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IDWEST FLYER M AGAZINE JUNE/JULY 2009 Published For & By The Midwest Aviation Community Since 1978 midwestflyer.com Cessna Sales Team Authorized Representative for: J.A. Aero Aircraft Sales IL, WI & Upper MI Caravan Sales for: 630-584-3200 IL, WI & MO W Largest Full-Service Cessna Dealer in Midwest W See the Entire Cessna Propeller Line – From SkyCatcher Thru Caravan W� Delivery Positions on New Cessna 350 & 400! Scott Fank – Email: [email protected] Aurora Airport (ARR) Dave Kay – Email: [email protected] 43W730 U.S. Rt 30 • Sugar Grove, IL 60554 Visit Us Online at (630) 549-2100 www.jaaero.com (630) 466-4374 Fax LookingLooking forfor thethe BestBest Service,Service, FacilitiesFacilities andand LocationLocation inin Chicago?Chicago? J.A. Air Center NOW OPEN! We’ve Got You Covered! Toll Free (877) 905-2247 Direct Highway Access to Chicago (Zero Stoplights to Downtown!) 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These are working conferences involving airport managers, and aviation businessmen and women, by Dave Weiman who are looking out for the best interests of airports and ur national aviation their tenants and customers. organizations are busier than The general consensus at these conferences is that ever looking out for the best more emphasis has to be placed on lobbying at the state Ointerests of general aviation. With the level, and we agree. Like our national organizations, state confirmation of Randy Babbitt as the aviation organizations depend on members who are willing new Federal Aviation Administrator, to contact their representatives and help them to understand AOPA, EAA, NBAA, NATA, GAMA the economic and social benefits of supporting airports and and NASAO will be working with him air transportation. You must do your part if we are to be to guide the implementation of the Next successful! Generation Air Traffic Control system (NextGen). At the Now for the fun stuff, and the reason many of us are same time our organizations will be lobbying Congress and involved in aviation in the first place. the White House to ensure that general aviation doesn’t get Among the many articles in this issue of Midwest stuck with the bill for a system designed for the airlines. Flyer Magazine, read about the Minnesota Seaplane Regardless of the issue, we commend our organizations for Pilots Association Fly-In held at Cragun’s on Gull Lake taking a bipartisan approach. in Brainerd, Minnesota in May. As one member said, But to be successful, our organizations need our help. flying seaplanes brings out the “Indiana Jones” in all of If you are not currently a member of one or more aviation us. Actually, flying taildraggers, ski planes, open cockpit organizations, national as well as statewide, we urge you to biplanes, gliders, and aerobatic aircraft all add excitement join without further delay! to our flying, and help hone our pilot skills. I have attended a number of state aviation and airport Please email me your thoughts and ideas to: conferences this spring, and will be attending more in the [email protected]. Thank you! q Vol. 31. No. 4 Issn:0194-5068 IDWEST FLYER ContentsContents M AGAZINE JUNE/JULY 2009 ON THE COVER: A 1978 Cessna Hawk XP on floats, parked on the dock at Slo’s Pub on Big Arbor Vitae Lake in Arbor Vitae, Wisconsin. The aircraft attracted the attention of Nathan and Rachel Stanley, and their dad, James Stanley of Kenosha, Wisconsin, while on vacation, riding their bicycles. The aircraft is powered by a 210 hp Continental engine, and owned by John and Jan Lotzer of Gran-Aire, Inc., Milwaukee-Timmerman Airport, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Photo by Dave Weiman. COLUMNS AOPA Great Lakes Regional Report - by Bill Blake ...........................................................................26 Published For & By The Midwest Aviation Community Since 1978 Aviation Law - by Greg Reigel ............................................................................................................30 midwestflyer.com MFM JuneJuly2009.indd 1 5/24/09 6:18:20 PM Dialogue - by Dave Weiman ............................................................................................................... 