BIG BEND FLYER

Official Newsletter of EAA Chapter 445 WWW.EAA445.ORG

 In this issue :
Governer Carnahan's Accident Synopsis
PHOTO ID LAW NOW IN EFFECT
FAA approves Internet as an "official" weather and notam source
Local TLH Controller saves student when Her engine quits
                                                   
DECEMBER 2002

      

 
Come Join us at our Next  EAA 445 Meeting 11/12/2002  6:30 PM @FLIGHTLINE
Program Speaker : John Sivyer Topic : Instument Pilot Training Simulator

 
 
AVIATON DIGITAL DATA SERVICES ADDED TO EAA445 WEBSITE.  CLICK HERE TO GO TO THIS EXCELLENT WEATHER SITE

EAA - Not just for Homebuilders click here to find out more.

 Short Final
Forwarded as read on WWW.AVWEB.COM by Craig Hiers

Overheard on Tallahassee Approach during heavy turbulence conditions.
 
TLH Approach: Cessna 12345, state intentions.
 Pilot: Cessna 12345 intends to land without hurling ... somehow.
 
Contributions to Short Final are welcomed at mailto:sf@avweb.com.
 

 

The CAP will be washing aircraft the first weekend of every month, schedule permitting at the wash rack at Flightline around 10:00 AM as a money raising project for the Cadets.  For more information call Tom Baldwin at 850-575-0596 or Kevin Smith at 671-6716 to reserve a time slot . They we would appreciate a contact number to use in the event that they have an active mission and must make a schedule change

Experience is a hard teacher. First comes the test, then the lesson.

EAA Establishes Sport Pilot Hot Line, 1-877/FLY-1232
EAA members can now refer their questions on the proposed sport pilot/light-sport aircraft (SP/LSA) rule to EAA’s toll-free SP/LSA hot line, 877/FLY-1232 (877/359-1232). Have EAA—the established authority on SP/LSA issues - answer your questions regarding anticipated regulations of the pending final rule. The hot line’s last four digits (1232) represent the proposed weight limitation for light-sport aircraft.
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Question for EAA Aviation Information Services:
I have a single place Baby Lakes. How do I get a taildragger endorsement in a single place plane?

Answer: A "taildragger endorsement" as required by 14 CFR 61.31(i) is not aircraft-specific. You can take the required training in any conventional gear (taildragger) aircraft, and the endorsement given to you by the instructor will be valid in any conventional gear aircraft you pilot. If you were to receive training in a Citabria (for example) and the instructor would endorse your log book in accordance with Part 61.31(i), you would then be legal to act as pilot-in-command (PIC) of your Baby Lakes.
 

 

 

 

   

 
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT- SCOTT O'BRIEN
Scott got his Private Pilot Certificate in 1964 flying in and out of a soft field in Ohio.  In 1968 he graduated from Michigan Technological University majoring in Civil Engineering.  In that year he also got a Commercial and Flight Instructor's Certificate from AG Aviation School in Reno, Nevada and Instrument and Instrument Instructor Ratings from Flight Safety at Chicago Midway.  While in Reno he also had 10 hours of Aerobatic Instruction from Dual Cole.  Scott was a flight Instructor and charter pilot until graduating from Law School at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio in 1972.  He then engaged hisself in the general practice of law in Ohio from 1972 to 1995 while he was involved in several flying clubs and owned a Cessna 170B for several years.  His wife was transfered to Oklahoma City in 1995 and he began to again fly regularly.  He reinstated his Flight Instructor ratings at University of Oklahoma's Aviation Department and since then he has  been a part-time Independent Flight Instructor.  He and his wife moved to Tallahassee in January of 2002. He is currently a part-time Independent CFI, CFII and MEI associated with FlightLine Tallahassee. He owns and flies a 1972 Citabria.  He has logged PIC time in over 40 different makes and models of Airplanes and has a total of about 2100 hrs total time with 1300 hours of flight instruction.  He enjoys being retired because it allows him to spend full time learning to fly.
 
Scott joined EAA 445 in April and was one of 4 pilots to fly Young Eagles at the Quincy Fly-in 2002.  He has given local seminars on how to fly tail draggers as well as  how to make sense of the proposed new "Sport Pilot Certificate".  He is also the newest member of the Big Bend Aviation Safety Council.
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What’s in a Name?  by Ed Copes
 Airport Identifiers, those three letters that uniquely identify an airport, are very familiar to pilots and even to the traveling public.  Most of the identifiers make sense, and even non-pilots recognize that the TLH on their luggage tag means Tallahassee or that JAX means Jacksonville.  But there are a few out there that are not so obvious, and behind each one often lies an interesting story. 
 
