Carb Heat Hot Air and Flying Rumours EAA 245 NEWSLETTER Vol 37 No. 6 Published by EAA Chapter 245 (Ottawa) P.O. Box 24149 Hazeldean R.P.O., Kanata, Ontario, Canada, K2M 2C3 June 2007 Inside: President’s Message Page 2 Aviation Humour Page 3 More local News Page 3 Nav Canada Seminars Page 4 Technical notes Page 6 Fly-out possibilities Page 7 For Sale Page 9 Membership Form Page 10 Next Meeting: Chapter hangar lounge at Carp (CYRP) Airport Saturday June 16th at 8:00 PM Homebuilder Updates: Jeff Whaley, George Skinner, Mark Briggs and John Richards President: Martin Poettcker 613-271-6113 poettcker at rogers dot com Vice President: Russ Robinson 613-831-2485 russ.robinson at sympatico dot ca Treasurer: Curtis Hillier 613-831-6352 the_hilliers at yahoo dot com Secretary: Phillip Johnson 613-253-2229 plmjohnson at storm dot ca Operations: Grant Este 613-832-1797 este at compmore dot net Membership: Cary Beazley 613-226-4028 cbeazley at Innovista dot net Webmaster: Russell Holmes 613-226-8273 billy.bishop at simpatico dot ca Newsletter Editor: Bill Reed 613-831-8762 bill at ncf dot ca Technical Information Officer: Nathan Aligizakis 613-730-1644 aligizn at yahoo dot com EAA 245 Website: http://eaa245.dhs.org/ Carb Heat EAA 245 Newsletter June 2007 President’s Message There has been lots of activity in From: Barry Camm the practice area recently. I have Sent: April 20, 2007 6:09 PM been trying to determine how Subject: ASO 2007 Cancelled many of the planes are being Hi everyone! flown by EAA members, but It's with great disappointment everyone is flying too high to read that I announce the cancellation of The attic is much cleaner now, the registration marks! I hope all the 2007 edition of Air Show and it is possible to make your are enjoying the flight time. Ottawa. Corporate/business way from one end to the other funding was quite insufficient, without having advanced May Meeting Summary and although we did receive a gymnastic skills. At our May meeting. Ron Pepper small grant from the City, no We also spread the gravel along presented slides of his recent trip other funding or services-in-kind the French drain, did lots of grass to Papua New Guinea, where was offered (as indicated from the cutting, many of the areas are only Mayor's office this afternoon). accessible by air. The pictures of We cannot consider going the typical airports in the area forward in a risk position certainly looked challenging! financially and so must regretfully Special thanks go to Ron for cancel this year's event. carrying on and presenting even We thoroughly intend in being with our technical difficulties. back for 2008 and will start working on plans and funding for Silver Dart Project next year. I (we) sincerely Cancelled due to lack of appreciate your steadfast support Funds and look forward to working with repaired the hanger door, and did I received a note from Robert you all again next year. a general cleanup. Thanks to all Holmgren that the Silver Dart Thanks, who helped. flying replica project has been Barry Camm cancelled due to lack of financial backing. He does note however that VP - Finance & Security there is a group on the Niagara Air Show Ottawa Inc peninsula making a flying copy of the Silver Dart. Carp Hanger Maintenance Test flight is planned for late Day 2008. If all is AOK, watch for the The maintenance day was more historical take-off from the sparsely attended this year than in Baddeck NS area on 23Feb2009. EAA245 Fly-in Breakfast previous years, but we still got a Plans good deal accomplished. The Air Show Cancelled entire contents of the attic were Our fly-in breakfast will be held removed for display on the floor on Aug 12 this year. Please mark The Ottawa Air Show has been of the hanger, followed by sorting your calendars and volunteer to cancelled for 2007. An excerpt from and in most cases loading on to give us a hand setting up on an email from Barry Camm giving th trucks for transport to a disposal Saturday Aug 11 - and details is reproduced below. facility. 