Teaching the world to fly! With all the aircraft you need from the first flight hour to an airline job and everything in between! 2631 E. Spring Street / Long Beach, CA 90806 / 562-290-0321 visit us: at www.Lbflying.com email: [email protected]NOVEMBER 2015 HAPPY THANKSGIVING ! WE FLY WITH CARE… Now more than eve EDITOR C. ROBINSON WHAT'S UP? REG REVIEW Long Beach Flying Club and Flight Academy Rules and Regulations state: Formation flights and aerobatics are prohibited. One short sentence with huge ramifications. The part about aerobatics is obvious as we have no aircraft approved for aerobatics. The prohibition against formation flying should be a no-brainer. There are reasons for our regulation. Formation flying, especially by amateurs, jeopardizes pilots, equipment, the club, and people and property on the ground. Even the professionals have a bad day, as evidenced by the scores of incidences during airshows and on the “News at Eleven.” Wikipedia defines formation flying as the disciplined flight of two or more aircraft under the command of a flight leader. None of us at LBFC qualify to be a flight leader. Besides, there is no reason to do indulge is such risky behavior. There are FARs regarding formation flight that should dissuade pilots from jeopardizing their careers. FAR 91.111(a) states that “no person may operate so close to another aircraft as to create a collision hazard.” Try getting a job with a notation like that on your record. Nor does the catch-all--FAR 91.13 (a) no person may operate an aircraft in a careless or reckless manner so as to endanger the life or property of another-- look good on a resume. Use technology to your advantage to avoid formation flight. If you just have to have a picture of your favorite club aircraft in the air, take a picture of it on the ground and photo shop it onto a perfect sunset picture. In the words of Clint Eastwood in “Dirty Harry,’ Do you feel lucky, punk? Do you really want to trust your life and that of everyone on board your aircraft to the skill of the other pilot? Even if you are so inclined, there is also the possibility of pilot incapacitation. Plus, If the aircraft being used are dissimilar, such as a high wing versus a low wing aircraft, you’ve got a recipe for disaster. Who wants an epitaph that says they died doing something stupid? One of the saddest NTSB reports I’ve ever read, NTSB report ANC11FA091A&B, involved formation flight. The pilot of a Cessna 208B, 24-year-old pilot Scott Veal, died on September 2, 2011 after a midair collision while flying in formation with his girlfriend, 26-year-old Kristen Sprague, who was flying a Cessna 207. Departing from different airports, they agreed to meet up for the flight to their home airport. After their rendezvous, the two pilots continued to fly in formation, chatting via radio, with Veal flying to Sprague’s left at an altitude of 1,200 feet. When he pulled up over her aircraft without warning, she immediately told him that she could not see him and that she was concerned about where he was. Veal then radioed back, saying in part, “Whatever you do, don’t pull up,” just before his aircraft collided with the right wing of Sprague’s plane. As Sprague watched, Veal’s plane plummeted vertically into the ground, where it immediately burst into flames. Unable to maintain altitude, Sprague piloted the damaged C-207 plane safely to the ground. Total flight experience doesn’t help in formation flight -- each pilot was a 135 pilot for different operators. Veal was an ATP pilot with 3,710 hours. Sprague held a commercial pilot certificate with airplane single-engine land, multiengine land, and instrument airplane ratings with 1,670 flight hours. The final line of the NTSB’s full narrative report is a somber one: No toxicological examination was done due to the lack of suitable specimens. In the NTSB’s February 3, 2014 decision, the board found that Veal failed "to maintain adequate clearance while performing an unexpected and unannounced abrupt maneuver, resulting in a midair collision between the two airplanes." Do you feel lucky? I save my luck for the drive home from the airport. THE SHADOW KNOWS – Updated from May 2013 AOPA has a good article on misjudging taxi clearance, that is, the distance from one’s own aircraft appendage to a nearby aircraft appendage. “Airplanes are as ponderous on land as they are graceful in the air. A whirling propeller is a poor form of propulsion at typical taxi speeds--it takes a lot of power to get going, and less than idle power to maintain a slow, safe pace. A tricycle landing gear has nowhere near the stability of a four-wheeled vehicle such as a car; you steer with your feet, and each main wheel brake operates independently of the other. The relatively poor ground control dynamics of an airplane, combined with long wings, make for difficult taxiing in close quarters.” Last month, a student pilot and his instructor taxied a club Cessna 152 into the propeller of a parked aircraft. Fortunately, the engine was not running. The (Continued on page 2) CHRISTMAS AND THANKSGIVING are coming!!! We will have the following office hours during the holidays: 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM Wednesday, November 26, 2015 Thanksgiving Eve Closed Thursday, November 27, 2015 Thanksgiving Day 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM Thursday, December 24, 2015 Christmas Eve Closed Friday, December 25, 2015 Christmas Day 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM Thursday, December 31, 2015 New Year's Eve Closed Friday, January 1, 2016 New Year's Day Aircraft rental for the rest of the time will be handled using night dispatch procedures. Call ahead for the combinations -- and Happy Holidays! HAPPY 35th ANNIVERSARY November 15, 1980 started the E-ticket ride for Candy and the Long Beach Flying Club !!! And October 27th marked our sixteenth year in our “new” building! O COME ALL YE CLUB PILOTS! MERRY CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY BASH1 Club pilots, family and friends are all invited to the Long Beach Flying Club & Flight Academy Christmas party on Saturday, December 12th from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM! Don’t miss the fun! Please RSVP if you plan to attend — there is a signup sheet at the club.
