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Downwind Chase the Official Newsletter for the Pacific Coast Aeronauts IN THIS ISSUE: View from the Board - Patrick Moore, Chairman 1-2 Meetings Schedule 1 Jr. Balloonist News 2 PCA Safety Seminar 3-4 BFA Bullets 5 Iowa Balloon Assoc. Safety Seminar 6-7 Montague Balloon Event News 7 Upcoming Events 8 Weather App / Museum Painting 9-10 For Sale: Three Aircraft 11-13 Article Writing Template 14 Pilot Resources 15 Club and Membership Information 16-17 DownWind Chase The Official Newsletter for the Pacific Coast Aeronauts View from The Board Patrick Moore, Chairman Greetings PCA Membership, Speaking of requirements, the PCA Safety It’s another year and many things have been Seminar was a great success. The attendance was happening, both with the club and at the Board level. slightly smaller than last year, but we changed the format based on attendee feedback and that was a The club is participating in a new rally in big hit. This was where Dave Wakefield conjunction with the Community of Galt. This will presented the new FAA requirements for rallies, be the second year. Dave Wakefield is the point of and our other instructors hosted topics with lively contact for that event. attendee participation. Everyone participated Planning for the 55th WHAMOBASS is which made for a great learning experience. underway. Given the new requirements being Thanks to Linda Walton and her committee for a enacted by the FAA for rallies there is now a LOT GREAT JOB! Thanks to all of our instructors for of upfront work that needs to be done. their unselfish time and effort in making the seminar a great success. All are welcome via FREE Conference Call. Watch your email for the phone number and code. All meetings are at 7:00pm Pacific Time. © Pacific Coast Aeronauts — May / June 2019 Page 1 Downwind Chase View from the Board, continued from page 1 We have some very exciting news on the and capabilities are coming. Thank you Alta and management of numerous aspects of the Club Donnie for this very useful piece of tech software. infrastructure. Alta Fernandes with her husband, Your Board of Directors and Officers have been Donnie, have introduced the club to a new piece supporting and helping to move along all these of software that will modernize numerous changes. We even have an update of the by-laws in functions of the club, ranging from registration, progress; thanks to Tom Sharpee for spearheading membership, tracking club members, and a whole that effort. Thanks also to my fellow Board host of really neat benefits. You have probably Members for being forward thinking and supporting have received emails asking you to register in all the suggested changes. MEMBER PLANET. Please take advantage of That will be it for now. Stay tuned for more changes that introductory link. Don’t delete it, it’s NOT and new things rolled out, particularly from SPAM. This new software will allow us to do a Member Planet. host of new things and simplify the process of tracking all the critical club database information, Fly safe, crew well. etc. So, if you haven’t created a log-in for Pat Moore, Chair of the Board Member Planet yet, stay tuned — you will be getting another reminder. Very exciting changes 2019 CAMP NEWS Registration for three camps scheduled this summer opened on March 1st. • High Sierra Camp - Reno, NV: June 23-28, 2019 • Keystone State Camp - Factoryville, Pennsylvania: July 7th - 11th, 2019 • Rio Grande Camp - Albuquerque, New Mexico: July 13th - 18th, 2019 The PCA is sponsoring Joaquin Lozano (son of Marian Marian Amsbaugh, grandson of Al Amsbaugh) at the Pennsylvania camp. As of this writing, the Albuquerque camp is full but space is available in the High Sierra and Keystone camps. Contact Jeanne Anson at [email protected] for further updates. More details can also be found at the Balloon Federation of America website at https://bfa.net/index.php/bfa-summer-camps. © Pacific Coast Aeronauts — May / June 2019 Page 2 Downwind Chase Did you realize that the PCA has sponsored BFA-sanctioned safety seminars since 1985? It’s one of the things that I admire about the PCA. Now, fast forwarding to 2019, balloonists have various ways to cover the requirement to attend a safety seminar. The BFA sponsors a web-based seminar as well as there being seminars going on in Oregon and Nevada in early spring. Balloonists who attend the PCA seminar experience an event during which they can interact with other balloonists, engaging with the presentations and group discussions. Everyone leaves the seminar gaining new perspectives and understanding. Past seminar survey results indicated attendees enjoyed group discussions and panel presentations so this year we placed the seminar focus on these formats. On April 6th, we had attendees from the Napa- Sonoma region, Reno, the Bay Area, Sacramento and of course