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Vol. 39 No. 2
Plane & Pilot News
February 2014
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Peek ‘n Peak – More Than Just A Ski Resort
Anyone who skis and
lives in the Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York area
knows Peek ‘n Peak as a
great place to ski, but it is
truly much more than just a
ski resort, a lot more! Yes, it
is true that it started out as
a place to ski back in 1964
when it was first built, but it
now offers guests so much
more than just a fun place
to ski. The resort offers
something for all the seasons and all the reasons!!
The “Peek” was purchased
a few years back by Scott
Enterprises and has seen
many changes with its new
owners. Scott Enterprises
is a hospitality company
and reinventing Peak ‘n
Peek was right in there
wheel horse.
Peak ‘n Peek is able to
offer its guests an extensive list of amenities, it’s
easiest to list them by season and then as a whole:
Winter activities include:
Downhill
skiing/snowboarding - 27 lighted trails,
(3) terrain parks and a bag
jump with 8 lifts that make
it easy to ski the mountain.
Also offered is snow tubing, cross country skiing,
snowmobile trails, ski rentals, ski shop and lessons.
They also have complete
snow making capabilities
so the slopes are always
ready for your enjoyment.
For those wanting to stay
your options are many.
The Lodge has many types
per course, is as equally
challenging as it is beautiful. It was past home to
the PGA Nationwide Tournament and has a 4.5 star
rating from Golf Digest.
The Lower Course offers
it’s own challenges and
has earned a 3 ½ star rating from Golf Digest magazine.) outdoor/indoor pool
with slide and kiddie areas, fitness center, tennis
courts, miniature golf, Segway tours, hot tub, sauna,
game room, and coming
this Spring Ziplining!! The
condos are also available
for rent all year round.
of accommodations to fit
your needs. It is also convenient to the slopes, so
stepping out of the lodge
and putting your skis and
heading to a lift is very convenient. The resort also
has 92 condos they rent
out offering most offering
ski in/ski out availability.
These condos are locat-
ed at both the top of the
mountain and at the base,
making hitting the slopes
a breeze! The condos offer sleeping arrangements
for as little as 2 people
all the way to 20+. It is an
awesome way for a group
of people to enjoy some
time away. Located in the
Lodge and available to all
registered guests (Lodge
and Condo) is an indoor
pool, a hot tub that is both
indoor and outdoor, sauna,
game room, fitness center,
and indoor playground.
Spring, Summer and
Fall activities include:
Golfing – (2) 18 hole championship courses. (The Up-
Any time activities include:
The “Serenity Spa” by Aveda. (located in the Lodge)
It offers a full range of “feel
good” and “results oriented” treatments for the
ultimate spa experience.
Whether you indulge in
one treatment or a multitreatment package, you’ll
emerge looking and feeling great. They offer a full
range of spa services such
as massages, facials, body
treatments, hand and foot
rituals, waxing and more.
Their staff is all professionals there to make your spa
experience – memorable.
Sauna, hot tub, fitness
center, playground and
game room are also available anytime.
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PLANE & PILOT NEWS
February 2014
“Because, I Say So”
Editorial Column by Beverly Hartong
Aviation is
Important in
America’s
Economy
the nation for companies in
the aviation industry. The
factors used in making the
determination were: cost
(taxes, business climate,
energy), workforce (available aerospace technicians, engineers, mechanics, education attainment)
and the number of aerospace companies operating. Price Waterhouse
Cooper the company that
handled the study said
“Not
surprisingly,
the
highest-ranking
states,
such as Florida, Texas and
Aviation Law
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709 Ride, You Gotta Do It!
I would like to tell you
about a case that came out
a while ago from the NTSB.
I was reading some
The pilot, Mr. Gregory Green
articles recently and came
attempted to take off in a
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vate airport. Apparently he
was recently released:
failed to maintain directional
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ficient climb to avoid strikwhich is the most attracing a fence along the edge
tive for the aviation busiof the field. This caused
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substantial damage to
been release. The study
the aircraft. FAA v. Green,
found that Florida ranked
Docket SE-19128, NTSB
the most attractive state in
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Bill Hayes
are created by a process
even too boring for this column. It is sufficient to know
that they are rules created
by governmental agencies.
It should also be noted that
about ten years ago the FAA
established a policy preferring that we refer to their
regulations as a part of the
Code of Federal Regulations
not “FARs”.
I typically
still refer to these rules as
“FAR’s” as it is shorter than
calling them the Code of
Federal Regulations.
The U.S. Code is on the
other hand, the law of our
country. They are passed by
Congress and signed by the
President. Title 49 U.S.C.
§ 44709(a) provides, “[t]he
Administrator of the Federal
Aviation Administration may
… reexamine an airman
holding a certificate issued
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Based upon some very
logical reasoning Mr. Green
did not feel he was obligated to take a 709 ride
with the FAA and refused to
do so. As a result the FAA
took an emergency action
to suspend Mr. Green’s private pilot certificate until
such time as he successfully
completed an examination.
I again have to make the
comment that I wonder why
individuals take cases up to
the NTSB when it would be
faster and easier to simply
comply with the request of
the FAA. In this particular
case Mr. Green spent a full
day arguing his case to an
Administrative Law Judge
and then appealed to the
Board. It just seems to me
it would have been faster
to take 709 checkride. But
then again that is not the
subject matter of this article.
To his credit Mr. Green
followed all the administrative procedures and hoops
required to appeal the FAA’s
emergency suspension of
his license. I have seen way
too many cases where attorneys who are not familiar
with the rules fail to comply
with the procedural requirements and fail to get their
case to a hearing.
Mr. Green made two
arguments in his defense.
The first really had no possible chance of winning. He
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PLANE & PILOT NEWS
February 2014
Hartzell Propeller Ends Busy 2013
Hartzell Propeller ended
2013 as the world’s leading
aviation propeller manufacturer, delivering more
than 3,700 new propellers
and introducing advanced
swept-blade aerodynamics
and improved true structural
composite technology to
aviators.
“Hartzell partnered with
Raisbeck Engineering to
introduce superior sweptblade aerodynamically-advanced propellers for the
legendary Beechcraft King
Air series during 2013,” said
Hartzell Propeller President
Joe Brown.
“At the same time we
also launched swept-blade
aerodynamics coupled with
very advanced structural
composite
manufacturing
technology for new Socata
TBM five-blade propellers,
which increase speed and
climb while reducing noise.”
