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APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 9 People In The News Former Minnesota Aeronautics Director Ray Rought Retires From MNDOT ST. PAUL, MINN. – Raymond J. Rought, who led the Minnesota Office of Aeronautics (L/R) Thomas Lind of the FAA with Avery for more than Nofsinger of Wisconsin Aviation. two decades, retired from Raymond Rought Nofsinger Receives Charles Taylor the Minnesota Master Mechanic Award Department of Transportation on January 6, 2012. (L/R) NATA President Jim Coyne with incoming WATERTOWN, WIS. – Avery Rought began his career in state NATA Chairman James Sweeney Nofsinger, a former employee of government in Michigan in 1970 Wisconsin Aviation, Watertown, with the Bureau of Aeronautics. Fargo Jet Center President Wisconsin (1998-2009), has received He was appointed the aeronautics Named Chairman of NATA the prestigious Charles Taylor “Master director of the State of Minnesota Mechanic” award. This award, in 1986, a position he held until he ALEXANDRIA, VA. – James presented by the Federal Aviation was appointed the assistant to the Sweeney, President of Fargo Jet Administration (FAA), recognizes director of the Modal Programs Center in Fargo, N.D., is the incoming individuals who have spent 50 years Division of MNDOT in 2007. His last chairman of the National Air in an aviation maintenance profession. appointment was as the assistant to the Transportation Association (NATA), Thomas Lind of the Milwaukee Flight director of the Employee & Corporate replacing Todd Duncan of Duncan Standards District Office presented Services Division. Aviation in Lincoln, Neb. NATA Nofsinger with the award on March 20. Rought graduated from Michigan represents the interests of general Charles Taylor was the Wright Technology University with a degree aviation businesses, nationwide. brothers’ mechanic and is credited in Civil Engineering in 1970, and Jim Sweeney is a graduate of the with designing and building the served in Vietnam in the Army Medical University of North Dakota with a engine for their first successful Command from 1971-72. He received BBA in Marketing. He cofounded aircraft. his Private Pilot Certificate in 1976. Fargo Jet Center Inc. in 1995. Fargo Wisconsin Aviation is the largest Rought was active in the National Jet Center is a full-service aviation full-service fixed base operator in Association of State Aviation Officials service company. q Wisconsin. q (NASAO), and served on its board

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APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 11 Aviation Law Purchasing An Aircraft Hangar: Buyer Beware!

by Gregory J. Reigel by no means inclusive, the following should be included in the agreement. Attorney At Law terms provide a good place to start. Also, if the seller intends to retain Identify the Parties. The certain items, those items should be t always agreement should identify who is specifically identified and excluded surprises selling the hangar and who is buying from the transaction. Taking the time me when a the hangar. Although this sounds to detail exactly what is and isn’t potentialI buyer of simple to do, it isn’t always clear who being sold will hopefully prevent an aircraft hangar each party is. It is very common for misunderstandings when the hangar is is unsure whether an aircraft hangar to be registered in delivered at closing. he or she should the name of a corporation or limited Purchase Price. The agreement use a purchase liability company. In that case, the should specify how much is being agreement when individual with whom the buyer is paid for the aircraft hangar. If the Greg Reigel buying the negotiating is not the owner of the buyer will be giving the seller a hangar. Most of these individuals aircraft hangar and should not be deposit or earnest money, that fact have purchased homes and no doubt listed as the seller. The actual owner should be included. Also, what used a purchase agreement in such of the aircraft hangar should be happens to the deposit when it is transactions. Yet, many of these same identified as the seller. given to the seller? Will the money individuals would spend a comparable The buyer on the other hand, can be placed in escrow or simply held amount of money to purchase an be an individual or a corporation by the seller? If an escrow agent is aircraft hangar without the protection or limited liability company. If an not involved, the buyer will need to of a written purchase agreement. individual is the buyer, that person obtain some assurance that his or her A purchase agreement should be will be listed, and upon execution and deposit will not simply disappear into used in hangar purchase transactions. filing of the bill of sale, will be the the seller’s pocket making the buyer’s First, the law in most states requires record owner of the aircraft hangar. recovery from the seller difficult or that a contract for an amount greater If a corporation or limited liability impossible if the transaction does not than $500.00 be in writing in order for company will be purchasing the close. The agreement should also state it to be enforceable. This is called the aircraft, the purchase agreement under what conditions the seller must statute of frauds. Although exceptions should identify that entity as the refund the deposit to the buyer. to this legal doctrine exist, complying buyer. Alternatively, an individual The buyer’s method of payment with the law is usually safer than can sign an agreement as the buyer should also be stated. Is it a cash hoping you will be able to take and, as long as the agreement allows transaction or will financing be advantage of an exception. the buyer to assign his or her rights involved? If financing is involved, the Further, using a purchase under the agreement, that individual buyer may want to include language agreement can also help avoid could still assign the agreement to that makes the transaction contingent confusion and misunderstandings. If a corporation or limited liability upon the buyer obtaining financing the agreement clearly explains how company prior to closing. The on terms acceptable to the buyer. That the transaction will happen, when it corporation or limited liability way, if the buyer isn’t able to obtain will happen and what is included in company then becomes the buyer and satisfactory financing, the buyer will the deal, the greater the likelihood can close on the transaction without not be forced to complete the purchase that the buyer and seller will each the individual even entering the chain on financially unacceptable terms. know the other party’s expectations of title. From a liability perspective, Closing Documents. Typically, and the likelihood of surprises or this can be important. aircraft hangars are considered misunderstandings is greatly reduced. Identify the Hangar. The personal property, as opposed to real purchase agreement should identify property or real estate. That is, the What Terms Should Be Included? the aircraft hangar with as much detail aircraft hangar is a tangible asset that as possible. At a minimum, it should is located on real property, which The number and complexity of the include the size and location of the is usually leased from the owner or terms that should be included in an hangar. This is typically done using operator of the airport, but the hangar aircraft hangar purchase agreement the lot number of the property on is not considered part of the real will oftentimes be dictated by the which the hangar is located. Ideally, a property. The aircraft hangar can be size, location and value of the aircraft list of any additional items of personal moved from one piece of real property hangar being purchased. Although property being sold with the hangar to another; although physically 12 APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE KEEP ‘EM FLYING

On your mark, get set, go! It’s that time again—flying season is officially here and pilots around the country can’t wait to take off. If you haven’t done much flying during the colder months, I urge you to do yourself a favor and spend a few hours making sure both you and your aircraft are ready for the adventures ahead. Although flying season is just now “officially” under way, I’ve been to some amazing events already this year. I’ve already enjoyed the Light Sport Aircraft show in Sebring, Florida. Then I marveled at the very large and well attended Helicopter Association International show in Dallas. And in late February I enjoyed a return visit to the popular Northwest Aviation Conference. I even had a chance to attend a large dinner of the Washington State Seaplane pilots association. All this happened before Sun ‘n Fun! And, of course, we always look to the annual event in Lakeland to see thousands of our members in the Southeast who come to enjoy the Florida sun. Everywhere I’ve traveled during the first quarter of this year, I’ve heard praise for AOPA’s formidable federal and state advocacy work. At the same time, whenever I spend more than a few minutes with a group of my fellow pilots, the conversation is sure to turn to where we have flown and where we might fly in the future. It is a constant reminder how important it is to share the experience of flying with others. I hope you are sharing your flying experiences, and not just with your fellow aviators. We need new pilots, and we know we can attract them. But we must also do a better job of keeping them once they start flying. The good news is that with new programs at AOPA and around the industry, we can make strides in doing just that. We want to recognize what works, so we’ve made it very easy to nominate any flight training organization or instructor for an AOPA Excellence in Flight Training Award. You just fill out a nomination survey that walks you through the most important areas of successful training based on our research. It’s all at www.AOPA.org/FTinitiative. We also provide something new called www.myFT.org. This gives every individual interested in learning to fly one place to go where they can share and receive information tailored specifically to their own experience. Student pilots can even earn rewards for achieving milestones on the way to a pilot certificate. You can play an important role in growing the pilot population, too. All you have to do is share your own success. Invite interested colleagues to fly with you. Be honest about the rewards and challenges of learning to fly. But above all, be a role model and just keep flying.

Craig L. Fuller AOPA President and CEO

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APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 13 relocating an aircraft hangar once seller’s ability to convey clear title to the buyer. An example of this is when constructed on a piece of real property the buyer (e.g. judgments, mortgages, a seller refuses to return a deposit is extremely rare. liens, etc.). As a result, the buyer will even though the buyer has complied When a buyer purchases an aircraft want to perform searches with the with all of the terms of the purchase hangar, the buyer receives a bill of appropriate courts and state/county agreement and has a right to have sale as evidence of the transfer/sale offices to confirm the seller actually the money returned. In this situation, of the aircraft hangar from the seller owns the aircraft hangar and to verify a court could enter a judgment to the buyer. Unlike an aircraft bill the absence of any encumbrances against the seller in the amount of the of sale, the bill of sale for an aircraft that could prevent the seller from unreturned security deposit. hangar does not need to be filed with conveying clear title to the buyer. the FAA and, in fact, the FAA would Warranties. It is possible to Conclusion not accept the bill of sale for filing if include a variety of warranties it was sent to them. The FAA does not in the purchase agreement An aircraft hangar purchase maintain a registry or any other record representing certain conditions of agreement is a valuable tool to ensure of ownership of aircraft hangars as it the aircraft hangar (e.g. warranties of that a buyer purchasing an aircraft does with aircraft. airworthiness, merchantability, fitness hangar receives what he or she is In most states, the aircraft hangar for a particular purpose, etc.). From expecting. It prevents confusion bill of sale will need to be recorded a buyer’s perspective, the warranty and misunderstanding and provides with the county in which the hangar of title is probably most important. security that the buyer will have is located. States require this filing in This warranty ensures that the buyer recourse if the seller fails to perform order to keep track of the owner for receives title to the hangar free and as required. With minimal time and the purposes of imposing personal clear of any liens or mortgages. expense incurred up-front, buyers can property taxes on the owner of the Although the buyer will still want to protect their interests and maximize aircraft hangar. Similar to real estate confirm this by performing thorough the likelihood of an uneventful closing taxes, once a year the county in due-diligence before closing, having and purchase. which the aircraft hangar is located, the warranty of title included in the The information contained herein will estimate the fair market value of purchase agreement will help to is intended for the education and the aircraft hangar and then assess a minimize the risk of any unrecorded benefit of Reigel Law Firm, Ltd. personal property tax on that value. liens or interests in the aircraft hangar. clients and prospective clients. The Pre-Closing Inspection. In many information should not be relied transactions, the buyer will want to What Remedy Does An Aircraft Hangar upon as advice to help you with your have an inspection performed on the Purchase Agreement Give The Buyer? specific issue. Each case is unique aircraft hangar before the closing. and must be analyzed by an attorney The purchase agreement can specify First, an aircraft hangar purchase licensed to practice in your area with who will perform the inspection and agreement is not a 100% guarantee respect to the particular facts and what qualifications that individual that a buyer will not have to sue the applicable current law before any must possess. Also, the buyer should seller if he or she does not perform advice can be given. Sending an email make the agreement contingent as required by the agreement. In this to Reigel Law Firm, Ltd. does not upon the buyer’s satisfaction with litigious world, such a guarantee is create an attorney-client relationship. results of the inspection. The buyer is impossible. Further, the purchase Advice will not be given by email usually responsible for the expenses agreement alone does not make until an attorney-client relationship associated with a pre-closing anyone do anything. If a seller does has been established. inspection. not want to comply with his or her © Reigel Law Firm, Ltd.-Aero Due-Diligence. The buyer will obligations, the purchase agreement Legal Services 2002-Present. All rights reserved. want to perform due diligence to will not change that. However, the confirm the status of the title of the purchase agreement will give the EDITORʼS NOTE: Greg Reigel is an aircraft hangar. 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14 APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE Instrument Flight GPS Is The Future of Navigation created by numerous thunderstorms in the area. One of the Bonanzas in that group had a GPS and everyone followed by Michael Kaufman him in loose formation; after all, this was the famous fter concentrating my column Bermuda Triangle. I still have that first GPS, a Garmin 100, for the last four issues on and it still works, although it sits on the shelf in my office. autopilots, my efforts will now One more comment before changing the column format turnA to Global Positioning System, to what GPS means today. better known as “GPS.” When I got my first GPS, all of the satellites were not When asked what the invention of the yet in orbit, so we needed to use a computer program to decade was, many people say, the cell establish if we would have any coverage in a specific area Michael Kaufman phone. For me the answer would be, at a given time or if it would be two-dimensional coverage. “GPS.” I remember Many of us have been following trying to navigate around the streets of a the proceedings in our capitol about a strange city using a map and being lost company called “Light Squared” that most of the time. Though I can brag that had been petitioning the government the cases of being lost in airplanes were for the right to build a ground-based quite rare, it did happen to me a few cell phone network on the frequency The "Garmin 100," Garmin's first aviation GPS. times in my early days of flying in the band adjacent to the GPS band. I have 1960s. been following the proceedings quite I remember seeing my first GPS at EAA AirVenture closely being a radio geek and amateur radio operator, as Oshkosh in 1991. A new start-up company that no one had well as a concerned pilot. After several rounds of hearings heard of called “Garmin” displayed a GPS unit. The reason before Congress, things are looking a lot better for pilots I remembered the year was that in 1992, I purchased my and GPS users. On Feb 16, the FCC revoked the waiver first GPS for my Bonanza and then used it for delivering a of Light Squared that would have allowed them to build a Super Cub to Alaska. In February of that year, I was part of ground-based wireless broadband network adjacent to the a group of 7 airplanes flying from Florida to the Dominican spectrum used by GPS. This is a sigh of relief to GPS users, Republic and my Loran quit working due to P static especially pilots who have as much as $10,000 or more From Shop To Finished Product, You Can Depend On BOLDUC AVIATION Specialized ServiceS EnginE REbuilding & REpaiR To FacTory ZERo-TimE SpeciFicaTionS ServiceS include, But not limited to: • Engine Balancing • Cylinder Grinding • Rebush & Line Boring of Connecting Rods & Rocker Arms • Overhauls & Repairs of Cylinders, Magnetos, Starter Adapters & Float-Type Carburetors

