www.airventurers.org Official Publication of the Airventurers, a Non-Profit Pilot’s Association Volume 49, No. 11, Nov. 2009 www.airventurers.org Disappointingly, sometimes things don’t go the way we would like. This hap- pened to me and it relates to our group. A few days ago, I sent out an email re- quest for any ideas or any connections anyone had for a speaker for our Novem- ber brunch meeting. I guess I was naïve, because I believed maybe a few of our over sixty members would respond with some ideas or, better yet, with a person to do the job. However, that was not the case. I received one email containing some ideas, and that was it. I was truly dismayed at such a minimal response. I thought for sure this would be an opportunity for someone to present a speaker they had always wanted to hear. Airventurers is a wonderful organization because of one thing… the “people” who are the Airventurers! As president I try to bring to all of our activities a high level of enthusiasm. Please join me in that enthusiasm and do whatever you can to participate in anyway that you feel comfortable. If you can just make it to one fly-in a year, do it. If you can only attend a few dinner meetings, then that’s great and better than none at all. If you are asked for minimal support and guidance by simply responding to an email, then hit that keyboard and start typ- ing. All I am saying is do what you can but please don’t be silent with your voice or your actions. I have a couple of ideas up my sleeve for the near future. A few of our members are into remote control airplanes and have educated me regarding how this hobby has changed. Are you ready for this? They now have pure jet RC models that travel faster than 200 knots and can cost up to $20,000 (that’s the cost of an old Cessna 150). These jets are going to be at the Sepulveda Basin on November 29. It’s a free event and, if I can work things out, we will have tables and chairs for our group and a free lunch, Kentucky Fried Chicken, provided my me! I am also working on free demo rides in the Flight Design light sport aircraft. I have flown the plane, and it is FUN, very responsive, 1000 FPS up with two aboard, and fast at 120 knots at 4 gallons an hour. However, all of that is truly irrelevant; what is magical about this plane is the fact that if you can no longer pass a 3 rd class medical (and you have never been denied a medical), then you can fly this. These demo rides will be scheduled soon and will take place in front of my hangar at VNY. The plane and demo pilot will be supplied by Flight Design. There is a lot happening at the old Airventurer hangar, so check your email up- dates, the Flyer and our website. See what looks interesting, get off your tushes and have some fun with your friends. The enthusiasm of a few member is not (Continued on page 2) BOARD MEETING Nov. 28th Signature, 10:00 am VFR LUNCH FLY-IN TO California City To reach the editor: [email protected]We value your input. BRUNCH MEETING Saturday, Nov. 21st Carrow’s 18355 Ventura Blvd. 10:00am Order What You Want Separate Checks PLEASE RSVP on the Web click on “Dinner Meetings” and fill out the form or call Yoni Boujo 818-989-4070 or [email protected]by Wednesday, Nov. 18th Our speaker will be Jim Barton giving a presentation on the Reagan’s Ranch. This will be one of the Fly-Ins for next year. Annual Election of Officers for 2010 You Don’t Want to Miss This! (Don’t Forget Your Badge)
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Official Publication of the Airventurers, a Non-Profit Pilot’s Association Volume 49, No. 11, Nov. 2009 www.airventurers.org
Disappointingly, sometimes things don’t go the way we would like. This hap-pened to me and it relates to our group. A few days ago, I sent out an email re-quest for any ideas or any connections anyone had for a speaker for our Novem-ber brunch meeting. I guess I was naïve, because I believed maybe a few of our over sixty members would respond with some ideas or, better yet, with a person to do the job. However, that was not the case. I received one email containing some ideas, and that was it. I was truly dismayed at such a minimal response. I thought for sure this would be an opportunity for someone to present a speaker they had always wanted to hear. Airventurers is a wonderful organization because of one thing… the “people” who are the Airventurers! As president I try to bring to all of our activities a high level of enthusiasm. Please join me in that enthusiasm and do whatever you can to participate in anyway that you feel comfortable. If you can just make it to one fly-in a year, do it. If you can only attend a few dinner meetings, then that’s great and better than none at all. If you are asked for minimal support and guidance by simply responding to an email, then hit that keyboard and start typ-ing. All I am saying is do what you can but please don’t be silent with your voice or your actions. I have a couple of ideas up my sleeve for the near future. A few of our members are into remote control airplanes and have educated me regarding how this hobby has changed. Are you ready for this? They now have pure jet RC models that travel faster than 200 knots and can cost up to $20,000 (that’s the cost of an old Cessna 150). These jets are going to be at the Sepulveda Basin on November 29. It’s a free event and, if I can work things out, we will have tables and chairs for our group and a free lunch, Kentucky Fried Chicken, provided my me! I am also working on free demo rides in the Flight Design light sport aircraft. I have flown the plane, and it is FUN, very responsive, 1000 FPS up with two aboard, and fast at 120 knots at 4 gallons an hour. However, all of that is truly irrelevant; what is magical about this plane is the fact that if you can no longer pass a 3rd class medical (and you have never been denied a medical), then you can fly this. These demo rides will be scheduled soon and will take place in front of my hangar at VNY. The plane and demo pilot will be supplied by Flight Design. There is a lot happening at the old Airventurer hangar, so check your email up-dates, the Flyer and our website. See what looks interesting, get off your tushes and have some fun with your friends. The enthusiasm of a few member is not
Our speaker will be Jim Barton giving a presentation on the
Reagan’s Ranch. This will be one of the Fly-Ins for next year.
Annual Election of Officers for
2010
You Don’t Want to Miss This!
