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December, 2020 ~ ~ Volume 45, Issue 12 ~ ~ EAA Chapter 569 Newsletter www.eaa569.org ~ facebook.com/eaa569 ~ Lincoln, NE Meeting Announcement Yes, I enjoyed being chapter president No meeting in Dec ember. this year, and even enjoyed trying to tie it all together in spite of the pandemic. We’ll have a Business Meeting via Zoom Our zoom meetings got the “business” in December. Watch your email for the attended to swiftly, directly — and invite. closed by being Max Headroom style get-togethers. This pandemic is now Also, the Chapter 569 Christmas Party worse than ever, but the darkness is originally scheduled for December 5th greatest before the dawn. has been postponed. Tom Sawyer and Jimmy Olsen Aloft in the PIREPS Press Plane President’s By Tom Winter Message Tom Sawyer never ever had a GPS, but he did Fly: Mark Twain wrote a Tom Winter novella in which Tom and Huck were up in an airship. They were over the I close as I began, with gratitude. Sahara Desert admiring the dunes and Leaving office, I feel sort of like a guest philosophizing over the limits of human leaving a banquet, and thanking his host! mortality inspired by seeing the dried Tom Trumble, our incoming president, out remains of a sandstormed caravan has been a wonderworking vice down below when they had to go back president, treasurer Cristy Higgins has because Tom’s corncob pipe broke been a wonderful go-to resource. Jerry apart. Corncob pipes aren’t forever, and Mulliken has served well as our what you gonna do? Yup. have to go secretary, and I look forward to Don back to Aunt Polly. Osborne stepping in as vice president. And Doug Volkmer is the glue holding And as for Jimmy Olsen, cub reporter it all together, continuing as webmaster for the Daily Planet, there are some and newsletter editor. local airport news stories he’s been following. We were up two hours today. I thank them all for agreeing to serve No GPS, so Tom and Jimmy found their the Chapter in 2021. way by pilotage: compass heading, windage correction, landmarks, chart, And I must speak of Lori Oliveros: just like they taught in pilot school. When we put her officially in charge of Start on the ground with the chart, select the Fly in Breakfast, we learned what a the compass heading, then, when up, great manager she is. Where do you find make the wind correction, then match such people? Why, in the EAA, of landmarks to the chart. Of course, in our course! private pilot training, we worked out the wind correction on the ground, with the (continued on page 2) Page 2 of 8 EAA 569 E6-B. Ha! Instead of turning the is a great one,” the governor said at Cold Weather Operations whiz wheel, sight a landmark ahead the Costco opening. Davis is also, as From Lycoming that is on our course, and swing the you read here last month, the A note that came in the mail from nose around until — no matter company designing the upgrades for a Flyer reader included a suggestion where the nose is aimed, we are the Lincoln Airport terminal. An off that went something like this, “How actually going on course. And note: When Fisher Foods was about an article dealing more THAT gives the wind correction. I pressing chickens near downtown extensively with the cold-start miss the GPS only for the Lincoln, there was a chicken- problem?” This suggestion was a groundspeed and the ETA. The rest: processing-plant smell. Like good one as it provided an all good. The view: Eastern feathers being burned or something. opportunity to share information Nebraska, with all the Pleistocene about a variety of cold-weather glacial till hills that I hate as a At Seward, we caught Greg considerations to help get the engine bicyclist, never fails to provide an Whisler and four A&P employees at started and to keep it operating interesting landscape. Hills, streams lunch in the hangar loft. They are during cold-weather conditions. and streamlets, little canyons... busy. Although the suggestion made in Often Tom Sawyer wants to be the first paragraph was aimed at down there exploring, or be at play The ten nested T hangars, that the helping with cold-weather starting, on that isle. Platte and Loup just like Seward Airport Authority put in for this article has been expanded to the Mississippi: Tom Sawyer in August 2018, are up, and they are include tips and information on should be on that island. filling up. They are beautiful, and as preflight, starting, in-flight safety you taxi by the “new car smell” and engine operational On the ground, Tom Sawyer turns simply radiates. considerations. Keep in mind that into Jimmy Olsen, who interviewed this material deals with normal a city council