4 Guest Editorial - by Craig Fuller ........................................................................................................27 High On Health - by Dr. John Beasley ...............................................................................................31 SECTIONS Airports ....................................................50 Instrument Flight - by Dr. Nihad E. Daidzic ........................................................................................35 Aviation Conference News ......................42 Sport Pilot - Light Sport Aircraft - by Ed Leineweber ........................................................................26 Calendar ..................................................57 Classifieds ...............................................60 FEATURES Flight Training ............................................5 Minnesota Seaplane Pilots Converge At Cragun’s For Annual Fly-In - by Dave Weiman ....................8 Fly-Ins & Air Shows ...................................8 “A Flying Story…” One Young Pilot’s Personal Crusade To Swell The Ranks - by Ed Leineweber ...21 Minnesota Aeronautics Bulletin ...............32 Minnesota Aviation Industry News ...........28 HEADLINES People In The News ................................28 Border Crossing Requirements Now Mandatory ................................................................................13 WATA Difference ......................................40 World’s Largest Passenger Airliner - Airbus A380 - Coming To Oshkosh ..........................................14 Wisconsin Aeronautics Report .................36 Minnesota Governor Signs Into Law Airport Investment Bill ............................................................. 29 Youth & Education ...................................20 4 JUNE/JULY 2009 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE FLIGHT TRAINING 20 Below Zero & 20 New Flight Students In Ground School... Certificate. What’s The Secret? Becoming a Sport Pilot takes half the time and half the cost (or less) by Scott Caverly than it does to become a Private Pilot. LAKEVILLE, MINN. – In 2005, All primary flight training and flight LSA North, Inc. became the exclusive hours count toward future ratings distributor of the Flight Design CT for and pilot certification. The first the Upper Midwest (IL, WI, MN, SD, bonus is that this newly certificated ND). Located at Minneapolis-Airlake pilot can take a passenger on a Airport in the Twin Cities, their goal, personal discovery flight, whereas the before selling the new airplane, was traditional Student Pilot is still to educate pilots and the public about burning holes in the sky by himself Light Sport Aircraft (LSA), and train (or paying a CFI to fly along) prospective aircraft buyers on how to to build time toward the Private fly their new airplane. Flight Design CT Pilot Certificate, which requires Most flight schools and flight an additional 20-40 hours of solo instructors do not fully understand “pilot,” they are thinking Private time before getting that initial pilot the value of adding a Sport Pilot Pilot and not Sport Pilot. What we certificate. That is expensive and hard Certificate to their training program are seeing is that the average (middle to justify if you are not going to make and are not promoting it as they age) student is not interested in ever your career as a Commercial Pilot. should be. becoming a Commercial Pilot and has Some of the major differences in When someone calls a flight no immediate need for an instrument the initial pilot certificates are the school and inquires about the cost rating. Thus, the person could be an limitation to stay under 10,000 feet and requirements of becoming a ideal candidate for the new Sport Pilot Co n t i n u e d on Pa g e 7 JUNE/JULY 2009 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 5 Index To Advertisers Midwest Flyer Canadian Fishing Fly-Out ......51 JUNE/JULYMIDWEST 2009 FLYERMAGAZINE Midwest Flyer Magazine ................ 29, 41 & 64 Serving The Midwest Aviation Community Since 1978 Academy College .................................. 5 & 29 Minnesota Aviation Trades Ass’n ..................29 Aero Fabricators ...........................................60 Minn. DOT Office of Aeronautics ............ 32-34 EDITOR/PUBLISHER Aero Insurance, Inc. ............................ 38 & 41 Minnesota Petroleum Services .....................52 Dave Weiman Aero Paradise ...............................................42 Minnesota State University-Mankato ............21 Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association (AOPA) . 25 Morey Airplane Company .............................60 PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Aircraft Propeller Service, Inc. ......................37 NationAir Aviation Insurance ............... 29 & 41 Peggy Weiman AircraftInsurance.com ...................................60 National Air Transportation Ass’n ..................41 PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS

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