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APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 15 invested in a single GPS unit in their your position. The system is quite have just hit the market from Garmin aircraft and may have found that unit accurate, but some errors occurred, and Avidyne, and some new units from plagued with interference from this so this is why we have added WAAS several companies will be introduced proposed network. (Wide Area Augmentation System) later this year. I will try to mention On the technical side of GPS, we to our aircraft GPS receiver. An all of the popular GPS units and give need to mention how GPS works. earlier version of pre-WAAS was some of their details and features; There are 24 satellites plus called differential GPS, which used however, this will take several issues Brackett_Dec04 12/22/04 5:34 PM Page 1 several spares that are in low-polar ground-based radio transmissions of Midwest Flyer Magazine to finish, orbits. These satellites transmit their to correct these errors. They were so please bear with me. position and a time reference that is situated mostly along the coastline There are so many things to picked up by the GPS receivers that of the U.S. for marine navigation, consider when purchasing a new do fancy math and theory. By using and they never became too popular GPS, and I may appear as the devil’s multiple satellites, you can determine in the aviation community. Today, advocate on some and partial to there are WAAS receivers and sensors others. These are my thoughts and you located in conjunction with other may disagree, which of course you are BRACKETT ground-based navigation systems at all entitled to do. I will concentrate on TOWBARS airports, which measure the position the world’s most popular GPS in this accuracy of the GPS satellites at a issue. If you haven’t guessed which CESSNA 150 given time. These corrections are GPS this is, the answer would be the THRU then sent first by landline and then Garmin 430/530 units. GULFSTREAM V via an uplink to several satellites that When the Garmin 430/530 series are in a geostationary orbit over the first appeared in advertisements in equator. These corrections are then aviation publications, I was impressed beamed back to the GPS receiver and inquired at my local avionics shop on a different frequency, and the as to what the price would be. I was plus corrections are made in the GPS told about 10K, installed, plus options. HELICOPTER receiver. The correction sensors are My response was “No one will spend strategically located at many airports that kind of money on a GPS.” I was throughout the country, and each of sure wrong on that one. When I did them covers a specific area as the a survey several years ago, I found corrections needed in California that there were over 100,000 Garmin may be different than the ones for 430/530 units sold worldwide. Wisconsin on any given date or time. 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I am very insistent as an instructor that every pilot What Expert Avionics Technicians identifies a ground-based NAVAID before using it. If a NAVAID cannot be properly identified, it could be unreliable Can Do For You! for navigation, out of service, or we as pilots could have misread a frequency like I did once when there were two closely spaced airports, both having ILS approaches. I am fluent in Morse code, but many pilots are not, so this feature is a very useful tool found on the Garmin 530. In most Garmin 530 aircraft installations, I find a second GPS/VOR/COM, which is usually a Garmin 430. The two units complement each other very well, and most avionics shops will configure the two units, so they can communicate with each other electronically. Install, Repair, Overhaul & Upgrade Avionics By putting a flight plan into the 530, there is an option that can be set by the pilot to automatically “cross fill” the On Factory-Built or Experimental Aircraft flight plan to the 430. This way there is a backup of the • Communication Systems • Navigation Systems flight plan should the 530 fail. The avionics shop can also provide a cross fill cable to do the same to a portable unit • Custom Instrument Panels • Instrumentation like the Garmin 396 or 496, so the pilot can have a backup • Cabin Entertainment Systems • Weather Systems on his portable should there be an electrical system failure • Flight Control Systems and both the 530 and 430 fail. The 396 or 496 can operate for several hours on their Make Your Flying Safer & More Enjoyable internal batteries, which was extremely helpful the time I lost the alternator in my Bonanza in IMC. Another plus in Upgrade To Garmin! having this cross fill feature is the capability to see your • Touchscreen GTN™ 650 & 750 nav/ proposed route and the weather depicted on the same screen. coms with high resolution terrain There is no way to cross fill from the portable GPS units mapping, graphical flight planning, back to the 530 or 430, which is unfortunate. There is also traffic display, and satellite weather. no way to put an alternate flight plan into the portable GPS when it is connected via cable to the panel mounted units, • Traffic Systems ADS-B Ready so instruct the radio shop to put a simple switch in the line • Digital Transponders to break the connection between the two units. • 3D Audio Systems One more hint for pilots flying the interconnected • XM Datalink Weather Garmin 530/430 combination, or a combination of two For Additional Information, Quote or Appointment Garmin 430s, is to allow “auto cross fill” from radio one to radio two, but only manual cross fill from radio two Contact Tom Hass: 218-237-1525 to radio one. This will allow you to fly radio one while [email protected] modifying or putting a different flight plan into radio two. Should you need to divert to another airport or fly to an For information on Approach Fast Stack, the alternate, you are ready with a couple of button pushes. Just retrofit modular wiring systems that interconnect use the manual cross fill option on radio two and the data avionics components with a central hub and ready- will be identical in both units. build cables for avionics. Because there are so many aircraft out there flying with Garmin 530/430s, I will concentrate on more tips on these Contact Tim Hass: 218-237-7825 units in the next issue of Midwest Flyer Magazine. [email protected] A “superior” pilot is one who uses his/her superior knowledge to avoid situations, which may require his/her superior skills (Author Unknown). Park Rapids Avionics Blue skies on your next flight! www.parkrapidsavionics.com EDITOR’S NOTE: Michael “Mick” Kaufman is the manager for the Beechcraft Pilot Proficiency Program and a flight Park Rapids Municipal Airport instructor operating out of Lone Rock (LNR) and Eagle River Konshok Field (PKD) (EGV), Wisconsin. Kaufman was named “FAA’s Safety Team Representative of the Year for Wisconsin” in 2008. 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Park Rapids Ad Jan2012RBL3G.indd 1 1/29/12 3:21 PM Flight Training A Surfeit of Data maps and Elrey Jeppeson made crude is good. Leave the Swiss Army knife by Harold Green sketches to aid his airmail flights. We approach to flight bags somewhere that now have very accurate sectionals, can be accessed during flight, but not hese days enroute charts, airport facility with you at your seat. Charts should we suffer directories, approach charts, etc. With be folded to enable easy access to the from a the aid of the Internet, we can print route of flight. It is also good practice surfeitT of data. out a great surfeit of data. In fact, a to attach a pencil to the kneeboard with There seems to private pilot student planning his/her a piece of string or otherwise prevent be two sources. first cross-country typically shows up the pencil from falling onto the floor. Pilots themselves with 12 to 18 pages of weather data Picking up a pencil from the floor of and the advent of Harold Green printed out, NOTAMS, and computer the airplane generally requires one to more advanced completed flight plans, all on 8.5 X divert attention from the primary task electronics. The even more advanced 11-inch paper. In fact, the blizzard of of flying the airplane. electronics of the glass cockpit is a paper never seems to end. Next, make sure all necessary data, subject for a later discussion. This Then, as pilots have done for but only the necessary data, is readily article discusses only about how pilots generations, we purchase a plethora at hand on the clipboard or otherwise inundate themselves with data, both of gadgets to aid us. Up to the point readily available. All the nice to have, paper and electronic. For our purposes, that we use this data, it remains just but not critical data should be placed data only becomes information when that – data. After we are able to use it where it can be accessed if needed. Just the pilot is able to access, understand to make decisions, the data becomes remember, reaching into the wrong and apply it. The issue is the correct information. The dangers of this are portion of the back seat of a general identification and translation of data to that students confuse themselves with aviation plane can be as challenging produce information. all the data. Furthermore, there is so as an Olympic gymnastic event, to say We have come a long way since much of it that there is danger of not nothing of endangering the flight. pilots navigated with crude road finding what is needed or selecting Navaids have progressed to the the wrong set of data. In the process, point that we are doing away with Fly-A-CuB typically not enough attention is paid non-directional beacons (NDBs) and to cockpit organization and orderliness. long ago dispensed with adcock ranges The result is that they have less and beacon lit airways. We now have information than without the blizzard VORs, DMEs and GPS. Compounding of paper and electronic input. the problems caused by the surfeit of One thing many VFR pilots forget data is the appearance of advanced is that most of the frequencies and electronic toys such as the handheld For The Pure Joy of Flying! airport information they are going to GPS and iPads with all sorts of apps to need is found on the sectional chart. aid the pilot. Don’t yet have your tailwheel endorsement? Why bother to copy it again? That All of these provide great comfort Excellent Instruction Available! vastly reduces the paper load. The best to the inexperienced. Make no mistake Plane: $60/hr dry - Instructor: $50/hr cure for this problem is to organize about it – they can be of great use Morey AirplAne CoMpAny paper data sources so that all the when used efficiently and in their necessary data, and only the necessary proper perspective. However, when the 608-836-1711 - www.moreyairport.com data, is available. This means that user is not totally familiar in how to Middleton MuniCipAl Airport (C29) flight plans should be concise and on use them, they can be a distraction and Morey Field - Middleton, WisConsin something smaller than 8.5 X 11-inch can cause the pilot to forget to fly the paper. The typical multi-page printed airplane. This is particularly true when output of an online service contains the pilot makes a mistake in entry. This information that is not needed during results in diverted attention to try to flight. Only that required for the actual figure out what went wrong and then to flight should be kept readily at hand. figure the best way to correct the error. In the meantime due to the pilots’ lack I cannot thank AFIT enough for all of the time, If the data is important, then make expertise and professional guidance these last of attention and probably undetected sure it is readily available in a concise nine days. Your program, the follow-up, and the control input while reaching for actual training were well designed and individually compact form. something, the airplane has decided tailored to get me to my ultimate goal of earning my Kneeboards should not be a thing of instrument rating and license in less than ten days. to investigate something down below. many sections, but rather a simple unit Scott A. 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afitfinalrevised.indd 1 4/6/11 12:59:35 PM data sources until leisurely figuring out what went wrong. corrected. Again, the best solution is to know the equipment Of course in all cases, the best solution is to thoroughly so that errors are eliminated. That is all very well to say. But know the equipment so that mistakes are rare and, assuming doing it is sometimes more difficult. mistakes will not be totally eliminated, train yourself in Now exacerbate the situation with an iPad with GPS “error recovery.” capability. The pilot, whether VFR or IFR, tends to compare The classic Nav/Com is very easy to set up. Turn the the sources of data. Which one is correct? Another chance knob until the desired frequency shows up in the window. for division of attention. How do you know? Inevitably, the Even the backup frequency is easy to set up and flip student will trust the GPS because of the pink line. NOTE: back and forth. The general objective when navigating Usually the GPS will be more correct with respect to the electronically is to keep the needle in the center of the OBS. depicted ground track, but that may not be the important That is pretty much it, even on an instrument approach. issue if an error in set up was made. The problem here is that The problem is that the pilot needs to be able to picture attention is diverted from flying the airplane. In addition, his/her position from then on. The GPS does away with that many pilots have multiple GPS units on board. envisioning stuff by showing a magenta (pink) line and the The idea of redundancy is a valid one. However, a couple aircraft’s position. That is very nice, however, the novice of points should be considered. pilot tends to focus on that rather than on the navaid needle. First, for a given task, the more pieces of equipment you The importance of this is that the student does not learn to have, the more likely you are to suffer a failure. Second, use the VOR, which will be with us for sometime to come. the more different the pieces of equipment are from each IFR students also want to follow the GPS, rather than the other, the more likely you are to make an error, which will course deviation indicator, even when executing a VOR or result in an effective failure. In addition, the more pieces of ILS approach. This can be illegal, unsafe and the cause of a equipment, the less attention will be paid to the primary task “busted” check-ride. of flying the airplane. GPS units are not so easy to set up, which results in In summary, whether you are flying VFR or IFR, errors. If in Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC) carefully minimize your data and hence maximize your and a GPS approach is loaded incorrectly, or sequences in an information. Eliminate the superfluous. This minimizes unanticipated manner, the pilot should immediately decide decision time, minimizes the possibility of error, and whether or not to declare the issue to Air Traffic Control maximizes your chance of a successful and uneventful flight. (ATC) and perhaps request vectors until the situation is EDITOR’S NOTE: Harold Green is a Certified Instrument Flight Instructor at Morey Airplane Company, Middleton, Wisconsin. q

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APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 19 Flight Training Earning The Instrument Rating In A Perfect World! by Karen Workman up with one that best suits your style. That instructor would he advantages of dedicate an entire week to only having an “instrument you and at the end of that week, rating” cannot be you would be qualified to fly disputed.T The rating adds a through the clouds with the huge margin of safety to your FAA’s blessing. flying, and increases the utility Typically, it doesn’t work of both your pilot certificate like that. You walk into an FBO and aircraft. A pilot certificate and it is hit or miss. Chances gives you wings, while an are, the instructor is a young instrument rating gets you person recently graduated from point A to B safely, with One on one, getting the job done at Accelerated Flight & from a fine collegiate aviation Instrument Training. confidence, and allows you to program, on his or her way go through the clouds that keep to flying for the airlines, who others on the ground. will try and fit you into a schedule to fly every Wednesday In a perfect world, your instrument rating would evening for the next six months. Of course, there are no be earned like this: You would walk into your FBO to guarantees that you would actually be able to fly all of announce that you have successfully passed your written those Wednesdays, but that's alright, you can extend the test and are ready to begin the practical part of your training to eternity until you are ready for your checkride. instrument training. Twelve (12) certified instrument flight And if your instructor reaches his/her minimum required instructors (CFIIs) would be lined up, each of them with hours for a job with a commuter airline, you will be passed thousands of hours of experience. You would be matched on to the next instructor. Not all flight schools at FBOs operate that way, but there are enough that the best have developed accelerated programs. One company is actually called “Accelerated Flight & Instrument Training” or AFIT.

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2612 Wicks MF Everything 2 Ad.in1 1 3/17/10 2:00:24 PM airplane. Success! Since many of AFIT’s students are working The men and women professionals, the eight at Accelerated Flight to 10-hour training day & Instrument Training can start at whatever are dedicated to their time of the day the client client’s success. Their chooses. goal is to leave the One client of AFIT student confident and needed a checkout in competent to fly in a Piper Saratoga he instrument conditions. had just purchased in They will fly in actual Virginia, and needed an instrument conditions instrument rating. So the (L/R) An AFIT instructor congratulates a student on the successful completion of his instrument checkride. whenever it is possible instructor met the client during their training. in Virginia to pick up the While the course plane, and they flew the new Saratoga work with students for their private is guaranteed, it does not mean an back to the client's home in California, pilot certificate, commercial pilot instrument rating is assured, but accomplishing the checkout and the certificate, and multi-engine rating. AFIT’s pass rate is 98%. AFIT's training enroute. It was a satisfying, Recurrent, transition and glass cockpit website is chock full of testimonials memorable experience for both training is available as well. from business owners, surgeons, student and instructor. The instrument course has a flat attorneys, executives, and professional fee of $595 per day and is completed sports players, all who have taken the Experienced Instructors in 10 concurrent days. It begins with time to say “Thank you!” four or five days of cross-country For additional information about Exceptional instructors are key to flying to establish the primary Accelerated Flight & Instrument the success of AFIT students. Each of concepts of instrument flight, to Training, check out their website at the 40-plus instructors has a minimum complete the required cross-country www.afit-info.com, call 866-270- of 10,000 hours in their logbooks flight requirement, and to allow the 8224, or email [email protected]. and decades of flying and teaching instructor and student to become EDITOR’S NOTE: Karen Workman experience. Interestingly, none of acquainted. The rest of the time is is an instrument rated private pilot living in Minnesota with her husband, Eric, these instructors are retired airline spent on approaches and prepping for pilots. They gained their experience who is a CFII. The Workmans own a the oral and flight exams. If training 1968 Piper Cherokee 180D, and also hour by hour in general aviation is completed in less than 10 days, the belong to a flying club where they can airplanes. client pays only for the days he/she fly a Cessna 182RG, Cessna 172, Piper All AFIT instructors are over used. Archer, and a Beech Skipper. q age 55. They are stable and mature. They are in the business of flight training because that is their passion. They are not building hours for a better job. And AFIT instructors are scattered all over the country, and have rich, diverse backgrounds. One Greg Reigel instructor, when not instructing, flies a Cessna Turbo 210 at 26,000 feet, Aviation Attorney conducting atmospheric research for the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. (952) 238-1060

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APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 21 engaged on each of these issues holding local airport events aimed at and many more, there is one critical getting the local community to come component that makes ensuring out to their airport and see just what a healthy GA industry that much general aviation is all about. easier – a strong regional aviation Also, building on the exemplary community. efforts of Bill Blake, who now Right now, just over 87,000 pilots takes over the role of “AOPA GRreategional Lakes r eRGionaepoL Rrtseport are actively flying in the eight states Representative,” the association, by Bill Blake that now encompass the “Great Lakes through the regional manager AOPA GreatStrengthening Lakes Regional Representative Region.” There are piston, turbine, program, has renewed its efforts light sport, balloon and so many on the state legislative and airport The Aviation Community other pilots, all of whom make up advocacy front and is actively by Bryan Budds, Manager an important part of our community. working issues across the region. AOPA Regional HeadingAOPA 2012.indd Great 1 Lakes Region But, as I’ve3/29/12 seen 8:38during PM my travels, Issues we are currently engaged there are many others with an interest with include an aircraft and pilot e all in supporting the future of general registration fee hike in Illinois, a know aviation. From the likely suspects proposal to more adequately fund the some of of airport managers and fixed base Michigan Aeronautics Office while Wthe realities facing operators, to the more unexpected not raising any aviation fees, and general aviation groups including teachers, community proposals in multiple states to extend today. Unfortunately, groups, and local decision-makers, liability protection for private owners we hear with the drive to learn more about general of public landing facilities. relative frequency aviation is strong. In the issues to come, I look discussions of To help get some of these aviation forward to sharing more about myself, Bryan Budds looming user fees, dreamers to finally take that important my role with AOPA, and our efforts the declining pilot step toward learning more about to continue building the Great Lakes population, the increasing cost of GA, you will see me at many of the aviation community. In the meantime, general aviation, and many other traditional aviation events in the please do not hesitate to contact me at challenges. While AOPA remains region. However, you may also see me [email protected]. q News & Information You’ll Want To Know In Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska & Iowa by Yasmina Platt, Manager Iowa. Among other things, I am which extends the approach zones AOPA Central Southwest Region responsible for all legislative issues from the current three (3) miles to within my region as well as making 10 miles from the end of every IFR s you may AOPA more visible, promoting runway in the state to increase safety have already membership, and serving as a local and promote good land use planning. read in point of contact for members. I look Two of the bills in Missouri will previousA editions forward to my new role and I am extend the expiration date of the of Midwest Flyer extremely thankful for the opportunity Aviation Trust Fund from 2013 to Magazine and AOPA to serve you. 2023. Youth aviation education and Pilot magazine, While my region covers several the promotion of general aviation have AOPA has started states, I will focus on Iowa, Nebraska, been my main focuses as it is clear a new regional Missouri and Kansas in this magazine. to all of us that the pilot population Yasmina Platt manager program to So far, during my first two months and aviation workforce in general is increase its ability with AOPA, I have attended several decreasing and the image of general to address the issues facing general aviation events (including the aviation is inaccurate and negative aviation at the state and local levels. Nebraska Aviation Symposium in among some citizens and groups. The program is divided into seven January), tracked several bills, and I appreciate the opportunity to share (7) regions, all aligned with the FAA begun meeting with a variety of the news about AOPA’s activities in regions. I want to introduce myself leaders in the aviation community the Central Southwest Region with to you as the new regional manager to brainstorm ideas and search you and look forward to meeting for AOPA’s Central Southwest for solutions. Some of the active you as I travel around the region, Region covering New Mexico, Texas, legislative items include Nebraska’s and communicate with you through Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, LB352 and four bills in Missouri. Midwest Flyer Magazine Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and AOPA very much supports LB352, ([email protected]). q 22 APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE From AOPA Headquarters At Work Outside D.C. taxes on recently purchased aircraft and state advocacy teams have plenty that visit their airports, even if they of data to make the case for GA. by Craig L. Fuller are based elsewhere. Others want to And, just as fortunately, state officials President & CEO Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association tax parts and labor for aircraft repairs usually listen. We had a big win in and maintenance, while still others March when a bill to expand a sales veryone hope to raise revenues with huge hikes tax exemption for aircraft repairs I meet all in registration fees or blanket “luxury” and equipment cleared the Florida across the taxes on small planes. legislature. Under the new measure, countryE seems to Whenever these issues arise—and aircraft with a maximum takeoff know that AOPA they constantly do—AOPA is there, weight of only 2,000 pounds will be is hard at work fighting to protect general aviation. eligible for tax exemptions previously representing We know that when taxes get too high, available only to aircraft weighing general aviation people stop flying. We also know that, more than 15,000 pounds.

