Gary PENDLETON FLY-OUT ? Well not yet ... with predictions of rain and/or snow for our area, on the afternoon of our second planned trip to Pendleton (Feb. 19), a decision was made to cancel the fly-out. Several people had already indicated they didn't like the sound of the impending weather. A last minute invitation was made to have everyone meet at the Black Bear Diner here in Bend for breakfast and some hangar flying. Seven of us showed up: Gary Miller, Ed Endsley, Doug Watson, David and Denise Dressler and Don and Norma Wilfong. We had an entire banquet room all to ourselves (this might have been to keep us from disturbing the rest of their customers). Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and it gave us a chance to get better acquainted with some of our newer members. Hang in there ... we may yet get a chance to go to Pendleton ... several people have voiced a desire to be able to go and that they hope we reschedule it for later on ... LOOKING AHEAD ...... I am thinking ahead to summer and would like to plan an overnight (or maybe more than one night) fly-out into Idaho's backcountry...something easy like Johnson Creek. For those who have never been there, it is beautiful and they have great camping right by where you park your plane. Courtesy cars (provided by the State of Idaho) are available for a nominal fee so you can go into the little mountain village of Yellow Pine. Norma and I found a great swimming hole just a short drive from the airport too. I will try to schedule this trip with a little advance notice so you can fit it into your plans. There are a number of other places, such as Big Creek, Smiley Creek or Sulphur Creek that are just short flights from Johnson Creek that are fun to fly to for breakfast. All of this and more is available just a few miles from McCall where fuel is available. As the good flying weather approaches and it is just too beautiful to stay on the ground, we may try to add some fly-outs in addition to our regular monthly fly-outs. Some may be planned to correspond to events being held and some may be spur of the moment, just because it is the thing to do. Let your voice be heard....let me know what you think and if you know of a place or an event somewhere we might all enjoy. Baker City, Astoria and Prospect (to name a few) all have fly-ins we have gone to and enjoyed. I will try to provide information on these and others as options as places for a fly-out or for individuals to consider.... Blue skies and tail winds to you all. Don Wilfong dwnw@bendbroadband.com MARCH FLYOUT: I have long time friends (He and I went through High School together) that live in Lewiston, Idaho. They have agreed to meet us at the Lewiston airport with their "large" motor home and take us down to breakfast. He is also checking on a visit to the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center in Lewiston and/or a Museum that is just a few miles from Lewiston. There is also what remains of an old airport in Clarkston that has one large building left that is "maybe" the worlds largest antique store (some stuff may be spelled Junque) that is a lot of fun to walk through if anyone is interested.... All in all it should be a really fun event... Since this is approx. a two hour flight I think it is important that we plan to meet at the Flight shop by 07:45 with a departure scheduled for 08:00 March 19, 2005 .... I know some of you don't like to get up and out that early ... will discuss at the Thurs. night Potluck/Meeting... Don Wilfong McCALL, IDAHO On Sat. Feb. 26 we had an unscheduled fly-out to McCall for brunch at the Pancake House...We had a short walk from the airport and as usual the food was excellent ... It was a spur of the moment event, so our group was fairly small ... Deane & Stephanie Cooper from Prineville in their Maule, Les Robbins (a potential member) in his Skylane and Don & Norma Wilfong, in their Skylane, with Bob & Nancy Lecklider as passengers. The weather was beautiful, the trip was fun, the food was good, and there was certainly more snow in the McCall area than in Central Oregon. I try to let as many people as possible know about these spur of the moment fly-outs. We hope to have more fly-outs in addition to our regular monthly one ... which is almost always the Saturday after our monthly Potluck/Meeting night, which is held on the third Thursday of each month. I will try to schedule ahead and let you know ... but sometimes weather is too nice to just stay home ... so, watch your e-mails.. Don Wilfong CO-OPA SAFETY CORNER: By Joel Premselaar I'll set the scene for you. You're running late for a Wilfong flyaway, so your pre-flight is a "kick the tire and light the fire" precursor, or better said; precursEr to what could develop into full-fledged sphincter exercise. You firewall your Traumahawk, or its equivalent, and start boring expensive holes in the sky pursuing the gang and that special $100 hamburger. Listening to the other COOPAers on the chatter frequency, you are alarmed by a sudden and significant decrease in your hamburger go-getter's airworthiness. Then, lo and behold, you sense that a great void has entered between the earphones of your headset! Flight control emergencies include: loss of linkage to or jammed ailerons, rudder, elevators, ailerons and elevators simultaneously, and trim tabs. There is an AD out against some Cessna control wheels; they break off into the hands of the pilot. Here are just three reports in the "Aviation Safety" publication:. A C-150 rudder bar jammed due to a broken rudder bar return spring and its lever arm (Ref. FAA Air Worthiness Alert #2720). A Grumman American AA-5 Traveler had aileron control problems in flight. After landing, the right aileron was found to be detached from the wing at the outboard end. A Super Decathlon had an elevator jammed by the auxiliary antenna of its ELT. This pilot now opens the access panels in the tail cone to check for foreign objects. During a preflight check, I found a broken elevator hinge on a JRB, Navy's designation for the Beech 18. Also on a preflight, I found a damaged right ruddervator on my Bonanza. The aforementioned Traveler may have incurred damage for the same reason as my Bonanza's did. Some inconsiderate pilot generated excessive prop wash on the flight line. Even though I had my flight controls locked, when I returned from lunch and did a walk around, the dirty deed had been done. The list goes on and on. Moral? Do a preflight each and every time. Back in the old days (Yeah, here I go again) they built wings by the mile and cut them off by the yards. The wings stalled from the tips inward. As a consequence, we had a training exercise called the "Falling Leaf." You stalled the aircraft and if a wing dropped, you picked it up with opposite rudder. Use of the ailerons was an absolute "no no" because that would put you into a terminal maneuver faster than you could say "SPIN." I cannot find any reason why the Falling Leaf has disappeared from the training curriculum. It was an excellent exercise developed to preclude spins and to enable a wings level crash landing into trees with minimum horizontal forward motion. O.K. smarty pants. I know a straight in dive equates to zero horizontal forward motion, but that's not conducive to longevity!! To ensure that the ailerons remain effective at the high angles of attack, most of the airplanes we fly today are designed to produce a stall at the wing roots first. An additional benefit of this arrangement is that the buffeting of the tail as a consequence of the wing root's stall produces a favorable stall warning system. Design features to accomplish the above include spoilers on the wing root, washout (a twist in the wing that results in a lower angle of attack at the tips than at the wing root) and a combination of both. Even with today's wing designs, I don't recommend use of ailerons in a stall. Given this mini-treatise, the way to practice for control loss of aileron(s) is to practice the Falling Leaf maneuver. I strongly recommend that you have someone experienced with this maneuver to ride shotgun for you until you master the technique. First off, check your aircraft's Pilot's Operating Handbook for limitations re stalls and slips. For example, there are aircraft that stipulate specific flap settings ranging from none to three-fourths (rarely to full) for slips; therefore, it applies to the Falling Leaf maneuver. Also, select a fuel tank that has sufficient fuel in it to preclude unporting its standpipe. Here's how to execute the maneuver: establish level flight condition at Vs, manually lock up your ailerons, induce a wing to drop by applying rudder (the rate and amount of rudder application is gained with experience), when the wing starts down apply opposite rudder. Do this repeatedly and you'll descend in the manner of a falling oak leaf. The Falling Leaf is a confidence building exercise and, to reiterate, is a means to preclude spins. Realistically, forget all this stuff I tell you about how airplanes fly; in truth, an airplane flies because of money! BY POPULAR REQUEST ...... PREMSELAAR'S AVIATION VIDEO LIBRARY ? Special Student Pilot (King) ? Night Flying (King) ? Communications (King) ? Complete Jeppesen Review (King) ? Take-offs and Landings (King) ? Complete Airspace Review (King) Dated?? ? Taming Stalls and Spins (King) ? Weather Wise (King) ? IFR With Confidence (King) ? VFR With Confidence (King) ? Aviation Weather (AOPA) ? Stall/Spin (AOPA) ? Private Pilot Flight Test; (Parts 1&2) (ATC) ? IFR Enroute and Holding Patterns (Bartlett) ? Take-offs/Landings; Night Flying ? Engine Management-EGT & CHT (GAMI) ? History of the Naval Ordnance Test Station (Parts 1&2) ? Modern Air Combat ? Flight Deck ? Top Guns & Land of No Slack ? Air Superiority ? SR-71 (Time /Life) ? SR-71 (Discovery Channel) ? Fastest Planes in the Sky ? Test Pilot ? American Air Museum in Great Britain ? Desert Storm, the Air Assault ? F-104; P-51; Ju-52 ? Aircraft Carrier ? F-190; German Seaplanes; Arado ? Top Guns; Oregon Air National Guard ? Doolittle; Chenault; Wings of Eagles; Memphis Belle ? Battleships ? World War I (The Great War) (Two tapes [8hrs]) ? Frontiers of Flight; Red Star; Firepower; ME-163; Soviet Air Power ? Carrier Operation; Fighter Pilots ? Aviation Developments (6hrs) ? Aviation Developments, (Parts 1&2) ? Women of Courage, WW II Wasps ? Transport Aircraft Through the DC-3 ? NOTS China Lake Test Flights AND FINALLY ..... Tragedy in Eastern Canada Gander NLFD (CP) Canada's Worst Air Disaster occurred earlier today when a Cessna 152, a small two-seater plane, crashed into a cemetery early this morning in central Newfoundland. Newfie search and rescue workers have recovered 826 bodies so far and expect that number to climb as digging continues into the evening. From gem at rellim.com Thu Mar 17 21:27:57 2005 From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller) Date: Thu Mar 17 21:48:37 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] RDM needs our help, TODAY! Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yo All! See below for an important message from our friends at RDM tower. They have always done a great job up there, and now is the time when some kind words from us in return might be a real help. The email address to send those words is: david.mccann@serco.com The responses have to be in by Friday the 18th!! RGDS GARY - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Blvd, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 gem@rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676 - -----Original Message----- From: RDMSERCO@aol.com [mailto:RDMSERCO@aol.com] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 2:50 PM To: djsailors@direcway.com Subject: Re: [Co-opa] Help!! Hey David, Dwight from the tower here. The company we work for (SERCO, not faa)is preparing to recognize the facility of the year and other awards. I would appreciate it if CO-OPA, as an organization or from individuals (or both) would consider sending a few kind words about the staff and services provide by RDM. I frequently hear from local pilots about the good friendly service these guys provide. I think it would be great if we could get them recognized by SERCO. Please share this with the membership this week. 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THANKS, DON WILFONG 541 389-1456 dwnw@bendbroadband From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Sat Mar 19 06:55:11 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Sat Mar 19 06:59:28 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] E-MAIL ADDRESS Message-ID: <000901c52c93$a66e7a80$3373dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG....I FORGOT TO INCLUDE OUR E-MAIL ADDRESS IN THE FLY-OUT/WEATHER E-MAIL I JUST SENT.... DON WILFONG 389-1456 dwnw@bendbroadband.com From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Sat Mar 19 07:00:35 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Sat Mar 19 07:04:46 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] NO FLY-OUT....BREAKFAST????? Message-ID: <001701c52c94$67e0e0e0$3373dc42@bendcable.com> I TRIED TO SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE BUT SINCE I HAD ATTACHED A SATTELITE PICTURE IT WOULD NOT GO THROUGH THE CO-OPA MAIL SITE WITH AN ATTACHMENT....SO....SORRY ABOUT THE MIXUP....BUT....HERE IS THE MAIN PART OF THE MESSAGE.....DON WILFONG......dwnw@bendbroadband.com > HEY GANG..... > > I LOOKED OUT AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE COULD FLY SOMEWHERE LOCAL (LIKE > SUNRIVER)....BUT WITH THE > WEATHER FORECAST (SEE BELOW) NOT SOUNDING VERY GOOD WITH A 70% CHANCE OF > RAIN AND WINDS GUSTING TO > 35 MPH, IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE TOO MUCH FUN.....SO.....LET'S MEET AT THE > BLACK BEAR DINER AT 09:00 HRS. FOR A LITTLE FOOD AND SOME HANGAR > FLYING......P L E A S E....CALL US (DON WILFONG 389-1456) OR E-MAIL US AND > LET US KNOW IF YOU > WILL BE THERE....WE WOULD HATE TO BE THE ONLY ONES TO SHOW UP..... > > DON & NORMA WILFONG > > > Issued: March 19, 2005 04:19:43 PST (ORZ043) > > Today: Rain likely. Highs 47 to 57. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts > to around 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent. > > Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the evening...then a chance of rain > and snow overnight. Snow level 4000 feet overnight. Lows 35 to 40. South > wind 10 to 20 mph and gusty. Chance of precipitation 60 percent. > > Sunday: Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Breezy. Highs 47 to 53. Southwest > wind 15 to 25 mph. Gusts around 30 mph increasing to 40 mph in the > afternoon. Chance of precipitation 40 percent. > From robnash46 at earthlink.net Sat Mar 19 11:40:41 2005 From: robnash46 at earthlink.net (Robert L. Nash) Date: Sat Mar 19 11:42:26 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Piano repair/tuning? Message-ID: <29244619.1111261242406.JavaMail.root@scooter.psp.pas.earthlink.net> I seem to recall that we have a member who repairs and tunes pianos. We need one fixed and tuned, so could you, whoever you are, call me about it? Robert Nash 541 390 7300. To keep this aviation related, there's a good group on the internet called Pacific Northwest Flyers, with useful information. I think it's pnwflyers.com or pacificnorthwestflyers.com. I'll doublecheck and report back. -----Original Message----- From: Don & Norma Sent: Mar 19, 2005 7:00 AM To: CO-OPA Cc: Duane and Jean Francis , Matt Verdieck , Valenti , Christen Subject: [Co-opa] NO FLY-OUT....BREAKFAST????? I TRIED TO SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE BUT SINCE I HAD ATTACHED A SATTELITE PICTURE IT WOULD NOT GO THROUGH THE CO-OPA MAIL SITE WITH AN ATTACHMENT....SO....SORRY ABOUT THE MIXUP....BUT....HERE IS THE MAIN PART OF THE MESSAGE.....DON WILFONG......dwnw@bendbroadband.com > HEY GANG..... > > I LOOKED OUT AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE COULD FLY SOMEWHERE LOCAL (LIKE > SUNRIVER)....BUT WITH THE > WEATHER FORECAST (SEE BELOW) NOT SOUNDING VERY GOOD WITH A 70% CHANCE OF > RAIN AND WINDS GUSTING TO > 35 MPH, IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE TOO MUCH FUN.....SO.....LET'S MEET AT THE > BLACK BEAR DINER AT 09:00 HRS. FOR A LITTLE FOOD AND SOME HANGAR > FLYING......P L E A S E....CALL US (DON WILFONG 389-1456) OR E-MAIL US AND > LET US KNOW IF YOU > WILL BE THERE....WE WOULD HATE TO BE THE ONLY ONES TO SHOW UP..... > > DON & NORMA WILFONG > > > Issued: March 19, 2005 04:19:43 PST (ORZ043) > > Today: Rain likely. Highs 47 to 57. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts > to around 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent. > > Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the evening...then a chance of rain > and snow overnight. Snow level 4000 feet overnight. Lows 35 to 40. South > wind 10 to 20 mph and gusty. Chance of precipitation 60 percent. > > Sunday: Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Breezy. Highs 47 to 53. Southwest > wind 15 to 25 mph. Gusts around 30 mph increasing to 40 mph in the > afternoon. Chance of precipitation 40 percent. > _______________________________________________ Co-opa mailing list Co-opa@rellim.com http://catbert.rellim.com/mailman/listinfo/co-opa From robnash46 at earthlink.net Sat Mar 19 11:48:16 2005 From: robnash46 at earthlink.net (Robert L. Nash) Date: Sat Mar 19 11:49:52 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] other flying group Message-ID: <33568.1111261697322.JavaMail.root@scooter.psp.pas.earthlink.net> That other group is www.pacificnorthwestflyers.com. -----Original Message----- From: Don & Norma Sent: Mar 19, 2005 7:00 AM To: CO-OPA Cc: Duane and Jean Francis , Matt Verdieck , Valenti , Christen Subject: [Co-opa] NO FLY-OUT....BREAKFAST????? I TRIED TO SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE BUT SINCE I HAD ATTACHED A SATTELITE PICTURE IT WOULD NOT GO THROUGH THE CO-OPA MAIL SITE WITH AN ATTACHMENT....SO....SORRY ABOUT THE MIXUP....BUT....HERE IS THE MAIN PART OF THE MESSAGE.....DON WILFONG......dwnw@bendbroadband.com > HEY GANG..... > > I LOOKED OUT AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE COULD FLY SOMEWHERE LOCAL (LIKE > SUNRIVER)....BUT WITH THE > WEATHER FORECAST (SEE BELOW) NOT SOUNDING VERY GOOD WITH A 70% CHANCE OF > RAIN AND WINDS GUSTING TO > 35 MPH, IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE TOO MUCH FUN.....SO.....LET'S MEET AT THE > BLACK BEAR DINER AT 09:00 HRS. FOR A LITTLE FOOD AND SOME HANGAR > FLYING......P L E A S E....CALL US (DON WILFONG 389-1456) OR E-MAIL US AND > LET US KNOW IF YOU > WILL BE THERE....WE WOULD HATE TO BE THE ONLY ONES TO SHOW UP..... > > DON & NORMA WILFONG > > > Issued: March 19, 2005 04:19:43 PST (ORZ043) > > Today: Rain likely. Highs 47 to 57. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts > to around 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent. > > Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the evening...then a chance of rain > and snow overnight. Snow level 4000 feet overnight. Lows 35 to 40. South > wind 10 to 20 mph and gusty. Chance of precipitation 60 percent. > > Sunday: Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Breezy. Highs 47 to 53. Southwest > wind 15 to 25 mph. Gusts around 30 mph increasing to 40 mph in the > afternoon. Chance of precipitation 40 percent. > _______________________________________________ Co-opa mailing list Co-opa@rellim.com http://catbert.rellim.com/mailman/listinfo/co-opa From robnash46 at earthlink.net Sat Mar 19 11:49:24 2005 From: robnash46 at earthlink.net (Robert L. Nash) Date: Sat Mar 19 11:51:00 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] other flying group - correction Message-ID: <23560989.1111261764475.JavaMail.root@scooter.psp.pas.earthlink.net> That other group is www.pacificnorthwestflying.com. Not flyers, flying. -----Original Message----- From: Don & Norma Sent: Mar 19, 2005 7:00 AM To: CO-OPA Cc: Duane and Jean Francis , Matt Verdieck , Valenti , Christen Subject: [Co-opa] NO FLY-OUT....BREAKFAST????? I TRIED TO SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE BUT SINCE I HAD ATTACHED A SATTELITE PICTURE IT WOULD NOT GO THROUGH THE CO-OPA MAIL SITE WITH AN ATTACHMENT....SO....SORRY ABOUT THE MIXUP....BUT....HERE IS THE MAIN PART OF THE MESSAGE.....DON WILFONG......dwnw@bendbroadband.com > HEY GANG..... > > I LOOKED OUT AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE COULD FLY SOMEWHERE LOCAL (LIKE > SUNRIVER)....BUT WITH THE > WEATHER FORECAST (SEE BELOW) NOT SOUNDING VERY GOOD WITH A 70% CHANCE OF > RAIN AND WINDS GUSTING TO > 35 MPH, IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE TOO MUCH FUN.....SO.....LET'S MEET AT THE > BLACK BEAR DINER AT 09:00 HRS. FOR A LITTLE FOOD AND SOME HANGAR > FLYING......P L E A S E....CALL US (DON WILFONG 389-1456) OR E-MAIL US AND > LET US KNOW IF YOU > WILL BE THERE....WE WOULD HATE TO BE THE ONLY ONES TO SHOW UP..... > > DON & NORMA WILFONG > > > Issued: March 19, 2005 04:19:43 PST (ORZ043) > > Today: Rain likely. Highs 47 to 57. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts > to around 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent. > > Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the evening...then a chance of rain > and snow overnight. Snow level 4000 feet overnight. Lows 35 to 40. South > wind 10 to 20 mph and gusty. Chance of precipitation 60 percent. > > Sunday: Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Breezy. Highs 47 to 53. Southwest > wind 15 to 25 mph. Gusts around 30 mph increasing to 40 mph in the > afternoon. Chance of precipitation 40 percent. > _______________________________________________ Co-opa mailing list Co-opa@rellim.com http://catbert.rellim.com/mailman/listinfo/co-opa From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Sun Mar 20 10:56:24 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Sun Mar 20 11:01:17 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] ADVANCE NOTICE: MAY FLY-OUT Message-ID: <000501c52d7e$83f79fe0$3373dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG....THIS WILL BE OUR SCHEDULED FLY-OUT FOR THE MONTH OF MAY....PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDAR..... YOU CAN GO ON LINE FOR MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE EVENT. DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com 541 389-1456 *************************************************** May 21-22, 2005 Fly2Fun An Aviation Tourism Event Linn County Fair & Expo Albany, Oregon (S12) Speakers: Rod Machado & Bill Lishman. Gwen Graham 503-381- 0997 or Fly2FunEvent @aol.com. www.Fly2Fun.org ************************************************************ From mvbond at myexcel.com Mon Apr 18 12:45:45 2005 From: mvbond at myexcel.com (mvbond) Date: Mon Apr 18 12:46:18 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] APRIL 2005 COOPA NEWSLETTER Message-ID: <42640E69.6070507@myexcel.com> Here is the text version of your Newsletter. Gary has posted the PDF version on the COOPA website. Mike Bond CASCADE FLYER April 2005, Vol. 05, Issue 4 Website: http://co-opa.rellim.com/ PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE This month's speaker is Jim Hardie. Jim flew the North American Bronco (OV-10) in the Viet Nam War. I have heard Jim's talk is not to be missed. The plane was not familiar to me, so I looked it up on the web. The OV-10 is a twin turboprop STOL craft used for a number of different missions including Forward Air Control (FAC) and ground attack. The OV-10 looks a bit like the midget offspring of a P-31 and a Turbo Twin Commander. Here are two good web sites on the plane: http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/modern_flight/mf48.htm http://www.ov-10bronco.net/techspecs-ov10a.cfm Don Wilfong had some great movies and stories to share with us last month on his trips to Oshkosh. We need to thank Don for sharing these great experiences with us. After Don's talk we shared some other stories and had an update on the status of the MHCC program at the airport. The Bend branch of the MHCC turned a surplus, but when MHCC decided to cancel their entire Aviation program our branch also got the Axe. There is hope yet. COCC has realized what an asset they have and is looking to pick up the program for next year. Let's keep our fingers crossed for the fate of this program. Planning is progressing on the "Bend Municipal Airport Aviation Day". This year it is a joint effort between the EAA and the CO-OPA. Ross Morrison is co-chair with David Sailors for the event. Their efforts have landed Air Life, Oxford Suites and The Flight Shop as major sponsors for the event. The planning committee has been meeting at around 4pm on Tuesdays in the Pilots Lounge ... drop by if you have any ideas for this year. The team has done a great job lining up planes for the show. The popular USCG Dolphin helicopter will be back and this year a Huey will also be here. Mark June 11th on your calendar and tell all your friends to drop by. If you have any ideas for speakers, or presentation topics, please forward them to me. Calendar: 21 April - Monthly Meeting 23 April - Monthly Flyout 19 May - Monthly Meeting 21 May - Monthly Flyout 11 June - Flying Festival at Bend Airport 16 June - Monthly Meeting 18 June - Monthly Flyout 25 June - Medford Air Festival 21 July - Monthly Meeting 23 July - Monthly Flyout Web doings: As always, the CO-OPA website contains recent newsletters and other goodies. http://co-opa.rellim.com To access the members only areas the username is "S07" and the password is "123.0". New this month is a copy of the flyer for the upcoming Aviation Day. My Inbox: Several of our members alerted me to some very scary things happening in Salem. OR House Bill 3254 is something that should get all of us riled up enough to call our State Lawmakers and give them an earful. It already has 10 sponsors so there are plenty of legislators to complain to. This bill imposes a "luxury tax" on the sale of "Luxury Items". Those are defined as: all airplanes, all gliders, all kitplanes, all hang gliders, all sightseeing and recreational flights, all parachutes, and much, much, more. The exact amount of the tax is to be determined, but even if it is zero it is horrifying to think of things like parachutes and planes being defined as luxuries. If your blood pressure can handle it then check out a draft copy of the bill here: http://www.leg.state.or.us/05reg/measpdf/hb3200.dir/hb3254.intro.pdf Random Thoughts: I have been working on a GPS project and have been rudely educated in some details about altitude that never seemed important to me before. As pilots altitude can be very important, if only to prevent a scolding from center. When you look at your GPS altitude, do you know what type of altitude it is? As pilots, we are concerned with height above a mythical "Mean Sea Level" (MSL). That is the altitude that we be seeing on our charts and our altimeter. We'll skip the topic of altimeter error and stick with GPS issues. Your GPS does it's fancy math to find your position relative to the center of the earth. Then, using the calculated latitude and longitude it calculates the height of the theoretical Sea Level over the center of the earth. That is subtracted from the calculated distance to the center of the earth to give your altitude. The problem is that there are a large number of ways to calculate this "Sea Level". The method the FAA uses is called MSL. US Forest Service Maps use the "National American Datum of 1924" (NAD). The USGS uses 23 different datums. Many newer maps and GPS use "World Geodetic System 1984" (WGS84). The difference between two methods of calculating the height of the surface of the earth is called the "geoidal separation". In Bend the geoidal separation between MSL and WGS84 is 65 feet. Fullerton CA has a separation from MSL to WGS84 of 100 feet. In some places the separation between the NAD and WGS84 can be as much as 660 feet. The African ARC-50 can vary from WGS50 by 971 feet! 971 feet is clearly a significant error to a pilot. If you are using a map of unknown datum to find the altitude of a ridge top or airport you can be WAY off. So be careful when using non-FAA charts, but the problem does not end with the chart datum. Pretty much all of us have a GPS or two. Some of them are intended for pilots and will provide altitude by default in MSL. Those GPS are likely giving you the altitude that you expect. Many of us also have the low cost consumer GPS. Those are likely giving you altitude in a different datum than MSL. Most of the inexpensive Garmin GPS allow you to select from over 100 different datums! They commonly default to WGS84 or NAD. To 'ground pounders' the current altitude is just a fun fact. To pilots it is much more important. If you are using your GPS for altitude then be sure it is giving you MSL and not some other datum. Regards, GARY March 2005... March was a fairly uneventful month as far as fly-outs were concerned. Plans were made to fly to Lewiston, Idaho. All arrangements were made for ground transportation to breakfast, an old B-17 airport, a museum and other things that time might have permitted.... My long time friends Fred & Wanda (he and I went through High School together) had their beautiful large motor home all ready to go to provide the transport for our group. Well the weather turned sour and we didn't fly anywhere, instead we met at the Black Bear Diner and enjoyed some "Hangar Flying" along with our breakfast... fun but it sure doesn't take the place of flying somewhere. One sunny day shortly thereafter (it was too nice to be ground bound) we called Bob and Nancy Lecklider and invited them to fly to Pacific City with us. We had a great time, a good breakfast, and got to look at a whole bunch of RVs that flew in while we were there. The entire parking area was full and over flowing. There were several models, some with tail wheels and some with training wheels (like our Skylane)....I still love tail wheel planes. As we headed back to Central Oregon the weather clobbered up a bit over the Cascades and they were reporting moderate to severe turbulence over the mountains...We flew quite a bit North of Mt. Jefferson where the hills dip down and proceeded at a reduced speed waiting for the turbulence .... well we encountered some turbulence as we approached the mountain crest but nothing of any severity at all....visibility was very good so we could have turned around easily if we had started to run into any really bumpy weather. We proceeded on to Prineville so Bob and Nancy could pick up their plane and then on home. The "Spur of the Moment Fly-outs" are always a lot of fun...partly because they are unscheduled and just happen because the weather is beautiful.... I always try to call some of you to go along and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't... Don Wilfong April 2005 FLYOUT... As I sit here at my keyboard while looking out the window at the snow coming down and about and inch of snow on the car parked outside..... I begin to wonder when will our flying weather get here so we can somewhat depend on it ????? Two days ago it was 74 degrees and sun shining and today we are getting winter snows again... It all makes one wonder if we will be able to complete a scheduled fly-out or not.... I need to make plans anyway and schedule something .... Fred says "Bring 'em on" he has their motor home all ready to go.....so weather permitting we will again plan to head for Lewiston, Idaho on our regular fly-out day (the first Sat. after our meeting/potluck which is on the 3rd Thurs. of the month). The fly-out date will be April 23. The place to meet will be at the Flight Shop and the time to meet will be e-mailed to everyone when it is decided .... It is about a 2 hour flight so we should try to get out of here before it is very late, if we want to have time to do anything on the other end. Don Wilfong dwnw@bendbroadband.com My first PIC flight By Ed Endsley As a newly anointed pilot in 1965 I loaded up a Cessna 150 with a student pilot friend and headed for the High Sierras. Just a few days before I had given the examiner a noteworthy ride and I think he signed my license just so he wouldn't have to ride with me again. He had several suggestions for my future operations that he thought might prolong the service life of the aircraft. So on this typical central valley morning we blasted off via special VFR and headed into the mountains, taking off and climbing on course until big rocks appeared in the windscreen. The entire Sierra slope west of Yosemite is a series of box canyons that morph into the next higher box canyon and so forth. I think I got the right canyon. The chart indicated a strip of some sort but all I saw was a ranch access road that was more or less straight if somewhat short and surrounded by 100' trees and granite. My passenger wasn't as sure. I wasn't worried about the length. I had landed in many farm fields that were too short to get out of gracefully. I had practiced some interesting circling departures and other unique techniques like hopping over fences with the help of flaps to continue the run on the other side, and diving under the wires when it became apparent that I wouldn't get over them. Oh, the confidence of youth. When I've told these stories to people they've used some other interesting descriptive words. So in we went. Definitely a one-way, one shot deal. I'd gone up the canyon kind of high and was very aware of those steep granite walls and how tight a turn I had to make to stay off them. I don't know why it didn't occur to me to go back down the canyon and turn back to the strip. I chose to spiral down in a 45_ bank and straighten out on short final just over the trees with full flaps and stall horn. My low time passenger was making weird whimpering noises and as we slid by the last trees I heard a gasp and breaking wind. The landing was a piece of cake although directional control was a little dicey on rollout given how deep the ruts were. I think I trimmed the grass pretty low on the hump in the middle. I've gotta say the 150 is a plucky machine. There didn't seem to be anyone around so after a short saunter about the surroundings it seemed like performing a short field departure was next. My passenger certainly wanted out of there ... wasn't sure flying was his preferred method of leaving ... but his choices were somewhat limited. The departure run was exciting. The first part of the run was more bouncing than bounding. It was hard to tell if we were accelerating or just turning up the agitation control. Finally one of those bounces resulted in something resembling airborne so we had a better view of the approaching trees. Best angle of climb seemed like it would be pretty close so a crosswind turn at about 50' gave us the time we needed to pull on out. While skimming along in the treetops I think I heard a sigh from the right seat. Next time I'll tell you about how I taught myself to spin AND recover in a Cessna 150. MAY 2005 FLYOUT May 21-22, 2005 Fly2Fun An Aviation Tourism Event Linn County Fair & Expo, Albany, Oregon (S12) Speakers: Rod Machado & Bill Lishman. Gwen Graham 503-381- 0997 Fly2FunEvent @aol.com. or http://www.fly2fun.org/ As you can see, this is a two day event...I will check out to see if there is overnight camping or what accommodations will be available should any of our group want to go for both days. This sounds like a fun event .... and we might learn about some neat places to fly in Oregon. You can learn more by going to their web site.... Don Wilfong dwnw@bendbroadband.com Dale Evans is at home, recovering from his surgery and expects to be as good as new. He is waiting for his doctor to tell him he can resume "normal activities" ... which will include flying JUNE OR JULY FLY-OUT.... A date has not been picked for the several day fly-out to Johnson Creek, Idaho (3U2) for camping with fly-outs to other of Idaho's great back country airports for breakfast. The camp-out will be for 3 or 4 nights with people being able to come and go as their time permits. We hope some are able to be there for the whole time but realize some will only be able to be there part of the time. The plan is to camp at Johnson Creek which has beautiful grass areas to pitch your tent right next to your plane, they also have picnic tables, restrooms, hot showers, courtesy cars (nominal fee), to go into Yellow Pine. Yellow Pine is an old mining town an has neat places to eat and other exciting things to do and see. We can even show you a neat place to go swimming, so be sure and bring your bathing suit...or.... you don't have to bring one...we promise to look the other way... These are all high altitude airports so extra care should be given to density altitude...it is always a good idea to be on the ground by noon when flying in the mountains. We are not going to pick any really challenging places to fly into. Some suggested places we might want to consider going are: Big Creek (U60), Sulphur Creek (ID74), Smiley Creek (U87) and Warren (3U1). I have been to all except Warren. These are all a short flight from McCall where you can get fuel so you don't have to go in with full tanks. We usually invite someone to go on fly-outs with us... but.... when going into the backcountry and we have our camping gear on board...we will not plan to take anyone with us.... I don't mean to imply that these are scary places to fly to ... but ... it is always better to consider everything your and your planes capabilities, your loading, density altitude, weather and more.... You still have time to order Galen Hanselman's "Fly Idaho" book it is "A guide to Adventure in the Idaho Backcountry" You will really enjoy having this book as it shows pictures and a lot of important info on Idaho's great backcountry airports. It is a very valuable tool if you plan to go into the backcountry at all. Contact me for info on how to order.... The picture off the web-cam shows that (at present) the snow is gone from the runway... but of course, like Bend, they may have more snow fall and change that.... We will make a decision as to when the Johnson Creek Fly-out can be scheduled....It may or may not correspond with our regular fly-out dates....We want to wait until we feel we can depend on the weather and for it to be warm enough to camp comfortably.... Watch for more to come on when the fly-out to Idaho's Backcountry will be.... BUSH PILOT You are a South African bush pilot. You fly in some critical medical supplies, enjoy a quick lunch at the hospital. It's a stifling 100 degrees in the shade and you're eager to get back up to the cool, high blue yonder. On the way back to your plane, you discover that the only bit of shade within 10 miles has become very popular. You start calculating the distance to the plane door... and wonder.... [Gotta see the photo!] "Do I feel lucky today?" CO-OPA SAFETY CORNER: By Joel Premselaar This is a modified COOPA "Hangar Flying" piece from way back in time. For you "new comers" in COOPA, it may be new. However, it's worth repeating for you forgetful "old timers" (admit it, some of you are really getting old {the writer is an exception; I'm in my second childhood!}). Spring is here. O.K., don't believe me. Will you believe the calendar? Ah well, I don't blame you; after all, this is Central Oregon. With winter's passing, the urge to fly is overwhelming. "Haste makes waste." I don't know who said that first and I don't care. The words are "right on." Before attempting to defy gravity, preflight your flying machine as though your life depends upon it 'cause it does. All sorts of critters seek shelter during the winter. Your aircraft may have become a hotel with running water and ice cubes for them. Make like a hotel detective and open everything. Clean out all of the undesirable tenants. Hint: I keep a box of tissues handy for the furry tenants. When I see shredded tissues, I transform into a terminator. I do not use traps arbitrarily ... the bait only invites them aboard. The second mouse gets the cheese and then raises a family that nestles in upholstery, whose urine consumes aluminum, then dines on electrical insulation and many other forbidden fruits. A galvanized metal shield surrounds each wheel to discourage field mice from entering the plane via the landing gear. My $20.00 electronic ultrasonic sound generator with frequency agility is very effective in keeping all kinds of critters, rodents, birds, and insects out of my aerial steed. Tires go soft. Foreign matter finds its way into openings. All surfaces are hidden beneath a coating of nasty nasties. The engine compartment houses detritus, home building material brought in by our friendly fine-feathered flyers and their excretions. Some unprotected areas display evidence of the ravages of weather. Bearings of movable parts scream for the want of an anointment to celebrate the Sacred Rite of Spring. As a consequence of winter, your battery may have lost a significant part or all of its charge. "No big deal, I'm a take-charge guy," (pun intended) you say. "I'll just hand prop the eager bird and we'll be in the air in no time." As an aside, never turn a prop opposite to its normal direction of rotation 'cause that action will break off the sharp edges of carbon brushes against any commutators on board; also, on some engines, notably the Continental TSIO-360, you can damage its starter adapter. Besides, impulse coupling will not "click" if the prop is turned opposite to its normal rotation. Even if you dare to hand prop, you have to know whether you can start it with a dead battery. So, when you turn the prop you must hear the impulse coupling go "click." No click, no impulse coupling, no start. No impulse coupling means the engine is equipped with a shower of sparks ignition system and with a dead battery, no sparks, no start. Ignore this and you'll have hernias up with which to deal (forgive my plagiarism Winston!). As spring progresses, the birds and the bees do a lot more than what your parents told you about when you reached puberty. They, I mean the birds and the bees, have a mandate that translates into: - "fill all cavities with nesting materials." Protect your aerial steed against the invaders! Anyone who has seen my Bonanza parked will testify that it appears to be held together with a red ribbon. What they really saw was a machine with its critical holes covered, especially if one of them is for a relief tube! The covers are linked with red ribbons because I might experience a senior moment and forget to remove one. Even the engine is protected. Birds like engines; mud dabbers prefer fuel vents. Fuel tanks denied access to air in flight gives cause for Mother Earth to rise up and smite thee heartily. You already knew that... Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it Also... Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there. From gem at rellim.com Fri Apr 22 20:15:28 2005 From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller) Date: Fri Apr 22 20:15:43 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Sat Fly-Out Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yo All! I just got off the phone with Don Wilfong our fly-out chair. He talkd to McMinnville FSS earlier today. It still looks like the weather could go either way for our Saturday Flyout. No matter what, let's meet at the FLight Services building at 8:30 am. If the weather looks bad maybe we can go somewhere closer, maybe as close as Palmers Cafe on Greenwood. Hope to see a lot of your there in the morning. RGDS GARY - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Blvd, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 gem@rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCab3T8KZibdeR3qURAlsqAKC1mrDUmOoIjIMJ8u+Ubo3xGoIqZgCdHxKN bAYI6rUzl5AYnGB5gH2Er2E= =OxBk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri May 6 10:09:05 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri May 6 10:08:30 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Fw: Aviation Truisms Message-ID: <000a01c5525e$4efc7ae0$857cdc42@bendcable.com> > You have probably seen these; they have been around before, but I defy > you to read them again without laughing out loud at least once. ...dw > > The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire. > > Blue water Navy truism: There are more planes in the ocean than > submarines in the sky. (From an old carrier sailor) > > If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a > helicopter - and therefore, unsafe. > > When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane, you always have enough > power left to get you to the scene of the crash. > > Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another expensive flying club. > > What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a > pilot screws up, the pilot dies. If ATC screws up....the pilot dies. > > Never trade luck for skill. > > The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in aviation > are: "Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?" and "Oh S...!" > > Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers. > > Progress in airline flying; now a flight attendant can get a pilot > pregnant. > > Airspeed, altitude and brains -- Two are always needed to successfully > complete the flight. > > A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all luck; three in a > row is prevarication. > > I remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous. > > Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there! > > Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag for the > purpose of storing dead batteries. > > Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a > person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it. > > When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten. > > Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be > held on a sunny day. > > Advice given to RAF pilots during WWII: "When a prang (crash) seems > inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest object in the > vicinity as slowly and gently as possible." > > The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely > kill you. (Attributed to Max Stanley, Northrop test pilot) > > A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to > its maximum. (Jon McBride, astronaut) > > If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the > crash as possible. Bob Hoover -renowned aerobatic and test pilot. > > Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you. > > There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime. > > (Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970). If > something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to. > > Basic Flying Rules: Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go > near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the > appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees, and interstellar space. It > is much more difficult to fly there. > > You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full > power to taxi to the terminal. > > "Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. The bombs are > guaranteed to always hit the ground." - USAF Ammo Troop > > "It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just > bombed." - U.S. Air Force Manual > > As the test pilot climbs out of the experimental aircraft, having torn > off the wings and tail in the crash landing, the crash truck arrives, > the rescuer sees a bloodied pilot and asks, "What happened?" The > pilot's reply: "I don't know, I just got here myself!" [Attributed to > Ray Crandell, Lockheed Test Pilot] > > From mvbond at myexcel.com Sun May 15 15:23:04 2005 From: mvbond at myexcel.com (mvbond) Date: Sun May 15 21:33:13 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Bend aviation auction Message-ID: <4287CBC8.60007@myexcel.com> For those not going on next weekend's flyout, or if the weather does not cooperate, there is an auction of aviation tools/parts at Bend Muni on May 21st. Mike Bond -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Raplee Inventory.