Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 24 / Oklahoma City, OK October 2019
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Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 24 / Oklahoma City, OK October 2019 Upcoming Meeting Information When: October 10th, 2019, Beginning at 7:00 PM Where: Sundance Airport (KHSD) 13000 N Sara Rd, Yukon, OK 73099 Phone: (405) 373-3886 http://sundanceairport.com/ The meeting room is on the 2nd floor of the main terminal. Arrive early to so- cialize with your fellow aviation enthusiasts. Travel 1.3 miles West of the Kilpatrick Turnpike on the Northwest Expressway, then 0.9 miles North on Sara Rd to airport entrance. Google Maps Link: http://goo.gl/maps/Q1dU9 Previous Chapter Minutes September 12, 2019 Meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Chapter Vice-President, Jerry Calvert. Minutes from the August meeting were approved. Members in attendance: 19 New attendees: 6 Young Eagles: The Guthrie Airport open house/family day is scheduled for September 14 and there is a Young Eagles event. Open house hours are 9:00-2:00. Young Eagles flying is scheduled 9:00-12:00. 40 ROTC kids are expected September 28 at Sundance. Pancake Breakfasts: Scheduled for every 4th Saturday along with Young Eagles flights. Sundance Airport. The September breakfast is Sept 28. • Kitfox: Go to the EAA Chapter 24 website and click on the “Kitfox Project Progress Info” for current financial expenditures, pictures, who worked, and updates on the Kitfox project. Eric gave an update. About 30 interested people have participated in the build project since it started. Previous Chapter Minutes, Continued September 12, 2019 Old Business: • The Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission is asking for pilot volunteers to give Oklahoma legislators rides at Shawnee RGNL Airport on September 24. Three airplanes/pilots have volunteered. New Business: • The “One Week Wonder” RV-12 will be at Thompson Field September 17. There will be a dinner at 6:00pm. • A motion was passed to help purchase food for the “One Week Wonder” RV-12 dinner in an amount not to exceed $150. EAA Chapters 1098, 1612, and 24 will all be contributing 1/3 each to pay for the dinner. • IMC/VMC Club on NDB/DME charting and FAR Part 93 airspace • A motion was passed to authorize an additional $1000 for materials needed for the Kitfox project. This brings the Kitfox total authorized so far to $2500. • Monthly EAA video The next meeting is October 10, 2019 (Meetings are 2ND Thursday of the month, 7:00pm, Sundance airport) Meeting adjourned at 8:10pm Submitted by Dan Burdette EAA Chapter 24 On-Line Recent Young Eagles totals: Website: http://www.24.eaachapter.org/ Chapter pancake breakfast on 9-28-19: Ground Crew: Steve Schmitt, Jim Putnam Pat Conhenour 21 Jerry Calvert 8 Larry Eversmeyer 8 James Harris 5 Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EAA- Mark Johnson 13 Chapter-24/ TOTAL 55 Cooking breakfast for the large turnout was Bob and Carol Dickerson, Paige Adkins, Victoria Stevens and her mom and sister, Minderella and Pristine Is this a record for a chapter breakfast? Great job all! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/EAA24 Upcoming Young Eagles events: • Chapter pancake breakfasts on 26 October From Our Members Young Eagles Please see the party invite for Paige Adkins on the next page. Upcoming Y/E Events are dis- cussed at each Chapter meeting. The Chapter has an on-going need for pilots and ground crew for our support of this program. Please contact Pat Cohenour to be added to his con- tact list so he can coordinate chapter support for Young Eagles events. You do not need to be pre- sent at the chapter meeting to volunteer. Thank you! Pilot's tip of the week Safety away and attempt to maintain a 500 foot per minute rate of descent. This should get you to pattern alti- tude and stabilized prior to entering the downwind PILOT'S TIP OF THE WEEK leg. Planning Your Descent If you plan to fly over the airport either to enter the Featuring Wally Moran downwind leg on the other side of the airport or to Subscriber question: simply inspect the airport, I use the same formula ex- cept I plan the descent to arrive over the airport at "When should I start my descent? How fast should I 2000 feet above airport elevation. So in the above descend? I know there are electronic tools that help example, I would begin that descent at 28 miles away. with this planning, but is there a simple way to de- cide the best time to start down?" —Shawn P. If you have passengers with ear issues, you should plan on a more gradual descent. Whenever I have young children onboard I expect ear issues and plan