The Haymeadow Flyer

Our 40th Year! EAATHE CHAPTER HAYMEADOW 640, CENTRAL F WISCONSINLYER UPCOMING EVENTS NEXT MEETING DATES, TIMES AND LOCATIONS Chapter 640 IMC Club Meeting The next meeting will be held March 9 at 1:00 p.m. at the Learn Build Fly Thursday, February 28, 2019 Education Center. The April meeting will be on April 13 and will be hosted by the Mohr’s. 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. The June meeting will be June 9 at Don and Katie Winch’s airstrip. Wausau Flying Service, Wausau FAA WINGS Credit Available Wisconsin Light Aviation Safety Seminar Thinking of Spring! Saturday, March 16, 2019 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EAA Museum, Oshkosh See Flyer for More Information 41st Annual Midwest Hot Air Balloon Seminar Saturday, March 23, 2019 7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Waukesha, WI Click Here for More Information EAA / FAA WEBINARS An IA’s Dilemma WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE CHAPTER Wedensday, March 6, 2019 Dave Harm is working on the baffles for his RV project. The prop should arrive in 8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. 2-3 weeks. He is also planning a trip to Stein Air in the Twin Cities to work on the all-glass panel he will be installing. FAA WINGS Credit Available Syd Cohen is working Mondays and Tuesdays with Lynman Hatz on the C-model First Flight, No Fright - Discovery Ercoupe. a wing for a project Ercoupe. and Introduction Flights The 2019 Wisconsin Light Aviation Safety Seminar is coming up Saturday, March Wednesday, March 13, 2019 16 and will be held once again at the EAA Museum in Oshkosh. This year has a 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. great line-up of guest speakers along with many big ticket raffle prizes. Door FAA WINGS Credit Available prizes will also be given out to lucky attendees during the break. The event is free to attend but there is a fee for lunch-on site. Admitance to the museum is included with the free event and attendance counts toward the FAA WINGS Temporary Flight Restrictions, program. Check out the included flyer for more information. Airspace and ADS-B Wausau Downtown Airport will be hosting the Air Race Classic in 2019 on June Wednesday, March 20, 2019 19 and 20. Scott Feldbruegge will be the chair for the event and Syd Cohen will 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. be serving as head timer. Additional volunteers will be needed for the event so FAA WINGS Credit Available mark your calendar. More information on the Air Race can be found at www.airraceclassic.org. VOLUME XXXIII, NO. 2 MARCH 2019 Flying Adventures: NORTH TO ALASKA By Syd Cohen PART 2 On Monday, February 21 I packed my stuff into Scampy, I looked at Sherm. We both had quizzical looks on our faces. checked the weather again, and called Sherm one last time How about Rule #3 and Rule #4? Then she said I should tune to make sure he was prepared. I left Wausau the following to the Winnipeg Center (I suppose I should be spelling it day and flew 1.9 hours to St. Paul Downtown, where I tied the “Centre”) frequency and wait until I hear them calling another plane down and met Sherm, who brought me to his house. airplane, and then call them. Roger that! Early the next morning we packed Sherm’s and my stuff We continued on our course in very clear air and crossed into Scampy and departed, heading northwest. The air the border. I few miles later we could hear Winnipeg Center. temperature was about 40º above zero. We encountered a During a pause in their chatter I called them. little light rain as we went over the numerous lakes near Park “Winnipeg Centre, Ercoupe NOVEMBER 94196.” (I really Rapids, but the clouds broke up as we continued northwest. wanted them to know that I was American, not Canadian.) After flying 2.7 hours we came to Thief River Falls airport. The “We are on a VFR Flight Plan from Thief River Falls, MN to sky was now clear as a bell, with temperature about 20º. We Winnipeg International.” They answered and gave me a new refueled and then went inside to pay our bill. Thief River Falls transponder code. had airline service, and a big sign next to the boarding exit I then realized that I could see everything around us on listed the things that were not allowed on the airliner, such as the ground for at least 60 miles, but I could not see the axes and