During 2013, Hartzell delivered its milestone
20,000th propeller as part of
the company’s Top Prop™
aftermarket program. Also in
2013, the company delivered
more than 3,700 new propellers to a number of aviation
markets including, general
aviation, business aviation,
scheduled airlines, and military and unmanned sectors,
making it the world’s most
prolific aviation prop manufacturer.
“We’ve doubled our
capital equipment for producing structural composite blades. The market’s
responding very positively,
and I’m pleased to say we’re
hiring and have been hiring for the past couple of
years,” said Brown. “This is
a good time for us to invest
in general aviation as our
core business. We fly airplanes and it’s been a lot of
fun.”
Hartzell delivered more
than 3,200 aluminum blade
propellers and more than
500 structural composite
blade propellers to customers in the United States and
around the world in 2013. In
addition, the Hartzell Service
Center overhauled nearly
250 Hartzell props during
the year. Hartzell Propeller
employment stands at more
than 280 people.
Also during 2013, Hartz-
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designed for installation on
production Cessna T206H
Turbo Stationair aircraft,
was certified during the
year and became part of the
company’s Top Prop aftermarket program. The threeblade unit improves aircraft
performance
significantly
and has an 82” diameter, in
contrast to Cessna’s original factory prop with a 79”
diameter. The new propeller
is also available with de-ice
boots.
ell
Propeller
President
Brown was elected to serve
the industry as the vice
chair of the General Aviation
Manufacturers Association.
He also serves on the board
of the Experimental Aircraft
Association.
Raisbeck-Hartzell King Air
Swept Propellers
Hartzell began the year
with announcement of a
joint development program
with Raisbeck Engineering
for the first business aviation turbine propeller using
swept-blade aerodynamics
as an integral part of its performance-improving design.
The effort culminated in
the FAA certification of the
Raisbeck/Hartzell aluminum
four-blade swept turbofan
propeller for Beechcraft
King Air 200/B200/B200GT
aircraft.
That was followed by
another Raisbeck-Hartzell
joint development program
for advanced four-blade
swept airfoil propellers for
Beechcraft King Air C90
series aircraft. These new
Raisbeck-Hartzell aluminum
propellers will be available
from Raisbeck Engineering
beginning in 2014.
With the new Hartzell swept-blade propellers,
overall aircraft thrust and efficiency are measurably improved for Beechcraft King
Air C90GTx, C90GTi, C90GT,
C90B, C90A, C90 and E90
models. In addition, the
new Hartzell swept propellers lower cockpit and cabin
sound levels.
Hartzell TBM Swept-Blade
Structural Composite Prop
Also during the year,
Hartzell Propeller received
type certificate approval
from the Federal Aviation
Administration and European Aviation Safety Agency for an advanced swept
airfoil structural composite
five-blade propeller for TBM
700/850 aircraft. The new
design, specifically engineered for the single-engine
TBM turboprop, delivers
even faster takeoff acceleration, higher cruise speeds
and better climb, along with
less noise, for the world’s
fastest turboprop.
Hartzell Top Prop for Pilatus PC-6
During 2013, the venerable Pilatus PC-6 Turbo
Porter also became the
beneficiary of a Hartzell Top
Prop™ performance conversion certification. Hartzell’s lightweight four-blade
propeller measures 96 inches in diameter for reduced
noise and improved runway
clearance over the original
three-blade propeller. This
new Top Prop is also available as a factory option on
new aircraft directly from Pilatus in Stans, Switzerland.
Hartzell STC for
Piper Comanches
Hartzell Propeller was
granted a Supplemental
Type Certificate for a new
aluminum alloy scimitarblade prop for 1957-1964
Piper Comanches powered
by Lycoming O-360-A1A en-
gines. The two-blade scimitar shape features the same
successful blade design
already available for several Mooney and Diamond
models, and kit planes such
as Van’s RV series. The new
two-blade propeller kit includes an aluminum hub and
state-of-the-art 74” blended
airfoil, swept-tip blades,
plus a pointed composite
spinner assembly.
Hartzell Scimitar for
Cessna T206H
Hartzell
Propeller’s
scimitar aluminum propeller,
Red Bull Air Races Pick
Hartzell Claw
Hartzell was selected by
Red Bull Air Races as the
propeller technical partner
for the upcoming Red Bull
Air Race World Championship motor-sport series. As
the propeller partner, Hartzell will provide its threeblade structural composite propeller known as the
Claw, carbon fiber composite spinners and lightweight governors to each
race team. Hartzell will also
provide complete propeller technical support and
maintenance services for
all of the entrants for races
in the United Arab Emirates,
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PLANE & PILOT NEWS
February 2014
Lightspeed Aviation Foundation Welcomes Former
AOPA President Craig Fuller to Board of Directors
The Lightspeed Aviation
Foundation has announced
Craig Fuller, former Aircraft
Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) President and
CEO, has joined its board of
directors.
Fuller brings to the
Foundation
experience
gained through a career that
includes senior public affairs positions in business,
association leadership, and
executive positions in the
federal government, including eight years of service in
the White House from 1981
to 1989. Craig’s most recent service was to the over
300,000 members of AOPA
from 2009 to 2013.
“I started flying private
aircraft when I became 16
years old and aviation has
been part of my life ever
since,” said Fuller. “During
the past few years, I witnessed first hand the impact
the Lightspeed Aviation
Foundation has had by celebrating the success of the
very best organizations in
general aviation. I am honored to join the board of this
foundation that helps the
aviation community impact
so many people throughout
the world.”
Fuller joins a board already endowed with considerable business and aviation
knowledge and experience:
• Charlie Plumb, noted motivational speaker and former Navy fighter pilot and
P.O.W. and the recipient of
numerous military honors
• Wayne Handley, owner of
Wayne Handley Aerosports
and an aerobatic champion, preeminent air show
performer, and former naval
aviator
• Bill Dolan, President of
Spirit Media and an Emmynominated TV producer and
director
• Michael Thoben III, former
CEO of Interlink Electronics
and a passionate and accomplished aviator
• Allan Schrader, Foundation President and Founder
and President of Lightspeed
Aviation, Inc.
“Craig is a superb addition to a committed and
passionate group of people,” said Allan Schrader,
Foundation President. “I’m
proud of what we have accomplished so far and his
participation with us will
help advance our mission
even further.”
Visit
LightspeedAviationFoundation.org to learn
more.