Craig Fuller before federal more often than not, the revenues And we’ve seen important wins agencies, states and cities hope to generate with in other states, including Maine, members of Congress, and other new or higher taxes will be canceled Massachusetts, Idaho, Washington, decision makers in Washington, D.C. out by the loss of other forms of South Dakota, Indiana, and But I’m often surprised to learn how income. For instance, when one state Pennsylvania. At the same time, this little people know about our work on wants to raise taxes on parts and labor is an issue that never truly goes away the state and local levels. for aircraft repairs, pilots simply and we’re continuing to work on tax One area where we are particularly take their planes elsewhere to have and fee concerns in Alaska, Maryland, active is the issue of taxes and fees. work done. That means less work for Illinois, and elsewhere. So while it’s Unless it’s a topic you follow closely, mechanics, FBOs, and airports in that absolutely true that AOPA is your you’d probably be surprised to learn state. It means fewer dollars spent on advocate in Washington, D.C., it’s just how many and varied are the fuel, and ultimately fewer jobs. It’s a equally true that, no matter where you attempts to tax general aviation. Some bad bargain all the way around. live, we are hard at work much closer states want to impose sales and use Fortunately, our regional managers to home. q

Illinois Bill policies on general aviation. He for aviation fuel taxes, with both a Would Raise Aviation Fees noted that in addition to imposing 6 percent sales tax and $0.003 per some of the highest sales and use gallon excise tax. taxes on aircraft purchases—up to AOPA is continuing to urge defeat SPRINGFIELD, ILL. – A proposed 10.25 percent, depending on the of the fee-increase bill in discussions hike in aviation registration fees community—Illinois is “the sixth with the aeronautics division, and would only “further depress” a tax- most expensive state in the country with legislators (www.aopa.org). q burdened aviation economy in Illinois, AOPA said, urging officials to reject the plan. Illinois House Bill 4444 would double registration fees paid by aircraft owners and pilots. The bill 715-594-3761 COMPANY was introduced January 27, 2012, www.redwingaero.com and referred to the House Rules Red Wing, Minnesota Committee, backed by the Illinois FAA Certified CRS# R3WR714J Division of Aeronautics. AOPA is urging lawmakers to vote down the bill that could make Illinois’ already aviation-unfriendly business environment even more challenging, Specialists In Mooney Aircraft especially by raising costs without Repair, Maintenance & Annual Inspections directly reinvesting tax proceeds in its Factory-Trained & Experienced Technicians aviation system. FAA Certified Unlimited Class 3 Repair Station AOPA Director of State Dynamic Prop Balancing • Sheet Metal Repair Government Affairs Mark Kimberling Pitot-Static Transponder Checks • Aircraft Weighing detailed the impact of Illinois’ tax APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 23 Wisconsin Aviation Conference & Airports Wisconsin Dells To Welcome 2012 Wisconsin Aviation Conference Attendees

WISCONSIN DELLS, WIS. – The web interface which will standardize their financial impact on airports and Wisconsin Aviation Conference will and validate NOTAM information operators. be held May 7 - 9, 2012, at the without the need for third-party Attendees can learn how to Chula Vista Resort in handling, resulting in a faster, more request, develop, and provide support Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. efficient process. for Instrument Approach Procedures A welcome cruise will be held on Another session will be on (IAP) development, and how new the Wisconsin River on Monday, May engaging one’s community through instrument approach procedures can 7, 2012, with special announcements multi-media outlets. This session improve accessibility to one’s airport. by the presidents of the Wisconsin will include an overview of using Have you ever wondered what Airport Management Association multi-media in developing marketing your airport’s economic value is to (WAMA), Wisconsin Aviation Trades strategies for your airport/business. your community? Association (WATA), and Wisconsin It will incorporate who’s using social Wisconsin Bureau of Aeronautics Business Aviation Association media, why, and most importantly, staff will describe how they can assist (WBAA). The three organizations how it can be applied. airports in determining their economic sponsor the conference in cooperation Another session will suggest ways value. with consultants and suppliers. to retain pilots and aircraft owners at For the past 15 years, former Conference topics will include an airport. The session will describe Madison reporter and now Madison Next Gen, Safety Management the difficulties of retaining pilots, Police public relations manager, Joe Systems, Direct Entry NOTAMs, aircraft owners and airport users DesPlaines, has been heavily involved Multi-Media Community Marketing, at any airport in today’s economic in providing crisis readiness, and Retaining Pilots and Aircraft Owners climate, including financial aspects, response and recovery consultation, At Airports, Airport Cooperative risks, and concerns for airport owners, working with a number of commercial Research, Hangar Safety, Ground fixed base operators and aviators. airlines, private sector companies, Handling Risk Management, Attendees will find out what professional sports organizations, as Developing Instrument Approaches, the Airport Cooperative Research well as federal regulatory agencies. Economic Impact Statements, and Program is, how airports can get DesPlaines has responded to eight Crisis Management. involved, and what it has to offer commercial airline disasters, as well There will be a special session airports to better manage, develop and as criminal acts, severe weather events devoted to the status of the FAA direct guide an airport – today and into the and workplace accidents. He will NOTAM project (digital NOTAMs). future. share the lessons he has learned based When activated for an airport, direct There will be a session to review on those experiences. entry NOTAMs will allow airport some significant accidents related For additional conference operators to issue NOTAMs through a to ground handling operations and information, go to www.wiama.org. q

57th Annual Wisconsin Aviation Conference May 7-9, 2012 - Chula Vista Resort - Wisconsin Dells, Wis. Speakers: Steve Myers, Former Head of Lockheed Aircraft Skunk Works; Bryan Burns, Air Charter Safety Foundation President; Russ Lawton, NATA Director of Safety and Security; FAA Regional Administrator Barry Cooper; Wisconsin DOT Secretary Mark Gottlieb; Wisconsin Aeronautics Director David Greene; and Minneapolis Airports District Office Manager Steve Obenauer. Topics: NextGen, Safety Management Systems, Direct Entry NOTAMs, Multi-Media Community Marketing, Retaining Pilots and Aircraft Owners At Airports, Airport Cooperative Research, Hangar Safety, Ground Handling Risk Management, Developing Instrument Approaches, Economic Impact Statements, Crisis Management. Special Events: Welcome Cruise On The Wisconsin River, Awards Luncheon, Banquet, Golf & Clay Shooting Tournaments. Hosted By $75.00 Registration Fee Includes All Meals & Receptions Wisconsin Airport Management Association “Complimentary Registration for Airport Commissioner/Board Member with Paid Staff Registration” Wisconsin Aviation Trades Association For registration information, please visit the Wisconsin Airport Management Ass’n at www.wiama.org Wisconsin Business Aviation Association or contact Pete Drahn, 715-358-2802 / [email protected]. Chula Vista Resort: 855-388-4782 Consultants, Suppliers & Sponsors 24 APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE WisConf2012.indd 1 3/31/12 10:41 PM Outagamie County Regional Airport Retires Bonds… Terminal Is Now Debt Free!

Allegiant Air, Delta Air Lines, and United Express serve the growing Fox Cities market. Outagamie County Regional Airport is an Enterprise Fund Department of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, and is supported wholly by airport user charges. No general tax fund revenues are used for the administration, promotion, operation, or maintenance of the airport in the system (www.atwairport.com). q

NATA Launches State Advocacy Network

ALEXANDRIA, VA. – The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) has launched a new State Advocacy Network (SAN) consisting of association members in every state who will serve as volunteer liaisons between member Outagamie County Regional Airport bond burning ceremonies: (L/R) businesses, state legislatures, and the association. Brian Massey, finance director; Thomas Nelson, current county “General aviation businesses are confronted with issues executive; Marty Lenss, airport director; and Toby Paltzer; past county executive. that require prompt attention, including airport and land use, security, taxation, aircraft noise and emissions,” stated APPLETON, WIS. – Outagamie County Regional Airport NATA President and CEO James K. Coyne. “Identifying (ATW) recently made a strategic move to retire debt on its pertinent legislation and regulations ahead of their terminal that underwent an expansion in 2001. At that time, implementation in every state throughout this county is one bonds totaling $4 million were issued with a 15-year term. of the greatest challenges we face as an industry.” The airport chose to pay them off utilizing airport reserves For more information on the State Advocacy Network in November 2011, which was 5 years early. This decision and how you can get involved, please visit www.nata.aero/ will save the airport $234,000 in interest. SAN. q “Paying off this debt early assists us in keeping our rates and charges for our terminal tenants, including airlines, competitive,” said Marty Lenss, airport director. “The airport is committed to providing convenient, modern, and affordable facilities to both its airline partners and customers.” “We commend Outagamie County Regional Airport for their commitment to keeping costs low and using resources as efficiently as possible. Paying off the terminal early is just one example of this,” said Eric Fletcher, manager of airports for Allegiant Air. “ATW has been a great partner for Allegiant and we look forward to continued focus on low-cost and low-fares for Appleton residents.” The expansion in 2001 was necessary to provide improved customer amenities and support future airport growth. Customer enhancements within this new 30,000 square foot gate area included spacious seating areas with natural lighting, ambient in-floor heating, a new passenger paging system, and for the first time at ATW, five (5) aircraft boarding bridges. Project funds totaled $10.7 million and were as follows: • Federal and state airport improvement grants: $5.9 million. • Bonds: $4 million. • Interest Income: $48,000. • Airport reserve funds: $705,000. APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 25 Lone Rock – Where A VOR & Airport Restaurant Live On! Regional. “There’s no personnel problems when you are it,” says LONE ROCK, WIS. – Pilots once wearing their Sunday best blue jeans, Higgs. depended on the Lone Rock VOR for so it is hard to tell who is a pilot and Marc Higgs was inspired to take navigation, and the Lone Rock Flight who is not. The important thing to flying lessons in 1986 by a couple Service Station for weather advisories remember is that everyone who is at of friends who would often take him and for filing flight plans. But with the the restaurant is fascinated with flight, flying. EAA AirVenture didn’t help Flight Service Station long gone, and and enjoys watching the planes land to fight the bug, either, as Higgs and VORs becoming obsolete, one would and taxi around. The Piccadilly Lilly his friends would make the annual wonder how the very much rural is owned and managed by Kathryn pilgrimage to Oshkosh. But his real Tri-County Regional Airport (LNR) “Kat” Spenulson. interest was in “aircraft mechanics,” could possibly survive, but and in 1987 Higgs it has, thanks in large part enrolled at Colorado to one major corporation Aero Tech to get his in the area, and an airport Airframe & Powerplant restaurant with a country Certificate. He returned atmosphere pilots will fly to Tri-County Regional hundreds of miles for. Airport to work at When you land and Lone Rock Aviation. walk into the small, two- Three years later, Higgs room restaurant called the added his Inspection “Piccadilly Lilly,” you Authorization and in never know who might 1996, started his own be sitting at the table next aircraft maintenance to you, but at Tri-County business, and became Regional Airport, no airport manager. He one quite cares. It is not closed his maintenance unusual to see a Citation shop in 2004, but has Tri-County Regional Airport from Chicago parked on remained the airport the ramp, but chances are if you see manager. a gold and white Cessna 150, you got Marc Higgs, who lives in Higgs’ office is in a wood framed up early enough to have breakfast nearby Arena, is airport manager terminal building that stays warm with Ray Kressin from Waunakee, and thoroughly loves the low-key in the winter during the day with a Wisconsin. Ray, a retired engineer, atmosphere, at least until the snow wood-burning stove. At night, the seldom misses flying the 30 miles to flys and the grass needs cutting. Higgs furnace kicks in. A weather computer LNR on a daily basis. could easily be managing an airport in and restroom with showers makes it a The restaurant is a gathering a metropolitan area and have dozens good place to rest, plan a flight, or to place for area farmers, who are of employees working for him, but learn from local flight instructor and mostly retired, but almost everyone is he prefers working at Tri-County Midwest Flyer Magazine columnist, Michael “Mick” Kaufman, who lives nearby in Richland Center. Tri-County Regional Airport was first established as the Lone Rock Airport in 1923. In 1927, Lone Rock was designated as an emergency airmail landing field because it was located at the intersection of the two airways, which crossed Wisconsin, and at the halfway point between Chicago and Minneapolis. The airport Airport Planning, Environmental, 952-890-0509 was upgraded with a flashing white www.bolton-menk.com beacon, runway lighting, a weather Design, Construction, and station and radio. Visit our blog at: Surveying Services bolton-menk-aviation.blogspot.com During the Second World War, Lone Rock was used for flight 26 APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE Piccadilly Lilly Restaurant Marc Higgs training, and was a destination for training flights from the restaurant was established in its historic building. The Glenview Naval Air Station near Chicago. After the war, manned weather station remained in operation under the under the control of the Civil Aeronautics Administration FAA until 2002 when it was replaced with an automated (CAA), a flight service station was established providing surface observing system (ASOS). In recent years, the east- weather reports and traffic control for southwestern west runway (9/27) was extended to 5000 feet, with PAPI, Wisconsin. In 1954, the CAA relinquished control of the REILS, and a localizer, and the airport has seen an increase airport to the counties of Richland, Sauk, and Iowa, thus in usage by corporate jets, as well as a steady increase creating “Tri-County Airport.” The flight service station in based aircraft. A north-south crosswind runway 1850 remained in service until the mid 1980s. After it closed, feet in length by 60 feet wide is a great alternative when

