February newsletter

Colorado
Ninety-Nines
February
2015
Newsletter of the Colorado Ninety-Nines
International Organization of Women Pilots
February Meeting
Stephanie Wells and the Weather
Upcoming
Events
Stephanie Wells will be giving a safety briefing on pilot weather
information. This will be an official FAAST Representative Wings
Safety talk which is open to the public as well as being our NinetyNines Chapter annual safety meeting. Learn about the many
weather information resources available to pilots both before and
during the actual flight. Avoid making one of the most dangerous
and preventable mistakes in general aviation today. The link below
gives more detail about the talk.
See page two
for details.
99s Meetings
FEB 14
Chapter Meeting
Rocky Mountain
Metro (BJC)
FEB 26
Thursday evening
meeting: Rocky
Mountain Metro
(BJC)
Stephanie got her undergraduate degree in Meteorology at Iowa
Stephanie Wells State University at the same time she was commissioned in the US
Air Force. Her first duty assignment was as a weather forecaster at
George Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert of California. Two years after that
assignment, she was accepted into the second group of women to go to Air Force
Pilot training.
Stephanie has always been interested in weather, and her favorite flying
assignment was as a typhoon chaser in WC-130's flying the Pacific Ocean out of
Guam. Now, she is still following all the climate change studies with great interest.
"I feel that I use my weather training and experience every time I go fly my little
plane".
For more detailed information and to register, click on the
FAAST logo.
FEB 27-28
99s International
Board of Directors
meeting
MAR 14
Chapter Meeting
Rocky Mountain
Metro (BJC)
Monthly Meeting Schedule FEB 14
Business meeting (open to all members)
Upstairs Rocky Mountain Metro terminal
8:30-9:30 AM
Social Time
Mt. Evans Room
Upstairs Rocky Mountain Metro terminal
9:30 AM
Program
10:00 AM
Lunch
After the
meeting
Stephanie Wells and the Weather
Runway Grill
Upcoming Events,
Activities and Programs
FEB 14
February Meeting
Stephanie Wells and the Weather
Flight Without Fear Orientation
Contact: Rebekah Grim
FEB 24
Rocky Mountain Metro Airport
Landmark Aviation
st
1 floor conference room,
11705 Airport Way, Broomfield CO 80021
FEB 26
Come join us for an evening of hangar
flying and socializing at 5 PM at the
Runway Grill at Rocky Mountain Metro Airport (BJC)
FEB 27-28
Spring International 99s Board of Directors meeting
Contact: Ninety-Nines or 1-800-994-1929
Flight Without Fear Orientation
MAR 1
MAR 5-7
Contact: Rebekah Grim
Centennial Airport, Denver Jet Center,
2nd floor conference room
7625 S Peoria St, Englewood CO 80122
Women in Aviation International Conference
Hotel Anatole in Dallas, Texas
Contact: 937-839-4647
Girl Scout Program
APR 11
1-4 PM @ Aspen Flying Club
Contact Kara Pruitt for more information
or to volunteer.
There is nothing like The Ninety-Nines!
Patricia Brusco completed her
private certificate!
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99s
Evening Meeting
The next Thursday meeting will
be February 26, 2015, 5 PM, at
the Runway Grill at Rocky
Mountain Metro Airport (BJC).
Members and guests attending
the January meeting were Anita
Hessin, Margot Plummer, Terry Fiala, Cynthia Dibble, Katie Smith, Carola Rhodes-Benson and Jane
and Walt Ruehle.
Karlen Krall and Linda Horn
Chapter Contacts
Back: Cynthia Dibble, Carola Rhodes-Benson, Terry Fiala,
Katie Smith and Walt Ruehle
Front: Margot Plummer, Anita Hessin and Jane Ruehle
Interim Chairman
Gretchen Jahn
gjahn@knotridge.com
303-321-1349
Interim Vice Chairman
Terri Bazacos
tbazacos@gmail.com
Lightspeed Aviation Foundation has awarded
The Ninety-Nines a third place prize of a $6,000
grant in Lightspeed’s annual Pilots Choice
Award grant competition. This year Lightspeed
awarded grants to the eight aviation nonprofit organizations which received the most on-line
votes on Lightspeed’s grant competition web site.
First place prize of $10,000 went to Pilots N
Paws, "...helping save the lives of innocent
animals". Second place prize of $8,000 went
to New Tribes Mission, …"efficient and safe
missionary aviation support in remote areas
around the world".
Interim Secretary
Karlen Krall
karlenkrall@gmail.com
Treasurer
Terry Fiala
terry_fiala@yahoo.com
650-307-2304
Crosswind Chatter Editor
Margot Plummer
psytomic@aol.com
303-279-0246
Have you moved or changed your
e-mail address?
To update your info, please contact:
Linda Horn
3379 Mill Vista Rd Unit 4303
Highlands Ranch CO 80129-2421
303-278-4435
colorado99s@aol.com
99s
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Officer Nominations
The Chapter is in the nomination period for the next
set of officers. The following positions are open:
Chairman
Vice Chairman
Secretary
 Treasurer
 Director #1
 Director #2
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The positions are for two years and the nominated
person must have been a Ninety-Nine member for a
minimum of one year.