Transcript
Teaching the world to fly!
With all the aircraft you need from the first flight
hour to an airline job and everything in between! 2631 E. Spring Street / Long Beach, CA 90806 / 562-290-0321
Long Beach Flying Club and Flight Academy Rules and Regulations state: Formation flights and aerobatics are prohibited. One short sentence with huge ramifications. The part about aerobatics is obvious as we have no aircraft approved for aerobatics. The prohibition against formation flying should be a no-brainer. There are reasons for our regulation. Formation flying, especially by amateurs, jeopardizes pilots, equipment, the club, and people and property on the ground. Even the professionals have a bad day, as evidenced by the scores of incidences during airshows and on
the “News at Eleven.” Wikipedia defines formation flying as the disciplined flight of two or more aircraft under the command of a flight leader. None of us at LBFC qualify to be a flight leader. Besides, there is no reason to do indulge is such risky behavior. There are FARs regarding formation flight that should dissuade pilots from jeopardizing their careers. FAR 91.111(a) states that “no person may operate so close to another aircraft as to create a collision hazard.” Try getting a job with a notation like that on your record. Nor does the catch-all--FAR 91.13 (a) no person may operate an aircraft in a careless or reckless manner so as to endanger the life or property of another-- look good on a resume. Use technology to your advantage to avoid formation flight. If you just have to have a picture of your favorite club aircraft in the air, take a picture of it on the ground and photo shop it onto a perfect sunset picture. In the words of Clint Eastwood in “Dirty Harry,’ Do you feel lucky, punk? Do you really want to trust your life and that of everyone on board your aircraft to the skill of the other pilot? Even if you are so inclined, there is also the possibility of pilot incapacitation. Plus, If the aircraft being used are dissimilar, such as a high wing versus a low wing aircraft, you’ve got a recipe for disaster. Who wants an epitaph that says they died doing something stupid? One of the saddest NTSB reports I’ve ever read, NTSB report ANC11FA091A&B, involved formation flight. The pilot of a Cessna 208B, 24-year-old pilot Scott Veal, died on September 2, 2011 after a midair collision while flying in formation with his girlfriend, 26-year-old Kristen Sprague, who was flying a Cessna 207. Departing from different airports, they agreed to meet up for the flight to their home airport. After their rendezvous, the two pilots continued to fly in formation, chatting via radio, with Veal flying to Sprague’s left at an altitude of 1,200 feet. When he pulled up over her aircraft without warning, she immediately told him that she could not see him and that she was concerned about where he was. Veal then radioed back, saying in part, “Whatever you do, don’t pull up,” just before his aircraft collided with the right wing of Sprague’s plane. As Sprague watched, Veal’s plane plummeted vertically into the ground, where it immediately burst into flames. Unable to maintain altitude, Sprague piloted the damaged C-207 plane safely to the ground. Total flight experience doesn’t help in formation flight -- each pilot was a 135 pilot for different operators. Veal was an ATP pilot with 3,710 hours. Sprague held a commercial pilot certificate with airplane single-engine land, multiengine land, and instrument airplane ratings with 1,670 flight hours. The final line of the NTSB’s full narrative report is a somber one: No toxicological examination was done due to the lack of suitable specimens. In the NTSB’s February 3, 2014 decision, the board found that Veal failed "to maintain adequate clearance while performing an unexpected and unannounced abrupt maneuver, resulting in a midair collision between the two airplanes." Do you feel lucky? I save my luck for the drive home from the airport.