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APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 27 Iowa Aviation Conference & Airports landing on Runway 36, or taking off 2012 Iowa Aviation Conference on Runway 18, but the hills north of the airport can make departing on WEST DES MOINES, IOWA – The The Iowa Department of Runway 36 or landing on Runway 2012 Iowa Aviation Conference Transportation Office of Aviation 18, more challenging, but certainly to be held April 25-26 at the West and Iowa Public Airports Association doable. Des Moines Sheraton Inn, will (IPAA) host the annual conference Self-service fuel is available for offer a combination of informative to help promote a strong air both Jet-A and 100LL, with full- presentations and interaction with peer transportation system in Iowa, and to service available to those pilots who industry representatives for airports benefit airports, aviation businesses, either call ahead, or call upon their and fixed base operators, as well as a and government agencies in the state. arrival. There are 38 well-maintained pilot safety seminar on Wednesday, For additional information, go to private and municipally-owned April 25 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. www.iowadot.gov/aviation. q hangars that rent for as little as $100 per month. The area around Tri-County Ankeny Regional Airport & The Polk County Aviation Authority Regional Airport will take your breath away, both from the air and on the ground. With the plush green farms to the east and west, the Baraboo bluffs to the north, and the Wisconsin River to the south, Tri-County Regional Airport is simply gorgeous in any season! TC's Aircare of Baraboo provides aircraft maintenance, as does Aero Paradise of Reedsburg, which specializes in light sport aircraft and Rotax engine service. River Valley Aviation, which is owned and operated by Mike Peterson, specializes in fabric recovering and vintage aircraft restorations. Among the attractions within a few Ankeny Regional Airport miles of the airport are Frank Lloyd ne of the host airports of Business and community leaders Wright’s “Taliesin Estate,” “House on the annual Iowa Aviation convened in the late 1980s to create a the Rock,” American Players Theater, Conference to be held April vision for an airport in the northeast Tower Hill State Park, and of course, 25-26,O 2012 at the West Des Moines part of Polk County. They saw a need the Wisconsin River with its many Sheraton Inn, is Ankeny Regional to serve businesses that relied on easy recreational opportunities. Airport, established in 1993 to access to Des Moines to complement For additional information, contact accommodate the growing demand Des Moines International Airport. Marc Higgs at 608-583-2600 (office) of general aviation in the Des Moines A partnership was crafted or 608-963-8508 (cell). q metropolitan area. between the cities of Bondurant, Altoona and Ankeny, and Polk County. The early leadership of the Polk County Aviation Authority (PCAA) and elected officials faced the dual challenges of building and financing an airport from scratch and constructing a system for governing it. These leaders used their relationships and vision to identify a location for the airport and to develop a plan to build it. The airport’s proximity to the Metro North Business Park lent credibility to the vision for a business airport. 28 APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE Untitled-1 1 2/23/12 3:21 PM Minnesota Airports Conference & Airports The Polk County Aviation Rochester International Airport – Fit For A King or Queen! Authority, comprised of representatives from each entity, was formed in 1989 to manage the affairs of the airport. The airport has filled the needs identified early in its history. In 2011, the airport had 48,600 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 133 per day. There is a strong use of the airport by area businesses for meetings and parts delivery. Charter services are also popular, serving over 500,000 people in the metropolitan area. General aviation use is high, aided by the significant aircraft storage space at the airport. There is a waiting list of 20 people for hangar Rochester International Airport space. Ankeny Regional Airport covers an area of 550 acres at an elevation of he Minnesota Airports grant funding to publicly owned 910 feet MSL. There are two concrete Conference rotates each year, and operated airports for capital paved runways. The primary runway from northern to southern improvements, but since Rochester (18/36) is 5,500 feet long and 100 feet Minnesota,T and all places in between. Airport was privately owned and wide and has an Instrument Landing This year the conference will be held operated, the airport was not eligible. System. The crosswind runway (4/22) in the city known best for the “Mayo To ensure continued growth and is 3,855 long and 75 feet wide. The Clinic” in Rochester, Minnesota in the development of the airport, the Mayo airport has storage for 115 aircraft. southeastern part of the state. Foundation deeded the airport to The Iowa National Guard and Hosting the conference is the City of Rochester so that federal the Iowa State Highway Patrol have Rochester International Airport, funding would be available for capital operations at the airport. The Iowa which can trace its beginnings to development. Finally realizing the Aviation Heritage Museum is active the early days of aviation and to no benefits of the airport, the City of in restoring aircraft and preserving surprise, to the Mayo Clinic. In 1927, Rochester immediately entered into a aviation history at the airport, as well. brothers and doctors William and long-term agreement with the Mayo Exec1 Aviation is the fixed Charles Mayo realized the advantage Foundation and the Rochester Airport base operator at Ankeny, providing of providing air transportation to the Company for continued operations air charter services and aircraft rapidly growing clinic. The brothers and management of the airport. refueling. Exec1 Aviation provides approached the City of Rochester In 1960, a new airport was built flight training for Des Moines Area with the idea of building an airport to approximately 8 miles southwest of Community College. Iowa Helicopter support the growing community and downtown Rochester and renamed is also based at Ankeny Regional the patients traveling to Rochester. Rochester Municipal Airport. This Airport. The city declined to build an airport, new airport, with a primary runway Plans are to expand the use of citing financial concerns. Being (13/31) and a crosswind runway Runway 4/22 by relocating the true visionaries and businessmen, (02/20) would provide for continued Runway Protection Zone threshold to the Mayo brothers then took it upon aviation growth and development in the northeast, providing pilots full use themselves and the Mayo Foundation the Rochester community. Over the of the runway. There are also plans to build Rochester’s first airport, and last 50 years, the Rochester airport to create a South Terminal Area to in 1928, the Rochester Airport opened has continued to grow to support serve as a location for corporate flight for operations in the southeast portion the aviation needs of Rochester and departments, institutional users, and of the city. One year later, the Mayo southeastern Minnesota, to include business users. Foundation created the Rochester the addition of upper level concourses John Pighetti, project manager Airport Company for the sole purpose in the main terminal, extension of of John Deere Des Moines Works, of managing and operating the airport. both runways, the addition of cargo chairs the seven-member Polk County During the mid-1940s, the facilities, the expansion of general Aviation Authority. q federal government began providing aviation areas, and the construction APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 29 of business and industrial parks on the airport campus. During the past 5 to 10 years on-airport development In 1995, Rochester Municipal Airport was designated has included the addition of a hotel (AmericInn and Suites), Rochester International Airport due to the addition of U.S. a restaurant (formerly the 331 Bar and Grill), a daycare Customs at the airport, enabling aircraft to fly direct to facility, the Rochester International Event Center, Paramark Rochester from any location in the world. Property Management, and AgStar Financial Services, Today, Rochester International Airport (RST) is all located in the airport business park complex. Global Minnesota’s second largest commercial service airport. Resolve, a waste management company, as well as Yellow Situated on 2,300 acres, Rochester International Airport, on Cab, have established a presence in the airport industrial average, accommodates over 40,000 aircraft operations and park. over 230,000 passengers annually. Rochester is fortunate As part of its commitment to the community and region to be served by two major air carriers, American Eagle and to continue development as needs change, the Rochester Delta Airlines, with 10 flights per day to Minneapolis and Airport Company is currently in the process of completing Chicago O’Hare. Rochester International Airport currently a benefit-cost analysis, environmental assessment, and boasts a 9,300-foot primary, instrument (category I) terminal area study for the construction of a new terminal approach runway, as well as a crosswind runway equipped facility. The current facility has served the community well with a VOR/GPS approach. Current discussions are for over 50 years, but advances in technology, changes underway to install a category II instrument landing system in airport security procedures, and the fact that only so to increase the airport’s utility during severe winter weather. much can be done to a building over half a century old, has Still operated and managed by the Rochester Airport suggested it is time to build a new terminal building. It is Company, Rochester International Airport continues to expected that construction on a new facility would begin grow to support the traveling needs of Rochester and within the next six to eight years. surrounding communities. General aviation users will find The airport director is Steve Leqve. Kurt Claussen is a familiar name on the airfield in Signature Flight Support, the deputy airport director. Brian Thompson is airport which provides ground handling services, aircraft fueling, operations director. both Jet A and avgas, aircraft maintenance and storage, as The Minnesota Airports Conference will be held April well as a host of other services, including Starbucks coffee 11-13, 2012 at the Mayo Civic Center. For additional and Otis Spunkmeyer cookies, both made fresh daily. information, contact Judy Meyers at the Minnesota Office Federal Express operates at least one 757 of Aeronautics at 651-234-7232, or John Puckropp of the operation to Rochester daily. Minnesota Council of Airports at 218-828-5049. q

Fillmore County Airport – “In Bluff Country!” Preston as well. Sixty miles of bike trails throughout the county attract several thousand more visitors each year. The ocated in Southeastern Minnesota’s “bluff country karst topography includes caves in the area; Niagara and region,” Fillmore County has been able to utilize Mystery Caves are among the most popular. its many natural and cultural assets to attract Fillmore County Airport includes a 4,000-foot paved visitorsL and provide runway. Deters a high quality of Aviation is the full- life for residents. service fixed base Fillmore County has operator, and Slip Skid paid careful attention Aviation is a NAAA to maintaining its certified aircraft agricultural heritage, appraisal company, but has also developed and an aircraft dealer. strong tourism, Fillmore County manufacturing, and Airport is upgrading service industries its runway lighting Fillmore County Airport that provide quality and NAVAIDS with employment for projected completion residents of the communities within the county. in 2012. A new self-service fuel system is also being Tourism as an industry in Fillmore County has installed. flourished around several different natural and cultural For additional information on Fillmore County Airport resources. Trout fishing, canoeing and tubing in the Root and Deters Aviation, go to www.detersaviation.com. River and its many tributaries is a great draw to the county. For additional information on Slip Skid Aviation, contact The National Trout Learning Center is located in downtown Will Mensink at 507-923-1548. q 30 APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE Illinois Aviation Conference & Airports Aurora Municipal Airport – Meeting The Air Transportation Needs of Greater Chicago

Aurora Municipal Airport SUGAR GROVE, ILL. – When even a helicopter shuttle service for there’s no more room in the big city, and today comprises 1300 acres. busy executives who need to get to and congestion makes traffic reports Aurora Municipal Airport is a downtown Chicago in a hurry; and on the radio an absolute necessity, full-service facility, and is situated the airport is open 24 hours a day, 365 where does this put general aviation in just outside the Class B airspace for days a year. the Chicago area? ANSWER: Aurora Chicago O'Hare International Airport. There are three paved runways: Municipal Airport in Sugar Grove, The airport averages 205 flights Rwy 9/27 is 6500 feet long, Rwy Illinois. per day or approximately 74,000 15/33 is 5500 feet long, and Rwy Located just 8 miles west of operations per year. There are 325 18/36 is 3200 feet long. downtown Aurora and 35 miles aircraft based at the airport; an air Bob Rieser west of the city of Chicago, Aurora traffic control tower, which is open 7 has been manager Municipal Airport is just minutes days a week; an Instrument Landing and the director of from major business parks and the System (ILS); pilot controlled runway aviation at Aurora East-West Tollway Research and lights; no landing fees or curfews; Municipal Airport Development corridor (I-88). a modern executive terminal with a for 33 years. He Aviation in Aurora began in 1910 20,000 square foot arrival/departure holds a Bachelor of when the City of Aurora contracted canopy; several flight schools; Science Degree in with the Wright Brothers to hold one hangar rental and tie-downs; rental Civil Engineering of the first flight demonstrations in cars and limousine service, and from the University Bob Rieser the state of Illinois at the old Aurora Driving Park on the west side of the Award-Winning Aviation Services city. Flight demonstrations continued Ulteig’s Aviation Team has been awarded a Silver Excellence in for 10 years, and drew thousands Concrete Pavement Award for the work they performed on the of people at an admission price of Runway 15-33 Reconstruction at Harry Stern Field. This national $.50 per person. The Aurora Driving recognition is given by the American Concrete Pavement Park closed in 1922 and the first Association to honor outstanding pavement projects. Aurora Airport was built on the north The project required Ulteig to address engineering, operational, side of Aurora in 1928. When the and financial challenges faced by the Airport. Harry Stern Field tollway was built, the airport was now serves as a cornerstone of the economy for Wahpeton relocated to Sugar Grove in 1961. The and the surrounding region. airport became home for author and champion aviator, Richard Bach, of Engineering, Planning, HARRY STERN FIELD www.ulteig.com and Consulting Services “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” fame, Wahpeton, ND APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 31 of Illinois, and was inducted into the Illinois Aviation Hall of Fame in 2011. Rieser was named an Illinois Aviation Ambassador by former Governor Jim Thompson for his outreach to educate the general public of the importance of WENK AVIATION INSURANCE AGENCIES airports. Among the many open houses, fly-ins and special events Rieser has Since 1932 supported over the years includes 14,000 EAA Young Eagles flights completed to The most time-honored date by EAA Chapter 579. Rieser is himself a pilot and aircraft owner. Aviation Insurance Agency Under Rieser’s leadership Aurora Municipal Airport has grown many times in the industry! its original size, and has become a major part of the economic base of Aurora Founded by WWI pilot, Sam Wenk, and surrounding communities. There are 27 businesses and over 400 people who and now guided by his son, make their living at the airport. grandson and granddaughter, Businesses and organizations located on the airport include AeroCare, Air plus 12 other pilot-agents... Classics Museum of Aviation, ATS Group, Chicago Jet Group, Executive Flight 15 highly-trained agents to guide you Management, Gauntlet Warbirds, Glass Simulator, Hertz, Life Associates, on the proper coverages and limits. Lumanair Aviation Services, Sky Haven, VisionFriendly.com, JA Air Center, Respected by the companies themselves, and since 1960, the FAA Enroute Air Traffic Control Center has been located at by their clients and by the industry... Aurora Municipal Airport. In addition, HondaJet Midwest has chosen Aurora Jets, Turbines, Pistons Municipal Airport as the future site of its sales and service center. Student Pilot or ATP For information on Aurora Municipal Airport contact Bob Rieser toll free at 888-339-9399 or 630-466-7000. Mechanics, Airports, Flight Schools... Aurora Municipal Airport will be participating in the 2012 Illinois Aviation “Our Clients Love Us! Conference to be held May 22-23 at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, You Will Too!” Illinois. For additional information contact the Illinois Aviation Trades q 1-800-225-W-E-N-K Association at 217-528-5230 (www.IllinoisAviation.org). 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Lat: 46o01.4’ o Long: 92 53.7’ 320-384-6667 ID: 04W fieldofdreamsairport.com CTAF: 122.9 Rwy 06/24: 2754’ 32 APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE Safer Skies Through Continuing Education western Wisconsin meet quarterly with our Minneapolis FAASTeam Managers Alan Hoffert and James Niehoff. by Lynnwood “Woody” Minar They provide the overall guidance, our group suggests ways to implement that guidance, and individually and collectively we implement the program. One of our major challenges is this: “How do we get more pilots, especially newer ones, and AMTs involved with continuing aviation education?” ‘Continuing’ is the key word here. What’s our challenge to you? We are reaching out to encourage every pilot and AMT who attends seminars FASSTeam Representatives from the Minneapolis FAA Flight Standards and takes online courses to “adopt a pilot (or AMT)” and District Office serve Minnesota and western Wisconsin. to introduce that pilot or AMT to the many avenues of continuing aviation education. And that adopted person s we went through our initial flight training, safety should be encouraged to reach out and do the same. was drilled into us on the ground and every time Become a mentor to new pilots and AMTs. Spread the we flew. We went on to earn our Private Pilot word. Be pro-active. Certificate,A which is often referred to as “a license to Let’s not forget the www.AOPA.org/asf/online_courses learn.” That’s when we fully digested and learned what our website,which also has a lot of online courses. instructors and the experienced pilots were talking about Email me at [email protected]. during those early days of training. As the years have gone EDITOR’S NOTE: Lynnwood “Woody” Minar is a Master by, we became more competent and more proficient. Sound CFI, CFII, MEI, CFI-G, IGI, AGI, FAA Gold Seal CFI, and a familiar? FAASTeam Lead Representative for the Minneapolis FAA But as competency and proficiency improves, Flight Standards District Office (FSDO). Minar provides flight complacency creeps in and that’s when things can start to instruction through Osceola Aero in Osceola, Wisconsin, as go wrong unless we put them in check. This is also why an independent contractor. continuing education is so important because the once-every- 24-month flight review is just a bare bones band aid to break some of the bad habits. Flying is like the golf swing. To make that really good shot (flight maneuver), you just have to do 17 things correctly, but at any given moment, three will be wrong; which ones, we don’t generally know. The more we try to figure it out and attempt to correct the unknown problems, the more things go wrong. The chain of potentially catastrophic events has now started. Best “Safer Skies Through (Continuing) Education” is the theme adopted by the FAA and is headlined on FAASafety. Gov where there’s a plethora of courses you can take on Oil Company line and seminars you can attend in person. You can design your own in-flight training curricula on a continuing basis AviAtiOn Fuels that results in a rolling flight review. There’s also quite a bit of information on FAASafety. & luBriCAnts Gov about the FAASTeam, which is short for FAA Safety Team. Succinctly, its mission is “to improve the nationʼs -Serving- aviation safety record … and encourage continual growth of a positive safety culture within the aviation community.” We FAASTeam Representatives are pilots, generally Michigan flight instructors and Aviation Maintenance Technicians innesota (AMT), from all over the country who are passionate M about actively promoting and creating a unified effort to Wisconsin prevent accidents and “tip” the safety culture in the right direction. This is done through educating the pilot and AMT communities by volunteering our time, resources, and knowledge. 1-800-524-4666 We FAASTeam Representatives in Minnesota and APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 33 Ed Leineweber Column Word heading 9/14/08 4:09 PM Page 1

