From catacres at webformixair.com Wed Jan 13 10:27:42 2010 From: catacres at webformixair.com (Richard/Debbie Benson) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:27:42 -0800 Subject: [Co-opa] Fly more frequently in this New Year! Message-ID: <00b501ca947e$18292420$0264a8c0@cascadecot7hp2> New Abundance Book from Richard! Fellow pilot and 30-year OPA member Richard Benson is inviting us to read his new book. Although not exclusively on aviation, Richard does share his love of flying in Idaho and British Columbia, and explains how he?s been able to afford AC Ownership since 1981 and how he retired from the work force at age 44. In February Stepping Into Your Personal Field of Abundance will be released to the public as an E-book at a price of $9.95 however you may currently purchase a Digital Copy (E-book) for just $5.95 To order or to review a chapter ('the weekend flying retreat to Denio, Oregon') you may visit his website @ http://www.Retire-By40.com And by the way, 50% of your purchase goes to the Children--the Animals--and the Land (see ?Giving Back? page). ?I am confident that the Life-Lessons I candidly share will inspire and empower you to fly more frequently and joyfully in this New Year.? Richard T. Benson D.C. Founder and Guide Golden Bridge Seminars (541) 389-4523 From mvbond at spiritone.com Wed Jan 20 02:24:59 2010 From: mvbond at spiritone.com (Mike Bond) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:24:59 -0800 Subject: [Co-opa] COOPA Newsletter Message-ID: <4B56D9FB.6000204@spiritone.com> Here is your COOPA January 2010 newsletter. Gary is posting the PDF version on the website. Mike Bond ===================================== CASCADE FLYER January 2010, Vol. 10, Issue 1 Website: http://co-opa.com/ President's Message: The weather outside was frightful, but the company inside was delightful. Turnout was light for our Holiday Party at the Black Bear but those that did brave the weather had a fun time. Most restaurants want 10 diners to reserve a private room so if we eat out again we'll need to be careful that enough members are committed to attending. This month it will be back to our usual time and place. We'll meet at the Flight Services Building at 6pm for pilot chatter, 6:30pm for potluck and 7pm for our formal program. At the top of the program will be a report from Don and Norma on this years Christmas Charity project. Early reports are that our faithful program chair should have some details for us soon. Calendar: 21 January - Monthly Meeting 23 January - Monthly Flyout 18 February - Monthly Meeting 20 February - Monthly Flyout 18 March - Monthly Meeting 20 March - Monthly Flyout 15 April - Monthly Meeting 17 April - Monthly Flyout Web doings: It is January and the full year dues for the OPA and the CO-OPA are due this month. Now that both are on the same annual schedule the confusion of the old OPA rolling dues will be a thing of the past. You can pay your OPA dues online here: http://www.oregonpilot.org/membership/dues/index.html The $10 for the local CO-OPA dues can be handed in to Don Wilfong. As always you can check out current and past CO-OPA newsletters, view our membership list and view hot aviation links on our website at: http://co-opa.com To access the members only areas the username is "BDN" and the password is "123.0". Random Thoughts: Last month I bemoaned much that should have happened in the first decade of the new millennium. This month in the same spirit I'll look ahead to the next decade. I'd rather be flying, but with the weather and the family bustle of the holidays I'm temporarily reduced to hanger flying, or in this case paper flying. At the top of my list for the 2010's is a viable replacement for 100LL aviation fuel. Lead is a pretty dirty word these days and lead additives are just going to get harder and harder to justify. Ideally this hypothetical 100LL replacement would be something that could be compatible with 80 Octane avgas to make it easier on distributors to supply both. There is some hope that 94UL may be an easy solution for some engines that need 100LL. 94UL is essentially 100LL without the lead, so it will be easy to produce. The problem is that it may cause detonation problems in some higher compression engines unless the engine is upgraded with FADEC. If it saves a good old airplane then adding FADEC might be an option, but for many older airplanes this would be a stake in the heart. Swift Enterprises has been pushing a biofuel they call SwiftFuel. They claim it would be cheaper than 100LL and contain 13% more energy per gallon than 100LL. Even better it is proven to work in high compression engines like the Lycoming 540 with only minor ignition timing adjustments.. You can read more about SwiftFuel on their website: http://www.swiftenterprises.com/ Outside of the USA it can be impossible even to obtain 80 octane avgas. Given the large number of airplanes with older engines we know avgas will be with us a long time, but the real future of GA needs to be JetA. Thielert Engines almost made it happen last decade. They had diesel engines in Cessna 172s and two Diamond aircraft models before becoming insolvent. They just might be able to reincarnate as Centurion Engines and now have STCs for C206's and PA28's. With luck we could see widespread diesel aircraft production this decade. More info on Centurion is on their website: http://www.centurion-engines.com/ In good news the FAA has big plans for ADB-B. Just for 2025, not the 2010's. How can such a simple technology take so long to push out? The potential gains in aviation safety and flight efficiency are huge yet the FAA clings to expensive RADAR systems basically unchanged from the 1960's. All that is needed to make an aircraft report its postion is a new GPS enabled transponder. This might be as simple as a slide in replacement but would also likely need the addition of a GPS antenna and HF antenna. Then ATC would get a much more accurate picture of air traffic. For an aircraft to receive ADS-B data it would just need a new HF receiver hooked to a display. This could easily be integrated in existing handheld moving maps. Why would these changes take 15 more years? For those of you that know me I'll spare you the rest of my ADS-B rant. Sadly for me, one oft-delayed 'innovation' from the last decade has now come true. LORAN will have its plug pulled this February 8th. That trusty LORAN in my panel will soon be another paperweight to add to my expensive paperweight collection. Even in the month before its demise it is still more reliable than any aviation GPS I have ever used. That's my aviation wish list for the decade to come. I'm curious to here what other aviators have in mind. With luck the weather and my personal schedule will align next month and I can actually get some flying done and write about that! Gary Miller Richard Benson's new book Fellow pilot and 30-year COOPA member Richard Benson is inviting us to read his new book. Although not exclusively on aviation, Richard does share his love of flying in Idaho and British Columbia, and explains how he's been able to afford A/C Ownership since 1981 and how he retired from the work force at age 44. In February Stepping Into Your Personal Field of Abundance will be released to the public as an E-book at a price of $9.95, however you may currently purchase a Digital Copy (E-book) for just $5.95 A really low pass ? A Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet crew got permission for a low-level demonstration flight, as part of the opening ceremony for a speedboat race on the Detroit River, recently. This is what it looked like, for Motor City residents. This is the moment a US Navy pilot gave a shocked resident a very close look at his F18. The fighter/bomber streaked past an apartment block on the banks of the Detroit River at the weekend. It was part of a tactical demonstration fly-past to open a speedboat race in the North American city. Officials waived rules to allow the Navy flyers to swoop under 100ft along the waterway. One resident said, "I couldn't believe how low they flew and how close they came to our building, I'm sure the pilot waved at me." The jets had flown in from the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia to put on a spectacular show for thousands of spectators. Joint EAA and Leading Edge meeting The local EAA chapter 1345 invited Leading Edge Aviation flight instructors and management to their Jan 13th meeting. The topics were: Understanding helicopter operations and review of an Oct 2009, 'near-miss' between a runway crossing Robinson R-22 and a departing Pitts. Also present were Airport Manager, Gary Judd, and an FAA representative. Although no specific preventative actions were proposed, the unanimous conclusion was that it was a very useful and informative meeting. Four Bidders For Epic (From AvWeb) The Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Epic Aircraft continues to wind its way through the courts and the next hearing was set for Dec. 7 in Portland. Spokesman Christopher Sanders said there are four bidders vying to buy the company out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy including one established aircraft manufacturer. The names of the bidders are confidential for now but Sanders said at least two of them would be well known to those who follow aviation. There are currently 15 incomplete aircraft at the Bend, Oregon plant and Sanders said he's talking with all the owner/builders to try and ensure they can complete their projects. Epic sold a $1.8 million kit that produced a six place turboprop aircraft called the LT and the 15 unfinished aircraft are in varying stages of construction. Sanders said he was hired shortly after the departure of former CEO Rick Schramek and his role is to "maximize the value of the company and to make the company viable again." The company ran into trouble earlier last year and the doors shut in August. By September, lawsuits were flying and the company was formally in Chapter 11. There have also been allegations of wrongdoing by some Epic executives but none have been proven in court. EAA Chapter 617 (Prineville) Biennial Flight Review Training Syllabus This program is open to all, not just Chapter members, but you should RSVP Dave Waltman (EAA617 President) at dwaltman.1 at juno.com so they have an idea of how many will be attending. Note: The training program is this Saturday morning, Jan 23rd. Participating students are required to bring a smile, and their pilot's logbook. There will be no charge for attendance. There will be a $20.00 charge for pilots seeking a Certificate of Completion towards a 2010 Biennial Flight Review. All training materials and handouts will be provided without cost. Your class coordinator will be RG. Tracy, CFIA, and Chapter 617 member. Our guest lecturer is Dr. Daniel Skotte, DO. PC. and FAA Medical Examiner from Sun River Family Medicine, Sunriver, Oregon. This training is sponsored by EAA Chapter 617, and will be held on Saturday, January 23, 2010, in the EAA Chapter 617 hangar located on the Prineville Airport (S39). The hangar doors will open at 8:00 AM. An introduction and opening statement by President Dave Waltman begin at 08:45 AM. The training will commence after the introduction, and will conclude at 11:30 AM. The log book endorsements will follow immediately after class. CLASS SCHEDULE AND TOPICS 08:45 AM - Introduction and Records 09:00 AM - Part 61.57 Biennial Flight Reviews Part 61.15 Offenses Involving Alcohol & Drugs Part 61.23 Medical Certificates: Requirements & Duration 09:30 AM - Dr. Daniel Skotte Medical Standards 10:00 AM - Part 91.3 Pilot Responsibility and Authority Part 91.103 Preflight Actions Part 91.107 Passenger Briefings Part 91.151 VFR Fuel Requirements & Aircraft Fueling 10:30 AM - AIM SEC 3 Airport Marking Aids & Signs Runway & Taxiway markings 11:00 AM - Safety Programming - Runway Incursion & Situational Awareness 11:30 AM - Presidents Closing Remarks - Log Endorsements ================================================================== COOPA officer contact info: President Gary E. Miller 109 NW Wilmington Ave Bend, OR 97701 541-382-8588 gem at rellim.com Vice President --------OPEN---------- Secretary/Treasurer Don Wilfong 210 SE Cessna Dr Bend, OR 97702 541 389-1456 Temp Fly-out Chair Don Wilfong 210 SE Cessna Dr Bend, OR 97702 541 389-1456 wilfong.d at gmail.com Program Chair Ed Endsley 63505 Bridle Ln Bend, OR 97701 541 382-6414 ed at edendsley.com And finally, send Newsletter inputs to Mike Bond 22052 Banff Drive Bend, OR 97702 541 317-8443 mvbond at spiritone.com From gem at rellim.com Fri Jan 22 12:14:06 2010 From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:14:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Co-opa] Fly-Out - NOT Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yo All! The weather might clear up in time for a Saturday Fly-Out, but some of our folks are going to head out to the EAA BFR Class in Prineville. So, how about any stragglers that need to hanger fly meet at Jakes Diner at 9am Saturday? I'll be there, hope to see a lot of others as well. RGDS GARY - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97701 gem at rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLWgcSBmnRqz71OvMRAhWWAJ94qMK88WLPLfqOzx4NpOMyLELSIQCgu5xF EUuATD/9I1Gp45s+ieQdUS0= =WMlI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From wilfong.d at gmail.com Sat Jan 30 13:21:30 2010 From: wilfong.d at gmail.com (Don Wilfong) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:21:30 -0800 Subject: [Co-opa] MEMORIES FROM THE PAST Message-ID: <6070c9831001301321n4d1d8232o3f9b85120ec2b037@mail.gmail.com> HERE IS A PICTURE TAKEN FEB. 17, 2007 ON ONE OF OUR FLY-OUTS.........DON From wilfong.d at gmail.com Sat Jan 30 13:33:43 2010 From: wilfong.d at gmail.com (Don Wilfong) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:33:43 -0800 Subject: [Co-opa] MORE MEMORIES FROM THE PAST Message-ID: <6070c9831001301333j1d8e08e2v9c95691e4c39d842@mail.gmail.com> OUR LAST FLY-OUT TO THE FLYING M RANCH....OCT 21, 07......JUST BEFORE THEY SOLD OUT TO A CHURCH GROUP AND THE LODGE BECAME CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC............DON From mvbond at spiritone.com Wed Feb 17 15:28:34 2010 From: mvbond at spiritone.com (Mike Bond) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:28:34 -0800 Subject: [Co-opa] COOPA newsletter Message-ID: <4B7C7BA2.4060800@spiritone.com> Here is your COOPA February 2010 newsletter. Gary is posting the PDF version on the website. Mike Bond ===================================== CASCADE FLYER February 2010, Vol. 10, Issue 2 Website: http://co-opa.com/ President's Message: Gremlins were the featured presentation at our January meeting. They have their origin in RAF stories dating back to the 1920's and are alive and kicking today. Our program chair Ed Endsley worked long and hard to bring a live FAA webinar to our meeting but the little guys were out in force and proceeded to skewer the event. The presenter did not have his audio set high enough and that is no faults of Ed's. Next time you see Ed thank him for all the hard work he has put in as our program chair! The silver lining in the cloud was that we had more time than usual for hanger flying. Some best not set down in writing. Don and Norma Wilfong reported on this years Christmas Charity project and the results were all that we could hope for. Kudos to the Wilfongs, the teachers at Pilot Butte Middle School, and all those that donated time and money to the program for all their hard work. As always we'll try again to have our best meeting ever this month. Drop into the Flight Services Building at 6pm for some socializing, chow down at 6:30pm with our world famous potluck and hang around at 7pm for our formal program. Something fun always develops and we hope to see you all there. Better yet, grab some other pilots and drag them along too. Gary at work in the Caymans Calendar: 18 February - Monthly Meeting 20 February - Monthly Flyout 18 March - Monthly Meeting 20 March - Monthly Flyout 15 April - Monthly Meeting 17 April - Monthly Flyout 20 May - Monthly Meeting 22 May - Monthly Flyout Web doings: As always you can check out current and past CO- OPA newsletters, view our membership list and view hot aviation links on our website at: http://co-opa.com/ To access the members only areas the username is "BDN" and the password is "123.0". My Inbox: Don Wilfong has sent out reminders to all that still need to pay their local CO-OPA dues. Get your $10 to him to stay a member in good standing. The state OPA dues are separate, but also due in January. If you have not paid those you can do so online: http://www.oregonpilot.org/membership/dues/index.html Random Thoughts: Whenever I travel commercial I try to take a peak in the cockpit before takeoff while the pilots are relaxing and the door is still open. Gone are the days when you can look in once the airplane pushes back. The Flight Attendants usually behave like linebackers shoving the self loading cargo to the back of the human mailing tube but a polite, but firm, request will usually get you past them. Once in the cockpit, with one notable exception, the pilots are always gracious once I introduce myself as a private pilot and note that I just want a peak at the hardware. This trip I found myself in the front office of a new 737-800. This is a stretched version of the old war horse 737 with tall winglets and a shiny glass panel. Then I did a double take. On the LCDs were perfect images of the traditional six pack of round gauges. The captain was telling me about how fine his instrument panel was to fly and the cool displays it could show, I interrupted and asked why he had steam gauges on the EFIS instead of something cool. The story is that the airline wanted to fly all their old and new 737's using pilots with a single type rating and common currency for maximum flexibility. Thus all 737's would be flown on steam gauges until all of the old style panels are sold off. What a waste. Whenever I can I ask the pilot if his EFIS has ever died on them. They always look a bit sheepish and have to be prodded a bit, but they all eventually answer in the affirmative. Then I usually get to hear a nice war story. This time was no different. This pilot had recently been at the gate running his preflight check list when columns of dots starting blinking on and off with more and more of the screen disappearing in a psychedelic fashion. A quick call was made to maintenance who quickly snapped out the old panel and found a surprise. There was fresh coffee dripping down the inside of the glare shield into the $60,000 display. The previous crew had spilled coffee and cleaned up the outside, but not well enough. With five or six redundant EFIS I am not worried, too much, about total system failure, but I am still happy to see the old standby gyros in the panel anyway. By this time the co-pilot was picking up the checklist and it was time for me to join the other self-loading cargo in the back. 