The Lightspeed Aviation Foundation was established in 2010 out of the
commitment and passion
of the Lightspeed Aviation
Corporation to serve the
aviation community. Since
introducing its first product
at EAA AirVenture in 1996,
Lightspeed Aviation has established a reputation for
leading innovation in aviation headsets with a number
of “first to market” advances, including Bluetooth®
integration, Auto Shutoff™,
and, with Zulu PFX, Streaming Quiet™ ANR. This has
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Making flying easier
Something good is happening in Congress right now.
(I know some of you may find
that hard to believe, but it’s
true.)
A few weeks back, Rep.
Todd Rokita and Rep. Sam
Graves—both active pilots,
AOPA members, and members of the House GA
Caucus—introduced legislation that could get thousands
of pilots back in the air and
simplify life for thousands
more.
It’s called the General
Aviation Pilot Protection Act
(GAPPA), and, put simply, it
would vastly expand use of
the driver’s license medical
standard.
Our friends in Congress
took this step after we asked
for help. Almost two years
ago, AOPA and EAA filed a
petition asking the FAA to
make more pilots eligible
to fly with a driver’s license
instead of a third-class medical. It’s the same standard
Sport Pilots have been using
for nearly a decade, and we
know that it’s safe and effective. We even recommended
that pilots be required to take
recurrent online training so
they’d be able to effectively
determine their fitness to fly,
further improving safety.
When the petition was
opened to public comment,
16,000 comments were
filed—the vast majority of
them positive.
But the FAA hasn’t taken
action on the petition. We’ve
asked them repeatedly to
move forward, and I’ve discussed this personally with
the FAA Administrator. But
we’re still waiting.
Now GAPPA will go much
further, allowing pilots to use
the driver’s license medical
standard for noncommercial
VFR flights in aircraft weighing up to 6,000 pounds with
no more than six seats. That
includes virtually all singleengine airplanes with six
or fewer seats as well as
some twins. Pilots would be
allowed to carry up to five
passengers, fly at altitudes
below 14,000 feet msl and fly
no faster than 250 knots. The
Act would also require the
FAA to report on the safety
consequences of the new rule
after five years.
If this legislation becomes
law, it could be one of the
best things to happen to general aviation in a very long
time. I hear from so many
pilots who lament the time
and expense needed to
receive a medical certificate,
and even stop flying and sell
their airplanes because of it.
GAPPA could change all that
and keep thousands of pilots
flying in the planes they know
and love.
When the time is right, this
legislation is going to need
the support of the pilot community to pass, and we’ll be
asking our members to get
involved and take action.
We’ll let you know exactly
how you can help when the
time comes. In the meantime,
stay tuned and we’ll keep you
up to date on this and all the
issues that are changing the
way we fly.
PLANE & PILOT NEWS
February 2014
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UNSUNG HEROES
September 11, 2001 was a
horrific day. Everyone in the Untied States was effected by the
terrorism that took place that
day. The stories and news went
to the NYC first responders,
those lost and their families, but
never really covered or reported
on those who’s lives were at
stake making sure our freedom
was protected. The following
is an article that I came across
and I felt it worth printing. Many
thanks to people like Lt. Heather
Penney and the many that serve
to keep our nation safe.
Pilots often claim that the
two worst things that can happen to a pilot are:
( 1 ) Walking out to the aircraft
knowing this will be your last
flight or
( 2 ) Walking out to the aircraft
NOT knowing this will be your
last flight. This pilot’s story adds
another possibility....
The events of September
11, 2001, put two F-16 pilots
into the sky with orders to bring
down United Flight 93 .
Late on that Tuesday morning of September 11th, Lt.
Heather “Lucky” Penney was on
a runway at Andrews Air Force
Base and ready to fly. She had
her hand on the throttle of an
F-16 and she had her orders,
“Bring down United Airlines
Flight 93.”
The day’s fourth hijacked
airliner seemed to be hurtling
toward Washington. Penney,
one of the first two combat pilots in the air that morning, was
told to stop it.
“I genuinely believed that
was going to be the last time
I took off,” says Maj. Heather
“Lucky” Penney, remembering
the September 11 attacks and
the initial U. S. reaction.
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PLANE & PILOT NEWS
Fractured
Flying
Tales
February 2014
by Steve Hanshew
Reflections from the
Vortex
Held captive by the
Polar Vortex my soul languishes in quiet desperation as I wait for the furnace
to kick on. Nestled into my
sheep wool slippers, my
only companion is this keyboard and a fifth of Tennessee’s finest. When it’s too
cold to fly and the snow is
blowing sideways, I often
sit near the window and
think. Sometimes I think
too much. I wonder about
stuff…all kinds of stuff.
I just bought some
Timken axle bearings for
the Cub, hoping to replace
the old ones in the spring.
Who is Timken anyway, and
why is his name synonymous with bearings? I put
down my shot glass to key
up the omnipotent oracle
of superfluous stuff known
to one and all as ‘google’.
So prevalent is this digital
library that the answer to
all of the universe’s boundless inquiries are held
in the trite phrase, “Just
Google it.” Well I did. Henry
Timken, St. Louis carriage
maker thought that wagon
wheel accidents were due
to shaft problems, hence
the need for bearings in
lieu of slathering axles in
pig lard. Cornering loads
were always a big problem
on freight wagons and had
been since the time the
Egyptians first put wheels
to chariots. However, the
tapered roller bearing was
the answer and Henry’s
contribution to transportation and when airplanes
came along; found a new
home for pilots trying to
stick the wheels during a
crosswind landing. Here’s
to Henry and his bearing
that bailed me out of many
a botched landing!
While I was at it my
spring ‘to do’ list included
topping off the oleo struts
with nitrogen on the Nan-
chang. The right leg is
sagging a wee bit looking
much a like dirt track cart
racer or a drunken aviation
column writer. Take your
pick. Oleo struts…now
what is an oleo; sounds
like some weighted rope
whirly-gig flung by a Gaucho in Argentina wearing
pantaloons (what the heck
are those) or an itinerant
aviation mechanic in Oslo.
“Who repacked your landing gear bearings Sven?
Oh, dat vas Oleo.” Nope,
wrong – None of the above.
Oleo is an industrial term
created in the late 1800’s
for anything having to do
with oil, thus an oil-filled
shock absorber designed
to cushion your landing
is an oleo strut. Now you
know why faux butter is
called
“oleo-margarine”.
Still tastes like butter to
me. I wonder if I can grease
axles with it.