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More New FAA Legal Interpretations Roil S-LSA Community

by Ed Leineweber consensus standards approach then perhaps a field approval from to designing and maintaining a local FAA representative might be ometimes aircraft. The consequences of these needed as well. revolutionary developments extend beyond the Safety-of-flight or airworthiness innovation relatively small world of the S-LSA concerns which come to the attention takesS awhile to industry, since proponents of this of the FAA in the type certificated take hold, and approach advocate for its application world are addressed by the issuance of then only after a to future development and approval of Airworthiness Directives, compliance series of fits and large aircraft as well. with which is mandated by law to starts. So it might From the top: let’s review continue the aircraft in a legally be with the system Ed Leineweber airworthy status. Non-compliance envisioned in the To better understand the nature grounds the aircraft, and may result Light Sport Aircraft of the disputes, let’s back up and in FAA enforcement action against ASTM industry consensus standards. review what we mean by the ASTM the owner/operator and crew, if flown Interpretations of the Federal Aviation consensus standards approach to the while not in compliance. Regulations (FARs) by FAA lawyers design, manufacturing, maintenance, As you can see, this is a top-down in Washington, D.C., are causing some repair and modification of Special system in which the FAA maintains industry participants to scratch their Light Sport Aircraft. rigid control over all aspects of the heads, and are worrying others that In the old days, there was only the manufacturing, repair and operation the “brave new world” contemplated “type certificated” world. The FAA of these aircraft. Not so in the world by the ASTM standard approach to the controlled the process completely, of Special Light Sport Aircraft, or at development of Special Light Sport and everything aeronautical needed least so we thought until recently. Aircraft (S-LSA), might not fully to have FAA approval to be legally The “industry consensus come to pass. airworthy. This might be evidenced standards” approach originates in Two different issues have recently by compliance with the aircraft type a federal law that requires federal surfaced, but the concerns they raise certificate approved by the FAA after agencies to consider this method stem from a common source. The first extensive documentation, testing and of regulating activity, rather than issue deals with the extent to which a proving, or the FAA blessing might following the old style top-down, Special Light Sport Aircraft airframe be manifested in a supplemental total-control system in all cases. The manufacturer, or a manufacturer of a type certificate (STC) for an aircraft adoption of this law coincided with component incorporated into a S-LSA, modification from the original the advent of the Light Sport Aircraft can dictate (a) who may work on their TC. Approval for manufacturing a initiatives of a decade ago, and the products, and (b) what maintenance component part might be reflected consensus standards approach was tasks the manufacturers may prescribe in issuance of “parts manufacturing selected by the FAA and the emerging as “mandatory,” that is, legally approval” (PMA) by a statement LSA industry. The American Society required for the aircraft to remain that a part complies with an FAA- for Testing and Materials, now known airworthy. The second issue pertains issued Technical Standards Order as ASTM International, was selected to notification systems for compliance (TSO). Major modifications to to facilitate the process. with Airworthiness Directives (ADs). type certificated aircraft need to be Briefly stated, the ASTM process Together, these issues begin to reported to the FAA via Form 337, and involves the participation of a wide test the extent to which the FAA is if the modification isn’t according to range of industry participants, the actually committed to the ASTM previously authorized specifications, formation of specialized committees, 34 APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE Ed Leineweber Column Word heading 9/14/08 4:09 PM Page 1

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When Special Light Sport Aircraft were first introduced, many understood FAA-certified components such as transponders, other avionics and that the ASTM consensus standards permitted the manufacturer to ELTs are often installed in S-LSAs. These devices might be subject to mandate training for maintenance personnel and specify overhaul Airworthiness Directives (ADs) issued by the FAA. Owner/operators times and other service limits. Recent FAA legal interpretations appear and maintenance personnel had believed that notice of these ADs to suggest this is not the case. While these aircraft and their modern would come to them through the Notice of Corrective Action system engine designs are not inherently more difficult to maintain or repair, prescribed in the ASTM standards. FAA legal opinion now suggests that they are sufficiently different from older designs that obtaining factory- this reliance might be misplaced. approved training is a good idea, whether legally required or not.

and the development of a series of Industry-mandated training on a light sport aircraft.” It goes on to standards (“practices”) governing and procedures. state that the standard also “. . . covers the activities of the industry. In the the form and content of maintenance case of Light Sport Aircraft, the ASTM Standard F 2483, entitled manuals and instructions for the more important standards developed “Standard Practice for Maintenance maintenance, repair and alteration of for airplanes include Design and and the Development of Maintenance an LSA.” Performance; Required Equipment; Manuals for Light Sport Aircraft,” Rotax, which manufactures about Quality Assurance; Production lays out a system governing how 90% of engines installed in Special Acceptance Tests; Aircraft Operating maintenance, repair and alterations Light Sport Aircraft, has an extensive Instructions; Maintenance and are handled, including required factory-approved training program, Inspection Procedures; Identification documentation. Section 4 states that and prescribes in its manuals and and Recording of Major Repairs and the purpose of the standard is to procedures that a given level of Major Alterations; and Continued provide guidance to “ . . . owners, factory-approved training is required Airworthiness. The FAA monitored mechanics, airports, regulatory to perform any particular maintenance this process of standards development officials, and aircraft and component or repair task, from changing fluids and eventually “accepted” them (as manufacturers who may accomplish to engine overhaul. It also insists opposed to granting its “approval”). maintenance, repairs, and alterations that technicians working on their Special Light Sport Aircraft are manufactured in conformance with these standards, as attested to by the manufacturer in its Statement of Compliance. And it is upon this statement, rather than conformance with any FAA-approved type certificate, that the FAA issues a Special Airworthiness Certificate for the aircraft.

What’s new?

Now to the specifics of the concerns raised by the recent FAA legal interpretations. APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 35 Sport Pilot – Light Sport Aircraft engines installed in S-LSAs have “mandatory,” as expressed in its Action, which must be categorized Rotax-approved training in order for instructions incorporated into the as a SAFETY ALERT, requiring the company to honor the factory S-LSA manufacturers’ maintenance immediate action; a SERVICE warranties. It is the Rotax position manuals, were legally binding, and BULLETIN, which does not that it may impose these requirements that the failure to comply would require immediate action, but does since they are part of the maintenance render the aircraft legally un- recommend further action; or a manuals issued by the S-LSA airworthy. FAA legal counsel has NOTIFICATION, which need not manufacturers pursuant to ASTM again opined that Rotax is not in a necessarily recommend future action, Standard F 2483, which the FAA has position to impose such regulatory but does provide “airworthiness accepted. requirements, which remains the information.” At least the Safety Alert Initially the FAA appeared to province of the agency charged by sure sounds like an AD to most folks. accede to this interpretation, and even Congress to make such rules. Here’s the rub: FAA-issued went so far as to bring certificate Airworthiness Directives don’t apply enforcement proceedings against an AD Notification System: Safety Alerts per se to S-LSA, since they are A&P mechanic who worked on Rotax manufactured, repaired and maintained engines without the factory-approved Now on to the Airworthiness under the ASTM standards system. training. Since then, however, the Directives dispute. But FAA-approved components are agency has done an about-face, and ASTM Standard F 2295 is entitled sometimes incorporated into S-LSA, now takes the position that Rotax “Standard Practice for Continued including, for instance, transponders, cannot dictate the qualifications of Operational Safety Monitoring of radios and other avionics, and ELTs. technicians working on its products, a Light Sport Aircraft.” Section 4 Such approved components ARE which remains the FAA’s role provides “the purpose of this practice subject to the Airworthiness Directive through the FARs. To accept the is to establish a method by which system, and ADs issued on such company’s argument, says the FAA safety of flight issues are discovered, components must be complied with, lawyers, would be to allow a private evaluated, and corrected for purpose whether they are incorporated into company to make federal law, which of maintaining operational safety of S-LSAs or not. This makes good sense cannot happen since the company an LSA.” since at least some of these devices, for is not Congress, or a federal agency This standard requires instance a transponder, are operating delegated power by Congress to manufacturers to maintain an in the National Airspace System and make administrative rules. Further, Operational Safety Monitoring must be reliable regardless of what they point out that Congress has not System, and assigns duties category of aircraft they are installed given the FAA the power to delegate and responsibilities between in. The problem comes up when the its rule-making authority to a private manufacturers and owner/operators. method of notification and compliance entity. (For more details, see Carol It further requires manufacturers to is considered. Carpenter’s article in this column in evaluate safety of flight concerns It had been the understanding the February/March 2011 issue of using an Operational Safety Risk of many in the S-LSA community, Midwest Flyer Magazine.) Assessment Procedure prescribed in manufacturers, owner/operators and This same basic issue has raised the appendix to the standard. maintenance technicians, that any its head again more recently when If corrective action is determined applicable ADs would come to the Rotax declared that its determination to be warranted, the manufacturer attention of pilots and mechanics via of what maintenance activities where must issue a Notice of Corrective the notification system provided in ASTM Standard F 2295, describe earlier. But FAA legal counsel now appears to be taking the position that the ADs apply to subject aircraft components incorporated into S-LSA independently of the standard, pursuant to FAR sec. 91.327(b)(3). This is a surprise! It is true that the express language of this FAR would appear to support the agency’s position. Entitled “Aircraft having a special airworthiness certificate in the light- sport category: Operating limitations,” 36 APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE Products & Services the cited subsection says “No person may operate an Tanis Aircraft Products aircraft that has a special airworthiness certificate in the & Bruce’s Custom Covers light-sport category unless . . . the owner or operator complies with all applicable airworthiness directives.” But Team Up To Provide Insulated compliance with the ADs is not the issue; how the owner or Rotary Wing Aircraft Covers operator is informed of their existence, is. The thinking among the S-LSA community has been EDEN PRAIRIE, MINN. – Tanis Aircraft Products has that, as long as the owner/operator maintains his or her teamed up with Bruce’s Custom Covers to fabricate and current address and other contact information with the market new insulated covers designed specifically for manufacturer, as required under the ASTM standard, rotary wing aircraft. he or she would be notified via a Notice of Corrective Tanis Aircraft Products’ core competency is building Action from the manufacturer that an AD on an installed the aircraft industry’s finest preheat systems. Having FAA-approved component had been issued, and would previously developed and produced insulated covers for a be further informed of the means of compliance, perhaps wide variety of aircraft, including fixed and rotary wing, merely incorporating the AD. In other words, pilots and Tanis has selected Bruce’s as its manufacturing partner. maintenance technicians would have a single source of Under the Tanis brand, newly manufactured insulated information. The FAA appears to disagree. covers will incorporate Bruce’s technical design prowess in 2D and 3D computer-aided-design while incorporating Big deal or small? patterns first developed by Tanis. Further, Tanis and Bruce’s have developed a new and improved cold weather So what’s the big deal in all of this, you might be asking cover system that serves to drastically reduce preheat times yourself. Private parties cannot write federal regulations and when using a Tanis preheat system. ADs must be complied with. True enough, but what industry For further information contact Tanis Aircraft Products observers and proponents of the ASTM standards way of at 952-224-4425 or toll-free in U.S. and most of Canada doing business are worried about is the apparent emerging 1-800-443-2136 (www.TanisAircraft.com). q trend of the FAA backing away from its embrace of this new process for bringing new aircraft designs to the market. And while there have been a few instances of S-LSA companies not fully complying with the ASTM standards in the conduct of their operations, these instances have been relatively rare. They are mostly confined to (800) 323-4130 companies, which are marginal players in an over-crowded marketplace. Their low and perhaps almost non-existent sales volume makes full standards compliance, which is very expensive, difficult. Industry and FAA compliance audits are designed to ferret out these poor performers. On the other hand, since its inception in 2004, the LSA industry ASTM compliance standards have been instrumental in bringing forth 120 new models of aircraft, a feat, which if it has ever occurred before, has not been seen since the very early days of the aviation industry. The consensus standards process is by any account tremendously successful, and deserves to be preserved and enhanced. Any early difficulties in its application should be worked out without retreating from its new promise back into the rigid ways of days gone by. q

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EDEN PRARIIE, MINN. – Tanis Aircraft Products has a video out called “Just Plug It In,” highlighting the safety benefits of helicopter preheat. For further information contact Tanis Aircraft Products at 952-224-4425 or toll free in U.S. and most of Canada 1-800-443-2136 (www.TanisAircraft.com). q APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 37

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It on straight floats from Adventure seems that the big Crane Lake Fourth Seaplanes to make the trip even more of July parade and evening fireworks enjoyable for my wife so she could sit would be starting in just a few hours, up front with me and have plenty of so we opt to stay at the Norway Lodge room. This would be her first trip to in Crane Lake. Owners Paul and the Sub Arctic. Sarah made us feel right at home. In preparing for the trip, Brian People came by land, sea, and gave me several hours of dual flying air to enjoy the parade. The floats out of Surfside. Adventure Seaplanes included the local volunteer fire Brian Schanche of Adventure Seaplanes with provides both floatplane instruction a trophy Lake Trout. department, an insurance salesman, and rental. Brian and his girlfriend, a clown on a bicycle, and a kid on a Lori Malbrank, spend their summers a government budget had shut down motorized wagon, but the highlight of working in Minnesota and winters all of the state parks in Minnesota. them all was the float from the local working out of Cherry Pocket Fish Amazingly, we have three long taxidermist with a big rubber doll on Camp & Resort near Lake Wales, weekends of summer in Minnesota the front and a sign that said, “Big Florida, about an hour south of when these parks are positive cash or Small, We Mount Them All, One Orlando. They first met the Austria flow, and yet they were shut down. Dollar An Inch!” couple, Christoph Ganner and Alice Passing the lighthouse, we turned A very windy thunderstorm sent us Annelien Lugger, when Brian got Christoph his floatplane rating at Cherry Pocket. Lakeshore aviation We all met at Surfside Seaplane Base the morning of July 4, 2011 for Bringing The Excitement & Fun Back Into Flying! departure. 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Lakeview. cleaned up the bearʼs trail of garbage The lake at Churchill is very clear Another 20-minute flight landed us into the woods. and a little low due to a lack of rain. at Brett Gearyʼs Sportsman’s Lodge Little Vermillion has a reputation The rocks really stood out as we flew on Little Vermillion Lake. The weak for lots of Walleyes and big Northern over causing us to carefully pick our dollar, the new U.S. Customs & Pike, and we were not disappointed landing run. The docking there is set Border Protection requirements, and that evening. Brian even caught a up for the local operators only. There the poor economy have all combined big Northern that hit a Walleye that are no good tie-ups and the docks for to make it tough on the northern resort he already had on the hook, and he visiting aircraft are rotten to the point operators. 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Alice, responding to the Lunch, complete with milk shakes ond du Lac, Wisconsin’s airport flavor of Davidʼs homemade Tiramasu for all from Scottʼs Seaplane Base, (KFLD) is so close to Oshkosh, cake following a wonderful steak marked the beginning of the last leg of yet so far away – from the dinner exclaimed, “I am a fan of this successful and safe trip. crowds,F the lines and the waiting. Fond detours caused by bad weather.” My wife, who often wonʼt eat du Lac, located at the southern end of Dusty explained that one of his prior to flying, even had lunch and Lake Winnebago, just 15 miles south of Indian guides, Avery, would take us flew most of the three legs on the last Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, fishing that evening and the next day. day. I guess if you do something long offers easy access to everything that Jamie, the camp's 182 pilot, would take enough, you get used to it. Altogether, AirVenture offers. Abundant camping the second boat with Christoph and we flew 32.5 hours in 10 days and and transient aircraft tie-down spots are Alice. Kath and I were quick to get our burned 487 gallons of fuel, and available on the field, with a regularly gear in the boat. During the evening enjoyed five different destinations. scheduled shuttle service that will take fishing, Christoph and Alice said that a Fuel costs were between $5.00 and you from Fond du Lac’s terminal right half-day of fishing the next day would $9.25 per gallon. to AirVenture’s main gate. be good enough for them. By now, they If you would ever like to add Fond du Lac’s local EAA Chapter had learned about the guide tradition some real adventure to your flying, 572 is ready and able to meet your of cooking fresh Walleye for “shore and earn a seaplane rating – all fly-in needs. There are shower lunch” and they were looking forward while seeing great scenery, lots of and restroom facilities available to to it. Brian who is also an A&P, offered wildlife, meeting interesting people, campers on the field, and the chapter is to help Jamie look into an oil leak on and catching the biggest fish of your committed to do what it can to meet the the camp’s Cessna 182 parked next to life – then I recommend giving Brian needs of fellow aviators who are flying the 3500-foot gravel runway. and Lori a call at 612-749-1337 at in. For more information about EAA Our jigs were just touching the Adventure Seaplanes, drop them an Chapter 572 go to: http://www.fdl.net/ bottom when Kath set the hook on a email at [email protected], eaa572/ nice 22-inch Walleye. Gunisao was or check out their website at www. Fond du Lac might be a better living up to its reputation for terrific adventureseaplanes.com. option for pilots who may be reluctant Walleye and large Northern Pike. The Pilots interested in getting a to face the high-density air traffic in shore lunch the next day was picture seaplane rating during the winter are Oshkosh. Fond du Lac has a main perfect and of course Alice, the urged to contact Brian and Lori about north-south runway that is 5560 feet rookie fisherman in the group, caught visiting them at Cherry Pocket Fish long, and a 3360 ft. crosswind runway. the largest Walleye on the trip at 27 Camp in Lake Wales, Florida. You The airport also has several GPS and inches, just one inch short of earning a can get your rating in just two to three non-precision approaches. Manitoba Master Angler Award. days in some of the best freshwater and Fond du Lac Skyport is the full- We had three 200-mile legs weather central Florida has to offer. service fixed base operator on the field. remaining. The first stop was at Red For information about Fond du Lac EDITOR’S NOTE: Philip Mattison Lake for some fuel. 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Miracle On The Lake! by Curt Drumm Brady Lane, EAA

