Chapter 42 Newsletter

Sept. 2011 Anchorage, Calendar of Events Oct.1, 2011 AASF Fall Safety Seminar UAA Aviation & Technology Division 8:00 a.m.-4 p.m.

Chapter 42 Board of Directors Meeting Wed. Oct. 12, 7 p.m.- 9 p.m. El Tango Restaurant 4300 Old Seward Hwy Citabria 7GCBC on the beach at Lost River with a double rainbow. Photo by Lars Gleitsmann Pilot’s Logbook- Alaska Airmen’s Association A week of fl ying, a trip of a lifetime... Annual Membership We fl ew from Birchwood (BCV) to down river to Nulato, then over the Chelatna Lake, then through Schell Nulato Hills to Koyuk. We had to land in Meeting UAA aberger Pass, to Rohn and Farewell Elim just to stretch our legs! Av Auditorium Airstrips. Fueled in McGrath (No From there on to Nome for more fuel. Oct. 10, 7 p.m. attempted Callout fee this time!) After meeting several old friends in Overnight in “bunkhouse” $50,- for Nome, north to Salmon Lake, saw each of us, very nice and reasonable Stinson Junior wreck on the Mtn. and Oktoberfest Fundraiser and they had GOOD FOOD. landed Taylor Airstrip, visited more old Since Weather was bad in Bethel friends there, and over to Serpentine at the Alaska Aviation and Unalakleet, we fl ew north to Hot Springs for the night. Museum Galena over Colorado Creek and Great Hot Springs! Next day we had Oct 29, 6-11 p.m. Kalakaket Airstrips (where the B24/ the greatest weather and so we fl ew on LB30 was salvaged).Landed for fuel to our secret base “Navigator,” After Live Polka Music & in Galena, sure as hell it looks like fueling the second plane and some ATV BEER by Midnight Sun an old fi ghter base. joyriding and hiking to the new airstrip From Galena toward Koyukuk and Continued on page-3- had both aircraft reporting their Left Seat locations, albeit they were on different frequencies. Surely a huge tragedy...In examining the issue the Where are we and what have we done in a year? Airmen’s membership found that by regulation both aircraft were It’s been a nice summer and fall... Station checkpoint. We spend the correct in the use of 122.9 and too nice to be inside all of the time. night at a trapper’s wall tent and 122.8 frequencies for that location. It is my hope that all of you had fl ew the next day to Alexander On a happier note it appears that a great summer and got in lots of Creek. we have several homebuilt aircraft fl ying. On the way back to Birchwood it that are ready to be assembled and With the recent transition of our clouded up and we opted to land at fl own sometime soon. Let’s support presidents, this newsletter has Big Lake a far better option these builders by helping them been dormant. This will be the on skis than Birchwood. however possible in the last months fi rst newsletter published in a year What about you, do you have before taking fl ight. almost to the day. It was my hope any stories about building, fl ying, Chapter 42 has some fi ne members that someone would come forward a tip or two for the new builders that took action on Aug. 6th at the and offer up some material to or want –to-be builders? If so pass Palmer Air Fair & Rendezvous. publish. So far the only person who them along to me at my e-mail or Headed up by Ed White Chapter even complained about there not send them to one of the Board of pilots fl ew over 70 Young Eagles, being a newsletter was just that, the Directors. and Boy Scouts during a joint FAA only person. There are many regulatory issues Youth Aviation Adventure and You will notice in this issue that Lars that will confront us in the future Young Eagles event. Gleitsmann offered photographs among them several will have a Despite high winds and lots of and details of a weeklong cross drastic effect on general aviation. worried looking parents standing country fl ight around Alaska. He So as not to take up too much space around Chapter members along is the only person in Chapter 42 I will list them in order and you can with Alaska Airmen volunteer that has offered both details, and look at them online or ask Walter pilots introduced young people ages photographs making it much easier our Chapter 42 Webmaster to post 8 to 18 into aviation. to put out this newsletter with some links to them. Walter has done a fi ne Additionally Johnathon Fant is to inspiring content. As I read his list job with keeping the website up to be congratulated on displaying his of landings he his father and friend date. RV project at the Northway Mall. Sasha completed, it made me think Top issues: 100LL aviation fuel, Every little bit helps, and this was and wonder how many of us have pilot’s bill of rights, fl ights over a big deal to move the aircraft and taken such a trip, and if not why wilderness and park restricted areas, then babysit it during mall hours. not? Sport Pilot fl ight time toward higher If anyone is interested in a PA22 My big adventure for the year ratings, and a study by the FAA project with lots of extras contact was fl ying the Antares (read open on Experimental Amateur Built myself or Bob Edison to get the cockpit) on skis for 10 hours during aircraft. details or look in the for sale section the 2011 Iditarod with my fl ying These are just a few of the biggest of our website. buddy Lloyd Hood. We ventured items on the national level that will Oh and if anyone is interested I will out from Birchwood after taking affect change for all of us. check on the status of the Begich off from the ramp because 01R/19L In Alaska the Alaska Airmen’s Middle School Pietenpol Build-A- was rutted and drifted and all of the Association has asked the Alaskan Plane project. And as a note to those crossover taxiways were free of Regional Offi ce of the FAA to fabric airplane builders there is a snow and were bare pavement. study the upper Susitna Valley workshop on Oct. 9-10 at Stoddards We fl ew out to the Susitna and radio reporting procedures. This by Pete Kalamarides. Yentna rivers to follow the dog comes after a mid-air collision I am going--anyone else? teams up the trail to the Susitna over Amber Lake that reportedly Blue Skies, Rob Stapleton, Chapter 42 Newsletter editor Pilot’s Logbook-Cont. from Pg.1- EAA Chapter 42- Page-3-