When my old Fisher
Celebrity biplane starter
stuck and wouldn’t disengage, I cursed the starter
calling it everything shy
of a woman of ill-repute. I
phoned my ‘go to’ maintenance buddy and he told
me to hit it with a deadfall hammer. Wow, and to
think it took three years in
AMT School to come up
with that one. At any rate
he said the Bendix Drive
was probably stuck. It was,
but even though I cussed
the starter Vincent Bendix
still ranks high on my list.
Like the Wright Brothers
and their affinity for two
wheel bikes, Vinnie began
his career as a smalltime
machinist manufacturing
brakes for bicycles. Engineers at General Motors
saw Vincent as a gifted guy
and promptly bought his
bike business, redirecting
his brains towards the car
and then aviation projects.
Just like cars, planes were
getting bigger and more
complicated and moreover
needed a real starter and
not a hand prop – and real
brakes and not a tail skid.
The Bendix Starter, carburetor, and brake systems
revolutionized aircraft. In
turn his plethora of prized
patents made Vincent rich.
Returning the favor he became a big promoter of
aviation and in 1931 sponsored a transcontinental air
race starting at Mines Field
in Los Angeles, timed to
finish during the National
Air Races held in Cleveland
whereupon the winner not
only got the Bendix Trophy but a sizeable chunk
of change. Thanks to race
pilots such as Jimmy Doolittle and Roscoe Turner,
Vincent Bendix brought
cutting edge technology
into modern aircraft. And to
think all I wanted to do was
get the darn plane started
and stopped.
That reminds me, I
need to do some minor
skin repairs. Drilling and
riveting pieces without the
requisite Cleco set is like
Jefferson
County
Airport
(2G2)
Sofia Vergara wearing a
‘moo-moo’, it just doesn’t
work for me. Thankfully I’ve
got about a million Clecos
stashed in my roll-around
box. Where would you be
without that marvelous
little squeeze fastener designed to keep you aligned
and honest. If you’re building an RV you know Clecos
better than your own kids,
always at the ready with a
deburring and Cleco tool.
Cleco…cute word but what
gives? I always figured it
was a patented name like
“Slinky” or “Fritos” and
in a way it is. Cleveland
Pneumatic Tool Company
developed the temporary
squeeze fastener designed
to fit into drilled holes in
order to keep both pieces
together and more importantly, properly aligned in
preparation for riveting. It
was so simple it screamed,
“Why didn’t I think of that”.
They first advertised them
as Clekos but as mechanics are wont to do they took
to calling them Clecos and
the rest is as they say – history.
Which brings me to the
Dzus. Whether you call it
D-Zoos or just plain Zues’
it remains one of the integral pieces of any airplane
on the planet. And everyone knows – like Clecos
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Rose Marie Kern
NOTAM CHANGES!
Over the past several years
the FAA has been slowly bringing the Federal Air Traffic system into conformity with ICAO
standards. The next generation of this evolution has
just occurred with the way
Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs)
are being formatted.
The
U.S. Notices to Airmen office
(USNOF) posted the latest
edition of the NOTAM handbook online at http://www.faa.
gov/documentLibrary/media/
Order/Basic7930.2N.pdf. This
order became effective as of
October 1st, 2013.
The first thing you will notice
when perusing NOTAMs these
days is that many of the old
familiar contractions are no
longer being used. For years
OTS meant OUT OF SERVICE,
now it is being spelled out. All
contractions used in NOTAMs
are supposed to be ICAO,
though there are a few exceptions – holdovers from the previous version – that are still
allowed. By doing this student
pilots or ones that are visiting
from other countries should
have an easier time understanding them.
Where previously many
NOTAMs had numbers in them
that were just “understood”
to be a specific type measurement based on how they
appeared in the NOTAM, now
all numbers must contain the
alphabetical
abbreviation.
For instance, in the old style
you would see “RWY 15 CLSD
OVER 86000”, the new version
will spell out “RWY 15 CLSD
TO ACFT OVER 86000LB”. An
old NOTAM would state “PJE
5NMR MIV BLW 5000”, now
it will say “PJE 5NM RADIUS
MIV SFC TO 5000FT”. The
term BLW (below) is no longer
used, all heights are listed from
the surface.
Many Obstruction and
Airspace NOTAMs will now
include
latitude/longitude
location descriptions. Some
of them, such as radio towers,
are required to show the lat/
long to the nearest one hundredth of a second, the others
will go to the nearest second.
All NOTAMs will now have a
Rose Marie Kern
start time and an end time. If
the issuer of the NOTAM does
not know when it will end, he
is required to make an educated guess. The end time
will have the contraction EST
(estimated) appended – so if
he thinks the occurrence will
end on October 4th of 2013 at
2300zulu, the end time will be
coded as 1310042300EST. An
EST NOTAM will not drop out
of the system until the issuer
calls back and cancels it, but
at least it gives the flying community an idea as to when to
expect the condition to end.
For conditions that will be
permanent changes – a frequency change, a new runway,
a newly commissioned AWOS
– the end time will show the
normal date/time group as the
beginning time, but the end
will simply say PERM. These
NOTAMs will stay in the system until they are published in
the AFD or on the appropriate
charts.
Should an airport have published TORA/TODA/ASDA/LDA
distances on any runway, and
that runway is modified in any
way, such as a partial closure,
the NOTAM must contain the
revised distances for all four
measurements.
These are
normally only seen at airports
that accept commercial traffic.
As we go into the winter
months we will see many
changes in the way field condition (FICON) NOTAMs are
formatted.
Where before
there were different contractions for taxiways/ramps/
aprons and runways, now all
descriptors are the same. The
descriptors themselves have
changed. Loose snow is now
Dry Snow, as opposed to Wet
Snow or Compacted Snow.
Contaminants also include ice,
mud, slush, water, frost and
even ash, rubber and sand.
Surfaces can also be reported as WET or DRY. Usually
you will only see DRY where
the NOTAM states that part
of a runway is DRY and part
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February 2014
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of it has a contaminant. For nants on aprons, ramps, or
example: RWY 8/26 W 5000FT taxiways is optional. Depths
PLOWED 100FT WIDE DRY on runways are mandatory –
REMAINDER COMPACTED except for ice and compacted
SN.
The depth of the contami-
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PLANE & PILOT NEWS
February 2014
F lyin ’ A round
Jim Opalka
Ercoupe 416 Ds and
the Good Ol’ Days –
or Were They?
It seems as though
young folks don’t have the
sense of awe that we middle aged ones tend to have.
For example, if I were to
hear a conversation such
as the following I could not
but find it remarkable:
“Since my Xyboard
went south I had to borrow
my friend’s first generation
Droid. All the av apps were
there but the text was so
small and I couldn’t afford
to run out and pick up
an Ipad. I mean the Pad
GPS touch screen with the
Retina display blows my
mind, but I tied my money
up in a RAZR and Smart
TV.”
