SUMMER FUN EAA CHAPTER 67 AUGUST MEETING NOTES VOLUME 7, ISSUE 8 AUG., 2017

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1 EAA CHAPTER 67 VOLUME 7, ISSUE 8 AUG., 2017 SUMMER FUN INSIDE THIS ISSUE: FLY-IN FUN 2- FUN TIMES 3 PANCAKE BREAKFAST 4 5 Chapter 67 Events PRESIDENTS CORNER Safety Corner 7 Don s Corner 8-9 CHAPTER 67 OFFICERS Brian CHAPTER C 67 OFFICERS Brian EAA Chapter 67 normally EAA meets Chapter the first 67 Monday normally of meets each month the first at Monday 7:30 PM of at each the Noblesville month at 7:30 Airport PM at the (Pitch-in Noblesville dinner Airport 6:30). (Pitch-in Please check dinner the 6:30). calendar Please since there check are the occasional calendar since exceptions: there are occasional exceptions: 6 AUGUST MEETING NOTES August 7, 2017 Brian Crull opened the meeting with the pledge of allegiance. There were 35 attendees who shared dishes and fried chicken provided by Rob Morris. Guest: Steve Delaplane, incoming president of EAA 900. Secretary Report: Jon Schmidtke. August 19 pancake breakfast will need experienced pancake flippers!! Ron McCormick will be in charge of pancake batter mixing. Noah and Jacinta Richards will help on the serving line again. Mary Richards will help flip pancakes also. Sea Cadets will be recruited to help. The FBO at MQJ has purchased a Red Bird Simulator. Ryan Maxfield will come to the EAA 1121 meeting on August 17 to share info on it. Treasurer Report: Ron McCormick: We have a net of $4315. Young Eagles: Rob Morris. Next event; August 26. September 30 at Kokomo in conjunction with Chapter 235. Brian noted that we have been invited back for this year s Red Bull Air Race event in October. Details to follow. Alex Yovanovich will be doing an Eagle Scout project on restoring the Ercoupe. Don s Memorial bench has arrived and will be installed by the next Fly In. David May s is making a name plaque for the bench. George Spelman: 88Charlie is a group of aviation groupies who mentor at risk kids in Wisconsin. George will be collecting contributions for them at the next meeting. Congratulations to George Spelman whose Champ (Patches) won an award at Oshkosh. Pancake Breakfast: Jeff Stultz: ground safety meeting at 7:00 am on Aug 19. Bring your whistle and yellow Safety First shirt. Judy Birchler s grass strip fly around is August 12 with an 8:00 am. Pilot briefing at I80. Brian shared his ADS-B certification flight experience. He went into Indy airspace at 4500 feet to do his maneuvers; just letting ATC know the purpose of his flight in Class C space. He did get his $500 rebate. Next meeting September 11.

2 AUGUST WAS A FUN MONTH August has been a great flying month in every way. Chapter 67 members and Young Eagles have joined with other Chapters and traveled to different area airports for fly-in lunches and held a super successful Pancake Fly-In Breakfast. Malachi Mayes is joined by Reggie Duvalle and Maj. Rod Metzler in LA at the Tuskegee Airman Academy Mr. Smooth does it again He won the honor of representing Chapter 67 and said the experience was wonderful. Judy Birchler and Boyd put together a wonderful Fly Around Indy program again this year. Judy and Boyd worked hard to come up with just the right mixture of safe, unique airports for the more than 20 aircraft to visit. The group picture was at Bob Cruzan s beautiful grass farm strip north of Indy. Can you imagine 20 planes dropping in for coffee and donuts on a Saturday morning?

3 The Cruzan grass ramp with many of the fly around group. The group stopped at Boone Co. and filled their ramp to overflow. Boyd stayed on the radio to make sure everyone landed on the grass safely. Lunch at Way West was hot dogs and hamburgers. Chapter 1121, 235 and 67 members exchanged ideas about the chapters and some hangar tales. All said that the gang from 1121 sure knew how to throw a party! Thank you to Mike, Judy and Boyd for all their hard work in planning this day.

4 The Chapter 67 setup and operation went off with military precision thanks to the young Sea Cadets from Batesville. These fine young people pitched in and volunteered for all the hard work. After the fly-in several of the chapter members volunteered to take the Sea Cadets for Young Eagle rides. The smiles after the ride were great to see. Our Chapter 67 Pancake Flippers were ready and busy all morning long. It was sure great to have Jacinta and her Mom back helping (she gave me extra sausage too). Thank you to all the volunteers from Chapter 67 and 1121 who worked with the Sea Cadets to make this one of our best Fly-Ins. Thanks to them we will be able to send a number of Young Eagles to the Air Academy this year. Larry Jacobi flew his T6 over Noblesville and the surrounding area to assure everyone was awake. It worked Attendance at the fly-in was better than any of us hoped for. There wee 50+ airplanes and over 700 meals served.