At our September meeting Ron Fisher told the interesting story of how Chicago-O’Hare got its name.  In case you missed the meeting, the story (briefly) is that the airport was named after Lt. Cmdr.  Edward “Butch” O’Hare, a navy pilot and Chicago native, who was awarded the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in World War II.  O’Hare was killed in action in November 1943, and in 1949 the city named the airport in his honor.  (you can read more about Butch O’Hare at http://www.ohare.com/ohare/about/about_butch.shtm ). 
Prior to 1949, O’Hare Field was known as Orchard Field, which explains why last year about 650,000 flight plans contained the letters ORD.  Orchard Field had its start during the early years of World War II, when the Army surveyed the Chicago area for a site for a Douglas Aircraft factory and airport.  The Army and the city settled on a location near a small farming community called Orchard Place, west of Chicago.  In 1942, the Army bought 1,600 acres there and ten months later, in July 1943, the first Douglas C-54 “Skymaster” rolled off the production line and down the runway.  After the war, having produced 655 C-54’s, the city bought the facility from the US Government and purchased 7,000 additional acres for Chicago’s new airport. 
There is another example much closer to home – Orlando International, visited by millions each year.  How many wonder why their luggage says MCO instead of OIA?   
Orlando International began its life in 1942 as Pinecastle Army Airfield, which was used as a training base for B-17 bomber crews.  The Air Force took over in 1952, renaming it Pinecastle AFB, and trained B-47 combat crews there for the 321st Bombardier Wing of the Strategic Air Command.  The commander of the 321st was Col. Mike McCoy, a World War II veteran who, by 1957, had more flying time than anyone in the Air Force – 20,000 hours.  On October 9, 1957, McCoy’s 52nd birthday, the B-47 Stratojet he was piloting crashed in an Orlando neighborhood.  McCoy and three others in the plane died, no one on the ground was injured. 
The Air Force renamed Pinecastle to McCoy Air Force Base in 1958.  The Air Force left in 1974 and the airport was taken over by the city and became McCoy Jetport.  In 1976 it was renamed Orlando International Airport, but today still retains a reminder of its previous life in the MCO identifier.
 
And now one for our readers – why is New Orleans International identified as MSY?   We’ll answer that next month, and also answer the question – who was Albert Whitted, anyway?
SAFETY PILOT
If you need a Safety Pilot, click here to go to the safety pilot page or click here to go to the Big Bend Safety Council page and send an e-mail or call one of the pilots on the list.  They will be happy to schedule time fly with you. Don't be shy-these people love to fly!

NAME THAT PLANE 

 

Submitted by Ed Copes - picture taken by Ed at TVI FLY-IN

Can you name this plane?  If so, click here, type in the name and hit send.  The first person with the correct name will be listed in next month's newsletter.
 
Congratulations to Forrest  Coxen for winning last month's NTP. It's an F4U Corsair Navy WWII Fighter flown primarily by Marine pilots.
Vought F4UCorsair
Designed by Beisel and Sikorsky,  the F4U is regarded by many as one of the greatest combat aircraft in history, and was in production for a longer period of time than any US fighter other than the F4 Phantom.  As conceived it was intended to mount the most powerful engine, and biggest propeller, of any fighter in existence, and the prototype was the first US combat aircraft to exceed 400mph
 
Dimensions
Span 41' (12.48 metres) British version 39'  7"
Length 33' 8" - 34' 6" according to version 		Weight
(F4U-1A)  8,873 lb (4,025 kg)

Engine
(F4U-1)   2,000 hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800-8 (B)                           Double Wasp 18-cylinder two-row radial
(F4U-1A)    2,250 hp R-2800-8 (W) with water injection
(F4U-4)    2,450 hp R-2800-18 (W) with water-methanol
(F4U-5)    2,850 hp R-2800-32 (E) with water-methanol

Maximum Speed   (F4U-1A)  395 mph  (F4U-5)  462 mph

Initial Climb  (F4U-1A)  2,890 feet per minute  (F4U-5)  4,800 feet per minute

 

Service Ceiling  F4U-1A)  37,000 feet  (F4U-5)  44,000 feet

Range  (on internal fuel):  1,000 miles  (1,609 kilometres)