That technical stuff
above is so mundane as to
be sort of harmless, almost
lackadaisical in its simplicity. Much more complex
technology exists out there
in the far reaches of cyberscience. But there is a lot
to be said for getting back
to the basics. And it can
be a humbling experience.
What if this happened
today? Take flight planning a 1946 Ercoupe 415 C
/ D model. Unfortunately
everything from Xyboard to
Droid to IPad, GPS, Garmin
(web) Pilot, Internet and TV
are inop. Your Sporty’s
E6B is down and your whizwheel blew away with the
Andy (Left) and Casey (Right). Joe is inside lusting
after the 310
JIM OPALKA
prop wash on your last 150
dollar hamburger trip. The
Ercoupe has a hand-held
velcroed to the panel. Not
a lot more than a whiskey
compass to point you to
the hamburger at the end
of the flight.
Some individuals feel
the cool and moist drippings of perspiration form
on their forehead in a situation like this. Some put
their truck in reverse and
head for home or a friend’s
hangar to tell hangar lies
and hope someone with a
functioning GPS is as hungry for a flight and a lunch
as you.
Of course we could
continue into flight planning with only a Sectional
and plotter.
And that’s
generally what this is all
about.
There’s nothing
Joe pointing out stuff on our tour of the Ercoupe. Got to love
the fuel gauges. Seriously. New pump last annual.
“Characteristically incapable of spinning.” Can you say legaleze?
wrong with Sectionals and
plotters. One day we will
barely remember them with
heartfelt fondness.
I am
in the process of making
a lamp out of an old, very
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Do not expect a lesson
on Sectional flight planning
here. That requires thinking and a lot of work without the blessings of the
above-mentioned technical
goodies.
But for fun, that’s
what I’m looking to try just
for kicks in the spring with
Joe our new hangar neighbor, pictured here with his
Ercoupe.
So this brief article is
about contrasts. You can
especially tell that when you
look at the photos. There’s
Joe’s Ercoupe cockpit, the
C-180 cabin, and Casey’s
Cessna 310. In it (the 310)
you may spy a menagerie
of wonderful goodies. And
on the outside there are
hot props, deicing boots,
hot-tails (so to speak) and
lots of great things to help
transport you to the 150
dollar burger. Well, maybe
it is only slightly more in the
310.
Here’s the bottom line.
I wanted to plot a course
from point A to B and use
my modern day gadgets
to make the job easy. As
sure and true as I am sitting
here and word processing
this article, my new flight
plan program on the web
failed me. I tried (honestly)
six times to get beyond
step four in completing the
flight plan. No matter how
I tried to continue, it would
not let me. A nasty and
unforgiving splash screen
appeared before me and
went into detail describing
why I could not access my
info.
I finally brought up a
PLANE & PILOT NEWS
Reflections
from the
Vortex
Continued from page 6
– their worthless without
a specific tool to undo the
cowl, side panel, whatever,
hence a Dzus Tool. No cute
acronym or hashed together mishmash of letters
here. There really was a guy
named Dzus – No kidding.
An American engineer born
of two Ukrainian immigrant
parents, Volodymyr Dzus
(or Bill as he preferred to be
called – and who wouldn’t)
in 1932 invented what became the most revolutionary quarter-turn fastener
known to aviation, a nearly
flush mounted, low drag,
marvel. During World War
II no less than the Department of Defense endorsed
the Dzus fastener for nearly
every allied airplane, tank,
or command car, making
Bill a pretty wealthy guy.
Later names for such fasteners would be Camlocs
and Airlocs but underneath
they’re all Dzus fasteners.
Looking out the window as
the snow drifts up to the
wheel hub of the truck, I
recall many a cold winter
ramp where you had to
have tire chains on the tugs
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20,000th Top Prop Sold
In July, Hartzell Propel-
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hooked up and shoved into
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orifice. Airplanes’, like most
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extreme cold be it engines,
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the temperature plummets
below 20 degrees and
without a good pre-heat
the consistency of engine
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elephantine looking duct
hose, putting out oodles of
blessed hot air like a warm
day in Tahiti. Often mistaken for a generator cart,
no winter ramp is complete
without one and most reciprocating engine planes
will not start without them.
I guess Herman must have
spent enough time out on
a frozen ramp to finally decide something had to be
done. Not a chance, Herman was more concerned
with keeping kids warm.
His Moline, Illinois based
company enabled the one
and two room schoolhouse
to balloon into a four story
education factory when in
1918 he did away with the
old coal furnace replaced
by a revolutionary roof
mounted heater/ventilation
system equipped with an
equally revolutionary lightweight radiator element
that reduced both the size
and the weight of this unit.
Soon not only did schools
have them mounted to
every roof but nearly every factory in America. By
1941, the Herman Nelson
Company was on war footing and dedicated to providing heat to men fighting
in the cold climes of Alaska
as well as cool air to those
serving in the sweltering
Pacific. To those air force
personnel servicing aircraft
during the winter season in
England or in the far reaches of the Aleutians’ Herman
Nelson wasn’t a guy, he was
a Godsend. Shoved into a
blanket-encased
engine
cowl and even through the
cockpit forward entry door,
the old Herman Nelson did
what it was designed to
do; it gave you on-demand
heat and lots of it, running
uninterrupted as long as
there was fuel in the tank.
Simple to operate and just
as simple to maintain, the
Herman Nelson kept em’
flying in every theater of
operation, which reminds
me, time to quit prattling
on about heaters and the
cold north wind and time
to bump up the thermostat.
See you in the spring.
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709 Ride, You
Gotta Do It!
argued that the FAA had not
shown sufficient proof that
would justify a requirement
for him to take a 709 ride.
As the judge in his opinion
stated: “In the cases cited
by the Administrator… (the
FAA) need only convince us
that the basis for questioning competence has been
implicated, not that the lack
of competence has been
demonstrated.”
In this particular case
Mr. Green was the pilot of
an aircraft that had an accident on takeoff. The FAA
was not suggesting that he
was not competent to hold a
private pilot certificate they
simply felt there was a basis
for a re-examination. Good
enough.
Mr. Green’s second
argument was one based
upon sound logic, and
therefore when dealing with
the FAA was bound to lose.
Following the incident Mr.
Green successfully completed a biennial flight review
pursuant to 14 CFR 61.56,
with a designated examiner.