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 61490 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20050515/4138d4b3/RapleeInventory-0001.pdf From mvbond at myexcel.com Tue May 17 03:50:46 2005 From: mvbond at myexcel.com (mvbond) Date: Tue May 17 03:50:35 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] COOPA May newsletter Message-ID: <4289CC86.7020305@myexcel.com> Here is the text version of your Newsletter. Gary has posted the PDF version on the COOPA website. Mike Bond ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CASCADE FLYER May 2005, Vol. 05, Issue 5 Website: http://co-opa.rellim.com/ PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Our next speaker was suggested by two of our members and happily he has accepted the challenge. Dale Evans is our speaker this month. Between growing up and Bend and retiring in Bend Dale actually had a career in Alaska flying airplanes for the government. Dale has photos and stories of his days as a working pilot up North to prove it and they are not to be missed. Also on the program will be a short discussion of the upcoming "Bend Municipal Airport - Aviation Day" to be held June 11. This years' Co-Chairs David Sailors and Ross Morrison have done a great job lining up participants and donors for this years to-do. There will be a lot to see this year so be sure to save room on your calendar for this event. We also need all the pilots we can get to show up and just keep their eyes open for potential trouble. Any time you mix the general public and airplanes it is good to be extra watchful for potential problems and make sure they never happen. Copies of this year's flyer are on the web: http://co-opa.rellim.com/oh/AviationDay2005.pdf Jim Hardie was last month's speaker and kept the audience in thrall the whole evening. Listening to Jim was an eye opener for me. I knew about the Brown Water Navy in Vietnam, but never knew about the land based Naval Aviators that supported them. Most surprising to me was that Jim preferred a lightly armored plane to a heavily armored one. He claimed that ground fire would just sail through a lightly armored plane, usually in a harmless manner. When ground fire hit a heavily armored plane it would create shrapnel that would bounce around the inside breaking important airplane systems. Once again, any and all suggestions for speakers are welcome. Please contact me with your ideas. Calendar: 21 April - Monthly Meetime 23 April - Monthly Flyout 19 May - Monthly Meeting 21 May - Monthly Flyout 11 June - Flying Festival at Bend Airport 16 June - Monthly Meeting 18 June - Monthly Flyout 25 June - Medford Air Festival 21 Jyly - Monthly Meeting 23 July - Monthly Flyout Web doings: As always, the CO-OPA website contains recent newsletters and other goodies. http://co-opa.rellim.com/ To access the members only areas the username is "S07" and the password is "123.0". My Inbox: This month's flyout, if the weather gods permit, will be to Fly2fun at on the Albany Airport. The weather has been unusually unfriendly lately and we need things to start going our way. Albany Airport has great convention facilities right on the airport and even runs a shuttle from the transient parking direct to the convention door. The OPA will have a booth at the event and is looking for help staffing the booth. So we have been asked that if anyone has the time Saturday or Sunday to stop by the booth and help out for an hour or two. This is a great way to meet fellow OPA member in other chapters and see how the public sees the state of aviation in Oregon. Random Thoughts: For such a small place the Bend Airport sure packs in a lot of different things. Airports are not really a single community but a large number of separate and parallel communities. It is only at an event like the upcoming Aviation Day that most of us ever get a peek at the other communities besides our own. Many wonderful people and aircraft are behind the hanger doors. Here is a quick rundown on some of what you will be able to see at the event. There will be the OPA and EAA groups and their aircraft, but that is just the start. The High Desert Soaring club will be doing a water drop. If weather permits, several hot air balloons will inflate for us all to see. Air Life will be showing off their fixed and rotary wing air ambulances. The locally based Baney Corporation will have their Citation Jet out. The High Desert Flyers promise one hundred model aircraft on display and in flight. We will even have exotic local aircraft including a gyrocopter and powered parachutes. Our Airport will also get outside help to celebrate. Scheduled to appear are helicopters from both the U.S. Army and the U.S. Coast Guard. If there are no fires that day we can expect the U.S. Forest Service to drop by with their Sherpa and a few of the smoke jumpers it normally carries. There will also be everything from vintage aircraft to some of the most modern glass cockpit aircraft flying in for display. Of course what air show can be complete without a pancake breakfast! The Prineville EAA will fire up the grill at 7:30 amd so bring your appetite early. Hope to see you all there bright an early June 11. Tell your friends and let's all have a great day at the airport. ........... Regards, GARY April FLYOUT... ... or APRIL SHOWERS !!! For the second month in a row we were ready to fly to Lewiston, Idaho for our monthly fly-out.. but.. for the second month in a row it was stormy weather and we had to cancel... Our friends Fred and Wanda were all ready with their Motor Home to pick us up and drive us to eat and to some fun places.... Gary Miller, Mike and Ann Bond and Don and Norma Wilfong showed up for the Fly-out and the decision was made to go to the new Jake's and give them a try.. We ate until we couldn't hold anymore (that is not hard to do at Jake's as the portions are large) and had an enjoyable time hangar flying and solving the world's problems. One of these times we may actually have weather suitable for a fly-out...we can always hope... Don Wilfong dwnw@bendbroadband.com FAA Safety meeting "Operational Risk Management" Topic: Safety issues related to Safe Surface Operations May 25, 2005 at 7:00 PM, Central Oregon Community College, 2600 NW College Way, Bend, OR 97701 A Special Wings Program presented by the Regional Runway Safety Manager, Mr. Max Tidwell to address Operational Risk Management. Representatives from Eugene and Redmond Air Traffic Control Towers will be on hand for open discussion of your concerns and runway safety issues. "IT WAS TOUCH AND GO" By Ed Endsley Do you remember our windy March? Well, in the interest of remaining current I picked a calm looking morning the last week in March to go fly some touch and goes. As I drove into town the snow clouds were reaching out to me and the big flag by Pilot Butte was standing straight out... Hmmm. It's probably just the Bernoulli effect by the butte. As I arrived at the Bend Muni I walked out on the tarmac and felt the wind for awhile. Yep, direct crosswind gusting out of the west. This is going to be a great training flight. I tried to remember what wind speeds caused socks to stand straight out and flap loudly. To my apprehensive eye it looked like about 12-18 with gusts about ten times that... But since I was on the field I thought I might as well preflight and see what happened. The old 172 was enthusiastically pulling at it's tiedown chains and looking like it was raring to go. Did I mention it was cold? I was shaking so bad it was hard to critically analyze the fuel samples. I was cold, OK, OK, maybe I was a little nervous. Hoping it would be warmer inside I hurried to the cockpit. Wisely setting the brakes before undoing the tiedowns. I was showing signs of making good decisions. Sitting quietly at the controls I gathered my wits, at least as many wits as I had left and as quietly as could be done in a plane that was rocking and rolling with the air vents whistling in the wind. It occurred to me that it was time to just go do that pilot stuff. This should be fun, ah, challenging. Well, you know, I made touch and goes that were some of my best demonstrations of crosswind technique. It felt good. Alarming maybe, to see a 30? crab angle on final change to a 30? banking horizon in slip attitude for touch down, but it worked just like it's advertised. Too bad it wasn't a BFR ride. I would have looked good. Yes it was gusty and it was a real joy ride but the center line behaved pretty well and my touchdown points didn't get up and run away in anticipation of my arrival. The best part was I really enjoyed the whole thing. However, I was disappointed that there wasn't an enthusiastic applauding crowd on the apron welcoming me back as I taxied in. Oh, I forgot to tell you about the blasting operation on the departure end or one six. There seemed to be crews drilling and blasting. The drillers had great red and white checkered flags up on top of their rigs that just happened to be right at the end of the runway. That was pretty cool to aim at. The NOTAM was vague. Like when do the explosions happen? The Flight Shop said they had been pretty good about calling before setting off the charges and then they would make a general radio call on 123.0... I was acutely aware that the 172 has no belly armor. I decided if I buzzed them low enough they would at least know I was there. All the better to ride the shock wave. Nyaa, nyaa. Full throttle. Next time I'll tell you about my signature maneuver, a base to final roll to inverted then an outside loop with a one and a half twist on short final to flare and touch down. It's a real crowd pleaser. CRUISING AT 16,000 By David Dressler Just a quick report on our trip to L18 (Fallbrook, CA). We left on the 10th IFR to FAT with a 30K tail wind. Took us under 4 hours at 13,000'. The left brake was way too spongy so after thinking for 4 hours I decided to correct it upon landing at FAT. It took about and hour and a half to find a mechanic willing to come out on Sunday but after a $100 bill and another hour we were off with good brakes for the 2,100 foot runway. Had a great wedding in Laguna Beach - usual Hawaiian music, family, etc and left Saturday for Kona - our old home. Took over Hugho's On The Rocks with a little reception party and stayed at our favorite beach (Beach 69, 40 miles north of Kona). Returned to SNA after 6 days of fun and sun. Left L18 for home on Monday IFR with another stop in FAT for more fuel. Smooth ride at 10,000 on top with about a 15K head wind. Filled the tanks and got within 200 lbs of max weight (lots of presents....) but still made it to our 16,000' MEA. Again, smooth ride with about a 5K headwind on top of overcast to broken layer about 4-5,000 feet below us. Interesting, I filed via V165 but asked for direct about 30 miles north of Fresno. The female controller asked my equipment - sure was tempted to say /G but couldn't. She then asked what heading I would expect and after I gave her 325* she gave me vectors to Bend. Worked great and saved me about a half hour of VOR passages. We got over Bend at 9,000 looking for holes (after 6.5 hours of flying that day I was ready to get the wheels on the ground) but resigned to asking for the VOR/DME approach. Just got the heading dialed in and saw a nice long hole to dump the cardinal into. We both enjoyed the flight and were glad to be home. We're both looking forward to seeing everyone again. It's been a long time since we were able to hook up. Hope you guys have been able to get out some. David CO-OPA SAFETY CORNER: By Joel Premselaar In previous issues, we discussed means for continuing flight after overwhelming Gremlins messing with our flight controls. Failing to succeed, the rascals invaded that smoke belching noisy apparatus - - the internal combustion power plant (yeah, there are ways to protect turbine engines too). There's an old anecdote that states, "Even if the cockpit temperature is close to absolute zero, pilots will sweat profusely when the fan quits". Well, with a thing called knowledge, we can frustrate those troublesome Gremlins. From before engine start through shut down, one must afford the engine a great deal of TLC and be attuned to the signals an engine will send regarding its state of being. Care begins in the cockpit preflight. Assure yourself that the magneto switch(es are) is off and the keys are jingling the coins your pocket. I open the engine compartment before flight - - Bonanza cowling fasteners makes this a relatively easy task. For the life of me, I don't understand why most G.A. aircraft require a can opener to access the engine bay. I lost count of the number of pilots I've seen take but a cursory peak-a- boo look through the tiny oil filler's access door to inspect the engine. Over the years I found enough potentially dangerous discrepancies to convince me to continue to conduct a thorough pre-flight inspection of the engine compartment. The shake, rattle, roll, and heat that's generated in that locale is a hostile environment for the variety of materials housed within. Oil leaks, fatigued metals, cracked exhaust stacks, deteriorated insulation of all sorts, loose connections, blah, blah, blah to the lazy 8; i.e., infinity. You get the message. When did you last check the muffler cones or the oil cooler's grill? Are belts to alternator/generator or whatever in good condition and are they too loose, too tight? Belts that are too tight will destroy bearings. If you feel the need to pull the prop thru on a rented aircraft, how can you tell if the previous pilot checked "P" lead integrity before shutting down? If everything is O.K. and you do pull the prop through I suggest you listen as you approach the compression stage of each cylinder. If the mag is equipped with inertia couplings, you'll want to hear the click. Pause at each compression phase and listen closely. I've detected the hiss of a cracked cylinder on two occasions. Incidentally, pulling the prop through on round engines is standard technique ensure that a hydraulic lock will not occur during start-up. The lower cylinders of round engine tend to accumulate oil (even fuel because of a bad engine shutdown procedure) that restricts the piston from reaching top dead center. A hydraulic lock? Think $$$$$$$!! Anticipating your question the answer is, "Yes!" A hydraulic lock can happen on horizontally opposed cylinder engines. If you feel like flinging $$$ down the drain, over prime the engine big time and then try to start it. Have you ever witnessed an aircraft sitting on the taxiway with a dead engine? Well if you don't lean out the engine, especially if you were taxiing down wind or down hill in idle, you too may experience that foolish feeling of sitting on the taxiway or on the runway finishing a rollout with a dead engine. Very rich is the normal idle setting for engines. The plugs will become fouled and if you do get started again, you'll have to burn out the engine to clear the plugs. If, upon checking mags you get a large drop, burn out the engine by setting a high rpm and lean aggressively. If after a few such exercises you fail to succeed, return to the parking area for maintenance - - something serious may be the cause. Oh yeah, while on the subject of leaning, I must assume that you lean to maximum power before taking off in a low-density atmospheric environment. Back to the subject of pre-flight turn-up. I've watched pilots deep cycle their prop. This practice can damage the engine. You may exceed the engine's brake mean effective pressure (BMEP) limits thereby inflicting severe structural failure; e.g., bent connecting rods. High BMEP occurs when very low rpm is coupled with very high manifold pressure. Several aircraft I've flown had a BMEP gauge; it can be a great asset. Monitoring the BMEP gauge, the pilot can obtain a significant saving of fuel by lowering the rpm while increasing the manifold pressure to the prescribed BMEP limits. The main purpose for exercising the prop is to purge the oil in the dome and replace it with fresh, warm, and clean oil that is free of air bubbles. This action also clears the prop dome of sludge and air bubbles. The recommended method for cycling the prop is to bring the prop control all the way back and then forward as soon as you see a 200 rpm drop for a warm engine or a 400 rpm drop for a cold engine. You may have to wait a long time for the prop's response when the engine is cold. Repeat this action at least four or five times for best results (sounds like a doctor's instruction for taking medicine, huh). For you old timers in the know: Dit Dah Dit Dah Dit MAY 2005 FLYOUT May 21-22, 2005 Fly2Fun An Aviation Tourism Event Linn County Fair & Expo at Albany, Oregon (S12) Speakers: Rod Machado & Bill Lishman. Gwen Graham 503-381- 0997 or Fly2FunEvent @aol.com. www.Fly2Fun.org As you can see this is a two day event...I will check to see if there is overnight camping or what accommodations will be available should any of our group want to go for both days. This sounds like a fun event....and we might learn about some neat places to fly in Oregon... Don Wilfong dwnw@bendbroadband.com From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri May 20 13:36:54 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri May 20 13:36:14 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT TOMORROW AND/OR SUNDAY Message-ID: <001901c55d7b$a98a4960$857cdc42@bendcable.com> CO-OPA MEMBERS.....THE FLY-OUT FOR MAY IS SCHEDULED FOR THIS WEEK-END.... SEE DETAILS BELOW....AND SEE WEATHER FORECAST BELOW....MAYBE WE WILL GET TO GO SOMEWHERE THIS MONTH........ OUR PLAN.....MEET AT SOUTH END OF BEND AIRPORT AT 08:00 WHERE THE EAA GUYS FROM 617 WILL BE PUTTING ON A PANCAKE (AND MORE) BREAKFAST... HAVE BREAKFAST AND THEN FLY ON TO ALBANY ABOUT 09:00 +/- FOR THE DAY... IT IS A TWO DAY EVENT SO YOU COULD STAY OVER IF YOU DESIRE..... IF THE WEATHER IS NOT SUITABLE FOR FLYING TO ALBANY SAT....WE COULD ALL JUST HAVE BREAKFAST, AND TRY FOR ALBANY ON SUN.... IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE BREAKFAST AT 08:00 SAT..BUT...YOU WANT TO JOIN THE GROUP TO FLY TO ALBANY.....WE PLAN TO MEET AT 09:00 +/- AT THE FLIGHT SHOP TO DEPART FOR ALBANY. ************************************* May 21-22, 2005 Fly2Fun An Aviation Tourism Event Linn County Fair & Expo Albany, Oregon (S12) Speakers: Rod Machado & Bill Lishman. Gwen Graham 503-381- 0997 or www.aviationtourism.org NOTE: THEY WILL PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION FROM PARKING TO THE EVENT BUILDING....CAMPING OVERNIGHT IS APPROVED AND THERE WILL BE PORTA POTTY FACILITIES IN THE PARKING/CAMPING AREA..... ************************************ Hazardous Weather Outlook For: Central Oregon Issued: May 20, 2005 12:23:06 PDT Rest of today: Numerous showers and isolated thunderstorms. Highs 58 to 64. West wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent. Tonight: Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 31 to 36. West wind 5 to 15 mph in the evening becoming light. Chance of precipitation 20 percent. Saturday: Mostly sunny. Highs 66 to 71. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph shifting to the southwest with higher gusts in the afternoon. Saturday night: Partly cloudy. Lows 38 to 43 light wind.. Sunday: Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers. Highs 71 to 76. Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent. ********************************** For: South Willamette Valley ...including cities of Eugene, Springfield, Albany, Corvallis and Lebanon Issued: May 20, 2005 09:38:43 PDT Today: Showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs around 60. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Tonight: Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the evening.. Then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows 40 to 45 light wind.. Saturday: Partly sunny. Highs 65 to 70 light wind.. Saturday night: Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows around 50. West wind 5 to 10 mph shifting to the south after midnight. Sunday: Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs around 70. West wind 5 to 10 mph. From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri May 20 14:06:48 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri May 20 14:06:02 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] MEMBERSHIP DUES Message-ID: <000901c55d7f$d6ccc160$857cdc42@bendcable.com> MAY 20, 2005 CO-OPA MEMBERS: A CALL TO ACTION..... WE CURRENTLY SHOW 58 PEOPLE ON OUR MEMBERSHIP LIST... LESS THAN 1/2 HAVE PAID THEIR 2005 DUES... THESE DUES ARE ONLY $10.00 PER YEAR.... THEY WERE DUE JAN. 1, 2005.... WE WOULD LIKE TO KEEP YOU ALL AS MEMBERS.... SO.......PLEASE GO ON THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE, PUT IN THE USER NAME (S07), THE PASSWORD (123.0) AND THEN CLICK ON "MEMBERS LIST" TO SEE IF WE SHOW YOU AS HAVING PAID.... OR CALL ME..... DON WILFONG 389-1456 AND I WILL TELL YOU IF WE SHOW YOU AS PAID OR NOT...... http://co-opa.rellim.com/ To access the members only areas the username is "S07" and the password is "123.0". IF YOU HAVE NOT.....PLEASE.....SEND YOUR $10.00 (PAYABLE TO CO-OPA) TO OUR SEC. TREAS. DAVID SAILORS AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS CO-OPA c/o DAVID SAILORS 64154 Pioneer Loop Bend, OR 97701 THANK YOU TO THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE ALREADY PAID AND THANK YOU TO THOSE OF YOU WHO SEND IN YOUR DUES NOW.. IF ANY OF YOU WISH TO BE DROPPED FROM MEMBERSHIP...PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND WE WILL QUIT SENDING YOU E-MAILS... DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com 541 389-1456 From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri May 20 16:19:04 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri May 20 16:18:26 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] ALASKA AIRPORTS Message-ID: <000f01c55d92$50723ec0$857cdc42@bendcable.com> IF YOU HAVE EVER THOUGHT OR DREAMED ABOUT FLYING IN ALASKA, I BELIEVE YOU WILL FIND THIS WEB-SITE VERY INTERESTING...THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF PICTURES OF ALASKA AIRPORTS... DON WILFONG http://www.alaska.faa.gov/fai/airports2.htm From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Mon Jun 6 18:55:49 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Mon Jun 6 20:57:16 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Bend Municipal Airport Update Message-ID: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: =?UTF-8?B?TEVUVEVSIFRPIFRFTkFOVFMgNi0wNS5kb2M=?= Type: application/msword Size: 128000 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20050606/e9415592/UTF-8BTEVUVEVSIFRPIFRFTkFOVFMgNi0wNS5kb2M-0001.dot From gem at rellim.com Fri Jun 10 00:54:23 2005 From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller) Date: Fri Jun 10 00:54:50 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Saturday - Aviation Day @ Bend Municipal Airport! Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yo All! The day is almost here! This Saturday is Aviation Day at Bend Municipal Airport. Events start off at 7:30am with another great Pancake Breakfast by the Prinveville EAA. The aviation events then start off at 9am and will last into the afternoon. There will be gyroplanes, powered parachutes, gliders, old planes, new planes, model airplanes, helicoptors, parachute jumping, flight-seeing, and a whole lot more. What we still need is a lot of people to come on down and share the day with us. This is our one day a year to really party and show off our airport. The only time of the year all the Lone Eagles will be flocking together. When you do come down, the most important job for all of us is Safety. There will be a lot of visitors that do not understand the power of whirling props, so keep your eyes open for dangers to the public. If you do see an issue in the makeing then step and take action. Parking will be a bit scarce, so if you can park in the Lancair lot that will help everynoe out. There will be shuttle buses from Lancair to the Flight Services Building all day. If you can spare the time we can use some folks throughout the day to help with traffic control, both plane and car. If you have an hour or two to help, please drop by the announcers stand during the day and volunteer. We also can use a little help with setup and teardown. Setup will start at 1pm Friday and teardown just before 4pm on Saturday. If you have the time please drop by and help, the more hands we have the faster it goes. The event Co-chairs, David Sailors and Ross Morrison have put a huge amount of effort in to this years event. If we can all pitch in a bit this weekend then their efforts will be rewarded with a grand happening and we'll show them how much we appreciate their good efforts. RGDS GARY - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Blvd, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 gem@rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCqUcz8KZibdeR3qURAhXRAKDvIJJivMCbXN4AIhYBUD9fRSnrRgCgzwLH F0cY5OI6dys5dRj/qGia5m0= =Iqbw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Mon Jun 13 07:36:43 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Mon Jun 13 07:37:11 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] 06-17-2005_Aurora Message-ID: <000801c57025$51cfc940$857cdc42@bendcable.com> FLY-OUT FUN....HEY GANG...THIS SOUNDS LIKE AN INTERESTING FLY-OUT (WEATHER PERMITTING...SOUNDS DOUBTFUL) FOR OUR REGULAR MONTHLY FLY-OUT.....IF WE CAN'T DO THIS WE WILL TRY FOR SOMETHING THIS SIDE OF THE MOUNTAINS... DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com http://www.oregonpilot.org/newsAttach/06-17-2005_Aurora.pdf -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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PLEASE CALL ME AT 389-1456 OR E-MAIL ME AT dwnw@bendbroadband.com DON WILFONG From mvbond at myexcel.com Tue Jun 14 01:52:58 2005 From: mvbond at myexcel.com (mvbond) Date: Tue Jun 14 01:52:36 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] JUNE COOPA NEWSLETTER Message-ID: <42AE9AEA.9050106@myexcel.com> Here is the text version of your Newsletter. Gary has posted the PDF version on the COOPA website. Mike Bond CASCADE FLYER June 2005, Vol. 05, Issue 6 Website: http://co-opa.rellim.com/ President's Message: This month our speaker is a long time Central Oregon resident from Sisters. Jim Anderson is a Central Oregon Scientist/Naturalist that has worked for OMSI and currently writes for The Nugget Newspaper in Sisters, General Aviation and The Source. He is also a pilot that has flown his J-3 cub all over the state as part of his work. Just this week Jim has an article in The Source about tree cutting and bird nests. You can read it here: http://www.tsweekly.com/newspaper/natural.asp This should be a fun program and I look forward to seeing all of you there. A big thanks goes out to Dale Evans for his talk last month. His photos were a real delight to see and the stories even better. He showed a side of Alaska that the casual tourist can only imagine. If my dogs knew that Alaskan dogs were fed smoked salmon they would start walking north today. After long and hard planning it is finally over. The planes and guests have gone from the Aviation Day, but the good memories will stay. This years standout was probably the parachute jumping over the field. The crowd was in awe as the parachutist floated down to a perfect landing mid-field. A big thanks has to go out to our main sponsors this year: The Flight Shop, Airlife and The Baney Corporation (Quality Inns). Without them the show could not have gone on. Additional sponsors included Western Title, Edge Wireless, Electronics International, Precise Flight, Leading Edge Avionics and more. Last but not least another big thanks to all those that helped with their time and effort to make it a great event. Once again, any and all suggestions for speakers are welcome. Please contact me with your ideas. Calendar: 13-15 June - Collings Foundation B-17 & B-24 at RDM 16 June - Monthly Meeting 18 June - Monthly Flyout 25 June - Medford Air Festival 21 July - Monthly Meeting 23 July - Monthly Flyout 18 August - Monthly Meeting 20 August - Monthly Flyout 27 August - Madras Airshow 13-15 September CAF B-24 & B29 at RDM 15 September - Monthly Meeting 17 September - Monthly Meeting Web doings: As always, the CO-OPA website contains recent newsletters and other goodies. http://co-opa.rellim.com/ To access the members only areas the username is "S07" and the passwordis "123.0". My Inbox: We have several other aviation events happening this summer in Central Oregon. This week (13-15 June) the Collin g Foundation will bring the B-17 and B-25 in to Redmond. In late August there will be the big airshow at Madras. Their schedule is just packed. They have the usual pancake breakfast and a dinner. There will be lots of aerobatics with performances by our own Tom Elsberg (The Oregon Streaker) and self proclaimed "Famous Airshow Pilot" Buford Throckmorton. You can find more details on their website: http://www.centraloregonairshow.org/ In mid September the CAF will bring in a B-24 and B-29 to Butler Aviation at Redmond Airport. They are looking for sponsors to helpwith the fuel bill and lodging the crew. If you can help, contact John Talyor at 318-3833. Random Thoughts: I hope everyone had as much fun at last weekends Bend Municipal Airport Aviation Day as I did. Usually we think of the Airport as just the last chance to hit the head before commiting lift in an aircraft. It is only on a day like this that we actually get to see and interact with such a wide selection of our fellow airport denizens. Gliders, gyrocopters, powered parachutes, air ambulances, airplane manufacturers as well as the usual airplanes make up the aircraft that people use at the airport. As we hung around all day and watched the airport work and play we built a sense of community and learnt about those that share the airport. It's much easier to be polite on the radio and in the pattern when you know your fellow pilot. It was also great to show ourselves to the Bend community. There were a lot of happy townsfolk wandering the ramp and hopefully they have also glimpsed the inner beauty of our airport. Once again, great job to all those involved this year. RGDS, GARY "SPIN TRAINING" So I was young and bold but as Forrest Gump said "stupid is as stupid does". I guess I wasn't stupid, or at least stupid enough, because now I've grown older and more cautious. And, able to wonder about some of my earlier exploits from that gleefully garnered experience. I promised to tell you about how I learned to spin a Cessna 150 so here it is. I was freshly signed off for solo cross country and I'll have to tell you later about how I flew to a similarly named destination that just happened to be 180? in the other direction. But that's another story, this is about spins. I'd read all about spins and felt like I should know about them but my instructor wasn't interested. So one fine morning I decided to see how high a 150 could climb. I was being cautious and thought altitude would be a good thing in case learning the recovery part was challenging. Besides the oxygen deprivation might help my boldness part. Well I can tell you that getting to the service ceiling is time consuming in a 150 and isn't a very oxygen deficient height. So after a suitable period when I was high enough to not be able to see the ground through the smog I thought the time was right. So here, to the best of my recollection, is what happened. I pulled up about as nose high as I could get a 150 and applied full rudder at the break and held it with full up elevator... Now I'd never seen the blue on the bottom and the brown on the top before and together with the strange tuggings on the seat belt I was rather disoriented. But the most interesting part, once I started to understand that I'd flipped over on my back and was proceeding to see all brown in the windscreen, was that stuff was going around and around and becoming clearer in the smog and getting closer quickly. It dawned on me that now would be a good time to work on the recovery portion of this experiment. Now remember that I'd read extensively about this so I stomped on opposite rudder and got rid of the up elevator and discovered just how quickly an aircraft can pick up speed while pointed down. Wishing to hold it somewhere near the top of the yellow arc I started pulling back again with some enthusiasm. Besides I thought it would be better to be in somewhat more of a horizontal attitude this close to the ground. Well that whole thing was exciting, but it was over in such a short time I wasn't sure I'd paid enough attention, what with all Spin Training --- continued the unusual sensations. So during a slow climb back up to a slightly higher altitude, I went over the experience and decided another try would help me better understand the process. I must admit that the approach to my second attempt was with some trepidation. After all, maybe I'd just gotten lucky. It had been sort of an unusual aeronautical experience compared to my flight training so far. Well, the second episode was about like the first but this time I remembered to pull off the throttle so the recovery was a little less thrilling... Then I decided a power on stall might not be the best way to initiate a spin to simulate that turn from base to final situation. So, back up again. This time entry was from a mushing power off stall and I couldn't seem to get a good break and just entered some sort of a strange steep screaming spiral and in the interest of not breaking the airspeed indicator I decided this was not going to work. Stuff on the ground was getting bigger even faster and I decided I'd explored the envelope enough and that retreating to a quiet contemplation of the days endeavors might be best. It didn't seem like any of these maneuvers would be a good thing on base to final... I was 17 years old. By Ed Endsley CO-OPA SAFETY CORNER: By Joel Premselaar PPs:- C'mon now folks. I know what you're thinking. No it's not that at all. PPs mean situations that annoy you sufficiently to be classified as Pet Peeves. Take solace in the fact that your Pet Peeves are mostly not of your doing. Pilots other than our unassailable Cascade Flyer readers, generate PPs. Preflight PPs: * A strong wind arose after a farmer has tilled his field that lies adjacent to the airport. Your new paint and glass has been sand blasted. There's enough soil on your aircraft to plant a lawn. The local birds feeding on the disturbed worms, insects, and whatever, decided to help your lawn along by adorning your aircraft with a copious amount of fertilizer. They even assume that you care enough for them to provide them with a nesting site - your engine bay. Even having your plane hangared for safe keeping against sandstorms, hail, etc, is no assurance of protection. I've tried it on several occasions to no avail. * You look into the cabin and you find that your box of facial tissue has been assaulted. Tissue shreds lie thither and yon. Mice have invaded your machine and are using the tissue for nesting purposes. Now you have a hunt and destroy situation! Use traps you say? That provides an attraction and the second mouse gets the cheese. Mice love to destroy noise and thermal insulation. They have an insatiable appetite for wiring insulation. The effect of their urine upon aluminum will cause your flying machine to look as though it was exposed to a flak attack over Berlin. * New England is tough on aircraft. The effect of salt air was expected. What I learned the hard way was that in some mysterious way, my prop's spinner had a block of ice in it. Upon startup, the engine felt as though it would leave its mount. Detective work was initiated immediately after shutdown. To make a long story short, the drain holes located just forward of the spinner's flange were plugged up. Over time, dirt blown in through the prop blade openings caused the blockage. Many spinners I've checked do not have drain holes - naughty naughty! This is how it happened: Aside from my neglecting to keep the drain holes clear,I had parked the Bonanza on the ramp with the prop in the horizontal to keep our feathered friends from using it as a high point potty roost. Wind blew rain into the blade openings. A mean old cold front came in and froze the water collected in the spinner. A vertical prop will allow the rainwater to pass straight through. Obviously, it's one blade down with three bladed props. Four or more blades (I've seen five blades on the Short, a British aircraft) - - no problem. * Parking on the ramp leaves an aircraft vulnerable to damage inflicted by inept or inconsiderate fellow flyers. They conduct a high power engine turn-up during startup; they blast out of the tie-down slot and blast to execute a sharp turn into a tie-down slot. I've become more selective in choosing my parking slot since I had to replace a ruddervator on my Bonanza. Even with the control locks in, there is a lot of play to accommodate the bungee in the control system. Rudder-aileron linking is the effort of design engineers to respond to safety requirements. Adverse yaw was killing too many pilots who never learned how to properly use rudders. Too many student pilots were never taught coordination exercises let alone practice them if they had been taught how! If I didn't make that clear, I'll wax eloquent upon it in one of our meetings. I'll ride with you to demonstrate what I'm trying to convey. Another PP: Gas truck refueling an aircraft on the line in front of you blocks your exit. * There's either no one around to give you the proper temperature. Even if, say an FBO, gives it to you, you have no idea where the thermometer they read was located. In the military, we were given actual runway temperature. I guess I'm spoiled. Here is an example that directly impacted (yes, I mean impacted in every sense of the word) my previous plane. It was tied down along side of a Cherokee on 6K5 (Sisters airport). The pilot of another Cherokee chose, of all places, to use Sisters to practice landings in his newly purchased aircraft. After landing on runway 20 and after a bit of ground time, he taxied back to take off of runway 20, an uphill runway. As usual at Sisters, there was a crosswind. On take off, he was sheltered form the crosswind by trees. The trees ceased to exist right at the point at which the runway goes from a gradual upslope to a more significant one. his point coincided with his decision to abort because his airspeed was too low so he chopped power. Also, at this point, the full force of the crosswind hit him; that, coupled with a quick reduction of power, precipitated a ground loop. Over correcting his recovery attempt he swung into the tie down area and smashed between the parked Cherokee and my aircraft. He was physically unhurt, but his self-esteem was destroyed. The wing of the Cherokee he hit needed replacement but his aircraft and mine were totaled! I was called by Cliff Clemens and was on the scene in less than 15 minutes after the accident. After assessing the situation, I asked the pilot if he knew what the temperature was before take off. He stated that someone in Dave Clemens's office, located on top of a hangar, told him it was about 90? F. I took the temperature on the blacktop runway and it was 105? F! I suggested to that unhappy pilot that I always read my aircraft's OAT gauge after the plane is on the black top awhile because that's the air the engine and the wings feel! As wont as I am to continue having my progeny pay my way by spending their inheritance, I always add a fudge factor to the runway temperature! Taxi PPs: * There is only one runway (think S07) and the windsock is limp. Aircraft are taking off and landing in both directions and the unicom is of no help, to the head of which runway will you taxi? It might help if you call out the runway you intend to taxi toward if only you could make up your mind about it. This is a situation where inter-plane communications can minimize the probability of an accident. * The pilot of a landing aircraft is of the micro-vision type so, without further ado, he enters the taxiway without taking in the macro scene. He has not seen you on the taxiway so you meet him head on and he tries to do that Macho thing (note that it is he and him; a woman pilot would never do such a testosterone thing [I'm basically a coward, hence this amendment]). Common courtesy calls for the plane closest to an adequate wide spot to move aside. It doesn't always happen and that becomes a nasty PP! * The aircraft mix at airports such as Long Beach, CA and Jeffco, Denver, CO airports, includes the entire spectrum of types and categories. The traffic is humongous! The lineup on the taxiway looks like Highway Five in L.A. It's stop and go. Safety Corner -- continued The power required to get rolling again, especially by jets, will blow away the little guys. Poor little Cessna 150s have been totaled that way. * By the time you taxi downwind to the turn-up area, you will have consumed enough CO to be taken to the morgue. Hey, you airline pilots, please tell me that, under the circumstances I described above, you were on oxygen during taxi before and during your night IFR takeoff. I know that, as a passenger, the odor of JP exhaust in the cabin can be overwhelming. Run up Area PPs: * The guy ahead of you is in a hurry and decides to conduct his run up on the taxiway. His counterpart in the run up area uses takeoff power doing a 360? to visually check the sky before taking off. In any case, your plane is rocked and you have to hang on to your flight controls to keep them from slamming into their stops. WOOPS I'M OVER MY QUOTA. I'LL CONTINUE PPING NEXT MONTH. DO SEND ME SOME OF YOURS AND I'LL INCLUDE THEM. PERHAPS WE'LL MARK THE AVIATION COMMUNITY WITH OUR PPs Aviation Day: Dale put on a great camping exhibit ... more pix on this and other activities next month. JUNE FLYOUT destination -TBA MAY 2005 FLYOUT CO-OPA Flyout to Albany's "Fly To Fun" event Saturday morning dawned with the promise of a good EAA auction in Bend and indeterminate weather over the Cascades. I really should have left a few bucks and my proxy with someone for the auction. The lifetime acquisition of tools and parts was a very special collection. Thanks to the EAA group for their thoughtful service and thanks everyone for your attendance and support. Gary Miller and I looked at the sky and decided it looked benign and decided to launch his T-210 for Albany. We couldn't seem to pull anyone else away. The reports on aviationweather.gov looked manageable and a looksee seemed in order. It was so smooth. It was a delightful climb to the Cascade crest and from there the view to the valley beckoned. Albany is fairly easy to spot with those cloud belching, steaming, stinking, stacks, sticking up. Now seeing the airport was something else. The adjacent Home Depot and parking lot is as big and more visible. Final approach over their roof to 34 was exciting. Gary's landing was another of his textbook forward CG squeakers. Full up trim and see how far you can pull that yoke. He sort of looks like he's bulldogging a steer and just about has it in submission when you hear the squeak. Good job Gary. You know your aircraft. The "trolley" ride around the airport to the convention center was a thrill. That contraption needs ailerons or at least new shocks. Seatbelts would be nice given the excessive adverse yaw. It sort of seems like a '59 Caddy that had a collision at a rail crossing and they just drove on, careening away, to a new career as a trolley. Automotive transportation, very loosely speaking. Twenty five MPH seemed a little risky. Now that's a true airport car! The convention was easy to take in at one glance. Much smaller this year, according to Gary. That didn't stop him from extending the tour by bending everyone's ear about everything. What a raconteur. Gary makes everyone feel great. Who was that masked man? Why he's president of CO-OPA. We arrived too late to hear Rod Machado speak but we met him and had great conversations. He's a real gentleman and I might add a tremendous expert who is very able and willing to share. Gary now has an autographed and inscribed copy of one of Rod's books. I performed my beard and mustache trick for Rod and made him laugh. Wow, I made the humorist himself laugh. Rod e-mailed me later and said he had tried the trick on the way home but just didn't seem to have enough facial fur to make it work. One of the aircraft display highlights was a Beech B-50 ... a 1950s twin that stood very tall with a solid military bearing that spoke volumes about that era. You would expect Eisenhower or MacArthur to be arriving. When I heard it firing up I rushed to see it off and got more than I bargained for. A Cessna 152 landed and the Beech pulled into position and hold. The 152 used the entire runway and took forever to pull off. During this wait a little taildragger was closing in on short final. When the Beech finally started it's takeoff another plane taxied across in front of it causing them to momentarily slow but then they gave it the gun and continued on. What a beautiful growl as it passed by and as it lifted that huge landing gear it really looked prehistoric. Meanwhile the little taildragger was just touching down into the maelstrom behind the departing Beech. They were obviously in trouble right from the start with swerves and screeching and rending sounds and finally ended up on their nose, tail in the air. That closed the runway while a group tried to pull it's tail down without bonking anyone. It looked like that part of the ride was as exciting for the occupants as the noseover was. They looked a little discombobulated. But the wrestling wasn't over yet. The gear was messed up enough that there was much pushing and shoving to get it clear of the runway. Oh, what a little go around would have done for their day. Lunch options were great and even included an espresso stand. We didn't go hungry. I just wish I could have sampled more. The hot dogs were huge with all kinds of relishes. Gary's grilled chicken sandwich looked great and my double espresso was 'el grande'. The food court was a great place to be. I met friends from Bend, around the state, and from OPA. Chris Dent flew his Mooney from Bend and we shared some conversation about his electrical instrumentation business and of course aviation. As I am writing this Richard Benson called to share stories and say he had stayed both days. I missed seeing him there but sure enjoyed our conversation. He mentioned he had taken his 182 into Santiam Junction airstrip on the way over from Bend and came back IFR on top. Now that's boxing the envelope. Pretty wide range Richard !!! We kept making periodic trips outside to watch the sky and plan our getaway. During our departure it looked like the western sky was lightening and the way east was still the main body of the modest front. We dodged spots of virga but had adequate ceilings with visibility to see the mountain slopes and the sun in Central Oregon to aim for. It was a wonderful flight both ways. We discussed route options in case of changing conditions but even with the zigzags on the way back it only took five minutes longer. With another of Gary's textbook squeaker landings (he said he was lucky) we were home from another great flyout. Ed Endsley From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri Jun 17 18:46:42 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri Jun 17 18:46:35 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] THE DALLES-SAIL BOAT RIDE Message-ID: <001001c573a7$9461d7a0$857cdc42@bendcable.com> IMMEDIATE RESPONSE NEEDED..... HEY GANG.....DEAN AND WENDY CAMERON HAVE INVITED SOME OF US TO COME TO THE DALLES IN THE MORNING (SAT. JUN. 18).....THEY WILL LEAVE THE DALLES BY NOON AND DRIVE TO HOOD RIVER (THEY HAVE VEHICLES AVAILABLE TO TRANSPORT 8 OR 10 OF US).....THEY WILL BOARD THEIR SAIL BOAT AND HEAD FOR THE DALLES.....THEY HAVE AN APPOINTMENT FOR THE BRIDGE TO BE RAISED SO THEY CAN PASS AT 2:00 PM......WILL ARRIVE AT THE DALLES BY 5:30 TO 6:00 THEY PLAN FOR A BARBEQUE ON THE DOCK AT THEIR BOAT....THERE SHOULD BE TIME TO HAVE A BURGER AND STILL FLY BACK TO BEND....OR....THEY WILL GIVE A RIDE TO THE AIRPORT AND PEOPLE CAN SKIP THE BARBEQUE..... IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE GET BACK TO THEM IF YOU PLAN TO GO....CALL ME (DON WILFONG.....389-1456) ASAP SO WE CAN GET IN TOUCH WITH THEM AND LET THEM KNOW..... PLEASE DO NOT DELAY IN CALLING..... DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com 389-1456 p.s.: From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri Jun 17 18:54:50 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri Jun 17 18:54:40 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT Message-ID: <001801c573a8$b6ab3260$857cdc42@bendcable.com> IF THE WEATHER IS GOOD ENOUGH TO FLY AND IF WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO GO THE FLY-OUT WILL BE TO THE DALLES IF WE DON'T GO TO THE DALLES.... ED ENDSLEY HAD SUGGUESTED GOING TO CONDON....THE HOTEL/CAFE WILL PICK PEOPLE UP AT THE AIRPORT AND RETURN THEM AFTER WE EAT....PLUS GIVE US A TOUR OF THE WINDMILLS.... I WILL CONTACT ED AND WILL E-MAIL EVERYONE....WATCH YOUR E-MAILS....IT MAY BE TOMORROW MORNING (SAT) BEFORE THE FINAL DECISION IS MADE.... PLEASE RESPOND TO THE E-MAIL RE: THE DALLES AND/OR THIS E-MAIL.... DON WILFONG 389-1456 From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Sat Jun 18 06:37:58 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Sat Jun 18 06:38:19 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] WEATHER---FLY-OUT Message-ID: <000501c5740a$f09c5780$857cdc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG.... I JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH MCMINVILLE.....WEATHER HERE TO THE DALLES AND BACK.....MOSTLY CLOUDY......SOME VERY LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS... SOME "ISOLATED" THUNDER HEADS IN THE AFTERNOON....10 TO 15 KNOT WINDS OUT OF 200 DEGREES....SHOULD NOT BE A MAJOR PROBLEM TO SEE AND AVOID ANY THUNDER STORMS..... DOES ANYONE PLAN TO FLY TO THE DALLES??????? DOES ANYONE PLAN TO FLY ANYWHERE??????? WE NEED TO ADVISE DEAN AND WENDY IF ANYONE PLANS TO TAKE THE BOAT TRIP UP THE COLUMBIA WITH THEM.....PLEASE RESPOND....ASAP TIME IS NOW 06:40.... DON WILFONG 389-1456 dwnw@bendbroadband.com From rdmserco at netzero.net Sat Jun 18 13:02:57 2005 From: rdmserco at netzero.net (rdmserco@netzero.net) Date: Sat Jun 18 13:04:52 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] (no subject) Message-ID: <20050618.130259.23413.145066@webmail21.lax.untd.com> Greetings All, I want to say "Thanks" for all of your input regarding the awards RDM Tower has been nominated for. Last week (6/9) the RDM staff were recognized by Serco as the Air Traffic Facility of the Year. This is very significant recognition for the staff and very much appreciated. Thanks again for your input. Dwight Kevin Tim Eric From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Tue Jun 21 13:54:21 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Tue Jun 21 14:16:47 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Bend Airport update Message-ID: Greetings to all Bend airport tenants and interested parties: First, I want to thank everyone who commented on the first email I sent out on June 6th. I would like to keep you informed and yet Idon't want to overload your email inbox with my rantings. I had a couple of things that were timely that I did want to pass on to you this week. 1. You may notice when you file your flight plan that we have a realtively longstanding NOTAM rgarding airport construction on the east side of the airport. I have kept that NOTAM active, and will continue to do so, until Lancair completes their work on the three hangars they are currently building. The other work on the east side, the Epic Aircraft facility, is essentially done by now and, as you may have seen, they have been working and flying their beautiful LT airplane around the Central Oregon skies. 2. We now have two new "summertime" Porta-Potties on the airport. The north restroom is located at the north end of the North Tiedown Ramp, next to the I Building (Alpahbet Row). I have had a request to move it, so I would welcome ideas as to where it might better be positioned. I'm not locked into any location so long as it doesn't interfere with flight operations. The south Porta-Potty is located between the F and G City Hangars, which seemed central to most southern tenants and/or visitors. 3. There was good feedback about having additional windsocks at the North and South end of the airport, so I've decided to move ahead toward making that happen. Apparently, the great folks at Professional Air Services also had the same idea, so thanks to them, we now have a brand spanking new BRIGHT ORANGE windsock floating above their hangar at the north end. Thus, we will be looking at a good location (H City Hangar?) for a south windsock, and would hope to make that happen within the next several weeks. 4. This Thursday, June 23rd, we will be conducting fire flow tests and water hydrant tests across the airport for an Airport Water Master Plan that we have been working on. What this means is that, starting at 0800 hours and running throughout the day, you may see water flowing wildly out of the hydrants for a period of time. We don't expect this to create a significant inconvenience to any airport users, but I did want you to be aware of it. 5. Finally, thanks to everyone who has written to me about maintenance requests or other issues regarding the airport. I take every one of them seriously and will be meeting later this week with our maintenance crew to talk about requirements and plans for the airport and City Hangars. More to come after we meet. To all of you, my best wishes. As always, your thoughts and comments are welcomed, Greg Phillips Bend Municipal Airport Manager PO Box 431 Bend, OR 97709 (541) 389-0258 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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DON WILFONG From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Sun Jun 26 08:03:29 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Sun Jun 26 08:07:18 2005 Subject: Fw: [Co-opa] A TRIBUTE TO TOM Message-ID: <002401c57a60$362e9a00$857cdc42@bendcable.com> THIS IS A PHOTO (TAKEN BY ED ENDSLEY) OF TOM DURING A PERFORMANCE AT MADRAS......THIS IS HOW I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER TOM....I HOPE YOU TOO RECEIVE SOME COMFORT IN VIEWING THIS GREAT SHOT. THANK YOU ED FOR FORWARDING THIS TO ME TO BE SHARED WITH TOM'S MANY FRIENDS AND ADMIRERS.....DON WILFONG -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: TomSun.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 5880 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20050626/2b92eca7/TomSun-0002.jpg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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ON WED, JUNE 29, 2005 AT SHALOM-SAYIT, HOME OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF CENTRAL OREGON 21555 MODOC LANE, BEND, OR DRIVING DIRECTIONS: EAST FROM BEND ON HWY 20 (GREENWOOD AVE.), PAST 27TH ST. APPROX. 1 MILE TO THE FIRST OVERHEAD CAUTION LIGHT (THE SIGN FOR HAMBY RD. AND FOR WARD RD., TURN RIGHT ON WARD (SOUTH) AND PROCEED 0.7 MI. PAST THE INTERSECTION WITH BEAR CREEK RD. LOOK FOR THE SIGN ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD THAT SAYS "JCCO" . TURN RIGHT ON MODOC LANE AND THE JCCO BUILDING IS ON THE IMMEDIATE LEFT SIDE OF THE RD. INTERMENT WILL BE AT PILOT BUTTE CEMETERY.....USE HWY 20 TO GET THERE AS BEAR CREEK RD. IS CLOSED AT 15TH ST. FOR CONSTRUCTION ADDRESSES: THE ELLSBERG FAMILY 1031 N. W. STONERIDGE BEND, OR 97701 AUTUMN FUNERALS LLC 61555 PARRELL RD. BEND, OR 97702 541 318-0842 From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Thu Jul 14 20:36:28 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Thu Jul 14 20:55:14 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Bend Municipal Airport Update #2 Message-ID: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: =?UTF-8?B?TEVUVEVSIFRPIFRFTkFOVFMgNy0wNS5kb2M=?= Type: application/msword Size: 135168 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20050714/c9009154/UTF-8BTEVUVEVSIFRPIFRFTkFOVFMgNy0wNS5kb2M-0001.dot From mvbond at myexcel.com Fri Jul 15 17:30:56 2005 From: mvbond at myexcel.com (mvbond) Date: Fri Jul 15 17:31:08 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] JULY COOPA NEWSLETTER Message-ID: <42D85540.3000302@myexcel.com> Here is the text version of your Newsletter. Gary has posted the PDF version on the COOPA website. Mike Bond ----------------------------------------------------------------- CASCADE FLYER July 2005, Vol. 05, Issue 7 WEBSITE: http://co-opa.rellim.com/ IN MEMORY OF TOM ELLSBERG "High Flight" Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or even eagle flew - And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God. We'll miss you but never forget you Tom The preceding poem, High Flight, was composed by Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr., an American serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was born in Shanghai, China in 1922, the son of missionary parents, Reverend and Mrs. John Gillespie Magee; his father was an American and his mother originally a British citizen. He came to the U.S. in 1939 and earned a scholarship to Yale, but in September 1940 he enlisted in the RCAF and was graduated as a pilot. He was sent to England for combat duty in July 1941. In August or September 1941, Pilot Officer Magee composed High Flight and sent a copy to his parents. Several months later, on December 11, 1941 his Spitfire collided with another plane over England and Magee, only 19 years of age, crashed to his death. His remains are buried in the churchyard cemetery at Scopwick, Lincolnshire. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ President's Message: This month's topic will be one near and dear to all pilots. The weather! Z21's Christian Boris is going to drop by and chat with us. One of our own local weathermen. Ooops, I guess they call themselves "News Channel 21" these days, with the "Local Alert Weather." Just after his 6pm live weather-cast he is going to run out to the airport and see us, but he has to run back to do the 11pm show. I expect we have a lot of information to share. One project he has been working on is to get Z21 to buy a private weather radar! Last month's speaker Jim Anderson was a big hit. After what Jim claims to have done to poor J-3 cubs I have increased respect for that rugged airplane. A lot of folks also took home a copy of his book "Tales from a NORTHWEST NATURALIST", ISBN: 0-87004-353-6. If you enjoyed his talk as much as I did then you'll enjoy his book as well. We have had some great suggestions for speakers and I can always use more. Drop me a line if you have any ideas. Calendar: 21 July - Monthly Meeting 23 July - Monthly Flyout 18 August - Monthly Meeting 20 August - Monthly Flyout 27 August - Madras Airshow 13-15 September CAF B-24 & B29 at RDM 15 September - Monthly Meeting 17 September - Monthly Meeting 17 June 2006 - Bend Airport open house Web doings: Greg Phillips has gotten a page for the Bend Airport on the city web site. There is a link to it now from our web site. The link is just too long to include in this text, but you can go to the main City of Bend page and select Bend Airport from the left nav bar: http://www.ci.bend.or.us Ever needed a sectional but were not near a pilot store? You can now download current FAA sectionals and terminal area charts from here: http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA/sectionals/current/ There is a link to the sectionals on our links page, but the files are very large. The entire set almost fills a DVD. If you want a copy just ask and I can burn you a copy of mine. As always, the CO-OPA website contains recent newsletters and other goodies. http://co-opa.rellim.com To access the members only areas the username is "S07" and the password is "123.0". My Inbox: By popular demand, the next year's Bend Airport open house will NOT be on the same weekend as the Balloons over Bend. The Chamber of Commerce wants to expand the on-site activities for that event to fill the entire day. So the 2006 airport event will be he weekend after Balloons over Bend and the day before Fathers Day. The coordinating committee for the event is off and running, if you want to help make next year's show the best ever then raise your hand now. Random Thoughts: We lost a good friend, and a great pilot, last month. Tom Ellsberg -- The Oregon Streaker -- had a fatal accident while practicing for his airshow routine at Madras Airport on 25 June. Tom was a very young 66. Don Wilfong was the first call me with the news. My first response to Don was "I'll bet he crashed practicing his flat spin," and Don said yes. The preliminary NTSB accident report later confirmed this. The final report will not be out for a while. My quick answer was not the result of my acrobatic experience, I have none. It was not the result of any aficionado's understanding of his routine, for it's wizardry was far beyond my meager understanding of the sport. Tom was the one that first told me. He told me twice. No, I'm not psychic either, and therein lies the heart of my story. I did not know Tom well, but had the high privilege of being his announcer twice when he performed at the Bend Airport. Many people think the announcer is running things, but that job falls to the Air Boss. Tom's best friend Mike Johnstone was his Air Boss. Mike's job was to make sure the acrobatic airspace ("the box") was Tom's alone and to be sure everyone on the ground was a safe distance away. Before, during, and after the airshow act the Air Boss is the final authority in the air and on the ground. Having an Air Boss is mandatory; having an Announcer is optional. The announcer's job is just to get the crowd looking in the right direction at the right time, be a cheerleader, and maybe, explain some of the things going on in the air. It's that last part that had me seek out Tom in person for the nitty-gritty details before each airshow. Tom would patiently spoon-feed me the details on his plane, his planned maneuvers, and the mysteries of the hen scratchings taped to his instrument panel. That I learned was aerobatic notation - Aresti notation. There was the Humpty-Bump, the reverse half-cuban eight, and of course the flat spin. More on that one later. Every one of his planned moves would be numbered carefully, one following the other predictably, in my notes and on his panel. It is said no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. In Tom's case, no flight plan survived first contact with the air currents. If there was an updraft, that little yellow plane would use the extra energy to perform a harder maneuver than planned. If the wind blew it off show center then the plane would perform an extra roll to correct. First I would try to tell the crowd what the plane was about to do, but never did manage that. Then I would try to figure out what I thought it was doing at the moment, but it often was just the opening to another unexpected figure. At some point I would crumple my now useless notes into a pocket and fall back on Tom's good advice: Just say "Wow, will ya' just look at that! That's amazing! I'm getting dizzy just watching him!" All those watching would instantly identify with that. The crowd would become one in the experience. Forget about all the aircraft performance numbers and fancy names for the aerobatic figures, just 1,000 people acting, as one, in appreciating the magic of The Oregon Streaker playing in the wind. It was that oneness with the wind that Tom had that I would try to learn tid-bits about before the airshow. Please Tom, can you explain what figures are easier than they look, which are harder than they look, how does it feel? Somehow we always finished up discussing his flat spin. Spins are not a big deal to a pilot, if the plane has been designed for the task, the pilot has been trained for the task, and there is enough altitude to perform the task. Flat spins are a bit trickier, but once again if the plane has been designed for the task, the pilot has been trained for the task, and there is enough altitude, then it is not a big deal. It does not even look very impressive to the crowd either, unless performed until low to the ground. Then the crowd is held in suspense as they wonder: when will he pull out and start the plane flying again? Tom knew that to impress the crowd he had to get his plane low, very low, before kicking the rudder over to stop the spin and diving out to flying speed. Nothing special there to an advanced aerobatic pilot like Tom. But, as was pointed out to me, there was something special about that maneuver in his One Design airplane. He could not see the ground from the pilot's seat. The wings jutted out to each side of the cockpit, that big engine obstructed the view forward and there was no window in the floor of the cockpit. Tom was flying blind while dropping to the ground in the flat spin. No problem, every pilot thinks, every airplane has an altimeter. Those big beautiful hands on the altimeter are wired directly into every pilot's subconscious. But not in Tom's plane. He had a digital altimeter with low contrast digits. They flew by in a gray haze as the sun and shadows spun across his instrument panel, while his plane spun to the ground. The trick, Tom would say, was to just know how long to stay in the flat spin before recovering, because he had no better guide. That, of course, is what distinguishes a pro: they just know the right way to do things. More than once we discussed his other options. Add a traditional altimeter? Not enough room on the intrument panel. Put a window in the floor? The stick and its mechanism are in the way. No, Tom would say, the only solution is to practice the maneuver so you just know how long to hold the flat spin until starting the recovery. Last Saturday, our good friend, and a great pilot, Tom Ellsberg, stayed in that flat spin just a bit too long. Witnesses say he had already started a good recovery, but just did not, quite, stop the descent before hitting the ground. What does all this mean in the grand scheme of things? Don't ask me, I am just the announcer. Someone whispers in my ear and I just repeat it in pleasant sounding full sentences over the PA. Today, Tom is the one whispering in my ear. But now, enough preparation, time to get the show moving -- "Ladies and Gentleman, may I have your attention please! Turn your attention skyward, to the amazing Tom Ellsberg -- the Oregon Streaker! Will ya' just look at that! I can't quite make out what he is doing, but that's amazing! ..." Gary Miller ... more ATC stories ... Student Pilot: "I'm lost; I'm over a big lake and heading toward the big E." Controller: "Make several 90 degree turns so I can identify you on radar." (short pause)... Controller: "Okay then. That big lake is the Atlantic Ocean ... Suggest you turn to the big W immediately." Tower: "Delta Zulu Romeo, turn right now and report your heading." Pilot: "Wilco ... 341, 342, 343, 344, 345 ......" CO-OPA SAFETY CORNER: By Joel Premselaar Egad! Last month I offered you a chance to air your Pet Peeves. You're either a long-suffering tolerant group or you prefer not to unload your PET PEEVES because you're masochistic and enjoy dealing with STRESS. I have several more PPs to gripe about. At my age, I've earned the right to be a Fuddy Duddy! One day I may even show up wearing a purple shirt and a red hat! Sundry PPs: ? Fueling - Unless I know the individual, I hover over the person fueling my aircraft to ensure that the fueling hose is draped over his/her shoulder to prevent its weight from resting on the fuel tank's opening; that the nozzle is not deep enough in the tank to impinge the bottom of the tank; and that the nozzle is not striking any part of the float or its linkage rendering the fuel gage useless. ? Post maintenance checks - Even the best of mechanics have diversions that result in missed tasks. Safety wire goofs and, without a surgical nurse to conduct a tool count, one or more may be left in a critical area. I'm especially sensitive to this 'cause it's happened to my aircraft several times. On a more personal note, I had a nine-inch hemostat left in my bod after a hiatus hernia operation. For a nominal fee, I'll show you my scars! I lost a section of flap from a Banshee during an approach to a landing. A mechanic neglected to turn a winged Dzus fastener to its stop. That was as much my fault as his because I didn't pick it up during my preflight. The plane captain of a JRB (B-18) I was about to fly, signed off the aircraft as airworthy but in my preflight I detected a broken elevator hinge bracket. I grounded the aircraft. On one occasion, I found a safety pin in my ejection seat and its red flag was missing; as a consequence, the plane captain (the ground crewman responsible for the aircraft's well being) neglected to remove the pin. I can relate many more such goofs, but this is neither the time nor place for them. Oh, I will add one more that's very important. At China Lake, our test aircraft were painted white with an overcoat of reflective fire orange on the bottom so that ground cameras could track them. An AD (presently an A-1) fresh out of its periodic maintenance had been painted as described above. I took it out for a post maintenance test. The routine called for a Vso check. About 20 kts above normal stall, the bottom dropped out. A young pilot just out of a squadron of ADs convinced the Operations officer that I was full of what beans produce. The Ops officer saw this as an opportunity to educate this brash youngster, so he told him to test it, but to be mindful of my report. After about 20 minutes, the hot rod AD driver reported to the Ops Officer. His face was ashen and in a shaky voice proclaimed that the aircraft was out of rig, that the factory representative should examine it and that the aircraft not be flown until its entire structure was checked! It was rolled into the hangar and the checks began. As I peered down at the subject AD from the balcony (our offices and ready room were housed on the balcony of the hangar) a memory from long ago jarred me out of my contemplative mood. I recalled a similar situation that occurred in 1940. F4F Wildcats were camouflaged a non spec blue on top to match the sea and light gray on the bottom to match the sky. We lost a few Wildcats during to carrier qualification flights. The cause? The blue and gray met at the leading edge of the wings and horizontal tail planes. This left a continuous bead on the leading edge that resulted in a perfect stall strip! I met with the Maintenance Officer and presented him with the tool that would rectify the AD's discrepancy - - a sheet of sand paper. It worked. Why have I presented this story? It's because I spoke to more than one aircraft owner who placed thicker than electrician's tape on the leading edge of his aircraft's horizontal tail surfaces to protect them from FOD (foreign object damage). Forgetting or not knowing that the tail must produce a downward lift, his placement of the shielding tape was such that the edge formed a perfect spoiler. The tape spanned the leading edge from tip to tip. ? I have always been a ten percenter. I happily sit through a presentation even if I know 90% of the lecture just to gain that 10% of new knowledge. Applying that principle, I suggest that you take your Flight Review from a different flight instructor each time you come due for one. Each instructor's input to you will be the results of his unique experiences. My personal conviction is that when I think I know all there is to know about flying, I will have evolved into a prime candidate for becoming a statistic! ? While on the subject of instructors, you will find that terminology employed by them or any two pilots will vary considerably. Caution - acceptable terminology has to fit the situation. A case in point, I was on temporary duty at Biggs AFB in El Paso, when it was a Strategic Air Command Base. B-50s were stationed there. One day a B-50 landed wheels up. That night in the "O Club" (Officer's Club), the cause of the accident unfolded. The flight engineer for the accident aircraft was ill. A flight engineer was borrowed from the crew of a B-50 undergoing maintenance. The accident B-50 was practicing a series of GCAs (Ground Controlled Approach. This is synonymous with Precision Approach Radar {PAR}). The approaches were taken down to the minimum for GCAs (50 ft) followed by a wave off. The wheels remained retracted for the circuits. This was to preclude overheating the gear's system. On the initial pass and at the wave off point, the pilot commanded "Take Off Power" and so the substitute Flight Engineer, obedient to his flight crew's wording, removed the power!!! Standardize, standardize, standardize!!! I do have more but this is sufficient for this go around. I keep looking for that 10% more knowledge, so how about passing on some of your PPs or "Whoops" stories. I'll write them into next month's "Safety Corner." Better yet, write them in your own words and send them in to Mike for inclusion in next month's edition. I believe that your inputs would be better than my translations. Our Newsletter would be more meaningful if it included your unique experiences. Electronic Aeronauting I promised to tell you about my signature base to final roll to an inverted outside loop with a one and a half twist to flare and touchdown, well, here it is. I have included some pictures to prove my prowess. I took them myself during the maneuver. Now, mind you, I've gotten proficient enough to complete this crowd-pleasing maneuver about 50% of the time Aren't simulators great? I'll have to tell you more about flying through the blimp hangar at Tillamook and buzzing the tower at Redmond. They didn't ask me to call them; they must not have seen me. Of course I'm sure they were directing their attention to the pattern and didn't expect to see a 172 doing a maximum performance turn around the tower at twenty feet. That would have been below their "radar." Aren't simulators great? So since I had a BFR coming up I decided a little simulated preparation would be in order. At my level of proficiency the examiner usually looks for a few basic competencies and a safe ride back to the airport. This is usually pretty easy to provide. The simulator prep just lets me feel a little smoother and be prepared to give a nicer ride to the examiner so I don't have to do that remedial training thing. Aren't simulators great? I think it's easier to fly the plane than the simulator, don't you? At least the simulator has a pause button so I can go to the loo. However, I find the climb out kind of boring with just blue sky in the windscreen and no engine failures. I guess I'm just a pansy since I have the level of difficulty set to easy I can go get a cup of coffee and come back to either be climbing through 50 thousand feet or drilling a hole in the ground. Either result is pretty impressive in a 172. So there I was at 50 thousand feet east of Bend in the practice area doing a stall series and 720s. The controls were acting a little funny and not producing the anticipated results. After a bunch of the wildest aerobatic contortions I discovered my mouse had swallowed a good portion of my notes for that report I was supposed to be writing and was rather choked up about it. I guess I'd been getting quite animated in my efforts to control the unusual aerodynamic responses of a 172 at 50 thousand feet. And then my computer crashed!!! There I was, stuck at 50 thousand feet in an untenable attitude with nothing to do but alt-control-delete. I decided to go mow the lawn instead. Let the damned thing sit there, latched up, and think about being upside down at 50 thousand feet. Go ahead and hang by your RAM and electrons for awhile. Let me know when you're ready to come out and be a good little computer. Well, the flight review went off without a hitch. The airplane was definitely easier to fly than the computer simulation. The only problem was the examiner ... He kept asking for these improbable actions and then wanted some reasonable explanation for my responses. I gave him the 720s, why was he so upset about the accompanying rolls? The stalls were stalled. Isn't a spin a stalled maneuver? The landings were survivable and the aircraft was reusable. But in all honesty, he was a real sport. He signed my logbook and recommended several instructors in the area that might offer a different perspective and be more sympathetic to my state of skill. He also thought that some simulator time might be of benefit ... This simulated story is simultaneously brought to you by Ed Endsley and his simulator Flyout Info ... next weekend unscheduled, but stay tuned ... McCall Family Flyin Aug 12-14, 2005 ........ going? From donovan_finnestad at yahoo.com Mon Jul 18 10:02:03 2005 From: donovan_finnestad at yahoo.com (Donovan finnestad) Date: Mon Jul 18 10:02:29 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Help.....Lost payload. Message-ID: <20050718170203.96500.qmail@web50307.mail.yahoo.com> Hello, My name Donovan, I am Portland State Student who is working on a high altitude balloon project. Yesterday (7/16/05) morning we launch a balloon near Milican OR. We witness the balloon bursting sometime around 7am directly south of Brothers OR. We believe the payload landed is somewhere 3-7miles south of Brothers. If anyone is flying in that area and just happends to spot the bright yellow/green parachute and an orange box, could please capture or send me some GPS coordinates. We have already spent many hours driving most of the roads down in the area, but we really need a view from above to help spot this thing. We are currently planning a trip down to the Bend area on Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday evening if anyone would be interested flying us over head, your expenses will be compensated for. I can be reached at 503-351-2664 or 503-673-5026 Thank you Donovan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20050718/919a3792/attachment.html From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Mon Jul 18 10:42:51 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Mon Jul 18 10:46:06 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT FUN FOR JULY Message-ID: <000a01c58bc0$1f36e480$857cdc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG.....WE HAVE HAD A HARD TIME HAVING A FLY-OUT ANYWHERE AS OF LATE... BUT....IT SOUNDS LIKE THE WEATHER WILL BE BLUEBIRD THRU THIS COMING WEEKEND.. SO.....GOING TO THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY AND MAYBE THE COAST WILL BE THE THING TO DO.... LETS ALL MEET AT THE FLIGHT SHOP (SAT. JULY 23) BY 0800 HRS...FOR A DEPARTURE BY 0815 HRS TO 0830 HRS.... FIRST DESTINATION.... THE FLYING M RANCH: YAMHILL: FLYING M (OR05) ELEVATION 448' RUNWAY 7/25 2130' X 40'.....LAND RUNWAY 7.....DEPART RUNWAY 25 IT IS A TURF/GRAVEL STRIP.....IT IS A ONE-WAY STRIP WITH A GOOD APPROACH TO RUNWAY 7.... THIS IS NOT A DIFFICULT STRIP....EVERYTHING FROM SMALL 2 PLACE TO TWINS GO IN AND OUT....GARY MILLER, MIKE AND ANN BOND, LECKLIDERS AND WILFONGS ARE A FEW WHO HAVE BEEN THERE....ASK IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS.... THE LODGE/CAFE IS BEAUTIFUL AND THE FOOD IS GOOD.... NEXT......WE HAVE SEVERAL OTHER OPTIONS TO GO TO.... MCMINNVILLE (MMV) THE AIR MUSEUM WITH THE SPRUCE GOOSE, THE SR-71 AND MANY OTHER PLANES TO LOOK AT....THE MUSEUM IS RIGHT ACROSS THE HIGHWAY FROM THE AIRPORT AND THEY PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM...... AND/OR.....THERE IS A NEAT AIR MUSEUM AT TILLAMOOK (S47) YOU CAN TAXI RIGHT UP TO THE MUSEUM...IT IS IN THE ONE REMAINING BLIMP HANGAR WHICH IS A WORK OF ART IN ITSELF.... AND/OR....WE COULD GO TO PACIFIC CITY (PFC) WHERE YOU CAN WALK WEST A COUPLE OF BLOCKS AND YOU ARE ON THE BEACH OR IF YOU WALK 1/2 BLOCK EAST YOU WILL BE IN TOWN....IT IS A NEAT PLACE TO GO DON'T FORGET THE POTLUCK/MEETING AT THE FLIGHT SHOP ON THURS EVE JULY 21...... DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com 541 389-1456 From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Mon Jul 18 10:47:00 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Mon Jul 18 10:50:21 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] (no subject) Message-ID: <001201c58bc0$b337fde0$857cdc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG........MY LAST E-MAIL HAD A CRITICAL ERROR..... AT THE FLYING M.......YOU LAND RUNWAY 25 (NOT RUNWAY 7) AND YOU DEPART FROM RUNWAN 7 (NOT RUNWAY 25) NOTE......CAUTION.....BE SURE YOU LAND TO THE WEST AND TAKE OFF TO THE EAST....... DON WILFONG From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Mon Jul 18 10:56:38 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Mon Jul 18 10:59:58 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] CORRECTED VERSION... Message-ID: <000401c58bc2$0be37720$857cdc42@bendcable.com> Subject: FLY-OUT FUN FOR JULY > HEY GANG.....WE HAVE HAD A HARD TIME HAVING A FLY-OUT ANYWHERE AS OF > LATE... > BUT....IT SOUNDS LIKE THE WEATHER WILL BE BLUEBIRD THRU THIS COMING > WEEKEND.. > SO.....GOING TO THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY AND MAYBE THE COAST WILL BE THE > THING > TO DO.... > > LETS ALL MEET AT THE FLIGHT SHOP (SAT. JULY 23) BY 0800 HRS...FOR A > DEPARTURE BY > 0815 HRS TO 0830 HRS.... > > FIRST DESTINATION.... > > THE FLYING M RANCH: YAMHILL: FLYING M (OR05) > ELEVATION 448' ********************************** DISREGARD THE ORIGINAL E-MAIL....THE RUNWAY HEADINGS FOR THE FLYING M WERE SWITCHED.....THE HEADINGS BELOW ARE CORRECT......LAND TO THE WEST.......TAKE OFF TO THE EAST > RUNWAY 7/25 2130' X 40'.....(LAND RUNWAY 25..... TO THE WEST)..... (DEPART RUNWAY 7...... TO THE EAST) IT IS A TURF/GRAVEL STRIP.....IT IS A ONE-WAY STRIP WITH A GOOD APPROACH > TO RUNWAY 25.... ********************************** THIS IS NOT A DIFFICULT STRIP....EVERYTHING FROM SMALL 2 > PLACE > TO TWINS GO IN AND OUT....GARY MILLER, MIKE AND ANN BOND, LECKLIDERS AND > WILFONGS ARE A FEW WHO HAVE BEEN THERE....ASK IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS.... > THE LODGE/CAFE IS BEAUTIFUL AND THE FOOD IS GOOD.... > > NEXT......WE HAVE SEVERAL OTHER OPTIONS TO GO TO.... > > MCMINNVILLE (MMV) > THE AIR MUSEUM WITH THE SPRUCE GOOSE, THE SR-71 AND MANY OTHER PLANES > TO LOOK AT....THE MUSEUM IS RIGHT ACROSS THE HIGHWAY FROM THE AIRPORT > AND THEY PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM...... > > AND/OR.....THERE IS A NEAT AIR MUSEUM AT TILLAMOOK (S47) YOU CAN TAXI > RIGHT UP TO THE MUSEUM...IT IS IN THE ONE REMAINING BLIMP HANGAR WHICH > IS A WORK OF ART IN ITSELF.... > > AND/OR....WE COULD GO TO PACIFIC CITY (PFC) WHERE YOU CAN WALK WEST A > COUPLE OF BLOCKS AND YOU ARE ON THE BEACH OR IF YOU WALK 1/2 BLOCK > EAST YOU WILL BE IN TOWN....IT IS A NEAT PLACE TO GO > > DON'T FORGET THE POTLUCK/MEETING AT THE FLIGHT SHOP ON THURS EVE > JULY 21...... > > DON WILFONG > dwnw@bendbroadband.com > 541 389-1456 > > From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Wed Jul 20 06:36:08 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Wed Jul 20 06:41:09 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] UPCOMING FLY-OUT FUN EVENTS Message-ID: <000701c58d2f$fcc86ce0$857cdc42@bendcable.com> CO-OPA PLANNED EVENTS...... THURS....JULY 21....CO-OPA MEETING AND POTUCK 6:00 P.M. AT THE FLIGHT SHOP...FUN, FOOD & GOOD INFORMATION....JOIN YOUR FRIENDS..... SAT....JULY 23....CO-OPA MONTHLY FLY-OUT MEET AT THE FLIGHT SHOP 8:00 A.M. FOR DEPARTURE BY 8:30 A.M.....TO THE FLYING M FOR BREAKFAST.... THIS IS NOT A DIFFICULT AIRPORT.... THEN MAYBE MCMINNVILLE TO THE AIR MUSEUM (SPRUCE GOOSE....SR-71 & MORE)... AND/OR TILLAMOOK TO THEIR AIR MUSEUM...AND/OR PACIFIC CITY TO WALK ON THE BEACH ETC.....ONLY GARY MILLER, AND THE WILFONGS HAVE INDICATED THEY PLAN TO GO SO FAR....WHAT ABOUT YOU??????? PLEASE LET ME HEAR FROM YOU...... dwnw@bendbroadband.com ************************************** ************************************** OTHER EVENTS COMING UP..... ************************************** THIS IS A GREAT PLACE TO GO IF YOU CAN....... July 25-31, 2005 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, WI www.airventure.org. ************************************** ALWAYS A FUN PLACE TO GO....... Aug. 12 to 14....McCall, Idaho Family Mountain Fly-in......Great fun plus 3 free hours of back country instruction....Make your reservations now..... ************************************** CAN'T MAKE IT TO McCALL....BAKER CITY IS ALWAYS FUN..... Aug. 13, 2005 Huckleberry Pancake Breakfast Fly-In & Airshow, Hangar Dance & Beer Garden Baker City, OR Mel Cross at melc@eoni.com Make it into a weekend! http://www.bakercityairport.com/ ************************************** DON'T MISS THIS ONE...DON MOBLEY ALWAYS PUTS TOGETHER A GREAT SHOW...... Aug. 27, 2005 Central Oregon Air Show Fly-In & Airshow Madras, OR (S33) Antique & classic aircraft entertain the crowd under CAVU skies. Night show also! Food Music and Fun for all! Bring the family and make some memories! Contact Don Mobley, 541-475-6483; donmobley@madras.net ************************************** THIS IS ALWAYS A WINNER.... National Championship Air Races and Air Show, September 14-18, 2005, Reno Stead Field, Reno, NV, USA. ************************************** HEY GANG....THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE POSSIBLE FUN EVENTS COMING UP.... MAKE SOME PLANS....LET OTHERS IN THE GROUP KNOW....THEY MIGHT WANT TO JOIN YOU AND MAKE IT A FLY-OUT EVENT.... DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com 389-1456 From robnash46 at earthlink.net Wed Jul 20 10:10:17 2005 From: robnash46 at earthlink.net (Robert Nash) Date: Wed Jul 20 10:10:48 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] UPCOMING FLY-OUT FUN EVENTS Message-ID: <410-220057320171017578@earthlink.net> We flew into the Flying M a couple of weeks ago in my C150. Tip - when landing into a headwind there, be ready for some swirling crosswinds down low at the approach end. Robert Nash > [Original Message] > From: Don & Norma > To: CO-OPA > Cc: Duane and Jean Francis ; Matt Verdieck ; Valenti ; Christen > Date: 7/20/2005 6:41:13 AM > Subject: [Co-opa] UPCOMING FLY-OUT FUN EVENTS > > CO-OPA PLANNED EVENTS...... > > THURS....JULY 21....CO-OPA MEETING AND POTUCK > 6:00 P.M. AT THE FLIGHT SHOP...FUN, FOOD & GOOD > INFORMATION....JOIN YOUR FRIENDS..... > > SAT....JULY 23....CO-OPA MONTHLY FLY-OUT > MEET AT THE FLIGHT SHOP 8:00 A.M. FOR DEPARTURE > BY 8:30 A.M.....TO THE FLYING M FOR BREAKFAST.... > THIS IS NOT A DIFFICULT AIRPORT.... > THEN MAYBE MCMINNVILLE TO THE AIR MUSEUM > (SPRUCE GOOSE....SR-71 & MORE)... AND/OR TILLAMOOK > TO THEIR AIR MUSEUM...AND/OR PACIFIC CITY TO > WALK ON THE BEACH ETC.....ONLY GARY MILLER, > AND THE WILFONGS HAVE INDICATED THEY PLAN > TO GO SO FAR....WHAT ABOUT YOU??????? > PLEASE LET ME HEAR FROM YOU...... > dwnw@bendbroadband.com > ************************************** > ************************************** > OTHER EVENTS COMING UP..... > ************************************** > > THIS IS A GREAT PLACE TO GO IF YOU CAN....... > > July 25-31, 2005 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, WI > www.airventure.org. > ************************************** > ALWAYS A FUN PLACE TO GO....... > Aug. 12 to 14....McCall, Idaho Family Mountain > Fly-in......Great fun plus 3 free hours of back country > instruction....Make your reservations now..... > ************************************** > CAN'T MAKE IT TO McCALL....BAKER CITY > IS ALWAYS FUN..... > Aug. 13, 2005 Huckleberry Pancake Breakfast > Fly-In & Airshow, > Hangar Dance & Beer Garden Baker City, OR > Mel Cross at melc@eoni.com > Make it into a weekend! > http://www.bakercityairport.com/ > ************************************** > DON'T MISS THIS ONE...DON MOBLEY ALWAYS > PUTS TOGETHER A GREAT SHOW...... > Aug. 27, 2005 Central Oregon Air Show > Fly-In & Airshow Madras, OR (S33) > Antique & classic aircraft entertain the crowd under CAVU skies. > Night show also! > Food Music and Fun for all! Bring the family and make some memories! > Contact Don Mobley, 541-475-6483; donmobley@madras.net > ************************************** > THIS IS ALWAYS A WINNER.... > National Championship Air Races and Air Show, > September 14-18, 2005, Reno Stead Field, Reno, NV, USA. > ************************************** > HEY GANG....THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE > POSSIBLE FUN EVENTS COMING UP.... > MAKE SOME PLANS....LET OTHERS IN THE > GROUP KNOW....THEY MIGHT WANT TO JOIN > YOU AND MAKE IT A FLY-OUT EVENT.... > > DON WILFONG > dwnw@bendbroadband.com > 389-1456 > > _______________________________________________ > Co-opa mailing list > Co-opa@rellim.com > http://catbert.rellim.com/mailman/listinfo/co-opa From flyingeagle at bendbroadband.com Fri Jul 22 02:58:32 2005 From: flyingeagle at bendbroadband.com (flyingeagle@bendbroadband.com) Date: Fri Jul 22 03:02:59 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Fly Out Message-ID: <380-22005752295832906@bendbroadband.com> What NOT to do at the Flying M: NTSB Identification: SEA05FA125 14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation Accident occurred Thursday, June 23, 2005 in Yamhill, OR Aircraft: Cessna 172M, registration: N4368R Injuries: 2 Fatal, 1 Serious. This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. On June 23, 2005, about 2030 Pacific daylight time, a Cessna 172M, N4368R, sustained substantial damage when it impacted the ground in an uncontrolled descent following a loss of control during a go-around from the Flying M Airport near Yamhill, Oregon. The flight instructor and the student pilot received fatal injuries, and the passenger received serious injuries. The airplane was registered to and operated by Hillsboro Flying Club of Portland, Oregon. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for the instructional flight that was conducted under 14 CFR Part 91. The flight departed from the Portland-Hillsboro Airport at an unknown time. According to one witness, who was a pilot and resided at the airport, the airplane made a left traffic pattern for landing on runway 25. The airplane was high on final approach, and the pilot slipped first one way and then the other to lose altitude. The slips were "picture perfect" and the pilot then executed a "perfect flare" at a point where about 1,800 feet of the 2,125-foot-long grass airstrip was available for landing. The witness stated that the airplane was in no danger of overshooting the runway and could "have easily landed and stopped on the runway." With the airplane at an altitude of about 10 feet agl, the pilot added power. The witness expected the airplane to climb out straight ahead; however, the airplane turned left until it was "sideways" to the runway, the nose pitched up, and the airplane climbed steeply to about 80 to 100 feet agl before stalling. The airplane pivoted about its left wing, descended in a near vertical attitude and impacted the ground. When asked about engine power, the witness stated that the power was "on full", but the engine was "running rough, like the carburetor heat might have been on." Another witness, who was not a pilot, but had observed many airplanes land at the airport, reported that he first saw the airplane when it was on final approach. The motion of the airplane seemed odd to him as it slipped to the right and then to the left. The airplane then "swung into a normal descent," and it looked to the witness to be in the correct position to touch down about a third of the way from the runway threshold, at the "normal" touchdown location. When the airplane was at an altitude of 6 to 8 feet agl, he heard the engine throttle up. The airplane's nose started to come up and it rolled to the left. The airplane ascended in a nose high attitude, and at the top of its climb, it "whipped over," pivoting around the left wing to a nose down vertical attitude. The airplane descended and hit the ground right wing first. When asked about engine power, the witness stated that the airplane's engine was running at "full throttle" until it hit the ground. Examination of the accident site revealed that the airplane impacted about 128 feet south of the runway centerline and 267 feet east of the fence at the end of runway 25. The airplane remained substantially intact and came to rest upright on a measured magnetic heading of 320 degrees with the rear of the fuselage resting on a split rail fence and the nose and outboard section of the right wing resting on the gravel road running parallel to the south side of the runway. The airplane was resting below a power line that ran alongside the road, and the power line was not damaged during the accident. The leading edge of the right wing outboard of the lift strut attach point was crushed aft to the forward spar. The leading edge of the left wing was undamaged. The outboard rear section of the left wing was bent upward and displayed transfers of brown woody material that matched the color and texture of the power pole located a few feet behind the wreckage. The empennage was undamaged. The forward section of the cabin was crushed aft, the firewall was pushed aft about 1 foot, and the nose of the propeller spinner was crushed flat against the propeller From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri Jul 22 10:13:34 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri Jul 22 10:14:16 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] TOMORROWS FLY-OUT Message-ID: <000701c58ee0$b19249a0$857cdc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG.... WE PLAN TO MEET AT THE FLIGHT SHOP AT 0800 HRS FOR A 0830 HRS DEPARTURE TO THE FLYING M FOR BREAKFAST... PLEASE E-MAIL ME IF YOU PLAN TO GO.... SO FAR I ONLY KNOW OF 2 PLANES AND SIX PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING....HOPE TO HAVE MORE... DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com 541 389-1456 From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri Jul 22 11:03:09 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri Jul 22 11:04:04 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Flying M Message-ID: <000701c58ee7$9ea30300$857cdc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG.... I, LIKE YOU, RECEIVED THE COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY ACCIDENT REPORT FORWARDED BY MICHAEL ADLER....YES PEOPLE DO CRASH PLANES....YES YOU DO NEED TO BE CAUTIOUS ANY TIME YOU FLY AN AIRPLANE.....READ THE ARTICLE IT CERTAINLY APPEARED TO ME TO BE A PILOT PROBLEM AND NOT AN AIRPORT OR AIRPLANE PROBLEM.. BUT..... IT IS MY BELIEF THAT IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBTS ABOUT YOUR ABILITY OR THE ABILITY OF YOUR PLANE TO SAFELY FLY INTO ANY AIRPORT.....YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO YOUR DOUBTS AND DO NOT TRY IT..... I AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS HAVE FLOWN INTO AND OUT OF THE FLYING M WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS...BUT....DO NOT DO IT IF YOU DO NOT FEEL 100 % COMFORTABLE.... IF YOU WOULD LIKE MORE INFO ON THE AIRPORT... GO TO www.airnav.com put in the airport designation: OR05 you will get complete info on the airport and a color photo of the runway.... IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CALL ME AND I WILL TRY TO ANSWER THEM......DO NOT LET ME OR ANYONE ELSE TALK YOU INTO DOING SOMETHING YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE DOING.... DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com 541 389-1456 From flyingeagle at bendbroadband.com Fri Jul 22 11:22:04 2005 From: flyingeagle at bendbroadband.com (flyingeagle@bendbroadband.com) Date: Fri Jul 22 11:26:46 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Flying M Message-ID: <380-22005752218224718@bendbroadband.com> Hey Don, I hope you did not misinterpret my intention in sending the preliminary NTSB report on the recent crash at the Flying M as an indication that I do not think anyone should fly there. It is an unusual airport for most pilots accustomed to flying in to the normal paved runway airports we all use frequently. When flying in to a different type of airport it is important to be informed about the airport and any different procedures necessary. While the NTSB report is only a preliminary report, the information contained in the report illustrates what can happen when a pilot is not confident in his/her ability to land on this shorter unpaved "one-way" runway. I think it is important to have as much information as possible. I sent the report to anyone going on the fly out tomorrow so they would have the benefit of considering what appear to be tragic errors made by the pilot in that case. I hope to see you tomorrow morning. If not, have a great flight! Michael Adler ---- Original Message ---- From: dwnw@bendbroadband.com To: co-opa@rellim.com Subject: RE: [Co-opa] Flying M Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:03:09 -0700 >HEY GANG.... > >I, LIKE YOU, RECEIVED THE COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY ACCIDENT REPORT >FORWARDED BY MICHAEL ADLER....YES PEOPLE DO CRASH PLANES....YES YOU >DO >NEED TO BE CAUTIOUS ANY TIME YOU FLY AN AIRPLANE.....READ THE >ARTICLE IT CERTAINLY APPEARED TO ME TO BE A PILOT PROBLEM AND NOT AN >AIRPORT OR AIRPLANE PROBLEM.. > >BUT..... > >IT IS MY BELIEF THAT IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBTS ABOUT YOUR ABILITY OR THE >ABILITY OF YOUR PLANE TO SAFELY FLY INTO ANY AIRPORT.....YOU SHOULD >LISTEN >TO YOUR DOUBTS AND DO NOT TRY IT..... > >I AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS HAVE FLOWN INTO AND OUT OF THE FLYING M >WITHOUT >ANY PROBLEMS...BUT....DO NOT DO IT IF YOU DO NOT FEEL 100 % >COMFORTABLE.... > >IF YOU WOULD LIKE MORE INFO ON THE AIRPORT... > >GO TO www.airnav.com >put in the airport designation: OR05 >you will get complete info on the airport and >a color photo of the runway.... > >IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CALL ME AND I WILL TRY TO >ANSWER THEM......DO NOT LET ME OR ANYONE ELSE TALK YOU INTO DOING >SOMETHING YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE DOING.... > >DON WILFONG >dwnw@bendbroadband.com >541 389-1456 > > >_______________________________________________ >Co-opa mailing list >Co-opa@rellim.com >http://catbert.rellim.com/mailman/listinfo/co-opa From deane at tare.net Fri Jul 22 13:34:16 2005 From: deane at tare.net (Deane Cooper) Date: Fri Jul 22 13:34:42 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Flying M Ranch Message-ID: <016401c58efc$bd19e1e0$ca01a8c0@deanecooper> Flying M People: I just wanted to put in my two cents: I first flew into the Flying M Ranch several years ago. I remember my apprehension prior to my first landing there. If I remember right, the flight guide recommends a straight in approach when landing to the west (the only way to land). A straight in approach landing to the west could be a conflict with the "normal" traffic pattern flown at the Ranch which is a circling approach with most planes flying an upwind, crosswind, downwind, base and final. I was so worried about the "short" runway that I landed on the strip next to the pond and ended up having to power up to taxi uphill to the lodge parking. There is a road that runs across the runway just west of the pond and if you land anywhere close to that road, you have plenty of uphill runway left to taxi on. Anyways, after successfully landing (and feeling like quite the bush pilot), I taxied up to the lodge only to discover that there were V-tail Bonanzas, Cherokees, RV-4s and a lot of non-traditional "Bush Planes" already having breakfast. The Flying M is a great experience for anyone that can put their plane down within 300' of their intended landing spot. The key to safely flying into the Flying M is keeping your speed under control and if you decide to go around it can be done safely as long as you do it early (300' above the runway or so). Wish I could make it. I'm flying into the Idaho backcountry this weekend. Have fun. Deane Cooper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20050722/2055e083/attachment.html From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Sat Jul 30 08:05:19 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Sat Jul 30 08:06:18 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT FUN.... Message-ID: <000501c59518$19de9b20$f474dc42@bendcable.com> DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE McCALL, IDAHO.. FAMILY MOUNTAIN FLY-IN.... COMING UP AUG 12-14....BETTER GET YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW....ROOMS CAN BE IN SHORT SUPPLY... FREE DUAL INSTRUCTION IN MOUNTAIN FLYING....WINGS PROGRAM ACTS AS YOUR BIENNIAL....LOTS OF FUN....SEMINARS.....FOOD....GOOD FELLOWSHIP.... AND MUCH MORE.....GO TO http://www.familyflyin.net FOR MORE INFO AND TO REGISTER....I THINK THEY CAN HELP WITH ROOM RESERVATIONS TOO...... SAME WEEKEND IS BAKER CITY FLY-IN....LOTS OF FUN TOO.... http://www.bakercityairport.com/ SEVERAL FROM BEND ARE ALREADY PLANNING TO GO TO McCALL.....NOT SURE ABOUT BAKER CITY...TOO BAD THEY ARE THE SAME WEEKEND.... DON & NORMA WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband 541 389-1456 P.S.: IF YOU DIDN'T GO....YOU MISSED A FUN FLY-OUT TO THE FLYING M, TILLAMOOK & PACIFIC CITY SAT. JULY 23.... From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Mon Aug 1 07:29:04 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Mon Aug 1 07:30:07 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] PLAN YOUR FLY-OUT FUN NOW!!!! Message-ID: <000501c596a5$5edae060$f474dc42@bendcable.com> A FRIENDLY REMINDER....FLY-OUT FUN COMING TO A PLACE NEAR YOU....SOON....... SOME NEAT PLACES TO FLY TO..... **************************************** EITHER McCALL, IDAHO OR BAKER, OREGON ARE THE PLACE TO BE COMING UP WEEKEND AFTER NEXT... AND DON'T FORGET "MADRAS" COMING SOON **************************************** DO IT NOW......"REGISTER" FOR THE McCALL, IDAHO FAMILY FLY-IN AUG 12-14 ........... (WE ALWAYS PLAN TO ARRIVE ON THE 11TH .... DO NOT DELAY..... ROOMS ARE GETTING HARD TO FIND..... CALL THEM THEY WILL HELP YOU FIND A ROOM .. FOR INFO, TO FIND A ROOM AND TO REGISTER http://www.familyflyin.net **************************************** Aug. 13, 2005 Huckleberry Pancake Breakfast Fly-In & Airshow, Hangar Dance & Beer Garden Baker City, OR Mel Cross at melc@eoni.com Make it into a weekend! THIS IS A GREAT ONE OR TWO DAY EVENT.... TOO BAD IT IS THE SAME WEEKEND AS McCALL http://www.bakercityairport.com/ **************************************** BE SURE TO PUT MADRAS ON YOUR SCHEDULE.... DON MOBLEY ALWAYS DOES A GREAT JOB OF PUTTING ON A SHOW....LOTS TO SEE....LOTS TO EAT... AND A CHANCE TO DANCE WITH YOUR HONEY.... Aug. 27, 2005 Central Oregon Air Show Fly-In & Airshow Madras, OR (S33) Antique & classic aircraft entertain the crowd under CAVU skies. Night show also! Food Music and Fun for all! Bring the family and make some memories! Contact Don Mobley, 541-475-6483; donmobley@madras.net From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Mon Aug 8 17:16:54 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Mon Aug 8 20:56:24 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Bend Airport Eastside Access Road Message-ID: Hello Bend Airport tenants and patrons, This email is to solicit your input and ideas. As you know, over this past winter and spring, a new road was built on the east side of the Airport. It was specifically built to provide access for Epic Aircraft, but it will undoubtedly serve for years to come as the entrance to many future tenants and facilities yet to be built. It's time to give that road a name and I'd like to hear from you. Over the next week, I would like to offer you the chance to let me know your thoughts, and I will take your ideas to City Council on August 17th. We are required to follow the Deschutes County naming process, which dictates that road names shall: 1. Be limited to a maximum of two words. 2. Not duplicate existing road names. 3. Not sound so similar to other roads as to be confusing. 4. Not use compass directions as part of the road name. 5. Not use designations such as Loop, Way, Place, etc. 6. Use historical names when possible. 7. Reflect a consensus of sentiment of affected owners and occupants, when possible, subject to the other standards listed above. Some of the names offered so far include: ? Amelia Earhardt (Illustrious aviatrix and wife of former Bend Mayor George Palmer Putnam, the original Bend Bulletin owner) ? Fitzgerald (original land donor of Bend Airport 5/13/42) ? Shanno (one of original land donors 7/29/42) ? Gibson (third donation of land 3/31/80. Also ran one of the earliest air services at the Bend Airport. ? Airport If you have ideas about what this road should be named, let me hear them. In the meantime, fly safe and enjoy the good summer weather. Greg Phillips Bend Municipal Airport Manager PO Box 431 Bend, OR 97709 (541) 389-0258 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20050808/677544ed/attachment.html From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Wed Aug 10 07:20:16 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Wed Aug 10 07:21:32 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] McCALL, IDAHO Message-ID: <000501c59db6$a1884c00$f474dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG.... DON'T FORGET....THIS IS THE WEEKEND FOR THE McCALL FLY-IN....GET YOUR FREE THREE HOURS OF DUAL ON MOUNTAIN FLYING (WINGS PROGRAM THAT QUALIFIES FOR YOUR BIENNIEL)...FREE CHECK OF YOUR PLANE BY THE FAA (ONLY IF YOU WANT ONE) AND A FREE CHECK RIDE BY THE FAA (ONLY IF YOU WANT ONE).....NO PENALTIES OR WRITEUPS..... LOTS OF GOOD FOOD, FUN, SEMINARS, DISPLAYS AND MUCH MORE... WE ARE LEAVING BEND AT 0830 THURS MORNING....AT LEAST TWO PLANES...YOU CAN JOIN US IF YOU WANT....CALL OR E-MAIL ME.... IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN OUR FLIGHT.... DON WILFONG .... dwnw@bendbroadband.com 541 389-1456 From mvbond at myexcel.com Tue Aug 16 16:47:46 2005 From: mvbond at myexcel.com (mvbond) Date: Tue Aug 16 16:47:44 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] AUGUST COOPA NEWSLETTER Message-ID: <43027B22.1030609@myexcel.com> Here is the text version of your chapter Newsletter. Gary has posted the PDF version on the COOPA website. Mike Bond ----------------------------------------------------------------- CASCADE FLYER August 2005, Vol. 05, Issue 8 Website: http://co-opa.rellim.com/ President's Message: Our speaker this month will travel just a bit further than most, but he is surely well known to most of you. Don Mobley will be our guest. It is not possible to relate in a short item all that Don means to local aviation. His time as a Naval Aviator is just the start; he is currently the Madras Airport manager as well as running the FBO there. Many of you have also met Don while he is wearing the hat of the only FAA Designated Examiner in the area. That is enough work for any one man so Buford Throckmorton, his alter ego, is in charge of the aerial comedy routine. Don is a great guy and is always entertaining. One thing sure to be discussed is the upcoming Madras Airshow on the 27th of August. There is more info on the airshow at: http://www.centraloregonairshow.org/ Christian Boris from Z21 was our scheduled speaker for last month. The forecast showed thunderstorms in the area and Christian had to stay at the station to provide updates. Luckily, Ted Zarras, the weekend weatherman, was able to help us out at the very last minute. Ted really knows his weather and the meeting was filled with energy as we discussed our common love for the subject. Along the way we all learned a bit more how Z21 puts together their Local Alert Weather. As part of the presentation Ted walked us through some of his favorite web sites for current weather. I would have expected that they would use some expensive private service, but Z21 starts out at weather.gov just like the rest of us. From there they may head to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for more: http://www.rap.ucar.edu/. One of Ted's favorites was the weather site of his Alma Mater at: http://vortex.plymouth.edu/. While there he introduced us to the mysteries of the Skew-T Log-P diagram while helping us forecast the weather for the next weekend's flyout. How can we convince Ted to give us personalized forecast like that every weekend? There are a million aviation stories waiting to be told in Bend, if you have one, drop a dime and I will try to line them up from the group. Calendar: 18 August - Monthly Meeting 20 August - Monthly Flyout 27 August - Madras Airshow 9-11 September Hillsborough Airshow 13-15 September CAF B-24 & B29 at RDM 15 September - Monthly Meeting 17 September - Monthly Flyout 20 October - Monthly Meeting 22 October - Monthly Flyout 17 June 2006 - Bend Airport open house Web doings: Ted's favorite web weather pages are now at the top of our links page. As always, the CO-OPA website contains recent newsletters and other goodies. http://co-opa.rellim.com To access the members only areas the username is "S07" and the password is "123.0". My Inbox: Lot's of things are happening in Oregon in the next month. The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) will be bringing a B-24 and a B-29 to Redmond the 13th to the 15th of September. John Taylor is looking for donations of time, money, gas and lodging to help make it happen. You can reach John at 318-3833. There will be two great airshows too. The Madras Airshow on the 27th of August and the Hillsborough Airshow from the 9th to the 11th of September. The City of Bend is looking for a name for the new road on the east side of the airport. This is the new road that leads to the new Epic Aircraft building and potential new development on the East side. Contact Greg Phillips, our airport manager, if you have comments. Random Thoughts: One of the joys of owning a "complex" airplane is the complex failure modes it exhibits. This time it was the turbo controller. My engine was performing like a normally aspirated one instead of a turbo-supercharged one, so it was off to the shop again. At press time the problem seemed mostly resolved, but getting the system adjusted just right will take a few more test flights. Difficult work but I'll just have to find time to do it! That leads to another joy of flying, or in this case not flying, in a complex airplane. This meant I could grab backseat rides with other pilots. Sometimes it really is more fun to leave the flying to others. When landing at an airport the pilot's mind is pleasantly occupied with Gas, Undercarriage, Mixture, Prop and Flaps (GUMPF) as well as scanning for traffic, announcing position, keeping square in the pattern and other chores. As a passenger I can leisurely spend my time gazing out the window, taking pictures, and watching the pilot, or pilots, coax the airplane on to the ground. Since I spend most of my time in the air doing things my way, in my plane, it is a real treat to watch how a different pilot handles a different machine. Most single engine planes operate similarly, but the idiosyncrasies are hard to spot until you watch a pilot with a lot of time in type handle the machine. One way to stay safe is to develop a rigorous routine and stick to it. Watching other pilots perform their routines is a good way to pick up better ways to handle an airplane. It is also a reminder that many different routines can work well, what is important is the consistency so that nothing is missed. One thing does stay the same when the pilot becomes passenger. That is scanning for traffic. When Seattle Center calls out traffic for you, everyone on the cockpit has a serious desire to spot it as soon as possible. When two small airplanes are converging at almost 300 miles an hour, that can be quite difficult. That assumes that you even have radar contact and a controller to call out your traffic. Central Oregon is one of the last places in the lower 48 without radar. Recent news reports indicate that Central Oregon will have to wait longer for radar. There will likely not be money in the federal transportation budget to install the radar system that Redmond already owns. There is $226M in the budget for a bridge to 50 people in Alaska, but none for our radar. It seems that many people would rather spend money on fancy new technologies like ADS-B, while ignoring the tried and true technologies like radar. Even support for our radar project within the Oregon pilot community is mixed. Radar helps every pilot with a working radio and transponder; ADS-B only helps those with expensive new avionics. It may be too late for this year, but every voice counts, so call or write anyone that you think may help our cause. Gary Miller _________________________________________________ ... more ATC stories ... A student became lost during a solo cross-country flight. While attempting to locate the aircraft on radar, ATC asked, "What was your last known position?" Student: "When I was number one for takeoff." _________________________________________________ Nothing is easy in Africa ... The following was an email sent by a friend of Gary Miller's brother: Hi there ... Hope all's well ... sorry to have been out of touch for a while ... nothing is easy in Africa. A few days ago I had a little lesson in just how difficult this place can be ... for the most part we fly around in reasonable weather down here...no fog...no high winds (outside of a thunderstorm anyway....very little icing, which in any case can be got rid of easily by flying a bit lower... so to suddenly find myself looking down at water contemplating a river landing was a new experience. I had to fly up-river to Impfondo and from there on to Libenge, about 1 hour 20 minutes further on...the whole trip is about 600 miles...Libenge is a dirt strip that at one time (back in the '50's) had been a large airport but since then the jungle has reclaimed almost all of it....By the time I arrived the Cb's were building with a vengeance and joining up to become a large, serious weather system....the ITCZ has been moving north over the past couple of months and the northern half of the country has been getting more and more difficult to fly through...Anyway, within 10 miles of Libenge we started taking a serious hammering...not just uncomfortable but a pounding that made controlling the aircraft almost impossible. It was so bad and so extensive that there was no point in even trying and so I made a quick decision to fly the short distance to Bangui (capital of Central African Republic), land there and re-fuel....well, that was the plan anyway.... Pointing the a/c toward Bangui we saw a huge red blaze on the weather radar that indicated a no through road as far as we were concerned....ATC at Bangui told us that an approach from the north would have a better chance so we set off in that direction. Unfortunately the weather system was building faster and more aggressively than we could fly and we were being pushed further and further from the airport while routing around it....the only alternate from Bangui is Mbandaka about 250 miles behind us and the weather radar showed that that was now largely cut off.....anyway we kept flying around to the north expecting to find a route through but each time we tried to penetrate the system the a/c became uncontrollable and the passengers very unhappy...By the time we were almost north of the field ( we hadn't been able to get closer than about 60 miles all the way around ) ATC announced that all approaches to the airport were now cut off due to the weather system.....our radar was showing no break in any direction other than north...and there are no airfields to the north for 180 miles.. and then only a rough airstrip unsuitable for our aircraft and in the middle of nowhere with no possibility of getting fuel...Mbandaka was just within range assuming we could fly a straight line to it but the weather system was going to make that impossible.... Fortunately when coming up to this area I've got into the habit of taking a big amount of fuel even though it means taking off a good bit overweight but we had by now been circling and flying around for one and a half hours more than the trip should have taken and the fuel gauges were dropping ever more quickly as they got lower..... We were now about 100 miles from Libenge, our original destination and had about 30 minutes of fuel remaining after starting with 5 hours of fuel from Kinshasa....flying low looking for a way through was soaking up fuel at a phenomenal rate... Time to start thinking about a river landing... Working our way back around the system there was a gap between two cells that looked as though we might push through and be within a few miles of Libenge and so went for it. It was a miserable 20 minutes or so but we could keep control, which was something ( what DID you guys do without weather radar ?), eventually arriving for a short, sharp arrival at Libenge....The passengers reacted as though they'd just won the lottery ....which in a way they had .... As one engine burns fuel at a higher rate than the other we were down to around 5 minutes on the right engine and ten to 15 min on the left ... not much after almost 3 hours in the air. (It's not possible to cross-feed on this model King Air...) There's no fuel to be had at Libenge so we were stuck for the night, slept on the floor of a 'guest house' as no accommodation was available. The next day we had to arrange for fuel to be driven from Bangui in drums to the Ubenge river, where it was ferried across...sounds easy enough, but this is Africa ....the trip took the whole day and we were only just in time to get the fuel into the aircraft and fly to Bangui....narrowly avoiding another huge storm which broke 15 minutes after landing..... A night in Bangui and then back to Kinshasa...I'd worn the same shirt for 3 days and smelt like Gunga Din's Jock-strap... In all an eventful trip and a salutary lesson in flying in remote corners of Africa ... I've thought a lot about all the decisions we took, fuel carried, etc., but cannot find any serious flaw in our strategy ... We could have turned around and headed straight back to Mbandaka at the first hint of a storm, but if we adopted that policy we'd hardly ever complete a trip ... most storms are relatively isolated and move on after 30 min or so ... this one built into a system covering around 300 miles and remained over the north eastern Congo effectively cutting us off ...without the very large amount of extra fuel I was lucky enough to have it could have been a very different ending ... probably not fatal but certainly seriously damaging the aircraft... Other than that, life continues here much as it's done for the past 2 million years. Best wishes ... G :) Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in what oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig, huh? CO-OPA SAFETY CORNER: Joel Premselaar is on vacation for a few weeks but left us this real-life riveting story-within-a-story ... ______________________________________________ HEY KID ...... I was denied further sleep; never the less, I remained in bed mulling over the question put before me after dinner last night. Jim had turned to me and asked, "Joel, you've been flying for over sixty years, how did you ever get started?" I rolled over and my mind, now a time machine, rolled with me back to a Sunday in August of 1936. A vivid picture of the sequence of events that occurred on that August (or is that "au ? 