THE SHADOW KNOWS – Updated from May 2013
AOPA has a good article on misjudging taxi clearance, that is, the distance from one’s own aircraft appendage to a nearby aircraft appendage. “Airplanes are as ponderous on land as they are graceful in the air. A whirling propeller is a poor form of propulsion at typical taxi speeds--it takes a lot of power to get going, and less than idle power to maintain a slow, safe pace. A tricycle landing gear has nowhere near the stability of a four-wheeled vehicle such as a car; you steer with your feet, and each main wheel brake operates independently of the other. The relatively poor ground control dynamics of an airplane, combined with long wings, make for difficult taxiing in close quarters.” Last month, a student pilot and his instructor taxied a club Cessna 152 into the propeller of a parked aircraft. Fortunately, the engine was not running. The (Continued on page 2)
CHRISTMAS AND THANKSGIVING are coming!!! We will have the following office hours during the holidays:
8:30 AM to 1:30 PM Wednesday, November 26, 2015 Thanksgiving Eve
Closed Thursday, November 27, 2015 Thanksgiving Day
8:30 AM to 1:30 PM Thursday, December 24, 2015 Christmas Eve
Closed Friday, December 25, 2015 Christmas Day
8:30 AM to 1:30 PM Thursday, December 31, 2015 New Year's Eve Closed Friday, January 1, 2016 New Year's Day Aircraft rental for the rest of the time will be handled using
night dispatch procedures. Call ahead for the combinations -- and Happy Holidays!
HAPPY 35th ANNIVERSARY
November 15 , 1980 started the E-t icket r ide for Candy and the Long Beach Fly ing
Club !! !
And October 27th marked our s ixteenth year in our
“new” bui lding!
O COME ALL YE CLUB PILOTS!
MERRY CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY BASH1
Club pilots, family and friends are all invited to the Long Beach Flying Club & Flight Academy
Christmas party on Saturday, December 12th
from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM!
Don’t miss the fun!
Please RSVP if you plan to attend — there is a
signup sheet at the club.
NOVEMBER 2015 NEWSLETTER
H A P P Y N O V E M B E R B I R T H D A Y S
JAMES ADAMS JONATHAN AGUILAR FEISAL BAGHASPATI
WILLIAM BRUEY IVAN CAMPOS
DALE CHOPPIN ALEX COVERT
MARYLLISSA CUA RABBANI HASSAN
STEPHEN HERNANDEZ ANTON HUPFAUF
EMMANUEL KAPELLA IVAN KUBICA
MAURICIO MANZANO DOUG MCCLARY
MARK MEDAK JEFFREY MOORE JOSEPH NGABO
ROBERT P. RUCHHOFT ZACHARIAH RUHL
AARON SEATO
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
ALI MOGHNIEH Commercial Seminole CFI RICHARD GARNETT
MIGUEL TORO IA Mechanic (Inspection Authorization)
NEW & REJOINED CLUB PILOTS!
WELCOME!
ERIK APINYAN
MICHAEL BACICH
STEPHEN CARTWRIGHT
DEREK HANNA
MINJUN KIM
MANUEL MONTEVERDE
ZAHID MUHAMAD
CURTIS MYERS
LAURA OTERO
KARL PETERSON
DAVID WADE
CHOONG MO YANG
PAGE 2
propeller was fine but the leading edge of our C-152 wing was ugly. The damage to our C-152 was completely avoidable, especially since it
was a sunny day, because one way to tell if you are going to clear another airplane when taxiing is to look at shadows--the shadow of your wing tip, and the shadow from whatever part of the nearby airplane you will be close to. If there is light between the shadows, you should be safe, but proceed slowly. If it is cloudy and there are no shadows, or it is night, don't taxi in close quarters unless you have a good spotter or wing walker to monitor clearances from other airplanes. Shadows can also be used during flight as an additional tool to scan for traffic. Though not always possible, aircraft altitude and the angle of the sun may create a shadow on the ground below. Include the aircraft shadow in your scan – especially in the practice area or in the traffic pattern. When conducting a pre-flight passenger briefing, enlist passengers’ help in scanning for traffic, including checking the ground on their side of the aircraft. For most passengers, it will be an interesting challenge to follow the flight’s shadow. Spotting a converging shadow will notify the pilot of potential traffic, alerting the crew double-check for the converging aircraft’s altitude. Who knows what benefits lurk in the aircraft’s shadow? The Shadow knows! Use it!