Seaplane splash against the fall colors in Three Lakes, Wisconsin. hat do you get when you combine the “Miracle on the Hudson,” a seaplane, a western cattle rancher and a hint of Elvis? Well, a fun seaplane weekendW in northern Wisconsin, of course! South St. Paul Municipal Airport Two of the most famous guys to do a great job of Richard E. Fleming Field (SGS) landing an airplane without their seaplane ratings were Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and First Officer Jeff Skiles. As you know, they managed to successfully land U.S. Airways Flight 1549 (an Airbus A320) dead-stick in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009, and then helped every single passenger of the 155 people on board make it safely to shore. Oddly enough, the two pilots were talking about seaplanes earlier that fateful day, with Skiles commenting that he hoped to take time soon to get his rating. Neither knew how quickly they’d be sharing the water-landing experience! So at last year’s EAA Young Eagles dinner at EAA AirVenture, Lakeshore Aviation’s seaplane instructors Curt Drumm and Dave Schmutzler donated a silent auction • Conveniently located between Minneapolis & St. Paul seaplane ride with Skiles riding along. Beau Bradley, off I-494 (Only 15 Minutes From The Mall of America) a cattle rancher from Montana (who also flies a couple • Lowest Fuel Prices In The Area (100LL & Jet A) of small tail draggers, a Cessna 195 and a new Citation • No Landing Fees Mustang) won the bidding. Curt, Dave, Jeff and Beau, • Car Rental: Enterprise 651-457-7000 Hertz 651-457-2788 along with Beau’s wife, Deb, met down at the seaplane base later during the week, and Beau got his first real taste of NOW AVAILABLE! water flying. • Building Sites For New Hangars With Utilities! After that, the wheels started turning. Why not have a seaplane weekend and get their seaplane ratings together? 651-554-3350 So the plan evolved, and ended up involving Clay Presley, “We like the little guy!” Glenn Burke, Manager a paper industry leader from North Carolina. That’s another APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 43 Brady Lane, EAA Brady Lane, EAA (L/R) Clay Presley, CFI Dave Schmutzler, Jeff Skiles, Beau Bradley, and Lakeshore Aviation’s Hawk 172XP amphib inbound for landing at Three CFI Curt Drumm at the airport in Three Lakes, Wisconsin (40D). Lakes, Wisconsin (40D).

story….Clay was one of the passengers aboard that ill-fated airplane.” Presley, on the other hand, was just visualizing Airbus when it went down. His reaction to what could have how to get out of the plane. “I never realized how important been a near-death situation was anything but fear of aviation. it was to pay attention to the flight attendant’s briefing,” At around 50 years old, he went out and got his private pilot he said. “Knowing where the closest exits are is incredibly certificate and bought a plane! Since then, Clay, Jeff and important.” Clay was one of the first out, and assisted Sully have become good friends, and if Jeff or Sully weren’t many others in their escape. A big smile came over his in the spotlight, Clay was close behind. Seems the new- face when he pointed to himself standing on the wing of found celebrity status included all three of them! the sinking airplane. In the end, only a couple people had So last October (2011), Jeff, Clay, Beau and Deb minor injuries. Everyone survived. It was truly a “miracle” reunited at Lakeshore Aviation’s northwoods seaplane that the plane, crew, passengers, river, nearby boats…. base in Three Lakes, Wisconsin. Situated on the scenic everything…just worked right. “I have a lot of respect for chain of 28 lakes that connect with Eagle River, it’s a those guys,” Clay said of the entire crew, including the seaplane pilot’s dreamland. Water everywhere, a seaplane flight attendants. “Everyone did their job and made sure dock, thousands of lakes, a guest cabin to call home, great we were safe. Looking back, it was great to see, although hospitality, home-cooked meals and a seaplane examiner pretty scary at the time.” nearby. It turned out to be an incredibly interesting week! After a week up north, everyone was ready to wrap Not only was the flying great, but the interaction things up, but the weather wasn’t quite as good. Fog, rain between the two “survivors,” each with a different and low clouds grounded the group more than they hoped. perspective, was wonderful. Sometimes it was actually like Beau, who had flown to Wisconsin on the way to a Cessna an old Laurel and Hardy shtick. Each had his own version 195 convention, got his checkride done first. Clay and of what happened, based on their seat….one being the pilot, Jeff met Curt and Dave in Shawano a couple weeks later the other a passenger in back. Skiles was acting as pilot and got theirs completed. All three now proudly hold new when the plane hit the flock of geese. “He should have been seaplane ratings, and Curt and Dave got to share some paying more attention,” chuckled Clay. great memories with them. Oh, and Elvis? That was one of They were only two minutes into the flight. In a true Clay’s shirt-tale relatives….a something-generation cousin. example of airline training, the crew went to work. Sully Clay remembers meeting “the King” at a family reunion took the controls and Jeff started the emergency checklists, many years ago…a classy man he got to talk to for awhile. trying to restart the engines. They tried to identify airports New friends and airplanes…what else can you hope for? for an emergency landing, and when they realized that none Look for us at Oshkosh this summer…we’ll be the group were close enough, they chose the river. It was big, it was smiling and hanging out down at the seaplane base on wide and there were no obstructions. Well, except for the Lake Winnebago. The group plans a reunion and refresher George Washington Bridge, which they skillfully glided seaplane time and will be camping together this year in past. Camp Scholler at EAA. When asked “Were you concerned about the EDITOR’S NOTE: For more information on seaplane passengers?” Skiles calmly answered, “We really didn’t training, contact Curt Drumm at Lakeshore Aviation at have time. It was only minutes before impact, and we 920-682-0043, or visit their website at www. were busy doing what we were trained to do; control the lakeshoreaviation.com. q 44 APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE Seaplane Education You didn’t really like those sunglasses, did you? by Rachel Obermoller maneuver their plane once they are on MNDOT Office of Aeronautics the water, understand their options, and know how to use these options to n a seaplane put the plane exactly where they want pilot’s ideal it to be. world, every These options include dayI would be 5 approaching under power, controlling to 10 knot winds your speed through power and wind with light chop management, and knowing when on the water, to sail the aircraft or let it drift into clear skies, and position. Let’s revisit some key areas dead calm winds as we all prepare for float flying this in a sheltered Rachel Obermoller season, or if you have been lucky docking area. Unfortunately, this is enough to be on the water all winter, rarely the case, which brings up one as a little refresher. The game changes of my least favorite topics and what based upon the type of airplane, I refer to as the number one cause of whether you have doors on both sides, non-fatal seaplane damage – docking. and whether you’re blessed with a I lack the statistics to back this up, but turbine engine, but the same basics in my experience, every seaplane that apply to everyone. sees much time on the water has some evidence of contact with a dock. From The Approach minor scrapes and dents on the floats to dents in the wings, struts, and even On approach to docking. Really, the approach to the dock propeller damage in the worst cases, begins before the aircraft ever starts docking has some distinct challenges and risks. Even non-seaplane pilots who have driven a large boat or pontoon up to a dock or lift on a breezy day can Hangars by appreciate the skill it takes to maneuver an airplane on floats up to a dock, especially a plane with no reverse and a dock with no room to go around. Beyond the lack of reverse, seaplane pilots must also account for the rest of the aircraft as well – the wings, struts, tail feathers, and engine and propeller. Each of these present unique challenges in different circumstances, and are all things a seaplane pilot must consider when docking in addition to the wind, type of dock, available help, ropes on the plane and on the dock, available space to maneuver, and a host of other considerations that vary from situation to situation, aircraft to aircraft, and pilot to pilot. Aircr Aft HAngArs This time of year is typically the beginning of the “Protect your Aircraft with the best!” seaplane season here in the northern climates, and it is also a good time to revisit basic skills, proficiency, and Call Bob Henry test the waters cautiously until our skills are up to par. 1-608-544-2561 phone/fax A good seaplane pilot respects the wind as well as their own limitations and those of the airplane. Just because we or 608-963-5164 cell could do something, doesn't mean we should do something, Email: [email protected] and this applies as much to operating on big water or in a strong crosswind as it does to docking. While the potential Bob Henry is not just a salesman, but a WICK for really serious damage may decrease at slow speeds hangar owner and a pilot. He knows how to and with the engine shut down, it never goes away. The help you build what you want. best seaplane pilots are not the ones who make a perfectly Give Him A Call Today! smooth landing every time, but the ones who know how to APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 45 out on the journey and includes preflight planning, a little I also make sure my passengers have been briefed about reconnaissance about the area where the aircraft will be what I expect from them. Often it is best to ask them to secured, and perhaps a phone call if it is an unfamiliar area. remain in the plane until we are secured at the dock, unless Once I’m in the air and in the vicinity of the dock I will one of them is assisting with the docking. A good preflight be approaching, I like to over-fly the area, check out what briefing when you’re going to be docking also involves a the water looks like from the air to assess any weeds or little information about propeller safety. obstructions I can see, and take a look at what my best plan will be for approaching the dock given the wind, airplane Docking type, and dock itself. On the water, it is about executing the plan I’ve made A good pilot should be able to approach a dock and making changes as needed. On approach to the unassisted and secure the airplane under a variety of dock, I also like to complete what I call my “pre-docking situations, but many times it is easier with help from checklist.” This includes removing the following from my a dockhand or passengers. Do, however, consider the person and the area around me: possibility that what you have told them to do or expect • Cell phone them to do will in fact be the opposite of what they actually • Headset do, and be ready to change the plan. • Sunglasses (or leave them on, if you’re hoping to buy Be comfortable in the plane you are flying and how a new pair) the engine runs at very low RPMs, how to manage those • Car keys RPMs, and comfortable with its control on the water in a • Seat belt variety of circumstances, especially if you are going to put • Loose charts, GPS units, iPad, loose cords, etc. yourself in a situation which leaves few options. These items and anything else that you don’t want Wind can be your friend or foe when docking, and its potentially going into the water should be placed in a effect on the plane should always be considered. Even a location where they won’t interfere with your ability to get slight wind of a couple knots can have a big impact when out of the airplane or get in the way of anyone else getting you’re pushing off from a dock in tight quarters, and out and get swept out the door. likewise, it can help you spin an airplane quickly at a dock, but can also make it a difficult task if you fail to consider its impact. The best case scenario (albeit still humiliating) in failing to consider the wind (or lack thereof) is that you don’t have enough motion to get to the dock and need to get the paddle out or start the engine again and make another approach. The worse case scenario is much worse and goes back to all of the things that can get broken, bent, scratched, scraped, or gouged on a seaplane. Some pilots swear by wing ropes, and they can be handy to use when maneuvering a seaplane on the water or tying it down on land or securing it on a beach, but too often I’ve heard stories of uninitiated seaplane dockhands using them incorrectly and pulling the nose of the plane into the dock. What may seem intuitive for a seaplane pilot is not necessarily so for someone used to working with boats or a landplane which only moves in the path the wheels are pointed on the ground. This is another reason to brief any From Green Bay To Madison Only 10 Minutes Away! - At 816 mph! – Pat O’Malley’s Jet Room Restaurant – Dane County Regional Airport – Madison, Wis. (MSN) www.jetroomrestaurant.com - Find us on Wisconsin Aviation – East Ramp Breakfast & Lunch 6 a.m. - 2 p.m. Mon. thru Sat. 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. Sunday Pam & Pat O’Malley 608-268-5010 46 APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE

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passengers who might be are numerous options out assisting you in docking, there from tires to hollow and to make a phone call plastic and rubber pads to ahead of time if you are rubberized tubes, which planning to go somewhere don’t float and extend along new. After a few questions, the height of the float. you may find that it is best Whatever the method, the to do the docking yourself, float should be kept from or provide very specific rubbing along the dock, and instructions to those at the widest part of the float, your destination if they are which sits below the water, unfamiliar with seaplanes. should be protected from rubbing on posts or any Securing The Aircraft part of the dock, which sits below water. Dockhands can be helpful when approaching or departing a dock, as Once the plane has long as the pilot and dockhand are both on the same page. Whether you are a seasoned arrived safely at the dock, seaplane pilot, an aviation the work isn’t done. If the enthusiast who is excited plane is going to stay at the dock for any amount of time, to experience your first seaplane flight, or somewhere in the pilot needs to consider how the plane will be secured. between, it is important to remember that a seaplane in the Dock rub and other damage from the dock itself can air is just an airplane, but a seaplane on water is something cause damage to a seaplane in short order, especially with quite different from a boat. The Seaplane Safety Institute any waves on the water, so proper securing is imperative out of Belle Chasse, Louisiana, has a two-part series of You to protecting the floats and airplane. The dock itself and Tube videos about docking under the title “Seaplane Safety in construction can play a large role in this. Ideally, a dock Docking Demo,” which provide examples of docking and used by seaplanes would be of the strictly floating variety maneuvering at a dock using a variety of techniques. An Project2 with 10/12/04 absolutely 10:50 no uprightAM Page posts 1 above or below water, and experienced, proficient seaplane pilot with good docking a rubber bumper along the entire edge of the dock, which skills can make it look as simple as it does in the video, and extends well below the water as well. The float design is the for the rest of us, we should strive to make it look that easy reverse of a boat, with the widest part occurring below the and above all, keep the people around us and airplanes safe, water, so floating dock bumpers don’t do the trick. There in that order. q