'Drunken Rube' Kyle Franklin has added a twist to a routine done by many performers over the years as a "flying farmer" or a drunken spectator act. The idea is that someone untrained steals a Piper Cub during an airshow, in full view of the audience, and flies a wobbly routine. Franklin's twist is to scrape both wingtips. Maybe some other act is scraping wingtips, too, but it has escaped notice until now. Take a look at the video titled "Comedy Act Video" at the bottom of the Franklin Web page. CHRISTMAS CHARITY PROGRAM Thanks to all of our members. It was your contributions that helped to make this program a success. We helped some very deserving students this year. It is exciting to see how much joy our charity program brings to the students and their families. The way the program works is: CO-OPA raises $$ through generous member donations. The Teachers also contribute $$. The Teachers pick the students to help. The Teachers take the students shopping. The Teachers wrap all of the gifts. The Teachers & CO-OPA members deliver everything on Christmas Eve Day. This may sound pretty easy...but a heck of a lot of work goes into putting this all together. The Teachers selected 3 main students to help this year.....but......they also helped several others in smaller ways. There are a few fun gifts but a major portion of the money is spent for essentials such as clothes, shoes and even hair cuts. Our program does wonders for the students self esteem when they can go to school and not be embarrassed by the way they are dressed. One of the greatest things about our program is that 100% of the money donated goes to the program. All of the work is donated by the people involved. Any money not spent is returned to CO-OPA. We now have $22.49 as seed money to start next years program. We can be proud, of the fact, that over the years we have helped change the lives of a number of young people for the better. We always receive letters thanking us for what we have done. Their letters along with some pictures and an accounting were all presented at our last CO-OPA meeting. THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER GREAT YEAR.......Norma & Don Wilfong Then and now ?.. B-29 flight at the 1949 Cleveland Air Show SR-71 Blackbird at the 2009 Edwards AFB Open House (it's now blue, not black) ? and in future? Proposed hypersonic transport The blizzard that shut down Washington DC also collapsed this corporate hangar at Dulles International Snow can do this? ? and as a result, this? ================================================================== COOPA officer contact info: President Gary E. Miller 109 NW Wilmington Ave Bend, OR 97701 541-382-8588 gem at rellim.com Vice President --------OPEN---------- Secretary/Treasurer Don Wilfong 210 SE Cessna Dr Bend, OR 97702 541 389-1456 Temp Fly-out Chair Don Wilfong 210 SE Cessna Dr Bend, OR 97702 541 389-1456 wilfong.d at gmail.com Program Chair Ed Endsley 63505 Bridle Ln Bend, OR 97701 541 382-6414 ed at edendsley.com And finally, send Newsletter inputs to Mike Bond 22052 Banff Drive Bend, OR 97702 541 317-8443 mvbond at spiritone.com From wilfong.d at gmail.com Fri Feb 19 14:52:14 2010 From: wilfong.d at gmail.com (Don Wilfong) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:52:14 -0800 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT FUN Message-ID: <6070c9831002191452v6f372761u80a57312e44338a8@mail.gmail.com> HEY GANG........THE WEATHER HAS KEPT US FROM GOING ON A FLY-OUT FOR QUITE SOME TIME NOW.........BUT..........IT LOOKS LIKE TOMORROW MORNING (SAT FEB 20) WILL ALLOW US TO GO FOR A FLY-OUT, TO BREAKFAST, UNLESS THE WEATHER IS NOT SUITABLE (YOU CAN NEVER TELL IN CENTRAL OREGON) WE WILL PLAN TO MEET AT PRO-AIR AT THE BEND AIRPORT AT 0900 AND FLY TO EITHER CHILOQUIN OR JOHN DAY............ (AGAIN DEPENDING ON THE WEATHER) I WILL SEND OUT AN E-MAIL FIRST THING IN THE MORNING CONFIRMING WHAT WE WILL PLAN TO DO.......... IF WE CANNOT FLY THEN LET'S PLAN TO MEET AT PALMER'S CAFE ON GREENWOOD (JUST WEST OF ERICKSONS MKT). AT 0900 FOR BREAKFAST.... I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT IF YOU WOULD E-MAIL ME wilfong.d at gmail.com OR CALL ME 541-389-1456 AND LET ME KNOW WHETHER YOU HAVE ANY INTEREST IN THE FLY-OUT AND/OR MEETING AT PALMER'S CAFE. WE HAVE HAD LOW INTEREST IN CO-OPA ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING THE POTLUCK/MEETINGS WE HAVE EACH MONTH. I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU WOULD E-MAIL OR CALL ME WITH ANY IDEAS YOU MIGHT HAVE THAT WOULD MAKE THINGS MORE INTERESTING TO YOU. WE HAVE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE ON OUR MEMBERSHIP/E-MAIL LIST THAT HAVE NOT PAID THEIR DUES FOR THIS YEAR AND SOME DID NOT PAY THEIR DUES LAST YEAR EITHER..........IF ANY OF YOU ARE NO LONGER INTERESTED IN BEING A MEMBER OF CO-OPA AND WISH TO BE DROPPED FROM RECEIVING E-MAILS.........PLEASE..........LET ME KNOW................DON WILFONG.......SEC/TREASURER & TEMP FLY-OUT CHAIRMAN From kmuinch at hotmail.com Fri Feb 19 15:04:50 2010 From: kmuinch at hotmail.com (Kim Muinch) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:04:50 -0800 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT FUN In-Reply-To: <6070c9831002191452v6f372761u80a57312e44338a8@mail.gmail.com> References: <6070c9831002191452v6f372761u80a57312e44338a8@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hello Don, Work-related schedule conflicts have prevented me from attending the majority of the potlucks in recent months. I'd like to go on the fly-out tomorrow morning but I have a commitment to help a neighbor with a garage sale. I'll make a better effort to keep my schedule open going forward. Kim Muinch (541) 848-3600 > Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:52:14 -0800 > From: wilfong.d at gmail.com > To: co-opa at rellim.com > Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT FUN > > HEY GANG........THE WEATHER HAS KEPT US FROM GOING ON A FLY-OUT FOR QUITE > SOME TIME NOW.........BUT..........IT LOOKS LIKE TOMORROW MORNING (SAT FEB > 20) WILL ALLOW US TO GO FOR A FLY-OUT, TO BREAKFAST, UNLESS THE WEATHER IS > NOT SUITABLE (YOU CAN NEVER TELL IN CENTRAL OREGON) > > WE WILL PLAN TO MEET AT PRO-AIR AT THE BEND AIRPORT AT 0900 AND FLY TO > EITHER CHILOQUIN OR JOHN DAY............ (AGAIN DEPENDING ON THE WEATHER) > > I WILL SEND OUT AN E-MAIL FIRST THING IN THE MORNING CONFIRMING WHAT WE WILL > PLAN TO DO.......... > > IF WE CANNOT FLY THEN LET'S PLAN TO MEET AT PALMER'S CAFE ON GREENWOOD (JUST > WEST OF ERICKSONS MKT). AT 0900 FOR BREAKFAST.... > > I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT IF YOU WOULD E-MAIL ME wilfong.d at gmail.com > OR CALL ME 541-389-1456 AND LET ME KNOW WHETHER YOU HAVE ANY INTEREST IN > THE FLY-OUT AND/OR MEETING AT PALMER'S CAFE. > > WE HAVE HAD LOW INTEREST IN CO-OPA ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING THE > POTLUCK/MEETINGS WE HAVE EACH MONTH. I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU WOULD > E-MAIL OR CALL ME WITH ANY IDEAS YOU MIGHT HAVE THAT WOULD MAKE THINGS MORE > INTERESTING TO YOU. > > WE HAVE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE ON OUR MEMBERSHIP/E-MAIL LIST THAT HAVE NOT PAID > THEIR DUES FOR THIS YEAR AND SOME DID NOT PAY THEIR DUES LAST YEAR > EITHER..........IF ANY OF YOU ARE NO LONGER INTERESTED IN BEING A MEMBER OF > CO-OPA AND WISH TO BE DROPPED FROM RECEIVING > E-MAILS.........PLEASE..........LET ME KNOW................DON > WILFONG.......SEC/TREASURER & TEMP FLY-OUT CHAIRMAN > _______________________________________________ > Co-opa mailing list > Co-opa at rellim.com > http://catbert.rellim.com/mailman/listinfo/co-opa From wilfong.d at gmail.com Fri Feb 19 19:41:19 2010 From: wilfong.d at gmail.com (Don Wilfong) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:41:19 -0800 Subject: [Co-opa] Fly-Out Fun Message-ID: <6070c9831002191941n33e9e255v7c55951f0a71399b@mail.gmail.com> *Hey Gang: Not sure about the proposed fly-out for tomorrow morning..........will check weather in the morning and e-mail everyone to let you know..* *Plan is to go to Chiloquin or John Day..........Meet at Pro-Air at 0900..........if weather bad we meet at Palmer's Cafe for breakfast....* ** *Watch for early morning e-mail............Don Wilfong* ** *Tonight: *Patchy freezing fog after 10pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 22. Northeast wind 6 to 8 mph becoming south southeast. *Saturday: *Patchy freezing fog before 10am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 41. Southeast wind 7 to 14 mph becoming northeast. From wilfong.d at gmail.com Sat Feb 20 06:18:14 2010 From: wilfong.d at gmail.com (Don Wilfong) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:18:14 -0800 Subject: [Co-opa] Today........FLY-OUT FUN Message-ID: <6070c9831002200618n1f00cd9bx659560592b21003d@mail.gmail.com> Hey Gang....... Looks like the weather gods are going to co-operate today for our fly-out.......... We are going to meet at Pro-Air at 0900.......Destination Chiloquin.......great airstrip.......walk across highway to Melitas (most dangerous part of the trip) and have breakfast.........we have never been disapointed.......... Right now there will be 2 planes that I know of Mike and Ann Bond with their Cardinal RG and Norma and I with our Skylane.........Why don't you get your lazy self out of the house and join us..........we have not had fly-out weather for a long time and today is the day...........seriously.........you are invited to roll your bird out and come along.. I remember fly-outs where we had as high as 18 people and 8 planes.........what has happened to pilots enthusiasm?? We may be getting older......but.........we are not that old........ Don & Norma Wilfong From wilfong.d at gmail.com Sat Feb 20 18:50:56 2010 From: wilfong.d at gmail.com (Don Wilfong) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:50:56 -0800 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT FUN Message-ID: <6070c9831002201850y5d35df79t6d11d8cf53abeb94@mail.gmail.com> HEY......If you didn't go along today on our fly-out you missed out on a good time..........We had 4 planes and 9 people......good flying, good food and good visiting was had by all............Will try to schedule some interesting and exciting places and events to fly to in the coming months...........don't be a stay at home stick in the mud.. get out and crank up the bird and come along............Thanks to those that showed up today........Don Wilfong From wilfong.d at gmail.com Wed Mar 10 06:46:22 2010 From: wilfong.d at gmail.com (Don Wilfong) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:46:22 -0800 Subject: [Co-opa] Fwd: Angel Flight In-Reply-To: <8F6B10CD364E4D50A64A66AC3BE732D2@clarklaptop> References: <8F6B10CD364E4D50A64A66AC3BE732D2@clarklaptop> Message-ID: <6070c9831003100646g35071969o3fdabc72e617a67a@mail.gmail.com> HEY GUYS.........DON'T KNOW IF THEY HAVE FOUND ANYONE.......BUT.........IF YOU ARE INTERESTED OR KNOW OF SOMEONE WHO IS...........PLEASE CALL DEBBIE FIELDS AT 541-322-7413...........THANKS..........DON WILFONG ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew Clark Date: Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:32 PM Subject: Angel Flight To: Don & Norma Hey Don, Debbie Fields from the Health Dept is looking for a pilot who could fly a young girl who needs a double transplant to Palo Alto at a moments notice. I believe there is some requirements as far as the pilot training (IFR etc.) and thought you might know of some one who could do this. If you do, could you please call her at 541-322-7413. Thanks, Andy From asand at bendbroadband.com Wed Mar 10 08:38:25 2010 From: asand at bendbroadband.com (Al Sandner) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:38:25 -0800 Subject: [Co-opa] Fwd: Angel Flight References: <8F6B10CD364E4D50A64A66AC3BE732D2@clarklaptop> <6070c9831003100646g35071969o3fdabc72e617a67a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Don: You might have Debbie Fields get in touch with Angel Flight if she already hasn't. They handle these kinds of things all the time. Angel Flight also needs more pilot volunteers, so any of you who are interesteed could contact me or Angel Flight West directly for more information. I've been a volunteer for them for several years and have flown many fights. It's a great way to stay current and provide a very worthwhile service at the same time. Thanks, Al Sandner ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Wilfong" To: Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 6:46 AM Subject: [Co-opa] Fwd: Angel Flight > HEY GUYS.........DON'T KNOW IF THEY HAVE FOUND ANYONE.......BUT.........IF > YOU ARE INTERESTED OR KNOW OF SOMEONE WHO IS...........PLEASE CALL DEBBIE > FIELDS AT 541-322-7413...........THANKS..........DON WILFONG > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Andrew Clark > Date: Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:32 PM > Subject: Angel Flight > To: Don & Norma > > > Hey Don, > Debbie Fields from the Health Dept is looking for a pilot who could fly a > young girl who needs a double transplant to Palo Alto at a moments notice. > I believe there is some requirements as far as the pilot training (IFR > etc.) > and thought you might know of some one who could do this. If you do, > could > you please call her at 541-322-7413. > > Thanks, > Andy > _______________________________________________ > Co-opa mailing list > Co-opa at rellim.com > http://catbert.rellim.com/mailman/listinfo/co-opa From Email at terrypickering.com Wed Mar 10 12:37:11 2010 From: Email at terrypickering.com (Terry Pickering) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:37:11 -0800 Subject: [Co-opa] Angel Flight Message-ID: <0F67EE2140D72E428948A19F08EFD5FD099CBF@sc430.CompuGroupInc.local> While I was Oregon Wing Leader for Angel Flight, we did do one transplant mission. It is NOT something Angel Flight does very often because of the logistics involved. What we did was to find Oregon Pilots with the right plane (IFR, icing, etc) that could within 1 hour be in the air to pick up the patient. We were able to identifiy 3 Angel Flight pilots in Oregon willing to be on call 24 hours a day. When the call came, they picked up the passenger from the coast and had them to San Francisco with about 2 hours to spare. So if anyone fits that profile, let me know and we'll get you signed up and certified as a mission pilot. _____________ Terry Pickering From mvbond at spiritone.com Wed Mar 10 14:52:45 2010 From: mvbond at spiritone.com (Mike Bond) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:52:45 -0800 Subject: [Co-opa] Hangars at Bend Message-ID: <4B9822BD.10601@spiritone.com> March 10, 2010 Folks, My name is Dennis Douglas and I am a member of the Bend Airport Council (BAC)--an ad hoc group of people from the airport, the City, the County and the State who advise Gary Judd on things that "might", "should" or "could" happen at the airport, in support of improving the business climate at the airport. At the last meeting, a representative from Congressman Walden's office was also there. At the last meeting, one of the topics we discussed was the hangar situation at KBDN. Kerry O'Neil described that AeroFacilities (AF) was considering changing their 8-pack plan for tee hangars to 4-packs. I mentioned that the AF hangars were expensive and one of the reasons was because of the high cost of the ground lease that the City of Bend was charging. It was agreed around the table that if the City would lower the ground lease cost to AF, AF could reduce the cost of the hangars. The question then became: what would people on the hangar waiting list be willing to pay for a quality tee hangar at Bend? I got the short straw to conduct an informal survey of the needs and desires of the GA pilots needing hangars with regard to what they are willing to pay. The idea is that if we knew what folks are willing to pay, AeroFacilities can work their budgets backwards to come up with a ground lease price that (hopefully) would allow AF to build the hangars and offer them for that price. The BAC would then draft a letter to the City requesting this accommodation. The benefits to AeroFacilities would be that they would be able to build, putting people in our community to work and to be able to make a small profit to stay in business. The benefit to the City would be short-term negative cash flow, but that would be offset in the longer term by the increased revenues derived from fuel sales and maintenance and other related revenues brought in as more folks used the airport. The benefit to you would be having a hangar and one that you can afford. So I need your help. Please let me know what you are willing to pay each month for a hangar. For reference, the recent price increase for the City-owned hangars puts the 2010 monthly cost of $330. It is highly unlikely that the cost for new construction would allow anything less expensive than that. Remember, we are talking about a 1,200 to 1,500 sq. ft. tee hangar, not a box hangar (although I'm sure Kerry would be happy to talk to you about that, too.) Please email your replies to me at ddouglas at coastside.net. I will keep your name confidential and provide to the BAC only the survey data. I'll accept any form of reply and if it's not explicit, I'll try to interpolate it. If you are on the hangar waiting list and not interested in this, please let me know that also. So...what are you willing to pay each month for a hangar at Bend? (If you a member of COOPA, EAA or the 99s, please indicate that to me in your reply so I know your affiliation.) Dennis Douglas ddouglas at coastside.net From gem at rellim.com Wed Mar 17 19:54:08 2010 From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:54:08 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Co-opa] Meeting announcement Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yo All! Come one, come all! CO-OPA meets this Thursday (17Mar) at 6pm for chatting, 6:30pm for pot-luck and our program at 7pm. Flying season is upon us and we need to get our heads back in the clouds. To help us Gary Judd will drop by to outline scheduled and proposed plans for our dear KDBN. BTW, yes the newsletter is late. Totally my fault but it is in process. RGDS GARY - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97701 gem at rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLoZXUBmnRqz71OvMRAodDAJ4jnJK3DvNKagjs1SWt68VYgbMaEQCg29wl m50O//blsGjnsDk/94AOamc= =0sUF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From mvbond at spiritone.com Thu Mar 18 14:53:46 2010 From: mvbond at spiritone.com (Mike Bond) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:53:46 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] COOPA newsletter Message-ID: <4BA2A0EA.6060402@spiritone.com> Sorry for the lateness .... Qwest lost my internet connection until this afternoon .... Mike Here is your COOPA March 2010 newsletter. Gary is posting the PDF version on the website. Mike Bond ===================================== CASCADE FLYER March 2010, Vol. 10, Issue 3 Website: http://co-opa.com/ President's Message: As pilots we know to plan ahead and then work prudently to execute our plan. As pilots we also know to quickly ditch a plan when conditions change. As pilots we also know that the path finally taken is just as rewarding. Thus it was as we had a late cancellation last month. Ed Endsley our valiant program chair dug out his long retired LaserDisc player and its companion flight disks for an impromptu night of video snippets. Amazing how good such old equipment looked on the big screen and in the end a merry time was had by all. Sadly, new work commitments will make it difficult for Ed to continue as program chair. We thank him for all his hard work while we look for anyone willing to step up and volunteer his or her efforts for our small but worthy group. Spring has not quite yet sprung but already flying season has abruptly returned. That means some old, and some new, conflicts have arisen above the Bend Airport. Being proactive our airport manager Gary Judd has some ideas and he be joining us this month discuss them. Be