'gust" ?) day flickered like an old movie of that period. I could see myself as a 16-year-old standing on the roof of an apartment building. My rubber raincoat glistened from the rain bathing the sooty city. I am apart and yet a part of that adolescent scanning the leaden sky for a break in the low overcast, my concern grew. The summer was waning and I had precious little daylight remaining after work for flying. Too soon, school would start and my free time would be reduced to Sundays only. I work Saturdays. Work! Depression! Everyone had to do his bit. I reflected on the fact that when I wasn't shining shoes or selling newspapers at a subway entrance, I was riding the subways selling "Liberty" magazines. Why was this recollection so important to me? My thoughts took me back to my fragmented work pattern of the time; delivering and picking up garments, sweeping floors, and occasionally pressing clothes for a dry cleaning establishment. Free time was spent at the airport laboring at general flunky tasks such as washing airplanes, sopping up oily drip pans from under leaky aircraft engines, and sweeping hangar floors in exchange for flight time. My arm went to sleep - - pins and needles. I'd been lying on it. I wriggled into a new position and, like coming out of a dream, I tried to recapture my young self. Ah yes, it's 1936 again and I'm standing on the rooftop. I'm wet but my spirit is not dampened. My mind is made up. I will go to the airport. Ever the optimist, I hauled out my bike and started pedaling the six miles to Flushing Airport. A Model "A" Ford passed me honking his horn. I conjured up the image of a goose trying to land on the street puddles. Land on the street puddles he did - - with a splash. Oh well, I couldn't get any wetter. Waving an apology, the driver disappeared in a rooster tail spray. As I approached the field, I could see the wind sock hanging limp. I propped my bike against the hangar wall and entered the flight office. The room was half office and half lounge. The walls were covered with aeronautical charts and airplane pictures. Cigarette smoke and the aroma of coffee greeted me. Cigarettes and coffee were the staples of airport loungers. Walt Chambliss, an ace of The Great War, was holding court as usual. His twisting hands were held aloft as story telling pilots are wont to do. The cigar clamped tightly between his lips bounced fiercely as he talked through the side of his mouth. I fixated on the cigar's long ash. Defying all laws of physics, it clung tenaciously to the tip of the cigar as though to life itself. Would it ever fall? Without the slightest change in the cadence of his words or the motion of his hands, he managed to acknowledge my arrival with a sharp nod of his head. Still, the cigar ash held. His red hair, graying at the temples, capped a crimson face that was not the result of a sunburn, embarrassment, or effort. While I wondered about that at the time, it was later in life that I learned that those frequently under the "alcofluence of incohol" manifested such a complexion. His feet were propped up on a '30s ice cream parlor table revealing high-topped lace and hook boots crested with battered leather puttees that overlapped the cuffs of whipcord breeches, the sides of which looked like the doors of an old time western saloon. His khaki shirt, open at the collar, sported epaulettes, each of which featured a major's oak leaf. Judging from his garment's condition, it could be concluded that they were vestiges of his Great War uniform. In contrast to his disheveled wear, the shiny silver wings on his breast evinced a reverent regard for flying. He was, however, a vanishing breed - - a barnstormer. Although he must have told this story a hundred times, his eyes glowed with excitement as he savored the experience he was relating. Slowly guiding his hands around the sky he continued his tale. "It took no less than 20 minutes of maneuvering to position myself up sun of the Boche. I was at least 3,000 feet above him. The black form?e crosses on his wings defeated its camouflage. I was able to follow his every move. I looked around to make sure that he was not a decoy. I thumbed out the sun. I was alone with the Hun. You can bet I was excited. Getting this Heinie would make me an ace. Whispering, I told myself to relax. That seemed to work and I settled down to the business at hand. I charged up my twin Vickers machine guns. Just a bit longer, just a l-i-t-t-l-e b-i-t l-o-n-g-e-r, ----NOW! Diving out of the sun my Spad and I became as identical twins. My scream harmonized with that of the flying wires as we plummeted falcon-like upon our prey. Closing on the enemy, I could more clearly define the outline of my target. It was a Rumpler observation plane. Intent upon the ground situation, the pilot was leaning to one side to see around the mass of the engine, radiator, and exhaust stack looming before him." Pausing to suck on his cigar and blow blue smoke rings, the major artfully created the effect he desired. Oh, he was a masterful story teller. Leaning forward in their chairs, one or two of his now captive audience blurted out, "Go on, go on!" Smiling with satisfaction, took a sip of coffee, grimaced at it for now it was cold, looked up and continued. "My shadow alerted the observer. Dropping his camera to the floor of the cockpit, he pounded on the shoulder of the pilot twice. Through my gunsight, I could see his Spandau Maxim machine gun slide along its Parabellum mount toward me. I had closed to 300 feet. Squeezing off a long burst, I watched my bullets stitch a pattern of holes along the fuselage, through the gunner, and into the engine. The body of the gunner spared the pilot. The gunner fell backward onto the pilot who, while grappling with the controls, pushed him aside. The gunner hung limply over the side flapping in the airstream like a rag doll. Breaking off the pass I exchanged speed for altitude to position myself for another attack. "The Rumpler was now trailing smoke. The pilot guided the crippled plane toward a clearing behind our lines. He was mine. Closing to point blank range, I could clearly see stark terror register on his face. I pointed to the clearing. Nodding vigorously he turned his crippled plane toward it Yes, we were the last of chivalrous combatants. In fact, they dubbed us 'Knights of the Air.' "Knowing that it was fire that caused his fear, I resolved to gun him down the instant a fire started. Understanding my purpose, the pilot waved gratefully clearly preferring the coup de gr?ce I would deliver to the horror of fire. The doped fabric covering made all aircraft of that period a potential incinerator. Parachutes were not standard equipment those days. "The German set about the business of landing his craft. He was doing a good job of it, sideslipping to keep the smoldering engine from igniting the rest of the plane. After the landing, the pilot leaped out of his machine before it stopped rolling. Pilotless, the plane ground looped and burst into flames. As the pilot got to his feet, a group of Tommies watching the whole episode surrounded him. The Brits waved to me ardently; the Jerry was waving too. I returned the salute with equal enthusiasm. Five Krauts had fallen to my guns. At last I had earned the title 'Ace'." As a final gesture of satisfaction, he inhaled deeply of his cigar. He then took a long draught of the cold coffee - - I could see his Adam's apple bob - - and then exhaled the cigar smoke. Great stunt! I was impressed. Only then did I notice that some time in the telling of the story, the ash had dropped from his cigar leaving a snail-like gray trail down his shirt but, I observed, not on those shiny silver wings. Feigning modesty, my mentor smiled and held up his hand against a flood of questions and excused himself. Great theatrics! Watching this man, my father's age, rise majestically from his chair and saunter (swagger?) from the room was a treat in itself. I had recently seen a movie in which a panther rose from its haunches to stalk its prey - - pure poetry of motion. Walt Chambliss was that cat personified. I was awe struck. I had been in Mr. Chambliss' company a large share of the summer; still, I was awe struck. Later, I found myself alone with my hero. His demeanor confirmed what I had suspected earlier. He was an entirely different person one-on-one, at least with me. I recall that on that occasion he spoke to me in a serious mien. "Have you thought about what I told you last week, Kid?" He knew my name but had, as yet, to use it. Everyone else had a name, but to him I was "Kid." I knew exactly what he meant but, - - kid like - - I responded, "Gee, we talked about so much I don't know what you mean." He nodded knowingly showing only a trace of a smile. "You do know," he said. "It's about that business of flying for the Spanish Loyalists. Do you remember that?" I looked directly into his eyes. The business was about flying for the Spanish Loyalists for $2,000 a kill and subsistence. One kill would give me twice the money my father earned in a year working six days a week. He had reminded me that I only had a couple of hundred flight hours and that I'd be pitted against seasoned Nazi pilots flying the best airplanes in the world. I answered respectfully. "Yes, I remember. I told my parents about the offer and what you said about it. I admit that when I left you last week I wasn't the least bit discouraged about going. But, after talking to my parents and thinking more about what you said, I decided not to go." Mr. Chambliss then confided, "I have to tell you that I was going to ask you to barnstorm with me. You know that Phil quit and I need someone to fly the second plane." I could tell that these words were hard for him. He was such a loner. "I would have asked you today but your parents are right," He continued. "Get an education. I had a good education but here I am, a flying hobo. Some day I'll tell you why this is so; but, later - - later. It's a whole other story." He got up and with that slinking walk of his went to the window and looked into the southwestern sky. "Mm," he said, offering me some hope for a flight, "It looks as though we might get to fly in an hour or so. It surely does. I have several customers lined up. Time for another cup of mud." With a steaming cup of coffee in each hand, he sat down facing me and passed a cup to me. I thanked him with a grin. I always grin when I am touched and too full of words to speak. "Tell me Kid," he asked, "How did you get started flying at such an early age?" Pleased with his interest in me, I cheerfully told him about Uncle Morris. "Uncle Morris isn't my blood relative." I said. "He is my aunt's husband. When I was about eight years old and since he had no children, he gave me special attention and told me exciting stories about his dogfights of the Great War. He was in a pursuit squadron." Slouching in his chair, Mr. Chambliss held his cup in both hands slowly sipping his coffee. Watching his face through a thin veil of mist, I could tell that he was deeply interested in my answer. Barely removing his lips from the cup, he peered over it and asked. "What is his last name?" I told him, but he slowly moved his head from side to side. "What was his squadron's number?" "The 95th Aero Squadron", I answered. At this he bolted upright and I feared for his coffee. "That was my squadron." he said abruptly. "I don't recognize his name. Do you happen to have a picture of him?" "Sure," I replied. "We had our picture taken together in front of the Curtiss Robin a couple of weeks ago. I carry it with me all of the time." I removed the photo from my wallet and passed it to him. Putting his cup down, he positioned himself for better lighting and squinted at it with extended arms. His eyebrows almost merged as he concentrated on Uncle Morris. He spoke in a slow metered and low voice. "I know this man but I'm having trouble placing him. Yes, he was in my squadron but I just can't place him." Staring at him as he studied the photograph for what seemed an eternity to me, a remarkable transformation took place. His lips opened, his eyebrows were no longer knitted and a smile was beginning to form. The smile expanded until he was laughing, positively roaring. His eyes were watering. Reaching for a handkerchief in his back pocket, he was now out of control, almost convulsing. It scared me. I was totally confused. The decline of his laughter was interspersed with outbursts of what can only be described as cackles. Gradually regaining his composure, he finally had sufficient control to wipe his eyes. A sound like coal pouring down a metal chute was generated as he blew his nose. Himself again, Mr. Chambliss spoke apologetically. "I'm sorry. I'm so very sorry about my behavior and for what I must tell you. The whole thing is so ludicrous I simply lost control. I did need that laugh though. I was getting pretty low." Leaning forward and again resting his arms on his legs, he locked his hands together and looked directly into my eyes. I sat there transfixed. He started to say something, stopped, wet his lips and began anew. "Kid," he said, "There are times in life when heroes fall and when it's your hero, it hurts. It hurts like hell. I have to tell you - - your uncle was in my squadron in France all right. Your uncle told you genuine air combat stories, no doubt, but - - -" He looked away only an instant and then continued. "Uncle Morris, you see, never took part in air engagements. He heard those stories in the Officer's Mess. He was the officer's cook and server." Pausing, he studied my reaction and correctly read the chagrin and anger I openly displayed. "Kid," he said ever so softly, "you have a choice to make. You can either confront him with this and destroy his dignity and his affection for you, or you can be thankful to him for starting you on your career and continue to enjoy his favor. It really isn't my business, but I'd like to know what your decision is. It's important to me too." The enigmatic last words of his statement so occupied me that my anger was quenched. I rose from my seat and slowly made my way out and onto the tarmac to swallow the lump in my throat and to hide the tears I knew would come. For a long time I stared at the sky. It was brighter. Sort of an omen I thought. I knew that I had just received a profound message, but what was it? Gradually it dawned on me that I was at a cross road in my young life. In another few months I would finish school and would, according to my long-range plan, try to fly for the U.S. Navy. The navy's recruiting posters state that the navy needs good men. Men, that was the key. Physically I'd be a man. Sure, that's the message. I'd look like an adult but I must also behave like one. I almost ran back to the office. Mr. Chambliss was standing at the door watching. "Well, made up your mind have you?" He asked. I almost sobbed. "Yes, I understand what you tried to tell me. I'll never tell him." Walt Chambliss smiled benevolently and said, "Joel, I'm proud of you." He called me Joel. ______________________________________________ Memaloose ... request for help ... Joe Spence Aviation Enterprise, Oregon spencefly@bmi.net Hi Joe, Mel Cross out of Baker suggested I contact you regarding having a work party at Memaloose. I'm the McCall chapter president of the Idaho Aviation Association and I thought that since Memaloose airstrip is deteriorating rapidly I would try to schedule a work party for it, even though it's not in Idaho. I'd like to get some help from the Oregon Pilot's Association or some folks who use the strip. Typically we show up with hand tools and a new windsock and dig up rocks and fill holes and generally clean up as much of the strip as a few guys with hand tools can in a few hours. Some of us camp overnight and go home the next day. Memaloose could use some heavy equipment, but we have no way of getting any there. We have tentatively scheduled the Memaloose work party for September 10th of this year. I still need to contact the USFS to get their approval. Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Bill Nikkel 208-634-1504 JULY FLY-OUT WAS FUN.... There was quite a bit of concern about flying to the FLYING M RANCH....as it is a "ONE WAY" strip near the Yamhill River, with tall trees and a mountain on the west end....a number of people pointed out that a 172 with a student and an instructor crashed recently and two people were killed....this is tragic...but....if you read the report it is obvious that it was not a plane problem or an airport problem....it was a PILOT PROBLEM... Well Sat. morning came and we gathered at the flight shop to count noses (and spinners)...we had eight noses and four spinners (Curt and Jackie Turner have an Apache Twin) so we had three planes on the Fly-out....Curt & Jackie Turner had their Apache, Mike and Ann Bond had their Cardinal RG and Don & Norma Wilfong had their Skylane....We had two more people Gary Miller (his plane was in the shop) and Ed Endsley....Gary had never flown in a Cardinal so he rode with the Bonds to the Flying M and Ed rode with the Wilfongs.. Mike and Ann had to get their plane out of the hangar and add some fuel so they got off the ground a little later than the other two planes... We had a very smooth ride all the way over...the Apache was a little faster than the Skylane so Curt dropped the power back a notch and we flew together all the way....Curt had never been to the Flying M so he was a little nervous, he said he would take a look and if he felt uncomfortable he would not land....well upon seeing the airport, the wide open approach and all he followed the Skylane in...he had to add power to taxi up to the parking area....he said "I sure don't know what all the fuss was about... this is a great airport" Ed grabbed his camera and headed down to the approach end of the strip to get some shots of the Cardinal coming in......I understand he got right close and personal and got some really great shots... We were all hungry by then so we trooped inside the beautiful and rustic log lodge...you can sit at your table and watch the planes come and go...The entry foyer is guarded by a mounted Cougar and there are trophy heads adorning the walls....in the bar there is a buggy hanging from the ceiling and the bar is made from a giant log flattened on one side and it appears to be hung by huge logging hooks that were originally used to move logs....Norma & I spent the night one time so we could participate in the evening dining and dancing.... We all sat together and hashed and rehashed flying, the worlds problems and anything else that came to mind. We really enjoyed our meals and conversation....After a while is was time to move on so.....Mike, Ann and Ed all climbed into the Cardinal and headed back to Bend....Curt and Jackie had not seen the Museum at Tillamook so they headed there and Don, Norma and Gary followed in the Skylane.... The Museum is located in one of the huge blimp hangars from World War II and it is worth seeing even without the collection. We spent a bunch of time looking over the collection of Planes and memorabillia before deciding it was time to move on... By then Curt and Jackie decided to head for home....Tillamook was reporting winds gusting to 30 knots as we taxied out....we back taxied on runway 19 to the intersection with 31...We (in the Skylane) made an intersection take off and headed for Pacific City and the Apache back taxied to the end of 31 and took off and headed back to Bend.... The wind was strong and gusting a Pacific City but it was right down the runway...We landed without incident just in time to see them loading a Hawk XP onto a trailer....the pilot had landed hard on the nose gear several days earlier and buckled the firewall....I guess no one was hurt but it did a number on the plane and they had pulled the wings off and were hauling it somewhere for repair ....it is sad to see a perfectly good airplane damaged like that.... We (Gary, Norma & Don) wandered around and looked in the little shops, Gary treated us to lunch at the deli (nice place less than a block from the runway) so after eating and checking things out we all climbed in the Skylane and headed for home.....We were not quite through having fun so we landed at PILOT BUTTE INTERNATIONAL, had a beer, visited some more and I then drove Gary back to the Flight Shop to pick up his car.... All in all we had a great time and we hope next time more people will be able to go along.... Don Wilfong ______________________________________________ MCCALL FAMILY FLY-IN, AUG 12-14, 2005 This was also a lot of fun, attended by a large Bend contingent ... will have reports and pictures next month ... here are two of the Bend airplanes with an earlier crosswind 'victim' behind ... From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri Aug 19 08:42:43 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri Aug 19 08:44:13 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT FUN !!! Message-ID: <000601c5a4d4$a3c759a0$f474dc42@bendcable.com> > HEY GANG.....BELOW IS A LIST OF SOME OF THE PLACES TO FLY IN THE > NEAR FUTURE.....THE FIRST ONE "MCMINNVILLE" WILL BE OUR FLY-OUT > THIS MONTH..... > > MEET AT THE FLIGHT SHOP SAT. AUG. 20 AT 08:15 FOR A DEPARTURE BY > 08:45..... > > SOME OF US WANT TO FLY TO THE FLYING M FOR BREAKFAST (IT IS JUST A FEW > MILES FROM MCMINNVILLE) AND THEN STOP AT MCMINNVILLE TO SEE THE ANTIQUE > AIRCRAFT AND ALSO GO TO THE MUSEUM TO SEE THE SPRUCE GOOSE, SR-71 AND MANY > OTHER INTERESTING DISPLAYS.... > > IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO GO TO THE FLYING M THEN YOU CAN GO DIRECTLY TO > MCMINNVILLE......I AM SURE THEY WILL HAVE FOOD AT MCMINNVILLE..... > > DON WILFONG > dwnw@bendbroadband.com > > ******************************* > CO-OPA FLY-OUT SAT. AUG 20 (SEE MESSAGE ABOVE).. > > Aug. 19-21, 2005 NW Antique Aircraft Club Fly-In McMinnville OR MMV > The 46th Annual Northwest Antique Airplane Club Fly-in is scheduled for > Friday, Saturday & Sunday, August 19, 20 & 21 at McMinnville Airport > (MMV). Airport unicom is 123.0 - Ground frequency is 123.3. When > entering the traffic pattern, please cross midfield at 1500 feet to avoid > glider traffic. Runway 4/22 - left pattern. No upwind, please. Grass > runway - 22 R > ****************************** > Aug. 26-28, 2005 60th Anniversary of end of WWII > Vancouver National Historic Reserve and Pearson Airfield > Vancouver WA > Historic Aircraft Fly-ins > Navy ships on the Columbia > Music, dancing & fireworks > ****************************** > Aug. 26-28, 2005 Northwest Art > & Air Fair Albany, OR > 3 days of Night Glow ballons > Young Eagles Flights available > Look to the website for great graphics & details Wah Chang Northwest Art & > Air Fair > NEW! Speaker on Saturday & Sunday at 3 pm. Former SR-71 pilot & crew cheif > at the > Linn county fairgrounds adjacent to the Albany Airport. > ****************************** > HEY DON'T MISS THIS ONE....... > Aug. 27, 2005 Central Oregon Air Show > Fly-In & Airshow Madras, OR (S33) > Antique & classic aircraft entertain the crowd under CAVU skies. Night > show also! > Food Music and Fun for all! Bring the family and make some memories! > Contact Don Mobley, 541-475-6483; > donmobley@madras.net > ****************************** > JOHN DAY IS ALWAYS FUN....... > September 10, 2005 Grant County Air Search > Fly In-Drive In Breakfast John Day Airport > Breakfast to benefit the Grant County Ranch and Rodeo Museum > Contact for more information: Cheryl Berry 541-820-4310 > ****************************** > ALWAYS A BLAST...... > Sept 14-18, 2005 Reno Air Races > Reno, NV > www.airrace.org > ****************************** > WE HAVE ENJOYED THIS ONE BEFORE.... > Sept 23-25, 2005 Astoria Regional Airport Fly-in > and Coast Guard Open House Astoria, OR > www.portofastoria.com > > > > From gem at rellim.com Fri Aug 19 11:03:16 2005 From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller) Date: Fri Aug 19 11:03:29 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Re: FLY-OUT FUN !!! In-Reply-To: <000601c5a4d4$a3c759a0$f474dc42@bendcable.com> References: <000601c5a4d4$a3c759a0$f474dc42@bendcable.com> Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yo All! Here is much more info on McMinnville this Staurday. http://www.nwaac.com/flyininfo.htm "Largest Antique Aircraft Fly-in in the Pacific Northwest with over 800 antiques, warbirds, classics & experimentals on display." "World class aerobatic pilots to perform Saturday, August 20th from 2 - -3 pm at Fly-in! They will include Wayne Handley in his Raven & Renny Price in his Sukhoi SU-29 and Dr. D (Frank Donnelly in his 1946 clipped wing Taylorcraft." RGDS GARY - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Blvd, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 gem@rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676 On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Don & Norma wrote: > > SOME OF US WANT TO FLY TO THE FLYING M FOR BREAKFAST (IT IS JUST A FEW > > MILES FROM MCMINNVILLE) AND THEN STOP AT MCMINNVILLE TO SEE THE ANTIQUE > > AIRCRAFT AND ALSO GO TO THE MUSEUM TO SEE THE SPRUCE GOOSE, SR-71 AND > > MANY OTHER INTERESTING DISPLAYS.... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDBh7m8KZibdeR3qURAry7AJ43LUaIa6d4LYfbQk54Uuj/lACCZgCgqyTx RcTMLXfi+5aWirTl9IrLgmM= =HN+u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From robnash46 at earthlink.net Fri Aug 19 12:10:19 2005 From: robnash46 at earthlink.net (Robert Nash) Date: Fri Aug 19 12:10:45 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Re: FLY-OUT FUN !!! Message-ID: <410-220058519191019359@earthlink.net> Sounds like fun. I'm flying Bend - Prineville, nonstop, Sat. early a.m. to leave my plane with Eldon to do the annual. Would anybody who's going on the flyout be willing to stop off at Prineville airport to pick up me and Marie to go along on the flyuout? Bob Nash 390 7200 or 382 9885 > [Original Message] > From: Gary E. Miller > To: Don & Norma > Cc: Valenti ; Duane and Jean Francis ; CO-OPA ; Matt Verdieck ; Christen > Date: 8/19/2005 11:03:34 AM > Subject: [Co-opa] Re: FLY-OUT FUN !!! > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Yo All! > > Here is much more info on McMinnville this Staurday. > > http://www.nwaac.com/flyininfo.htm > > "Largest Antique Aircraft Fly-in in the Pacific Northwest with over 800 > antiques, warbirds, classics & experimentals on display." > > "World class aerobatic pilots to perform Saturday, August 20th from 2 > - -3 pm at Fly-in! They will include Wayne Handley in his Raven & Renny > Price in his Sukhoi SU-29 and Dr. D (Frank Donnelly in his 1946 clipped > wing Taylorcraft." > > RGDS > GARY > - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Blvd, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 > gem@rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676 > > On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Don & Norma wrote: > > > > SOME OF US WANT TO FLY TO THE FLYING M FOR BREAKFAST (IT IS JUST A FEW > > > MILES FROM MCMINNVILLE) AND THEN STOP AT MCMINNVILLE TO SEE THE ANTIQUE > > > AIRCRAFT AND ALSO GO TO THE MUSEUM TO SEE THE SPRUCE GOOSE, SR-71 AND > > > MANY OTHER INTERESTING DISPLAYS.... > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDBh7m8KZibdeR3qURAry7AJ43LUaIa6d4LYfbQk54Uuj/lACCZgCgqyTx > RcTMLXfi+5aWirTl9IrLgmM= > =HN+u > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Co-opa mailing list > Co-opa@rellim.com > http://catbert.rellim.com/mailman/listinfo/co-opa From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Mon Aug 22 11:59:24 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Mon Aug 22 12:00:49 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Fw: Smiely Creek Fly-In Message-ID: <000901c5a74b$9cad0e20$f474dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG.....THIS IS FROM ONE OF THE FAA GUYS THAT WAS AT McCALL, ID... HE WAS TELLING US ABOUT A FLY-IN THE FIRST PART OF SEPT. TO SMILEY CREEK....I WAS GOING TO GET MORE DETAILS AND LET EVERYONE KNOW ABOUT IT...BUT.....AS YOU CAN SEE.....FUEL COSTS HAVE CAUSED IT TO BE CANCELLED....DON ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 10:33 AM Subject: Smiely Creek Fly-In > > > > > Don: > > i just got off the phone with the sponsors of the Smiley Creek Fly-In and > because of fuel costs their going to cancel for this coming September. They > don't know if they will hold another one in 2006. Hopefully, fuel prices > will be down next year. > > Rick Stednitz > Safety Program Manager - Utah > From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri Aug 26 08:32:38 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri Aug 26 08:35:45 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] MADRAS AIRSHOW Message-ID: <002301c5aa53$64731bc0$f474dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG... DON'T FORGET....TOMORROW....AUG. 27.....MADRAS "CENTRAL OREGON AIRSHOW" BREAKFAST....LOTS OF PLANES ON DISPLAY.... LOTS OF CLASSIC CARS ON DISPLAY.... PLAN FOR AN ENJOYABLE DAY.....EVENING STUFF TOO... CAMP OVERNIGHT IF YOU WISH.... DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri Aug 26 13:10:39 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri Aug 26 13:13:58 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] MADRAS AIRSHOW Message-ID: <000a01c5aa7a$3b0766c0$f474dc42@bendcable.com> I JUST CHECKED WITH DON MOBLEY'S OFFICE AND THEY STATED THAT THE MADRAS AIRPORT WILL BE CLOSED 13:30 THRU 16:40 AND AGAIN 19:20 THRU 21:40....ON SAT. AUG 27 (TOMORROW) FOR AIRSHOW PERFORMANCES... SEE YOU THERE... DON & NORMA WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com From leckone at bendcable.com Mon Sep 12 20:11:06 2005 From: leckone at bendcable.com (Leckliders) Date: Mon Sep 12 20:13:35 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] SHORT FIELD CLINIC Message-ID: <10b201c5b810$c84c7a90$7276dc42@leckone> HI EVERYONE! LET'S HAVE SOME FUN AND TEST OUR SKILLS AT THE SAME TIME. HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE YOU PRACTICED SHORT FIELD TAKEOFFS AND LANDINGS? HAVE YOU EVER TAKEN PART IN A, "SHORT FIELD CLINIC"? YOU DON'T HAVE TO COMPETE WITH OTHER PILOTS AND THEIR PLANES, JUST CHALLENGE YOURSELF. WITH APPROVAL FROM THE F.A.A., WE CAN EVEN MAKE THE PILOT BRIEFING PART OF THE WINGS PROGRAM. ITS A CHANCE TO GET OUT AND DO SOME FLYING WITH ALL OUR FREINDS WITHOUT SPENDING A FORTUNE ON AVGAS. I WILL SEND OUT MORE DETAILS WHEN I GET BACK FROM PENDLETON. SORRY, I CAN'T BE AT THE MEETING. NANCY LECKLIDER, VICE PRES. CO/OPA. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20050912/faed8976/attachment.html From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Mon Sep 12 20:15:11 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Mon Sep 12 20:17:56 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Volunteers Needed Message-ID: <001001c5b811$5ab9ad80$f474dc42@bendcable.com> Hey Gang... The Pilot Middle School will be participating in hosting 9 students and 2 Adult Chaparones to Bend from our Sister City, Fujioka, Japan. This is an annual event where they send some of their students and teachers here to experience our country and our culture and we send some of ours there to experience theirs. This is about an 8 day event and they stay with families here. They tour our City Hall and other interesting and educationl places. This is a wonderful experience for these young people and it certainly does a great deal of good for our future relationship with other countries in the world. We have had both students and adults stay in our home in the past and it has been a very worthwhile experience. Last year we (the Wilfongs) took some of them for a flight over Crater Lake and back....This was one of the highlights of their trip so our son Steven Wethereald (a teacher at Pilot Butte Middle School and one of the organizers of the event) has asked us if we would please ask some of our group to volunteer their time and their planes to take these 11 people on a trip over Crater Lake and back.....This gives us a chance to feel really good about sharing our beautiful country with others ....and you know you wanted to go flying anyway.... The families these students and adults are staying with usually have the weekends planned to take them somewhere or to show them around the area so it has been determined that Mon. Oct.10 would be the best date or if that doesn't work out we could go on Tue Oct. 11 to take them on this fly-out..(they go home on the 13th)...It would work best if we plan to leave Bend about 0800 hrs. so we could have them back before noon (that is a smooth air time of day and they would be back in time to go to the lunchen scheduled for them each noon. I can take 3 of them in our plane and we need enough volunteers that can (for sure) take the rest of the 11....it is essential that if you commit....you follow through as it would be a sad situation if someone didn't show up and we had to leave part of them standing at the airport while the rest flew away. Please contact me if you can do this...I will also bring it up at the Meeting/Potluck this Thurs. evening. Don Wilfong dwnw@bendbroadband.com 389-1456 From mvbond at myexcel.com Tue Sep 13 18:48:26 2005 From: mvbond at myexcel.com (mvbond) Date: Tue Sep 13 18:48:00 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] SEPTEMBER COOPA NEWSLETTER Message-ID: <4327816A.1030404@myexcel.com> Here is the text version of your chapter Newsletter. Gary has posted the PDF version on the COOPA website. Mike Bond ----------------------------------------------------------------- CASCADE FLYER September 2005, Vol. 05, Issue 9 Website: http://co-opa.rellim.com/ President's Message: It has been taking longer and longer to start the meeting on time. That makes it look to me like we need an open meeting just to catch up. We have a lot of things to catch up on, as individuals and as a group. So this month, the features speakers will be ourselves! Over the summer our members had a lot of flying adventures, so come prepared to tell the rest of the group about them. We also have an event to plan. Nancy Lecklider has been working on organizing a short field landing clinic for us. She has also marshalled help from the 99s and the FAA to create a fun event that will also qualify for the WINGs program. Now is the time to nail down the final details and just do it. Thanks again to Don Mobley for coming down to our meeting last month and doing a warm-up program for the Madras Airshow. It must have worked because a lot of our group was present for that wonderful event. The nearby field burning left the sky a bit hazy, but otherwise the day, and night, was nearly perfect. A special treat was the MiG-19 kicking in the afterburner with the sunset behind Mt. Jefferson in the background. Best of all was Manfred Radius doing loops and rolls in the moonless night inside his fireworks spewing glider. Don and the rest of the many people that put on the show did a great job again this year. Also deserving special mention was the missing man formation of RV's in memory of our own Tom Ellsberg. Tom will be missed. Next month we are sure to have another great speaker, if you know who it should be then please drop me hint. Calendar: 13-15 September CAF B-24 & B29 at RDM 15 September - Monthly Meeting 17 September - Monthly Flyout 20 October - Monthly Meeting 22 October - Monthly Flyout 17 November - Monthly Meeting 19 November - Monthly Flyout 15 December - Monthly Meeting 16 December - Monthly Flyout 17 June 2006 - Bend Airport open house Web doings: As always, the CO-OPA website contains recent newsletters and other goodies. http://co-opa.rellim.com To access the members only areas the username is "S07" and the password is "123.0". My Inbox: The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) will be bringing a B-24 and a B-29 to Redmond the 13th to the 15th of September. John Taylor is looking for donations of time, money, gas and lodging to help make it happen. You can reach John at 318-3833. Random Thoughts: I know a few people that do not watch TV nor read the newspapers. The rest of us have seen a lot of news coverage about Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath. Now it is becoming non-stop coverage of the finger pointing. Silly stories of governmental snafus abound. There are stories of firefighters not allowed in to New Orleans until they passed a two day course on sexual harassment. Refugees stranded at the New Orleans airport because the TSA could not "properly" screen the passengers before boarding emergency evacuation flights. Buses and trucks stopped at the edge of the city awaiting paperwork. This all points up a case where the FAA really gets it, and gets it right. When human life at stake it is time to ignore the rulebooks and just do what needs to be done: FAR 91.3 (b) In an in-flight emergency requiring immediate action, the pilot in command may deviate from any rule of this part to the extent required to meet that emergency. FAR 121.557 (a) In an emergency situation that requires immediate decision and action, the pilot in command may take any action that he considers necessary under the circumstances. In such a case he may deviate from prescribed operations procedures and methods, weather minimums, and this chapter, to the extent required in the interests of safety. Pilots need to take a moment and be thankful that the FAA actually trusts us to just do the right thing in an emergency. The paperwork can wait until later. As the events down south show, this is a very rare and special priviledge that we need to honor and protect. We need to always act in a manner worthy of that trust. It is often fashionable to find fault with the FAA. We all have our faults. When holding them up to some other government agencies in the news they still look pretty good to me. Gary Miller FLY-OUT FUN IN AUGUST: Hey Gang...August was a month of fun things to do.... We had a great fly-out to McCall where several planes from Bend showed up. Seen at McCall ... This really is a T-6! Modern nose art, on a Kitfox Waiting for Wings instructors ... FLY-OUT FUN continued ...I think everyone got in some good flying into some of the Idaho strips...they have really cut back on the ones they will let you go into....I think it is because the Instructors are volunteer and some of them are not familiar with the back country strips themselves.... Sawtooth Mountain Range on a very smoky day Ed Note: We got to overfly Bruce Meadows to move the elk off the strip before landing. _______________________________________ We had a fly-out to McMinnville for their airshow with a stop at the Flying M for breakfast. ....there were three planes went to the Flying M ... Bill and Betty Witt in their Skylane, Gary with Ed Endsley and Bob Nash and his wife in Gary's Turbo 210 and Don Wilfong with Bob Lecklider and Lyle Nelson in Don's Skylane. I know there were others from Bend too but I am not sure who they were... There were a lot of planes on display and they had some interesting aerobatics going on too. Some of us went to the Museum and viewed the Spruce Goose, the SR-71 and all the other very interesting display aircraft... Then there was the Airshow at Madras .... as usual Don Mobley had a great static display of air craft and antique and classic cars ... The Wilfong's 182 was parked right out front (we got there early) so a bunch of the Bend contingent parked their chairs in the shade of the wings and watched the airshow.... The airshow program was a little slow getting going but it was worth the wait.... Don Wilfong AUTOMOTIVE EVOLUTION Hi !!! Sorry to have to break this to you this way... Bill Gates has said that if GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 miles per gallon. GM responded that if they had developed technology like Microsoft we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics: 1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice daily. 2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car. 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason and you would just accept this, restart and drive on. 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart in which case you would have to reinstall the engine. 5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought "Car98" or "CarNT," but then you would have to buy more seats. 6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, be reliable, go five times as fast and be twice as easy to drive, but would run on only 5% of the roads. 7. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car fault" warning light. 8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size "body." 9. The airbag system would say "are you sure?" before going off. 10. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lift the door handle, turn the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna. 11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary) even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this feature would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. 12. Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again, because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car. 13. You'd have to press the start button to shut off the engine. Here are some additional general tips from Ed. 14. Without the optional memory upgrade, do not operate more than three systems at a time. ie. If you need the windshield wipers, the climate controls, and the turnsignals; do not shift into reverse or use the brakes. At least one of the other systems must be turned off first or unpredictable results may occur. There is no documentation on which conditions will cause conflicts. 15. There are no user servicable parts so there is no users manual. You aren't expected to understand how it works. Nor is anyone else. It's just intuitive; you get it or you don't. Think like us. Don't "Think Different." ((c) Apple Computer) 16. When all else fails, call our help line, which is available 24/7. Due to a high call volume an associate will be with you in 24 hours or 7 days. Your call is important to us so please stay on the line. If you prefer you may contact customer service on the web and we will respond just as soon as possible after the warranty expires. 17. Thank you for purchasing our new product and testing it for us. We hope you will have many trouble free minutes of use. Extra minute contracts are available. 18. Since your warranty just expired we would suggest you download our new improved version that solves some issues and offers great new features. Brakes, turn signals, and jumper cables will be included standard this year. You can assemble and install it yourself and in no time be driving to our new expanded service center for all those other options and patches you might wish to have to extend your new vehicle's functionality. Please have your credit card available. 