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Newsletter Template May 2013 In this issue: Emerald City Changes Hands 2 From South Dakota 2 From Alan Brandt 3 Cluster Ballooning / BFA Radio Freq. 4 BFA Youth Summer Camps 5 More BFA Summer Camp Info 6 Kamma Kissack / Mark Your Calendars 7 Dawn Patrol in Ohio 8 Sunrise Calendar 9 For Sale - From Bob Schaible and Larry Houska 10 Flying Reports 11 Monthly Meeting Minutes 12 Club Information/Membership 13 Volume 4, Issue 5 May 2013 DownWind Chase The Official Newsletter for the Pacific Coast Aeronauts PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Coming into Spring and the winds are here, SKYPE Membership Meeting: Scheduled for though we are getting some really nice flying Wed. May 1st at 7:00pm Pacific. Please try to days between the systems. Russ James reports join in. Contact me if you need info on Skype. things over in Napa have been busy....when David Wakefield [email protected] they could fly. Many cancelled flights lately due to wind. Jeanne Anson says Winter is still hang- As I said last month, I’m working on compiling a ing on up north...Snow. list of annual regional events covering the states of California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Wash- There have been two flight event cancellations in ington and Idaho. Coming soon? the past month. The April 6th event that Scorch put together at Children’s Hospital Central Cali- If you have suggestions or comments I would be fornia had to be cancelled as a storm came happy to hear them. through and left us with high winds in its wake. The Great Lake County Balloon Adventure, a Safety Seminar Presentations: first year event in Lake County which was scheduled for the first weekend in May has been We are listing the 2013 Safety Seminar topics on cancelled as several sponsors pulled out on or the PCA website and a number of the presenta- about April 15th (wonder if the date was a fac- tions will be linked for download. tor). You can find them at: A non-flight event was also cancelled. The Public http://www.pcaballoons.org/safety.htm Relations seminar being hosted by Napa Valley Balloons and scheduled for Saturday Apr. 20th was cancelled. The speaker Jeff Chatterton was Cheers! ill and will have to reschedule. Gabe will be up- David dating us about rescheduling a future date. If you’re getting some flights in send me some pics and I’ll get them in the newsletter. © Pacific Coast Aeronauts, May 2013 Page 1 Downwind Chase From Dale Stroble: Well, its official. Gayle & I are no longer aircraft owners. Jacob Molnar took over the care of Emerald City yesterday. As his mother reminded me, he first met EC as a baby -- now he's her pilot. Jacob, we're hoping that when you turn 18 next year and get your Commercial Pilot's license you'll keep up the tradition of Emerald City being a teaching balloon. Congratulations to a very deserving young man! From Jeanne Anson: Wish I could send you something...tomorrow's forecast is for snow...there are still 6' high icebergs in parking lots and piles of tree limbs on the parking strips all around the city from last week's ice/snow storm. Spring isn't in SD this year. Jeanne Note: Jeanne sent me the above note on April 21st. She sent the following update on April 23rd. Ha, all the song birds and robins are here… along with starlings… I sure wish they would get lost. We had a lovely walk in the local nature area … under sunny skies and snowy covered trails. it was 29… nothing was melting then… got to 35… melting like crazy. roads and driveways are clear. Yesterday AM there were 100 accidents during the snow time… today there were 34 in the ice. It is so funny to watch the locals slide all over the roads. Here a couple photos…the new camera takes huge photos. Let me know if they are too big. Jeanne © Pacific Coast Aeronauts, May 2013 Page 2 Downwind Chase From Alan Brandt: Hello from Nevada...yep we're almost home. Attached is the ONLY balloon we saw on the entire trip which will be over 9500 miles in both the RV and Jeep. We saw this balloon flying just north of Moab, UT. near Canyonlands National Park. It was probably the ride balloon which we saw advertised as we drove past the local airport. Would certainly be an interest- ing and colorful place to fly. Alan © Pacific Coast Aeronauts, May 2013 Page 3 Downwind Chase Man flies from Robben Island to Cape Town using helium balloons From the Telegraph This cluster pilot had zero experience and ran into a few problems...but got down safe. Sorry, couldn’t get permission to reprint. The entire story complete with video can be seen at: http://tinyurl.com/b3okrsu Matt Silver-Vallance flies from Robben Island