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FAA Reauthorization – Finally! since that date. The President has now signed the bill, which authorizes by David Mann, President delayed FAA reauthorization bill? By $63.4 billion in FAA funding through Wisconsin Aviation Trades Association the way, the reauthorization is only 2015. The bill includes $3.35 billion for four years, so maybe they should annually for the Airport Improvement sometimes start immediate work on the next Program (AIP). am amazed or reauthorization. Some of the highlights are: maybe I should After much research on why the 1. The legislation requires sayI shocked at the National Mediation Board and the “NextGen” to be put on a faster track inability of our Railroad Labor Act were involved to upgrade the air traffic control legislative branch in the FAA reauthorization, the system, as well as requiring the FAA to work together conclusion was reached that not being to engineer more efficient routes into for the good of the an attorney, senator or legislator, I had the nation’s busiest airports. Aircraft that will utilize the busiest routes United States of David Mann no business attempting to understand America. The entire why FAA funding has anything to do will have until 2020 to upgrade into group of individuals with making it harder or easier to form compliance with the new system. comprising our senate and legislature a union. It appears that an item that 2. The federal cap on local PFCs seem bound and determined to throw has absolutely no impact on aviation would be kept at $4.50. compromise overboard and steer safety or funding was included so that 3. TSA must allow private the Good Ship USA in two different it could be called a compromise when screening companies to be hired by directions. That being said, should it was dropped and they could pass the airports unless it can be conclusively we be upset that it took so long, or bill. shown that TSA is more economical. should we be excited that the house Since 2007, the FAA has operated Chairman John Mica, a Florida and senate, after five years of debate under 23 short-term extensions. U.S. Republican, proposed the version of and 23 short-term extensions, actually aviation policy and funding will now the FAA bill for the house, and has approved a final version of the long- have its first long-term legislation said the TSA should not be screening passengers, but should focus on For Membership Application Call 920-303-0709 - wataonline.org intelligence gathering and oversight of WATA Difference Is HELPING TO MOVE the private screening companies. Sponsored By These 4. There was also language Members & Affiliates: WISCONSIN BY AIR! concerning the carriage of lithium Gold Bolduc Aviation NationAir Aviation Insurance batteries on aircraft. The language Rapco Fleet Support, Inc. Specialized Services www.nationair.com allowed the legislature to enact no rules www.rfsbrakes.com 763-780-1185 Eden Prairie, Minn. Hartland, Wis. www.bolducaviation.com National Air Transportation, Ass’n against carriage of the batteries that Midwest Flyer Magazine Minneapolis, Minn. www.nata.aero were more strict than those enacted by 608-835-7063 Brackett Aircraft Co. Alexandria, Va. the United Nations, unless the secretary www.midwestflyer.com www.brackettaircraft.com NewView Technologies Oregon, Wis. Kingman, Ariz. www.newview.com found that they were starting fires. Silver Dawley Aviation Corp. Oshkosh, Wis. 5. The FAA must by Sept. 30, Basler Turbo Conversion, LLC www.dawley.net Racine Commercial Airport 2015, begin permitting unmanned Burlington, Wis. Racine, Wis. www.baslerturbo.com drones controlled by remote operators Oshkosh, Wis. Fond du Lac Skyport Trimcraft Aviation Cessna Aircraft Company 920-922-6000 800-558-9405 on the ground to fly in the same 800-848-5181 www.fdlskyport.com www.TrimcraftAviation.com airspace as airliners, cargo planes, www.cessna.com Fond du Lac, Wis. Genoa City, Wis. business jets and private aircraft. Milwaukee, Wis. Gran-Aire, Inc. West Bend Air, Inc. Bronze www.flymilwaukee.com www.wbair.net 6. Currently at Reagan National Aero Insurance Inc. Milwaukee, Wis. West Bend, Wis. Airport in Washington, there can be Menomonee Falls, Wis. Johnson Aviation Insurance Wisconsin Aviation, Inc. no more than 12 daily nonstop flights Beaver Aviation 800-477-IFLY (4359) www.wisconsinaviation.com Juneau, Wis. www.johnsonins.com Juneau • Madison from more than 1,250 miles away. The Madison, Wis. • Watertown, Wis. new bill allows for eight more per day. 50 APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE

WATA Membership ADFeb2012.indd 1 2/26/12 10:39 PM One other item in the bill was to 2. The area has actual or Bureau of Aeronautics (BOA) lower the participation by the FAA in anticipated severe unemployment. estimates it will lose about $4 million the Airport Improvement Program. 3. The area is having economic per year in AIP funding. The BOA has The FAA will only participate at 90% adjustment problems. agreed to raise the state share of grants funding at most smaller airports. The 4. The area per capita income is from 2.5% to 5%, which would leave bill will allow for 95% funding if: 80% or less than the national average. 5% to airports. BOA also estimates 1. Unemployment in the area is 1% With the cutback from $3.55 that the first grants will be available in above the national average. billion to $3.35 billion, the Wisconsin late April or early May.

MATA From Page 49 is a globally recognized leader in hangar at the Baraboo, Wisconsin Swift Enterprises was established the development and delivery of airport in 1984, to give MATA in 2001 to create a biomass-derived, international voluntary consensus members ideas on how they might synthetic fuel called “100SF” that has standards. Today, some 12,000 ASTM market their businesses. been successfully tested in several standards are used around the world From the beginning, Cirrus aircraft engines. The fuel can be to improve product quality, enhance Aircraft has been committed to the derived from a variety of feedstocks, safety, facilitate market access and future of aviation, to smart safety from sugar beets to sorghum, so trade, and build consumer confidence. and most adamantly, to innovation there is a range of suitable areas for Returning to the podium as the to break the barriers that have up to production. 100SF contains no lead or keynote speaker, NATA’s Jim Coyne now prevented many people from ethanol, and so far, has shown to be a told a crowd of 400 aviation business owning an aircraft. The company near straight switch for 100LL for most men and women, and aviation manufactures the SR20 and SR22 aircraft engines. Tests conducted by technicians, how important they were all-composite piston and turboprop the FAA thus far have shown that an to the air transportation industry, and aircraft, and its Vision SF50 personal engine performs well and is in better that each and every one of them have jet is currently under development. shape than most engines running on to work with other professionals and Cirrus has manufactured and sold 100LL. In addition, Swift Enterprises general aviation pilots to promote the more than 5,000 aircraft to date. claims that 100SF provides an 8 to 15 industry if it is to prosper. Gary Schmidt, the Director percent increase in range based on the During the luncheon, Thunderbird of Reliever Airports with the same volume of fuel over 100LL and Aviation with locations at Flying Metropolitan Airports Commission produces fewer pollutants. Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie, Minn. (MAC), was the final speaker. MAC The next time you see a sign and Crystal Airport in Crystal, Minn., reliever airports are strategically advertising cheap gas, ask the fixed was recognized for 50 years of located around Minneapolis-St. Paul base operator when they got the last service to the aviation community. International Airport, and include St. load. Ziulkowski says the shelf life Accepting the award was the president Paul Downtown, Flying Cloud, Anoka of 100LL is decreasing and can now of Thunderbird Aviation, Nancy County-Blaine, Crystal, Lake Elmo, be as low as 3 weeks. “And auto fuel Grazzini-Olson. and Airlake. is not the answer,” says Ziulkowski. Following the luncheon, Dale Schmidt discussed why MAC feels The quality of auto fuel is supposedly Klapmeier, co-founder and CEO of the minimum standards for operators decreasing, there is significantly less Cirrus Aircraft, located in Duluth, need to be updated, what will be specification control when compared Minnesota, presented the history of contained within the amended with avgas, and the ethanol now his company, which began in a small Continued On Page 55 added to auto fuel may add a buffer to improve the octane rating, but deteriorates engine components, says Ziulkowski. There are 26 parameters for avgas, and only two parameters for auto fuel or “mogas.” Swift Enterprises is looking to have 100SF certified within the next two years and competitively priced. ASTM International certifies all aviation fuels and not the FAA. ASTM International, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 51 A AeronAutics Bulletin www.mndot.gov The STaTe Of MinneSOTa PrOvideS ThiS Technical BulleTin in The inTereST Of aviaTiOn SafeTy and TO PrOMOTe aerOnauTical PrOgreSS in The STaTe and The naTiOn Christopher Roy, Director Dan McDowell, Editor innesot Minnesota DOT Office of Aeronautics Mail Stop 410 • 222 East Plato Boulevard • St. Paul, MN 55107-1618 M 651-234-7200 or (toll free) 1-800-657-3922 It’s About Spring! airports and assist in the maintenance and beautification of their airport facilities. Check it out at: http://www.dot. by Chris Roy, Director state.mn.us/aero/aved/adoptanairport/adopt_airport. Mn/DOT Office of Aeronautics html I have one more important thing to share with you. This ell, spring is on the season of renewal is also an excellent point in time for horizon and I know that every aviator, or anyone that has a significant interest in pilots who haven’t flown aviation, to begin preparing themselves not only for flight, Wsince the beginning of winter are but also for sharing the facts about aviation with...well… getting excited to get back in the air. everyone in their community. If we want to continue to Though this passing winter has not make aviation grow or at the very least maintain what we been too harsh, it still had some days have, we need everyone out there in the community telling that chilled you to the core. But the the story of aviation. It is a must that you keep your elected days are getting noticeably longer and officials (local, county and state) well informed about the Chris Roy in a few weeks we won’t have to think value and importance of aviation in your city, town or about freezing temperatures or ice…at village. least not at the surface level. Only you can tell the story of aviation locally with the All this drives us to get outdoors and take pleasure local flavor that will drive the clear message to the elected in the boundless beauty that can be experienced through officials. Only you can voice the issues with a level of flight. Just imagine flying over the prairie and seeing vast intensity and depth that demonstrates the importance of fields full of spring clover and trillium. Picture the many aviation to those in community, county and state leadership. sparkling lakes surrounded by wetland grasses that wave Remember one person can make a difference. gently in the breeze. This kind of beauty cannot be as fully Our office has a recent publication titled “Aviation In appreciated until you fly! Minnesota,” to help you do just that! It shows the important This “season of renewal” is also a great time to renew or roles aviation plays in Minnesota. Contact our office and upgrade your pilot certificate. Go talk to your favorite flight request free copies. You can also access the publication instructor and make your plans to enhance your flying, online at: http://www.dot.state.mn.us/aero/. Scroll down today! What better way is there to enjoy the beauty of the toward the bottom of the page. You can download the copy coming seasons than by flying? What better way can you (pdf) right there. find to expand the enjoyment of flight than by improving Enjoy the coming spring! q your skills or stepping up to the next pilot certificate level and maybe even a larger, faster aircraft? Spring is also the perfect time to participate in the “Adopt-An-Airport Program.” It follows that one person and/or one group of people can enhance the beauty and value of their airport for their community by adopting that airport. Any public-use airport in Minnesota is eligible to participate in the program, and it provides a means by which communities may become involved in their local Passport - Fly Minnesota Airports rewards pilots who fly to Minnesota’s publicly-owned innesota's “Fly Minnesota Airports” Passport airports, attend FAA safety seminars, and visit Minnesota’s program is sponsored by the MnDOT Office of aviation museums. To participate, go to http://www.dot. Aeronautics and Minnesota Council of Airports state.mn.us/aero/aved/Passportprogram/Passport.html. (MCOA)M to promote flying in Minnesota. The program Pilots completing all steps can earn a leather flight jacket!q 52 APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE Destinations

Major Gilbert Field John F. Kennedy Memorial Airport Madeline Island, Wisconsin Ashland, Wisconsin

Destination Bayfield, Wisconsin sea caves along the Apostle Islands National Park lakeshore is a must! There are also many waterfalls in the area worth by Dave Weiman exploring. A re-cap of some of the sites noted in the article published in For evening entertainment, try the “Lake Superior Big the February/March 2012 issue of Midwest Flyer Magazine. Top Chautauqua (sha-ta-qwa) Tent Show,” nestled at the base of Mt. Ashwabay Ski Hill, 3 miles south of Bayfield, he Bayfield County peninsula and the Apostle Wisconsin, overlooking Lake Superior and the Apostle Islands are located in Wisconsin, between the Islands National Lakeshore. Upper Michigan Peninsula to the east, and northern Car rental is available through “Red’s Auto” in MinnesotaT to the west, with Lake Superior on both east and Ironwood, Michigan, 46 miles from Ashland and 69 miles west shores. from Bayfield. Red’s Auto will deliver a car to either John There are two airports in the area to choose from: F. Kennedy Memorial Airport in Ashland, or to Bayfield, Madeline Island Airport, recently renamed Major Gilbert across the bay from Major Gilbert Field (4R5) on Madeline Field (4R5) in La Pointe, Wisconsin, across the bay from Island, but there is a delivery charge in addition to the Bayfield; and John F. Kennedy Memorial Airport (ASX) in weekly rental rate. For rates and reservations call Ashland, Wisconsin (Ashland County), 23 miles south of 906-932-4449. Bayfield. Fuel is available in Ashland, but not on Madeline If you fly directly to Madeline Island, and do not feel Island. like walking the 2 miles from Major Gilbert Field (4R5) You can actually get around quite well if you fly to to La Pointe, contact either your lodging host, or airport Madeline Island – one of 22 Apostle Islands – by utilizing manager Michael Dalzell at 715-747-2785. the shuttle services that are available from local businesses, For information on bicycle and moped rentals on renting a bicycle or moped, or walking. If you want more Madeline Island, contact “Motion To Go” at 715-747-6585. convenience and flexibility, car rental is available in Call them when you arrive, and they will pick you up at the Bayfield with advanced reservations. airport, providing you rent a bike or moped. Bicycle rental Today, the tourist attractions to Bayfield County are is also available in Bayfield at “Bayfield Bike Route.” many. There are splendid and lavishing bed and breakfasts, For additional information on Bayfield and sea kayaking and boat cruises, and wonderful restaurants Bayfield County, refer to www.bayfield.org and www. and entertainment by big-time performers. Kayaking the bayfieldcounty.org. q

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WisconsinWisconsin  BureauBureau ofof AeronauticsAeronautics       DavidDavid M.M. Greene,Greene, DirectorDirector P.O.P.O.    BoxBox 7914,7914, Madison,Madison, WIWI 53707-791453707-7914  (608)(608) 266-3351266-3351  www.dot.wisconsin.govwww.dot.wisconsin.gov !" Hot Spots At Wisconsin Airports

by Jeffery Taylor Southern Wisconsin Aviation Consultant Regional (JVL): Runways WisDOT Bureau of Aeronautics 32 and 36 approach ends are closely aligned and may “hot spot” at an airport is be confused when lining not just a great place to get a up for departure. If you set $100 hamburger, but rather your heading bug to your

WisDOT MaskheadAa location CMYK April09.indd on the 1airport where there departure runway heading 2/13/09 3:34:26 PM WisDOT Maskhead CMYK Feb09.indd 1 1/23/09 10:16:15 AM is an increased risk of collision or when assigned by ATC, Jeffery Taylor runway incursion, and where increased you will have confirmation awareness by pilots is necessary. you are taking off on the Typically, it is a complex or confusing taxiway-taxiway correct runway when you or taxiway-runway intersection. A confusing condition line up in position for WisDOT Maskhead.indd 1 7/20/08 12:22:11 PM may be compounded by a miscommunication between a takeoff. controller and a pilot, and may cause an aircraft separation standard to be compromised. The area may have a history of surface incidents or the potential for surface incidents. La Crosse Municipal In Wisconsin, there are six locations identified by the (LSE): The runway 36 FAA Runway Safety Program as hot spots. hold position is set back on They include: taxiway F well before the approach end of 36 so you will not enter the runway 03 safety area. Outagamie County Regional (ATW) where taxiways A, B and C meet in a complex intersection. General Mitchell International (MKE): The first hot spot is where pilots taxiing northbound on taxiway E for an intersection departure on runway 19R at taxiway V can end up entering runway Chippewa Valley Regional 07L-25R if they miss the (EAU): Multiple converging right turn for taxiway V. To taxiways meet near the avoid a runway incursion, intersection of runways 22 pilots on taxiway E should and 32. use extreme caution approaching runway 07L-25R. 54 APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE You can find more information about hot spots in other states in the current FAA Airport/Facility Directory (A/ General Mitchell’s other FD). Hot spot descriptions, along with associated airport hot spot is in the area of diagrams, are provided in the back of each directory. taxiway M and runway By identifying hot spots, it is easier for pilots to plan the 01L-19R. The pavement safest possible path of movement in and around an airport. widens out as the taxiway Planning is a crucial safety activity for airport users — both approaches the runway pilots and air traffic controllers alike. Proper planning helps and may cause confusion. avoid confusion by eliminating last-minute questions and building familiarity with known problem areas. q

Shannon Clary Equal Rights Officer Business Enterprise (DBE) program. Bureau of Aeronautics Shannon has worked at WisDOT since 2010. She Wisconsin Department of Transportation was a labor compliance coordinator for the department’s Division of Transportation Systems Development. Shannon hannon Clary joined the Bureau monitored labor compliance issues for the American of Aeronautics (BOA) in the fall Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) for the highway of 2011 as a senior equal rights program in the state’s Southwest Region. officer.S Shannon works closely with Shannon has a unique position in the State of Wisconsin, BOA project managers, consultants and She is the only Equal Rights Officer (ERO) staff member contractors to resolve labor compliance who covers an entire state for airport labor compliance. At issues on airport construction projects. this time, no other state has a compliance officer with this Her role is to ensure that airport breadth of responsibility. construction projects meet contract In her free time, Shannon enjoys playing pool, watching requirements for prevailing wages, Shannon Clary shows at Madison’s Barrymore Theatre, and most of all, payments to subcontractors and non- spending time with family in the Madison area. discriminatory practices, which includes auditing for For questions regarding labor compliance, please Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO), Title VI, Title contact Shannon at [email protected] or call VII compliance and managing the bureau’s Disadvantaged (608) 264-7607. q