EL NIÑO 2015 HAS ARRIVED The notorious El Niño weather pattern has developed for 2015. While not exactly reminiscent of the ones that have been causing erratic weather patterns for the last two decades, this year’s El Niño could still play spoilsport to your flying plans. It is expected to hang around until August 2016 and could mess with your best laid flight plans. Rainfall for the month of July alone has been unprecedented for the coastal and valley areas of Southern California. Monsoonal moisture combined perfectly with moisture from remnants of Hurricane Dolores on July 18-19 to bring the rains. El Niño can trigger strange and completely unpredictable weather events, such as heavy rain and unseasonable warmth in some areas, and cold snaps in others. Though El Niño isn’t always disastrous, it has been known to cause severe flooding and drought across the planet and has wreaked havoc on global weather on numerous occasions. In short, pilots need to be ready for anything. Allow greater margins for variations on forecast weather. Plan extra fuel stops in case El Niño gives you a heftier headwind than anticipated. Expect increased surface winds. Brush up on your cross-wind landings. Go around or divert if required. Have alternate airports planned. Make sure all three corners of your aircraft are securely tied down. Check for adequate clearance around your aircraft in the tiedown space in case ornery surface winds are determined to flog your chariot.
Continued from page 1
CONGRATS to RICHARD GARNETT, top CLUB CFI for October , logging the most hours of dual given in club aircraft! Runners-up were ALI MOGHNIEH and ABHISHEK MUDGAL!
TOP GUN AWARD goes to TAEKYUNG LEE for logging the most flight hours in club aircraft in October. Runners up were AHMAD VIRJEE and ARFI GIRESSA!!!
Congratulations to club alumni Sean Gregory for his new job at Virgin Amer ica!
Nov 18:
Long Beach Flying Club CFI meeting from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. We will be opining club challenges and opportunities, discussing of regulations, training procedures, and other aspects of flying. Join us for an inspirational and educational hour!
Nov 19: (dark Dec)
Long Beach AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION Meeting at Skylinks Golf Course at 4:00 PM. 4800 East Wardlow Road, Long Beach, CA 90808
Nov 19: (none Dec)
LBFC’s MONTHLY TOWER TOUR!!! Begins at 1:00 PM. Contact the club, 562-290-0321 to sign up.
Dec 8: SCAUWG (Airspace Users Working Group) meets at AirFlite at 10:00 AM.
NOTAM: Club pilots wishing to submit articles for our monthly newsletter are greatly appreciated!
NOTAM: The Redbird TD2 BATD is cer tified and ready to log instrument currency!!!
CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEA -- give the gift of flight a Long Beach Flying Club gift certificate fits perfectly in that holiday stocking!
ORDER TODAY! Long Beach Flying Club Polo Shirts in Navy, Black or Gray. Sizes small, medium, large, or X-large. We also have hooded sweatshirts in black or gray. We’ll need your choice of color and size when you call us at 562.290.0321 with your credit card number. Shipping and handling $4.95 per order, CA residents add 9% sales tax.
We stock a host of aviation books, shirts, charts, and other pilot supplies, along with aviation-themed Christmas tree ornaments, mugs, clocks and more!
A Long Beach Flying Club gift certificate for any denomination you wish, be it for the first flight, pilot supplies, or aircraft rental, makes a great gift for any occasion!
There are three ways to obtain the gift of flight:
1. Stop by and pick up a gift certificate during our office hours (8:30 am to 4:30 pm daily). You can purchase accessories to go with the gift certificate such as a visor, aviation mug or LBFC logo shirt.
2. We can send you a preprinted gift certificate for any denomination you wish -- just give us a call! We'll charge your credit card and get the gift certificate in the next out-going mail or email.
3. Download a gift certificate from our website: www.lbflying.com/files/giftcert.pdf Call us with a credit card number to activate it for any denomination you wish. You will be given a Gift Certificate number to fill in at the bottom of your printout.
It's just that easy to give a unique and treasured gift. Keep it in mind for upcoming birthdays or anniversaries!