Terri Bazacos and Stephanie Wells
If someone is interested in a position they should contact one of the nominating committee,
Terri Bazacos or Vanita Gallo.
April 11, 2015, 1-4pm at Centennial’s
Aspen Flying Club
Working with the Girl Scouts to earn a 99s Aviation Patch is one of the ways our Chapter provides aviation education for young girls in our
community. This year we are inviting 60 Juniors
(grades 4-5) to rotate around five stations centered around paper airplane aerodynamics, airline history, ACT operations, weather science,
and of course the actual aircrafts. We are in
need of volunteers to help make this event wonderful, so please join us!
If you have any questions please contact
Kara Pruitt, or Michelle Estevez.
We hope that everyone is able to participate
in this wonderful event!
If you are interested in volunteering, please sign up
HERE.
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Mari Murayama, Julie Filucci
March Meeting
March 14, local Aerobatic Pilot and Instructor,
Dagmar Kress, will talk to us about spin, unusual attitude and basic aerobatic training and
why every GA pilot should spend a little time
upside down.
Flying Skills Exercise
By Rod Machado
One of my favorite methods of developing rudder and
aileron coordination skills is known as a coordination roll.
Pilots sometimes refer to this as a Dutch roll, but this is a
misnomer. And no, a Dutch roll isn't something caused by
wearing wooden shoes when you fly. A Dutch roll is actually an unstable behavior typically associated with swept
wing airplanes and it's not what we're discussing here.
What I'm talking about is a maneuver where you point the
airplane's nose at some outside reference and roll right
and left with a moderate bank while keeping the rudder
and aileron coordinated.
Accelerate Your Career!
TIME IS RUNNING OUT! The Professional Pilot Leadership Initiative (PPLI) applications are due January 31,
2015. Simply put: The 99s PPLI aims to accelerate the
advancement of women in all pilot professions, facilitate
mentoring among women pilot professionals, and enhance
our leadership role in the aviation/aerospace community.
The PPLI program provides highly motivated 99s members with tools to develop their careers and leadership
abilities through guided activities and formal mentoring
partnerships with experienced women professional pilots.
How do you know your flight controls are coordinated?
Because the airplane's nose doesn't move as it rolls alternately between right and left banking conditions. Here's
how it's done.
With the nose pointed to some outside reference while in
level flight, roll to the right and add just enough right rudder to keep the nose fixed on the reference point. This is
exactly how you enter a coordinated turn to the right, correct? When you reach approximately 30 degrees of bank
immediately roll the airplane to the left. This means the
moment you apply left aileron to begin the roll, you'll need
to apply just enough left rudder to keep the nose straight
as you roll.
Now, what I don't want you to do is to look at the ball in
the inclinometer during this maneuver. Why? Because
there's no telling what the ball is doing. In some airplanes
the ball might remain nearly centered. The Cessna 150 is
such an airplane. Try this in a Remos LSA, and the ball
will be banging up against each side of the inclinometer's
glass tube during a perfectly coordinated coordination
roll. It will sound like you left the airplane's turn signal
on...oops, sorry, that only happens in a flying car.
Michelle Estevez, Shawn Egle and Kara Pruitt
January Meeting
The inclinometer doesn't necessarily reflect the quality of
your turn during the entry, compared to when the turn is
established. So don't look at it during this exercise.
GEORGE E. BYE, gave a fabulous
presentation on his Aero Electric
Aircraft Corporation! We learned a
lot about his solar airplane and how
much of a savings it will be for flight
schools. The fuselage can be held
by one man! WOW!
The coordination roll is an excellent training exercise and
it's one I use quite frequently with pilots during their biennial flight reviews. If you can keep the nose steady on the
reference point during this maneuver, then you've definitely got game—rudder and aileron game, that is.
Reprinted with cheerful permission from
The Pilot Workshop.com
Rod Machado has been flying since 1970, instructing
since 1973 and has over 8,000 hours of flight time
earned the hard way--one CFI hour at a time. Since 1977
he has taught hundreds of flight instructor revalidation
clinics and safety seminars and he was named the 1991
"Western Region Flight Instructor of the Year". Rod is the
author of some of the most popular books, DVDs and
CDs in aviation. You can read his monthly column in
AOPA Pilot magazine as well as in Flight Training Magazine.
Members and guests attending were
Sue Osborne, Shawn Egle, Margot
Plummer, Terri Bazacos, Kara Pruitt, Linda Horn,
Stephanie Wells, Gretchen Jahn, Karl Sutterfield,
Michelle Estevez, Gail & Doedo Schipper, Karlen
Krall, Mari Murayama, Julie Filucci, Lonnie Hilkemeier, Diane Simard, George Bye, Rebekah Grim, Ray
& Marylou Pohl, Terry Fiala, Cassie Ilich and Jennifer Matasy.
George Bye
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Colorado Chapter Ninety-Nines
3379 Mill Vista Rd Unit 4303
Highlands Ranch CO 80129-2421
Place Stamp Here
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SOUTH CENTRAL SECTION MEETINGS
Spring 2015, May 14-17
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Arkansas Chapter
Fall 2015, October 15-18
Rio Grande Norte
Santa Fe, New Mexico
2015 International Conference
July 5-10 in Munich, Germany
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