Mr.
Green’s
logic
worked like this: A pilot taking a biennial flight review
is expected to fly to the
same level of competency
as would be required by
whatever pilot certificate
he holds. Mr. L. Bothe, the
designated examiner, would
have had the power to
originally issue Mr. Green
a Private Pilot Certificate.
Further Mr. Bothe would
be very knowledgeable of
the requirements, as they
would pertain to the minimum standards required for
a Private Pilot Certificate.
Therefore having successfully completed a Biennial
Flight Review with Mr.
Bothe, he would therefore
have had to have flown to a
standard which would satisfy the FAA’s request for a
709 checkride.
The logic is impeccable
and also totally wrong.
The NTSB was less than
eloquent in rendering their
decision. In explaining why
the Biennial Flight Review
would not satisfy a 709
checkride, they stated on
February 2014
the last page of their decision:
“Finally, to the extent
respondent contends his
biennial flight review sufficed to fulfill the requirement of 49 U.S.C. § 44709(a),
we reject this argument.
Pilots must complete biennial flight reviews under
14 C.F.R. § 61.56. These
flight reviews have requirements different from those
of a reexamination under
49 U.S.C. § 44709(a). The
Administrator will request a
reexamination after realizing
a reasonable basis exists to
question a pilot’s competency, judgment, or other necessary attribute. Therefore,
reexaminations occur upon
request, rather than on a
periodic basis.”
That paragraph makes
no sense. First they say
that a biennial have different
requirements and then state
as an example, “Therefore,
reexaminations occur upon
request, rather than on a
periodic basis.” Huh?
Here is the reality. Flight
instructors can administer
biennial flight reviews. The
FAA has made it clear that
they expect us to have the
pilot preform the maneuvers
at least to a level equal to
whatever certificate they
hold. When Mr. Green completed his biennial flight
review, I am absolutely confident that the designated
examiner held him to the
same standards as would
be required for a private
pilot checkride.
On a 709 ride, it is not
necessary for the pilot to
perform all the maneuvers
that he would have performed to pass a private
pilot check right. Usually
the FAA focuses on one or
two areas. A great example
of this is the checkride that
is always required after a
pilot has landed gear up.
A 709 ride after a gear
up landing usually involves
an oral and 3 or 4 landings
where the pilot successfully
lands with the gear down.
I do not think that there
has ever been a failed 709
checkride after a gear up
landing. I would say that
on the checkride following
a gear up landing, the pilot
CRS#DKZR372X
would be pretty focused
on putting the gear down,
especially with an FAA
Safety Inspector sitting next
to him. I can see it now, the
pilot goes up with the FAA
Safety Inspector, lands the
airplane gear up again, and
the examiner says to the
pilot, “Gee Bill I think I see
what the problem is here.”
Despite what the NTSB
held in this case, the difference between a 709
checkride and a biennial
flight review is that the 709
checkride by law must be
performed with an Aviation
Safety Inspector from an FAA
FSDO. NO EXCEPTIONS.
The ride can focus on one or
more areas of competency,
the FAA decides.
If the FAA asks you to
do a 709 ride go up with and
instructor and practice the
maneuvers that the FAA is
focusing on. Get it over with
and move on with life.
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February 2014
Ercoupe 416
Ds and the
Good Ol’ Days
– or Were
They?
US Navy Blue Angels
in Dayton to discuss
2014 show
Sean D. Tucker… Patty
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Shockwave previously
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free app I had downloaded
a week prior and it did not
even let me on the web. It
didn’t know who I was, let
alone plot me a course.
Frustrating.
So how does one get to
the burger? My sister borrowed my old Garmin 496
for a trip to Chesapeake,
Virginia. I would be embarrassed to beg a flying
friend to borrow their sac-
Where is the Sectional, plotter, hand-held, maybe binoculars
to read road signs? Mucho fun though.
rosanct piece of navigational equipment.
I remember a wizened
pilot and great friend who
always stressed the basics
to me and many times let
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me get lost and subsequently found after walking
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procedures. Maybe getting lost once in awhile isn’t
all that bad of a thing. It
builds character. No! I
take that all back.
I have a friend that was
lost and without a working
navcom on 911. Needless
to say he had the hangar
story of hangar stories after
that flight. I’d love to have
a photo of that Tomcat trying to nudge his Cherokee
back to the ground.
Honestly, anyone with
a C 416 or 416 CD, give me
a call or drop me an email.
I hear you can open those
sliding windows and come
close to flying open cockpit. Sounds like a hoot to
me.
The US Navy Blue Angel No. 7 Lt. Ryan Chamberlain and No. 8 LCDR
Michael Cheng flew to
Dayton in a team Boeing
F/A-18 Hornet to meet with
show officials on the 2014
Vectren Dayton Air Show
Presented by Kroger. The
40th annual show, to be
held June 28-29 at the Dayton International Airport, is
one of only 34 show sites
selected by the famed Blue
Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron for a 2014
performance.
Last appearing in Dayton in 2012, the Blues have
been thrilling audiences for
more than 60 years. The
team flies six powerful Boeing F/A-18 Hornets during
its tightly choreographed,
high-energy
demonstration—sometimes flying as
little as 18 inches apart.
Leading the 110-member
Squadron is Blue Angel
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“We
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Blue Angels back to Dayton for the 2014 show,”
stated
Michael
Emoff,
Chairman of the United
States Air & Trade Show
Board of Trustees, producers of the event. “We are
not only fortunate to have
been selected for a Blue
Angel performance, but we
have been successful in
securing other top attractions as well. What we have
announced so far is a great
beginning to what will be
an awesome lineup. More
attractions will be added in
the weeks ahead,” he added.
Show officials previously announced four top
civilian feature attractions
that will be joining the
Blues:
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Because I
say so
Washington, score well
across core variables, with
relatively modest wages,
well-trained and educated
workforces and a relatively
high number of aerospace
companies,”
The study
reported Florida ranked
first for talent, ninth for
industry and sixth for cost
in the national rankings.
Florida Governor Rick
Scott, touted the report
as evidence that his policies to create a businessfriendly environment in the
state are paying off. “We
fought last session to build
up Florida manufacturing
by removing the tax on
manufacturing machinery
and equipment, so more
Florida families would
have access to great jobs
– and it’s working,” Scott
said in a statement. “This
ranking is great news for
our state and helps us to
recruit more manufacturing businesses to move to
or expand in Florida.”
