It is time for the annual Spring Safety Seminar. Mark you calendars for Saturday, May 11th at 10am in the FBO Building.
Weather permitting we will plan to see if the Grills still work and cook up some burgers for lunch after the meeting.
If you haven’t already been out and taken your Spring Club check ride, then plan to do so in the afternoon or on Sunday 12th.
It’s flying season and we haven’t seen enough of you out flying. Please spread the word. See you on the 11th if not before.
With Many thanks to Bill Dietrich, Larry Perry and Walter spring check-flights are now available for qualified 1-26 and 1-34 pilots using the PW-6 (i1).
The 1-26 is on the line. Greg Hunter had a nice 3-1/2 hour flight last weekend. The 1-34 annual is finishing up and should be on the line shortly also.
So come out, get your Spring check-ride and go-fly.
This from Larry Perry
I heard from Bill Batesole this morning, and due to an unanticipated improvement in the weather and a few hours of unexpected “free time” available from NESA’s favorite FedEx driver, the yellow 2-33 is another step closer to being back in service.
Although the wx forecast yesterday called for mostly overcast skies with showers, the forecasters changed their minds this morning to at least partly sunny skies and low winds.
At mid-late morning there was a fair amount of activity at VSF…Walter had (of course) arrived, and N60AB, the owner of the Beech Duke that commutes between ISP and VSF, was on final. The Upper Valley Flight Club’s C-172 was flying patterns. B2 arrived and towed Walter to 2500′ and by the time the Pawnee landed, Walter was climbing through 6000′
Bill did the work that required brains, I provided the brawn, or that amount I had available. Bill was hoping to get two more cross-coats of primer on both sides of the 2-33 tail feathers, and that went much smoother than expected. With the sun and weather holding up, Bill was able to get the final primer coats on the nose of the 2-33, as well.
As we finished packing the 2-33 fuselage back into Bill’s workshop around 3:30 pm, Walter called overhead, inbound to land. A pretty spectacular soaring day.
This from B2:
Hello NESA,
The 2-33 is covered and through two coats of brushed silver. I’ll wait until spring weather to spray the final silver coat and then start with color.
Thanks to Walter Striedieck and Pieter Schwartzembach for their help in putting the initial fabric on the fuselage.
I installed a mini split heat pump at the shop. What a difference having real heat!
Bill
All stripped ready to begin:
Preparation for recovering:
Covered !!!
Ready for paint in the spring..
The annual dinner is scheduled for Saturday January 12th, 2019 at MacLaomainns in Chester. 5:30pm Happy hour, dinner 6:30. Everyone should have received an email invite, please RSVP as soon as possible. The sooner we can give the pub numbers the easier for them, and the sooner we know we will have a solid quorum for the business meeting the better for us. Hope to see everyone there in a little over a month :-).
All the club gliders were disassembled ahead of the snow and are safely tucked away in hangars for the winter. Thanks to all who came out to help including – Brian Xander, Bill Batesole, Andy Kozak, Greg Hunter, Dave Carton and anyone else I missed.
We let the 1-3 annual slip so that it can be done over the winter and hopefully therefore will have no interruption to it’s flying season next year.
All – We are planning to hold a cookout on Sunday 7/1 at the end of the official practice day for the contest.
We would love to see lot’s of NESA members attend and are also looking for your help to bring a dish to share with the contest participants.
You should see a picnic sign-up email later today, so please sign up, bring a dish to share and help us welcome the Region 1 contestants to Springfield. Thanks!
All – a couple of quick reminders. (i) Please use the Online instruction sign-up sheet to let us know when you want instruction, (ii) If you cannot make a day you previously signed up for, please remove your name from the list and if it’s the “day off” please call the duty instructor to let them know. We have had a couple of no-show’s recently that kept the instructor grounded waiting for a student when they could have otherwise gone soaring. Thanks. An instructor contact tab has been added to the sign-up sheet.
All – The instruction sign-up sheet seems pretty light at the moment. It’s time everyone got out and flew. As a reminder please use the on-line instruction sign up sheet to tell us what days you want instruction: Instruction Sign-Up sheet
Tuesday evening instruction starts again for this season next Tuesday 5/29 so come out and fly all memorial weekend and keep going on Tuesday evening too!
A reminder, this weekend is Memorial weekend so we’ll be flying Saturday, Sunday and Monday. There will be a cookout after flying on Sunday. Bring a dish to share and something to throw on the grill.