the Central Valley. This year’s list of presenters were Dave Wakefield, Pat Moore, Dana Thornton and Larry Seiler, who covered the required seminar topics. Newer members Melanee Scarborough and Joe Lamberti gave us a new spin on crewing and crew safety. I’d like to thank everyone who helped this year’s seminar be successful -- those who helped with seminar organization, presenters, food and anyone who donated goodies for the sales table. We do start planning early for next year’s seminar so if you have any suggestions for topics, presentation formats, speakers, etc., please contact me (email me at [email protected]). Hope to see you out on the launch field. ~ Linda Walton Attendees sharing safety concerns and issues yielded lively discussions, various perspectives and offered great take-aways from the seminar © Pacific Coast Aeronauts — May / June 2019 Page 3 Downwind Chase Board Member Alta Fernandes -- ‘Member Planet’ presentation Crew safety and crown webbing Dave Wakefield’s presentation on event organizing Fur Crew Members are welcome! Dave Wakefield (left), Tom Fogell (center), winner of the Crew Member Melanee Scarborourgh and Joe Lamberti Award, nominated by Gayle McCoy, and -- Crew Information Linda Walton (right) © Pacific Coast Aeronauts — May / June 2019 Page 4 Downwind Chase Balloon Federation of America PO Box 400 Indianola, Iowa 50125 www.bfa.net Women’s US National Hot From the BFA President: Air Balloon Championship Update on FAA August 29 - Reauthorization Act September 2, 2019 Dear Members, Attention women members of A number of members have called asking about the BFA! An exciting opportunity the FAA’s regulatory action now that we have awaits you —participation in the 2019 US passed the 180-day deadline specified in the Women’s National Hot Air Balloon Reauthorization Act. Championship! As previously reported, the FAA goes through a Brookfield, Missouri and the Great Pershing thorough risk assessment in order to prioritize all Balloon Derby is this year’s host for the event of its activities. New regulations regarding scheduled for August 29-September 2. The medicals for ballooning are not the lowest event is limited to 15 competitors so be sure to priority, but also not the highest, therefore there send in your entry soon! The latest news: a are other regulatory projects that are ahead of us donor has contributed a total of $5,000 for prize in the queue. monies. It appears that none of the regulatory projects Brookfield has a great ballooning history currently in the works are at or very near spanning over 40 years. Flights will be flown completion and knowing that each project over the beautiful Missouri countryside and Brookfield is known for its warm Midwestern typically takes many months to complete, it is hospitality. reasonable to estimate that we will not see regulatory changes this summer. Jason Jones is heading up the event and has gathered a solid, eager staff. They have put It’s impossible to estimate what will happen after together flight tasks that will be fun and that time frame because the FAA constantly re- challenging, with seven flight opportunities, a evaluates its priorities according to safety impact. night glow, and a parade that is attended by the We continue to have regular meetings with the entire town. It’s sure to be an enjoyable event! FAA to discuss this and other balloon-related Interested pilots can obtain a registration packet topics and will keep the balloon community at the BFA website at https://www.bfa.net/ informed as new information is available. womens-nationals. For questions and further Best regards, information, contact Jason at [email protected] or call (913) 338- Cheri White 2628. BFA President [email protected] © Pacific Coast Aeronauts — May / June 2019 Page 5 Downwind Chase by Jeanne Anson This Seminar took a unique approach to presenting the required Safety Seminar Topics. All pilots and crew were engaged throughout the day. It was not boring or repetitive. Andy Baird (Cameron Balloons USA) was the guide for the Accident review. An FAA rep from the Des Moines FSDO was able to give us a view of how the FAA would look at the facts of the scenario. The scenario was the following: a pilot attempted to land after throwing his baggie at a Watership Down Target. He had assumed that the pilot of the balloon on the ground in front of him would be deflating. The pilot didn’t so consequently he had to fly over it. Then vented hard before realizing the reason the balloon did not deflate was because of a small shed hidden from view preventing the deflation. The pilot immediately burned but did not arrest the descent and hit the shed. The passenger fell out, breaking her wrist. He landed in a tree line and turned over the deflation of his balloon to his crew chief and ran to assist with his passenger.
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