19. Middle East Gasoline is the preferred fuel for your new system, however Gas.01 or soon to be available Gas.02 will give you enhanced performance when you are feeling gaseous or vacuous. Remember that your mileage may vary. 20. Alt-Control-Delete is your friend. Please remember to pull over to the side of the road before applying this remedy. As a last resort, get out of the car and then get back in and push the big button in the middle of the dash. If you don't have a big button, call Customer Service between the hours of 24/7 eastern pacific daylight time. Good luck ! We hope these tips help you enjoy this marvelous new age of auto motion. Contributed by our Ed Endsley Earlier airshows ... Here's a photo of Manfred Radius doing the inverted ribbon cut in Redmond years ago, at the last RDM airshow ... It's the last time I laid down in the middle of runway 4-22 and then ran like hell to get out of the way of the Thunderbirds. I should have said that it was also very exciting to hear Manfred whistling in at over 140kn about 12 feet over my prone body. He's inverted just off the runway pulling negative Gs... I saw his face go whizzing by... I was very glad he was good at this. Ed Endsley Ed Note: Either Ed's lens was dirty (I'm joking, Ed!) or I think I detect a smoky sky, which would make it 1996, the year the Skeleton Fire interrupted the airshow. Manfred was not able to repeat this successfully at Madras this year ... no go-arounds in gliders! Auto Levitation, Gyro Style! During the Bend Airport Flying Festival, David Dressler very generously made a Sparrow Hawk Gyrocopter available for demonstration flights. WOW, is this aviation or levitation? I sort of felt like I was being strapped into a fish bowl. In a way it felt like my first haircut at two years old where the seatbelt on the barbershop's kiddy horsy didn't offer me a lot of confidence about not falling off. In the case of the Sparrow Hawk the view was so spectacular... Even just taxiing out was spectacular. The experience was rather more like a motorcycle. Actually more like skate boarding down the taxiway feeling every bump and watching the pavement move right there under my feet. Now I'm not trying to be funny here and everything I say is meant to be complimentary and in awe of this amazing machine. It's just that the experience was so far out of my usual realm that I'm having trouble translating the whole thing... So here are my impressions. Taking runway 34 and sitting on the numbers while prerotating the rotors up to speed caused my anticipation level to go right up to the top of the green, maybe even a little more. A tremendous commotion commenced, combining the power of the pusher prop and the rotors as they started to get excited about getting off the ground. The things I remember as we started to roll are a jumbled combination of feeling this gyrating devise getting light and heading for altitude in a pretty forthright manner. It was sort of like being grabbed by the nap of the neck and jerked a little too high off the ground for comfort. At lift off my startled brain leaped to the top of the yellow arc. Then it got really interesting. I'm familiar with the view off the end of 34 but I'd never been suspended there doing strange feeling gyrating motions. If I had been in a 172 I would have thought first, the front of the aircraft had fallen off, the view was a bit precipitous, and second, the unusual motional dynamics might be indicating that the tail is about to fall off. Now I realize that there are different aerodynamic attitudes required to motor about in a rotary wing device but the seat of my pants was receiving unfamiliar new signals. Some of them were of the motional sensory type and some of the sphincter control type. Now I'm definitely approaching personal red line !!! So there we were turning downwind, suspended like a thistledown in very windy and bumpy conditions, and the pilot asks if I want to fly it? Gee, that means I'll have to release my white knuckle grip on the seat and grasp the controls... Well it turns out that all sorts of weird gyrations occurred that I apparently caused with very little conscious input. My consciousness was a little scattered at the moment. I kept getting coached from the left seat to turn right or left with over corrections the usual result. Whoa Nellie. I noticed the pilot never took his hands off the controls. Soon it was time to turn base and he thought it might be best if I relinquished "control" for this next phase of flight. Now, I like a close pattern as much as the next bush pilot but this was a revelation in a slam dunk style to a spot and stop landing. It was great!!! The view out the unobstructed front of the aircraft probably accentuated the sensations, however if I ever see that Auto Levitation, continued ... kind of view out the front of a 172 I think full power and a go around with anti spin control inputs will be appropriate. I wanted out to go get a beer and contemplate this unusual experience in a space that didn't move too much. But noooo. This was to be a touch and go. So there I am with that white knuckle grip on the seat again as we're picking up speed when a gaggle of remote control model airplanes appear straight ahead and above us... The pilot coolly held low and we zoomed under or through them, it may have been both, there were lots of them. It was the greatest way to see those model planes up close. What a thrill. I hope we didn't puree any. It took my mind completely off the levitation-aviation thing for a moment. Then it was time for me to demonstrate some limited control again while we were high enough to give the pilot enough time to save us if my gracefulness escaped. It seemed like I was starting to get the hang of control by just thinking about what I wanted to have happen and then think about stopping. Like sort of move the stick and quickly move it back and see what happened. I'm talking millimeters here. I just wasn't subtle enough to be any good. No wonder the pilot kept his hands on the controls. I was very happy to turn it over to his more experienced hands when the ground started to rush up. What a rare and wonderful experience. Thanks David Dressler !!! Ed Endsley CO-OPA SAFETY CORNER: Joel Premselaar is on vacation for a few weeks but left us this food for thought ... THRUST AND DRAG ( Modified from an old Aviation magazine) Once upon a time, as the fable goes, there was a Man who owned a club. It wasn't a fancy club - just an ordinary hunk of tree branch that fit his hand and had an even swing. When the Man got into a fight, he'd lay about him with the club fracturing skulls and beating ears off left and right. In one fight, a hardy opponent managed to get in a lick of his own because the Man hadn't knocked him out with the first blow. What he needed was a weapon that when he hit 'em, they'd stay hit! To this end, he strapped a couple of flat stones to the end of the club. Logically, their hard surfaces would do the trick. The club weighed more and handled differently, but the Man soon got used to it. One day he swung especially hard and missed. The club flew out of his hand and landed some distance away. He took quite a beating, before he could retrieve it. After eliminating his attacker, he devised a leather wrist thong that enabled him to swing the club like crazy without fear of losing it. In another grand fight, the Man and his opponent swung simultaneously and broke each other's club. Using his hands, feet, and teeth, the Man finally finished off his adversary. He'd have had an easier time of it if the only club broken were his opponent's. Carefully selecting two flattish stones for size weight and swing and, using a leather thong, he lashed them to a new club. He then wrapped tough animal gut around the whole works. The Man now had a rugged new mace-like killing tool. He acknowledged that it was heavier and swung a bit harder, but it sure was devastating. One moonless night the Man got into a fight and won it with great difficulty but suffered many bruises. The next day he configured the club with a torch for night fighting. He learned from every engagement. He added a pointed rock for piercing skulls. He appended a serrated seashell for slashing. He lengthened the club and shaped its critical areas to withstand impact. He also had to strengthen the wrist thong because the club was now a bit heavier. This, he thought, is a club! Now the Man's club was really a deadly weapon. It killed on the first blow. It stayed in his hands and worked equally well day or night. The club was much heavier and unwieldy than his original model, but the Man accepted this as the price for increased killing efficiency. One day, he tangled with a character from the next village. It promised to be an easy fight because the Man knew he'd win as soon as he got that club swinging. He never quite made it. Before he got that sophisticated weapon operating, the character from the next village, using a just an ordinary hunk of tree branch that fit his hand and had an even swing, stepped in and beat the daylights out of the Man. MORAL: ARE AIRCRAFT GETTING TOO COMPLICATED? September Flyout Don't forget ... Thurs. Sept 15 is the Meeting/Pot Luck at the Flight Shop...The Fly-out destination is to be announced ... watch your e-mails .... Don Wilfong From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Wed Sep 14 17:30:06 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Wed Sep 14 17:43:09 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Bend Airport Update #3 Message-ID: Hello, Here attached is the third update of the current and planned "goings-on" at the Bend Municipal Airport, attached as an MS Word document and pasted directly into this email for your convenience. As always, please feel free to contact me at any time if you have questions or comments. (See attached file: Bend Airport Update #3 - 9-05.doc) Greg Phillips Bend Municipal Airport Manager PO Box 431 Bend, OR 97709 (541) 389-0258 September 13, 2005 Airport Update #3 To all Bend Municipal Airport Friends and Tenants: Greetings once again from your Airport Manager. It?s been more than a month since our last update and there?s much to report! First, one thing you should all know, because it begins next week and will affect flight operations in a very visible way. CONSTRUCTION RUNWAY SAFETY AREA (RSA) for RWY 34: On August 18th, 2005, we held a preconstruction conference and issued the Notice to Proceed (NTP) for Moore Excavation to begin work on the RSA project at the south end of the airport. Today, they gave us a formal schedule and will begin work next Monday, September 19th. Following mobilization over the first week, they will move in earnest to the area just south of the runway on Monday, September 26th. That night, September 26th, from 2100L to 0600L the following morning, the RUNWAY WILL BE CLOSED while they repaint the threshold approximately 190? north of its current location. This threshold relocation is temporary and is necessary to allow excavation and grading work to occur directly south of the runway pavement without requiring the runway to be closed. The current estimate for this temporary threshold relocation that the contractor should complete their work and restripe the permanent threshold by October 14th. Note that when the threshold is restriped permanently, the Bend Airport will no longer have a displaced threshold and you will have active use of the entire 5005? of the runway. I apologize in advance for any inconvenience this temporary runway shortening will cause, but I think you?ll be pleased with the final result and a full length runway by mid-October. AUTOMATED WEATHER OBSERVATION SYSTEM (AWOS) INSTALLATION: In addition to the Runway Safety Area, the other significant 2005 construction project is the purchase and installation of the AWOS system. The winning contractor for this system was Tomco Electric, working with All Weather Inc., one of two major manufacturers of Weather Observing Systems in the country. I have talked with the rep for All Weather and we are on track to have equipment delivered and hopefully operational around the end of December. It would be a nice holiday present, wouldn?t it? Take a look at All Weather?s website, if you?re interested, at www.allweatherinc.com. RUNWAY RELOCATION PROJECT: Not so immediate, but certainly the single most critical project for the Airport is the relocation of Runway 16/34. If you?ve attended the EAA or CO-OPA meetings in the last month, you saw the presentation I did about the design and scheduling for the project. Since that time, I?ve met with the FAA and the engineers have all sharpened their pencils, which means we have a clearer picture of the total cost of the project. As you might have guessed, the cost is higher than the original estimate. In fact, it looks like the project will cost in the neighborhood of $4.2 Million. For that reason, unless a major donor shows up or we can pull a rabbit out of our hat, the project will happen over not one, but two summers, as the funding we need can be appropriated over two separate years. Remember, the FAA is willingly paying 95% of the total costs of this project, which amounts to just about $4 Million! Since the appropriations come from Oregon?s statewide apportionments, however, there?s just not enough in one year to do it all at the revised cost. So it looks like a two year project. At this point, we have almost completed the final draft of the Environmental Assessment (EA) that is required before engineering can begin. Assuming the EA concludes with no significant impacts, we will plan to complete the engineering over the coming winter and spring and follow it by doing all of the primary excavation and earthwork over the summer of 2006. The next year, when we can get the rest of the funds required to complete the project, we will schedule the actual paving. In the presentations I made to EAA and CO-OPA, I talked about impacts to operations during the construction projects. With the new runway so close to the existing runway, we will plan to do most work at night, except when it is critical to work in daylight hours. I wish there were a better way to get this project completed more quickly, but I haven?t found it yet. Don?t worry, though, because I plan to keep looking. In fact, I just heard about a possible grant source the other day? DEVELOPMENT EASTSIDE DEVELOPMENT: If you?ve wondered about plans for eastside development, wonder no more. We have completed a Request for Proposals (RFP) that will be taken to the Bend City Council next Wednesday, September 21st, for approval and release. If approved, it will be released on September 26th and will be available for review at the City of Bend website, www.ci.bend.or.us, and on the Central Oregon Builders? Exchange website, www.plansonfile.com. This RFP is for two separate parcels identified as Phase I and Phase II parcels, of eighteen and nineteen acres respectively, for both General Aviation and Business development on the Airport. This is our chance to do something magnificent at the Bend Municipal Airport, to make our Airport truly representative of our community and as the aviation gateway to Central Oregon. The schedule would allow potential developers approximately six weeks to prepare their proposals, with a contract to the chosen developer(s), if successful, scheduled to occur before Christmas. If you know potential developers who you think have the vision and chutzpah to help make the Bend Airport what it deserves to be, let them know to watch for the RFP or to contact me directly. NORTH TIEDOWN RAMP: Last month, I reported we had a hiccup in our plans to develop the North Tiedown Ramp and pave the area south of the Transient Ramp for new tiedowns. Well, just to show that good things often just take time, the original tenants have returned with a plan that will meet their needs and allow for the development as it was originally proposed. We don?t have a construction schedule yet, but the tenants have submitted their site plan to the County for approval and have indicated to me that they desire to move quickly once they receive approval. Another Christmas present? COLUMBIA AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURING: Surely you?ve heard by now that The Lancair Certified Company has changed its name to Columbia Aircraft Manufacturing since our last update. Of course, they?re still putting out the same incredible product, however, and the three new hangars they recently built on north side of their main facility are now occupied. Good work to Ron Wright, Vern Bishop, and the Columbia Aircraft crew for making it happen. What?s next? PALADIN DATA HANGAR: Don?t blink, because construction is happening fast at the northwest corner of the airport, where the Paladin Hangar is starting to get a skin over its bones. It?s going to be a great looking building and in talking with Dan and Judy Nesmith yesterday, they hope to be in the completed building by the end of the year. CELL PHONE SITES: We have taken the next step in the dance and have now reached tentative/draft lease agreements with Unicel and T-Mobile to place cell sites directly on the airport for improved cell coverage. The process is not a simple one and takes more time than any of us would wish, but we shall continue to move ahead in the effort to improve cell phone coverage at the Airport. EASTSIDE ACCESS ROAD: There were so many good names submitted to City Council on August 17th, and thanks to all of you who took the time to offer your input and suggestions. In the end, Council voted to submit the name Gibson Air to the County for consideration and approval, in honor of a pioneer in the development of the Airport and owner of one of the early flying services on the Airport. The County will make the ultimate decision on the name of the road and they decide if the road will be called ?Way,? ?Road,? ?Avenue,? etc? When it?s done, I?ll let you know. Again, thanks to all of you who submitted your ideas into the discussion. I wish we had ten roads to name. MAINTENANCE RUNWAY LIGHTS: Many of you noticed that the runway lights were permanently turned on for a few weeks last month, after a couple of strange nights with intermittent functionality. It turns out a circuit board failed in the remote regulator and had to be ordered for replacement. It?s here, it?s in, and the runway lights are working fine again. Thanks again to Tomco Electric for the quick response in keeping us in operation and for getting the problem figured out. WINDSOCKS: We did it! There are now three windsocks on the airport, with the addition of the sock flying above the south end of the H City Hangar building. Watch ?em, use ?em, but just remember that the official windsock for determining takeoff and landing direction is still the main windsock in the center of the field. POSTAL BOXES: The new cluster boxes just off the westside frontage road and south of the Flight Services Building are in and they?re working. According to the US Postal Service, if you want to have one of the new Postal Boxes assigned for your own use, just head on over to the main Post Office and they?ll issue a box and a key. For some reason, they said it may take two trips, but in the end you won?t have to race traffic across Powell Butte Highway to get your mail. COMPASS ROSE: Another project completed in the last month is the Compass Rose, located on the southwest taxiway of the airport. Thanks to Dennis Douglas, Bill Lewis, and the great work of a bunch of the EAA Chapter 1345 members, we have a shining new Compass Rose. I even enlisted the aid of my nine year old daughter to help paint it; she draws lines straighter than I do, after all. Hope you find it useful as one final reminder and a check before departure. AIRPORT ENTRY SIGN: I met recently with Carlson Sign to think about ideas for a welcome/entry sign to the Bend Municipal Airport. After sixty years, it?s time, don?t you think? Cost will be an issue, of course, and I don?t want to build a sign that doesn?t represent us well, so if anyone has ideas how we might be able to pay for such a sign, let me know. BUILDING SIGNS: While we?re talking about signs, some of you may have noticed that not only is the airport fairly incognito, but many of the buildings themselves are unidentified. In talking with Deschutes County, they have agreed to consider adding the Bend Airport to a grant program they are involved in to construct building signs for rural county buildings. We will meet next week to discuss it further. It is my intention, and the strong wish of the Bend Fire Department, that all Westside buildings be identified with signs on the side of the building facing Powell Butte Highway. A & B HANGARS: I said when we raised hangar rents that I believed some of those monies should be used for the maintenance of those hangars. The hangars I think we would all agree in the worst state of repair are the A & B hangars, so I?d like to address them first. I recently met with the owner of Cascade Door to look at the hangars and to discuss options for ongoing issues and repair. It seems, by his report, that there is no easy or permanent solution that wouldn?t include tearing the hangars down and building new hangars, which really isn?t an option. There were three options considered in our discussion, including emergency repairs only, repair or replacing the track and rollers and fixing the lower stops, or replacing the doors entirely. His estimation was that the last option was both cost prohibitive at potentially over $11,000 per unit and, with a building that was not firmly founded, not a reasonable solution. It would likely be cheaper to build new hangars. The second option, too, he thought was a poor choice because, in his experience, any new track installed would be actually less stable than the existing track, even if laser aligned. The problem is the inherent instability of the building itself, it seems. The final option for emergency repairs only doesn?t seem to me to address the problems adequately. For this reason, I have considered a fourth option that I would like your input on. I would be willing to discuss and coordinate with Cascade Door to fix specific issues you have with your door or otherwise with your hangar for repair. We would schedule these repairs for a time that you could be present with the contractor, if you chose, and would endeavor to complete them to your personal satisfaction. So, if you have issues you would like addressed, please let me know and we?ll see if we can?t at least keep you in operable state. I?m sorry the hangars aren?t better than they are, but if we tore them down and built new ones, I can promise they wouldn?t be $165/month. AIRPORT WEBSITE: The City of Bend Airport website page continues its quest to be a useful website for local pilots, out of area pilots, and even for non-aviation locals and visitors to Bend alike. It continues as a work in progress and your comments are welcomed. I have added a number of what I hope are valuable aviation related links, intended as sort of a ?one-stop? flight planning shop, with weather, flight planning, aviation databases, and aviation related organization websites linked, as well as Central Oregon tourism sites. I?ve also added the logos for a number of airport businesses, too, so if you don?t see yours there and you want it to be visible to visitors to the site at no charge to you, please send me your logo. Finally, I received a cool new photo of the Airport, taken by our own Ed Endsley, that will soon grace the To visit the website, go to www.ci.bend.or.us and click on the link on the left, Bend Municipal Airport to see what?s there. Let me know what you think. CALM WIND RUNWAY: There have been a couple of questions about the Calm Wind Runway here at the Bend Airport. It?s Runway 16, in case you don?t remember, and that little mistake could be a potentially disastrous situation. Thanks to those who brought it up and asked for clarification. Guess that?s it for now. As I sign off from this update, I want to say in closing that my hat?s most definitely off, with a big loud hooah, to the Madras Airport for one fine airshow on August 27th. The night show, particularly, and Manfred Radius? amazing night glider aerobatics, was absolutely spectacular. To Don Mobley, the participants who gave their time and skills to the show, and to a great group of volunteers, a job well done! If you missed it, too bad, but I understand they plan on doing it again next year. Just don?t miss it twice! To all of you, blue skies and tailwinds, Greg Greg Phillips Airport Manager City of Bend -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: =?UTF-8?B?QmVuZCBBaXJwb3J0IFVwZGF0ZSAjMyAtIDktMDUuZG9j?= Type: application/msword Size: 139776 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20050914/ab0a9af1/UTF-8BQmVuZCBBaXJwb3J0IFVwZGF0ZSAjMyAtIDktMDUuZG9j-0001.dot From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Wed Sep 14 19:27:52 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Wed Sep 14 19:29:36 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] SEPT...FLY-OUT FUN !!! Message-ID: <001001c5b99d$12db67a0$f474dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG.... WITH THE HIGH COST OF FUEL THESE DAYS I HAVE HAD COMMENTS ABOUT KEEPING THE FLY-OUT CLOSE TO HOME TO SAVE ON FUEL .... WELL I HAVE PICKED A SPOT THAT IS FAIRLY CLOSE (ONLY ABOUT AN HOUR ROUND TRIP) AND THE WALK FROM THE AIRPORT TO BREAKFAST IS ABOUT 1 BLOCK... CRESCENT LAKE STATE (5S2), (AT CRESCENT LAKE JUNCTION) THE ELEVATION IS 4810' AND THE RUNWAY IS PAVED, IT IS 3900' X 30' AND THERE ARE A NUMBER OF TIE DOWNS AT THE EAST END OF THE RUNWAY ON THE NORTH SIDE.... YOU WILL NEED TO ALLOW TIME FOR THE PLANE THAT LANDS AHEAD OF YOU TO BACK TAXI TO PARKING WHEN LANDING ON 31 (THIS SEEMS TO BE THE PREFERRED RUNWAY). WE HAVE FLOWN IN FOR BREAKFAST BEFORE AND WE FLEW IN AGAIN THIS MORNING JUST TO CHECK THINGS OUT....YOU FLY RIGHT OVER WICKIUP RES., AND DAVIS LAKE AND YOU WILL FIND THE AIRPORT JUST ON THE S. SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY JUST NORTH OF CRESCENT LAKE AND JUST EAST OF ODEL LAKE.... THERE ARE TREES ON THE APPROACH TO 31 AND THE THRESHOLD IS DISPLACED A WAYS DOWN THE RUNWAY... THIS IS A RELATIVLY EASY AIRPORT....I KNOW GARY MILLER HAS BEEN THERE AND I BELIEVE DAVID SAILORS HAS TO....(AND DAVID FLIES A CHEROKEE)... WE WILL DISCUSS THIS AT THE POTLUCK/MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT AND I WILL E-MAIL EVERYONE WITH FINAL DETAILS....BUT....AT PRESENT IT IS THE PLAN TO MEET AT THE FLIGHT SHOP BY ABOUT 0830 AND PLAN TO BE IN THE AIR BY 0900.... DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com 389-1456 From mvbond at myexcel.com Thu Sep 15 00:21:53 2005 From: mvbond at myexcel.com (mvbond) Date: Thu Sep 15 01:29:29 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] [Fwd: Flight Safety Clinic at Bend....] Message-ID: <43292111.2080601@myexcel.com> By Caldwell, I think Dennis means McCall, but the intent is the same. Will keep COOPA posted on any progress. Mike Bond -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Dennis Douglas Subject: Flight Safety Clinic at Bend.... Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:22:06 -0700 Size: 4634 Url: http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20050915/30d695fb/FlightSafetyClinicatBend....mht From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Thu Sep 15 06:54:07 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Thu Sep 15 06:56:01 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] AirNav 5S2 - Crescent Lake State Airport Message-ID: <000801c5b9fc$f10a2c00$f474dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG....HERE IS SOME INFO ON THE CRESCENT LAKE STATE AIRPORT (5S2) http://www.airnav.com/airport/5S2 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: AirNav 5S2 - Crescent Lake State Airport.url Type: application/octet-stream Size: 138 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20050915/821b0879/AirNav5S2-CrescentLakeStateAirport.obj From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri Sep 16 11:07:24 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri Sep 16 11:09:55 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] index Message-ID: <000801c5bae9$7e2aaf00$f474dc42@bendcable.com> http://www.flythegorge.com/airshow.html HEY GANG....CURT & JACKIE TURNER (WITH THE PIPER APACHE) SENT THE FOLLOWING E-MAIL TO ME SUGGESTING WE GO TO HOOD RIVER INSTEAD OF TO CRESCENT LAKE STATE.... Hi Don - Jernstedt Field (4S2) by the Hood River, is having an air show this Saturday including visits to Brandt's Air Museum. Contact is 541/ 386-1133. There is a restaurant there also. I flew over it last week returning from Seattle and it looks pretty neat with a 3000' paved runway and taxiway. Distance from Bend is about 96nm or about a 45 minute flight. Might be an easier alternate for you if stuff happens. We would prefer it anyway and weather permitting will most likely head that way versus the high altitude mountain strip. Aloha, Curt IF YOU CLICK ON THE ATTACH LINE AND IT DOES NOT BRING UP THE INFO THEN GO TO THE ABOVE INDICATED WEBSITE IT WILL TELL MORE ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON...THEY HAVE BREAKFAST AND LUNCH ON THE FIELD AND IT IS MORE OF A FLY-IN WITH STATIC DISPLAYS THAN AN AIRSHOW (THE FIELD WILL NOT BE CLOSED FOR AEROBATICS OR ANYTHING)....THIS SOUNDS LIKE MAYBE A MORE EXCITING EVENT THAT JUST FLYING TO BREAKFAST...AND THE DISTANCE IS ONLY SLIGHTLY FURTHER.... UNLESS CONDITIONS (WEATHER) OR OBJECTIONS FROM OUR MEMBERS SAY NO GO I SAY WE HAVE CHANGED OUR DESTINATION.. DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com 541 389-1456 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: index.url Type: application/octet-stream Size: 150 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20050916/4ebfc579/index.obj From robnash46 at earthlink.net Fri Sep 16 12:46:54 2005 From: robnash46 at earthlink.net (Robert Nash) Date: Fri Sep 16 12:47:24 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] index Message-ID: <410-220059516194654343@earthlink.net> I vote for Hood River. Bob Nash > [Original Message] > From: Don & Norma > To: CO-OPA > Cc: Duane and Jean Francis ; Matt Verdieck ; Valenti ; Christen > Date: 9/16/2005 11:10:00 AM > Subject: [Co-opa] index > > > > http://www.flythegorge.com/airshow.html > > HEY GANG....CURT & JACKIE TURNER (WITH THE PIPER APACHE) SENT THE > FOLLOWING E-MAIL TO ME SUGGESTING WE GO TO HOOD RIVER INSTEAD OF TO > CRESCENT LAKE STATE.... > > Hi Don - Jernstedt Field (4S2) by the Hood River, is having an air > show this Saturday including visits to Brandt's Air Museum. Contact is > 541/ 386-1133. There is a restaurant there also. I flew over it last week > returning from Seattle and it looks pretty neat with a 3000' paved runway > and taxiway. Distance from Bend is about 96nm or about a 45 minute flight. > > Might be an easier alternate for you if stuff happens. We would prefer it > anyway and weather permitting will most likely head that way versus the > high altitude mountain strip. > > Aloha, Curt > > IF YOU CLICK ON THE ATTACH LINE AND IT DOES NOT BRING UP THE INFO THEN GO > TO THE ABOVE INDICATED WEBSITE IT WILL TELL MORE ABOUT WHAT IS GOING > ON...THEY HAVE BREAKFAST AND LUNCH ON THE FIELD AND IT IS MORE OF A FLY-IN > WITH STATIC DISPLAYS THAN AN AIRSHOW (THE FIELD WILL NOT BE CLOSED FOR > AEROBATICS OR ANYTHING)....THIS SOUNDS LIKE MAYBE A MORE EXCITING EVENT > THAT JUST FLYING TO BREAKFAST...AND THE DISTANCE IS ONLY SLIGHTLY > FURTHER.... > > UNLESS CONDITIONS (WEATHER) OR OBJECTIONS FROM OUR MEMBERS SAY NO GO I SAY > WE HAVE CHANGED OUR DESTINATION.. > > DON WILFONG > dwnw@bendbroadband.com > 541 389-1456 From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri Sep 16 13:08:59 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri Sep 16 13:11:15 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] GREAT BUY ON NEW SPARK PLUGS OR MAGS... Message-ID: <001101c5bafa$79a87280$f474dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG... AIR POWER, INC. ARLINGTON, TX HAS A SPECIAL ON UNTIL OCT 14.... 2 NEW AUTOLITE SPARK PLUGS FOR THE PRICE OF 1 GET AS MANY AS YOU NEED....$17.90 FOR EACH 2 PLUGS NEW SLICK MAGS (SOME MODELS) FOR $495. EACH... CALL PARTS @ 1 866 287-8506 TOLL FREE.... DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com 541 389-1456 From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Sat Sep 17 05:44:31 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Sat Sep 17 05:47:19 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] TODAYS FLY-OUT Message-ID: <000501c5bb85$8ce21b40$f474dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG.... I CALLED MCMINNVILLE AT 0545 HRS AND IT SOUNDS LIKE OUR TRIP TO HOOD RIVER WILL BE OKAY....WILL CHECK AGAIN A LITTLE LATER AND WILL CALL THE FBO AT HOOD RIVER TO CHECK WITH THEM....DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com 389-1456 PS: THE RADAR LOOKS LIKE THE PROBLEM AREAS ARE BOTH EAST AND WEST OF OUR ROUTE AND DESTINATION....LOOKS LIKE WE FALL RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE SO SHOULD NOT BE A PROBLEM.... From robnash46 at earthlink.net Sat Sep 17 06:58:17 2005 From: robnash46 at earthlink.net (Robert L. Nash) Date: Sat Sep 17 06:58:29 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Hood River - "Any Awos" info Message-ID: <23758649.1126965498113.JavaMail.root@elwamui-rubis.atl.sa.earthlink.net> According to the AWOS, Hood River at 7:50 a.m. was reporting winds 250/6, gusts to 15, vis. 10 miles, sky condition clear below 12,000. Here's a tip. You can listen to any awos by calling a toll-free number, 1-877-any-awos, following the prompts and punching in the three digit airport identifier. From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Fri Sep 16 11:13:42 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Mon Sep 19 12:39:53 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Bend Municipal Airport Request for Proposals (RFP) Message-ID: Hello all, Just a quick heads up for anyone interested in the Bend Municipal Airport Eastside Development RFP. It is, as yet, unapproved and unreleased, but the RFP is available as public information for review on the City of Bend website, City Council Meeting Packet for Sept 21, 2005. If approved, the formal release is scheduled as September 26, 2005. The actual RFP is at the following address: http://www.ci.bend.or.us/city_hall/meeting_minutes/docs/RFP_Bend_Airport_9_05.pdf Please feel free to review it and I would be happy to answer any questions you have. If you know potential developers who may be interested and have the capabilities to help create something EXTRAORDINARY at the Bend Municipal Airport, let them know. My best regards, Greg Phillips Bend Municipal Airport Manager PO Box 431 Bend, OR 97709 (541) 389-0258 From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Mon Sep 19 11:43:25 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Mon Sep 19 12:39:54 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Mishap at Bend Municipal Airport Message-ID: Hello everyone, I decided to forward this message from Dennis Douglas about the mishap at the Bend Airport yesterday, so that you might have an accurate report of what happened. Thank goodness no one was seriously injured, but the aircraft was destroyed. I spoke with the pilot last night and both individuals are doing ok, but the accident sure ruined their day. Dennis' comments are a good reminder to us all. On a related note, the gyrocopter came to rest on Old Nelson Road. If you have been to the airport this morning, you've noticed that the Runway Safety Area project did indeed begin today and the old road is being torn out as I write this. A NOTAM has been issued for construction equipment and personnel south of Runway 34, so you might watch for them as you come and go. The project should be completed around October 14th, if the current schedule holds. Best wishes to you all, and be safe out there. greg phillips ----- Message from Dennis Douglas on Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:56:51 -0700 ----- Just after noon on Sunday, a small 2-place gyrocopter crashed on take-off from S07. I got to the scene about 30 minutes after the accident occurred. The Florida-based pilot and his Bend-based passenger were slightly injured. The gyrocopter was significantly damaged. Details of the accident are being investigated by NTSB and will be reported separately. I calculated the density altitude to be about 4,800' around the time of the accident, and DA might have been a factor. I urge all of our fellow Bend and Prineville pilots to review density altitude and be aware of it before every takeoff and landing..... Dennis Douglas EAA 1345 FAA Aviation Safety Counselor -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.1/104 - Release Date: 9/16/05 From daviddr at msn.com Mon Sep 19 13:15:19 2005 From: daviddr at msn.com (David Dressler) Date: Mon Sep 19 13:17:01 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Mishap at Bend Municipal Airport Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20050919/c6a96047/attachment.html From catacres at teleport.com Wed Sep 21 19:20:29 2005 From: catacres at teleport.com (Richard/Debbie Benson) Date: Wed Sep 21 19:33:59 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] WagonTire ??? Message-ID: <002301c5bf1e$0320ea20$6c9cf204@cascadecot7hp2> Hello Fellow Pilots, Have any of you landed at Wagontire lately -------or------- do you have a current phone # ???? Were planning to stop there for BF Fri or Sat AM & the #'s we have are out of date = William Warner @ 493-2317... Gratefully, Richard & Debbie www.GoldenBridgeSeminars.com "Words don?t Teach?Life Experiences Teach"... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20050921/6b79ccf9/attachment.html From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Thu Sep 22 14:22:19 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Sun Sep 25 20:38:58 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Bend Airport - Runway Closure Message-ID: Hello, I hope you're all well; I have a couple of quick updates regarding the Bend Airport I wanted to pass on to you. 1. The runway closure I mentioned in Update #3 is still scheduled for the night of Monday, September 26th. Hours scheduled for the closure are from 2000L on Monday night until 0600L Tuesday morning. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I appreciate your understanding for this short closure. Remember, Tuesday morning the runway will have an effective length of 4605' for landings on Rwy 34. This short project should be completed quickly, and we hope to finish and restripe with permanent markings by October 14th. 2. The Bend City Council approved release of the Request For Proposals for eastside development at last night's City Council meeting. We will release and advertise the RFP within the next few days. It will be available for review on both the City of Bend website and at the Central Oregon Builders' Exchange at www.plansonfile.com. 3. Over the last two days, I attended the State Aviation Board bimonthly meetings in Madras. Ably led by Board members Carrie Novick and Amy Prutzmann, we made a strong push for support of the Board and the Oregon Department of Aviation (ODA) for the Central Oregon airports. Bob Hidley, the Oregon Director of Aviation, is relatively new to Oregon and we did our best to assist him in understanding the unprecedented growth occuring across Central Oregon and the impacts that growth has on the needs of the Central Oregon airports. Additionally, a number of topics were discussed, and there were a couple I thought I would pass on. a. McMinnville Flight Service (MMV) will be changing hands soon, with Lockheed Corp. taking control starting October 3rd. They will operate the facility for approximately one year, whereby it will close for good, to be consolidated to one of three regional centers. The center serving the northwest will be in Prescott, AZ following consolidation. b. House Bill 2068A was enrolled by the Oregon Legislature this past August and it concerns Aircraft registration. If you're interested, you can read the text of the Act at: http://www.leg.state.or.us/05reg/measures/hb2000.dir/hb2068.en.html All for now. Questions and comments welcome. Roger, out. Greg Phillips Bend Municipal Airport Manager PO Box 431 Bend, OR 97709 (541) 389-0258 From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Sat Oct 1 12:50:25 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Sat Oct 1 12:52:38 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] RE: OCT. 10 "FRIENDSHIP FLIGHT" Message-ID: <001901c5c6c1$5dfd5b40$f474dc42@bendcable.com> JUST A REMINDER.... A FEW OF YOU HAVE ALREADY VOLUNTEERED TO BE A PART OF THIS FRIENDSHIP FLIGHT....WE ARE STILL PLANNING TO FLY OUT OF BEND AT AROUND 0800 HRS ON MONDAY OCTOBER 10. IF WE CANNOT MAKE IT TO CRATER LAKE (WEATHER) WE WILL TRY TO DO A TOUR OF OUR MOUNTAINS AND LAKES...KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED FOR GOOD WEATHER. WE COULD USE MORE PLANES AS SOME OF THE HOST FAMILY KIDS WOULD ALSO LOVE TO GO ALONG....NOT SURE OF THE EXACT NUMBER AS YET, BUT WILL KNOW MORE WHEN I FIND OUT HOW MANY PLANES WE HAVE "FOR SURE" AND WHEN I AM TOLD FOR SURE HOW MANY WANT TO GO.. SHARING WHAT WE HAVE AND SOMETIMES TAKE FOR GRANTED WITH YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED IT AND SEEING THEIR EXCITMENT MAKES THE TRIP WELL WORTH YOUR TIME AND EFFORT. AT LEAST TWO FAMILIES IN OUR FLYING CIRCLE OF FRIENDS HAVE KIDS OF THEIR OWN WHO ARE GOING ON THE TRIP TO JAPAN WHEN OUR STUDENTS GO. I HAVE HAD THE COMMENT FROM ONE VOLUNTEERS THAT SAID IF WE HAVE ENOUGH PLANES HE WOULD LIKE TO TAKE HIS WIFE AND ONLY TWO ADDITIONAL PASSENGERS...BUT WOULD TAKE THREE IF ABSOLUTLY NECESSARY...PLEASE DON'T THINK WE ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH PLANES LINED UP...VOLUNTEER IF YOU CAN... PLEASE E-MAIL ME dwnw@bendbroadband.com AND LET ME KNOW FOR SURE IF YOU CAN DO THIS (I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO HEAR FROM THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE ALREADY CONTACTED ME TO CONFIRM THAT YOU ARE STILL ON BOARD.) DON WILFONG 389-1456 BELOW IS A COPY OF THE E-MAIL I SENT BEFORE.... >Hey Gang... > >The Pilot Middle School will be participating in hosting 9 students >and 2 >Adult Chaparones to Bend from our Sister City, Fujioka, Japan. This >is an >annual event where they send some of their students and teachers here >to >experience our country and our culture and we send some of ours there >to >experience theirs. This is about an 8 day event and they stay with >families here. They tour our City Hall and other interesting and >educationl places. This is a wonderful experience for these young >people >and it certainly does a great deal of good for our future >relationship >with other countries in the world. We have had both students and >adults >stay in our home in the past and it has been a very worthwhile >experience. > >Last year we (the Wilfongs) took some of them for a flight over >Crater >Lake and back....This was one of the highlights of their trip so our >son >Steven Wethereald >(a teacher at Pilot Butte Middle School and one of the organizers of >the >event) has asked us if we would please ask some of our group to >volunteer >their time and their planes to take these 11 people on a trip over >Crater >Lake and back.....This gives us a chance to feel really good about >sharing >our beautiful country with others ....and you know you wanted to go >flying anyway.... > >The families these students and adults are staying with usually have >the >weekends planned to take them somewhere or to show them around the >area so >it has been determined that Mon. Oct.10 would be the best date or if >that >doesn't work out we could go on Tue Oct. 11 to take them on this >fly-out..(they go home on the 13th)...It would work best if we plan >to >leave Bend about 0800 hrs. so we could have them back before noon >(that is >a smooth air time of day and they would be back in time to go to the >lunchen scheduled for them each noon. > >I can take 3 of them in our plane and we need enough volunteers that >can >(for sure) take the rest of the 11....it is essential that if you >commit....you follow through as it would be a sad situation if >someone >didn't show up and we had to leave part of them standing at the >airport >while the rest flew away. > >Please contact me if you can do this...I will also bring it up at the >Meeting/Potluck this Thurs. evening. > >Don Wilfong >dwnw@bendbroadband.com >389-1456 From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Wed Oct 5 17:05:52 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Wed Oct 5 17:11:33 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Bend Airport - Taxilane striping Message-ID: Just a heads up that a NOTAM-L has been filed for men and equipment east of Rwy 16/34 at the Bend Airport for tomorrow and Friday during daylight hours. There will be a road striping crew putting hold lines and taxilane centerlines on the Epic and Columbia taxilanes. My best guess is that they will be done by noon on both days and they should not be on the runway at any time. Best regards to you all. Fly safe. Greg Phillips Bend Municipal Airport Manager PO Box 431 Bend, OR 97709 (541) 389-0258 From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Sat Oct 8 22:05:02 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Sat Oct 8 22:07:22 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] MONDAY MORNING Message-ID: <000501c5cc8f$015a1e40$f474dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG....SOME OF YOU HAVE ALREADY COMMITTED TO BEING AT THE FLIGHT SHOP FOR THE FLY-OUT WITH JAPANESE STUDENTS THANK YOU.....IF ANYONE ELSE IS INTERESTED PLEASE CONTACT ME TOMORROW.....(SUN) OCT 9.... WE PLAN TO MEET AT O800 AT THE FLIGHT SHOP....MONDAY OCT 10 AT 0800..... DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband From leckone at bendcable.com Sun Oct 9 16:05:26 2005 From: leckone at bendcable.com (Leckliders) Date: Mon Oct 10 00:32:53 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Short Field Clinic Message-ID: <004b01c5cd25$ef4c82a0$0b74dc42@leckone> To all Central Oregon/O.P.A. Members and all our friends that want to take part:: More details about our upcoming : Short Field Clinic Madras Airport S33 October 22nd, 2005 Pilot Briefing at, 10:00 a.m. Bring your airplane and test your skill. There will be a couple of CFI's available for advice and possibly some dual instruction. And we are asking the F.A.A. to approve the Pilot Briefing and the days events for part of the Wings program . There is no charge for this event but we will accept donations to help cover the expenses. This event is sponsored by Central Oregon Chapter of the Oregon Pilots Association and The Central Oregon Chapter of the 99s. This should be a lot of fun!!! Seeya there! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20051009/915c2a72/attachment.html From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Fri Oct 14 17:34:43 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Fri Oct 14 20:58:36 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Bend Airport - short update Message-ID: Hello everyone, I hope you're all well. Here's a short update on four items I thought you'd want to know before the weekend. 1. You probably noticed that the contractor has been working hard at the south end of the runway, working to excavate and grade the Runway Safety Area (RSA) for Runway 34. They are close to their original schedule, I'm happy to say, but not so close that we'll meet the original proposed date to restripe the runway by this weekend. Currently, they are planning to be finished with the area specifically within the RSA by next Thursday, October 20th. At that time, we will have another night closure so they can restripe the permanent markings for the runway to its full length of 5,005'. When that's done, for the first time in many years, we will have a full length runway. Again, I thank you all for your patience. 2. NOTAM - Starting next week, there will be a little army of surveyors at the Bend Airport, and they will be on-site for the next three weeks. This Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) is for personnel and equipment adjacent to Rwy 16/34. The crew has been thoroughly briefed on safety and operations at the airport and I have been assured they are an experienced crew from the Portland area who have recently completed survey work at PDX. The work they will be doing is the full survey for the design of the new runway. There may be the need for a few short runway shutdowns, but we'll do our best to keep them to a minimum. Keep your eyes open and please let me know if you're inconvenienced in any way or see any safety concerns we need to address. 3. I met today with the business office of Bend Broadband about the possibility of adding Wi-Fi service to the Bend Airport. From our discussion, we identified two options I'd like to explore. First, we may consider adding Wi-Fi service specifically to the Flight Services building. This would be a free, unsecured access point that individuals waiting or working could utilize. This, by the way, was a great suggestion from one of you! The second option is more expansive, and would provide Wi-Fi access across the entire airport. Bend Broadband would install the facilities at no charge to the Airport, and would set the network up similarly to how it's in place in downtown Bend. Local tenants who already use Bend Broadband services and would like access to the network would pay a nominal fee (on the order of $4.00 a month) to have the access key and be able to utilize this secure network. Individuals at the airport who wanted to access the network would log onto the network and use their credit card to pay a fee (approx $10/day) to use the service. Bend Broadband indicated that this system is working well downtown currently. Now I need some feedback from you. If there was Wi-Fi access at the Bend Airport, would you use it? If you have a business here at the Bend Airport, would this service be appealing to you and your clients? Would your clients and visitors use such a service? Let me know what you think and I'll pass it on to Bend Broadband. 4. Finally, just an update on the Request for Proposals for development. On Wednesday, Oct 12th, we held our pre-proposal meeting and had 20 individuals representing 6 different development teams present. Additionally, we have had significant interest from out of the local area for this project. The closing date for the proposals is November 9th, at 5:00 p.m. Stay tuned... All for now. My best to you all, wishing blue skies and tailwinds in every flight, Greg Phillips Bend Municipal Airport Manager PO Box 431 Bend, OR 97709 (541) 389-0258 From leckone at bendcable.com Sun Oct 16 23:32:54 2005 From: leckone at bendcable.com (Leckliders) Date: Mon Oct 17 00:12:42 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] (no subject) Message-ID: <005001c5d2e4$9b141c10$f465dc42@leckone> Greetings to all C.O./O.P.A. Members, Pilots, Wannabe Pilots, and Spouses, This is the next to last up-date on the Short Field Clinic, scheduled for, Saturday, October 22nd at Madras, OR. (S33). Pilot briefing will start at, 10:00 a.m. We will have sign up at that time, too. Briefing and taking part in the event will count towards your next Wing. Remember, you are not competing with other pilots, just yourself. Each person will be given the chance to do three or more take offs and landings, depending on how many show up. There will be instructors on hand to help with the briefing and to offer some tips on technique. It may be possible to do some dual with an instructor, also. Now, we need four or five volunteers to help with marking the take off spots and landing spots and recording the distances. We also, need handheld radios for each volunteer, plus extras in case the batteries run down. Call, or e-mail me if you will be there to help or have a handheld radio we can use. Final up-date will be Thursday at our meeting. Seeya, Nancy Lecklider, 330-1853 Keep the shiny side up. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20051016/4f224e37/attachment.html From mvbond at myexcel.com Tue Oct 18 02:36:52 2005 From: mvbond at myexcel.com (mvbond) Date: Tue Oct 18 02:36:51 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] OCTOBER COOPA NEWSLETTER Message-ID: <4354C234.3020508@myexcel.com> Here is the text version of your chapter Newsletter. Gary has posted the PDF version on the COOPA website. Mike Bond ----------------------------------------------------------------- CASCADE FLYER October 2005, Vol. 05, Issue 10 Website: http://co-opa.rellim.com/ President's Message: This month we put some new faces to an old name. Leading Edge Avionics is now Leading Edge Aviation and has new ownership. Along with the name change comes new services and new visions. In addition to the old avionics service they are now able to provide general aircraft and helicopter maintenance as well as helicopter sales. Brad Fraley is the new President, Travis Warthen the V.P. Avionics and Justin Harries is V.P. Helicopter sales. The team was previously at Hillsboro airport so some of our members may already have met them. We had a chance to chat last week and they have a lot of exciting plans for their new baby. They will drop by for us this month so we can all chat with the new kids on the block. Nancy Lecklider will also be briefing us about the short field clinic she has been setting up for this weekend at Madras. The clinic is a partnership between the FAA, the 99s and the CO-OPA. All participants will receive credit for the Wings program. See Nancy's email for more details. We could use a few more CFIs so if you know of any that would like to be a part of the program, please have them get in touch with Nancy: (541) 330-1853 or mailto:leckone@bendcable.com. Last month we did quite well without a speaker. Thanks to all the pilots that had a story to tell. We all learned a little about swimming in Lake Washington the hard way. I just read a psychology study on pilots and accident rates. Those pilots that were open and honest about their bad incidents were much less likely to be involved in serious accidents that those that played it closer to vest. So we must have prevented a lot of future accidents at our last meeting. Next month we are sure to have another great speaker, if you know who it should be then please drop me hint. Then in December be ready for our annual Holiday Bash! Calendar: 20 October - Monthly Meeting 22 October - Monthly Flyout - Short Field Clinic,10am briefing in Madras. 