bombs, with cartoon pictures next to the words. city of Winnipeg at all, even though it was a big city with a I called Flight Service, got winds aloft between Thief River population of 705,000, and even though my GPS said it was Falls and Winnipeg. I then calculated our ground speed, so now only 35 miles away! What we did see looked like a giant I could tell Customs when we would arrive. (Rule #1). I then lying flat on the ground covered by a big white sheet. I called called the Customs office in Winnipeg and gave them that Winnipeg Center again and asked if Winnipeg International information and told them that we would be waiting for them was IFR. He answered by saying yes, Winnipeg was IFR due to at the FBO, Kelly Western Jet Centre. (There are 3 FBO’s at the habitation fog. Winnipeg airport.) I called Flight Service again and filed a VFR I said, “Winnipeg Centre, I am a VFR pilot, and cannot land flight plan, (Rule #2), the first one that I had filed since taking in IFR. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO DO?” He told me to my Private Pilot lessons. contact Winnipeg Radio, and gave me their frequency. OK, ready to go. We climbed back into Scampy and I called I changed frequencies and called them. “Winnipeg Radio, Minneapolis Center on 132.15, the remote frequency listed Ercoupe NOVEMBER 94196 is 30 miles southeast of Winnipeg on the chart. No answer. I called three more times, still no International. I am inbound on a VFR Flight Plan, and I answer. Well, maybe we have to be in the air. We took off and understand that Winnipeg International is IFR. I am VFR only. climbed on our course to about 1,000’ above ground, and I WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO DO?” tried them again. A woman controller answered, (Rule #4) and I asked if she could activate our VFR Flight Plan. She did so, After two minutes he answered, “Ercoupe 94196, we cannot gave us a transponder code and we climbed to about 4,500’ find your flight plan. Did you file one?” msl. She told us that she had us on her radar, flying at 4,500’. (Rule # 3). “That’s affirmative,” I answered. We could see for many miles in the cold, clear air. Lots of big “We cannot find it. But that’s ok.” Well, scratch Rule #2 now. farms in that area. The Controller was talking to other traffic, He called again, “Ercoupe 94196, can you fly to Steinbeck?” but when we got to about 20 miles from the border, she called me, and she said that she had lost radar contact with us. I told I said, “Yes, I can, but where is it?” her our altitude and heading and asked if she would like me to He said, “It’s right off your right wing.” climb to a higher altitude so she could see me on her radar. I dipped the wing and saw a small city with an airport on the She said, “No, that’s OK, you have just entered the Area of No north edge. I told him that I had the airport in sight. He told Radar Contact!” me that the airport was Steinbeck North. Then I saw another airport on the southwest side of town. Amazing. Very few I said, “Really? Next to the border?” So much for homeland airports on the whole Sectional Chart, but Steinbeck has two. security. The chart said it was Steinbeck South. She said that was the way it was, and not only that, we would not be able to hear her radio transmissions in a few minutes! ...CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE I asked the Flight Service agent to call Canadian Customs at I told her that we were Americans entering Canada, and she Winnipeg International and tell them that we wouldn’t be said, “OK, after you land taxi to the Canadian side of the ramp landing there. and park there.” He said, “Yes, I’ll do that. But do not land at Steinbeck yet. We touched down and taxied to the ramp, and, sure enough, Circle the field. I’ll try to get the Royal Canadian Mounted it was divided by a big white painted line. Canada was on one Police to stop by and give you a courtesy customs check. I’ll side of the line, and U.S. on the other. I taxied to the Canadian call you back after I contact them.” side, found a parking spot, and shut the engine down. We had now flown 1.9 hours from Thief River Falls. We sat there and So, we circled and circled. After about 10 minutes he called waited. And waited. me back and said, “Ercoupe 94196, the RCMP is too busy to do a customs check on you.

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