accordingly. In that case, I plan on a 300 foot per mi- nute descent. So, each one thousand feet will take a little more than 3 minutes. Another issue is turbulence at the lower altitudes. Often on summer days, you can be cruising along at 8000 feet above those puffy clouds and in cool air. But from 5000 feet on down the air will be turbulent and temperatures will get hotter. These are the condi- tions that can make your passengers uncomfortable or even ill. So, I descend normally until I get to the top of the bumpy air and then level off. I stay there until I am quite close to the destination and then make a low power, slow speed descent at approximately Wally: 1000 feet per minute. Keeping the speed down reduc- es the severity of the turbulence, but you need to be “Good descent planning takes some thought but it watchful of passenger ear issues. will pay off in efficiency and passenger comfort, so it’s clearly worth the effort. But how to do it safely, smoothly and efficiently; that is what we are trying to Naturally, winds will change as you descend and so accomplish. will your ground speed, but it is easy to set a few benchmarks in the descent and then adjust as need- Let’s look at an easy example: ed. For example in our first plan, I might decide that I should be descending through 4500 MSL as I pass 16 The air is smooth all the way down, we have no pas- miles out. Now as I pass the 16-mile mark, I can adjust sengers with ear problems, and the 45 (degree) to the my descent if needed. I do this math while in cruise downwind is between us and the airport. In this case, and write it down so I don’t have to work it out on the we want to be at pattern altitude prior to entering the fly. downwind leg. So simply subtract pattern altitude, let’s use 1000 MSL feet in this example, from your cruise altitude of 8500 MSL. This tells you that you If I intend to make an instrument approach at the des- need to descend 7500 feet. Now divide 7500 by 500 tination, I still use 500 feet per minute as my target feet per minute and you will see that it will take ap- and plan to be at the final approach crossing altitude proximately 15 minutes for the descent. If our ground 2 miles prior to that fix.” speed is 120 knots, we will travel about 30 miles in 15 minutes. So, I would begin the descent about 32 miles Safety The following article originally appeared in the August 2019 edition of IFR magazine. Opportunities The following list of upcoming events for April is courtesy of Tom Auerbach, Ponca City Aviation Booster Club Newsletter Editor. Always verify the event info when making your plans! Friday-Saturday, October 11-12, 2019 57th Annual Fall Festival of Flight Texas Chapter Antique Airplane Association – www.txaaa.org Gainesville Municipal (KGLE) TX Saturday, October 12, 2019 Monthly Breakfast at Col Jabara Airport 7-11am; Wichita, KS; Colonel James Jabara Airport (KAAO) Scrambled eggs, pancakes, grilled sausage, & coffee. Questions? Call Bill Lindsay: 316-880-5988 or email: [email protected] Saturday, October 12, 2019 1st Annual Watonga Wings Fly-In – Watonga OK (KJWG) – 9AM to 3PM www.facebook.com/watongacheesefestival Saturday, October 12, 2019 Ottawa Municipal Airport KS (KOWI) – Breakfast Fly-In – 2nd Saturday of the month – 8AM to 10AM October 12 - Carlisle, AR - Carlisle Municipal Airport (4M3) EAA Chapter 122 UL will host a Fly-in / Drive-in Full Breakfast 8:30 - 11:30 AM. This is a recurring event on the second Satur- day of each month. Come to socialize. For additional information go to: eaaul122 dot org <http://eaaul122.org/> Contact Steve Ware @ 501-606-6672 October 12 - Rogers, AR - Rogers Executive Airport (KROG) 8:00 am- Noon. An All You Can Eat Brunch for $7.00 at the IDK? Cafe in the Beaver Lake Aviation Terminal. This will be a recurring event on the 2nd Saturday of the month. For more information contact Justin at 479-877-0032 or email [email protected] or Beaver Lake Aviation at 479-636-9400. Opportunities, Contd. The following list of upcoming events for April is courtesy of Tom Auerbach, Ponca City Aviation Booster Club Newsletter Editor. Always verify the event info when making your plans! Saturday-Sunday, October 19-20, 2019 Commemorative Air Force B29 B24 Squadron B-24 Diamond Lil is coming to the Tulsa Air and Space Museum Tulsa Air and Space Museum (TASM) - 3624 N 74th East Ave, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74115 – Sat 9AM, Sun 9AM Experience what it's like to fly in an iconic B-24 WWII bomber when Diamond Lil visits the Tulsa Air and Space Museum to celebrate the dedication of the new Tulsamerican exhibit that commemorates the 75th anniversary of the B-24 made at the Tulsa Douglas Plant.