17 November - Monthly Meeting 19 November - Monthly Flyout 15 December - Monthly Meeting - XMAS Party 16 December - Monthly Flyout 19 January - Monthly Meeting 21 January - Monthly Flyout 17 June 2006 - Bend Airport open house Web doings: I discovered that KTVZ-Z21 has their latest weather graphics online. A link there is now on our web site: http://www.ktvz.com/wxr.html As always, the CO-OPA website contains recent newsletters and other goodies. http://co-opa.rellim.com/ To access the members only areas the username is "S07" and the password is "123.0". My Inbox: Christian Boris, one of the Z21 weathermen, gave me a call last week. The need for some sort of weather radar in Central Oregon is as obvious to Z21 as it is to any pilot passing through our area. Christian has located a supplier of a small weather radar and is working on funding and site location issues. Installation cost would be about $150k to $250k for a small system and they are looking for ways to share the cost with other organizations. That is a little out of the CO-OPA budget. Sad that, as one of the few places in the lower 48 not to have weather radar, that NOAA can't make this happen. If any of you have any ideas, then please share them with Gary Miller or Christian at: (541) 383-2121 or cboris@ktvz.com Random Thoughts: My thanks go out to Don Wilfong and Barry Howarth. Both have recently put good effort in to sharing the magic of flight with others. Too soon we become jaded to the magic of flight and sharing it with others is a great way to recapture that initial joy we had in flight. On Columbus Day this month Don organized a group of local pilots to fly a group of Japanese exchange students over Crater Lake. I am sure Don will have an article thanking the individual pilots so I would like to take this opportunity instead to thank Don for putting this together. Flying over Crater Lake on a perfect Fall day is always a pleasant event. Still no matter how hard we try, the first time will always be the best time. Over time even such a magical journey loses it's awe when it is repeated too frequently. I can assure you now that sharing someone else's first time is almost a good as your first time. These kids traveled 8 time zones to a land where they could barely communicate basic needs, trusting the kindness of strangers to see a bit of our world most of their countrymen will never know. They had seen and learned about an enormous variety of strange places, peoples and customs previous week. By now they were in psychic overload, the senses dulled by the crush of recent events. Crater Lake from 10,000 feet was still able to fill our planes with excitement and joy. The cabins nearly burst with the energy. On the radio as we pilots coordinated our tour routes it was clear that this had a magical effect on the pilots as well. We have given them a gift to last a lifetime, and I for one was walking on air for the rest of day. Well done, Don. Barry Howarth, from The Flight Shop, has also been working on a plan to share the magic of flight. It seems that a while back Barry had given a dying woman one of her last wishes: to see the Cascades from the air. Not only did Barry help the dying woman and her husband find peace in her last days, but he also gained more than he gave in helping them. It might have been a one-time event until Barry recently bumped in to the folks at Central Oregon Hospice and they hatched a plan together. Barry has made the offer to the Hospice to see if there are similar needs to be met among their clients. Nothing is set yet but Barry is making the effort to reach out and see if the local pilot community can help. This could be a great way to turn just another quick trip around the local Bend area in to a something much more rewarding. As things develop the CO-OPA will try to help as much as we can. More on this later as plans hatch. Thanks again Barry for working to see how we as pilots can uniquely help our community and work off some bad karma at the same time. Gary Miller September Flyout to Hood River We had planned a short flight down to Crescent Lake State Airport (5S2) with about a block walk to a small caf? for breakfast. It is a good airport and we have enjoyed the food.... but.... n e-mail from Curt Turner (he and his wife Jackie fly the Piper Apache) suggested we go to Hood River (4S2) as they were having a Fly-in and a Pancake Breakfast... so...with that being a much better plan than just flying to breakfast, we immediately decided to go to Hood River. It was a very good choice. Thanks Curt, for suggesting it. We (the Wilfongs) flew out to Bend from Pilot Butte International (8OR5) and met everyone at the Flight Shop, had coffee, collected our wits, decided who was going with who and headed for Hood River. Gary Miller took Ed Endsley in Gary's Turbo Centurion, Rob Nash and his wife went in their 150, Curt & Jackie Turner took their Apache and Don & Norma Wilfong took Arnie and Carol Vetterick in the Wilfong's Skylane. (Arnie's Bonanza was in for the Annual so he said "it was okay to ride in a Cessna"). The air was smooth the sky was blue and the flight was really great. The 150 departed a little before the rest of us and we never quite caught up with him on the way to Hood River. We all converged on the breakfast and after eating our fill (the breakfast was good and there was plenty of it) we wandered around and looked at all there was to see. There were planes on display (even a plane with chrome wheels), classic cars on display and who would have ever thought that there would be a large hangar full of Antique Planes, WWII military vehicles and a whole lot more at Hood River?? They provided transportation to and from this large hanger on the North side of the field...one mode of travel was a police paddy wagon (didn't think I would ever ride in one of those) and the other was a wagon with straw bales to sit on pulled by a tractor. It was a beautiful day and the open-air ride back, on the straw bales, was fun too. This show was no where near as big as the one Madras puts on but it was still a lot of fun, the people were friendly, the food was good, the displays were interesting and if they have it again we will plan on being there. After we had all looked at everything we wanted to see and with the wind starting to come up pretty good we all mounted our faithful steeds and headed back home. As we (in the Skylane) passed the 150 it felt good to know that there was at least one of the other three planes that we were faster than. Both the Centurion and the Apache tuck up their landing gear and the Skylane can't quite keep up. But all three of us burned a whole lot more fuel than the 150 and I bet they enjoyed the trip just as much as the rest of us and they had more time to look at the scenery. Isn't that what we fly for anyway???? The Wilfongs, with the Vettericks on board, landed at Pilot Butte International where we pulled up some lawn chairs, basked in the beautiful weather for a while and had some refreshments before Don drove them back to S07 to pick up their car... All in all it was a really good fly-out....sorry some of you missed it. Don Wilfong Madras FBO I see a nice new FBO building being constructed at Madras City-County (S33). Don Mobley hopes to occupy by Jan 2006 ... it may even include a snack shop .... Ed. My Friend Adam's First Light Flight Two years ago I took my nineteen-year-old friend, Adam, on his first light airplane ride. He was home from the U.S. Marine Corp. basic training for a brief visit with his family and friends before being deployed to Iraq to carry an automatic weapon in an unarmored Humvee and escort supply convoys deep into Baghdad and Fallujah. I offered this aerial trip into the High Cascades as a token of friendship and memory of his home here in Central Oregon. I like Adam a lot. He's a gentle, artistic spirit. I think he joined the Marines to make his way and didn't know what was in store. Certainly a damned hard way to come of age. A very cruel trick. On a crystal clear Central Oregon morning we climbed out of the Bend airport and headed toward Bachelor. Adam was thrilled with the unusual aerial view of his familiar hometown as we turned this way and that to see the sights. He was glued to the window and kept the intercom busy with his observations. As we approached Bachelor and the Cascades filled the windscreen, Adam became quiet and seemed to sit back and just observe. We banked around the snow peaks with the lakes below and soared through the high country wonderland. He would look at me and smile. We shared the knowledge of how special it was to be there and to see this rare point of view. We felt very lucky. I reluctantly broke the spell when it was time to return to Bend. Coming back out over town didn't seem quite the same. The activities below seemed a long way away. Looking over our shoulder at the mountains was beautiful but melancholy. The view beckoned to our spirit to return soon. My landing at Bend was the usual hop, skip, and a jump. Isn't it great when new passengers don't know the difference? After we tied the aircraft down we stood there looking back at the mountains where we had just been and were silent for a while. It just seemed natural to give each other a hug and say thanks. Maybe next time we can do Crater Lake. Adam has just been back home this August for a short time after returning from active duty in Iraq. We didn't get a chance to fly this time but we got to celebrate his birthday. Now he's on his way back to the mud, dust, bullets, and bombs for another tour in Iraq. Be safe Adam. Your friend, Ed. OCTOBER FLY-OUT FUN!!! Our October Fly-out, planned for our regular fly-out date Sat. Oct. 22, will be a "Short Field Clinic" at the Madras Airport (S33) being headed up by Nancy Lecklider. Pilot Briefing at 10:00 a.m. Bring your airplane and test your skill. There will be a couple of CFI's available for advice and possibly some dual instruction. We are asking the F.A.A. to approve the Pilot Briefing and the day's events for part of the Wings program . There is no charge for this event but we will accept donations, to help cover the expenses.. This event is sponsored by Central Oregon Chapter of the Oregon Pilots Association and The Central Oregon Chapter of the 99s. Part of the plan is to have COOPA put on a lunch (probably hot dogs etc.) with volunteer help. Nancy is going to need some volunteers to help with the lunch and also several to help put the event on. .... If you think you can help in any capacity please call her at 330-1853 to let her know and to find out what needs to be done. It is important that you contact her as soon as possible so she can plan on you being there and can designate different tasks as needed. Don Wilfong For those who missed the August Madras Airshow, you also missed Dwight manning the 'temporary tower' .... Note the officially labeled Madras Airport chair .... Maybe this is the offender Dwight was looking for ...Don Mobley in 'student mode' ... (Photo credit: Ed) COOPA SAFETY CORNER By Joel Premselaar At our last meeting, in deference to several new attendees, we had a round of self-introductions. Attendees identified him/herself and then related personal aviation story(ies) experiences. As I heard some tail puckering tales, the light went on in what's left of my dim mind triggering a potpourri of safety related anecdotes. Once home, I started a list of safety concerns that grew beyond the allotted space for this issue. My head was full of possible causes for the "ditching in Lake Washington" episode. What would cause the Cessna's engine to fail? Mechanical failure not withstanding, as pilots we have control over many fuel related threats. Since the aircraft of interest was a Cessna, my thoughts went to a Cessna 182 that was fueled at a Washington airport I'll leave nameless. The fuel selector was in the "both" position during fueling. The right tank was topped. The person fueling the aircraft was called to the phone. Several minutes later he filled the left tank. Well into the flight, the pilot noted that both tank fuel indicators were jiggling at empty. He survived the forced landing. Lesson learned: - the fuel cross-fed during the interruption of the fueling because the fuel selector was in the "both" position. The pilot reasoned that since both tanks were filled he assumed that the gauges were in error because he knew the range that full tanks would give him. It is well known that fuel gauges are unreliable. Incidentally, did you know that the basis for certification of a fuel gauge is that it indicates "empty" when the tank is empty, period! It is worthy to note that fuel systems do suffer vapor lock in the fuel line between the tank and the engine's induction system. Keep in mind that even though aviation fuel is specifically blended for very low vapor pressures, 7.0 psi maximum on Reid's vapor pressure chart, vapor locks can and do happen. Here is but one scenario. You're in a low airspeed sustained climb (engine is getting hot). Your oil was at the minimum allowable as cited in the pilot's operating handbook (POH) /Airplane Flight Manual (AFM). Oil is a great heat sink. In hot weather, its level should be as high as the POH /AFM allows. Experience may dictate a less than the maximum level. In some aircraft, oil tanks filled to the published maximum will result in some being pumped overboard, especially in hot weather. Cowl flaps? Huh? Oh yeah, aren't they just a poor man's speed brakes? You continue to climb and soon pass through a temperature inversion; how nice, visibility improved (engine gets even hotter). You're now at low-density altitudes (engine compartment is blistering). You lean to optimize fuel-to-air ratio and do so excessively (all engine temperature indicators go off the scale). It suddenly gets very quiet and though the cockpit temperature is about 68?F, you are sweating profusely! VAPOR LOCK!!! Oh, H E DOUBLE TOOTHPICKS. Never mind the vapor lock. Your engine just experienced a melt down! Take heart. With time available and the "know how" for your specific type of induction system, a vapor lock can be cleared. Another point. You are descending from high altitude. You're occupied looking for reported traffic or you're IFR and concentrating on instruments. There is a burp or two then silence. Now under stress you speak (shout) aloud for the world to hear. "Oh shucks!" In this circumstance, shucks is just a euphemism. "It's the mixture control, you idiot! Oh well, I'll enrich the mixture. Hey! Nothing happened." You fuel injection types. Have you ever tried to restart a fuel-injected engine in flight? It takes a bit of time to start, doesn't it? If this happens at low altitude, count upon having a sudden and much too intimate relationship with Mother Earth. A noteworthy aside; the FAA stipulates that gravity fed fuel systems must be capable of the providing a minimum fuel flow rate of 150% of the engine's needs at full power (standard day at sea level). Fuel pump systems (think low wing aircraft) must provide 125% fuel flow of the engine's needs under the same conditions. Now then, are ya gonna upgrade your machine by replacing a 230 H.P. engine with a 320 H. P. one replete with new fuel lines and (in low wingers) pumps? I will admit that I haven't researched whether STCs are required to address these requirements. Switching fuel tanks: - this is fraught with a series of OOPS. I always switch leaving enough fuel in the tank to reach a landing site. Here are a couple reasons for that. The fuel tank selector may malfunction or, as in the case cited by me, the handle may break off in your hand. SAFETY CORNER continued ... The reason that fuel tanks have standpipes is to keep the sludge that lies on the tank's bottom from flowing into the fuel system. The existence of standpipes is the story behind usable vs. unusable fuel. When the tank is low, it doesn't take much turbulence to Tsunami (coined verb) sludge into the standpipe. There were a few cases where there was but one standpipe aft in the tank and when the fuel was low and the aircraft descended nose low, the standpipe was uncovered and fuel starvation occurred. In the early days, this was prevalent with tail wheel type aircraft. Now then, with fuel in the selected tank in a low state, would you sideslip to a landing or induce negative "Gs" thereby unporting the standpipes and/or sloshing the sludge? You've heard me and one other urge you to protect fuel vents from mud daubers. The COPA old timers have heard this from me ad nauseam, so 'nuf said about this. Many of us have had a backfire when starting an engine. The manuals for several aircraft state that in the event of a backfire, do not attempt to start the engine or allow it to run without conducting a complete inspection of the entire induction system. Serious damage can result from a backfire. If you fly a P&W R-985 take special note of this. Fuel systems vary drastically by aircraft type. Excess fuel provided to the carburetor or fuel injector system is routed back to a specific fuel tank. One common denominator seems to be that the fuel return is usually to the left main tank. If that tank is full and you do not select it first to provide space for the returning fuel, I can assure you that you'll be dumping fuel overboard. When you were a student pilot you were told to be thoroughly knowledgeable about the aircraft you're flying. Now then, I assume that you are in a position to play the "Center of Gravity (c.g.) Game" with your fuel. Here are some tricks I use in my Bonanza. My auxiliary tanks are outboard and aft of the mains. If I want speed and or long range, I'll use the mains first to favor an aft c.g. resulting in less drag; a caveat - this compromises pitch stability and requires a delicate touch when employing a now sensitive pitch controller. When expecting turbulence or IFR conditions, I use the aux tanks first to favor a forward c.g.; this results in a more stable platform and a less sensitive pitch controller. Fuel in my aux tanks allows more "Gs" since they are outboard thereby opposing wing-bending forces; e.g., aircraft with tip tanks, especially with fuel in them, can tolerate more "Gs" than those of the same type without tip tanks. All that said, I hope that it is imperative that you play the c.g. game safely within the weight and balance envelop from takeoff through landing. Finally, since the title of this article is "Safety Corner," I hope I scared you enough with its contents to keep you scared enough so that you may fly safely with out fear. Does that make sense to you? Good, because it flat out confuses me! ______________________________________________ And, to wrap it up, some memorable in-flight photos; courtesy of Ed Endsley ... Don Wilfong in his 757 757 on 'Don' Patrol Ed and Bill Witt From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Tue Oct 18 14:18:57 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Tue Oct 18 14:44:31 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Building Signs at the Bend Airport Message-ID: Well, hello to all Bend Airport tenants. I didn't expect to be writing again so soon, but this is an item with a bit of a deadline. I wanted to let you all know about a project we've been working on and to solicit your feedback, particularly from the business tenants on the Airport. As I mentioned in my September update, I have been exploring ways to get building address signs on all of the Airport buildings, at little or no cost to either the Airport or to you. Well, we've found a way, through a generous grant Deschutes County has chosen to include us in. The signs Here are the details on what the signs will look like: * Sign dimensions are 9"x24" * Green background with raised white 6" lettering. No border. * For uniformity, signs will be mounted approx 8-10' above ground level on the SW corner of the building on all west side buildings, where possible. For other buildings that do not face west, the most visible location will be chosen, based on probable access by the Fire Department or Emergency vehicles in case of an emergency. The signs will take about 3 weeks to order and another two weeks to finalize, so I'm guessing we're 6-8 weeks out from being able to install them. Here's my request from you business tenants. The fire department strongly encourages all buildings to have uniform signs for rapid identification and we are happy to install them for you on your building, at no cost to you. We will not have a chance like this again. Thus, I would like to hear from you if you have any concerns about having a building sign installed on your building. My intention is to order the signs through the Fire Department within the next week. Please let me know if you have any input not later than this Friday, October 21st. On another note, Carlson Sign is in the process of designing a separate entry sign for the Airport. More to come... Thank you, Greg Phillips Bend Municipal Airport Manager PO Box 431 Bend, OR 97709 (541) 389-0258 From leckone at bendcable.com Fri Oct 21 13:46:35 2005 From: leckone at bendcable.com (Leckliders) Date: Fri Oct 21 13:54:50 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Short Field Clinic Message-ID: <004f01c5d680$86f4df40$f465dc42@leckone> Hi to Everyone, This is just to remind you of the Short Field Clinic to be held at Madras, tomorrow, Saturday, !0:00 a.m. I just came back from checking out the airstrip at Madras and it was a beautiful bright Central Oregon day. The forecast for tomorrow promises even better weather. There was a light breeze coming out of the North which should be the same tomorrow, so you will be landing with the sun behind you. There is a lot of construction going on at Madras so it wont look the same as it usually does. When all is completed they will have a super new FBO. In the meantime, we will meet in front of the south hangar or possibly in front of the old FBO. Look for Lecklider's gray Ford Van.. With the weather as nice as it is, the pilot briefing will be held out doors, so bring a folding chair if you want to be comfortable. We will have coffee and donuts. See you Saturday, Nancy L. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20051021/19df2e13/attachment.html From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Thu Oct 27 12:42:46 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Thu Oct 27 14:05:03 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Bend Airport Environmental Assessment meeting Message-ID: To all tenants and friends of the Bend Municipal Airport: This message is being sent to let you know that the Environmental Assessment Draft Report for the design/construction project to replace Runway 16/34 at the Bend Municipal Airport has been completed. As a part of the public process to complete this Assessment in accordance with NEPA requirements, a public meeting will be held on November 3rd, 2005 at the 6:00 p.m. in the 1st Floor Hearing Room of the Deschutes Services Building in downtown Bend (1300 NW Wall Street). This meeting was advertised in the Bend Bulletin on October 22 and 23, 2005 and offers the opportunity for public comment regarding the Environmental Assessment. Everyone is welcomed to attend the meeting and invited to be present. If you have questions about this meeting or about the Environmental Assessment process itself, please feel free to call. My best regards, Greg Phillips Bend Municipal Airport Manager PO Box 431 Bend, OR 97709 (541) 389-0258 From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Fri Nov 4 16:54:04 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Sat Nov 5 13:28:15 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Bend Airport Update #4 Message-ID: Hello, friends of the Bend Airport. Here's the latest goings-on here at the Airport. As always, your comments and ideas are welcomed. (See attached file: Bend Airport Update #4 -11-05.doc) Greg Phillips Bend Municipal Airport Manager PO Box 431 Bend, OR 97709 (541) 389-0258 November 4, 2005 Airport Update #4 To all Bend Municipal Airport Friends and Tenants: Greetings once again from the Bend Municipal Airport. It looks like winter is upon us already, and I hear talk of a La Nina year, bringing more rain and snow than last year?s light winter offered. Still, the construction season is now winding down, but there are a few more things in the works, so I thought I would share this update with you. CONSTRUCTION RUNWAY SAFETY AREA (RSA) for RWY 34: The project has dragged on longer than I anticipated, but the Runway Safety Area grading project is now approaching completion. The contractor, Moore Excavation, is currently planning to utilize three nights this next week to repair the pavement at the south end of the airport and restripe the runway markings to a full length, 5,005? runway. There is a significant amount of work that must be done to complete this and therefore, on the nights of November 8 and 9, from 1900L to 0700L, and from 1800L to 0700L on the night of the 10th. the RUNWAY WILL BE CLOSED to allow the contractor to complete their work. I apologize in advance for any inconvenience this causes and I look forward to having this project completed soon. AUTOMATED WEATHER OBSERVATION SYSTEM (AWOS) INSTALLATION: Good news! The electrical contractor informed me on Monday that the AWOS equipment has been shipped and is scheduled to arrive in Bend within the next few days. As soon as Moore Excavation can complete the electrical trenching to the project site, the installation will commence by Tomco Electric. If you haven?t seen it yet, take a look at All Weather?s website to see the equipment included in an AWOS III-P-T system, which is what we?re installing. You?ll find it at www.allweatherinc.com. Again, we hope to have the equipment installed and operational, at least by phone, before Christmas. The ability to transmit requires a VHF license from the FCC and equipment certification by the FAA, so as soon as our license is approved and the FAA gives us a thumbs up, we?ll have a full system for real-time weather at the Bend Airport. RUNWAY RELOCATION PROJECT: We continue to forge ahead on the preparatory work for the relocation of Runway 16/34. The Final Draft of the Environmental Assessment (EA) has been completed and the Public Meeting held last night received no public complaint. The public review period for this project ends within the next two weeks, after which the final EA will be submitted for approval to the FAA and NEPA. So now we press forward to the next stage of this project. You may have noticed that there have been surveyors on the airport for the last three weeks. They have been conducting the full area survey of the existing and new runway topography that is required to begin design. We intend to complete the engineering over the coming winter and spring and will meet with City Council in January to discuss this project in more detail. As always, I encourage you to let your City Manager and City Council know how important this project is and how the new runway will benefit you, the Bend Airport, and the community as we move into this next developmental stage. As I mentioned in my last update, we hope to do all of the primary excavation and earthwork over the summer of 2006 and then complete the project the following summer when we can get the rest of the funds through the FAA grant process. DEVELOPMENT EASTSIDE DEVELOPMENT: Next week is the closing date for the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the two parcels identified for immediate development. If you?re curious and haven?t seen the RFP, it is available for free review on the Central Oregon Builders? Exchange website, www.plansonfile.com. We?re excited about this incredible opportunity for the Airport and look forward to seeing the proposals after the closing date next week, November 9th. We have already selected our review committee and eagerly anticipate reviewing the proposals, with selection of a developer scheduled before Christmas. NORTH TIEDOWN RAMP: We have a lease! The project is preparing to begin on the North Tiedown Ramp, but not until the new South Tiedown area has been paved and prepared for tiedowns, with all aircraft moved from the North Ramp to this new Ramp. The contractor hopes to do that next week, but the weather will have a say in the actual paving schedule. Stay tuned and I?ll do my best to keep you up to date and informed. Additionally, as a part of this project, a new glider area will be prepared south of the Portable T-Hangars at the southwest corner of the Airport. That will happen at the same time as the paving of the new South Tiedown Ramp. CELL PHONE SITES: We have another lease! Well, actually two. City Council approved the two leases for Unicel and T-Mobile to place cell sites on the airport in order to improve cell coverage at the Airport. It will still be a few months, I think, before these sites are active, but I have heard from both companies that their equipment is on order and that the gears are turning in the right direction. Stay tuned. FLIGHT SERVICES BUILDING ? UPSTAIRS: I can?t say too much right now, (all hush, hush, you know), but we all recognize the upstairs in the Flight Services Building has been empty for far too long. I?m delighted to report that we have two potential tenants looking very seriously at this prime space for a possible move to the Airport. I?ll let you know more as soon as I can. It would be great to fill that space. MAINTENANCE AIRPORT ENTRY SIGN: I met today with Carlson Sign to review proposals for a welcome/entry sign to the Bend Municipal Airport. This has been a long time coming and I?m excited to find another great way to announce our presence to the Central Oregon community. WI-FI: In my last note, I asked for your input on wireless internet access (Wi-Fi) at the Airport. Well, we listened and, while there were a few people who liked the idea of installing a Wi-Fi system across the entire Airport, most indicated that the real value lay in having a network within the Flight Services building. We don?t have a sign posted yet, but for the past two weeks, now, we?ve had just that. So tell your friends and, if you?re at the Airport with your laptop and need a place to come check email or file your flight plan online, stop by The Flight Shop and log on. Thanks to Adam Becker of The Flight Shop for the original idea! BUILDING SIGNS: Still waiting for the signs to come in that we will install on all the buildings at the Airport. Our thanks again to Deschutes County for including us in the grant program to make these signs. NEWSPAPER BOXES: Another great idea from a visitor to the Airport that?s now in the works. I have spoken with The Bulletin, The Source, and Cascade Publications about putting boxes at the Bend Airport and distributing papers for sale here. They have all agreed and are working out the logistics. The boxes will be placed in front of the Flight Services Building and should be available soon. EMAIL: This last item is a bit different from the others, but something important to me and that I want to share with you. I love using email as a tool to stay in contact with you, but I have to admit that it has become a bit of a struggle for me lately. I have been deluged with email at an increasing level and I have noticed with some chagrin that it?s taking me more time to answer some of your emails than I would like. I appreciate the comments I get from you all very much, both positive and not positive, and I do always intend to answer every email I receive. I do get them and I do read them. So please keep your emails coming. I will always answer them, as quickly as I can get to them. It just may take me a while. If you need a quick answer to a question you have or a comment, I hope that you will always feel free to call me. Alright, that?s all for now. Check out the Bend Airport article on the front page of the latest edition of the Cascade Business News and on COTV City Edition (Channel 11) for the month of November. We?re making headlines! To all of you, blue skies and tailwinds, Greg Greg Phillips Airport Manager City of Bend -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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NOV. 18....READ MORE ABOUT IT IN THE UPCOMING NEWSLETTER.....SEE YOU AT THE MEETING....DON & NORMA WILFONG From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Sat Nov 12 15:14:18 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Sat Nov 12 15:20:59 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Fw: CORRECTION Message-ID: <001101c5e7de$ceb12900$bd64dc42@bendcable.com> HEY....SOMEONE POINTED OUT TO ME THAT THE THURS POTLUCK/MEETING IS ACTUALLY ON NOV. 17 NOT 18.......OH WELL....I NEVER PRETENDED TO BE SMART.....DON > HEY GANG....IT IS THAT TIME OF YEAR WHERE WE HAVE BEEN HELPING ONE OR MORE > DESERVING JUNIOR HIGH KIDS WITH THE HELP OF SOME TEACHERS AT PILOT BUTTE > MIDDLE SCHOOL....WE WILL DISCUSS THIS YEARS PLAN AT THE POTLUCK/MEETING ON > THURS. NOV. 18....READ MORE ABOUT IT IN THE UPCOMING NEWSLETTER.....SEE > YOU AT THE MEETING....DON & NORMA WILFONG > From mvbond at myexcel.com Mon Nov 14 16:24:02 2005 From: mvbond at myexcel.com (mvbond) Date: Mon Nov 14 16:24:21 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] NOVEMBER COOPA NEWSLETTER Message-ID: <43792AA2.1040509@myexcel.com> Here is the text version of your chapter Newsletter. Gary has posted the PDF version on the COOPA website. Mike Bond ----------------------------------------------------------------- CASCADE FLYER November 2005, Vol. 05, Issue 11 Website: http://co-opa.rellim.com/ President's Message: The Short Clinic in Madras was quite a success. Thanks to Nancy Lecklider for all the hard work she put in to organizing the event. As part of the pre-flight briefing, we watched a few clips from an FAA safety video titled "Practical Density Altitude" narrated by Kurt Anderson from the Seattle office of the NTSB. The few clips we saw left me wanting more, so I managed to grab a copy of the video. The full program is quite impressive and thought provoking. The name of the video is not exactly appropriate as it is more about badly handled density altitude than about properly handled density altitude. Kurt mentions many times in the Video that, since he is from the NTSB, he mostly has expertise with how not to fly an airplane. He warned the viewer to get instruction on the proper way to do things elsewhere. Since no one saw more than a bit of the Video last month it seems like a good thing to watch in its entirety for this months meeting. There are nine short clips and after each we will have a short discussion period. With all the experience in our membership we can surely solve the issues left open by the video. There is also a bit of Holiday related business to handle. Don Wilfong has some proposals for us to decide on. Another thank you goes to our guests last month from the newly reconstituted Leading Edge Aviation. It was good to meet Brad Fraley, Travis Warthen and Justin Harries. Let's wish them all good fortune in their new venture. Be sure to keep December 16th open on your calendars. Into the breach we go once again with our annual Holiday Bash! ED Note: This issue will appear to be a bit 'heavy' on safety ...but we can never have too much of that ... Calendar: 17 November - Monthly Meeting 19 November - Monthly Flyout 15 December - Monthly Meeting - XMAS Party 16 December - Monthly Flyout 19 January - Monthly Meeting 21 January - Monthly Flyout 16 February - Monthly Meeting 18 February - Monthly Flyout 17 June 2006 - Bend Airport open house Web doings: Two very interesting video clips came in this month. Each provides a unique look at the interaction between airplanes and open water. You can download them directly from the home page. As always, the CO-OPA website contains recent newsletters and other goodies. http://co-opa.rellim.com/ To access the members only areas the username is "S07" and the password is "123.0". My Inbox: Most of you saw the note from David Sailors last month. Next Summer seems awfully far away but it is time to make sure the slumbering giant of the next Aviation Day does not go on permanent hibernation. The plan this year is to have the airport open house on the weekend after the Balloons Over Bend. Now instead of having too much to do in one weekend we can have two great aviation filled weekends in a row. If you would like to help out please contact David Sailors. His contact info is 541-420-3910 or dsailors@bendbroadband.com. Random Thoughts: The first weeks or two of August are filled with one great happening after another. One of them that has eluded me over the years is the McCall Fly-In. A lot of our members regularly attend and they all return with rave reviews. Just mention McCall at any gathering of Oregon pilots and a healthy conversation will ensue. Soon we may not have to travel so far and stay overnight to attend such a fabled event. Keith Crimins of the Portland FSDO was telling us last month of plans for a similar event in Oregon next year. Even better, the plan is to host it at the Bend Airport. So far the FAA is playing this one close to the vest, but I have heard about this planned event from several sources. If Bend could get half the publicity and enthusiasm that McCall gets then Bend could earn a firm nationwide reputation as a great place to fly to. As the FAA follows through with their plans we should see what we can do to be a part. If the program is as good as I hear then maybe I might finally learn short field landings. In other news, we are losing two of our own aviation legends this month. Keith Crimins, the FAA Safety Program Manager at the Portland FSDO retired just after helping us with last month's Short Field clinic. Keith continually proved that you can be from the government and be here to help. Dave Evans, our own Mr. Airport, has flown the coop with his wife Ginni to live in Eugene. He plans to hanger his Maule at the Creswell Airport. Good luck to both of them and we still expect to see them from time to time. Gary Miller ... ) Madras Short Field Clinic, Oct 22: By Nancy Lecklider Everything came together and we had our first, hopefully, annual "Short Field Clinic". The weather was beautiful, we had great attendance, the speakers were interesting and I think, everyone learned something new or had a little refresher course on some forgotten bit of knowledge. The seminar part of the clinic covered everything from landings and takeoffs to density altitude: Keith Crimin gave his last safety seminar before retiring as FAA Aviation Safety Program Manager. Joel Premselaar, our bottomless well of wonderful information, talked about landings and takeoffs. Dale Evans dug into the years of experience he had flying in Alaska to share his knowledge of landings and takeoffs, short and otherwise. We had twenty-two people attending the seminar, including several from Madras and the rest from our own group, with Dean and Wendy Cameron coming from The Dalles. That was a nice surprise. There were ten aircraft and eleven pilots that participated in the actual flying part of the clinic. Randy Potter seemed to do the best but some of the others did well, too. It seemed to be the consensus of opinion that we should do this again and make it a regular event on our agenda. Many, many thanks to those that helped; to Don Mobley for letting us play in his back yard, to Joel for, once again, keeping us enthralled with his wonderful knowledge of aviation, to Dale Evans whom we should have talk to us more often about his experiences and to Keith Crimin for being so willing to come all the way from the Valley for our event. ED Note: Several of us concluded the experience with an excellent Mexican meal in downtown Madras ... thanks to Nancy & Bob for the transportation! The following link applies to the next article: 1 NTSB Database query search; http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/query.asp Proposal for Fly Safe Clinic at Bend Airport, June 2-3, 2006: Dennis Douglas, founding member of local EAA Chapter 1345, has prepared a detailed proposal to the FAA, ODA, and S07 Airport management. I have extracted some key features of the proposal: "The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Aviation Accident Databasei shows that there were 279 general aviation aircraft accidents in Oregon between January 1, 2000 and November 2, 2005-an average of about 56 accidents per year. While most were relatively minor, seventeen percent of these accidents entailed one or more fatalities. An analysis of the 'probably cause' of these 279 accidents reveals a myriad of underlying factors but it is clear that a significant number were caused because the pilots of the aircraft were not fully aware of their personal limits or the limits of their aircraft." " ...the primary objective of the Fly Safe Clinic proposed here will be to identify to pilots the principal causes of aircraft accidents and how pilots can reduce the chances of these accidents happening to them. The proposed Fly Safe Clinic will emphasize environmental and human factors that affect aircraft operations. The Clinic will also emphasize the mechanical and performance aspects of their craft, and aviation medicine issues that affect pilot performance. Both ground-based seminars as well as in-the-air instruction will be provided." "A third objective is to provide pilots and their spouses information about recreational opportunities in the Central Oregon area. While years ago pilots were content with flying to an airshow, for example, and spending two or three days looking at airplanes, the cost of fuel and changing demographics now suggest that a pilot wants to fly to a destination and do more that simply 'look at airplanes'. " Dennis further proposes WINGS, PACE, Flight Training, Aircraft and Airport Operations and Recreational segments to the program: "The core of the Fly Safe Clinic will feature seminars and ground-based presentations together with free (to the pilot) in-the-air flight instruction programs in the pilot's aircraft, and a voluntary, no-risk aircraft inspection program. Aircraft and airport operations segments are included in the proposed program to encourage the non-flying public to attend and better understand airports and airplanes. A recreational segment is included to encourage family attendance at the clinic." "The organizations expected to support the Clinic include the Bend Chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA 1345), the Central Oregon Pilots Association (COPA), and the City of Bend. " The proposal has been favorably received and I think we need to discuss ... Mike Bond, Newsletter Editor CO-OPA HOLIDAY CHARITY PROGRAM It is that time of year again when we need to start planning for our charitable contributions. In past years we have worked with some of the Teachers at Pilot Butte Middle School in helping out one or more students. They have picked a couple of very deserving young people whose situations warrant our help. They ask that we again please consider funding this cause as we have in the past. We have some money left over from last year but certainly could use some more to accomplish our goals. Norma and the Teachers do their very best to budget the spending to where it will do the most good. Norma will be discussing this at our upcoming meeting (Thurs. Nov. 17) so please plan on doing what you can at that time to help the cause. If you are not at the meeting or if it better suits your needs you may make your donations to our Treasurer...David Sailors, P.O. Box 203, Bend, OR 97709...just make your check to CO-OPA and mark it for our Holiday Charity Fund. You will be pleased to learn that the young lady we helped a couple of years ago is doing very well now. She is back living with her Mother (who has straightened her life out). She is now attending school regularly and is getting very good grades. I can't help but believe that the love and support we, as a group, gave her helped to bring this about. Thank You all...Don & Norma Wilfong INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP FLIGHT!!! Pilot Butte Middle School and High Desert Middle School participate in a Student Exchange Program where a group of Japanese Students and Adults from Fujioka, Japan come to Bend each year and a group of our Students and Adults (Teachers) go to Fujioka. These visits usually last for approximately nine days. The students usually stay in the homes of their counter parts while visiting the other country. This is a very successful program whereby all participants learn a lot about each other's culture and cement relationships and trust between the young people of both countries. The benefits of these relationships can be far reaching in government, business and social relations between the peoples of our two countries in the future. The groups are treated to tours of Government facilities, local points of interest, historic sites and many other educational things in both countries. The host families usually take them to many points of interest within driving distance of Bend. It is a very exciting, interesting and educational experience for all who participate. A lot of work goes into these International visits both here and in Fujioka by everyone involved, including contributions from various Individuals, businesses and organizations. This year one of the organizers from Japan needed a vehicle while she was here (she had lived in the U.S. and was familiar with driving in our country). Bob Thomas Chevrolet generously provided a car for her use. This was certainly appreciated by her and by the organizers of the event... THANK YOU, BOB THOMAS. The High Desert Museum treated them to a free tour, the Bend Police Dept. and the Bend Fire Dept. both treated them to a tour including a trip up the tall fire ladder to approx. 100 ft. above the ground and the Mayor took them all to lunch at the Pine Tavern...THANKS TO ALL OF YOU and to the many others that I have failed to mention ... I know your efforts were appreciated. You can be sure our students and teachers are also treated very well on their visits to Japan. Last year Norma and I had the opportunity to take two Japanese Teachers on a flight over Crater Lake. This was such a hit that our son, Steven Wetherald (he is a Teacher at Pilot Butte Middle School and one of the organizers of the Student Exchange), ask if the Central Oregon Chapter of O.P.A. might be willing to arrange a flight for the Students, Teachers and other adults from both Japan and from our area. FRIENDSHIP FLIGHT continued ... I sent out a plea for help and we had a number of volunteers that were willing to donate their time and their planes to help put this flight on. The volunteers were Duane Francis with his Cessna 205 (he is a friend and neighbor of ours on Pilot Butte Airport), Gary Miller with his Cessna Turbo 210, Michael Adler with his Cessna Cardinal RG (he has a child who will be on the tour to Japan), Bill Witt with his Cessna Skylane and I (Don Wilfong) with my Cessna Skylane. Ed Endsley was also there to take photos and help in any way he could. Several others would have liked to have volunteered, but their schedules would not permit it. We scheduled our flight for early morning on Monday, October 10th and held our breaths that the weather would be good. Well ... the gods smiled on us and the weather was beautiful. We gathered at the Flight Shop and amid the combination of English and Japanese conversation we got things sorted out as to who was going in which plane. When the passengers were divided up all of the planes were full except for mine and I had one empty seat ... Ed Endsley was nowhere in sight so I proceeded to taxi out with the other four planes for take off. As I headed for the end of runway 16 there was Ed standing on the edge of the taxiway looking forlorn, his sad look turned to a big smile when I pulled over and let him crawl in. Everyone chose their own route to Crater Lake, and some of us flew down over Fort Rock and Hole in the Ground before heading on to Crater Lake. The airwaves were full of chatter so we all knew where the other ones were. Ed was busy with my digital camera getting a bunch of good photos as we went along. We all circled over and around Crater Lake and then proceeded North along the Cascades to the Three Sisters and on to Smith Rocks before heading back to Bend. Gary Miller said one of the Japanese students was so relaxed that she went to sleep for a bit.... I believe that everyone really enjoyed and appreciated the flight. I think it will be long remembered by our passengers as the highlight of their trip and the pilots really enjoyed seeing the sights through the wide eyes of our passengers and experiencing the excitement of flight all over again. It is truly a win win situation when everyone gains from the experience. I want to personally thank each and every one of you for generously participating in this very worthwhile event. THANK YOU ALL ... Your help and co-operation made my job easy.... Don Wilfong COOPA SAFETY CORNER By Joel Premselaar With several added and expanded items, the immortal prose that follows was orally presented to those who attended the "Short Field Landing and Take off" clinic on Saturday, 22 October. There is no doubt in my mind that each and every attendee of the clinic is less apt to exceed short field runway lengths than those of you who played hooky. Consider yourself chastised! SHORT FIELD LANDINGS AND TAKE OFFS Anecdote: Two instructors took off in a T-6 (this is a way of saying that they were Air Farce pilots). Their mission was to extract a now repaired T-6 from a short field. Due to an engine failure, a student pilot landed it dead stick leaving the aircraft in a short field. After two landing attempts, the instructors reasoned that if a student pilot could dead stick into that field, they should be able to land in the field with power. After several aborted attempts, they skimmed over the fence surrounding the field and to their chagrin, plowed into the trees at the far end. At the accident investigation, the student was asked how he managed to dead stick the T-6 into that field while instructor pilots failed to duplicate the feat. His response was, "Oh Sir, I didn't land in that field, I landed in the field adjacent to it and bounced in." Preface: What kind of pilot will deliberately plan a flight to land at a field that would entail a short field landing and takeoff? Answer: one who sets out to prove the "Darwin Theory." Logically, this piece presumes that an off airport short field landing will of necessity precede the requirement to execute a short field takeoff. The "necessity" is the need to choose between making an off airport power off-landing due to, for one of many reasons, fuel exhaustion vice (No, it's not the kind of vice a reprobate would assume) a landing with fuel available to find and evaluate a field on which to make a power-on landing. The answer to that is obvious. Prohibitive IFR conditions, mechanical reasons, bad navigation, unexpected head winds, or whatever creates the need for that decision. After the cause for the landing is resolved, you'll be faced with the need to conduct a short field takeoff. You've heard it before, but I'll state it again: "Practice makes perfect!" I'll add to that with "No practice makes a perfect fool!!" Discussion: Short field landings Once committed to an off airport landing, an analysis of a candidate field begins as follows: * The intended landing site, long enough to execute a short field take off, should be in proximity to public activities; e.g., farms, roads, etc. All things considered equal, land on a fenced field's diagonal to maximize field length * Wind determination is aided by observing cattle. If the wind is significant enough to be a factor, you'll find that cattle will have put their tails into the wind (ask me why they do that) * If a lake's surface (wind caused) is turbulent, a relatively calm area will be present along the upwind shoreline * Wind speed reductions and direction changes occur as you descend closer to the ground. If you're interested in how much, ask me for a Boeing chart that quantifies it * Ground structure and terrain features affect wind velocities and create turbulence * On a hot and sunny day, transitioning from plowed fields that generate updrafts to green fields or bodies of water will disturb your approach to a landing * On the final approach, the upwind side of a hill (think landing on runway 02 at Sisters {6K5} airport) may require action to counter the energy of an undesirable updraft) select a field that is free of obstacles on the approach end * Drag the candidate field up-wind a few times at 1.3 Vso and at an altitude that provides a reasonably slow angular rate with respect to the ground. If gusts or updrafts and downdrafts exist, add a fudge factor to1.3 Vso to preclude stalls or high sink rates * Consider sun angle * Look straight down through grass for rocks, chuck holes, and the presence of furrows. Land parallel to furrows * Look for slopes and undulations. If a slope exists, evaluate the slope to wind relationship * Wet grass will help slow the aircraft but be advised, braking will be poor to non-existing * Select a go around point * Choose a field with some structures nearby if the field is covered with snow. A snow covered field compromises depth perception and hides irregularities that may rise up and smite thee soundly * Approach the landing with full flaps. Be aware that full flaps may compromise a go-around in that the last third of flaps produce a great amount of drag with little or no additional lift Be guarded against the "Gibson Effect," i.e., marks on the field appear to separate gradually, but as you draw closer the angular rate of separation appears to accelerate in an illusion that your sink rate has increased. It helps to look farther down the field * Obstacles permitting use a trimmed flat power on approach to the landing. A flat power on approach reduces the possibility of the engine experiencing shock cooling or loading up, enhances carburetor heat, provides effective airflow to the empennage, and alleviates work load. Let ground effect alert you to your proximity to the surface and produce some flare. Concentrate on your target point. Do not strive for a smooth landing; your prime interest is to optimize field length. Consider this: carrier aircraft must demonstrate a damage free no-flare landing at 24 feet per second; this equates to 1,440 feet per minute. Other aircraft, including yours, must demonstrate a damage free landing at ten feet per second; this equates to 600 feet per minute. Now then, what's more important for a short field approach, a smooth landing that may compromise available field length or a no-flare landing at somewhat less than 6oo feet per minute? However, do not even think about making a no-flare landing on a soft field! If the field is soft, maintain taxi speed to the parking area. * If a go-around is required, the flat power-on approach minimizes the: energy needed to arrest a sink rate, change in torque and "P" effect, amount of trim and attitude changes, rate of heating that may be detrimental to the engine, and manipulation of cowl flaps. Short field takeoffs: * Flaps as recommended by the Pilot's Operating Handbook * If on pavement; e.g., a road, parade ground, etc., inflate tires to their maximum allowable pressure * If on a muddy field, deflate the tires some to provide maximum footprint * Takeoff to coincide with the coldest (highest barometric pressure) time of the day * Adjust for density altitude and humidity to ensure that maximum power is available for take off. High humidity can cost as much as 12% of power * Select a full fuel tank to prevent unporting the standpipe before employing the following technique. If feasible, execute a continuous rolling left turn curved path taxi and takeoff adding maximum power as takeoff alignment is obtained * Use a curved path takeoff to increase field length, especially in a crosswind. This will minimize the drag of a chattering steerable nose wheel. Elevate the nose wheel as soon as feasible to reduce friction drag. * This is particularly true for muddy field operations as is the following. For tail wheel types, lift the tail just high enough to clear the surface. Lifting the tail wheel too high may induce a nosing over. Lifting the nose wheel or keeping the tail wheel low will establish an attitude that will optimize lift; however, too nose high an attitude will create excessive induced aerodynamic drag thereby resulting in spastic sphincter exercises you'll long remember! * Takeoff will occur at minimum flying speed. Maintain a positive climb * As you pass above significant ground effect (above one half of the wing span), establish Vx to clear obstacles. When obstacle clearance is ensured, establish Vy. * When I take off from Sisters airport on runway 02, I remain in ground effect to build sufficient energy to execute a left turn down the flat valley rather than trying to out climb the down draft coming off the hill just off the end of 02. * A final note. To out climb the downdraft of a steep hill requires sustained high power at Vx. If an engine is to fail, it will most likely occur just after takeoff. This leaves you facing a hill with a nose high attitude, with no power, with high induced drag, with the drag of a wind milling prop, and maybe contemplating a no-no turn - - recite after me: "Our Father who art in heaven... 