(Don’t Forget Your Badge)
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AIRVENTURERS APPLICANT CHECKLIST
DATE APPLICANT
SPONSOR FEE DINNER MEETING co-host add’l
FLY-IN co-host add’l
1/03 Reisman Eisenberg Y Y Y Y
4/06 Kardack Harris Y Y
8/07 Davenport Eisenberg Y Y
2/08 Miller Eisenberg Y Y
9/08 Savage Eisenberg Y Y Y Y Y
1/09 Losacco Boujo Y Y Y Y
2/09 Snyder Kirschner Y Y Y
2010 Fly-Ins (NOT CARVED IN STONE)
January Palmdale ATC
February Green Valley Ranch—Losacco
March Borrego Valley
April San Diego Wild Animal Park—Rifkin
May Club Picnic—Barlowe
June Reagan Ranch—Barton
July Gilroy Garlic Festival— Korney
August Sun River & Spruce Goose—Rifkin/Samojen
September Catalina BBQ
October Monument Valley—Kirschner
November Airventurer Air Rally
December Holiday Party
Many of these trips need hosts & co-hosts!
The nominating committee has proposed the fol-lowing SLATE OF OFFICERS for 2010
President: Joel Kirschner Vice-President: Yoni Boujo Treasurer: Gene Korney Secretary: Bernie Harris Nominations will be accepted from the floor at the Octo-ber & November general meetings.
enough to guarantee the survival of our group. We need effort, input, and creative contributions from everyone.
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THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM! 30 Airventurers and friends flew (too many to name) and a bunch more drove out to Daggett for a fascinating visit to the Goldstone facility at Ft. Irwin on Oct. 17th. This was the best-attended fly-in of the year...if not the past several years. The ramp was filled with Airventurer airplanes. It was a beautiful sight! Thanks to Fred and Gail Heim who did a terrific job of arranging the events of the day, dealing with the inevita-ble little glitches with tact and good humor, to ensure that everyone had a wonderful time.
There are big ships and small ships, but the best of all Is friendship.
4/09 Petrovich Kirschner Y Y Y
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Host Fred Heim
Airventurers Own the Ramp
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SAVE THE DATE Holiday Party December 5th
This year’s festive Holiday Party and Installation of Officers will once again be at the German-American Club in Santa Monica. There will be a quasi-open bar...each guest will receive 2 tickets for drinks of choice, hard or soft. We have chosen what we think will be an outstanding dinner—Home-Made Hors d’Oeuvres, Salad, Chicken Chasseur or Baked Sea Bass, both served with Vegetables and Sour-Cream Mashed Potatoes, topped off with a Decadent Dessert. (Indulge—it’s only once a year!) There will be complimentary wine on the tables and See’s candy, just in case you need a bit more sugar. All this for only $40 per person. President Joel Kirschner will take this opportunity to thank all of the Board Mem-bers and Fly-In Hosts for contributing to another successful year of flying adven-tures, and to introduce the new officers for 2010. We have also put together a 15 minutes slide show of all the wonderful places Airventurers have gone to over the past 25 years...we think you’ll enjoy it. Watch your mailbox in early November for your formal invitation, and please R.S.V.P. promptly. This will be a wonderful party, and we hope to see you all there.
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Preflight RAIM Checks for non-WAAS GPS Receivers
As of Sept. 28, pilots utilizing non-WAAS-equipped IFR GPS units under instrument flight rules (IFR) must per-form a Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM) check as part of their preflight requirements prior to flying certain routes and procedures.
GPS RNAV instrument approach procedures are not affected by this change because IFR GPS units automatically perform a RAIM check before beginning an approach.
WAAS-equipped GPS receivers do not require a preflight RAIM check. However, pilots must still check WAAS notams to learn of any predicted outages. These notams are not included in a standard briefing and must be re-quested.
Source: AOPA
Hold the mayo? Not when it comes to astute pilots Running a marathon, grab a carbohydrate bar. Lifting weights, gulp a protein shake. But climbing into a fighter jet? Try butter-soaked lobster. That was the surprising finding of a new military-funded study that sought to figure out what types of foods were best for pilots if missions restricted when and what they could eat.
University of North Dakota researchers tested student pilots and found that those who ate the fattiest foods had the quickest response times in mental tests. They also made fewer mistakes when flying in tricky conditions. Those on a high-carbohydrate diet came in a close second and high-protein dieters were third. Follow-up tests will begin this spring to determine how elements in the food and other factors affected the results. From Associated Press
Yoni Boujo moves his airplane into his newly refur-bished hangar for the first time.
Airventurers send “Get Well” wishes to Michael Landau, who is recovering from the first of several surgeries on his tear ducts. (Send Sunshine information to Judy)
CONTRIBUTORS Safety article: Claudio Losacco Photographs: David Snyder, Mike Savage, Claudio Losacco
See the whole spreadsheet at http://www.airventurers.org/downloads/airport-fly-off.xls
In this high tech world it's easy to forget that some aircraft don't have radios. These aircraft can operate legally at non-towered air-ports. Also, pilots operating at non-towered airports may not have their radios set for the proper frequency. These pilots may be mak-ing great radio calls and since they hear no response, they think the pattern is clear and there is no other traffic. Just because you don't hear other traffic, doesn't mean there is none. Always look for other traffic at both towered and non-towered airports.
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IMPORTANT DATES IN…
November
21 Saturday Brunch Meeting, Elec-tions
28 Board Meeting
December
5 Holiday Party
26 Board Meeting
January
21 Dinner Meeting
30 Board Meeting
14 Palm Springs Follies
29 L.A. Jets—Sepulveda Basin Model Airplane Field
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STUFF YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU NEEDED TO KNOW— It is impossible to lick your elbow. Coco-Cola was originally green. The cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the age of 11 is
$16,400 The first novel ever written on a typewriter was “Tom Sawyer” Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. 75% of you will try to lick your elbow.