Maybe the more surprising information provided
by the study was that the
aircraft sector is the largest net exporter in the
U.S. with a trade surplus
of $71.1 billion in 2012,
according to the study.
The aerospace industry
employs nearly 500,000
workers nationwide.
It
once again proves that
Aviation is important and
does help the economy.
I have to wonder if a
study of which State has
the most “active” pilots
and also which State
has prosperous General
Aviation businesses such
as FBO’s, mechanics, avionics, etc.? I wonder if
they would be same State?
I sometimes write comments hoping to induce
conversation and maybe
even provoke people to
act. Last month I wrote
about the class III medical
and using a drivers license
instead of having to have
a flight physical. My comments were more of comparing the FAA’s strange
way of judging safety,
basically taking a stab at
their whole APNEA idea.
But none the less I did
question the safety aspect
of foregoing a physical and
I received a response from
a reader. I have included it
with my article.
One final note, please
get your events in early!! If
your organization is thinking about having an event
but do not have all the
details, but have chosen
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Happy flying, hopefully
Mother Nature provides a
little more warmth and less
snow for February.
LETTER TO
THE EDITOR
Dear Bev,
I feel this is an important
issue and pilots should be
talking about it and getting involved. I believe that
after ten years of sport
pilots flying, data has
shown that using a drivers
license without the third
class medical has NOT
affected the safety of general aviation. In non commercial operations (recreational GA), pilots are all
self evaluating before each
flight and this holds true
with a medical or driver’s
license. Pilots are more
safety conscious than the
average person. They are
not going to risk theirs
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After ten years, data
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NOTAM
CHANGES!
snow which are prohibited. (I
guess they figure any ice is
slippery regardless of depth!)
The depth measurements have
changed. THIN means less
than 1/8th inch and they have
added ¾ inch as a viable depth.
All depths over an inch remain
the same as in the past.
FICON NOTAMs are all
required to specify the time
the condition was observed,
so they will have three date/
time groups. For example:
BGR RWY 15/33 FICON 2IN
DRY SNOW OBSERVED AT
1311131400.
13111314201311141420EST.
The first
time is the observed time, then
the time the NOTAM was issued
and the last time is a 24 hours
estimated end time. All FICON
NOTAMs for winter conditions
cannot be more than 24 hours
and must end in EST. Issuers
are expected to cancel or call
and reissue the NOTAM prior to
that end time.
On occasion you will see
a longer end time, but that is
only when the authority issuing the NOTAM is not going to
be able to update the NOTAM.
Then the NOTAM will give
the field condition, but will
then state CONDITIONS NOT
MONITORED TIL and give the
time the issuer expects someone will be on the field and
able to update the information
– possibly several days in the
future.
If there is an active
CONDITIONS
NOT
MONITORED NOTAM on the
field, pilots can call flight service and report the surface
condition. A Pilot reported
FICON is valid for only 12 hours
maximum, or until the airport
manager expects to return.
The keywords for some
NOTAMs have changed as well.
Where the firefighting status
(ARFF)
NOTAMs and fuel
NOTAMs used to be service
(SVC) NOTAMs, now they are
listed as airport (AD) NOTAMs.
Customs services are also listed as AD NOTAMs.
All these changes will take
getting used to. Most of us
“seasoned” aviation professionals will grump our way
through them, where the students will probably find the
NOTAMs easier to understand.
If you run across any that you
have questions about, just call
flight service for an interpretation.
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she said last week in her office
at Lockheed Martin, where she
is a director in the F-35 program.
Penney, now a major but
still a petite blonde with a Colgate grin, is no longer a combat
flier. She flew two tours in Iraq
and she serves as a part-time
National Guard pilot, mostly
hauling VIPs around in a military
Gulfstream. She takes the stick
of her own vintage 1941 Taylorcraft tail-dragger whenever she
can.
But none of her thousands
of hours in the air quite compare
with the urgent rush of launching on what was supposed to
be a one-way flight to a midair
collision. First of her kind!
She was a rookie in the autumn of 2001, the first female
F-16 pilot they’d ever had at the
121st Fighter Squadron of the
D. C. Air National Guard. She
had grown up smelling jet fuel.
Her father flew jets in Vietnam
and still races them. Penney got
her pilot’s license when she was
a literature major at Purdue.
She planned to be a teacher.
But during a graduate program
in American studies, Congress
opened up combat aviation to
women and Penney was nearly
first in line. “I signed up immediately,” she says. “I wanted to
be a fighter pilot like my dad.”
On that Tuesday, they had
just finished two weeks of air
combat training in Nevada.
They were sitting around a
briefing table when someone
looked in to say a plane had hit
the World Trade Center in New
York. When it happened once,
they assumed it was some yahoo in a Cessna. When it happened again, they knew it was
war.
But the surprise was complete. In the monumental confusion of those first hours, it was
impossible to get clear orders.
Nothing was ready. The jets
were still equipped with dummy
bullets from the training mission. As remarkable as it seems
now, there were no armed aircraft standing by and no system
in place to scramble them over
Washington. Before that morning, all eyes were looking outward, still scanning the old Cold
War threat paths for planes and
missiles coming over the polar
ice cap.
“There was no perceived
threat at the time, especially
one coming from the homeland
like that,” says Col. George
Degnon, vice commander of
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the 113th Wing at Andrews.
“It was a little bit of a helpless
feeling, but we did everything
humanly possible to get the aircraft armed and in the air. It was
amazing to see people react.”
Things are different today,
Degnon says. At least two “hotcocked” planes are ready at all
times, their pilots never more
than yards from the cockpit.
A third plane hit the Pentagon, and almost at once came
word that a fourth plane could
be on the way, maybe more.
The jets would be armed within
an hour, but somebody had to
fly now, weapons or no weapons.
“Lucky, you’re coming with
me,” barked Col. Marc Sasseville. They were gearing up in
the pre-flight life-support area
when Sasseville, struggling into
his flight suit, met her eye. “I’m
going to go for the cockpit,”
Sasseville said.
She replied without hesitating, “I’ll take the tail.”
It was a plan. And a pact.
‘Let’s go!’
Penney had never scrambled a jet before. Normally the
pre-flight is a half-hour or so of
methodical checks. She automatically started going down
the list.
“Lucky, what are you doing? Get your butt up there and
let’s go!” Sasseville shouted.
She climbed in, rushed to
power up the engine, screamed
for her ground crew to pull the
chocks. The crew chief still had
his headphones plugged into
the fuselage as she nudged the
throttle forward. He ran along
pulling safety pins from the jet
as it moved forward. She muttered a fighter pilot’s prayer “God, don’t let me [expletive]
up”- and followed Sasseville
into the sky.