'nough said for now. I'm open for questions! From robnash46 at earthlink.net Mon Nov 14 16:35:16 2005 From: robnash46 at earthlink.net (Robert Nash) Date: Mon Nov 14 16:35:31 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Short Field clinic Message-ID: <410-220051121503516484@earthlink.net> I agree the event and preflight info was very good and helpful. We should do more such events, aiding proficiency and safety for all. Congrats to Randy Potter, per Nancy's comments. I'm curious, how short did Randy stop that Cherokee? Thanks, Robert Nash > [Original Message] > From: mvbond > To: CO-OPA members > Date: 11/14/2005 4:24:02 PM > Subject: [Co-opa] NOVEMBER COOPA NEWSLETTER > > Here is the text version of your chapter Newsletter. > Gary has posted the PDF version on the COOPA website. > > Mike Bond > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > CASCADE FLYER November 2005, Vol. 05, Issue 11 > Website: http://co-opa.rellim.com/ > > President's Message: > > The Short Clinic in Madras was quite a success. Thanks to Nancy > Lecklider for all the hard work she put in to organizing the event. > > As part of the pre-flight briefing, we watched a few clips from an FAA > safety video titled "Practical Density Altitude" narrated by Kurt > Anderson from the Seattle office of the NTSB. The few clips we saw left > me wanting more, so I managed to grab a copy of the video. The full > program is quite impressive and thought provoking. The name of the > video is not exactly appropriate as it is more about badly handled > density altitude than about properly handled density altitude. > > Kurt mentions many times in the Video that, since he is from the NTSB, > he mostly has expertise with how not to fly an airplane. He warned the > viewer to get instruction on the proper way to do things elsewhere. > > Since no one saw more than a bit of the Video last month it seems like a > good thing to watch in its entirety for this months meeting. There are > nine short clips and after each we will have a short discussion period. > With all the experience in our membership we can surely solve the issues > left open by the video. > > There is also a bit of Holiday related business to handle. Don Wilfong > has some proposals for us to decide on. > > Another thank you goes to our guests last month from the newly > reconstituted Leading Edge Aviation. It was good to meet Brad Fraley, > Travis Warthen and Justin Harries. Let's wish them all good fortune in > their new venture. > > Be sure to keep December 16th open on your calendars. Into the breach we > go once again with our annual Holiday Bash! > > ED Note: > This issue will appear to be a bit 'heavy' on safety ...but we can never > have too much of that ... > > Calendar: > > 17 November - Monthly Meeting > 19 November - Monthly Flyout > > 15 December - Monthly Meeting - XMAS Party > 16 December - Monthly Flyout > > 19 January - Monthly Meeting > 21 January - Monthly Flyout > > 16 February - Monthly Meeting > 18 February - Monthly Flyout > > 17 June 2006 - Bend Airport open house > > Web doings: > > Two very interesting video clips came in this month. Each provides a > unique look at the interaction between airplanes and open water. You > can download them directly from the home page. > > As always, the CO-OPA website contains recent newsletters and other goodies. > > http://co-opa.rellim.com/ > > To access the members only areas the username is "S07" and the password > is "123.0". > > My Inbox: > > Most of you saw the note from David Sailors last month. Next Summer > seems awfully far away but it is time to make sure the slumbering giant > of the next Aviation Day does not go on permanent hibernation. The plan > this year is to have the airport open house on the weekend after the > Balloons Over Bend. Now instead of having too much to do in one weekend > we can have two great aviation filled weekends in a row. If you would > like to help out please contact David Sailors. His contact info is > 541-420-3910 or dsailors@bendbroadband.com. > > Random Thoughts: > > The first weeks or two of August are filled with one great happening > after another. One of them that has eluded me over the years is the > McCall Fly-In. A lot of our members regularly attend and they all > return with rave reviews. Just mention McCall at any gathering of > Oregon pilots and a healthy conversation will ensue. > > Soon we may not have to travel so far and stay overnight to attend such > a fabled event. Keith Crimins of the Portland FSDO was telling us last > month of plans for a similar event in Oregon next year. Even better, > the plan is to host it at the Bend Airport. > > So far the FAA is playing this one close to the vest, but I have heard > about this planned event from several sources. If Bend could get half > the publicity and enthusiasm that McCall gets then Bend could earn a > firm nationwide reputation as a great place to fly to. As the FAA > follows through with their plans we should see what we can do to be a > part. If the program is as good as I hear then maybe I might finally > learn short field landings. > > In other news, we are losing two of our own aviation legends this month. > Keith Crimins, the FAA Safety Program Manager at the Portland FSDO > retired just after helping us with last month's Short Field clinic. > Keith continually proved that you can be from the government and be here > to help. Dave Evans, our own Mr. Airport, has flown the coop with his > wife Ginni to live in Eugene. He plans to hanger his Maule at the > Creswell Airport. Good luck to both of them and we still expect to see > them from time to time. > > Gary Miller > > ... > > > ) > > Madras Short Field Clinic, Oct 22: > By Nancy Lecklider > > Everything came together and we had our first, hopefully, annual "Short > Field Clinic". The weather was beautiful, we had great attendance, the > speakers were interesting and I think, everyone learned something new or > had a little refresher course on some forgotten bit of knowledge. > > The seminar part of the clinic covered everything from landings and > takeoffs to density altitude: > Keith Crimin gave his last safety seminar before retiring as FAA > Aviation Safety Program Manager. > Joel Premselaar, our bottomless well of wonderful information, talked > about landings and takeoffs. > Dale Evans dug into the years of experience he had flying in Alaska to > share his knowledge of landings and takeoffs, short and otherwise. > > We had twenty-two people attending the seminar, including several from > Madras and the rest from our own group, with Dean and Wendy Cameron > coming from The Dalles. That was a nice surprise. > > > > There were ten aircraft and eleven pilots that participated in the > actual flying part of the clinic. Randy Potter seemed to do the best > but some of the others did well, too. It seemed to be the consensus of > opinion that we should do this again and make it a regular event on our > agenda. > > Many, many thanks to those that helped; to Don Mobley for letting us > play in his back yard, to Joel for, once again, keeping us enthralled > with his wonderful knowledge of aviation, to Dale Evans whom we should > have talk to us more often about his experiences and to Keith Crimin for > being so willing to come all the way from the Valley for our event. > > ED Note: > Several of us concluded the experience with an excellent Mexican meal in > downtown Madras ... thanks to Nancy & Bob for the transportation! > > > > The following link applies to the next article: > > 1 NTSB Database query search; > http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/query.asp > > > Proposal for Fly Safe Clinic at Bend Airport, June 2-3, 2006: > > Dennis Douglas, founding member of local EAA Chapter 1345, has prepared > a detailed proposal to the FAA, ODA, and S07 Airport management. > I have extracted some key features of the proposal: > > "The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Aviation Accident > Databasei shows that there were 279 general aviation aircraft accidents > in Oregon between January 1, 2000 and November 2, 2005-an average of > about 56 accidents per year. While most were relatively minor, seventeen > percent of these accidents entailed one or more fatalities. An analysis > of the 'probably cause' of these 279 accidents reveals a myriad of > underlying factors but it is clear that a significant number were caused > because the pilots of the aircraft were not fully aware of their > personal limits or the limits of their aircraft." > " ...the primary objective of the Fly Safe Clinic proposed here will be > to identify to pilots the principal causes of aircraft accidents and how > pilots can reduce the chances of these accidents happening to them. The > proposed Fly Safe Clinic will emphasize environmental and human factors > that affect aircraft operations. The Clinic will also emphasize the > mechanical and performance aspects of their craft, and aviation medicine > issues that affect pilot performance. Both ground-based seminars as > well as in-the-air instruction will be provided." > "A third objective is to provide pilots and their spouses information > about recreational opportunities in the Central Oregon area. While > years ago pilots were content with flying to an airshow, for example, > and spending two or three days looking at airplanes, the cost of fuel > and changing demographics now suggest that a pilot wants to fly to a > destination and do more that simply 'look at airplanes'. " > Dennis further proposes WINGS, PACE, Flight Training, Aircraft and > Airport Operations and Recreational segments to the program: > "The core of the Fly Safe Clinic will feature seminars and ground-based > presentations together with free (to the pilot) in-the-air flight > instruction programs in the pilot's aircraft, and a voluntary, no-risk > aircraft inspection program. Aircraft and airport operations segments > are included in the proposed program to encourage the non-flying public > to attend and better understand airports and airplanes. A recreational > segment is included to encourage family attendance at the clinic." > "The organizations expected to support the Clinic include the Bend > Chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA 1345), the Central > Oregon Pilots Association (COPA), and the City of Bend. " > > The proposal has been favorably received and I think we need to discuss ... > > Mike Bond, Newsletter Editor > > > > CO-OPA HOLIDAY CHARITY PROGRAM > > It is that time of year again when we need to start planning for our > charitable contributions. > In past years we have worked with some of the Teachers at Pilot Butte > Middle School in helping out one or more students. > > They have picked a couple of very deserving young people whose > situations warrant our help. They ask that we again please consider > funding this cause as we have in the past. > > We have some money left over from last year but certainly could use some > more to accomplish our goals. Norma and the Teachers do their very best > to budget the spending to where it will do the most good. > > Norma will be discussing this at our upcoming meeting (Thurs. Nov. 17) > so please plan on doing what you can at that time to help the cause. If > you are not at the meeting or if it better suits your needs you may make > your donations to our Treasurer...David Sailors, > P.O. Box 203, Bend, OR 97709...just make your check to CO-OPA and mark > it for our Holiday Charity Fund. > > You will be pleased to learn that the young lady we helped a couple of > years ago is doing very well now. She is back living with her Mother > (who has straightened her life out). She is now attending school > regularly and is > getting very good grades. I can't help but believe that the love and > support we, as a group, gave her helped to bring this about. > > Thank You all...Don & Norma Wilfong > > > > INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP FLIGHT!!! > > Pilot Butte Middle School and High Desert Middle School participate in a > Student Exchange Program where a group of Japanese Students and Adults > from Fujioka, Japan come to Bend each year and a group of our Students > and Adults (Teachers) go to Fujioka. > These visits usually last for approximately nine days. The students > usually stay in the homes of their counter parts while visiting the > other country. > This is a very successful program whereby all participants learn a lot > about each other's culture and cement relationships and trust between > the young people of both countries. The benefits of these relationships can > be far reaching in government, business and social relations between the > peoples of our two countries in the future. > The groups are treated to tours of Government facilities, local points > of interest, historic sites and many other educational things in both > countries. > > The host families usually take them to many points of interest within > driving distance of Bend. It is a very exciting, interesting and > educational experience for all who participate. > > A lot of work goes into these International visits both here and in > Fujioka by everyone involved, including contributions from various > Individuals, businesses and organizations. This year one of the > organizers from Japan needed a vehicle while she was here (she had lived > in the U.S. and was familiar with driving in our country). Bob Thomas > Chevrolet generously provided a car for her use. This was certainly > appreciated by her and by the organizers of the event... > THANK YOU, BOB THOMAS. > > The High Desert Museum treated them to a free tour, the Bend Police > Dept. and the Bend Fire Dept. both treated them to a tour including a > trip up the tall fire ladder to approx. 100 ft. above the ground and the > Mayor took them all to lunch at the Pine Tavern...THANKS TO ALL OF YOU > and to the many others that I have failed to mention ... I know your > efforts were appreciated. You can be sure our students and teachers are > also treated very well on their visits to Japan. > > Last year Norma and I had the opportunity to take two Japanese Teachers > on a flight over Crater Lake. This was such a hit that our son, Steven > Wetherald (he is a Teacher at Pilot Butte Middle School and one of the > organizers of the Student Exchange), ask if the Central Oregon Chapter > of O.P.A. might be willing to arrange a flight for the Students, > Teachers and other adults from both Japan and from our area. > FRIENDSHIP FLIGHT continued ... > > I sent out a plea for help and we had a number of volunteers that were > willing to donate their time and their planes to help put this flight > on. The volunteers were Duane Francis with his Cessna 205 (he is a > friend and neighbor of ours on Pilot Butte Airport), Gary Miller with > his Cessna Turbo 210, Michael Adler with his Cessna Cardinal RG (he has > a child who will be on the tour to Japan), Bill Witt with his Cessna > Skylane and I (Don Wilfong) with my Cessna Skylane. Ed Endsley was also > there to take photos and help in any way he could. Several others would > have liked to have volunteered, but their schedules would not permit it. > > We scheduled our flight for early morning on Monday, October 10th and > held our breaths that the weather would be good. > > Well ... the gods smiled on us and the weather was beautiful. We > gathered at the Flight Shop and amid the combination of English and > Japanese conversation we got things sorted out as to who was going in > which plane. > > When the passengers were divided up all of the planes were full except > for mine and I had one empty seat ... Ed Endsley was nowhere in sight so > I proceeded to taxi out with the other four planes for take off. > > As I headed for the end of runway 16 there was Ed standing on the edge > of the taxiway looking forlorn, his sad look turned to a big smile when > I pulled over and let him crawl in. > > Everyone chose their own route to Crater Lake, and some of us flew down > over Fort Rock and Hole in the Ground before heading on to Crater Lake. > > The airwaves were full of chatter so we all knew where the other ones > were. Ed was busy with my digital camera getting a bunch of good photos > as we went along. We all circled over and around Crater Lake and then > proceeded North along the Cascades to the Three Sisters and on to Smith > Rocks before heading back to Bend. Gary Miller said one of the Japanese > students was so relaxed that she went to sleep for a bit.... > > I believe that everyone really enjoyed and appreciated the flight. I > think it will be long remembered by our passengers as the highlight of > their trip and the pilots really enjoyed seeing the sights through the > wide eyes of our passengers and experiencing the excitement of flight > all over again. It is truly a win win situation when everyone gains > from the experience. > > I want to personally thank each and every one of you for generously > participating in this very worthwhile event. THANK YOU ALL ... Your help > and co-operation made my job easy.... > > Don Wilfong > > > > COOPA SAFETY CORNER > > By Joel Premselaar > > With several added and expanded items, the immortal prose that follows > was orally presented to those who attended the "Short Field Landing and > Take off" clinic on Saturday, 22 October. There is no doubt in my mind > that each and every attendee of the clinic is less apt to exceed short > field runway lengths than those of you who played hooky. Consider > yourself chastised! > > SHORT FIELD LANDINGS AND TAKE OFFS > > Anecdote: > Two instructors took off in a T-6 (this is a way of saying that they > were Air Farce pilots). Their mission was to extract a now repaired T-6 > from a short field. Due to an engine failure, a student pilot landed it > dead stick leaving the aircraft in a short field. After two landing > attempts, the instructors reasoned that if a student pilot could dead > stick into that field, they should be able to land in the field with > power. After several aborted attempts, they skimmed over the fence > surrounding the field and to their chagrin, plowed into the trees at the > far end. At the accident investigation, the student was asked how he > managed to dead stick the T-6 into that field while instructor pilots > failed to duplicate the feat. His response was, "Oh Sir, I didn't land > in that field, I landed in the field adjacent to it and bounced in." > > Preface: > What kind of pilot will deliberately plan a flight to land at a field > that would entail a short field landing and takeoff? Answer: one who > sets out to prove the "Darwin Theory." Logically, this piece presumes > that an off airport short field landing will of necessity precede the > requirement to execute a short field takeoff. > The "necessity" is the need to choose between making an off airport > power off-landing due to, for one of many reasons, fuel exhaustion vice > (No, it's not the kind of vice a reprobate would assume) a landing with > fuel available to find and evaluate a field on which to make a power-on > landing. The answer to that is obvious. Prohibitive IFR conditions, > mechanical reasons, bad navigation, unexpected head winds, or whatever > creates the need for that decision. After the cause for the landing is > resolved, you'll be faced with the need to conduct a short field takeoff. > You've heard it before, but I'll state it again: "Practice makes > perfect!" I'll add to that with "No practice makes a perfect fool!!" > > Discussion: > Short field landings > Once committed to an off airport landing, an analysis of a candidate > field begins as follows: > > * The intended landing site, long enough to execute a short field take > off, should be in proximity to public activities; e.g., farms, roads, > etc. All things considered equal, land on a fenced field's diagonal to > maximize field length > * Wind determination is aided by observing cattle. If the wind is > significant enough to be a factor, you'll find that cattle will have put > their tails into the wind (ask me why they do that) > * If a lake's surface (wind caused) is turbulent, a relatively calm area > will be present along the upwind shoreline > * Wind speed reductions and direction changes occur as you descend > closer to the ground. If you're interested in how much, ask me for a > Boeing chart that quantifies it > * Ground structure and terrain features affect wind velocities and > create turbulence > * On a hot and sunny day, transitioning from plowed fields that generate > updrafts to green fields or bodies of water will disturb your approach > to a landing > * On the final approach, the upwind side of a hill (think landing on > runway 02 at Sisters {6K5} airport) may require action to counter the > energy of an undesirable updraft) select a field that is free of > obstacles on the approach end > * Drag the candidate field up-wind a few times at 1.3 Vso and at an > altitude that provides a reasonably slow angular rate with respect to > the ground. If gusts or updrafts and downdrafts exist, add a fudge > factor to1.3 Vso to preclude stalls or high sink rates > * Consider sun angle > * Look straight down through grass for rocks, chuck holes, and the > presence of furrows. Land parallel to furrows > * Look for slopes and undulations. If a slope exists, evaluate the slope > to wind relationship > * Wet grass will help slow the aircraft but be advised, braking will be > poor to non-existing > * Select a go around point > * Choose a field with some structures nearby if the field is covered > with snow. A snow covered field compromises depth perception and hides > irregularities that may rise up and smite thee soundly > * Approach the landing with full flaps. Be aware that full flaps may > compromise a go-around in that the last third of flaps produce a great > amount of drag with little or no additional lift > > Be guarded against the "Gibson Effect," i.e., marks on the field appear > to separate gradually, but as you draw closer the angular rate of > separation appears to accelerate in an illusion that your sink rate has > increased. It helps to look farther down the field > > * Obstacles permitting use a trimmed flat power on approach to the > landing. A flat power on approach reduces the possibility of the engine > experiencing shock cooling or loading up, enhances carburetor heat, > provides effective airflow to the empennage, and alleviates work load. > Let ground effect alert you to your proximity to the surface and produce > some flare. Concentrate on your target point. Do not strive for a smooth > landing; your prime interest is to optimize field length. Consider this: > carrier aircraft must demonstrate a damage free no-flare landing at 24 > feet per second; this equates to 1,440 feet per minute. Other aircraft, > including yours, must demonstrate a damage free landing at ten feet per > second; this equates to 600 feet per minute. Now then, what's more > important for a short field approach, a smooth landing that may > compromise available field length or a no-flare landing at somewhat less > than 6oo feet per minute? However, do not even think about making a > no-flare landing on a soft field! If the field is soft, maintain taxi > speed to the parking area. > * If a go-around is required, the flat power-on approach minimizes the: > energy needed to arrest a sink rate, change in torque and "P" effect, > amount of trim and attitude changes, rate of heating that may be > detrimental to the engine, and manipulation of cowl flaps. > > Short field takeoffs: > * Flaps as recommended by the Pilot's Operating Handbook > * If on pavement; e.g., a road, parade ground, etc., inflate tires to > their maximum allowable pressure > * If on a muddy field, deflate the tires some to provide maximum footprint > * Takeoff to coincide with the coldest (highest barometric pressure) > time of the day > * Adjust for density altitude and humidity to ensure that maximum power > is available for take off. High humidity can cost as much as 12% of power > * Select a full fuel tank to prevent unporting the standpipe before > employing the following technique. If feasible, execute a continuous > rolling left turn curved path taxi and takeoff adding maximum power as > takeoff alignment is obtained > * Use a curved path takeoff to increase field length, especially in a > crosswind. This will minimize the drag of a chattering steerable nose > wheel. Elevate the nose wheel as soon as feasible to reduce friction drag. > * This is particularly true for muddy field operations as is the > following. For tail wheel types, lift the tail just high enough to clear > the surface. Lifting the tail wheel too high may induce a nosing over. > Lifting the nose wheel or keeping the tail wheel low will establish an > attitude that will optimize lift; however, too nose high an attitude > will create excessive induced aerodynamic drag thereby resulting in > spastic sphincter exercises you'll long remember! > * Takeoff will occur at minimum flying speed. Maintain a positive climb > * As you pass above significant ground effect (above one half of the > wing span), establish Vx to clear obstacles. When obstacle clearance is > ensured, establish Vy. > * When I take off from Sisters airport on runway 02, I remain in ground > effect to build sufficient energy to execute a left turn down the flat > valley rather than trying to out climb the down draft coming off the > hill just off the end of 02. > * A final note. To out climb the downdraft of a steep hill requires > sustained high power at Vx. If an engine is to fail, it will most likely > occur just after takeoff. This leaves you facing a hill with a nose high > attitude, with no power, with high induced drag, with the drag of a wind > milling prop, and maybe contemplating a no-no turn - - recite after me: > "Our Father who art in heaven... > > 'nough said for now. I'm open for questions! > > _______________________________________________ > Co-opa mailing list > Co-opa@rellim.com > http://catbert.rellim.com/mailman/listinfo/co-opa From mvbond at myexcel.com Mon Nov 14 17:43:37 2005 From: mvbond at myexcel.com (mvbond) Date: Mon Nov 14 21:23:47 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] NOVEMBER COOPA NEWSLETTER --- resend Message-ID: <43793D49.8010108@myexcel.com> I just realized I sent the text version without line breaks, which may be hard to read for some so here is the same, but with line breaks ... the PDF version is OK as is, on the website. Mike Bond CASCADE FLYER November 2005, Vol. 05, Issue 11 Website: http://co-opa.rellim.com/ President's Message: The Short Clinic in Madras was quite a success. Thanks to Nancy Lecklider for all the hard work she put in to organizing the event. As part of the pre-flight briefing, we watched a few clips from an FAA safety video titled "Practical Density Altitude" narrated by Kurt Anderson from the Seattle office of the NTSB. The few clips we saw left me wanting more, so I managed to grab a copy of the video. The full program is quite impressive and thought provoking. The name of the video is not exactly appropriate as it is more about badly handled density altitude than about properly handled density altitude. Kurt mentions many times in the Video that, since he is from the NTSB, he mostly has expertise with how not to fly an airplane. He warned the viewer to get instruction on the proper way to do things elsewhere. Since no one saw more than a bit of the Video last month it seems like a good thing to watch in its entirety for this months meeting. There are nine short clips and after each we will have a short discussion period. With all the experience in our membership we can surely solve the issues left open by the video. There is also a bit of Holiday related business to handle. Don Wilfong has some proposals for us to decide on. Another thank you goes to our guests last month from the newly reconstituted Leading Edge Aviation. It was good to meet Brad Fraley, Travis Warthen and Justin Harries. Let's wish them all good fortune in their new venture. Be sure to keep December 16th open on your calendars. Into the breach we go once again with our annual Holiday Bash! ED Note: This issue will appear to be a bit 'heavy' on safety ?but we can never have too much of that ? Calendar: 17 November - Monthly Meeting 19 November - Monthly Flyout 15 December - Monthly Meeting - XMAS Party 16 December - Monthly Flyout 19 January - Monthly Meeting 21 January - Monthly Flyout 16 February - Monthly Meeting 18 February - Monthly Flyout 17 June 2006 - Bend Airport open house Web doings: Two very interesting video clips came in this month. Each provides a unique look at the interaction between airplanes and open water. You can download them directly from the home page. As always, the CO-OPA website contains recent newsletters and other goodies. http://co-opa.rellim.com/ To access the members only areas the username is "S07" and the password is "123.0". My Inbox: Most of you saw the note from David Sailors last month. Next Summer seems awfully far away but it is time to make sure the slumbering giant of the next Aviation Day does not go on permanent hibernation. The plan this year is to have the airport open house on the weekend after the Balloons Over Bend. Now instead of having too much to do in one weekend we can have two great aviation filled weekends in a row. If you would like to help out please contact David Sailors. His contact info is 541-420-3910 or dsailors@bendbroadband.com. Random Thoughts: The first weeks or two of August are filled with one great happening after another. One of them that has eluded me over the years is the McCall Fly-In. A lot of our members regularly attend and they all return with rave reviews. Just mention McCall at any gathering of Oregon pilots and a healthy conversation will ensue. Soon we may not have to travel so far and stay overnight to attend such a fabled event. Keith Crimins of the Portland FSDO was telling us last month of plans for a similar event in Oregon next year. Even better, the plan is to host it at the Bend Airport. So far the FAA is playing this one close to the vest, but I have heard about this planned event from several sources. If Bend could get half the publicity and enthusiasm that McCall gets then Bend could earn a firm nationwide reputation as a great place to fly to. As the FAA follows through with their plans we should see what we can do to be a part. If the program is as good as I hear then maybe I might finally learn short field landings. In other news, we are losing two of our own aviation legends this month. Keith Crimins, the FAA Safety Program Manager at the Portland FSDO retired just after helping us with last month's Short Field clinic. Keith continually proved that you can be from the government and be here to help. Dave Evans, our own Mr. Airport, has flown the coop with his wife Ginni to live in Eugene. He plans to hanger his Maule at the Creswell Airport. Good luck to both of them and we still expect to see them from time to time. Gary Miller Madras Short Field Clinic, Oct 22: By Nancy Lecklider Everything came together and we had our first, hopefully, annual "Short Field Clinic". The weather was beautiful, we had great attendance, the speakers were interesting and I think, everyone learned something new or had a little refresher course on some forgotten bit of knowledge. The seminar part of the clinic covered everything from landings and takeoffs to density altitude: Keith Crimin gave his last safety seminar before retiring as FAA Aviation Safety Program Manager. Joel Premselaar, our bottomless well of wonderful information, talked about landings and takeoffs. Dale Evans dug into the years of experience he had flying in Alaska to share his knowledge of landings and takeoffs, short and otherwise. We had twenty-two people attending the seminar, including several from Madras and the rest from our own group, with Dean and Wendy Cameron coming from The Dalles. That was a nice surprise. There were ten aircraft and eleven pilots that participated in the actual flying part of the clinic. Randy Potter seemed to do the best but some of the others did well, too. It seemed to be the consensus of opinion that we should do this again and make it a regular event on our agenda. Many, many thanks to those that helped; to Don Mobley for letting us play in his back yard, to Joel for, once again, keeping us enthralled with his wonderful knowledge of aviation, to Dale Evans whom we should have talk to us more often about his experiences and to Keith Crimin for being so willing to come all the way from the Valley for our event. ED Note: Several of us concluded the experience with an excellent Mexican meal in downtown Madras ? thanks to Nancy & Bob for the transportation! ______________________________________________ The following link applies to the next article: NTSB Database query search; http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/query.asp Proposal for Fly Safe Clinic at Bend Airport, June 2-3, 2006: Dennis Douglas, founding member of local EAA Chapter 1345, has prepared a detailed proposal to the FAA, ODA, and S07 Airport management. I have extracted some key features of the proposal: "The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Aviation Accident Database shows that there were 279 general aviation aircraft accidents in Oregon between January 1, 2000 and November 2, 2005?an average of about 56 accidents per year. While most were relatively minor, seventeen percent of these accidents entailed one or more fatalities. An analysis of the 'probably cause' of these 279 accidents reveals a myriad of underlying factors but it is clear that a significant number were caused because the pilots of the aircraft were not fully aware of their personal limits or the limits of their aircraft." " ?the primary objective of the Fly Safe Clinic proposed here will be to identify to pilots the principal causes of aircraft accidents and how pilots can reduce the chances of these accidents happening to them. The proposed Fly Safe Clinic will emphasize environmental and human factors that affect aircraft operations. The Clinic will also emphasize the mechanical and performance aspects of their craft, and aviation medicine issues that affect pilot performance. Both ground-based seminars as well as in-the-air instruction will be provided." "A third objective is to provide pilots and their spouses information about recreational opportunities in the Central Oregon area. While years ago pilots were content with flying to an airshow, for example, and spending two or three days looking at airplanes, the cost of fuel and changing demographics now suggest that a pilot wants to fly to a destination and do more that simply 'look at airplanes'. " Dennis further proposes WINGS, PACE, Flight Training, Aircraft and Airport Operations and Recreational segments to the program: "The core of the Fly Safe Clinic will feature seminars and ground-based presentations together with free (to the pilot) in-the-air flight instruction programs in the pilot's aircraft, and a voluntary, no-risk aircraft inspection program. Aircraft and airport operations segments are included in the proposed program to encourage the non- flying public to attend and better understand airports and airplanes. A recreational segment is included to encourage family attendance at the clinic." "The organizations expected to support the Clinic include the Bend Chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA 1345), the Central Oregon Pilots Association (COPA), and the City of Bend. " The proposal has been favorably received and I think we need to discuss ? Mike Bond, Newsletter Editor CO-OPA HOLIDAY CHARITY PROGRAM It is that time of year again when we need to start planning for our charitable contributions. In past years we have worked with some of the Teachers at Pilot Butte Middle School in helping out one or more students. They have picked a couple of very deserving young people whose situations warrant our help. They ask that we again please consider funding this cause as we have in the past. We have some money left over from last year but certainly could use some more to accomplish our goals. Norma and the Teachers do their very best to budget the spending to where it will do the most good. Norma will be discussing this at our upcoming meeting (Thurs. Nov. 17) so please plan on doing what you can at that time to help the cause. If you are not at the meeting or if it better suits your needs you may make your donations to our Treasurer...David Sailors, P.O. Box 203, Bend, OR 97709...just make your check to CO-OPA and mark it for our Holiday Charity Fund. You will be pleased to learn that the young lady we helped a couple of years ago is doing very well now. She is back living with her Mother (who has straightened her life out). She is now attending school regularly and is getting very good grades. I can't help but believe that the love and support we, as a group, gave her helped to bring this about. Thank You all...Don & Norma Wilfong INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP FLIGHT!!! Pilot Butte Middle School and High Desert Middle School participate in a Student Exchange Program where a group of Japanese Students and Adults from Fujioka, Japan come to Bend each year and a group of our Students and Adults (Teachers) go to Fujioka. These visits usually last for approximately nine days. The students usually stay in the homes of their counter parts while visiting the other country. This is a very successful program whereby all participants learn a lot about each other's culture and cement relationships and trust between the young people of both countries. The benefits of these relationships can be far reaching in government, business and social relations between the peoples of our two countries in the future. The groups are treated to tours of Government facilities, local points of interest, historic sites and many other educational things in both countries. The host families usually take them to many points of interest within driving distance of Bend. It is a very exciting, interesting and educational experience for all who participate. A lot of work goes into these International visits both here and in Fujioka by everyone involved, including contributions from various Individuals, businesses and organizations. This year one of the organizers from Japan needed a vehicle while she was here (she had lived in the U.S. and was familiar with driving in our country). Bob Thomas Chevrolet generously provided a car for her use. This was certainly appreciated by her and by the organizers of the event... THANK YOU, BOB THOMAS. The High Desert Museum treated them to a free tour, the Bend Police Dept. and the Bend Fire Dept. both treated them to a tour including a trip up the tall fire ladder to approx. 100 ft. above the ground and the Mayor took them all to lunch at the Pine Tavern...THANKS TO ALL OF YOU and to the many others that I have failed to mention ... I know your efforts were appreciated. You can be sure our students and teachers are also treated very well on their visits to Japan. Last year Norma and I had the opportunity to take two Japanese Teachers on a flight over Crater Lake. This was such a hit that our son, Steven Wetherald (he is a Teacher at Pilot Butte Middle School and one of the organizers of the Student Exchange), ask if the Central Oregon Chapter of O.P.A. might be willing to arrange a flight for the Students, Teachers and other adults from both Japan and from our area. FRIENDSHIP FLIGHT continued ? I sent out a plea for help and we had a number of volunteers that were willing to donate their time and their planes to help put this flight on. The volunteers were Duane Francis with his Cessna 205 (he is a friend and neighbor of ours on Pilot Butte Airport), Gary Miller with his Cessna Turbo 210, Michael Adler with his Cessna Cardinal RG (he has a child who will be on the tour to Japan), Bill Witt with his Cessna Skylane and I (Don Wilfong) with my Cessna Skylane. Ed Endsley was also there to take photos and help in any way he could. Several others would have liked to have volunteered, but their schedules would not permit it. We scheduled our flight for early morning on Monday, October 10th and held our breaths that the weather would be good. Well ... the gods smiled on us and the weather was beautiful. We gathered at the Flight Shop and amid the combination of English and Japanese conversation we got things sorted out as to who was going in which plane. When the passengers were divided up all of the planes were full except for mine and I had one empty seat ... Ed Endsley was nowhere in sight so I proceeded to taxi out with the other four planes for take off. As I headed for the end of runway 16 there was Ed standing on the edge of the taxiway looking forlorn, his sad look turned to a big smile when I pulled over and let him crawl in. Everyone chose their own route to Crater Lake, and some of us flew down over Fort Rock and Hole in the Ground before heading on to Crater Lake. The airwaves were full of chatter so we all knew where the other ones were. Ed was busy with my digital camera getting a bunch of good photos as we went along. We all circled over and around Crater Lake and then proceeded North along the Cascades to the Three Sisters and on to Smith Rocks before heading back to Bend. Gary Miller said one of the Japanese students was so relaxed that she went to sleep for a bit.... I believe that everyone really enjoyed and appreciated the flight. I think it will be long remembered by our passengers as the highlight of their trip and the pilots really enjoyed seeing the sights through the wide eyes of our passengers and experiencing the excitement of flight all over again. It is truly a win win situation when everyone gains from the experience. I want to personally thank each and every one of you for generously participating in this very worthwhile event. THANK YOU ALL ... Your help and co-operation made my job easy.... Don Wilfong COOPA SAFETY CORNER By Joel Premselaar With several added and expanded items, the immortal prose that follows was orally presented to those who attended the "Short Field Landing and Take off" clinic on Saturday, 22 October. There is no doubt in my mind that each and every attendee of the clinic is less apt to exceed short field runway lengths than those of you who played hooky. Consider yourself chastised! SHORT FIELD LANDINGS AND TAKE OFFS Anecdote: Two instructors took off in a T-6 (this is a way of saying that they were Air Farce pilots). Their mission was to extract a now repaired T-6 from a short field. Due to an engine failure, a student pilot landed it dead stick leaving the aircraft in a short field. After two landing attempts, the instructors reasoned that if a student pilot could dead stick into that field, they should be able to land in the field with power. After several aborted attempts, they skimmed over the fence surrounding the field and to their chagrin, plowed into the trees at the far end. At the accident investigation, the student was asked how he managed to dead stick the T-6 into that field while instructor pilots failed to duplicate the feat. His response was, "Oh Sir, I didn't land in that field, I landed in the field adjacent to it and bounced in." Preface: What kind of pilot will deliberately plan a flight to land at a field that would entail a short field landing and takeoff? Answer: one who sets out to prove the "Darwin Theory." Logically, this piece presumes that an off airport short field landing will of necessity precede the requirement to execute a short field takeoff. The "necessity" is the need to choose between making an off airport power off-landing due to, for one of many reasons, fuel exhaustion vice (No, it's not the kind of vice a reprobate would assume) a landing with fuel available to find and evaluate a field on which to make a power-on landing. The answer to that is obvious. Prohibitive IFR conditions, mechanical reasons, bad navigation, unexpected head winds, or whatever creates the need for that decision. After the cause for the landing is resolved, you'll be faced with the need to conduct a short field takeoff. You've heard it before, but I'll state it again: "Practice makes perfect!" I'll add to that with "No practice makes a perfect fool!!" Discussion: Short field landings Once committed to an off airport landing, an analysis of a candidate field begins as follows: ? The intended landing site, long enough to execute a short field take off, should be in proximity to public activities; e.g., farms, roads, etc. All things considered equal, land on a fenced field's diagonal to maximize field length ? Wind determination is aided by observing cattle. If the wind is significant enough to be a factor, you'll find that cattle will have put their tails into the wind (ask me why they do that) ? If a lake's surface (wind caused) is turbulent, a relatively calm area will be present along the upwind shoreline ? Wind speed reductions and direction changes occur as you descend closer to the ground. If you're interested in how much, ask me for a Boeing chart that quantifies it ? Ground structure and terrain features affect wind velocities and create turbulence ? On a hot and sunny day, transitioning from plowed fields that generate updrafts to green fields or bodies of water will disturb your approach to a landing ? On the final approach, the upwind side of a hill (think landing on runway 02 at Sisters {6K5} airport) may require action to counter the energy of an undesirable updraft) select a field that is free of obstacles on the approach end ? Drag the candidate field up-wind a few times at 1.3 Vso and at an altitude that provides a reasonably slow angular rate with respect to the ground. If gusts or updrafts and downdrafts exist, add a fudge factor to1.3 Vso to preclude stalls or high sink rates ? Consider sun angle ? Look straight down through grass for rocks, chuck holes, and the presence of furrows. Land parallel to furrows ? Look for slopes and undulations. If a slope exists, evaluate the slope to wind relationship ? Wet grass will help slow the aircraft but be advised, braking will be poor to non-existing ? Select a go around point ? Choose a field with some structures nearby if the field is covered with snow. A snow covered field compromises depth perception and hides irregularities that may rise up and smite thee soundly ? Approach the landing with full flaps. Be aware that full flaps may compromise a go-around in that the last third of flaps produce a great amount of drag with little or no additional lift Be guarded against the "Gibson Effect," i.e., marks on the field appear to separate gradually, but as you draw closer the angular rate of separation appears to accelerate in an illusion that your sink rate has increased. It helps to look farther down the field ? Obstacles permitting use a trimmed flat power on approach to the landing. A flat power on approach reduces the possibility of the engine experiencing shock cooling or loading up, enhances carburetor heat, provides effective airflow to the empennage, and alleviates work load. Let ground effect alert you to your proximity to the surface and produce some flare. Concentrate on your target point. Do not strive for a smooth landing; your prime interest is to optimize field length. Consider this: carrier aircraft must demonstrate a damage free no- flare landing at 24 feet per second; this equates to 1,440 feet per minute. Other aircraft, including yours, must demonstrate a damage free landing at ten feet per second; this equates to 600 feet per minute. Now then, what's more important for a short field approach, a smooth landing that may compromise available field length or a no-flare landing at somewhat less than 6oo feet per minute? However, do not even think about making a no-flare landing on a soft field! If the field is soft, maintain taxi speed to the parking area. ? If a go-around is required, the flat power-on approach minimizes the: energy needed to arrest a sink rate, change in torque and "P" effect, amount of trim and attitude changes, rate of heating that may be detrimental to the engine, and manipulation of cowl flaps. Short field takeoffs: ? Flaps as recommended by the Pilot's Operating Handbook ? If on pavement; e.g., a road, parade ground, etc., inflate tires to their maximum allowable pressure ? If on a muddy field, deflate the tires some to provide maximum footprint ? Takeoff to coincide with the coldest (highest barometric pressure) time of the day ? Adjust for density altitude and humidity to ensure that maximum power is available for take off. High humidity can cost as much as 12% of power ? Select a full fuel tank to prevent unporting the standpipe before employing the following technique. If feasible, execute a continuous rolling left turn curved path taxi and takeoff adding maximum power as takeoff alignment is obtained ? Use a curved path takeoff to increase field length, especially in a crosswind. This will minimize the drag of a chattering steerable nose wheel. Elevate the nose wheel as soon as feasible to reduce friction drag. ? This is particularly true for muddy field operations as is the following. For tail wheel types, lift the tail just high enough to clear the surface. Lifting the tail wheel too high may induce a nosing over. Lifting the nose wheel or keeping the tail wheel low will establish an attitude that will optimize lift; however, too nose high an attitude will create excessive induced aerodynamic drag thereby resulting in spastic sphincter exercises you'll long remember! ? Takeoff will occur at minimum flying speed. Maintain a positive climb ? As you pass above significant ground effect (above one half of the wing span), establish Vx to clear obstacles. When obstacle clearance is ensured, establish Vy. ? When I take off from Sisters airport on runway 02, I remain in ground effect to build sufficient energy to execute a left turn down the flat valley rather than trying to out climb the down draft coming off the hill just off the end of 02. ? A final note. To out climb the downdraft of a steep hill requires sustained high power at Vx. If an engine is to fail, it will most likely occur just after takeoff. This leaves you facing a hill with a nose high attitude, with no power, with high induced drag, with the drag of a wind milling prop, and maybe contemplating a no-no turn - - recite after me: "Our Father who art in heaven? 