Given EAA’s policy change regarding youth interaction and the new administrative and personal burdens it will require of our Chapter membership I will propose, at our next meeting, that beginning May...
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Given EAA’s policy change regarding youth interaction and the new administrative and personal burdens it will require of our Chapter membership I will propose, at our next meeting, that beginning May...
It’s disappointing that the FAA took the route it did with Exemption 10841. When considering the airplanes and each member within our 50+ member Chapter this exemption will apply to just 1 (one)...
What else could the EAA have done? Plenty.
But first, by announcing early in the process that “we’ll pay if we have to” is devastating to negotiating your position. Talk about a basic mistake. ...
June 13, 2013
In a stunning announcement today the EAA acknowledged that it agreed to pay the FAA $450,000 for the Air Traffic Control services it will provide at AirVenture.
EAA’s agreement...
Assuming that EAA has retained outside legal Counsel which is knowledgeable of the FAA’s rule making and budgeting process, then EAA ought to send notice, through its Counsel, that all further...
Is EAA going to roll over and pay off the FAA? If so, this would be an extraordinary lack of leadership on behalf of the EAA.
Where’s the FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rule Making, its preceding...
You can see the headlines already... “Drone Collides with Cessna, Family of Four Perish”.
Drones will provide some measure of savings over using a manned aircraft but this will come at both a...
Here’s a follow up to my original post:
The NTSB's Conclusions and Recommendations contain considerable obstacles toward completing an experimental aircraft and threaten its continued operation...
The NSTB and EAA should be applauded for their efforts to improve the safety record of amateur built aircraft. I have yet to meet a pilot of an experimental aircraft that wants to become the next...
Here's a picture of the Naviator App operating on my Samsung Galaxy S2, and running along side my Lowrance Airmap 600C.
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The cellphone holder is made from 3 strips of wood, the thickness of...
I was recently asked by one of our chapter members “What’s the best GPS to buy?”. A couple pilots chimed in and suggested one of “Gxxxxx’s” products. Normally I would have agreed but I think times...
The following link is to our webpage containing a “Hanger Cost Sharing Agreement”. http://www.1221.eaachapter.org/newsinfo.htm Our Chapter will use this Agreement to share our hanger (leased from...
A humorous look at aircraft building and one of the videos featured on our Chapter's website...
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I believe the most valuable asset of EAA, and the main reason it has flourished over the years, is the unique place that it occupies within the imagination of aviators throughout the world. EAA’s...
In a meeting at the Superior Wisconsin Airport (KSUW) this morning, which included the Governor of Wisconsin, the Mayor or Superior, Alan Klapmeier and other government officials, an announcement was...
Have you seen how some of the recent aviation shows make ordinary flying look so dramatic? We'll here's my two hour attempt of making an ordinary flight as a passenger appear much more interesting...
Yeah, this was a bad deal. The rumor is Santa's license was pulled under the Emergency Revocation rule. Some of the issues were;
Inoperative Transponder
No Transponder / Altitude Encoder check...
January in Minnesota
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Here's what I've done and the results....
I built the Comm Antenna according to the instructions given here: http://chrusion.com/BJ7/InvVeeAntenna4ULs.pdf. I made the base out of plywood, rather...
Thanks for the ideas an a comm antenna. Jim, your recommendation looks like it would work but I'd have an installation problem (difficult access) with the large foil area. I stumbled upon a post on...
How about vid on Vortex Generators? Before and after performance results (minimum liftoff airspeed, power off stall, power on stall).
I put these on my low wing, 520 lb Fisher Avenger (installed...
Does anyone have any experience with ground plane-less Comm antenna from "RST Engineering" or "Bob Archer"? I'd like to bury a comm antenna in back of my fuselage (all wood aircraft) and have...