| EAA CHAPTER 133 JUNE THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF EAA CHAPTER 133 2008 |
I would like to announce this month a change in the Chapter 133 Meeting schedule for
all meetings going forward.
In the chapter leadership meetings we frequently discuss the need to grow the
chapter and to retain new members when they come to us. We originally changed to
the every other month meeting/picnic schedule a few years back as a result of the
observation that everyone has a good time at the picnics and they were well attended
and we have difficulty arranging a program for 11 or 12 meetings each year. While
this worked ok for the picnics it has caused a drop off of the attendance at the
meetings and as a consequence a drop off in new members and a loss of some long
standing ones.
So all that being said, we have decided to go back to the long standing format of a
monthly chapter meeting on the second Thursday of the month. The meetings will be
held in the evening at 7:00 pm so working stiffs like me can have time to get home
from work and get to a meeting, and they will be held at Signature Flight Support at
Ft. Lauderdale international Airport, until we outgrow that meeting place.
The monthly meeting will not always have a program but it will have plenty of builders
reports and discussion of our passion, sport aviation. When a special program is
scheduled I will be sure and mention it in the monthly newsletter.
Here is a schedule of the meetings out through the end of 2009. Please keep it handy
so you can get into the habit of the new meeting day and time.
Chapter Leaders Meeting Location
8/5/2008 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
8/28/2008 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
9/25/2008 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
10/30/2008 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
11/27/2008 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
12/30/2008 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
1/29/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
2/26/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
3/26/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
4/30/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
5/28/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
6/25/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
7/30/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
8/27/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
9/24/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
10/29/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
11/26/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
All Members Meeting Location
7/10/2008 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
8/14/2008 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
9/11/2008 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
10/9/2008 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
11/13/2008 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
12/11/2008 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
1/8/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
2/12/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
3/12/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
4/9/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
5/14/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
6/11/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
7/9/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
8/13/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
9/10/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
10/8/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
11/12/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
12/10/2009 FLL (Signature Flight Support)
Picnic Location
8/16/2008 River Oaks Fly In
10/18/2008 HWO (North Perry) North Side of the field at the Fuel
Depot at Bobby's Landing
12/13/2008 HWO (North Perry)
2/21/2009 HWO (North Perry)
4/10/2009 Sun & Fun Sun & Fun 4/10 Friday Night Picnic
7/18/2009 HWO (North Perry)
10/17/2009 HWO (North Perry)
12/19/2009 HWO (North Perry)
We will be doing a recap of the events at Sun & Fun and looking over pictures our
members took at that event. Please feel free to bring your own photos if you would
like to show them off. If you can bring them on electronic media we will have the
equipment to display them on the "big screen".
I hope to see you there.
Paul A. Edhlund
954-325-4656
pedhlund@myacc.net
PRESIDENTS PAGE
Negative News, High Fuel Prices, & Government Regulation
Getting You Down?
Don’t let it get you down. Better yet, make a promise to yourself to turn
off the TV and radio and go on with your life. I think you’ll find
everything seems a little better.
Once you are out there cleaning the plane getting it ready for the warm
Summer months and your mind starts to drift toward the subject of fuel
prices, a few of you may choose to do the math to see that current fuel
prices don’t make that big of a difference to the cost of flying; but I'm
sure that’s not the majority.
So for the rest of you try this instead; if fuel prices are tempting you to
fly less, then choose to make the most of you time in the air. By making
the most of your time, I mean that there are hundreds or thousands of
events being held around the country by hundreds of organizations in
order to give you something to do with your plane. These events are
always a great way to reconnect with aviation and the pilots in your
region and they do wonders for your spirits and outlook on the sport as
a whole. If you truly are restricted by fuel prices, then by planning your
flights and using them to visit events, I think you will find the level of
quality time with your plane increases along with your spirits.
From Lee Bottom Newsletter
Getting You Down?
Don’t let it get you down. Better yet, make a promise to yourself to turn
off the TV and radio and go on with your life. I think you’ll find
everything seems a little better.
Once you are out there cleaning the plane getting it ready for the warm
Summer months and your mind starts to drift toward the subject of fuel
prices, a few of you may choose to do the math to see that current fuel
prices don’t make that big of a difference to the cost of flying; but I'm
sure that’s not the majority.
So for the rest of you try this instead; if fuel prices are tempting you to
fly less, then choose to make the most of you time in the air. By making
the most of your time, I mean that there are hundreds or thousands of
events being held around the country by hundreds of organizations in
order to give you something to do with your plane. These events are
always a great way to reconnect with aviation and the pilots in your
region and they do wonders for your spirits and outlook on the sport as
a whole. If you truly are restricted by fuel prices, then by planning your
flights and using them to visit events, I think you will find the level of
quality time with your plane increases along with your spirits.
From Lee Bottom Newsletter
Do you wear glasses while flying?