part of the solution by attending. Wing into the Flight Services Building at 6pm for some socializing, scrumptious potluck at 6:30pm and participate in the formal program at 7pm. Be there or be square. Calendar: 18 March - Monthly Meeting 20 March - Monthly Flyout 15 April - Monthly Meeting 17 April - Monthly Flyout 20 May - Monthly Meeting 22 May - Monthly Flyout - OPA Quarterly Meeting at KBDN 15 June - Monthly Meeting 17 June - Monthly Flyout Web doings: As always you can check out current and past CO-OPA newsletters, view our membership list and view hot aviation links on our website at: http://co-opa.com To access the members only areas the username is "BDN" and the password is "123.0". My Inbox: Good news in my inbox this month. After some prodding by the county the city is going to assemble a Planning Advisory Committee (PAC) to come up with the next revision of the KBDN Master Plan. No further details yet but the initial signs are encouraging. ? and, as always, a bit of worrisome news. Recently a fixed wing aircraft was forced to do a go around, and elected to sidestep to the right for the maneuver. Unfortunately that intruded on the helicopter pattern and led to a close call. My Inbox -- continued: On your next go around try to remember that powered planes fly left hand traffic at KBDN and the gliders and helicopters have right hand traffic. Random Thoughts: Well, in respect to Gary Judd, our airport manager, maybe my thoughts are a bit random but let's all consider some of his requests for potential improvements on airport procedures seriously. The first proposal is to change the calm wind runway (below 5kts) from the current runway 16 to 34. On the plus side: This makes glider operations easier as the tow plane can hookup to gliders next to the current glider parking area. Takeoffs will also be a bit easier as they will be downhill. A lot of traffic from the south makes straight in for 34 even when the winds are calm regardless of the current calm wind runway. On the negative side, landings will also be downhill and require more runway. Until I hear a compelling reason against it, the change to 34 makes sense to me. Any opposing ideas? Another proposal is for potential changes to the Fly Friendly program. Some pilots have complained that flying that downwind leg to 16 is too close to the field for a safe base leg. The program requests pilots to fly that downwind to the west of Cimarron City to avoid that noise sensitive area. Do we need a newer procedure that allows for a wider pattern? Personally I can not imagine how fast you would have to be flying to need that. Airlink also has a safety proposal of their own. They are requesting comments on a plan to only fly at 500ft AGL. As long as they avoid the takeoff and departure areas of our many local airports that seems like a good plan to me. People flying ultralights and helicopters may differ. Does anyone have any objections or amendments? The last proposal is the toughest one. That is a proposal to designate Class E airspace around KBDN all the way to the ground instead of the current 700' AGL. Currently that airspace from ground to 700' is Class G and thus is uncontrolled. Some IFR operators have requested the change so that they are assured exclusive use of the airport area during actual IFR operations. Conversely this makes VFR operations in marginal weather harder. Currently aircraft can operate in this class G airspace when they have one-mile flight visibility (three at night) and are clear of clouds. If this airspace became Class E then the requirement would change to three miles flight visibility, 500ft below, 1,000 ft above and 2,000ft laterally from clouds. That is not a huge difference, and if we can obtain a Special VFR clearance the requirements become one mile flight and ground visibility and clear of clouds. I have seen a lot of pilots finish long cross-countries barely making it to KBDN under the current rules. So, to me the deciding factor is whether ATC is willing to handle the extra burden of Special VFR clearances during bad weather. If so it is a win-win, otherwise we are just shifting the safety issues around from one set of pilots to another. Got your own opinions? Pass them on to me, or directly to Gary Judd. Now is your chance to setup a real proper 'I told you so'. Gary Miller February Fly-out The 'weather gods' finally cooperated and we had a great fly-out to Chiloquin. Between the COOPA contingent and other visitors, the ramp was really crowded! PHOTOS: Don Wilfong on final, RWY35 Chiloquin The COOPA Chiloquin contingent The crowded ramp Great air-air from Kitfox to C-182 ? and the buffalo north of Chiloquin at Klamath Marsh Embry-Riddle to Test Swift Fuel in Fleet ERAU Ramp Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University announced plans this week to phase in lead-free biofuel produced by Swift Enterprises for use in its training aircraft, the nation's largest (95 aircraft) collegiate fleet. Swift fuel is a renewable biofuel synthesized from sorghum that has been successfully tested by the FAA Technical Center. Swift Fuel - continued Engineers at ERAU's Eagle Flight Research Center in Daytona Beach, Florida, will begin certification testing in about three weeks that will enable more than 40 Cessna 172s ? nearly half the fleet ? to operate on Swift fuel, said Richard "Pat" Anderson, associate professor of aerospace engineering, chief investigator in the research project, and director of the Eagle Flight Research Center. "We believe this effort by Embry-Riddle and Swift will guide the way to a large-scale switch by the general aviation industry to alternative fuels," he said. Swift Enterprises is based at the Purdue Research Park of West Lafayette, Indiana. ERAU will also test the fuel on one of its Piper Seminoles, operating one of two engines on Swift fuel at first. Tentative plans are to exhibit that airplane to Oshkosh this year and discuss the Swift-ERAU program, Anderson said. Anderson estimated the certification testing project to run about two and a half years. They are also partnering with AvFuel to distribute the fuel - about 15,000 gallons per year. ERAU uses about a million gallons of aviation fuel per year, Anderson said. Small aircraft burn nearly 190 million gallons of aviation fuel annually, contributing 45 percent of all U.S. lead emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Removing lead from aviation fuel has been technically challenging because lead prevents detonation in airplane engines, which have much higher compression than automobile engines. Swift fuel has passed the FAA's detonation test and gets more miles per gallon than current aviation fuel. Aviation Partners Inc. (API) will begin testing "spiroid" loop-shaped wing tips on a Dassault Falcon "spiroids" ?.. The development program is funded in part by a federal government grant administered by FAA's John A. Volpe Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Mass. The goal will be to explore wing modifications that have the potential to reduce FAR Part 36 noise signature and carbon emissions. The spiroid devices being developed for the Falcon 50 are a generation newer than the original designs tested by API on a Gulfstream G-II several years ago. API Senior VP Technology Louis "Bernie" Gratzer, claims that its current-generation winglets have saved the airlines more than 2-billion gallons of fuel since making their debut on Southwest Airlines' Boeing 737 aircraft in mid 2003. Av8 magazine We've just launched Reach For The Sky - a new series! In our brand new series we look at home built aircraft from around the world. This month we have a collection of stunning Vans RV aircraft and a Harmon Rocket. We'd like to invite your members to submit photos and a description of their airplane (around 150 words) to us for inclusion in this series. They can either email me direct at av8editor at gmail.com or via the magazine to info at av8magazine.com You and your members can subscribe to our free magazine by going to the homepage - www.av8magazine.com - scrolling down to register and following the simple instructions - it's totally free and there's no catch! Let me know if you need any more info - you can read more about the present issue below. In this month's issue we are covering the extreme ends of aviation. First up, we have 'Out Of This World!' A Fascinating insight into NASA's STS130 Space Shuttle mission. Our North American Editor Steve Wood was one of only five journalists allowed to speak to the astronauts on the launch pad and wasted no time in finding out how the Shuttle handles in 'aircraft mode' back in Earth's atmosphere. At the other end of the scale we have Alex Ledger who went paragliding in the Himalayas. Apart from flying in some truly breath-taking scenery, Alex was lucky enough to fly in formation with a huge Griffin Vulture. Regards, Steve Wood, North America Editor - AV8Magazine.com ================================================================== COOPA officer contact info: President Gary E. Miller 109 NW Wilmington Ave Bend, OR 97701 541-382-8588 gem at rellim.com Vice President --------OPEN---------- Secretary/Treasurer Don Wilfong 210 SE Cessna Dr Bend, OR 97702 541 389-1456 Temp Fly-out Chair Don Wilfong 210 SE Cessna Dr Bend, OR 97702 541 389-1456 wilfong.d at gmail.com Program Chair --------OPEN---------- And finally, send Newsletter inputs to Mike Bond 22052 Banff Drive Bend, OR 97702 541 317-8443 mvbond at spiritone.com From wilfong.d at gmail.com Fri Mar 19 12:50:09 2010 From: wilfong.d at gmail.com (Don Wilfong) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:50:09 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT FUN Message-ID: <6070c9831003191250p35e16b43w31fe20199bd095cf@mail.gmail.com> HEY GANG........... TOMORROW MORNING...........MAR. 20............MEET AT PRO-AIR.........IN TIME FOR A DEPARTURE AT 0900........ DESTINATION............CONDON, OR............PAVED RUNWAY................CAFE OWNER WILL PICK US UP AND TAKE US BACK TO AIRPORT.. SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF FUN..............NOT A LONG FLIGHT........ IF CONVENIENT..........LET ME KNOW HOW MANY ARE GOING SO I CAN LET THE CAFE OWNER KNOW WHAT TO PLAN ON.......... I WILL CALL HIM WHEN WE ARE ABOUT TO LEAVE BEND........ From jinkster at bendbroadband.com Fri Mar 19 19:55:47 2010 From: jinkster at bendbroadband.com (Jim Inkster) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:55:47 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] Saturday fly-out Message-ID: <005601cac7d8$d7aec920$870c5b60$@com> Hi Don, Thank you very much for the call and invitation to join you tomorrow on the fly-out. Unfortunately, I can't join you tomorrow. Looks like terrific weather. I am flying over to Boise on Sunday. If I was leaving a day earlier, I would join you on the flight to Condon and then fly over to Boise. Have a great trip! Jim Inkster 541-408-7768 From wilfong.d at gmail.com Mon Mar 22 09:33:51 2010 From: wilfong.d at gmail.com (Don Wilfong) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:33:51 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] Fwd: Try this for WX In-Reply-To: <401C3962C0D547248D8DE30606DA6A22@your27e1513d96> References: <401C3962C0D547248D8DE30606DA6A22@your27e1513d96> Message-ID: <6070c9831003220933u2f279235q796e10306005ccd6@mail.gmail.com> HEY.........PRETTY NEAT WX SITE.........DON WILFONG ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bill Wilson Date: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:50 AM Subject: Try this for WX To: Bill Wilson Neat Site. Try this site for WX arround the country. Bill Roll your mouse over any airport for the current conditions. Pretty Neat! > More than that, click on the locations, and get even more wx info. > > http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/zoa/mwmap3.php?map=usa > > > > > > > > From catacres at webformixair.com Tue Mar 23 07:38:16 2010 From: catacres at webformixair.com (Richard/Debbie Benson) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:38:16 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] Search & Rescue options Message-ID: <001501caca96$79bd6180$0264a8c0@cascadecot7hp2> GreetingsGreetings fellow pilots, I've been reading about the Search & Rescue options relative to the new 406 frequency & part of my research included the correspondence below. I met Frank Lester almost 20 years ago when I participated in my first 'Family Fly-in' (Mt Flying Safety course) in Kalispell, and I truly value his opinion. He has been the chief safety officer of Idaho Aeronautics forever, is great guy, & essentially has dedicated his life to Flight Safety, particularly in the Idaho Wilderness... I thought you'd enjoy his perspective... Spring Tailwinds to all, Richard From: Richard/Debbie Benson [mailto:catacres at webformixair.com] Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 3:09 PM To: Frank Lester Subject: S & R ?'s Greetings Frank, I trust all is well with you there in Idaho. A little more snow in the Mts once again here in Bend... (-: I would appreciate your opinion these 3 options for S & R: the 'spot' ------ the ACR ----- & in plane installation. Most of my flying now is from RDM to 12s (= Monument Oregon) where we have a little get-away ------ so over the 'Ochocco mts' is very mellow terrain compared to the Frank Church Wilderness... (-: Thank you in advance, Richard www.Retire-By40.com "Retirement": Not having to work anymore but choosing to (when inspired) simply because you are following your passion. RTB ----- Original Message ----- From: Frank Lester To: Richard/Debbie Benson Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 9:12 AM Subject: RE: S & R ?'s Hi Richard, The SPOT has proven to be a new wrinkle in our search process. Very accurate and inexpensive, it has some significant limitations in aircraft: first, you have to be conscious to activate it; and second, Aeronautics, here in Idaho, is not in the notification loop. We've had four activations in three accidents, all successful recoveries, but with a lot of luck involved. In one incident, the pilot had the unit attached to his glare shield (the logo must be up and in full view of the satellites), but when they crashed on landing, the windscreen departed the aircraft with the SPOT right behind it. Fortunately, the pilot was conscious, but it took him an hour to locate the device and activate it, precious time lost if someone is injured. In another instance, which was the subject of an article in the February or March AOPA Pilot (Saved by a Satellite - I think that was the title), involved two SPOTs. The pilot and CFI were conscious but the CFI was severely injured. The pilot was able to pull the CFI out of the wreckage, dig out the SPOTs and activate them. If you read the article, a lot of quick action by a lot of people, and a lot of luck brought this rescue to successful end. However, what the article didn't emphasize was the fact that had the pilot been unconscious, the CFI may not have been so fortunate. Among his injuries was a broken hip, and I was told that he had a compound fracture that punctured the skin. His spot was attached to the vest he wore, but the clasp broke on impact and the SPOT ended up on the floor between his feet. He may not have been able to reach the device and activate it. He may have bled out while trying. How many pilots are conscious or coherent after an accident? From a search perspective, we recommend installing a 406 ELT in your aircraft. I flew over the second crash site that I spoke of in the previous paragraph, and the 121.5 ELT was banging away as advertised, but no one other than me heard it. In another search for a 121.5 ELT, without satellite coverage, it took us four days to locate the aircraft. Fortunately, the pilot had long been rescued; the ELT activated two weeks after the crash. In our discussions with other pilots, and FBOs, we are finding that many are buying SPOTs or similar devices as cheap substitutes to buying a 406. The SPOT is a good backup and we are not discouraging anyone from purchasing one; however, know its limitations. Another limitation of the SPOT is the fact that their Emergency Response Center in Houston cannot differentiate between a hiker, hunter, boater, or an aircraft when an emergency call comes in. If you get one, be sure to note in one of your emergency profiles (these will be found on the findmespot.com website) that you are in an aircraft. The ACR is also a Personal Locator Beacon (PLB). It is similar to the SPOT in that it is not a passive device, but must be activated by someone. It is a 406 MHz device and, therefore, is part of the SARSAT system: it is monitored by the search satellites and the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center (AFRCC) should it be activated. Again, if it is activated, the county sheriff and not Aeronautics will be notified because it is assumed to belong to a hiker, hunter, or someone else on the ground. It does not specify, to my knowledge, that you are in an aircraft. The big difference between a SPOT and a PLB is which satellites are utilized when activated. The SPOT uses GPS satellites for location and transmits it information through communications satellites to the Emergency Rescue Coordination (ERC) center in Houston. This ERC is the equivalent of a call center, not much different than Sears or Best Buy. They are not a trained and certified 911 response center. The PLB sends it information through the SARSAT system, a system of dedicated search satellites. That information will eventually work its way to AFRCC, the designated agency in charge of inland SAR. Still, the one big caution is that even a PLB is not a passive device. It requires someone to be conscious to activate it. Richard, we have done a considerable amount of research on the SPOT, and it has been the subject of our Safe Pilot meetings and several articles in the Rudder Flutter. If you have a moment, I would at least read the articles, but if you can, come on over to one of our spring meetings that we will be holding in May. Nampa and Coeur d'Alene will probably be the closest for you to attend. The presentation goes very deeply into the topic and will be very helpful. I hope I have answered your questions. Let me know if you have others or if I haven't given you the information you were looking for. Think about coming over to one of our seminars in May. I should have all the information on our website in the next week to 10 days. Frank From wilfong.d at gmail.com Tue Mar 23 09:02:55 2010 From: wilfong.d at gmail.com (Don Wilfong) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:02:55 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] SEARCH & RESCUE Message-ID: <6070c9831003230902y3634b790sc4570075ff1647df@mail.gmail.com> HEY GANG..........I FOUND THE INFO RICHARD BENSON SENT TO US ALL VERY INTERESTING..........IS THERE ANY INTEREST IN DOING A GROUP FLY-OUT TO ONE OF THE MEETINGS IN IDAHO MENTIONED BY FRANK LESTER ???? PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND I WILL FOLLOW UP ON IT AND SEE WHEN AND WHERE SO WE CAN PLAN ON IT.......... BLUE SKIES AND TAIL WINDS............DON WILFONG wilfong.d at gmail.com From wilfong.d at gmail.com Sat Apr 3 13:30:17 2010 From: wilfong.d at gmail.com (Don Wilfong) Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 13:30:17 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT FUN !!! Message-ID: HEY GANG...........HERE IS A "POSSIBLE" FLY-OUT DESTINATION FOR OUR APRIL FLY-OUT.........PLEASE E-MAIL ME WITH COMMENTS AS TO WHETHER YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED OR NOT IN GOING THERE............THE PLAN IS NOT SET YET...........NEED YOUR FEEDBACK "RIGHT AWAY" IF POSSIBLE.......SO PLANS CAN BE MADE FOR THIS OR SOME OTHER SITE. DON WILFONG, TEMP. FLY-OUT CHAIR wifong.d at gmail.com *April 17, 2010* Emmett Airport S78 Emmett, Idaho Wings and Wheels Fly-In. Spot Landing Contest, Flower Bombing, Balloon Breaking Contest, Show & Shine, IAA BREAKFAST starts at 8AM....This is a fun event! *Info: *Steve Burak 208.861.9055 *Author:*Russ Vawter From wilfong.d at gmail.com Mon Apr 5 08:17:27 2010 From: wilfong.d at gmail.com (Don Wilfong) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 08:17:27 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] INFO ON EPIC Message-ID: *Pilots Require a Different Approach When It Comes to Buying Life Insurance* Just because you fly, don't overpay for life insurance. Get the information you need to find the right policy for your family's protection at the Pilot Insurance Center. Call PIC at *(800) 380-8376* or *visit PICLife.com* . *Top News: Cockpits and Courtrooms* *back to top* Judge Orders Epic Partnership An Oregon federal judge has made bedfellows of strangers in a ruling aimed at forcing a partnership between a huge Chinese aviation company and a group of homebuilders, both of whom were trying to buy the assets of Epic Aircraft. Judge Randall Dunn accepted the $4.3 million cash bid for Epic from Aviation Industry Corp. of China on the condition that it sign an agreement allowing the LT Builders Group to run the facility in Bend, Ore. The builders' group is made up of former Epic customers whose unfinished Epic LT turboprop aircraft were stranded inside the builder assist facility in Bend when the company closed last summer. The judge said that if the builders and AVIC can't sign a deal by Thursday, he'll consider selling the whole works to a third bidder, Harlow Aerostructures, of Wichita. Builder Doug King said he and his group have been working since the ruling to try to reach agreement with AVIC but if that doesn't work out it may have to try working with Harlow. "This is a shotgun marriage proposal," King told *AVweb *. "The judge said 'You're going to get married, you just don't know to whom.'" Harlow CEO Phil Friedman told *The Oregonian*he intends to negotiate directly with the LT Builders Group in an effort push the Chinese out of the way. The builders say the direction from the judge couldn't be more clear and they will try to cut a deal with the Chinese. AVIC didn't offer a comment, but the position imposed by the judge is polar opposite to the corporation's original proposal to move the whole operation to China. It would seem the only folks happy about the turn of events are representatives of the city of Bend. "I was pleased that the judge found a way to at least attempt to keep the business in Oregon and to re-establish the business, hopefully at the Bend airport," Gary Firestone, Bend assistant city attorney, told the Oregonian. "Putting some of those capable, talented people to work will be good." From wilfong.d at gmail.com Wed Apr 7 08:54:23 2010 From: wilfong.d at gmail.com (Don Wilfong) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 08:54:23 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT Message-ID: HEY GANG...........I SENT AN E-MAIL ASKING FOR FEED BACK ON FLYING TO EMMETT, ID ON APR. 17 FOR OUR MONTHLY FLY-OUT...... SEVERAL PEOPLE SENT E-MAILS SAYING THEY WOULD NOT BE AVAILABLE TO DO A FLY-OUT ON THAT DATE AND A COUPLE OF PEOPLE HAVE SHOWN INTEREST IN GOING............I HAVE NOT RECEIVED ENOUGH RESPONSE TO MAKE A DECISION AS YET....... A FEW THINGS TO CONSIDER IS THE FACT IT IS QUITE AWAYS OVER THERE (WE HAVE GONE TO IDAHO SEVERAL TIMES)........THEY ARE ON MOUNTAIN TIME SO WHEN IT IS 0800 THERE IT IS O700 HERE..............SO...........WE DON'T HAVE TO BE THERE BY 0800 MOUNTAIN..........BUT..........WE SHOULD PLAN TO FLY OUT OF HERE EARLY SO WE CAN GET THERE IN TIME FOR BREAKFAST, LOOK AROUND AND STILL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO HEAD BACK HOME.. I GUESS UNLESS I HEAR SOME GOOD REASONS NOT TO GO..........THE PLAN IS TO LEAVE FAIRLY EARLY AND FLY TO EMMETT, IDAHO ON APRIL 17............. DON From wilfong.d at gmail.com Wed Apr 7 08:54:29 2010 From: wilfong.d at gmail.com (Don Wilfong) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 08:54:29 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT Message-ID: HEY GANG...........I SENT AN E-MAIL ASKING FOR FEED BACK ON FLYING TO EMMETT, ID ON APR. 17 FOR OUR MONTHLY FLY-OUT...... SEVERAL PEOPLE SENT E-MAILS SAYING THEY WOULD NOT BE AVAILABLE TO DO A FLY-OUT ON THAT DATE AND A COUPLE OF PEOPLE HAVE SHOWN INTEREST IN GOING............I HAVE NOT RECEIVED ENOUGH RESPONSE TO MAKE A DECISION AS YET....... A FEW THINGS TO CONSIDER IS THE FACT IT IS QUITE AWAYS OVER THERE (WE HAVE GONE TO IDAHO SEVERAL TIMES)........THEY ARE ON MOUNTAIN TIME SO WHEN IT IS 0800 THERE IT IS O700 HERE..............SO...........WE DON'T HAVE TO BE THERE BY 0800 MOUNTAIN..........BUT..........WE SHOULD PLAN TO FLY OUT OF HERE EARLY SO WE CAN GET THERE IN TIME FOR BREAKFAST, LOOK AROUND AND STILL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO HEAD BACK HOME.. I GUESS UNLESS I HEAR SOME GOOD REASONS NOT TO GO..........THE PLAN IS TO LEAVE FAIRLY EARLY AND FLY TO EMMETT, IDAHO ON APRIL 17............. DON From mvbond at spiritone.com Wed Apr 14 03:19:03 2010 From: mvbond at spiritone.com (Mike Bond) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:19:03 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] COOPA newsletter Message-ID: <4BC59697.8020007@spiritone.com> Here is your COOPA April 2010 newsletter. Gary is posting the PDF version on the website. Mike Bond ===================================== CASCADE FLYER April 2010, Vol. 10, Issue 4 Website: http://co-opa.com/ President's Message: Many thanks to Gary Judd, our KBDN manager, for dropping by last month and updating us on all the good things happening this summer at the airport. By the time you read this the blasting for the new east side taxiway should be completed and the grading work started. The contractor will try to keep the airport closures to a minimum but they are inevitable. Soon we'll have the new taxiway, dedicated run-up areas and replacement compass rose for our trouble. Longer term there is also a potential Connect Oregon grant for a heliport on the northeast side of the airport. That would go a long way to moving helicopter operations into their own space. So next time you see Gary Judd be sure to thank him for keeping the progress going. There was an interesting article in the Bend Bulletin last week. If you join a social group that meets once a month your overall happiness will increase as much as a $100k/year raise. I find that a bit hard to believe but in any case attending our monthly meetings is a lot easier than getting that raise. So be sure to mark our CO-OPA monthly meeting firmly on your calendar. Wing into the Flight Services Building at 6pm for some socializing, scrumptious potluck at 6:30pm and participate in the formal program at 7pm. Be there or be square. The YikeBike: What has this to do with aviation? ? see later Calendar: 15 April - Monthly Meeting 17 April - Monthly Flyout 20 May - Monthly Meeting 22 May - Monthly Flyout - OPA Quarterly Meeting at KBDN 15 June - Monthly Meeting 17 June - Monthly Flyout 15 July - Monthly Meeting 17 July - Monthly Flyout Web doings: As always you can check out current and past CO-OPA newsletters, view our membership list and view hot aviation links on our website at http://co-opa.com To access the members only areas the username is "BDN" and the password is "123.0". My Inbox: Good news out of the Portland Bankruptcy Court. After some back and forth a joint bid from China Aviation Industry General Aircraft Co. Ltd. and LT Builders Group have purchased the assets of Epic Aircraft. LT Builders hope to reopen the Bend facility soon and will have marketing rights to North America. An unexpected result after the Judge called the LT bid: "pathetic, useless, incompetent, unacceptable, garbage and fiction". The Chinese company plans to build Epic planes in China and will market to the rest of the world. Let's hope this gets many people back to work soon at the airport. Random Thoughts: 2009 may be over but the paperwork lingers ? and not just the taxes. The NTSB has released their preliminary accident statistics for 2009. There is much to contemplate, but I'm not sure what the lessons to be learned are. "General aviation accidents decreased from 1,566 in 2008 to 1,474 in 2009. There were 272 fatal general aviation accidents, down from 275 the year before. However, the accident rate increased to 7.20 per 100,000 flight hours in 2009 from 6.86 in 2008, due to the decrease in the number total of flight hours. Although fatalities decreased from 494 to 474, the fatal accident rate increased to from 1.21 to 1.33." In spite of the totals being stable the rates showed a modest increase due to an assumed reduction in flight hours for 2009. Not sure what to make of that. Does a small reduction in flight hours really increase your personal accident rate 5%? Or are the sub-class of pilots that did not decrease their flight hour inherently less safe? The FAA has always admitted that their annual GA flight hours are just rough estimates, but the trends there are troubling. In 1990 the estimate was 28.5 million hours, down to 23.9 in 2007 and just 20.4 in 2009 ?. Ouch. Over the same years the accident rates have varied from 6.35 to 9.08 per 100k hours, so last year's 7.20 seems reasonable historically so the increase is likely sampling error. In the same time frame the fatal accidents per 100k hours has been much more stable from 1.20 to 1.81 so 2009's 1.33 also seems on par historically. If you want to see more of the data you can check it out here: http://www.ntsb.gov/Pressrel/2010/100408.html I was hoping to find the AOPA NALL report for 2009 data, but it is not out quite yet. I assume that the 2008 data is close enough for my purposes here. As always the main cause is pilot error. About 72% of all accidents and fatal accidents are pilot related. Of those 32% are landing related! No wonder go-arounds are so important to practice and use. Luckily those are rarely fatal. Only 14% of all, and 8% of fatal are known to be mechanical failures. So as always the lesson is to be sharp when you fly or stay on the ground. There is one, and sadly only one, shining bright spot in the otherwise unsurprising data. Fuel management accidents have decreased from 10% of total accidents in 1999 to 5.8% in 2008. My guess is that planes are getting fuel totalizers and that has been a huge win. Finally another stat caught my eye. Only 15% of single engine fixed gear accidents are fatal, yet 26% of single engine retractables are fatal. Maybe I should just leave my gear down? Gary Miller March Fly-out WOW !! What a beautiful day we had on Sat. March 20.....We got up to a frosty low 20's temp and the sun was making it's way up over the horizon. Things just got better and better from there as the day progressed. I pulled 757 out of the hangar and we blasted off from Pilot Butte International for the short flight out to KBDN to meet the rest of the CO-OPA gang. We had three planes depart KBDN for 3S9 at Condon. Mike and Ann Bond in their Cardinal RG, Gary Miller and Ed Endsley in Gary's Turbo Centurion and we (Don & Norma Wilfong) with Harry McFadden as our passenger in our Skylane. It was a very pleasant flight, with a nice tailwind. We kept up radio chatter to keep track of each other as we flew over some interesting sights, including the Big Muddy, previously owned by Rajneesh's group, and sporting a beautiful runway. We also saw quite a few other private strips along the way going and coming. As we were about to land at Condon, Richard Benson came on the air......he was en route to Condon from Monument (where they have a cute get-a-way home) to join the group for breakfast. We missed having his wife Debbie along with him but we enjoyed seeing Richard again. The owners of the "Cowboy Up Cafe", Marvin & Shirl Layng, provided transportation to and from their Cafe. The food and the service were both very good and if you went away hungry it was not their fault. They made sure your coffee cup never got empty and in general took real good care of us. Condon seems like a very friendly town and we will definitely want to go back there again. They have a rodeo coming up (don't know the dates yet) and we are going to plan on going if we can make it work. They have a museum that looked quite interesting..... but .... it was not open today. The trip home was a little slower as that great tail wind was now on the nose. We landed at KBDN, refueled, dropped Harry off and returned to Pilot Butte International........What a fantastic day and a terrific fly- out......Thanks to Richard Benson for suggesting Condon. Mark your calendars now for April 17 for our next fly-out so you don't schedule something else over top of it. Now that spring has started to sprung.......We will be planning some fun fly-outs so we hope you can plan to be there. Don & Norma Wilfong The YikeBike For those who have added everything they can to the airplane and have funds left over: Transportable ground transportation, but yet not available in the US. Weight: 22 lbs Frame: Carbon fiber Fold size: Really compact Fold time: Under 20 seconds Drive: Electric brushless DC motor Brakes: Electric anti-skid, regenerative Ramp speed: 13 mph Range: about 6 mile on a charge Recharge: 80% in 20 minutes. ? and, oh yes, the price: $4,500 - Sign over SR71 Wing Ops- 'Yea, Though I Fly Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 50,000 Feet and Climbing.' ? and then again ?. 'You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.' -Paul F. Crickmore (SR71 test pilot)- Diamond's OPV makes pilots optional Diamond revealed that a new follow-on design of the DA42M twin, the DA42M-OPV, will have its first flight sometime in September at the Manassas, Va., airport. The unmodified airplane has already arrived at Manassas. The DA42M-OPV is a surveillance platform equipped with video cameras, advanced radar capabilities, and proprietary electronics and software. In July 2009, Diamond Aircraft received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Certification for the Austro Engine AE300 power plant. The FAA certification of the Austro AE300 engine paves the way for FAA validation of the EASA Type Certificate for the DA42 Next Gen configuration. FAA validation is expected late third quarter 2009. Diamond's DA42 NG averages a fuel burn of only 5.6 gph per engine, at 65% power and 155 knots at 14,000 feet. The "OPV" stands for optionally piloted vehicle, and it's being developed with the help of Aurora Flight Sciences of Manassas. The idea is to offer a choice of a human pilot or remote, pilotless operation of the airplane, dubbed the "Centaur." Diamond has experimented with pilotless versions of its DA42 platform in an airplane called the DA42 MPP (multi-purpose platform), but Aurora's work will expand the concept. With pilots removed, in the OPV configuration, and 100 pounds of payload, the DA42M-OPV will have an endurance of 26 hours or a radius of 1000 nm. Its turbocharged engines are certified for operations up to 18,000 feet and have performed at altitudes above 25,000 feet "The DA42M-OPV has roughly the same payload and range performance as the Predator UAV," said Aurora Flight Science President John Langford. "But it has several important advantages. First, it can be flown with a pilot aboard, which will facilitate operation in the National Airspace System. Second, it has two engines, which gives greater reliability and safety. Third, the Centaur is easily reconfigurable, so it can carry a variety of payloads. Finally, it has low operating costs." The OPV's first mission will be to map the Greenland ice pack, Langford said. ================================================================== COOPA officer contact info: President Gary E. Miller 109 NW Wilmington Ave Bend, OR 97701 541-382-8588 gem at rellim.com Vice President --------OPEN---------- Secretary/Treasurer Don Wilfong 210 SE Cessna Dr Bend, OR 97702 541 389-1456 Temp Fly-out Chair Don Wilfong 210 SE Cessna Dr Bend, OR 97702 541 389-1456 wilfong.d at gmail.com Program Chair --------OPEN---------- And finally, send Newsletter inputs to Mike Bond 22052 Banff Drive Bend, OR 97702 541 317-8443 mvbond at spiritone.com From gem at rellim.com Tue Apr 27 08:37:37 2010 From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:37:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Co-opa] Martin Field Fly-In May 15 (fwd) Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yo All! FYI, fly-out season starting up. RGDS GARY - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97701 gem at rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:31:37 -0700 From: Douglas Cheney Subject: Martin Field Fly-In May 15 Hello Aviators, This message is being sent to chapter presidents of Oregon, Washington and Idaho EAA, WPA, OPA and IAA?pilot groups as well as the Idaho Aviation Assoc Notams communications service.. Please forward to your members. ? EAA Chapter 604 and Martin Field?