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6 EAA S OF ST T O R Sept Glenndale Days Oct. 2, Chapter Meeting: 6:30 pitch in dinner I80 Meeting 7:30 at I80 Oct Red Bull Air Race Nov. 6, Chapter Meeting: 6:30 pitch in dinner I80 Meeting 7:30 at I80 PRESIDENT S CORNER Another summer is quickly coming to an end. For me it went by much too fast. I at least got in some fun flying in both my PA12 and the Carbon Cub. That always make for a fun summer. I also did plenty of flying for work and got to fly to some interesting destinations and got to see some great sights. As I write this I am in Saratoga Wyoming and took a great drive thru the mountains to Laramie yesterday. A couple of weeks ago I drove to the top of Pikes Peak which I last did over 30 years ago. After all these years and thousands of hours, I still love and enjoy my job. The view from my office window is awesome. The Chapter has also had a busy and good summer. The August Fly In was another huge success. The weather cleared just in time and that brought out the planes and the people. The flow of people was steady all morning and the Pancake crew kept the food line moving. The flight line safety crew kept the planes coming and going safely and the crowd under control. For the first time we had the Sea Cadets, Flying Tigers Squadron from Batesville camp at the airport for the weekend and helped us setup, tear down and work our Fly In. They are a hard working group of kids and their help was greatly appreciated. After the Fly In was over and we had a short time to relax, Bruce Moss, Nick Boland and myself, gave all of the Cadets Young Eagle rides. We even took the time to give rides to all of the Senior Officer to show our appreciation. It was a very long, tiring but rewarding day. I want to say a sincere thank you to everyone that came out and gave their time and effort working the Fly In. With out your hard work and effort we could never be able to put on these events and without the money we make from these events, we could not afford to continue to send such great kids to the Air Academy. I want to thank A.E. Percifel from Chapter 235 for lending us the use of his canopies. His help and his canopies made setup and tear down so much easier. He has also given his time and effort to build us a new 18X20 canopy which we will use at our June 2018 Fly In. Our goal is to build 2 more, for a total of 3 18X20 canopies. This will eventually make setting up for the Fly In's so much easier. Our final event the Chapter will have is our display at the Red Bull Air Races on October It is a very rewarding event to work and hope we can get plenty of volunteers to come out and talk to all of the people that stop by. If you love to talk airplanes this is the event for you. Will see everyone at the September Chapter meeting on Monday the 11th.

7 Safety Corner: Tracking with GPS "What s the best way to use a GPS to pick a heading that keeps me on course to my destination?" "If you have GPS, the two numbers you need to see are the desired track and actual track. If you re centered on course and these match, you ll stay perfectly centered on course. Desired track is your course over the ground from your departure to your destination, or the course between two waypoints if you re not going direct. This is what you flight plan and what you see in the DTK field of many panel-mount navigators or the course shown on many ipad apps. Track is your actual path across the ground at that moment, given your current heading, speed, and the actual winds. This is denoted TRK on many navigators. Now imagine the course you want to fly from Airport A to Airport B is 270. This means your desired track is 270. You take off and turn on course with a heading of 270 so that you re centered on the magenta line for the moment. If there was no wind, your track would also be 270, but today there s a wind from the North and your track is 260. Even though you re currently on course, you will drift south of course. Fix the issue by turning 10 degrees right. Check your track. If it s 270, this new heading will keep you on course. If 10 degrees was too much, your track might read 272. Turn back to the left two degrees. Keep doing this until track and desired track match. Continue making corrections as you fly and you ll stay perfectly on course to your destination. Note that some apps will show a suggested heading that takes into account forecast winds. You want to match the actual course, not the suggested heading."

8 Y / L / E N S C O R N E R ) : All chapter members are invited to list items they would like to offer for sale or trade to other members. Please forward via to Brian Crull and they will be placed in the next month s news letter. FLT. TRAINING: Sheridan Nick Boland CFII, nick@flighttrainingcenters.com 317/ Noblesville Larry Jacobi, CFII, MEI, Glass (317) Larryjacobi@sbcglobal.net I80 Noblesville Airport Clean, well maintained open T ($135 per mo.) with electric on a great 3500 grass E W runway. Friendly people who love aviation. Fuel and use of a maintenance hangar for residents. CONTACT: Larry Jacobi 317/ Cessna 172 (straight tail) For Sale 3525 Total A.F. Time, 900 SMOH, STOL Kit, Radios Annual due June, 2017 $24, EMBROIDERED HATS & SHIRT $15.00 EA.

9 1/4 Share for sale N5240E - specifications as of September 30, 1979 Cessna 172N Skyhawk Serial: Registered: Annual completed & IFR certified: **Fresh Annual** November 21, Total Time on Airframe: New Engine: Time Since Major Overhaul (TSMOH): Engine rebuilt December 30, 2006 to factory new standards by Signature Engines, New Paint April Complete airframe paint & engine rebuild done at New Interior January New Carpeting September 28, Avionics Master Cessna Audio Panel - Two (2) Cessna RT-385A Cessna RT-359A 300X 4-Place Sig SPA 400 TSO Garmin 196 Damage Propeller strike July 1987, repaired by Air Marion, Marion, No other Monthly Fixed Expenses: Hourly rate: $70/hr Terry McCaskey (317) owner of this Larry Jacobi (317) manager of Noblesville airport Plane has been kept at Noblesville for several He knows N5240E Can answer any Brent Wilson (317) treasurer & 1/4 Dave Waymire (317) maintenance manager & 1/4 Dan Daubenspeck (317) /4