2 of 10 Carb Heat EAA 245 Newsletter June 2007 preferably two hands for the full Whaley on his Sportsman 2+2, The meeting will start at blown event on Sunday Aug 12 th . George Skinner on his Zenith 10:00AM at our hanger at the CH 601HD, Mark Briggs on his Carp Airport , on Saturday, June Upcoming Meetings Davis DA2 and John Richards 16th. Coffee and timbits will be on his Whitman W10. on hand. This month- Homebuilder updates and viewings by Jeff 16-Jun 2007 Homebuilder Updates: J. Whaley, G. Skinner, M. Briggs, J. Richards 21-Jul 2007 Oshkosh Prep and visit to Andrew Phillips RV 7A and Russ R. BBQ 12 Aug 2007 EAA Ch245 Fly-in Breakfast Blue Skies, Martin Aviation humour From AVFlash Short Final 13.23a June 4th, 2007 Overheard in IFR Magazine 's "On the Air" Overheard while flying into Troutdale, Ore. (KTTD) Class D airspace. N338BV: Three Three Eight Bravo Victor, inbound, 3000 level, three miles, full stop. Troutdale Tower: Three Three Eight Bravo Victor cleared straight-in Runway 25. Wind 270 at seven. N338BV: Do you want me on a right- or left-hand pattern? Tower: Neither, unless you can do it straight in. More local News . Just a reminder (note reduced days) Chapter members gather for a Holidays will also be included. south west corner. Type in "486 regular Sunday breakfast at the If for some reason this venue is Hazeldean road, Kanata, Kanata Restaurant and Pizzeria closed (likely on holidays) the Ontario" to get a map of the at 1027 Teron road in Kanata. If fall back location will be location you type "1027 Teron road, Rocking Johnny's 486 Cheers, Kanata, Ontario" into Google Hazeldean Road. This is next to Grantley Este maps you will get a map of the the intersection of Castlefrank Operations location. Order time is 09:30. and Hazeldean Road on the Gwen has done an excellent job of reporting activities for the eastern area of Ottawa. Is there anone out there in the rest of Ottawa that can present a similar report? Read on! 3 of 10 Carb Heat EAA 245 Newsletter June 2007 EAST END NEWS Sun March 4 Wed March 21 Lachute/East Enders stayed close EEs assembled for a mid-week May saw air activity revive. The to home with a short sortie for fly-out to Lachute for breakfast. season opener was a fly-out to breakfast, I know no more. The Tom Smith, Rob Walters, JR Pembroke for a pot-luck lunch at will is strong, the memory weak. Bergevin and Maurice Barré the Airport. Sat March 10 participated. June 3 Smiths Falls breakfast Rebels on skis : ( editor: pilots or The beginning of March also had was attended by some EEs, who planes? ) Paul Sicard, Ron Ron McNamara, with Denis made it back before the weather Hamson, Denis Charbonneau. Charbonneau as co-pilot, making deteriorated. The trip started with a drop into a jaunt to St. Catharines by land At Indian Creek, the Martel wings Casselman on the Nation River to to pick-up his 2500 amphibian are now dressed, MINOR pick up a fellow Rebel, then on floats. Departure was at 0600 adjustments were needed, but all the Lac Heney, the Baskatong, with the return home at 0030. It is well. We will be ready for Mont Laurier for a late lunch and was a good trip, with a stop at Air Oshkosh. back. JR Bergevin returned from Craft & Spruce and the Glasstar factory. Lindsey Lefaive’s floats are ON! Burlington, VT and a visit to his The tinkering and adjustments are daughter. As well, during the month of complete and some air time Sun March 11 March, as a well experienced logged. Rebel builder, Rollie Acorn Brockville/severe clear saw Ron assisted Andrew in building the EEs also saw a new face on the Hamson (Rebel), Tom Smith doors for his Rebel on Floats block, John Garston with his (Pacer), Rob Walters (Maule), project. Many hands make light Murphy Elite. New pilots always and Terry Blair from Maxville work. welcome. (Beech Bonanza). During April things were pretty East Enders meet every first Sun March 18 quiet in the air as East Enders all Thursday of the month. Check Brockville saw EEs once again fly off grass, the fields were with a member for the location. for JR Bergevin, Tom Smith, pretty soggy, so lots of hangar The grounded flyer, Denis Charbonneau and Bernie time and talk and work, work, Gwen Martel L’Ecuyer. work. Nav Canada schedules two more information sessions: La version française figure ci-dessous / Text in French follows On May 1, 2007 a Pilot information session for pilots flying in the Ottawa, ON area was given at the NAV CANADA Tom Roberts facility at the Ottawa airport. Due to the tremendous interest with attendance beyond the capacity of the meeting room, we have been asked to conduct additional information sessions. Maintaining an airspace that is safe and not overly restrictive is a major challenge that faces all growing cities. When pilots follow the expected operating practices and procedures safety and airspace capacity for varied operations improves. Some of the topics that will be presented and discussed include: - Available NAV CANADA services in the area - Communication frequencies - Floatplane traffic on the river 4 of 10 Carb Heat EAA 245 Newsletter June 2007 - Procedures for flying through control zones and other controlled airspace (tower, terminal, FSS) - VFR corridors - Protecting circuit traffic (A CD containing the presentation and other related information will be available for pilots to take home) Please take the opportunity to attend one the following sessions.