(S95?near Walla Walla,?in?SE Washington State)??are?hosting a Fly-In May 15th featuring: - - Aircraft Swap Meet - - Hangar Sale - - Seminar on Buying and Selling Aircraft - - Wings eligible Safety Seminar - - Antique Aircraft display - - Free Shuttle to Walla Walla Farmers Market and downtown?Walla Walla - - Food all day (Breakfast and Lunch foods) - - Learn to Fly Seminars as part of National Learn-to-Fly day. - -?Discounted introductory flying lessons for Learn-to-Fly day participants. ? It is all free except for food and flying lessons. ? Details at www.MartinAirfield.com?or www.s-95.com ? Thanks for helping us kick off a busy flying season. ? Regards, Doug Cheney Martin Field?Fly-In Team 509-525-9392 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFL1wTGBmnRqz71OvMRAs0bAJ9Gks3mwEfDEpKrj6n91fgC3nOygACgoAjb hgnTSLFuX5W+TAkwe/MSOB4= =p6TI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From Email at terrypickering.com Tue Apr 27 12:11:42 2010 From: Email at terrypickering.com (Terry Pickering) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:11:42 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] 2010 ASEF Scholarships Message-ID: <0F67EE2140D72E428948A19F08EFD5FD099D28@sc430.CompuGroupInc.local> Just a reminder the OPA ASEF is giving out two $1,000 scholarships this year. The deadline for applications is this Friday. As of today, there are very few people who have applied. If you know anyone interested, tell them to go to http://oregonpilot.org/asef.html and apply today! _____________ Terry Pickering From gem at rellim.com Fri May 14 18:05:36 2010 From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller) Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 18:05:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Co-opa] RDM Crash Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yo All! FYI, Z21 is reporting that 87 year old Sheldon Arnett of Redmond was killed when his Piper Comanche crashed on takeoff from RDM. More details: http://www.ktvz.com/news/23555318/detail.html RGDS GARY - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97701 gem at rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFL7fNiBmnRqz71OvMRAsEiAKCYs/qTe/8jmrWkZ0QVL/jX5fsRzgCfb4TC VTzgh4srYbJnV+47ETlNOUk= =TUYb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From mvbond at spiritone.com Wed May 19 00:06:52 2010 From: mvbond at spiritone.com (Mike Bond) Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 00:06:52 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] COOPA newsletter Message-ID: <4BF38E0C.70809@spiritone.com> Here is your COOPA May 2010 newsletter. Gary has posted the PDF version on the website. Mike Bond ========================================================= CASCADE FLYER May 2010, Vol. 10, Issue 5 Website: http://co-opa.com/ President's Message: We had no one speaker for last month's meeting, and yet we somehow ended up with a full program of speakers anyway. Good to have a light program every once in a while so that the membership can take the time to air out all our unused stories and catch up on all the local aviation news and gossip. I'm working on several possibilities for our May program so be sure to attend and see what pops up. Plan your approach into the Flight Services Building at 6pm for some hanger flying, stay for the delicious potluck at 6:30pm and participate in the formal program at 7pm. No pilot should miss it. Also there are two events to note in the next month. The chapter presidents of the OPA will be meeting in Bend at the FBO on 22 May for their quarterly board meeting. This will be an easy way to meet a lot of OPA pilots from out of our area and see how you state organization functions. And last but not least, be sure to come on down for Bend Airport Day on 19 June. The EAA Bend and Prineville chapters will serve breakfast at 8am and Cafe 3456 will be serving $5 burgers for lunch. What a great way to start the Father's Day weekend! PHOTO: TNT Aviation hosted this month's Bend EAA meeting and have done inspections/repairs on several Epic LTs to date Calendar: 20 May - Monthly Meeting 22 May - Monthly Flyout - OPA Quarterly Meeting at KBDN 11 June - Hayward Air Rally 17 June - Monthly Meeting 19 June - Monthly Flyin - Bend Airport Day 15 July - Monthly Meeting 17 July - Monthly Flyout 19 August - Monthly Meeting 21 August - Monthly Flyout 27-28 August - Air Show Of The Cascades at KS33 Web doings: The ever-popular Airshow of the Cascades is back on for the last weekend in August. From their website: "Welcome Julie Clark's American Aerobatics in her Beachcraft Mentor for the first time at our airshow. We welcome back aerial wizard Bud Granley. We are thrilled to bring back Rob Harrison, The Tumbling Bear. Renny Price Hammerhead Aerobatics will return to wow the crowd. Expect a fireworks display Friday evening after our twilight show." As always they are looking for volunteers and corporate sponsorships. All donations are tax deductible. Check out their website for more info: http://www.cascadeairshow.com/ As always you can check out current and past CO-OPA newsletters, view our membership list and view hot aviation links on our website at http://co-opa.com To access the members-only areas the username is "BDN" and the password is "123.0". My Inbox: Last year was the first year for the Hayward Air Rally to come to Bend. It was such a success that they are coming back this year on Friday 11 June for their 46th event. Like last year they are looking for volunteers to help marshal the ramp at KBDN. If you would like to help and see a unique face of GA up close and personal then email Steve Verbil at sverbil at usa.net. They still have open slots for rally participants if anyone wants to test their pilotage skills against some of the best. You can find more details on their web site: http://www.hwdairrally.org Random Thoughts: Summer is coming and I have been given a number of interesting tidbits about KBDN and beyond. In spite of hitting more rock than expected the work is proceeding ahead of schedule on the new east taxiway. Seriously, when has there ever been earthmoving in the Bend area that did not hit more rock than expected? Complaints have been rolling in about the glider parking area that now sits on the compass rose. Have a bit of patience, the new taxiway will have two compass roses before construction ends this fall. Complaints have also been rolling in about the new PAPI. Gary Judd assures us that it really is set to the FAA standard 3 degree slope. Looking to the future, expect KBDN infrastructure to remain in flux for at least another year. As always funding is uncertain but it looks like the west (old) taxiway will get replaced in 2011. That will complete most of the items in the current airport master plan so funding is also in process for an update to the master plan, maybe as soon as this summer. The new runway 16/34 pavement has been down a while now, but figuring how best to use it is still evolving. Sentiment seems to be favoring changing the calm wind runway to 34, so Gary Judd will be working with the FAA on that change. This will allow easier glider operations and straight in approaches from the south in calm (<5kt) winds. The calm wind runway is not mandatory, but given the number of local calm wind near misses it should be. Speaking of winds, Gary Judd seems to have identified dangerous turbulence near taxiway A3 when there is a quartering headwind from the northwest. There have been several aircraft damaged there in those conditions, pilot beware. There are also the usual traffic pattern gripes. Remember that while most local helicopters are using right-hand patterns that a lot of transient helicopters are using left hand patterns. So be alert, keep you head on a swivel and use your radio. In a note on radio usage, if you are going to perform a stop- or touch-and-go then be sure to say so in your radio call on final. There have been a lot of go-arounds lately due to aircraft unexpectedly dawdling on the runway. We all need go-around practice but let's keep the unplanned ones to a minimum. The Epic Aircraft company is gone, hopefully soon to rise from the ashes, but they built some great airplanes that will need maintenance for a long time to come. To serve that need a few ex-Epic employees have opened TNT Aviation at the north end of the field (see photo on page 1). Check out their website: http://tntaviation.com/ Gary Miller April Fly-out --- ?. TO EMMETT, IDAHO !! Sat. 4/17 was our monthly fly-out day. Several people had voiced an interest in going on the fly-out.....but......it boiled down to just 2 planes. Gary Miller took his Cessna Turbo Centurion. Ed Endsley usually goes, but was unable to go due to eye surgery and Harry McFadden had to cancel due to out of town guests......so it was just Gary and his dog "Max" in his plane. We (Don & Norma Wilfong) took our Cessna Skylane, Don Bolduc, our intended passenger, had come down with a cold and canceled, so that left just Norma and I in our plane. We flew out of Pilot Butte International about 0715 and refueled at KBDN. We taxied over to Pro-Air, had some coffee and waited for Gary to show up........when he had gone out to his plane and appeared to be about to start up and taxi down for fuel we departed (we wanted a head start as his plane is faster than ours) ..........well.........he had a couple of delays and didn't get into the air for a while so we were quite a ways ahead by the time he got airborne. As we were about to enter the pattern at Emmett they came on the radio and said "The Emmett airspace is now closed for the airshow" We told them we were about to land but they repeated that the airspace was closed.....so.. we flew down to Payette, Idaho, landed and spent some time there waiting for the airport at Emmett to open ...........When we headed for Emmett again Gary had caught up and was also waiting for the airport to open so we both circumnavigated the valley looking at the sights for a little while longer and then when they reopened the airport we landed. There were lots of planes and show cars to look at, but the airshow and the breakfast were things of the past......there is a golf course surrounding the runway and there is a small cafe on the field. It was really warm and comfortable so we sat at an outside table and enjoyed a good lunch. We picked up a courtesy car and drove by the house I was born in. This was home for my parents from 1930 until 1985. I lived there until after I completed School. We drove by a few other places and then through the town of Emmett. The place where I went to a country Grade School is now occupied by a nice new home. The building where I went to High School is gone and the Post Office and another building occupy that land. The Boise Cascade Lumber Mill, where I once worked, is also gone. Emmett's business district has a number of empty buildings and the town appears to have become a bedroom community for Boise, which is approx. 30 miles away. A lot of things have changed but I really enjoyed the time spent and the many memories brought to mind as we visited my old hometown and the airport where I learned to fly. Norma and I plan to go back and spend a few days visiting some of the familiar places of my youth and visiting with some of my classmates from class of '52. Don & Norma Wilfong We all hope Ed is recovering from his eye surgery Bill Weaver & SR-71 BREAKUP Among professional aviators, there's a well-worn saying: Flying is simply hours of boredom punctuated by moments of stark terror. And yet, I don't recall too many periods of boredom during my 30-year career with Lockheed, most of which was spent as a test pilot. By far, the most memorable flight occurred on Jan. 25, 1966. Jim Zwayer, a Lockheed flight-test reconnaissance and navigation systems specialist, and I were evaluating those systems on an SR-71 Blackbird test from Edwards AFB, Calif. We also were investigating procedures designed to reduce trim drag and improve high-Mach cruise performance. The latter involved flying with the center-of-gravity (CG) located further aft than normal, which reduced the Blackbird's longitudinal stability. We took off from Edwards at 11:20 a.m. and completed the mission's first leg without incident. After refueling from a KC-135 tanker, we turned eastbound, accelerated to a Mach 3.2-cruise speed and climbed to 78,000 ft., our initial cruise-climb altitude. (BY THE WAY, MACH 3.2 IS ROUGHLY 2200 MILES PER HOUR, e.g. Chicago to Dallas in 20 minutes). Several minutes into cruise, the right engine inlet's automatic control system malfunctioned, requiring a switch to manual control. The SR-71's inlet configuration was automatically adjusted during supersonic flight to decelerate air flow in the duct, slowing it to subsonic speed before reaching the engine's face. This was accomplished by the inlet's center-body spike translating aft, and by modulating the inlet's forward bypass doors. Normally, these actions were scheduled automatically as a function of Mach number, positioning the no normal shock wave (where air flow becomes subsonic) inside the inlet to ensure optimum engine performance. Without proper scheduling, disturbances inside the inlet could result in the shock wave being expelled forward--a phenomenon known as an "inlet unstart." That causes an instantaneous loss of engine thrust, explosive banging noises and violent yawing of the aircraft--like being in a train wreck. Unstarts were not uncommon at that time in the SR-71's development, but a properly functioning system would recapture the shock wave and restore normal operation. On the planned test profile, we entered a programmed 35-deg. bank turn to the right. An immediate unstart occurred on the right engine, forcing the aircraft to roll further right and start to pitch up. I jammed the control stick as far left and forward as it would go. No response. I instantly knew we were in for a wild ride. I attempted to tell Jim what was happening and to stay with the airplane until we reached a lower speed and altitude. I didn't think the chances of surviving an ejection at Mach 3.18 and 78,800 ft. were very good. However, g-forces built up so rapidly that my words came out garbled and unintelligible, as confirmed later by the cockpit voice recorder. The cumulative effects of system malfunctions, reduced longitudinal stability, increased angle-of-attack in the turn, supersonic speed, high altitude and other factors imposed forces on the airframe that exceeded flight control authority and the Stability Augmentation System's ability to restore control. Everything seemed to unfold in slow motion. I learned later the time from event onset to catastrophic departure from controlled flight was only 2-3 sec. Still trying to communicate with Jim, I blacked out, succumbing to extremely high g-forces. The SR-71 then literally disintegrated around us. From that point, I was just along for the ride. My next recollection was a hazy thought that I was having a bad dream. Maybe I'll wake up and get out of this mess, I mused. Gradually regaining consciousness, I realized this was no dream; it had really happened. That also was disturbing, because I could not have survived what had just happened. Therefore, I must be dead. Since I didn't feel bad--just a detached sense of euphoria--I decided being dead wasn't so bad after all. AS FULL AWARENESS took hold, I realized I was not dead, but had somehow separated from the airplane. I had no idea how this could have happened; I hadn't initiated an ejection. The sound of rushing air and what sounded like straps flapping in the wind confirmed I was falling, but I couldn't see anything. My pressure suit's face plate had frozen over and I was staring at a layer of ice. The pressure suit was inflated, so I knew an emergency oxygen cylinder in the seat kit attached to my parachute harness was functioning. It not only supplied breathing oxygen, but also pressurized the suit, preventing my blood from boiling at extremely high altitudes. I didn't appreciate it at the time, but the suit's pressurization had also provided physical protection from intense buffeting and g-forces. That inflated suit had become my own escape capsule. My next concern was about stability. Air density at high altitude is insufficient to resist a body's tumbling motions, and centrifugal forces high enough to cause physical injury could develop quickly. For that reason, the SR-71's parachute system was designed to automatically deploy a small-diameter stabilizing chute shortly after ejection and seat separation. Since I had not intentionally activated the ejection system--and assuming all automatic functions depended on a proper ejection sequence--it occurred to me the stabilizing chute may not have deployed. However, I quickly determined I was falling vertically and not tumbling. The little chute must have deployed and was doing its job. Next concern: the main parachute, which was designed to open automatically at 15,000 ft. Again I had no assurance the automatic-opening function would work. I couldn't ascertain my altitude because I still couldn't see through the iced-up face plate. There was no way to know how long I had been blacked-out or how far I had fallen. I felt for the manual-activation D-ring on my chute harness, but with the suit inflated and my hands numbed by cold, I couldn't locate it. I decided I'd better open the face plate, try to estimate my height above the ground, then locate that "D" ring. Just as I reached for the face plate, I felt the reassuring sudden deceleration of main-chute deployment. I raised the frozen face plate and discovered its uplatch was broken. Using one hand to hold that plate up, I saw I was descending through a clear, winter sky with unlimited visibility. I was greatly relieved to see Jim's parachute coming down about a quarter of a mile away. I didn't think either of us could have survived the aircraft's breakup, so seeing Jim had also escaped lifted my spirits incredibly. I could also see burning wreckage on the ground a few miles from where we would land. The terrain didn't look at all inviting--a desolate, high plateau dotted with patches of snow and no signs of habitation. I tried to rotate the parachute and look in other directions. But with one hand devoted to keeping the face plate up and both hands numb from high-altitude, subfreezing temperatures, I couldn't manipulate the risers enough to turn. Before the breakup, we'd started a turn in the New Mexico-Colorado-Oklahoma-Texas border region. The SR-71 had a turning radius of about 100 mi. at that speed and altitude, so I wasn't even sure what state we were going to land in. But, because it was about 3:00 p.m., I was certain we would be spending the night out here. At about 300 ft. above the ground, I yanked the seat kit's release handle and made sure it was still tied to me by a long lanyard. Releasing the heavy kit ensured I wouldn't land with it attached to my derriere, which could break a leg or cause other injuries. I then tried to recall what survival items were in that kit, as well as techniques I had been taught in survival training. Looking down, I was startled to see a fairly large animal--perhaps an antelope--directly under me. Evidently, it was just as startled as I was because it literally took off in a cloud of dust. My first-ever parachute landing was pretty smooth. I landed on fairly soft ground, managing to avoid rocks, cacti and antelopes. My chute was still billowing in the wind, though. I struggled to collapse it with one hand, holding the still-frozen face plate up with the other. "Can I help you?" a voice said. Was I hearing things? I must be hallucinating. Then I looked up and saw a guy walking toward me, wearing a cowboy hat. A helicopter was idling a short distance behind him. If I had been at Edwards and told the search-and-rescue unit that I was going to bail out over the Rogers Dry Lake at a particular time of day, a crew couldn't have gotten to me as fast as that cowboy-pilot had. The gentleman was Albert Mitchell, Jr., owner of a huge cattle ranch in northeastern New Mexico. I had landed about 1.5 mi. from his ranch house--and from a hangar for his two-place Hughes helicopter. Amazed to see him, I replied I was having a little trouble with my chute e. He walked over and collapsed the canopy, anchoring it with several rocks. He had seen Jim and me floating down and had radioed the New Mexico Highway Patrol, the Air Force and the nearest hospital. Extracting myself from the parachute harness, I discovered the source of those flapping-strap noises heard on the way down. My seat belt and shoulder harness were still draped around me, attached and latched. The lap belt had been shredded on each side of my hips, where the straps had fed through knurled adjustment rollers. The shoulder harness had shredded in a similar manner across my back. The ejection seat had never left the airplane; I had been ripped out of it by the extreme forces, seat belt and shoulder harness still fastened. I also noted that one of the two lines that supplied oxygen to my pressure suit had come loose, and the other was barely hanging on. If that second line had become detached at high altitude, the deflated pressure suit wouldn't have provided any protection. I knew an oxygen supply was critical for breathing and suit-pressurization, but didn't appreciate how much physical protection an inflated pressure suit could provide. That the suit could withstand forces sufficient to disintegrate an airplane and shred heavy nylon seat belts, yet leave me with only a few bruises and minor whiplash was impressive. I truly appreciated having my own little escape capsule. After helping me with the chute, Mitchell said he'd check on Jim. He climbed into his helicopter, flew a short distance away and returned about 10 min. later with devastating news: Jim was dead. Apparently, he had suffered a broken