2011-Chapter 42 Offi cers President: Bob Edison [email protected]

Secretary/Newsletter editor: Rob Stapleton-230-9425 [email protected]

Treasurer: John Davis-248-4360 (hm)

Director of Government Affairs Lars Gleitsmann 344-6792 [email protected]

Director of Public Relations: Chris Gill-272-7427

Technical Consultants: Cliff Belleau 248-7070 (wk) 333-2215 (hm)

Top-Citabrias at Serpenitine Hot Springs, Below-Stinson Gull Wing,V77- Tom Lawhorn 333-7849 to late to refurbish this antique fl own by Munz Nothern Airline of Nome. [email protected] at Kelly Creek we then fl ew back is washed out and covered to Serpentine Hot Springs for another with debris, in really bad shape. From Directors at Large there to the lower Lost River runway, night there... Jim Moss 243-5151 which is in better shape but worse yet We had just enough fuel to get back Chuck May 345-4703 towards Nome via landing at Quartz with the wind. So we landed on the Creek Airport (where the Beech beach a mile further where the funnel Webmaster (www.eaa42.org): 18 wreck has been now moved off effect of the canyon is not a factor and airport). the shadow of the cliffs makes the air Walter Yankauskas 345-7206 Quartz Creek has a good view of the calm. [email protected] Pingo’s in the River valley below (one After beachcombing and taking photos doesn’t have to go to Canada to see of both planes we took off into a Pingo’s). rainbow and fl ight along the coastline Volunteers Welcome we need Back at Nome where we got more to Wales, where locals from the Native suggestions for meeting ideas and Corp. greeted us with the sentence: fuel as usual, and then north-west new venues to meet this Fall along the coast over Teller and Brevig “If You want to leave the airport You’ll Mission to Lost River, where it was have to pay for that!”.. Wales is most DEFINITIVLEY the End Monthly Meetings 4th Tuesday of nasty and windy as usual. We fl ew most months over two known wrecks there, a of The World and you actually can See Lockheed Lodestar on its belly and a Russia from There. Little Diomede is quite close and Ostrov Ratmanova is Stinson V77 Gullwing on its back, built Venue needed for monthly in WW2 and fl own by Munz. Northern quite big and high. The Russian Far B-fast Airlines of Nome. East “Dalniy Wostok” is a faint out line Yes once again we are suffering a Its fi nal Resting place is at in the haze at the horizon. lack of venues. So we need sugges- Lost River...See some images tions about where those who prom- attached...was REALLY windy by then -EAA Member Lars Gleitsmann, ise to attend would like to meet for and the place is known for THAT. Old Dir. of Govt. Affairs, Chapter 42- breakfast on the 2nd Sat. of each month . EAA Chapter 42 Newsletter Editor P.O. Box 242186 Anchorage, AK 99524

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