member who was at At Omaha Approach, there’s a cold-weather operation experienced the Fremont Airport: controller who habitually recites at temperatures to -25˚ F, and not “five” as “nine.” Pronouncing by the extremely low temperatures that The Fremont Airport Advisory the book and distinctly speaking may be found in Arctic regions. Committee has approved Davis “Two eight eight FIFE Sierra” is no Operation in those regions may Design’s plan for their new help. He still says ‘Nine.” Not require more specialized terminal. Yay! (Tom is “niner,” the by-the-book knowledge. irrepressible.) The Fremont City pronunciation, but “Nine.” Today it Let’s start with the general health Council will vote it up or down mattered. Approach told me to of the engine. When attempting a Tuesday night. So, as you are contact Lincoln Tower. Tower told start under adverse conditions, it is reading this, it has already me to contact Approach. Approach imperative that the engine be well happened. I’m betting that the City sent me back to try Tower again. maintained and in excellent Council is down with the governor’s Why? Approach had put on the operating condition. Spark plugs goal that Costco — with their new wrong tail number. They make up and magneto points should be $450M campus with 800 employees something. Never again. I have properly gapped and ready to — has a great experience with checked the FAA Registry, and next function effectively. In addition to Fremont, and that the new terminal time he wants me flying around the ignition system, the proper building will be voted up with under a pseudonym, I’ll tell him functioning of other systems such as hosannas. “What we’re focused on “2889 Sierra is registered to a induction, priming, exhaust and (now) is making sure their Cessna in Kodiak, Alaska. THIS is carburetor heat can have an effect experience with this (Fremont) plant 2885 S.” on the starting and operation of the engine. (continued on page 3) Page 3 of 8 EAA 569 Regular maintenance should system very critical. Even a tiny remember that the battery is include having the heating system bubble of moisture may freeze in the handicapped by cold weather. checked for leaks. This cold- fuel line and totally cut off the flow Particularly when a single-viscosity weather tip is worthy of a separate of fuel. Two steps should be taken oil is being used, the colder the little sentence all its own – to avoid this problem. First, avoid temperature, the more cranking remember, you can’t smell carbon water contamination if possible. energy required. Combine this with monoxide. Keep fuel tanks full to prevent reduced battery output at lower In cold weather, preheat is another condensation, and be sure fuel caps temperatures, and it can be a serious factor that must be considered prior do not allow leakage if the aircraft is handicap. to starting the engine. There are parked outside in rain or snow. While on the subject of batteries, specific guidelines in Lycoming Second, look for contamination remember that freezing service instructions which establish before every flight by religiously temperatures provide a perfect when preheat should be used, but draining fuel tanks and sumps. opportunity to destroy an aircraft how much, or the method of preheat If flight is planned for bad battery. The battery with a full is generally left to the good weather, the preflight inspection charge survives nicely, but one that judgment of the pilot or should include observation of the is discharged will freeze. Once this maintenance person doing the relief opening in the engine breather happens, the problem can only be preheating. Use of the heated dip tube so that any freezing of moisture remedied by replacing the battery, stick is not recommended by at the end of the breather will not so it is very worthwhile to take Lycoming, although most other result in a loss of engine oil. preventive measures. Should the methods are considered to be Once on board the aircraft, check battery be run down during an satisfactory. For most Lycoming the fuel-selector valve for freedom attempt to start, do not leave it; get models, preheat should be applied of movement. It may be frozen fast it charged immediately. And finally, anytime temperatures are at 10˚ F or (this has happened), and you’d be absolutely certain that the master lower. The exception to this rule is better find out while still on the switch is always OFF while the the 76 series models that include the ground. aircraft is parked between flights. If O-320-H, and the O/LO-360-E. Most of the time, we think of left on, the battery will discharge These engines should be preheated starting any engine as a very simple and freeze.