neck during the aircraft's disintegration and was killed instantly. Mitchell said his ranch foreman would soon arrive to watch over Jim's body until the authorities arrived. I asked to see Jim and, after verifying there was nothing more that could be done, agreed to let Mitchell fly me to the Tucumcari hospital, about 60 mi. to the south. I have vivid memories of that helicopter flight, as well. I didn't know much about rotorcraft, but I knew a lot about "red lines," and Mitchell kept the airspeed at or above red line all the way. The little helicopter vibrated and shook a lot more than I thought it should have. I tried to reassure the cowboy-pilot I was feeling OK; there was no need to rush. But since he'd notified the hospital staff that we were inbound, he insisted we get there as soon as possible. I couldn't help but think how ironic it would be to have survived one disaster only to be done in by the helicopter that had come to my rescue. However, we made it to the hospital safely--and quickly. Soon, I was able to contact Lockheed's flight test office at Edwards. The test team there had been notified initially about the loss of radio and radar contact, then told the aircraft had been lost. They also knew what our flight conditions had been at the time, and assumed no one could have survived. I briefly explained what had happened, describing in fairly accurate detail the flight conditions prior to breakup. The next day, our flight profile was duplicated on the SR-71 flight simulator at Beale AFB, Calif. The outcome was identical. Steps were immediately taken to prevent a recurrence of our accident. Testing at a CG aft of normal limits was discontinued , and trim-drag issues were subsequently resolved via aerodynamic means. The inlet control system was continuously improved and, with subsequent development of the Digital Automatic Flight and Inlet Control System, inlet unstarts became rare. Investigation of our accident revealed that the nose section of the aircraft had broken off aft of the rear cockpit and crashed about 10 mi. from the main wreckage. Parts were scattered over an area approximately 15 mi. long and 10 mi. wide. Extremely high air loads and g-forces, both positive and negative, had literally ripped Jim and me from the airplane. Unbelievably good luck is the only explanation for my escaping relatively unscathed from that disintegrating aircraft. Two weeks after the accident, I was back in an SR-71, flying the first sortie on a brand-new bird at Lockheed's Palmdale, Calif., assembly and test facility. It was my first flight since the accident, so a flight test engineer in the back seat was probably a little apprehensive about my state of mind and confidence. As we roared down the runway and lifted off, I heard an anxious voice over the intercom. Bill! Bill! Are you there?" "Yeah, George. What's the matter?" "Thank God! I thought you might have left." The rear cockpit of the SR-71 has no forward visibility--only a small window on each side--and George couldn't see me. A big red light on the master-warning panel in the rear cockpit had illuminated just as we rotated, stating, "Pilot Ejected." Fortunately, the cause was a misadjusted micro switch, not my departure. Bill Weaver flight tested all models of the Mach-2 F-104 Starfighter and the entire family of Mach 3+ Blackbirds--the A-12, YF-12 and SR-71. He subsequently was assigned to Lockheed's L-1011 project as an engineering test pilot, became the company's chief pilot and retired as Division Manager of Commercial Flying Operations. He still flies Orbital Sciences Corp.'s L-1011, which has been modified to carry a Pegasus satellite-launch vehicle (AW&ST Aug. 25, 2003, p. 56). An FAA Designated Engineering Representative Flight Test Pilot, he's also involved in various aircraft-modification projects, conducting certification flight tests. "For those who fly....or long to." Seen at Sun n' Fun 2010; an O2 mask for your canine co-pilot ONE STEP CLOSER .... SPACESUIT UNVEILED FOR HI-ALTITUDE FREEFALL RECORD ATTEMPT The Red Bull Stratos science team has revealed the pressure helmet, and suit that will serve as Felix Baumgartner's sole life-support system when he steps off his capsule at 120,000 feet to attempt a record- breaking freefall from the edge of space. The suit is custom made by The David Clark company which has been making suits since 1941 including launch entry suits for Space Shuttle astronauts and the iconic suit that United States Air Force Colonel (Ret.) Joe Kittinger wore on his historic Excelsior III jump in 1960. PHOTO: On a separate note, Baumgartner's parachute harness is made by Velocity Sports Equipment, based in Sunriver. Here is a local EAA member with the harness ====================================================================== COOPA officer contact info: President Gary E. Miller 109 NW Wilmington Ave Bend, OR 97701 541-382-8588 gem at rellim.com Vice President --------OPEN---------- Secretary/Treasurer Don Wilfong 210 SE Cessna Dr Bend, OR 97702 541 389-1456 Temp Fly-out Chair Don Wilfong 210 SE Cessna Dr Bend, OR 97702 541 389-1456 wilfong.d at gmail.com Program Chair --------OPEN---------- And finally, send Newsletter inputs to Mike Bond 22052 Banff Drive Bend, OR 97702 541 317-8443 mvbond at spiritone.com From gem at rellim.com Fri May 21 19:27:39 2010 From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller) Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 19:27:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Co-opa] Fly-out (not) Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yo All! Due to scheduling conflicts, and a poor weather forecast (40% chance rain, up to 1" of snow), the Fly-Out will become a Drive-In. The destination with the least number of negative votes is the Black Bear Diner, we'll meet at 8:30am for food and the usual secret ceremonies. Also, from 3pm to 9pm, Steve Gibson will host food and music at the old Red hanger. Should be fun and hope to see lots of folks there. RGDS GARY - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97701 gem at rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFL90EcBmnRqz71OvMRAoABAKDRAtQM4vC0nVatN44S67b4BUmgjgCUCzT/ m/p/xnLmZf2CaBw4yNifLA== =OKRv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From Email at terrypickering.com Tue Jun 8 11:09:12 2010 From: Email at terrypickering.com (Terry Pickering) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:09:12 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] Looking for ride to Eugene this weekend Message-ID: <0F67EE2140D72E428948A19F08EFD5FD099DA1@sc430.CompuGroupInc.local> Hi all - I'm looking for someone to pick me up at the Sunriver airport to take me over to Eugene to pick up my plane on either Saturday or Sunday. I'm flexible on the day and time, but prefer the morning if the weather cooperates. Looks like it's going to be a great day for flying. I'm willing to pay for your gas. Please contact me at email at terrypickering.com or 503-320-7139. _____________ Terry Pickering From gem at rellim.com Tue Jun 8 11:26:02 2010 From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:26:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Co-opa] Looking for ride to Eugene this weekend In-Reply-To: <0F67EE2140D72E428948A19F08EFD5FD099DA1@sc430.CompuGroupInc.local> References: <0F67EE2140D72E428948A19F08EFD5FD099DA1@sc430.CompuGroupInc.local> Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yo Terry! I am driving over late Sunday for graduation, let me know if nothing better pops up for you. RGDS GARY - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97701 gem at rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Terry Pickering wrote: > Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:09:12 -0700 > From: Terry Pickering > To: co-opa at rellim.com > Subject: [Co-opa] Looking for ride to Eugene this weekend > > Hi all - I'm looking for someone to pick me up at the Sunriver airport to take me over to Eugene to pick up my plane on either Saturday or Sunday. I'm flexible on the day and time, but prefer the morning if the weather cooperates. > > Looks like it's going to be a great day for flying. I'm willing to pay for your gas. Please contact me at email at terrypickering.com or 503-320-7139. > > _____________ > Terry Pickering > _______________________________________________ > Co-opa mailing list > Co-opa at rellim.com > http://catbert.rellim.com/mailman/listinfo/co-opa > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFMDos+BmnRqz71OvMRApUTAKCHWNnLgfhjiNtGLhvzmX+Tlw/BjwCffs6P Z8DFrkTs49I1YEOUcEGMEtA= =ROtB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From mvbond at spiritone.com Wed Jun 16 04:01:38 2010 From: mvbond at spiritone.com (Mike Bond) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:01:38 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] COOPA newsletter Message-ID: <4C18AF12.4070906@spiritone.com> Here is your COOPA June 2010 newsletter. Gary has posted the PDF version on the website. Mike Bond ========================================================= CASCADE FLYER June 2010, Vol. 10, Issue 6 Website: http://co-opa.com/ President's Message: Late minute events have shot down my well-laid plans for this months meeting. We can still expect another fun and productive meeting so get down to the Flight Services Building at 6pm, June 17th, for some hanger flying, stay for the delicious potluck at 6:30pm and participate in the formal program at 7pm. No pilot should miss it. Coming up at our July meeting, Jim Hultgrien Jr. from the Portland FSDO will join us for a safety presentation and will present two Wright Brothers Master Pilots awards. Should be a fun meeting so be sure tosave the date. And last but not least, be sure to come on down for Bend Airport Day on 19 June. The EAA will serve breakfast at 8pm and Cafe 3456 will be serving $5 burgers for lunch. Airport Day usually winds down by 2pm but Steve Gibson plans to have music, food and drink going well into the evening in the Red Hanger. What a great way to start the Father's Day weekend! Calendar: 17 June - Monthly Meeting 19 June - Monthly FlyIN - Bend Airport Day 15 July - Monthly Meeting 17 July - Monthly Flyout 19 August - Monthly Meeting 21 August - Monthly Flyout. 27-28 August - Air Show Of The Cascades @ S33 16 September - Monthly Meeting 18 September - Monthly Flyout Web doings: The Oregon Department of Aviation plans to publish a quarterly newsletter. Sign up to be emailed a copy: http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/oda-flightlines Looking for an event to fly to? Check out the OPA Calendar: http://www.oregonpilot.org/calendar.html As always you can check out current and past CO-OPA newsletters, view our membership list and view hot aviation links on our website at: http://co-opa.com To access the members only areas the username is "BDN" and the password is "123.0". My Inbox: The Bend Bulletin reported three encouraging local aviation stories this month. The FAA grants each airport $150k for airport projects each year. Christmas Valley has negotiated a swap so that Bend gets their current FAA grant money and in return Bend will give Christmas Valley its 2012 grant. Combining that grant money with a Connect Oregon grant will fully fund an update to the KBDN airport master plan. No money will come from the City of Bend. The lack of a current master plan has been a point of contention between the city and the county so this is a welcome turn of events. The FAA also stuck a deal with Prineville to not only fund their current runway expansion but also a matching taxiway all to be completed this year. When it is completed their new runway will be 5,750 feet, which is 550 feet longer than the Bend runway. In other good news, seven former customers of Epic Aircraft have formed a new company and are reopening the Epic factory. They already have 16 full time employees on the books and are working to resume production soon. We expect to see more new beautiful flying machines leaving their factory soon. Random Thoughts: Bad weather struck out last month's OPA board meeting but many of the Chapter representatives were still able to meet on a Skype conference call. Skype conferencing was a first for an OPA meeting but all involved were impressed with the quality of the sound as well as the savings in time and gas. Not as good as a face-to-face meeting but certainly a good alternative. Topic number one for the OPA is the decline in total membership. A lot of pilots only pay dues to their local chapter, and many more do not even belong to a local chapter. Times are tough but $25/year is a small price to pay for all that OPA stands for. We need to get out the message about the benefits of OPA membership. Flying is by nature a solitary pursuit so major goals of the OPA are to provide a framework to gather, share our love and knowledge of flying, and work to preserve, protect, and even improve aviation in Oregon and beyond. Most of the gathering occurs at the chapter level, but the OPA also hosts a day long annual meeting as well as holding quarterly meetings of chapter representatives around the state. While not very visible to the general membership, these meetings are an important conduit for the business of the association. The general membership mostly sees the work of the OPA through the bi-monthly newsletter PropWash. Much more work happens behind the scenes. Members can always grab a copy from the OPA website at: http://www.oregonpilot.org/propwash/ Not so obvious to the casual observer are many of the important functions of the OPA. The OPA helps the chapters learn from each other to be stronger and also gains strength from the chapters to be heard at the state government level. Without our voice the state government could easily think that only air transport concerns are worth hearing. OPA works extensively with the Oregon Department of Aviation (ODA) on the many issues that concern us. Our input to ODA has been important in rolling back some of the stupid ethanol diluted gasoline laws, ensuring that GA gets a fair share of Connect Oregon grants, working to keep airports open, and preserving 'through the fence' access The OPA also sponsors the non-profit Aviation Safety Education Foundation (ASEF) which awards annual aviation scholarships. Certainly all the benefits of joining the OPA apply doubly for joining the CO-OPA. I know that I am mostly preaching to the choir here, but I hope that each of you will continue to value your OPA/CO-OPA membership and do some of your own preaching to the yet to be enlightened. Gary Miller BDN incident 20100609 Bend Municipal Airport has a very busy traffic pattern, especially for an uncontrolled airport! We have it all?airplanes, helicopters, high-performance aircraft, and gliders?sharing a single runway and single (for now) parallel taxiway. This is no longer your daddy's quiet little rural airport. While holding short of Runway 16 the other day, I watched a near mid-air happen on downwind. Cimarron City almost became Conflagration City. Both aircraft were making radio calls reporting their positions, yet one aircraft made a non-standard pattern entry, ignored right-of-way rules and created the conflict. Here's what happened: A Cirrus was approaching the airport from the east, and a Cessna was approaching from the west. Both made a position reports on CTAF at approximately 8-10 nm out and approximately 5nm out. Then: ? The Cirrus stated his intentions were to "enter left 45 Runway 16." ? The Cessna reported his intentions were to "cross midfield to the east and enter left traffic Runway 16." ? The Cirrus then reported "3 mile left 45 Runway 16". ? The Cessna then reported "one mile west, crossing overhead." ? The Cirrus then reported "left downwind runway 16." ? The Cessna then reported "overhead entering left traffic 16." The two aircraft ended up converging on each other at midfield, both in a turn?neither had the other in sight. The Cessna was blocked from the Cirrus's view because the Cirrus was wing-up. The Cessna should have been able to see the Cirrus had he been looking. The Cirrus was the aircraft on the right, and had the right-of-way, yet the Cessna cut him off. The Cessna not only created a hazardous situation, he violated FAR 91.113. ISSUE #1: Non-standard pattern entry The FAA-recommended entry into a traffic pattern is a 45-degree midfield intercept to the downwind leg. Over the years, I have heard many arguments about why it is still OK to follow the route the Cessna took. "The FAA recommendation is not required." "You can see the traffic better if you enter at ." "It's OK if the airport is not busy." Etc. ? Hogwash. The FAA-recommended pattern entry procedure is better and safer for the following reasons: 1. It creates a standard. If everyone follows the same procedure, the likelihood of confusion and misunderstanding decreases. 