Yes this seems like a strange question for a survey but I have known many
people who had problems with this very issue and until recently I did not
understand it. Ginger recently found herself needing a set of bi-focals and
instead of a single trip to the eye doc, she spent two months traveling five times
back and forth from the office to get glasses that would work.
As usual, it was Ginger who figured out the problem and when she did, we
realized what had been happening to the other people who had had similar
problems with flying and bifocals. Here’s the deal. Bifocals are usually ground to
focus somewhere around 18 inches for things such as reading. Unfortunately, if
you plan to use these for flying, they likely will not work if you are planning to
see instruments at the bottom of the panel or a chart folded and lying in your lap.
For this you need bifocals ground to focus in the mid to upper 20 inch range. If
you really want to get it right, sit in your plane, think of how you do things when
flying, and measure the distances from your eyes to the things you want to see.
Let the doctor know what you are doing and give them these measurements and
you will likely have a better experience.
And, if you have successfully found progressive lenses to work for you, Ginger
would like to hear from you. For her, the focus range was always very limited and
narrow and everything else was very blurry leaving the peripheral vision
completely out of the picture.
On one other note, since taildraggers sit nose high on the runway, improperly
adjusted bifocals can cause some serious take off and landing issues. Be sure to
get them properly adjusted if you wear them.
Yes this seems like a strange question for a survey but I have known many
people who had problems with this very issue and until recently I did not
understand it. Ginger recently found herself needing a set of bi-focals and
instead of a single trip to the eye doc, she spent two months traveling five times
back and forth from the office to get glasses that would work.
As usual, it was Ginger who figured out the problem and when she did, we
realized what had been happening to the other people who had had similar
problems with flying and bifocals. Here’s the deal. Bifocals are usually ground to
focus somewhere around 18 inches for things such as reading. Unfortunately, if
you plan to use these for flying, they likely will not work if you are planning to
see instruments at the bottom of the panel or a chart folded and lying in your lap.
For this you need bifocals ground to focus in the mid to upper 20 inch range. If
you really want to get it right, sit in your plane, think of how you do things when
flying, and measure the distances from your eyes to the things you want to see.
Let the doctor know what you are doing and give them these measurements and
you will likely have a better experience.
And, if you have successfully found progressive lenses to work for you, Ginger
would like to hear from you. For her, the focus range was always very limited and
narrow and everything else was very blurry leaving the peripheral vision
completely out of the picture.
On one other note, since taildraggers sit nose high on the runway, improperly
adjusted bifocals can cause some serious take off and landing issues. Be sure to
get them properly adjusted if you wear them.
Three things happen when you get old. First your memory goes, then... um... um...
Art & Ralph working on Ralph’s airplane to fix
the wrinkles in the wings
the wrinkles in the wings
THE VIEW FROM HANGAR 27
Although it seems like I hardly did much aviating this past month because of taking so much
time on my propeller maintenance, when I took a closer look it was not so bad. I finished
training my instrument student (he passed!), gave a BFR, flew with Gary Hellman to S17, and
had a couple lunch flights as well as getting the reseal done on the prop. By the way, for
those of you have not experienced the pleasure, safety wiring the prop on a Lycoming IO-
360 is no fun at all. No room to work, can’t put a torque wrench directly on the nut, things
get in the way. Thanks to Jacques, the picture below shows what it looks like after all the
twisting, turning, and swearing is done. Fortunately the results seem to be okay even
without having a dynamic balance. Maybe the three-blade propeller helps.
Those of us who fly in south Florida could fly over to the Bahamas for lunch or a day at the
beach instead of heading to SEF, FPR, VNC, or PGD. For those who fly out of TMB, OPF, or
FXE, it is not too much of a hassle when returning as there is a Customs office on the field to
clear through. But those of us who fly out of HWO and many other places without Customs
have to land first where there is Customs open and then to home base. Adding that to the
procedures for flight plans, notifications, and Bahamas requirements and it is easy to see
why most of us opt for somewhere else to go. OK, we are all in favor of homeland security,
so this is the right thing to do, right? But hold on, there is a much large contingent that has a
much greater potential for doing something they ought not and I’m not talking about
smugglers who totally ignore any rules.
It is boaters who have a much greater cargo/passenger capacity than our little planes. Oh
sure, they really tightened up in recent years. The rules became that boaters had to CALL
customs after they arrived, then within 24 hours show up in person. Oh yes, you can
absolutely positively bet that with the south Florida culture of total obedience to every
aspect of the law that not only everyone called Customs, but then that everyone who was on
the boat showed up in person. Of course there are many more boaters than flyers, which
means more political pull, so now the boaters have it even easier with the “Local Boater
Option.” By going to a Customs office with their passport, boaters can be put on a list so
that when they return from the Bahamas all they have to do is call Customs and identify the
people on the boat that have registered as “Local Boaters.” Of course no one would ever
dream of having anything on the boat that is not supposed to be there or that there is
anyone else on the boat besides those registered so I really don’t see how this does
anything for our security.