'nough said for now. I'm open for questions! From mvbond at myexcel.com Fri Nov 18 13:41:45 2005 From: mvbond at myexcel.com (mvbond) Date: Fri Nov 18 14:40:56 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] FAA Safety Seminar Message-ID: <437E4A99.3040600@myexcel.com> The FAA will be presenting a Safety Seminar on Thursday, December 15th, from 7-9 pm at Hitchcock Auditorium at COCC. The topics will be Density Altitude and Setting Personal Limitations. This will be a free WINGS seminar. All Central Oregon pilots are encouraged to attend. From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri Nov 18 15:34:48 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri Nov 18 15:39:03 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT FUN Message-ID: <001a01c5ec98$aa9b0f40$3873dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG....CAN YOU BELIEVE ALL THE BEAUTIFUL WEATHER HERE IN THE GREAT NORTHWEST?????? WE HAVE DECIDED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SEVERE CLEAR CONDITIONS AND DO OUR MONTHLY FLY-OUT TO GOLD BEACH, OREGON (4S1) DOWN ON THE SOUTHERN OREGON COAST....I CALLED TODAY AND THE AIRPORT IS OPEN (ACTUALLY THE RECONSTRUCTION WILL NOT OCCUR UNTIL NEXT YEAR)....GARY MILLER HAS BEEN THERE RECENTLY AND SAYS IT IS A GREAT PLACE TO GO.... THERE IS A CAFE "THE PORTHOLE CAFE" CLOSE TO THE AIRPORT AND THERE IS A GREAT MUSEUM JUST ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE AIRPORT (GARY MILLER SAYS IT IS FREE AND I DIDN'T ASK)....HARD TO BEAT FREE.... LET'S MEET AT THE FLIGHT SHOP ABOUT 0800 TO 0815 WITH PLANS TO BE OFF THE GROUND ABOUT 0900.....TOMORROW MORNING SAT. NOV. 19..... REMEMBER IT WILL BE FROSTY AND COLD SO DON'T FORGET TO ALLOW TIME TO PREHEAT AND/OR GET THE FROST OFF THE PLANE..... Distance between S07 and 4S1: 173.56 nautical miles 199.73 statute miles 321.43 km 1 hrs, 35 min at 130 knots (including a 15 minute bias) THIS IS A GOOD AIRPORT AT JUST ABOVE SEA LEVEL AND IT IS BETWEEN THE TOWN AND THE BEACH SO YOU HAVE EASY ACCESS TO BOTH... WINTER WILL SOON BE UPON US....SO.....GET OFF THE COUCH AND MAKE THIS FLY-OUT....IT IS NOT OFTEN WE CAN EVEN CONSIDER FLYING TO THE COAST LIKE THIS..... OH YES DO NOT LET THE FACT THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY WILL BE IN THE FOG CONCERN YOU....WE WILL BE WAY SOUTH OF THE VALLEY...ACTUALLY A DIRECT ROUTE TAKES US JUST A WAYS SOUTH OF ROSEBURG.... SEE YOU IN THE MORNING....WHAT A GREAT DAY FOR FLYING !!!!!! DON WILFONG (OF THE NOT SO EARLY "DON PATROL") "I WANTED TO LEAVE AT O800 BUT WAS SHOUTED DOWN WHEN I SUGGESTED IT" dwnw@bendbroadband.com 541 389-1456 From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Fri Nov 18 17:25:03 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Fri Nov 18 17:29:15 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] OUR ANNUAL HOLIDAY CHARITY PROJECT... Message-ID: <000801c5eca8$114320c0$3873dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG....LAST NIGHT AT THE POTLUCK/MEETING I (NORMA WILFONG) MADE A REPORT ON THE CHARITY PROJECT WE HAVE BEEN HAVING EACH HOLIDAY SEASON...THIS PROJECT IS WITH THE HELP AND ADVICE OF SOME OF THE TEACHERS AT PILOT BUTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL.. EACH YEAR THEY PICK ONE OR TWO VERY DESERVING STUDENTS WHO FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER HAVE HAD THEIR FAMILIES FALL ON HARD TIMES. IN PAST YEARS WE HAVE HELPED PROVIDE CLOTHES, GIFTS, NEEDED SCHOOL ITEMS AND IN SOME CASES MEDICAL THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF CO-OPA MEMBERS AND IN SOME CASES FRIENDS OF CO-OPA MEMBERS.... LAST NIGHT WE VOTED TO ACCEPT TWO SUCH STUDENTS TO HELP THIS YEAR.. SOME OF OUR MEMBERS MADE DONATIONS AT THE POTLUCK/MEETING AND SOME WILL SEND THEIR TAX DEDUCTABLE DONATIONS TO DAVID SAILORS, P. O. BOX 203, BEND, OR 97709.....IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DONATE TO THIS WORTHY CAUSE PLEASE MAKE YOUR CHECKS PAYABLE TO CO-OPA AND MARK THEM "CHARITY FUND"....IT WOULD BE APPRECIATED IF YOU COULD DO THIS IN THE NEAR FUTURE AS THE HOLIDAY SEASON IS UPON US VERY SOON.. ANY FUNDS COLLECTED THAT ARE NOT USED FOR THIS SEASON, IF ANY, WILL BE CARRIED FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO HAVE ALREADY GIVEN AND THANK YOU IN ADVANCE TO THOSE WHO WILL... NORMA WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband 541 389-1456 From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Sat Nov 19 07:08:37 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Sat Nov 19 07:13:07 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT FUN Message-ID: <000501c5ed1b$1e7dfbc0$3873dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG.....WOW!!!! I CALLED WEATHER AND THEY SAY THE VALLEY, INCLUDING ROSEBURG, MEDFORD ETC. WILL BE FOGGED IN UNTIL NOON OR AFTER.....GOLD BEACH IS CLEAR AND BEAUTIFUL....BUT....WE WOULD HAVE TO GET THERE AND I DON'T CARE TO FLY ALL THE WAYABOVE THE FOGGED IN VALLEYS AND AIRPORTS..... SO......... MY PLAN IS TO FLY TO KLAMATH FALLS.....I UNDERSTAND FROM ONE OF OUR MEMBERS THAT THE CAFE IS UNDER NEW MANAGMENT AND THE FOOD ETC. WAS EXCELLENT..... NEW PLAN....... MEET AT THE FLIGHT SHOP FOR A 0900 HRS DEPARTURE TO KLAMATH FALLS.....IF CONDITIONS IMPROVE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO COULD STILL GO FROM KLAMATH FALLS TO GOLD BEACH IF THEY WANT TO....???????? HEY....IF WE GET TO THE FLIGHT SHOP AND SOMEONE HAS A BETTER PLAN.....WELL......WE CAN MAKE A DECISION AT THAT TIME.. IF YOU ARE NOT LEAVING FROM THE FLIGHT SHOP I SUGGEST YOU CALL THE FLIGHT SHOP AND ASK WHERE WE WENT...... SEE YOU AT THE FLIGHT SHOP..... DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com 389-1456 From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Mon Dec 5 16:38:48 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Mon Dec 5 16:48:34 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Bend Airport - Runway Closure Dec 7and 8 Message-ID: To all Bend Airport users, This note is being sent to you to let you know that, following completion of the Runway 34 Safety Area grading project, the time has come to restripe Runway 16/34 to its full length. To do this will require a runway closure in order to complete pavement reconditioning and restriping and, as you may imagine, we're dancing with the weather to make it happen. Our intention is that, with a little cooperation from Mother Nature, we will be able to complete the project this week, with closures minimized to the following two nights: Wednesday, Dec 7 - 1800L - 0700L (Dec 8) Thursday, Dec 8 - 1400L - 0600L (Dec 9) This has been a difficult project to schedule and I am sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. If we wait any longer, however, we may be forced to use the 400' shortened runway until spring, which is an unacceptable outcome. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Greg Phillips Bend Municipal Airport Manager PO Box 431 Bend, OR 97709 (541) 389-0258 From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Thu Dec 8 13:02:51 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Thu Dec 8 13:19:29 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Bend Airport - Runway Open Message-ID: Well, it appears the score to date is Mother Nature - 3, Airport - 0. If you've been to the Bend Airport today, you know that we had enough snow fall that we're not going to be able to work on the pavement at the south end of the runway. The NOTAM has been canceled and the runway will not be closed today/tonight. Currently, the weather report looks better for early next week, so we are looking at Monday and Tuesday nights for the schedule we hoped we would be able to accomplish this week. I will let you know as that is confirmed. My sincere apologies for the ongoing false alarms. We won't quit until this is done and the runway is striped the full distance. Greg Phillips Bend Municipal Airport Manager PO Box 431 Bend, OR 97709 (541) 389-0258 From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Fri Dec 9 11:44:28 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Fri Dec 9 12:44:52 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Bend Airport - Runway Closures Message-ID: Friends of the Bend Airport, In our ongoing effort to try and get the runway striping completed, we are going to give it one more try. The weather is supposed to hold for the next several days, so we are scheduling the work, with runway closures, for the following times: Monday, Dec 12 - 1800L to 0700L (Tuesday) Tuesday, Dec 13 - 1400L to 0600L (Wedendsay) Pray to the sun gods with me and we'll "get 'er done." My best to you all, Greg Phillips Bend Municipal Airport Manager PO Box 431 Bend, OR 97709 (541) 389-0258 From mvbond at myexcel.com Mon Dec 12 15:37:46 2005 From: mvbond at myexcel.com (mvbond) Date: Mon Dec 12 15:37:48 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] DECEMBER COOPA NEWSLETTER Message-ID: <439E09CA.7070801@myexcel.com> Here is the text version of your chapter Newsletter. Gary has posted the PDF version on the COOPA website. Mike Bond ----------------------------------------------------------------- CASCADE FLYER December 2005, Vol. 05, Issue 12 Website: http://co-opa.rellim.com/ President's Message: Omigosh, another year is almost shot. Just a few more things to get out of the way before 2005 ends, whether we are ready or not. One of the most looked forward to, of course, is our own famous annual Holiday Bash! Only the best are invited and you are all invited! By popular demand we will follow the age old traditions of our Chapter. The gathering will start at the usual 6:00pm for hanger flying, 6:30pm there will be our potluck. The club will provide the main dish and the membership will provide the rest of the trimmings. At 7:00pm we will have a short business meeting. One of the things to discuss is our Christmas Fund ably managed by Don and Norma Wilfong on our behalf. Then comes the main event, the Yankee Swap. Everyone that wishes to participate must bring an aviation related gift. Items need not be new. Maybe there is some unused, but valuable item in the bottom of you flight bag that just needs a new home? Maybe you have gotten tired of the tail wheel spring you took home last year? Wrap it up and bring it to place beneath our pagan Yule Tree. This is one of our most fun events of the year so do not miss out! The November meeting also turned out very well. We played the first three DVD clips from Kurt Anderson's "Practical Density Altitude". We stopped frequently to share our thoughts and then watched as Kurt laid out his thoughts. Usually when we turn the lights out the crowd melts away but not that night. From the comments I heard everyone thought they gained a lot from the experience. There are 6 more parts to the video and it looks like we will play some more of it in 2006. Several pilots requested copies and they will be available at the Holiday Bash. Even as 2005 ends the planning for 2006 is well underway. If you have any program ideas for our meetings then please send them in. Calendar: 15 December - Monthly Meeting - XMAS Party 17 December - Monthly Flyout 19 January - Monthly Meeting 21 January - Monthly Flyout 16 February - Monthly Meeting 18 February - Monthly Flyout 16 March - Monthly Meeting 18 March - Monthly Flyout 20 April - Monthly Meeting 22 April - Monthly Flyout 18 May - Monthly Meeting 20 May - Monthly Flyout 2-3 June - FAA Fly Safe Clinic 9-11 June - Balloons Over Bend 17 June - Bend Airport open house Web doings: The Oregon Department of Aviation has placed the data from the Oregon Airport Directory online. This is probably one of the best sources of detailed airport data out there. Sadly the photos have been broken on the website for over a month and it has been completely dead for a week. You can find a link to the ODA Online Airport directory on our links page. With luck they will be back on the air by the time you read this. As always, the CO-OPA website contains recent newsletters and other goodies. http://co-opa.rellim.com To access the members only areas the username is "S07" and the password is "123.0". My Inbox: As we learned in last month's newsletter, the plans for a flight safety clinic at Bend Airport on 2 June are well underway. Dennis Douglas of our local EAA chapter is heading up the effort and he needs some help. You can contact him by email at ddouglas@coastside.net or by 541-322-9453. If you are interested in helping then get in touch with him quickly as he wants to get an organizational meeting out of the way before Christmas. June looks to be loaded with aviation events in Bend (see the calendar above). Random Thoughts: If you have been paying attention to the Internet world then you know that blogs and wikis are all the rage now. A blog is like an online diary that allows others to post comments on the daily ranting of the author. A wiki is an online text that anyone can edit. If you read a wiki page on a topic, and you feel it is incomplete or inaccurate you can just jump right in and change it. One well-known and very popular wiki is at http://wikipedia.com. Wikipedia is an open collaboration any one that wants to help that is creating an online encyclopedia. In the spirit of blogging and the wiki I have launched a new wiki style web site at http://iflyoregon.com. The intention is to eventually document all the fun things to do at Oregon airports. When I first moved to Central Oregon it took much hanger flying, and many Don Patrols, to learn some of the great places to fly to in the area. Now I still find new things to do at airports I thought I knew. This wiki is not about how long the runways are or when the FBO is open, but rather about what to see and do in and around that airport. The $100 hamburger and beyond, the best museums, the best dog friendly beaches, the best waterfalls, and all within easy reach by walking, courtesy car or other easy transportation. 'Iflyoregon' just mentions a few airports for now and more are being added as time allows. Please check out the work in process. Hopefully you will learn something about one of our Oregon airports. Then get in to the wiki spirit. Something will strike you as missing, incomplete or just plain wrong. At the bottom of every page is an "Add Comment" button where you can add your own comments. The brave can jump right in an actually edit the pages. If that seems a bit too geeky, or public, then just email me a tasty tidbit to use. Gary Miller ? NOVEMBER FLY-OUT !!! Plans were made to fly to Gold Beach...the weather was beautiful here and at Gold Beach...but....all of the valleys, and airports between here and there were blanketed in fog....so....we altered our plans and went to Klamath Falls.... As usual, we all met at the Flight Shop and the decision to go to K. Falls was made. As we prepared to depart more flyers showed up until we had good group to go along (it is always more fun with several planes and people). We had 6 planes and 11 people: Mike and Ann Bond in their Cardinal RG, Joel and Lynn Premselaar in their V-Tail Bonanza, Bill and Betty Witt in their Skylane, Jack Kohler in the "Tweety Bird" (his Yellow RV), Gary Miller in his Turbo Centurian with Ed Endsley and Gary's two dogs and Don and Norma Wilfong in their Skylane. We kept the airways busy with the friendly chatter between planes..."where are you", "I see you now", "what is your bearing, distance & altitude" and all the other many things we say to each other. It was a beautiful flight and some of the planes flew close enough to each other for Ed to get some good photos... Parking at K Falls is quite close to Bailey's Caf?, which sits above the Airline Terminal with a great view of the ramp and the runway. The Caf? is under fairly new management, the service was great, the food was good and the conversation was fun and entertaining. Everyone kinda picked their own route home...we flew over Crater Lake and I don't recall ever seeing the water so perfectly placid, it was like a mirror. Norma took some beautiful shots. Don Wilfong COOPA SAFETY CORNER By Joel Premselaar Photos: Ed Endsley As a consequence of Thanksgiving dinner, my center of gravity gravitated sufficiently to my midriff to become a grave concern. If Christmas treats treat me in similar fashion, "grave" will be the operative word! The Holiday Season is not conducive to rational behavior. I've struggled in vain to address a single meaty subject in this issue (Egad! I can't get away from thoughts of food!); instead, I'll jump around several topics (I need the exercise). Despite the frivolous opening paragraph, it alluded to a subject I wish to discuss briefly in this article; i.e., "center of gravity." I know that there are good reasons for missing some of our meetings. I'm as guilty of that as anyone, but I am concerned that in the doing, safety related material discussed is lost. Our last meeting was full of exchanges relating to mountain flying dos and don'ts. Aerodynamics, c.g., trim, flaps, radius of turn (especially as it relates to narrow canyons), wind effects, and much more was addressed. I'll try to touch on some of these. Don't let the following technology scare you. Just take out your old texts and track me one step at a time. This stuff is important. I contend that many who chose to defy gravity have paid the supreme penalty because of a deficiency in our training. O.K. Let's get into this c.g. thing again. I am assuming that early in your flight training, you learned that an airplane in flight moves about its c.g. Mostly, the pilot sits close to the c.g. Be sure that Burp Bags are convenient to the back seaters. Also, we learned that as the distribution of the aircraft's weight changes, the c.g. moves accordingly. Let's agree that, during this discourse, the c.g. is always within its safe envelope unless stipulated otherwise. As the c.g. moves forward of the center of lift, a greater amount of downward lift is required by the tail (forget canards) with it's associated drag and nose up trim. The converse is also true; i.e., c.g. aft, less downward lift by the tail is needed, resulting in less drag and nose up trim. Less drag equates to greater airspeed. There are penalties and benefits to be had with this knowledge. You can become a control freak. I won't get into moment arms, so trust me. When the c.g. is forward, stability is better but drag is greater. When the c.g. is aft, stability is less but speed and range is greater. (Powder puff derby contestants listen up. After takeoff, have your copilot move to the rear seat. Remember to have her come forward for the landing.) There is an ahah! to this. Control forces decrease significantly with an increase in airspeed. Need I mention the reverse situation? There's nothing like an example. The aux tanks in my Bonanza are aft and outboard of the mains. Cross- country -- use mains first. Instrument flying and best stability - use aux tanks first. Of course, load passengers and baggage accordingly During the flyout to Klamath Falls for breakfast on the Saturday following our last COOPA meeting, Jack Kohler in his Tweety Bird and my lady and I in my Bonanza flew formation on Gary Miller and Ed Ensley in Gary's 210. I flew both parade and combat formation on both Jack and Gary. Parade is as tight as you can get without exchanging paint with one another. Combat is a very loose formation. To synchronize your propeller with the leader's, look at his prop arc through the arc of yours; then, using stroboscopic effect adjust your RPM to stop his prop. You then adjust your power and trim to maintain position. Once established, only minor adjustments are needed. For instance, as the flight leader makes, lets say a 90? turn, the wingman is directly under him at 45? and on the other side at the completion of the 90? turn. That eliminates power adjustments. During breakfast (I was polite and didn't talk with my mouth full - - I just thought you'd like to know that) we discussed formation flying. The subject of trimming for precision flying evolved from the conversation re flying parade formation flying. I presented a trimming method for pitch I deemed essential for precision flying. In the course of the discussion, I realized that here again was a deficiency in training programs. How many of you recall your flight instructor's chant "Trim,Trim,Trim!?" Did any of them describe how to trim for specific applications? Most pilots trim for hands off. That may be fine for sustained straight and level flight; however, for precise flying such as instrument, maneuvering (lazy eights, turns around a point, etc.) or formation work, one should trim nose down with not less than about three to five pounds against your hand. Every time you load or unload the pressure you'll receive a gratifying feedback and an instant aircraft response. Feedback provides a sensual (No! Not that kind, it's the sensory kind) queue. It's like feeling and/or hearing a click when you press a button or flip a switch. The aircraft response is immediate because there is no: dead area, backlash, slack control connections, or breakout force (Hydraulic controls) with which to contend (hey folks, did you notice the way I avoided ending the sentence with a preposition? {yeah, I know, ending with a preposition is now acceptable, but I'm not Churchill. If you don't know the Churchill thing, ask me about it}). "Hey, what's this thing about slack control connections?" Well, let's assume you're in Phoenix, AZ in the summer and the temperature is 115? F as opposed to Butte, MO in the dead of winter and the temperature is - 50?F (yes, that is minus 50?F), so I'll ask you, "What don't you understand about expansion and contraction?" There's more to this business of trim, but I'd better get on with the subject that generated a lot of interest and discussion at the last meeting. Turn radii and pull outs from a dive. They have two operative things in common - - airspeed and Gs. Turns in canyons was a lively subject during the previously mentioned meeting. I go back to my pet statement; "Flight planning, flight planning, flight planning." With that, there's no excuse for getting trapped by narrowing canyons. When flight planning, take into account the time of day; e.g., canyon winds develop as a result of diurnal cooling. When convective activity ceases, the heavier cool air moves down the canyon. If there is a restriction in the canyon, the Bernoulli effect will cause high winds and reduced pressures that will affect altimeters. Factor into your planning density altitude and altimeter errors due to very cold temperatures (ask me for a chart quantifying temperature vs. altimeter error), know your turn radius for each viable aircraft configuration, check your sectional for the contour lines on both sides of the canyon, measure the distance between opposing sides to determine your dead end (and I do mean dead) turn around point. Here's one for you; if you do find yourself in trouble and the headwind component exceeds your Vso by some measure, simply back up. Think that's weird? Consider this: everyone knows how windy it gets in Kansas, so before WW II the ingenious Kansans instituted an annual "backward air race" paralleling a road between two Kansas towns that were 10 miles apart. Airborne and facing upwind, the competitors lined up abreast over the upwind town. Upon the firing of a green flare from a Verys pistol, the race would start. The first aircraft to reach the center of the downwind town was the winner! Cousin Ed's Aeronautical Adventures My cousin Ed isn't a pilot but he has employed many. Ed is an ex-military logistics officer and doesn't hesitate to encourage (tell) people to do what they should do. He has directed several businesses with hundreds of staff so the guy has experience. These stories have to do with his taking situational control when he deemed it necessary for everyone's wellbeing. Sometimes you need a little help from your friends. This is about cockpit resource management. Good examples of mindful thinking. Some might say common sense but in some ways more closely related to the strangely named digital age concept of Fuzzy Logic. You don't always need THE one right answer, at least right away. A pretty good, approximate answer, that moves you in a good direction is better than jumping to an incorrect conclusion. With the ensuing results you can then make midcourse corrections and maybe get better answers as the situation proceeds. Military pilots have a phrase "restacking the deck", referring to dealing with the most important things first and then reassessing. I think it was astronaut Alan Bean who, while discussing aerial troubleshooting said, "Is this thing still flying?" If so, you still have some work to do. If not, hmmm. Don Mobley has said to fly it all the way to the crash. His implied message is that you might find some good answers along the way. Besides, if you find a way to minimize the incident, your explanation to the FAA will be easier. If you don't, you may have to explain it to God. I understand he's very forgiving but it better be good because all your passengers are going to be standing right behind you The first situation I will tell you about happened in the Los Angeles Basin in heavy traffic about twenty years ago. Ed often chartered aircraft to commute around the country for business and pleasure. This time he and his wife were going from the California central valley, south to the L.A. area and as they were descending over the Tehachapi Mountains with radar contact and clearance the radios went dead. Well now what are you going to do? Cousin Ed was not one to wait very long for an answer so he told the discombobulated pilot to fly the plane to the next cleared point and he proceeded to disassemble the panel from the right seat. Remember, this was before "handhelds" and "multitools." So there he sat with a lap full of avionics wondering if this was a wise "approach." But they were still flying and still had options. I mean it was daylight and still VFR, at least by basin standards. Looking back into the dark recesses it was apparent that there were loose wires. Not a good sign. Yes, you could pop circuit breakers by moving the wrong stuff. Now that'll get your attention. At 24 volts Ed didn't hesitate to dive in. What he found was that some "dumb ass technician", his words, had "twisted" all the radio power wires together with a wire nut to the positive buss. So, twisting it back together and holding this whole mess in his lap, they proceeded to their destination with full communications. After landing, Ed had a few words with the "pilot." Like you get this fixed by a competent technician and show me a copy of the service order and introduce me to the guy that did the work and I might fly back with you. If you can't assure me that you can do this, then I'll be flying back with someone else. Ed knew how to get what he wanted. The second episode is a great example of mindful thinking. It occurred in Africa, in the middle of nowhere. A group of sufficient numbers had flown out into the central savanna that several planes were involved. When the arrival time came and went and they were still at altitude Ed began to wonder. "Where are we, Ed asked.". The pilot's response wasn't encouraging and this was reinforced by their meandering course. Ed's pointed question, "are you lost" was answered affirmatively. Well, now what? Fuel, time back, alternatives, none of the above? "Can you call the other aircraft," Ed said. So here's what happened. At first there was no answer so Ed suggested that they climb. At near the service ceiling they started to get a response. So now what? Ed suggested that the pilot ask his compatriots on the ground if they could hear their plane and in which direction. They could hear a plane that sounded like it was a long way to the southwest. So let's try flying to the northeast and see if they hear us getting closer. By this method of Ground Controlled Approach they zeroed in on their destination and made a successful rendezvous. Sure beat spending the night alone in lion country. No word on how they got back home. Ok, one more story. This time it's about cousin Ed's cousin, Ed. That's me. Got it? Sorry about that. It's always fun to call him and say "Hi Ed this is Ed." Enough already. This episode happened on my thirty minute cross country flight to the Madras Airshow in 2003. That was the summer of much smoke. As I approached Redmond I called for class D transit and reported three miles visibility in smoke over Hwy 97. I was using my ANA (asphalt navigation aid). Very accurate, if you can read the road signs. Had a nice communication with the tower and was cleared through to the north. I know it was north because that's what my magnetic compass said. Frequency change approved, I started hearing lots of Madras Traffic but couldn't seem to make myself heard. RDM wouldn't respond either. Hmmm. Radio failure, transmitter dead at least. The other transmitter was the same. Only one headset available. No handheld on board. Going into a busy Airshow environment. Limited visibility. Hmmm. Lets not let too many other things go wrong, like loosing my common sense. Could turning tail and going home make sense? At least there wasn't anyone else with me to ask questions like "where are we." But wait, all is not lost. I hear Mary Shu report three miles west on the forty-five for three four. Oo, ooo, here was my chance to pull this off. I'd swung wide to the west over Lake Billy Chinook to trouble shoot so I just found and formed up with Mary and did a loose formation on into Madras. Great Airshow, glad I could make it. That's when I took the photo of Tom Ellsberg in the smoky setting sun. A very special opportunity? The reason I'm telling you this story is that it reveals some major flaws in my mindful thinking. I made several assumptions that blocked my awareness of alternatives. Well yes, I was bothering to fly the plane and navigate in difficult conditions but I don't think I restacked the deck especially well. If Mary hadn't shown up on a timely basis I would have been homeward bound. No Airshow for Ed. Here's the punch line, wait for it now. I met an old friend who lives in Madras who came up to the Airshow and I told him about the problem. We both walked out to the plane and started looking around the panel. I'd told him about both xmitters dead and only one headset to try. He pointed out there were push to talk switches on both yokes. Had I tried both? Well, no actually I hadn't. Oh, and there's the Cessna original hand held mic in it's holder on the pedestal. How about that? Well, uh, actually no. I was starting to feel silly, not just stupid. So we powered up and tried both of his ideas and they both worked. It was just bad wiring to the mic switch. Oh Ed. Now, my friend Dennis has flown with me before and is a pilot himself and someone I've always considered very bright. He proved it again and I learned a very important lesson about tunnel vision. Well my friends, keep an open mind. Ed Endsley [PHOTO] An unusual visitor to Bend, a Grumman Widgeon, was photo op for Dennis Douglas from our EAA chapter ? in fact he got to fly in it and land (?) on Lake Billy Chinook >>>>>> [PHOTO] DECEMBER FLY-OUT My thoughts are for a repeat of December last year. We flew to Chiloquin and had the second biggest fly-out I can remember (8 planes and 17 people). We can discuss it at the potluck/meeting/Christmas Party on Thurs. Dec. 15 ... remember to bring a gift to participate in the "madhouse gift exchange"? also remember the Club is furnishing the meat for the potluck so bring a side dish ... our December meeting is always a blast ... Wishing you all Happy Holidays with blue skies and tail winds for the New Year.. Don & Norma Wilfong From leckone at bendcable.com Mon Dec 12 18:52:07 2005 From: leckone at bendcable.com (Leckliders) Date: Mon Dec 12 18:52:13 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Thursday's meeting Message-ID: <006901c5ff90$34a37bf0$f17adc42@leckone> Season's Greetings to all of you. Don't forget our meeting and Christmas celebration next Thursday. Our good friends, Dale and Ginny Evans will be moving to the "Valley" just a few days after our meeting. We would like to send them off with something to remember us by, so -------dig into your boxes of memorabilia and bring to the meeting a photo of a fun flying event. It would be even better if Dale or Ginny were in the photo, but bring what you can. We hope to make this a surprise so don't tell them. They will not be getting this e-mail because their computer is not up and running. Take care and bring pictures!!! Nancy Lecklider -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20051212/6f3cf645/attachment.html From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Thu Dec 15 21:53:15 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Fri Dec 16 19:01:30 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Bend Airport Update #5 Message-ID: Hello all, Here attached in Word Doc format and pasted below, is the fifth Airport Update for the Bend Municipal Airport. Happy holiday wishes from the Bend Airport to you all. (See attached file: Bend Airport Update #5 -12-05.doc) Greg Phillips Bend Municipal Airport Manager PO Box 431 Bend, OR 97709 (541) 389-0258 December 15, 2005 Airport Update #5 To all Bend Municipal Airport Friends and Tenants: Happy holidays to all! Winter has sure moved in, and from the looks of it, it?s going to stay awhile. We?ve already plowed at the Airport more times than we did all last year, in fact, and still the cold snap continues. You?d think, of course, that things should be slowing down around here with the winter chill in the air, but we still have a few things out here that we?re trying to finish up. Here they are in this, the last Airport Update for 2005. CONSTRUCTION RUNWAY SAFETY AREA (RSA) for RWY 34: Well, we finally did it! After three false starts while Mother Nature snickered on the sidelines, we have finally eliminated the Displaced Threshold for Runway 34. Come spring, we will have to put another coat of paint on the stripes for good measure, and there?s still some work to do before the full RSA project is completed, but we can finally say we have full use of all of the pavement, after too many years of living with this safety issue on the Airport. The FAA has been notified and, as new Flight Publications are issued, you?ll soon stop seeing mention of the Displaced Threshold. My sincere thanks to all of you for your patience as we have worked to get this project done. Now we just need to finish the 1800? of piping for the COID Irrigation ditch and we can call it a wrap. AUTOMATED WEATHER OBSERVATION SYSTEM (AWOS): In the last update I had good news?but this time it?s even better! The electrical cables have been pulled to the site and the concrete pads have been poured, and now we?re just waiting for the pads to cure a few more days before assembling and erecting the AWOS equipment. Surprisingly, we also received our FCC license, a requirement for VHF transmission, about four months earlier than I expected! That means that, as soon as the equipment is installed, tested, and certified by the FAA, we will have real time weather at the Bend Airport. Stay tuned and perhaps we?ll have a late Holiday gift for you all. RUNWAY 16/34 RELOCATION PROJECT: The Environmental Assessment (EA) that is required before we can design and construct the project has been completed and we are just waiting for the formal letter saying so. Our engineering consultant has already finished all of the survey work required for the design and we are now working to finalize the scope of work and negotiate fees to start the engineering design in earnest. Our intention is to complete the design over the coming winter and spring and, with a little luck, begin construction by the middle of next summer. I?ve mentioned it before, but just for repetition?s sake, we hope to do all of the primary excavation and earthwork over the summer of 2006 and then complete the project the following summer when we can get the rest of the funds through the FAA grant process. DEVELOPMENT EASTSIDE DEVELOPMENT: Tomorrow is going to be a big day for the Bend Airport and there?s a good chance you don?t even know it! The Bid Review Committee, composed of Community members and City Staff, will conduct interviews of the two finalist bidders for the Eastside Development. Upon selection of a final bidder, we will make a recommendation to City Council at their January 4, 2006 meeting, and hopefully soon after, begin negotiation toward getting the development cracking. NORTH TIEDOWN RAMP/SOUTH TIEDOWN RAMP: Just before the snow started, we were able to get the new South Tiedown Ramp paved, and it looks good. Thanks to Hap Taylor & Sons for a great job. Since that time, it however, has been covered with snow, so we haven?t been able to get the tiedowns emplaced and the markings done. As soon as the weather clears, we will continue to move forward on this project. When the tiedowns are all in place, we will be ready to start moving aircraft from the North Ramp to their new homes. Shortly thereafter, the North Ramp will disappear and hangars will start to take their place. We also plan to prepare a new home for the gliders as a part of this project. CELL PHONE SITES: Less than a month after I told you it would be a few months until we had active cell sites on the Airport, Unicel has been busy installing and hooking up their equipment. They connected power today and need to tweak a few more things, but they say they may be up and providing improved cell service to the Bend Airport within the next couple of weeks. More to come on the T-Mobile site, too! FLIGHT SERVICES BUILDING ? UPSTAIRS: We are waiting on the second written proposal for this space, which we hope to have within the next two weeks. As soon as we have the proposals in hand, we intend to make a decision and a recommendation to City Council so we can get this space developed and occupied. ACCESS ROAD NAMED: It?s final ? the new access road is now officially named Gibson Air Road. Thanks for all the great names offered for this road and it?s great to be able to offer up a little bit of history of the Bend Airport as a reminder of some of the people who?ve helped make the Airport what it is today. VERIZON TOWER COMING AT HAMBY/NEFF: Verizon has proposed a 100? tower near the old fire station at the corner of Hamby and Neff, southwest of the Airport. While it isn?t in the flight pattern and shouldn?t pose any problems to traffic at the Airport, I thought you?d want to know. Their intention is to begin construction next summer. MAINTENANCE BUILDING SIGNS: I received the first batch of 15 building signs for the Airport, provided at no charge through a generous grant, and the rest should be here soon. We?ll soon be installing them and, for ground lease holders, contacting you to coordinate installation with you. The Fire Department is pleased. NEWSPAPER BOXES: They?re here! As of this week, we now have the Bend Bulletin, The Source, and Cascade Publications (Cascade Business News, Cascade Discovery, and Cascades Arts & Entertainment) newspapers available at the Bend Airport. Stop by The Flight Shop and get a copy on your way in or out. AIRPORT ENTRY SIGN: Still a great idea and still in the works. Since we may be getting close to identifying a tenant for the upstairs space in the Flight Services Building and, with The Flight Shop potentially changing hands in January, I have set this one on a side burner until early next year. I have designs for a sign that could be placed on the building itself, as well as a design for a stand alone sign that could be placed by the front entrance. One tenant offered an interesting idea that perhaps we should think about one large stand alone sign that included the names of the different businesses at the Airport. It?s an interesting idea and I would enjoy hearing from the business tenants on the Airport. Is this a good idea? Would you like your business identified on a joint sign placed at the Airport Westside entrance? Would you be willing to chip in a portion of the cost to make it happen? SNOW PLOWING: Saving the most interesting topic for last, I would be remiss in these snow covered days if I didn?t talk with you for a moment about snowplowing at the Bend Airport. I think you deserve to hear my thoughts as to where I see the City?s responsibility and where I see responsibility of the various tenants at the Airport when the snow falls. As you know, we have no equipment of our own to plow snow at the Bend Airport. While I hope to rectify that in the future, and have taken some steps toward that end, our abilities at this juncture are still rather limited. In years past, the City?s Public Works Department has assisted in snow removal at the Airport. They can no longer do so, however, due to the tremendous existing load and continuing growth across the City. So it?s time to move on and we now use the services of contractors for all our snow removal needs, currently employing the services of Hap Taylor & Sons, Inc. The policy we have in place right now is generally to plow the runway and parallel taxiway whenever there is 1-1/2? of snow or more. For other areas, we use 2? or more as the rule of thumb, prioritizing in order the Transient Ramp, Air Life ramp, large taxilanes, small T-hangar taxilanes, tiedown ramps, and finally, the parking lot and frontage road. When it snows more than six inches, or when berms approach 36? off taxilanes, we will haul snow (very costly) to the other side of the Airport. I promise you that we will do our best to keep the public use Airport surfaces clear of snow, with our first responsibility always to keep the runway and taxiway clear. Still, it?s not a perfect plan, and we continually play a ?weather watching? game to decide when to plow and not to plow. After the runway and taxiway, we will plow additional areas as resources allow, but there are some places we are going to have to ask for your help and understanding. Because the graders we use are large equipment, we are not able to maintain the last foot or two in front of individual hangars. We may in fact leave small berms where the grader?s work ends, even. It is unfortunate, but getting closer to the hangar doors with the larger graders means a risk of damaging the hangar doors and the buildings themselves. Smaller equipment following the large graders would help, but of course it adds to the cost. I hope to work on that for the future, but for now we must draw the line there. Your thoughts are welcomed and I?m open to any other ideas you have. Lastly, if you have trouble with your hangar doors, give me a call. I have a bucket of salt and a shovel and I will be happy to come help you get your doors open. I could use the exercise. That?s all for now. Drop me a line if you have a question or an idea. Here?s to warm pavement and sunny skies. Safe and Happy holidays to you all, Greg Greg Phillips Airport Manager City of Bend -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: =?UTF-8?B?QmVuZCBBaXJwb3J0IFVwZGF0ZSAjNSAtMTItMDUuZG9j?= Type: application/msword Size: 127488 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20051215/71239cee/UTF-8BQmVuZCBBaXJwb3J0IFVwZGF0ZSAjNSAtMTItMDUuZG9j-0001.dot From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Sat Dec 17 05:37:51 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Sat Dec 17 05:42:49 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT WEATHER BULLETIN !!!! Message-ID: <000501c6030f$13e97ea0$4e61dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG: HERE AT "PILOT BUTTE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT" THERE IS A COVERING OF ABOUT 1.5 INCHES OF NEW SNOW AND AS OF 0530 IT IS STILL COMING DOWN. IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A GOOD TIME TO GO TO CHILOQUIN FOR BREAKFAST AS PLANNED.... PLAN "A"......TODAY'S F L Y - O U T TO CHILOQUIN IS CANCELLED..... PLAN "B".... MEET AT THE BLACK BEAR DINER AT 0930 FOR A HANGAR FLYING SESSION AND SOME NOURISHMENT..... I WILL CONTACT THE FLIGHT SHOP AND ASK THAT THEY TELL ANYONE (BRAVE ENOUGH TO SHOW UP) WHERE WE ARE. DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com 541 389-1456 From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Wed Dec 21 15:52:12 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Wed Dec 21 16:03:07 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Bend Airport - I have five bars! Message-ID: Eureka! We've done it! Just thought I would let you all know that, as of 2:00 p.m. today, we now have a mini-cell site for Unicel service in operation at the Bend Airport. The T-Mobile site is taking a bit longer, but for those of you who have Unicel service, you should have good reception everywhere on the Airport. Also, the Wi-Fi connection has been a bit intermittent at the Flight Services building over the last few weeks, but it has now been tested, reset, polished, and tuned up, so I think we're in good shape for now. Come on down and check it out, with our compliments. Happy holidays, all. Greg Phillips Bend Municipal Airport Manager PO Box 431 Bend, OR 97709 (541) 389-0258 From GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us Thu Dec 22 19:30:29 2005 From: GPhillips at ci.bend.or.us (Greg Phillips) Date: Thu Dec 22 20:27:11 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Fw: Bulletin's article on Bend airport Message-ID: Feels like I've been sending a number of emails lately, but there's much to report these days! Here's an online article from The Bulletin yesterday that I thought I'd forward in case any of you hadn't seen it. Good things ahead! I will be out of the office tomorrow through the weekend, so I would like to wish you all a very, very Merry Christmas this year and a thoroughly happy holiday season to you and your families. It has been a great year at the Bend Municipal Airport; I appreciate all the friendships and all the ideas I've received over the year, and it has been great fun and a real honor to serve you as the Bend Airport manager. I look forward to many more great happenings in the coming year. Fly safe, check the weather, and keep the wheels down. Greg Phillips Bend Municipal Airport Manager PO Box 431 Bend, OR 97709 (541) 389-0258 (Embedded image moved to file: pic05652.gif)The Bulletin(Embedded image moved to file: pic17897.gif)bendbulletin.com (Embedded image moved to file: pic16589.jpg)The new Beechjet 400 purchased by The Flight Shop is shown parked at Bend Municipal Airport. The plane will be used to provide the first charter jet service based in Central Oregon. Rob Kerr / The Bulletin The new Beechjet 400 purchased by The Flight Shop is shown parked at Bend Municipal Airport. The plane will be used to provide the first charter jet service based in Central Oregon. Charter jet service takes flight in '06 Corporate air traffic in Central Oregon has skyrocketed By Chuck Chiang / The Bulletin Published: December 20. 2005 6:00AM PST Another sign that Central Oregon's economy has taken off: The area is getting charter jet service, allowing travelers with the financial means to skip the Redmond Airport en route to cities like Las Vegas, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The Flight Shop, based out of Bend Municipal Airport, has acquired a new Beechjet 400 aircraft and is planning to start charter service in mid-February. The Flight Shop, meanwhile, is being acquired by Professional Air Services. Brandon Wilcox, one of the owners of Professional Air Services, said Central Oregon's local wealth is rapidly approaching the levels of places like Aspen, Colo., and Palm Springs, Calif., and residents are now demanding private air services found in those resort towns. "In Aspen, there are charter jets all over the place," Wilcox said. "Similar services are grossly overdue in Bend." Chartered jet service comes as corporate air traffic in Central Oregon has skyrocketed in the last year. Dwight Coker, control tower manager at Redmond Airport, said commercial flights by Horizon Air and SkyWest Airlines, the latter of which operates as Delta Connection and United Express, have only accounted for about 20 percent of the flights there this year. The rest consist largely of private aviation, Coker said. Coker estimated that at least 10 percent of total air traffic at Redmond Airport is comprised of private jets, a noticeable increase over past years. Bend Municipal Airport, a general-aviation facility with no scheduled air service, has reported about 40,000 takeoffs and landings so far in 2005. That number has been between 25,000 and 32,000 for the last 10 years, said Airport Manager Greg Phillips. There has been a notable increase in corporate air traffic, he said. "It's higher than we've ever had," Phillips said about this year's traffic numbers. "(The corporate jets) aren't based in Bend; we've had major executives from Costco, Wal-Mart, Target, as well as ranchers coming into town looking for more business. I look at the airport as the melting pot of businesses in Bend." Sunriver Airport, meanwhile, reported roughly a 30 percent to 50 percent increase in traffic from fractional-ownership jets this year compared with last year. Fractional ownerships are like timeshares for planes, where customers can buy flight times on private jets. Depending on the aircraft, 50 hours of annual flight time can cost up to $600,000, or $12,000 per hour. Renting 100 hours can cost upward of $2 million, or $20,000 per hour, according to fractional ownership company CitationShares. Fractional ownerships are popular with people who prefer private flights and can afford it. "(With fractional ownerships), travelers don't have to wait in line at the airport and they don't have to drive in from Redmond," said Sunriver Airport Manager Tom Towell. "In the summer, there are usually 10 to 12 fractional ownership flights a week. On some summer days, we can have four or five of them a day." Professional Air Services' Wilcox said The Flight Shop already is experiencing demand for private jet service, most of it from local residents. "Since I've been here, we've received a lot of calls," he said, adding that one local resident has requested a substantial chunk of flight time, even before the service started. "We've had an individual tell us that, if we get a jet, he will use it for at least 100 hours per year," Wilcox said. "With the other requests, we expect to fly well over 300 hours this year." The Flight Shop plans to charge $2,100 per hour for its jet service, according to Wilcox. He added that if demand continues to grow, The Flight Shop likely would add another jet to its fleet by the end of 2006. "I could see us having three to four jets in five years," he said. "If a person can imagine Central Oregon approaching (the stature) of Palm Springs, and people are continuing to move here for the lifestyle, jet charters just follow naturally because people want to go where they want to go." According to Bend airport's Phillips, a company ran chartered air service on propeller-powered planes between 2000 and 2001 before defaulting on its rent. Phillips has no such concerns with The Flight Shop. "They have much more organization and planning," he said. "It's really an extension of The Flight Shop's current (turboprop-based charter) operations. We're very confident that they will bring their business know-how to make things happen." Wilcox said his company plans to have a grand opening ceremony when the Beechjet receives certification from the Federal Aviation Administration. He also said that there are new facilities in the planning stages for charter jet and general aviation travelers, which Wilcox estimated would be ready by spring 2007. Chuck Chiang can be reached at 541-617-7859 or at cchiang@bendbulletin.com. Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2005. ******************************* Andrea McCullough City of Bend Communications Manager 710 NW Wall Street Bend, Oregon 97701 (541)388-5516 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pic05652.gif Type: image/gif Size: 2001 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://catbert.rellim.com/pipermail/co-opa/attachments/20051222/12d1c268/pic05652-0001.gif -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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That's why AOPA is working to ensure that a draft resource management plan for the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument area would clearly mark any closed airstrips and maintain them in a serviceable condition. "AOPA believes that obstructions must not be placed across a runway and that ditches should not be dug on the landing surface since obstructing the landing area could endanger the life of the pilot and passengers," said Roger Cohen, AOPA vice president of regional affairs. AOPA requested that the Bureau of Land Management, which manages 375,000 acres of land in north-central Montana and numerous recreational backcountry airstrips, reject an alternative included in the draft plan that would close all 10 of the airfields in the park. "Backcountry airstrips are vital assets that need to be preserved and accounted for," Cohen said. AOPA has filed comments in support of the draft plan's preferred alternative, Alternative F, because it keeps six of the strips open and provides for the establishment of a plan to maintain them. AOPA members are encouraged to submit comments via e-mail before the April 26 deadline. December 23, 2005 From dwnw at bendbroadband.com Thu Dec 29 06:40:12 2005 From: dwnw at bendbroadband.com (Don & Norma) Date: Thu Dec 29 06:47:17 2005 Subject: [Co-opa] Fw: BE OBSERVANT !!!! Message-ID: <001401c60c85$c6c327e0$4e61dc42@bendcable.com> HEY GANG.....LET'S ALL BE OBSERVANT FOR AIRCRAFT SEEN LANDING ON ROADS AND/OR REMOTE AIRPORTS WHERE THEY MIGHT BE MEETING VEHICLES TO DROP OFF DRUGS....WE SHOULD REPORT ANY SUCH SIGHTINGS TO THE AUTHORITIES....DON WILFONG dwnw@bendbroadband.com Police Use Airport Records To Catch Drug Smugglers Police in Oregon arrested two Canadian men when they stopped to refuel at Burns Municipal Airport last month, seizing almost a half-ton of marijuana, The Associated Press reported on Monday. The arrest followed an effort by police to more closely monitor remote rural airports in the region, checking self-service fuel records to search for clues to illicit operations. Information from those records is now going into the Oregon Department of Justice's computerized intelligence network, where it will be available to federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies. But it's expected that the impact of that effort will last only until the smugglers figure it out, then they will simply circumvent it. All a smuggler would have to do is land in a hayfield or on a remote road and refuel from tanks mounted onto farm pickups, Umatilla County Sheriff John Trumbo told the AP.