2. It establishes one place in the traffic pattern where at most two aircraft are converging. In addition, when aircraft on the 45 and downwind come together the rate of convergence is relatively low and wings are level allowing for better visibility. I've been in the pattern numerous times at Bend with up to 6 aircraft all lined up in order on the 45 and it works great! Problems only seem to occur when a rude pilot crosses midfield and jams himself into the downwind without regard to the other traffic. It's like watching a bowling ball hit a bunch of pins, with aircraft scattering every which way. I once had a Seneca cut me off in this way, and by the time I got back onto downwind, that very same Seneca cut me off again. He had crept up the tail of his preceding aircraft, did a go around, and made a climbing crosswind turn at midfield to cut me off for a second time. Retribution can be divine, however. A couple weeks later, I saw the same pilot have a dual prop-strike after forgetting to put down his landing gear. Aircraft that cross mid-field at pattern altitude and turn directly onto the downwind create a situation where there are potentially three aircraft converging on the same spot: the overhead aircraft, any aircraft already on downwind, and any aircraft on the 45. That requires all three pilots to see and avoid two other aircraft simultaneously! That is a lot to ask of a pilot in addition to all his pre-landing workload. In addition, the overhead and 45 traffic are converging in a near head-on?combining a highest closer rate with a lowest visibility profile. I teach my students always to enter on the 45. It adds at most three minutes to your flight, but usually less. Assuming traffic is using Runway 16, if I am arriving from Northwest clockwise to Southwest, I simply stay far enough away from the airport that I can fly directly to the 45. If I am coming from the West, I overfly the airport 2,000 feet AGL (5,500 MSL). This allows me to stay 1,000 above normal traffic and 500 feet above high performance traffic. I then proceed one minute east (heading 070) and one minute south (heading 160). That puts me right on the 45. After crossing the traffic pattern eastbound, I start my descent, and by the time I turn onto the 45, I am at pattern altitude. It works every time! The thing I like about this practice is that it gives me time to build my situational awareness. I can listen for other aircraft and establish visual contact. It allows me to enter the pattern calmly and in control. Don't be in a rush to foul things up! ISSUE #2: Poor communication I spoke to the Cirrus pilot after the incident and it turns out that both he and I assumed the Cessna pilot was going to cross overhead and enter on the 45. In fact, as I was departing, I told the Cessna over the radio that I thought he said he was planning to enter on the 45. He responded that he said he was going to "cross overhead and enter left traffic", which is true. So where did the confusion come from? Both the Cirrus and my flight were conducting training. Both instructors interpreted "cross overhead to the east and enter left traffic" to mean the recommended procedure to fly east of the airport and enter on the 45. The gotcha here is that the term "enter left traffic" is ambiguous. When you state your intentions, you should be very specific about which leg of the traffic pattern you plan to enter. For example, the Cessna could have avoided any misunderstanding by saying he was going to "cross overhead and enter left downwind." Precise phraseology is a bugaboo of mine. It seems like any time I observe confusion between two pilots it traces back to sloppy radio work. One of my pet peeves is the "entering 45 to downwind leg." That phrase can be confused over a scratchy radio with "entering downwind leg." How about we keep our position reports short and sweet: ? Cirrus 935CD, left 45 Runway 16. ? Cirrus 935CD, midfield left downwind Runway 16. ? Cirrus 935CD, left base Runway 16, full stop. ? Cirrus 935CD, final Runway 16, full stop. Including full-stop vs. touch-and-go intentions on the base and final legs helps the pilot behind you determine the appropriate spacing before turning base. There's nothing more frustrating than being on short final behind an aircraft that has not yet cleared the runway. I firmly believe that if we can get more of our fellow pilots to follow standard pattern and radio procedures, we can make Bend a much more enjoyable and safe place to fly. Peter King, MCFI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hybrid wing body An MIT-led team has designed a hybrid wing body aircraft to carry 350 passengers on international flights, filling the role now dominated by Boeing's 777. The design improves aerodynamics and creates a forward lift that eliminates the need for a tail to balance the aircraft. The design also allows for different propulsion systems, such as a distributed system of multiple smaller engines. MIT said that, while the design "meets NASA's emissions-reduction and runway-length goals," researchers "will continue to improve the design to meet more of NASA's objectives." NASA also awarded similar research contracts for subsonic commercial planes to four other teams, led by Boeing, GE Aviation and Northrop Grumman, respectively, and two contracts for supersonic planes to teams led by Boeing and Lockheed-Martin. The MIT-led team also includes Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. and Pratt & Whitney. Members expect to hear within the next several months whether NASA has selected it for a second phase. Single data burst can locate crash scene By Alton K. Marsh (for AOPA) A newly commissioned search-and-rescue ground station at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center near Washington, D.C., takes advantage of search-and-rescue repeaters on GPS satellites. It's the only one of its kind in the world. The repeaters are on only a few satellites at the moment. It will take at least until 2017 to equip all new generation GPS satellites. The ground station is capable of receiving instantaneous bursts of data, relayed by the satellite, including the GPS location. It provides search capability for ships, aircraft, and hikers. Just like the lottery, you must play to win. If you want to take advantage of the latest search-and-rescue system, you must have a 406-MHz ELT. (The FAA does not currently require aircraft to be equipped with 406-MHz ELTs.) In order for searchers to call the right location to begin their detective work, the unit must be registered with the government. And if you want your exact GPS location sent automatically, you need to have a 406-MHz locator that can be connected, and then have an avionics technician actually hook it up. There are 275,000 406-MHz locators in the government database, but only 45,000 are registered. Officials from several agencies giving a joint press conference from the Goddard Space Flight Center this week said pilots flying over water may want to have a handheld 406-MHz locator as well as the one required for their aircraft. If a pilot is floating in a raft, the raft may be miles from where the airplane ELT was when it transmitted the location. The new system at Goddard is called Distress Alerting Satellite System (DASS) and will be fully functional when all new-generation GPS satellites have repeaters aboard in the next seven to 10 years. It is estimated that when completed, four or more satellites will hear and repeat the same distress signal. Software then takes over, creating a three-dimensional map of location and terrain. A fly-by map shows rescuers what they can expect to see in the way of terrain when approaching the site. Weather can be added as well. Lt. Col. Charles Tomko, commander of the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center, said the 406-MHz system worked perfectly in the crash of a Coast Guard helicopter. It was registered, allowing searchers to check with the unit headquarters operating it, and it broadcast exact GPS information. Rescuers found the crew within hours before they would have been forced to spend a winter night in the mountains of the western United States. Capt. David McBride, chief of the Office of Search and Rescue, U.S. Coast Guard, said too often people put their trust in a radio or cell phone, only to find they do not work in extreme or remote conditions. 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Miller 109 NW Wilmington Ave Bend, OR 97701 541-382-8588 gem at rellim.com Vice President --------OPEN---------- Secretary/Treasurer Don Wilfong 210 SE Cessna Dr Bend, OR 97702 541 389-1456 Temp Fly-out Chair Don Wilfong 210 SE Cessna Dr Bend, OR 97702 541 389-1456 wilfong.d at gmail.com Program Chair --------OPEN---------- And finally, send Newsletter inputs to Mike Bond 22052 Banff Drive Bend, OR 97702 541 317-8443 mvbond at spiritone.com From mvbond at spiritone.com Wed Jun 16 12:39:08 2010 From: mvbond at spiritone.com (Mike Bond) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:39:08 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] [Fwd: Fw: Airport Day at the Red Hanger] Message-ID: <4C19285C.6010902@spiritone.com> From mvbond at spiritone.com Wed Jun 16 12:48:59 2010 From: mvbond at spiritone.com (Mike Bond) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:48:59 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] Fw: Airport Day at the Red Hangar Message-ID: <4C192AAB.9060400@spiritone.com> Since the forward didn't work last time ... here's another attempt! Mike Hi everyone, See Don and Steve's invite below. Food, friends, music and airplanes! Take care, Gary Judd Airport Manager Bend Municipal Airport Bend, OR 97701 Phone 1-541-389-0258 Fax (same as phone) Cell- 1-541-647-0828 email gjudd at ci.bend.or.us ----- Forwarded by Gary Judd/Bend on 06/15/2010 04:14 PM ----- Subject: Airport Day at the Red Hanger ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gary, In case you have not seen Steve lately...be sure to send the following invites on his and my behalf in your weekly email. The EAA will be having the Pancake breakfast and Chef Dave will be serving lunch from the *Red Hanger*. Hopefully the weather will be calm and warm. The old hanger will provide a place to sit in the shade or shelter from the wind as it has for many an Eastside year. June can go either way as you know. After the airport event, we will have our monthly get together providing music and a fun place to chat with old friends and fellow pilots. Chef Dave will continue to provide food and drink for the evening hours. See you then! *Don D. Peterman*| *Red Hanger **Music Director* From gem at rellim.com Wed Jun 16 19:08:38 2010 From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:08:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Co-opa] Thursday Meeting Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yo All! The third Thursday of the month is here yet again. Plan to meet in the Flight Services Building at 6pm Thursday for a bit of hanger chatter, chow down at 6:30pm at out potluck and stick around for our general meeting at 7pm. This month Steve Gibson, son of the owner of the old Gibson Air will drop by to swap stories. Also be sure to come out this Saturday for Bend Airport Day. The EAA will serve breakfast and Cafe 3456 will be serving lunch. After Airport Day ends Steve Gibson will be hosting food, drinks and music in the Red Hanger into the evening. Next month we will have Jim Hultgrien Jr. from the Portland FSDO with us to present not one, but two, Wright Brothers Master Pilots awards and talk a bit on safety. Save the date! RGDS GARY - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97701 gem at rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFMGYOoBmnRqz71OvMRAv2GAKC3MvFB5i8mVZpJdUdsGkV9RFaXwwCfS31P cuklrOIdB+aS0f9OUOP+b4U= =CJC7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From gem at rellim.com Mon Jun 21 15:13:03 2010 From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Co-opa] AVwebAlert: FCC Bans 121.5 ELTs (fwd) Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yo All! Wow. See below. RGDS GARY - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97701 gem at rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:28:24 -0500 (CDT) From: AVwebAlert To: gem at rellim.com Subject: AVwebAlert: FCC Bans 121.5 ELTs - ------------------------------------------------------------------- AVwebALERT AVweb Breaking News Alert -- June 21, 2010 - ------------------------------------------------------------------- VIEW ONLINE: http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/11/1658.html FOR THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS, VISIT: http://www.avweb.com >>> AVflash! No Long Goodbye for 121.5 FCC BANS 121.5 ELTS The Federal Communications Commission took the general aviation world by surprise when it said in a recent report (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103500294837&s=1458&e=001M6yc39mJFVF4-fVIt75XGecNDZbley9ii0QmGoSxeHCJrhR7Zni3UgFXolrO1ImXhsnHndlNQtzTcVcv-UIrwc5r-DKH4P6cT7Lgjv9vb9vjVF0VMtHoCV8SzrHwfoLJzAGEbN-bFISS27c1pfT5p35CZSVeilT-tZaFdBSkMYfxnqdWGTYCTQ==) it will prohibit the sale or use of 121.5 MHz emergency locator transmitters, effective in August. The Aircraft Electronics Association said (http://aea.net/governmentaffairs/regulatoryupdates.asp?ID=42) it just learned of the new rule today, and has begun working with the FAA, FCC and others to allow for timely compliance without grounding thousands of general aviation aircraft. The 121.5 ELTs are allowed under FAA rules. The FCC said its rules have been amended to "prohibit further certification, manufacture, importation, sale or use of 121.5 MHz ELTs." The FCC says that if the 121.5 units are no longer available, aircraft owners and operators will "migrate" to the newer 406.0-406.1 MHz ELTs, which are monitored by satellite, while the 121.5 frequency is not. "Were we to permit continued marketing and use of 121.5 MHz ELTs ... it would engender the risk that aircraft owners and operators would mistakenly rely on those ELTs for the relay of distress alerts," the FCC says. AOPA said today (http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/articles/2010/100621elt.html) it is opposed to the rule change. "The FCC is making a regulatory change that would impose an extra cost on GA operators, without properly communicating with the industry or understanding the implications of its action," said AOPA Vice President of Regulatory Affairs Rob Hackman. "There is no FAA requirement to replace 121.5 MHz units with 406 MHz technology. When two government agencies don't coordinate, GA can suffer." The AEA said dealers should refrain from selling any new 121.5 MHz ELTs "until further understanding of this new prohibition can be understood and a realistic timeline for transition can be established." >>> Watch AVweb.com for More on the FCC's Decision Stay tuned to AVweb.com for more updates on this story: http://www.avweb.com/alm?home&kw=AVwebAlert - ------------------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to AVweb Breaking News Alerts at gem at rellim.com Manage your AVweb subscriptions by clicking here: http://www.avweb.com/cgi-bin/udt/um.manage.account.eletter?client_id=avflash&user_id=115145 (Use this link to unsubscribe or add additional newsletters. If prompted to log in, select "Update E-mail Subscriptions" after you've logged in.) Delivery issues? 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Belvoir Media Group 800 Connecticut Ave Norwalk, CT 06854 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFMH+PzBmnRqz71OvMRAuWOAKCjKaTsIhIJ3MwU79h+LXNGjPSmUgCdHKSU JzF7P2NlQRFcM6DTGmO8YYg= =C6I7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From wilfong.d at gmail.com Wed Jul 14 07:32:36 2010 From: wilfong.d at gmail.com (Don Wilfong) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:32:36 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] CO-OPA Message-ID: HEY...........THE POTLUCK/MEETING COMES EARLY THIS MONTH........THIS THURS (TOMORROW) IS THE DATE.............AND............A FLY-OUT (PROBABLY TO THE COAST) IS BEING PLANNED FOR SAT.............THE WEATHER IS SUPPOSED TO BE PERFECT .......... THIS IS A "RARE" OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO FLY TO THE COAST ON OUR MONTHLY FLY-OUT DAY...............AND..........DON'T FORGET THAT NEXT MONTH THE BIG FLY-IN EVENT WILL BE AT MADRAS......... DON WILFONG From mvbond at spiritone.com Wed Jul 14 13:22:23 2010 From: mvbond at spiritone.com (Mike Bond) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:22:23 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] COOPA newsletter Message-ID: <4C3E1C7F.4050508@spiritone.com> Here is your COOPA July 2010 newsletter. Gary has posted the PDF version on the website. Mike Bond ========================================================= CASCADE FLYER July 2010, Vol. 10, Issue 7 Website: http://co-opa.com/ President's Message: Jim Hultgrien Jr. from the Portland FSDO will join us for a safety presentation and will present two Wright Brothers Master Pilots awards. Those awards go to pilots with more than 50 years of flying and no accidents. Quite an achievement and we need to be there to cheer for our local recipients. Motor to the Flight Services Building at 6pm, June 17th, for the usual pilot gab. Stay for the ever- popular potluck at 6:30pm and participate in the formal program at 7pm. Come on down and show the FAA we support our local pilots. Calendar: 15 July - Monthly Meeting 17 July - Monthly Flyout 19 August - Monthly Meeting 21 August - Monthly Flyout. 27-28 August - Air Show Of The Cascades (@S33) 16 September - Monthly Meeting 18 September - Monthly Flyout 21 October - Monthly Meeting 23 October - Monthly Flyout Web doings: The Airshow Of The Cascades has updated their website for their airshow the last Friday/Saturday in August: http://www.cascadeairshow.com/ Butler Aircraft is the title sponsor and is giving free tickets to any veterans that want them. Contact me at gem at rellim.com if you need some. The Airshow can still use sponsors. Sponsorships are tax deductible and include many perks. Looking for an event to fly to? Check out the OPA Calendar: http://www.oregonpilot.org/calendar.html As always you can check out current and past COOPA newsletters, view our membership list and view hot aviation links on our website at http://co-opa.com To access the members only areas the username is "BDN" and the password is "123.0". My Inbox: Looks like the 2010 Bend Airport Appreciation Day was a success. Breakfast and lunch were served to over 300 people each. Leading Edge and Professional Air ran helicopter and Cessna rides all day. Many thanks to all those who made it possible. Random Thoughts: "If it ain't one thing, it's another" -- Rosanne Rosannadanna That pretty much sums up airplane ownership. You expect things to break and wear out in a complicated machine that suffers weather and abuse like an airplane. I usually console myself that I have it so much better than helicopter owners. Several AirLink mechanics have told me that ten hours of maintenance to one hour flying is to be expected. Sadly some of the more expensive problems are caused by the stroke of a pen, not the slow pull of entropy. One example of that is my old, yet trustworthy, LORAN that plaintively calls out 'No Chains Found' from my radio stack. The US Coast Guard had been threatening to pull the plug on the LORAN transmitters since 2000 so when they finally did in 2010 it felt merciful. Like an old friend finally succumbing to a lingering disease. Sometimes the hurt comes suddenly, like an unexpected and expensive Airworthiness Directive. Almost always ADs can wait until the next annual, but not always. Then, from out of the blue, a lightning strike from the Federal Communications Commission. "In this Third Report and Order in WT Docket No. 01-289, we amend Part 87 of the Commission's Rules [...] and (h) prohibit the certification, manufacture, importation, sale, or continued use of 121.5 MHz emergency locator transmitters (ELTs)..." The new rule will read: "87.195 Prohibition of 121.5 MHz ELTs. The manufacture, importation, sale or use of 121.5 MHz ELTs is prohibited." Apparently the FCC has been studying this issue since 2001, but just got around to telling anyone else about it. Not even the AOPA saw this one coming. If this takes half as long to implement as the coming of ADS-B then no worries. Except the FCC seems in a big hurry. "[...] the Commission's Rules ARE AMENDED as set forth in the attached Appendix B, effective sixty days after publication in the Federal Register." The decision has been made, just waiting for the printing press to roll. You can see for yourself here: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-10-103A1.pdf Upon hearing the news a few weeks ago the AOPA has mounted a very late in the game play to block the rule. I expect them to get a minor extension but the game does appear lost. The AOPA response is here: http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/articles/2010/100621elt.html FAR Part 91.207 states that an aircraft must have an operable ELT onboard, but does not mandate its use. So maybe we can continue to fly as long as we do not use our 121.5MHz ELT? I doubt it will be that easy. It looks like an upgrade to a new TSO C126 (406MHz) ELT will be required. Assuming I can even buy one. Almost all the C126 ELTs I find on the web for sale also broadcast on 121.5 and will thus be illegal as well. Mail order prices look to be around a grand and move up. And it still gets worse. The upgrade requires a new antenna and a cockpit-mounted control too. So no simple box swap, some serious installation cost too. Oh well, we all know that airplanes just make holes in the air that you throw money into... Gary Miller Brown & Stigler Look carefully at the B-17 and note how shot up it is - one engine dead, tail, horizontal stabilizer and nose shot up.. It was ready to fall out of the sky. (This is a painting done by an artist from the description of both pilots many years later.) Then realize that there is a German ME-109 fighter flying next to it. Now read the story below. I think you'll be surprised. Charlie Brown was a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot with the 379th Bomber Group at