Armament - Guns
(early versions)   6 x 0.5" Browning MG53-2 machine-guns in outer wings,  with 390 rounds per gun
             (F4U-1C onwards)   4 x 20mm. cannon in wings 		Armament - Bombs/Rockets
(F4U-1D and most subsequent versions)   2 x 1,000 lb bombs or 8 x 5-inch rockets under wings
COULD IT HAPPEN TO YOU? Smart Pilot's Learn from their mistakes-Wise Pilot's learn from the mistakes of others!
Governer Carnahan's Accident Synopsis.
On October 16, 2000, about 1933 central daylight time (CDT) a Cessna 335, N8354N, crashed near Hillsboro, Missouri. The pilot and two passengers were killed, and the airplane was destroyed. The airplane was being operated under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 from the St. Louis Downtown Airport (CPS), Cahokia, Illinois, to County Memorial Airport (EIW), New Madrid, Missouri. Instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) prevailed for the flight, which departed CPS about 1915 on an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan. Complete NTSB Report
 
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the pilot's failure to control the airplane while maneuvering because of spatial disorientation. Contributing to the accident were the failure of the airplane's primary attitude indicator and the adverse weather conditions, including turbulence.
 
SAFETY QUIZ OF THE MONTH
A pilot planning to depart at 1100Z on an IFR flight is particularly concerned about the hazard of icing. What sources reflect the most accurate information on icing conditions (current and forecast) at the time of departure?

 A) Low-Level Significant Weather Prognostic Chart, and the Area Forecast.
 B) The Area Forecast, and the Freezing Level Chart.
 C) Pilot weather reports (PIREP's), AIRMET's, and SIGMET's.
 
Click here to send your answer 
 
Congratulations to Frank Sierra for winning last month's Safety Quiz. 
You receive the following instruction from the controller  "1 Papa Tango  turn right heading 260 descend and maintain 2000ft..  You mistakenly read back  "right 160 down to 2000ft., 1 Papa Tango" . The controller doesn't respond back, but instead you hear him giving instructions to other airplanes.  5 mins later you enter a TFR area.

Who gets charged with the violation?

 b) The Pilot for not knowing his position and not correctly interpreting what the controller said.(The pilot almost always gets the blame for anything that goes wrong,but still we fly.)
NEWS YOU CAN USE

 

FAA approves Internet as an "official" weather and notam source

Nov. 1 — Thanks in part to the efforts of AOPA, the FAA now formally recognizes the Internet as an "official" information source for aviation weather and notams. The FAA has issued its Internet Communications Advisory Circular (AC) that explains how vendors may become a Qualified Internet Communication Provider (QICP) and disseminate information to pilots via the Internet. The agency will provide a public listing of all QICPs on a designated Web page.
That means GA pilots may legally use flight information from the numerous aviation Web sites available to plan a flight, as long as the Web site has gone through the QICP process. Until now, only information from a flight service center or DUATS was considered valid.
More...
 
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST 
Local Controller Saves Student Pilot
 

"My engine has quit and I'm at 1300 ft."  This cry for help was overheard by an instructor who was flying in the area a couple of weeks ago .  Before he had a chance to reply, Lee Bowersox, the Controller on duty, told the student who was on a cross country flight from south Florida to turn on her carb heat and switch tanks.  The little Piper engine sputtered back to life. She was then able to land at Quincy without incident.  

Behind the scenes Lee, who is not a pilot, had immediately alerted his supervisor, Ron Fisher, who is a pilot and CFII, to the situation.  Ron had advised Lee about the carb heat and tank switch, and suggested he put the student on the Final Radar position so she could be vectored to the closest airport.  

When complimented on the quick response and teamwork, Ron replied, "Controllers are trained to assist any pilot any time the need arises, without the thought of reward or recognition. It comes with the job, and we are always glad to help."

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 A Proud Son sends in Story of his Fathers new Plane
EAA445 Member Marc Dupuis's Father (Real Dupuis) flew his RV6-A for the first time on 10/23/2002 . For more about this great project click here.
                        
 
LOCAL PLANNER

Nov 12- Come Join us at our Next  EAA 445 Meeting 11/12/2002  6:30 PM @FLIGHTLINE                    

John Sivyer  will be give a demo of ASA's Instrument Pilot Training Simulator

We will also be electing new officers for a 2 year term

12/10 EAA445 Annual Holiday Dinner @ Westminster Oaks Pool Clubhouse

Click here for more datails

12/12 OPERATION RAINCHECK HAYDON BURNS BUILDING(DOT) 605 Suwannee St.  6:30 PM


 

 

 



 

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