MATA From Page 51 standards, and the process MAC will follow for their for 3 ½ years. hired her in 1974, adoption. Schmidt welcomed dialogue on the topic to where she achieved the rank of “captain” in the Convair get feedback on the needs and concerns of the impacted 580, DC-9, Airbus 320, and Boeing 747 before retiring in commercial operators. 2005. Wiley Properties, which her father started in 1954, The annual meeting of the Minnesota Aviation Trades has rental units, including 100 hangars at Minneapolis- Association resulted in the election of new directors to Crystal Airport. replace vacancies created by Greg Reigel of Reigel Law Alison Hunter’s professional experience includes work Firm of Hopkins, Minn., and Mark Plummer of Allianz as a flight dispatcher at Western Michigan University Aviation Managers of Eden Prairie, Minn. Both men served College of Aviation, an internship at Gerald R. Ford the organization for many years. Elected for 3-year terms to International Airport, and as a service representative at the 9-member board were Barb Wiley of Wiley Properties Northern Air, a full-service fixed base operation in Grand of Osseo, Minn., and Alison Hunter of NationAir Aviation Rapids, Michigan. She is an active member of several Insurance at , Eden Prairie, Minn. national and regional aviation associations, holds a private Barb Wiley grew up in an aviation family, and started pilot certificate and an instrument rating, and a Bachelor of her professional pilot career as a flight instructor and flying Science Degree from Western Michigan University. charter at Crystal Shamrock at Minneapolis-Crystal Airport For additional information on the Minnesota Aviation in 1968. She graduated from the University of Minnesota Trades Association, refer to its website: with a degree in education and taught first and second grade www.mnaviationtrades.org. q APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 55 Destinations

Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport (3D2), Ephraim-Fish Creek, Wisconsin Washington Island Airport (2P2), Washington Island, Wisconsin Door County, Wisconsin & Washington Island… The Cape Cod of The Midwest!

ilots looking for a northern by Dave Weiman Michigan to the east of the peninsula, Wisconsin destination should and Green Bay to the west; hilly A Recap of the Article Published In The consider flying to Ephraim- topography with rock outcroppings; April/May 2011 Issue of GibraltarP Airport (3D2), Ephraim-Fish and beautiful green deciduous and Midwest Flyer Magazine Creek, Wisconsin, in the Door County pine forests. Lake Michigan is the second largest of the five Great Lakes, Peninsula, or to Washington Island and the only one located entirely Airport (2P2) on Washington Island, within the U.S. across the bay from the peninsula. The Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport There is an array of activities, from (3D2) has two runways: Rwy 14/32, water sports, bicycling miles of bike 2700 X 60 feet (paved), and Rwy trails, golfing, fine and casual dining, 01/19, 2345 X 80 feet (turf). There a drive-in theatre and live Broadway- is a modern self-service fuel system, quality theatres, boat cruises and and tie-downs are $10.00 per night. ferry rides over to nearby Washington Restrooms are open 24/7, and bicycles Island and Rock Island, lighthouse are available for your use, free of tours and historical museums, caves, charge. For additional information or quality shops – both art and antique assistance with ground transportation, – and wonderful scenery. There’s call 920-854-9711 (www.friendsofeph the turquoise blue waters of Lake raimgibraltarairport.com).

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56 APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE Where To Stay? pools, a heated whirlpool, a fire pit the halfway point between the Equator on the beach, game room, fitness and the North Pole). Founded in 1850, There are lots of great places center, tennis court and bicycles. the island became home to immigrants to stay at rates to meet everyone’s Complimentary wireless Internet is who established the second oldest budget, from your typical hotels and available in all suites. For additional Icelandic settlement in the U.S. While lodges, to bed and breakfasts fit for a information, call the Bay Shore Inn there is a ferry between the peninsula king and queen. at 800-556-4551 or (920) 743-4551, and Washington Island, I recommend Pilot and aircraft owner, Martin and visit them on the web: www. flying to the island and landing at Franke, is one of the owners of the bayshoreinn.net. Sturgeon Bay is Washington Island Airport (2P2). Pine Grove Resort in Ephraim, one located approximately 30 miles south The French named the treacherous of few remaining resorts that still offer of Ephraim-Fish Creek Airport, so waters separating Washington Island waterfront access and a private beach you may want to fly into Door County from the Door County Peninsula, exclusively for guests. Each room at Cherryland Airport (SUE) in Sturgeon “Portes des Morts” or Door of Death. the Pine Grove Resort has a balcony Bay if you plan to stay at the Bay This is where Door County gets overlooking Eagle Harbor, and there’s Shore Inn. its name. One day a group of 350 an indoor pool and exercise room. For A special event in the fall is the Pottawatomie Indians tried canoeing reservations call 800-292-9494 (www. “Pumpkin Patch Fest” in Egg between the Door County Peninsula pinegrovedoorcounty.com). Harbor the first part of October. The and Washington Island and drowned Another great place to stay when event provides family fun, storytelling in the process. visiting Door County is the Bay Shore for the kids, children and outdoor Washington Island Airport (2P2) Inn in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The Bay adult entertainment, sweet corn, was established in 1935. There are two Shore Inn property was originally pumpkin pie, cider, beer and brats. turf runways: Rwy 14/32, 2230 X 150 the Hanson farmstead. Door County The Sister Bay Fall Festival, held feet, and Rwy 04/22, 1300 X 125 feet. at the turn of the century was known in mid October, features an antique There is no fuel on Washington Island, for its dairy farms, cherry orchards, boat show, music and food. Be sure and the tie-down fees are $3.00 for ship building and stone quarries. In to check the Door County website for singles and $5.00 for twins per day, or the 1920s, the Hanson family decided a complete calendar of special events $15.00 per week. Walt Nehlsen is the to pursue a different line of work and additional information: www. airport manager, and he and his son, and joined the growing recreation doorcounty.com. Peter, have a wonderful collection of resort industry with their 600 feet antique John Deere tractors. Walt can Washington Island Airport (2P2) of bay shore frontage. The barn was Washington Island, Wisconsin be reached at 920-847-2448 (airport), converted into a guest lodge, which or 920-847-2147 (home). Be sure to opened for business in 1922. Over the Off the tip of Door County is visit www.WashingtonIsland-wi.gov or years, as the business succeeded and “Washington Island,” known for www.VisitWashingtonIsland.com, or grew, additional housing units began its annual fish boil, held in mid July, call the Washington Island Chamber of to dot the property. In 1985, Duke and sponsored by the Lions Club. Commerce for additional information Hanson passed away and the new Washington Island is Wisconsin’s at 920-847-2179. owners decided it was time to recreate largest island (36 square miles) and The first aviator on Washington the business in line with the trends dubbed “The Crown Jewel” of Door Island was Claude C. Cornell, son of in the resort industry. In 1991, the County. The island is located “north veteran fisherman John W. Cornell of new Bay Shore Inn with its present of the tension line” (the line marking Continued On Page 62 condominium buildings began a new tradition. The historic Bay Shore Inn is Visit Beautiful Washington Island (2P2) located on the shores of Sturgeon Bay and is only 2.5 miles north of Off The Tip of Door County, Wisconsin downtown Sturgeon Bay. The Bay Shore Inn is known for its gorgeous ★ Two Great Grass Runways: ★ Lions Courtesy flower gardens, beautiful sunsets, Both 2,250 ft. plus Van Available well-kept buildings and grounds and over-runs on each end. relaxing atmosphere. All suites have a www.weather-wi2P2.com view of the water; there is also a sand beach with boats and kayaks or chairs For Airport Assistance Call www.WashingtonIsland-wi.gov and loungers to just relax. Amenities include outdoor and indoor heated 920-847-2448 - 920-847-2147 www.VisitWashingtonIsland.com APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 57 Washington Island April2012A_1_6.indd 1 3/28/12 2:23 PM accepted. 712-490-0324. CALENDAR 17-20* dayton, Ohio - 70th anniversary of the 13* Romeoville (LOT), Ill. - Eggs & Sau- Doolittle Tokyo Raid at the National sage Breakfast 7am-Noon. 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Website: Brede, Joseph Kimm, Bryan Moon, Biplane Fly-In at Freeman Field. www.dot.state.mn.us/aero Kenneth Neustel, Raymond Rought & www.nationalbiplaneflyin.com 15* Ashland (3G4), Ohio - Homemade Pies Duane Wething. JUNE 2012 with Ice Cream. 9am-4pm - donations mnaviationhalloffame.org 2* council Bluffs (CBF), Iowa - Breakfast 28* Minneapolis, Minn. - Sun Country 8-11am. 402-981-4633. Airlines will host a one-day trip to 2* Alexandria (AXN), Minn. - Pork Chop ★ ★ Udvar-Hazy National Air & Space Lunch 10am-2pm. 320-760-7175. Rain 2012 Museum for $269.00 round trip. Leave date 3rd. MSP at 6:30 am and return at 9:10 pm. 2* Poplar Grove (C77), Ill. - Lunch at the ★ The trip includes round trip airfare and Poplar Grove Vintage Wings & Wheels ★ ★ bus transportation from the terminal at Museum 11:30am - 1pm.

Dulles to the museum, and museum 2* camp Douglas, Wis. - Volk Field ANG

★ ★ ★ Contact pass. For reservations call Sun Country Base Open House Fly-In & Air Show. Clay Adams Airlines at 800-359-6786 or 651-905- Pilot refresher seminars sponsored by 612-867-6022 ★ 2737. For more info www.midwestflyer. the Wisconsin Bureau of Aeronautics & [email protected] ★ com/?p=4521 FAA. Preregistration required www.americanbarnstormerstour.com 28* effingham (1H2), Ill. - Food & drinks of all fly-in aircraft. Contact TSgt Kevin August 9-11 – Fargo, ND 7-11am. Transportation to events in Lukas at 608-427-1445 or go to http:// town. www1.mysignup.com/cgi-bin/view. Fargo Air Museum - KFAR www.co.effingham.il.us/airport.html cgi?datafile=volk_field. Gates open at August 12-14 – Brainerd, MN 28* oshkosh (OSH), Wis. - FAA 6:30 am. Airport open for arrivals begin- Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport - KBRD Safety Seminar. http://www. ning at 9 am. FAA/WISDOT seminars: August 16-18 – Eau Claire, WI faasafety.gov/spans/event_details. 10:30 am. Airfield closes & Air Show Chippewa Valley Regional Airport - KEAU aspx?eid=43690&caller=/spans/events/ begins: 12:30pm. Airfield re-opens: 1:30 EventList.aspx pm. FAA/WISDOT seminars 1:30 pm. August 19-21 – Manitowoc, WI MAY 2012 Airfield closes: 5:00 pm. Manitowoc County Airport - KMTW 4-6 Brainerd, Minn. - 2012 Minnesota 2-3 Blaine (ANE), Minn. - Discover Aviation August 23-26 – DeKalb, IL Seaplane Pilots Safety Seminar Days at Anoka County-Blaine Airport. DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport - KDKB & Fly-In. www.mnseaplanes.org Pancake Breakfast & Lunch. Hangar 5 Poplar Grove (C77), Ill. - Dog n Brats Dance on Saturday. www.DiscoverAvia- Lunch at Vintage Wings & Wheels tionDays.org or call 763-568-6072. Museum 11:30pm-1pm. 2-3 Manitowoc (MTW), Wis. - 20th year 7-9 Wisconsin Dells, Wis. - 57th Annual “Thunder on the Lakeshore” air show. Wisconsin Aviation Conference at the Performers: John Mohr, Fowler Cary, Chula Vista Resort. www.wiama.org AeroShell Team, The HopperFlightJet 13 sioux City (SUX), Iowa - Fly-In & Car Demonstration Team, John Klatt, Bob Show at the Sioux Gateway Airport Davis, Jim Maroney, US Navy F18- 8am-4:30pm. Pancake Breakfast. Hornet, Dr. Bill Blank, Manfred Radius, 58 APRIL/MAY 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE

American Barnstormer Tour 2012Ad.indd 1 3/26/12 5:13 PM T6 Texan II, Tuskegee Airmen TA-292, Noon. 641-774-4059. 6-7 Phillips (PBH), Wis. - Aerobatic Show AC-47 Gunship, Magician BIll Hunter & 16-17* norfolk (OFK), Neb. - Nebraska Airfest Cancelled for 2012. The Float-In & Fly- the Ornithopter. 920-482-1650. & 2012 State Fly In. In will still be HELD on the 7th. www.ThunderOnTheLakeshore.com www.nebraskaairfest.com 7* Phillips (PBH), Wis. - Breakfast Buffet 2-3* Bolingbrook (1C5), Ill. - “Cavalcade of 17 stanton (SYN), Minn. - Breakfast 8:30-11:30 a.m. at Harbor View Pub & Planes” - displays of new planes. 7am-Noon. 507-645-4030. Eatery and dance in evening. 3 Wild Rose (W23), Wis. - Breakfast & Pig 17* canton (1D2), Mich. - Breakfast at 7 Poplar Grove (C77), Ill. - Lunch Roast 7:30am-2:30pm. Mettetal Airport 7-11am. 11:30am-1pm at Vintage Wings & 3 Audubon, Iowa - Breakfast 6:30- 17* hutchinson (HCD), Minn. - Breakfast Wheels Museum. 10:30am. 712-563-3780. 8-11am. Pork Chop Dinner 4-7 pm. 7* Madison, Wis. - Ladies Must Swing 9 eau Claire, Wis. - 3rd Annual Youth 320-587-3802. At Wisconsin Aviation, Dane County Aviation Adventure (YAA) - 9am-2pm. 17* crystal (MIC), Minn. - Annual Father’s Regional Airport. It will be a fund raiser At the Chippewa Valley Regional Day Open House and Fly-In 8am to for Honor Flight. Airport. Visit web site by entering YAA 3pm Breakfast and Lunch. 7-8 traverse City (TVC), Mich. - National Eau Claire in the Google search box. [email protected] Cherry Festival Airshow. 3* south St. Paul (SGS), Minn. - Fleming 17* taylorville (TAZ), Ill. - Breakfast 7-8 dayton (DAY), Ohio - Vectren Dayton Field Fly-In & Seminars. Go to www. 7-11am. Air Show. 937-898-5901 x 133. flemingfield.com to register for seminars. 22-24 Indianapolis (MQJ), Ind. - Airshow USAF 7-8* Watervliet (40C), Mich. - Weekend 3* noble (OLY), Ill. - Airplane Shaped Thunderbirds. 317-487-5004. Fly-in 7th Steak Lunch 11am-4pm. Pancakes 8-11am. On display Light 22-24* Royalton (38WI), Wis. - WI Powered 8th Pancake Breakfast from 7-11am. Sport, Homebuilt, and Factory built Parachutes Fly-In at Northport Airport Camping by plane with bonfire on 7th. Airplanes. (Poppy’s Field). 15* Middleton (C29), Wis. - Pancakes, Eggs 3* Juneau (UNU), Wis. - Wings & Wheels 24* st. Cloud (STC), Minn. - Granite City cooked to order, Sausage Breakfast Pancake Breakfast. 920-386-2402, Festival Fly-In Pancake/Sausage 7:30am to Noon (rain or shine) at the 3* Fort Atkinson (61C), Wis. - Breakfast Breakfast 8am-1pm. 320-253-6400. Middleton Municipal Airport/ Morey Extravaganza 7:30am to 11:30am. 24* Aitkin (KAIT), Minn. - Fly-In/Classic Car Field. www.eaa1389.org 9* Jackson (JXN), Mich. - Pancakes, Show - 7am-3pm. Wildrice Pancake 20-21* Rock Falls (SQI), Ill. - Warbirds Over Sausage, Scrambled Eggs Breakfast Breakfast - 7-11am, Brat & Burger Whiteside. Static display of WWII and 7am-Noon. www.eaa304.com Lunch 11am-3pm. 218-927-7069. later military aircraft. Food available. 9-10* Mankato, Minn. - At the Mankato 27-7/1 Battle Creek (BTL), Mich. - Air Show 21-22 sioux Falls (FSD), S.D. - U.S. Navy Regional Airport. The show will feature & Balloon Festival. 269-962-0592. Blue Angels. 605-331-1111. the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, the Black JULY 2012 22* taylorville (TAZ), Ill. - Breakfast Daggers, Aero Shell Team, Dave Dacy 1* Austin (AUM), Minn. - Breakfast 7am- 7-11am. Wingwalking, Julie Clark, Sean D. 1pm. 507-433-7115 or 507-433-1813. 23-29 oshkosh (OSH), Wis.. - EAA AirVenture Tucker, John Mohr, warbirds and flybys. 3 dubuque (DBQ), Iowa - Dubuque Air 2012. www.airventure.org 507-389-3000. Show & Fireworks. 563-690-0815. AUGUST 2012 www.mnairspectacular.com 3-4 st Louis, Mo. - Fair St Louis Airshow. 4 Poplar Grove (C77), Ill. - Dog n Brats 10* Fergus Falls (FFM), Minn. - Dads 314-275-1002. 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