Kimbolton, England. His B-17 was called 'Ye Old Pub' and was in a terrible state, having been hit by flak and fighters. The compass was damaged and they were flying deeper over enemy territory instead of heading home to Kimbolton. After flying the B-17 over an enemy airfield, a German pilot named Franz Steigler was ordered to take off and shoot down the B-17. When he got near the B-17, he could not believe his eyes. In his words, he 'had never seen a plane in such a bad state'. The tail and rear section was severely damaged, and the tail gunner wounded. The top gunner was all over the top of the fuselage. The nose was smashed and there were holes everywhere. Despite having ammunition, Franz flew to the side of the B-17 and looked at Charlie Brown, the pilot. Brown was scared and struggling to control his damaged and blood-stained plane. Aware that they had no idea where they were going, Franz waved at Charlie to turn 180 degrees. Franz escorted and guided the stricken plane to, and slightly over, the North Sea towards England. He then saluted Charlie Brown and turned away, back to Europe. When Franz landed he told the CO that the plane had been shot down over the sea, and never told the truth to anybody. Charlie Brown and the remains of his crew told all at their briefing, but were ordered never to talk about it. More than 40 years later, Charlie Brown wanted to find the Luftwaffe pilot who saved the crew. After years of research, Franz was found. He had never talked about the incident, not even at post-war reunions. They met in the USA at a 379th Bomber Group reunion, together with 25 people who are alive now - all because Franz never fired his guns that day. (L-R) German Ace Franz Stigler, artist Ernie Boyett, and B-17 pilot Charlie Brown. When asked why he didn't shoot them down, Stigler later said, "I didn't have the heart to finish those brave men. I flew beside them for a long time. They were trying desperately to get home and I was going to let them do that. I could not have shot at them. It would have been the same as shooting at a man in a parachute." Both men died in 2008. This is a true story http://www.snopes.com/military/charliebrown.asp THIS WAS BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN THERE WAS HONOR IN BEING A WARRIOR...THEY PROUDLY WORE UNIFORMS, AND THEY DIDN'T HIDE IN AMBUSH INSIDE A PLACE OF PRAYER, OR BEHIND WOMEN AND CHILDREN, NOR DID THEY USE MENTALLY RETARDED WOMEN AS SUICIDE BOMBERS TO TARGET AND KILL INNOCENT CIVILIANS...HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED...... Bend Airport Day 2010 Thanks, Ed and Don for some of the Airport Day photos ?. ====================================================================== COOPA officer contact info: President Gary E. Miller 109 NW Wilmington Ave Bend, OR 97701 541-382-8588 gem at rellim.com Vice President --------OPEN---------- Secretary/Treasurer Don Wilfong 210 SE Cessna Dr Bend, OR 97702 541 389-1456 Temp Fly-out Chair Don Wilfong 210 SE Cessna Dr Bend, OR 97702 541 389-1456 wilfong.d at gmail.com Program Chair --------OPEN---------- And finally, send Newsletter inputs to Mike Bond 22052 Banff Drive Bend, OR 97702 541 317-8443 mvbond at spiritone.com From gem at rellim.com Wed Jul 14 15:36:46 2010 From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:36:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Co-opa] Thursday Meeting Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yo All! This Thursday Jim Hultgrien Jr. from the Portland FSDO will be down to give a short safety presentation and to present TWO Wright Master Pilot awards to local pilots. A very impressive award to win and our very own Norm Coffelt and Allan Bower will be there to collect. Let's show them our support this Thursday at our usual meeting. RGDS GARY - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97701 gem at rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFMPjwABmnRqz71OvMRAqz/AJ4neX/L2PasZGRXpRG7WcbWC/tTgwCg1j9s /vjPyofJIy9djKOc3jADQmk= =5eHx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From wilfong.d at gmail.com Fri Jul 16 11:18:46 2010 From: wilfong.d at gmail.com (Don Wilfong) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:18:46 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY-OUT FUN Message-ID: HEY GANG..........WE ARE PLANNING TO DO OUR MONTHLY FLY-OUT TOMORROW MORNING (SAT. JULY 17)......THE PLAN IS TO MEET AT PRO-AIR AT 0830 AND THEN FLY TO FLORENCE, OREGON...........AT THE PRESENT WE ONLY KNOW FOR SURE THAT THERE WILL BE TWO PLANES WITH A POSSIBLE THIRD.... WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A LARGER GROUP IF POSSIBLE..........YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN US IF YOU CAN.........I HAVE ONE CAR RESERVED BUT IF I HEAR FROM YOU THAT YOU CAN GO I WILL CALL FOR MORE TRANSPORTATION........PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP....... DON WILFONG, FLY-OUT CHAIR 541-389-1456 OR E-MAIL wilfong.d at gmail.com From mvbond at spiritone.com Wed Aug 18 03:06:32 2010 From: mvbond at spiritone.com (Mike Bond) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:06:32 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] COOPA newsletter Message-ID: <4C6BB0A8.4000108@spiritone.com> Here is your COOPA August 2010 newsletter. Gary has posted the PDF version on the website. Mike Bond ================================== CASCADE FLYER August 2010, Vol. 10, Issue 8 Website: http://co-opa.com/ President's Message: We had a good turnout in July. Let's hope for a repeat in August. All who attended received a Wings training credit for learning about the revamped Wings program from Jim Hultgrien Jr. of the Portland FSDO. More on that below. The highlight of the meeting was the awarding of Wright Brothers Master Pilot Awards to not just one, but two, of our local pilots. Norm Coffelt and Allan Bower earned the awards by piloting safely for 50 years. Congratulations guys! Bill Witt, a previous Award recipient also attended to congratulate them. Special thanks also go to Lloyd Swenson for helping make the awards happen. Be sure to drop in this month to see what magic may happen. Festivities start at 6pm in the Flight Services Building. Chow down at our 6:30pm potluck and stay for a formal program at 7pm. Calendar: 19 August - Monthly Meeting 21 August - Monthly Flyout. 27-28 August - Air Show Of The Cascades (@S33) 10-12 September - WAAAM Fly-in (@4S2) 16 September - Monthly Meeting 18 September - Monthly Flyout 21 October - Monthly Meeting 23 October - Monthly Flyout 18 November - Monthly Meeting 20 November - Monthly Flyout Web doings: If you have not checked it out in a while be sure to revisit the FAA TFR website: http://tfr.faa.gov Select Seattle Center and see all the NOTAMs in our region in a nice text list. Click on a notam and see the full text nicely formatted along with the TFR overlaid on a sectional. If you are more graphically oriented, select the 'TFR Map' tab, and then Seattle center from the right hand menu. Then you see all the local TFRs plotted on a zoomable sectional. Checking NOTAMs has never been so easy, as long as you have internet access. The news reported that 2 F-15s went supersonic from Portland to Seattle today to greet a hapless 172 pilot that forgot to check NOTAMS. Barging into a VIP no-fly zone cannot be a good thing. Check your NOTAMs or at least call Center. Another newer FAA web service, not as polished, but showing progress, is http://sua.faa.gov. That is working on plotting all active Special Use Airspace. Now you have a chance to see if a MOA is active before taking off and calling center. The long term plan is to combine the TFR and SUA sites into one for one stop up to date information. As always you can check out current and past CO-OPA newsletters, view our membership list and view hot aviation links on our website at http://co-opa.com To access the members only areas the username is "BDN" and the password is "123.0". My Inbox: I'm getting more and more information on the Airshow of the Cascades set for the last Friday and Saturday of August. Veterans get in free courtesy of Butler Aircraft, the headline sponsor. Scheduled acts include: Air Force F-15 Fly-by, Alpha "Mystery" Jet, Bud Granley Airshows T-6 and Yak-55, Central Oregon SkySports Skydivers, Classic Aircraft Museum F-86, Fraser Blues Formation Demonstration Team Navions, Homeland Fireworks Wall of Fire and Fireworks, Julie Clark American Aerobatics T-34a, Renny Price Hammer Head Aerobatics SU-29, Rob Harrison the "Tumbling Bear", Steve Ellison Extra 300, and many more. Rumor has it that there might even be another major act on the way. It is a great event to cap the summer, hope to see you all there. Details on their web site: http://www.cascadeairshow.com/ Also be sure to note the Western Antique Aircraft and Automobile Museum Fly-In at Hood River airport on September 10th to the 12ths. The WAAAM has the finest collection of antique aircraft anywhere. Random Thoughts: Either someone poked the FAA with a stick, or I am just hearing more about them lately. The good news is the FAA has taken a stand against the FCC proposed banning of ELTs on 121.5. For now the new rule is unpublished and our old ELTs remain legal. Otherwise news is non-existent other than that negotiations are ongoing. Or maybe just vacations are ongoing. The bad news is that onetime/lifetime registration for aircraft is coming to an end. Aircraft owners will need to re-register their aircraft, and pay a fee (of course), every three years from now on. Look for a letter from the FAA in the next three years when it is your turn to start paying up. In other bad news, the FAA Wings program, as we know it, is dead. The good news is that it is reborn in a better online form. Those that attended our July meeting received a one-hour Wings training credit just for hearing how the new program works. Many thanks again to Jim Hultgrien Jr. of the Portland FSDO for dropping by and enlightening us. It is a clich?, but this really is FAA 2.0. Almost all of the new program is online (except the flying parts). First you need to go to http://www.faasafety.gov/ and sign up for an account. Then take 3 seminars or online training courses, and 3 hours of specified flight training. Completing that all in one year counts as a BFR. Many of the free safety course you have seen online, from people like the AOPA, count for Wings credit, so the next time you are snowed in you can finish your ground requirements while snug in your own home. The first wings level requires one hour of flight instruction in take-offs, landings and go-arounds. One hour of slow flight, stalls, and basic instruments and one hour on airport operations. When completed your CFI signs your logbook and credits you on the WINGs website. When all 6 credits are complete you can print a web certificate, insert it in your logbook, and skip your BFR. Check it out, the program looks well put together and easy to use. Now I'm looking forward to a rainy day to complete my ground requirements. Just signing up has benefits. You can also sign up for email alerts about nearby NOTAMs, nearby FAA events and general FAA news. I have found the email to be minimal yet informative. They even sent a heads up on the Obama Seattle TFR. Just that would have saved our hapless 172 pilot a big headache. Be safe everyone. Gary Miller McCall on the Fly --- Fly-In, Airshow & Seminars Saturday, August 14, 2010 ?. Too late for this year but good to know this is back and running, although apparently in a different form. WINGS seminar - Flying the Idaho/Utah Backcountry "Aim Point-Airspeed" Pavement, Devils, & Dirt. Speaker(s): Lori MacNickol, Greg Poe, and Jean Nora Jessen Brief Description: The McCall Fly-in continues and this year, the Airshow with numerous performers. Fly-In, Airshow, Static Displays and Seminars. Come see Greg Poe, Lori MacNichol, Bob Finer, Mark Petersen, Steve Appleton and more! Fly-in starts Friday, seminars Saturday at 9, airshow at 11. There will be a temporary FAA tower for this weekend in effect 8 to 8 on Friday and Saturday. If flying in call Flight Service for the details (NOTAMS). Location of Seminar: McCall Airport Deinhard Ln and Highway 55 McCall, ID 83638 Directions to Venue: Seminars held in the McCall Aviation Hangar on NE section of ramp on the McCall Airport. Fly-in Seminar?: Yes, MYL Seating: 100 seats at the facility Sponsoring Division: FAA Safety Team Contact Information: Cliff Smart Phone: (208) 387-4015 cliff.smart at faa.gov Airshow Performances at 11:00 am by; Greg Poe - Fagen MX2, Bob Finer - Pitts S1, Mark Petersen - P51, Steve Appleton - Hawker Hunter Jet. Seminars by: Greg Poe - Living the Dream at 9:00am, Lori MacNickol - Aim Point / Airspeed at 9:30am (WINGS credit), and Jean Nora Jessen - Flight of the Three Musketeers to follow. For WINGS credit, the speaker Lori MacNichol invites you to treat yourself to the next level of airmanship and experience the Idaho and Utah backcountry through this multimedia presentation, which includes digital video of the backcountry. Idaho and Utah offers a wealth of Backcountry airstrips that are nestled in the deep canyons of the wilderness. However, flying in the mountains and landing on backcountry airstrips demands precision of aim point / airspeed control. This seminar is instructional in nature and will focuses on the finer points of spot landings! The goal is to give the pilot tools to capture the aim point and master airspeed control whether it be on pavement or in the dirt. For WINGS credit, the speaker Lori MacNichol invites you to treat yourself to the next level of airmanship and experience the Idaho and Utah backcountry through this multimedia presentation, which includes digital video of the backcountry. Idaho and Utah offers a wealth of Backcountry airstrips that are nestled in the deep canyons of the wilderness. However, flying in the mountains and landing on backcountry airstrips demands precision of aim point / airspeed control. This seminar is instructional in nature and focuses on the finer points of spot landings! The goal is to give the pilot tools to capture the aim point and master airspeed control. Acknowledgement of Industry Sponsor(s): A special thanks to the sponsors: Kelley's Whitewater Park - Idaho Army/Air National Guard - Frontier Communications - Golds Gym - Minuteman Printing - IAA - InIdaho.com. For more Fly-in info: www.InIdaho.com/McCallonthefly Credit Applicability: FAASTeam Project Information: National Project: Approach and Landings ==================================== QUOTABLE QUOTE: "Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world, doesn't mean you are any wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar." ---Edward R. Murrow The Cobalt Co50 Cobalt Aircraft Industries, a French start-up, unveiled its new five-place composite pusher design at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis. "This is the first of many things," said David Loury, an aeronautical engineer and the company's founder?Cobalt's first airplane, its first Oshkosh, and its first press conference. The all-composite Co50's design features a wide, electrically actuated panoramic canopy and a canard for stall resistance and high-speed performance. It will be propelled by a 350-horsepower twin-turbocharged Continental TSIOF-550-D2B in a pusher configuration, with FADEC and its attendant single-lever power control, Loury said. Projected maximum cruise speed is 245 KTAS; at a 75-percent cruise power setting at 8,000 feet, the Co50 is expected to cruise at 220 knots while burning 25 gph. The airplane will be certified to fly at up to 25,000 feet. Fuel capacity is 109 gallons. Maximum takeoff weight is planned to be 3,087 pounds, with a useful load of 1,213 pounds and a full-fuel payload of 552 pounds. The Cobalt Co50's dimensions are similar to those of the Cessna 400 or Cirrus SR22, Loury said. "We are planning to fly the prototype before the end of the year," he said, adding that Cobalt is targeting certification at the end of two years, while acknowledging that the process could take three or four. Loury said he made the first drawings of the Cobalt design in 2002. "The goal was to have a traveling tool that was very efficient and didn't correspond to anything on the market," he said. "We have a long way to go." Cobalt is in the process of setting up a U.S. office in San Francisco, and by early 2011 will decide on a U.S. production site. The company plans dual production facilities in the United States and France, Loury explained, adding that 90 percent of leads so far are in the United States. "We've had tremendous interest in the past three weeks," he said. Current price of the Co50 is $650,000; potential purchasers can make a refundable 10-percent deposit or, by making a nonrefundable deposit, guarantee the price of their aircraft. COOPA Flyouts Nothing to report as there was no formal flyout in July ?. although one plane made it to Prospect. Hopefully, August will be better ? at least we will meet at the Madras Airshow, as usual. ?. Ed. ====================================================================== COOPA officer contact info: President Gary E. Miller 109 NW Wilmington Ave Bend, OR 97701 541-382-8588 gem at rellim.com Vice President --------OPEN---------- Secretary/Treasurer Don Wilfong 210 SE Cessna Dr Bend, OR 97702 541 389-1456 Temp Fly-out Chair Don Wilfong 210 SE Cessna Dr Bend, OR 97702 541 389-1456 wilfong.d at gmail.com Program Chair --------OPEN---------- And finally, send Newsletter inputs to Mike Bond 22052 Banff Drive Bend, OR 97702 541 317-8443 mvbond at spiritone.com From gem at rellim.com Thu Aug 19 10:38:14 2010 From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:38:14 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Co-opa] Meeting tonight Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yo All! Tonight's the night for the August CO-OPA meeting. This month's guest speaker will be Sonja Englert. Sonja is an aeronautical engineer and test pilot based here in Bend and will give a presentation on spin testing the Columbia 400. Should be very interesting. You can learn more about Sonja on her website: http://www.caro-engineering.com So, let's meet at the Flight Servvices Building for our usual 6pm chatting and chow down at 6:30pm with our potluck. A short meeting at 7pm and then on to Sonja's program. I hope to see you all there. RGDS GARY - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97701 gem at rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFMbWwJBmnRqz71OvMRAiGtAKDOW6v+h5mGpFC2zRkfjzkeArleDwCdF52q bFQaQK2HGT8M5fgadh5wHVk= =fawy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From wilfong.d at gmail.com Fri Aug 20 20:12:54 2010 From: wilfong.d at gmail.com (Don Wilfong) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:12:54 -0700 Subject: [Co-opa] FLY=OUT FUN Message-ID: HEY GANG...........TOMORROW MORNING (SAT. AUG 21) WE PLAN TO MEET AT PRO-AIR AT 0830 FOR TAKE OFF AT 0900........ THE PLAN WAS TO GO TO THE COAST.......BUT...........WEATHER DOES NOT SOUND GOOD FOR THE COAST SO WE WILL GO TO EITHER BURNS OR JOHN DAY .......IF WE GO TO BURNS PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE EAST/WEST RUNWAY IS CLOSED SO USE THE NORTH/SOUTH RUNWAY...... BURNS HAS A RELATIVLY NEW FBO AND THEY HAVE THINGS FIXED UP PRETTY NICE, HAVE THREE COURTESY CARS AND ARE HAPPY TO BE OF ANY HELP THEY CAN. HOPE YOU CAN MAKE IT.........SUMMER IS WEARING ON AND IT WON'T BE TOO LONG UNTIL SNOW BALLS ARE HITTING US IN THE BACKSIDE.....SO......MAKE THE MOST OF THE SUNSHINE AND JOIN US...... DON WILFONG............TEMP FLY-OUT CHAIR