They screamed over the
smoldering Pentagon, heading northwest at more than 400
mph, flying low and scanning
the clear horizon. Her commander had time to think about
the best place to hit the enemy.
“We don’t train to bring down
airliners,” said Sasseville, now
stationed at the Pentagon. “If
you just hit the engine, it could
still glide and you could guide it
to a target. My thought was the
cockpit or the wing.”
He also thought about his
ejection seat. Would there be
an instant just before impact?
“I was hoping to do both at the
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same time,” he says. “It probably wasn’t going to work, but
that’s what I was hoping.”
Penney worried about
missing the target if she tried
to bail out. “If you eject and
your jet soars through without
impact... “ she trails off, the
thought of failing more dreadful
than the thought of dying.
But she didn’t have to
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down an airliner full of kids and
salesmen and girlfriends. They
did that themselves. It would
be hours before Penney and
Sasseville learned that United
93 had already gone down in
Pennsylvania, an insurrection
by hostages willing to do just
what the two Guard pilots had
been willing to do: Anything,
and everything.
“The real heroes are the
passengers on Flight 93 who
were willing to sacrifice themselves,” Penney says. “I was
just an accidental witness to
history.”
She and Sasseville, flew the
rest of the day, clearing the airspace, escorting the president,
looking down onto a city that
would soon be sending them to
war.
She’s a single mom of two
girls now. She still loves to fly.
And she still thinks often of that
extraordinary ride down the
runway a decade ago.
“I genuinely believed that
was going to be the last time I
took off,” she says.
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CESSNA
1979 CESSNA 172N - IFR WITH
DUAL NAV-COMS, VOR’S, ILS,
AND KLN-90B GPS. ANNUAL
DUE JULY 2014, LESS THAN 300
HRS. SMOH. LOSING MEDICAL
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10-2
PIPER
1939 J4 CUB – C65 ENGINE,
PROJECT PLANE. NORTHEAST
OHIO. (330) 372-6244 OR (330)
979-6113.
12-2
1980 Piper Archer II - 5495
TT, 273 since new, Garmin
430 WAAS, Garmin SL30, Av
map EKP-V, all LED lights,
EDM 830, factory Auto pilot, new paint in 05 and always hangared, includes
a Bruce’s custom cover.
asking $115,000.00 call 330805-7600.
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1977 PIPER WARRIOR II PA28161 – 2751TT, 901SMOH, ANNUAL 09/13. $36,000 FORMORE
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02-02
40 FOOT DOORS, TOTAL CONCRETE FLOOR, FREE ELECTRIC,
$100.00 PER MONTH! CALL
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6-2
T-HANGAR FOR RENT @ AKRON FULTON (AKR)
40’
ELECTRIC
BI-FOLD
DOOR.
$235.00 PER MONTH.
(330)
687-6848
7-2
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PER MONTH. CALL 330-4281269
9-12
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12-4
T-HANGARS AVAILABLE, 48 X
14 BI FOLD DOOR, CONCRETE
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FOR MORE INFO CALL (330) 8057600.
3-2
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RAVENNA, OHIO. LOCATED ON
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FURNISHED Pilot’s lounge,
GAS HEAT. END UNIT. ASKING
$87,500. (330) 805-7600
8-2
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- NEW BI FOLD DOOR, FULLY
NESTED. GREAT T HANGAR, ALL
FINISHED ON INSIDE. ASKING
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9-2
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8-2
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3-12
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12-2
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12-2
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7-2
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10-2
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DICK (740) 965-9282
9-2
COMPLETE SET OF NEW FANCY PANTS FOR A CHEROKEE
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(419) 294-8993
12-2
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COMPUTER, IN BOX NEVER
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12-2
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PLANE & PILOT NEWS
US Navy
Blue Angels
in Dayton
periority with the passion
and perfection he brings to
every show.
Patty Wagstaff will fly
in the air show for the first
time since 2009. A 2004
National Aviation Hall of
Fame enshrinee, Patty has
flown air shows and competitions around the world
and is considered one of
the top aerobatic pilots on
the air show circuit—male
or female.
The
North
American AeroShell Aerobatic
Team, led by Mark Henley,
flies four World War II-era
North American AT-6G Texans in precision aerobatic
maneuvers, including the
bomb burst, avalanche
and breath-taking “Switch
Blade.”
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Shockwave jet truck will
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by Les Shockley and recently acquired by Darnell
Racing Enterprises, Shockwave is a radically modified
Peterbilt truck that shoots
fireballs, billows smoke
and hurtles down the runway at speeds exceeding
300 miles per hour. Its three
Westinghouse J34-48 jet
engines produce 36,000
horsepower.
The Vectren Dayton Air
Show Presented by Kroger
also announced that ticket prices will remain unchanged from 2013. The
popular Chairman’s Club,
Pavilion, Family 4 Pack,
and Blue Sky Chalet are
now on sale, offering a
range of seating amenities.
Tickets can conveniently
be purchased through our
show website at www.daytonairshow.com. Many of
these venues sell out early,
so don’t wait to get your
tickets. Beginning May 19,
2014, deep discount general admission tickets will
also be available for purchase at over 100 Kroger
stores in the Dayton-Cincinnati region.
Prop to
Tail
I parked at a nice FBO
called Vee Neal Aviation
and everyone there were
very nice and nice to
work with. They are right
next to the main terminal
building. There is a very
nice Italian restaurant
called DeNunzio’s Italian
Chophouse located in the
terminal building too. So if
you’re out flying and get
into that area - check them
both out.
They told me to watch
my engine performance
and gauges to make sure
they were all reading and
working properly. It was
great to have everything
right at the tip of my fingers! The main gauge I was
watching was my oil temperature being that the outside air temperature was
-11. I needed to make sure
my oil didn’t get to hot with
my winterization kit on and
not to cold that my oil didn’t
jell in the oil cooler. The
EDM 830 is very impressive, it makes flying easier.
It was nice watching the
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EGT, CHT, RPM, OAT, battery voltage, oil press, fuel
required, fuel remaining,
and fuel used, gallons per
hour used, engine horse
power, and more. What
a great unit this is and it
adds so much to the value
of my airplane. Check out
J. P. Instruments Inc. on
their websites: jpinstruments.com or jpitech.com,
or call them at 800.345.457.
Remember to tell them you
read about them in Plane &
Pilot News.
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our advertisers, safe flying
until next month!
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