Hey Arnold, you like flying to the Bahamas, how about working with AOPA to get a “Local
Flyer Option” with Customs?
It is unusual to see a large turboprop doing anything but takeoff, climb, cruise, descent, and
land. So when I was flying over the Everglades at 4500 ft. last Sunday and spotted a plane
off to my left playing tag among the clouds my curiosity got the best of me. It flew a few
more circles while I got closer, then headed in the same direction I was going. As I got a bit
closer I saw it looked like a Convair 580 before it turned again apparently headed towards
TNT. For those who are not familiar with it, TNT was long ago intended to be the future
Miami International. But being located in the midst of the Everglades, environmental
concerns put a stop to it. So it became a Training and Transition (thus TNT) facility for Pan
Am and Eastern. They are gone so it is now a nice big runway with an ILS that is great for
training. Anyway, curiosity got the better of me so I switched to the TNT CTAF and soon
heard “Tahoma” reporting a practice approach. I later googled Tahoma to find out who was
out there training and came up with this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Tahoma
You never know what you are going to see out there.
Fly safely! Keep your propeller properly maintained!
Jerry Crawford, CFII
305-724-7556
N329DJ@aol.com
Hangar 27, Hollywood Aviation
Although it seems like I hardly did much aviating this past month because of taking so much
time on my propeller maintenance, when I took a closer look it was not so bad. I finished
training my instrument student (he passed!), gave a BFR, flew with Gary Hellman to S17, and
had a couple lunch flights as well as getting the reseal done on the prop. By the way, for
those of you have not experienced the pleasure, safety wiring the prop on a Lycoming IO-
360 is no fun at all. No room to work, can’t put a torque wrench directly on the nut, things
get in the way. Thanks to Jacques, the picture below shows what it looks like after all the
twisting, turning, and swearing is done. Fortunately the results seem to be okay even
without having a dynamic balance. Maybe the three-blade propeller helps.
Those of us who fly in south Florida could fly over to the Bahamas for lunch or a day at the
beach instead of heading to SEF, FPR, VNC, or PGD. For those who fly out of TMB, OPF, or
FXE, it is not too much of a hassle when returning as there is a Customs office on the field to
clear through. But those of us who fly out of HWO and many other places without Customs
have to land first where there is Customs open and then to home base. Adding that to the
procedures for flight plans, notifications, and Bahamas requirements and it is easy to see
why most of us opt for somewhere else to go. OK, we are all in favor of homeland security,
so this is the right thing to do, right? But hold on, there is a much large contingent that has a
much greater potential for doing something they ought not and I’m not talking about
smugglers who totally ignore any rules.
It is boaters who have a much greater cargo/passenger capacity than our little planes. Oh
sure, they really tightened up in recent years. The rules became that boaters had to CALL
customs after they arrived, then within 24 hours show up in person. Oh yes, you can
absolutely positively bet that with the south Florida culture of total obedience to every
aspect of the law that not only everyone called Customs, but then that everyone who was on
the boat showed up in person. Of course there are many more boaters than flyers, which
means more political pull, so now the boaters have it even easier with the “Local Boater
Option.” By going to a Customs office with their passport, boaters can be put on a list so
that when they return from the Bahamas all they have to do is call Customs and identify the
people on the boat that have registered as “Local Boaters.” Of course no one would ever
dream of having anything on the boat that is not supposed to be there or that there is
anyone else on the boat besides those registered so I really don’t see how this does
anything for our security.
Hey Arnold, you like flying to the Bahamas, how about working with AOPA to get a “Local
Flyer Option” with Customs?
It is unusual to see a large turboprop doing anything but takeoff, climb, cruise, descent, and
land. So when I was flying over the Everglades at 4500 ft. last Sunday and spotted a plane
off to my left playing tag among the clouds my curiosity got the best of me. It flew a few
more circles while I got closer, then headed in the same direction I was going. As I got a bit
closer I saw it looked like a Convair 580 before it turned again apparently headed towards
TNT. For those who are not familiar with it, TNT was long ago intended to be the future
Miami International. But being located in the midst of the Everglades, environmental
concerns put a stop to it. So it became a Training and Transition (thus TNT) facility for Pan
Am and Eastern. They are gone so it is now a nice big runway with an ILS that is great for
training. Anyway, curiosity got the better of me so I switched to the TNT CTAF and soon
heard “Tahoma” reporting a practice approach. I later googled Tahoma to find out who was
out there training and came up with this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Tahoma
You never know what you are going to see out there.
Fly safely! Keep your propeller properly maintained!
Jerry Crawford, CFII
305-724-7556
N329DJ@aol.com
Hangar 27, Hollywood Aviation