to Cape Town using helium balloons (Photo: @Balloonbloke) More Cluster Ballooning: Jonathan Trappe is planning to attempt an Atlantic crossing with a balloon cluster in the summer. For more information about the Atlantic Crossing visit Jonathan’s website at: http://clusterballoon.com/ BFA Radio License Update The BFA's application for a FCC group radio license is still pending before the FCC. Our frequency coordi- nator indicates it may yet be another couple of months before the license is officially granted and we re- ceive the paper work. (That's supposing that the sequestration forced budget cuts don't cause additional delay. Our application was filed on December 7, 2012. Average approval time is 3-4 months). In the interim we are allowed to operate on the allotted frequencies under FCC Rules 90.159 - Temporary and Conditional Permits. Once the license is awarded we will post a PDF form on www.bfa.net whereby each BFA member can add their name and BFA# to the form and download a copy of the license. In or- der to use the BFA license your radios must be narrow banded otherwise you and the BFA could be fined $8,000 per offense. The frequencies allocated to the BFA are: 151.5050000 MHz 151.6250000 MHz 158.4000000 MHz 451.8000000 MHz 456.8000000 MHz 456.8125000 MHz © Pacific Coast Aeronauts, May 2013 Page 4 Downwind Chase BFA Youth Summer Camp From Jeff Haliczer 04/22/2013: OK, if you missed the RGJ ad it looked good, it really looked to be the most exciting in the lot. I think this is the e-blast that went out today or yesterday, not sure but if it is out I hope it pulls in the campers, if it is going out I hope it pulls in the campers. We are at 13 not all signed and sealed, but sort of at 13. So keep hitting any areas where we have not hit for teens, and of course keep doing the follow up on the fundraising letters that went out. Have a great day, Jeff Clip from RGJ: © Pacific Coast Aeronauts, May 2013 Page 5 Downwind Chase BFA Youth Summer Camp - More from Jeff Haliczer: Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 Things are looking really good for the camp, still trying to recruit a few more campers, sitting at 13 campers, 4 junior counselors, and 4 pilots. My goal is 20/5/5 not counting me as one of the pilots (I get the week off). Campers coming in from California, Nevada, Washington, Texas, Michigan and Colorado. Pilots from Cali- fornia, Colorado, Nevada and New Jersey (thanks Gene). Junior Counselors from California, Arizona and Nevada. Program is pretty well set, schedule is done (may change) but minor stuff. Looking for more campers, and of course looking for financial support. The tuition covers about 87.3% (I made that number up, but you get my meaning) of the total costs of the camp. So talk it up and cough some up to support the balloon camp. Donations can be sent to the BFA tagged for the High Sierra Bal- loon Camp. Tax deductible too. Of course balloon card, pins, temp tattoos, or even extra shirts are appreciated too. Wanna have the pi- lot packs filled with lots of goodies from the area. If you work for a business that has odd SWAG grab 30 and send them along, anything goes and everything will be used for the camp. Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2013 We will be getting a camper from Winnemucca, the small event over there has its heart in the right place. Put on a good show, put on a good event for pilots, and keep enough money for start-up the next year and donate the rest, this year it is to send a camper to the High Sierra Balloon Camp. I met the boy and he was out Saturday to help with the set up, crew and again on Sunday, eager and hard worker. I also got paper work on another boy from Oregon so as of now with papers in hand we have 13 camp- ers, 4 junior counselors, 4 pilots (5th on the way, Chuck who will be a day person not staying at UNR) so until we get a few more I am not going to push for the last Junior Counselor. Barb did the gig at the Big Rig thing at the Montessori School and felt it was a huge success and handed out tons of brochures and cards and beyond. She did post something on the Facebook page with photos, over 1000 people and well worth the time spent. Balloon Camp & the Winnemucca Balloon Festival Just got home yesterday from the 2nd Winnemucca Balloon Festival, can't really say annual since the first one was in October 2012 (I did not attend that one had other commitments), but the 2nd was a great weekend, got in three wonderful flights with the event staff and organizers on Friday AM and spon- sors and crew the rest of the weekend, including my oldest passenger (so far) at 94.
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