Monterey Bay 99s. October Chapter Meeting

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1 Monterey Bay 99s established August 14, 1965 Phyllis Cleveland, a United 747 pilot, regaled the MB99s at our September meeting with her humorous, poignant, and sometimes frightening tales from her long career in aviation. Photo by Mary Doherty What s Inside PPT 2 Prop Wash 3 24 by Gabrielle Adelman 4 South County Airport 5 Saving Your Airport 6 Chapter Dues 7 Member Activities 7 Calendar 8 October Chapter Meeting The October meeting will begin at 7pm at the EAA hangar on Wed., Oct. 18. Exit Hwy 1 at Airport Blvd., go toward hills, turn left after 3rd stoplight (Hangar Way) onto Aviation Way, proceed past WVI terminal and Zuniga's restaurant. EAA hangar is on the left. 1

2 Monterey Bay Chapter Officers Chair: Sarah Chauvet Vice-Chair: Michaele Serasio Secretary: Carolyn Dugger Treasurer: Theresa Levandoski-Byers Past Chair: Alice Talnack Logbook Editor: Dena Taylor Phone: Fax: Deadline: 25th of each month for the next month s publication. Committee Chairs Aerospace Education: Theresa Levandoski-Byers Alice Talnack Air Marking: Michaele Serasio Scholarship: Gabrielle Adelman, Theresa L-Byers Membership & Future Women Pilots: Donna Crane-Bailey Historian: OPEN Librarian: Laura Barnett Scrapbook: Theresa Levandoski-Byers Aviation Activities: Kryss Crocker <daytripper12@sbcglobal.net> Legislative: Alice Talnack WebMistress: Pam O Brien Public relations coordinator: Carolyn Dugger Hospitality chair: Jody Roberts As of January 1, 2002, we have a new Proficiency Training Program format and a new Form. Awards will be based on the total number of members who participate, not just how many active pilots take part, so as not to penalize chapters with non-flying members. So let s document all those activities and get the forms in to Carolgene Dierolf, our Proficiency Training Coordinator. Southwest Section Ninety-Nines Proficiency Training Program 1/1/06 to 12/31/06 NAME Ninety-Nines Chapter Phone Ground Activity Type: Date Instructor Signature: Qualifying Activities: Flight Activity Type: Date Instructor Signature: Return this completed form to: 2 Carolgene Dierolf 652 San Mateo Pl. Salinas, CA Phone:

3 PROP WASH By Sarah Chauvet Pop- Ups On Thursday September 21st with my trusty co-pilot, Dan, I flew the Mooney to Ashland, OR to attend the combined Northwest Southwest Section meeting. On the return trip on Sunday we heard a number of pilots trying to pop up and get traffic advisories (flight following) with a very busy Oakland Center on What was so interesting was the success or failure of these requests. I first noticed this when I heard a pilot just off of Red Bluff northbound in a Cessna 172. Her first transmission was Oakland Center Cessna 4562X Request. The Center did not acknowledge. About 10 minutes later she repeated the same transmission. Again there was no response from the Center. Just then another pilot called the Center and reported that she was Grumman 7876Y at 9500ft just north of Weed Airport enroute to Nevada County Airport, request flight following. Center replied with a squawk code and the Redding altimeter setting. Meanwhile the 172 is still trying to get into the system. On call #3 from the 172, again With Request, the Center gave her a squawk code and said, Stand by. Soon another pilot called in With Request. He too, was ignored until the third try. Other pilots are calling in with the 3 W s Who are you, Where are you, What do you want to do, and getting into the system. By the time we were handed off to the next controller there were 4 pilots on standby all of whom called in with Request. And the pilot who first got my attention?? She was so far north when the controller finally tried to contact her that she was out of range. The Center had to go through another pilot to tell her to contact Seattle Center. Of the remaining 3 pilots on standby, one cancelled, one had his destination in sight and the other got what he needed when Center finally got to them. What did I learn from this? When you call a busy controller tell them immediately on initial contact, {1}who you are {2}where you are and {3}what you want to do. So, let s go flying and have some fun! Sarah Chauvet Sarah giving her expert advice to Dena & Laura. Centerpiece (Sarah s creation) for the section meeting in Ashland. Photos by Mary Doherty 3

4 24 (hours of aviation) By Gabrielle Adelman At some point as a pilot, you feel comfortable enough to try some marathon flights that you would never have attempted as a beginner. I remember early helicopter lessons that only lasted.8 on the Hobbes meter because I ran out not of gas, time, or daylight, but brain power. Now it takes over three hours of intense flying and some other distraction (baking heat, high altitude, continuous turbulence) to get that weary "what day is it anyway" feeling. Or, you can achieve it by just staying in the seat hour after hour after hour... Seven hours in the simulator Sim training time is always a way to be safer without burning jet fuel, but the timing and frequency of it is a negotiated item with the insurance carriers. Over the years, as we gained accident-free hours, our training shortened from two weeks a year to a half-week every six months, and just recently to one half-week and one day a year, but oh what a day. 9:00: Strap in, start the engines. They'll be "running" the whole day (even during lunch). We'll be concentrating on single-engine work all day; a twin is only safer if you can handle it when it becomes a single. My recent experience in Florida notwithstanding, there is some rust to be knocked off, but after one amusing slide into the weeds I'm handling it pretty well. 12:00: Lunch, hooray, let me out of this thing for a while. 12:45: Copilot time. Tiring on the voice (imagine running the loop of communications from takeoff through "emergency" to landing about 25 times) but easier on the head. 4:45: Back to flying. Ken has been trying a "dog on the runway" scenario (early rotation to avoid an obstacle, followed by an immediate engine failure) for a while and it's time for me to try it. It works out pretty well, except if we had really been at PHX and I had to do that low-level flight just skimming the terminal in an effort to build speed to where the aircraft was fully controllable, we'd have been on the evening news, but at least not in an accident report. 5:45: Really really ready for that steamed lobster, and feeling like a better pilot. Ten hours in the helicopter Like simulator training, keeping up with people doing stupid things on the coast never ends. A good flying day shows up, but we have commitments afterwards and can't stay overnight in San Diego. We beeline down to Pt. Conception via Lompoc, start shooting around solar noon, break for lunch in Santa Monica, and continue down to Oceanside, where failing light and haze stop us at 4:30. We refuel and are back up airborne by 5, but that tailwind that scooted us down the coast both makes it unthinkable to take the direct and very bumpy route over the Grapevine, and a really slow journey via Santa Ynez. Refueling here, we take off into the sun that has been blinding us the whole journey back. It sinks, finally, into the sea, giving us relief from the unblockable glare, but now of course we have a number of hours to go over unlit and hilly terrain. Lit baseball fields and parking lots occasionally swim into view, but mostly it is black ground with a tiny highway threading it. Even Soledad Prison's nightless expanse of sodium-lit glare is no comfort; undoubtedly the prison yards are booby-trapped against helicopter landings. The obsessive thoughts of dinner and bed are a welcome distraction from wondering about 4 what happens after entering autorotation due to an engine failure - a descent into...?

5 Seven hours at Survival Systems, Inc. Not really aviation, but very relevant to it. SSI trains you what to do when one of those unthinkable moments happens, and that single-engine water crossing you're doing turns out to be a really bad idea. We started (somewhat late, due to a miscommunication) in ground school, with a thorough, well-paced discussion of what to do to survive the Crash. Included was a video of a real crash, with a discussion by a survivor, demonstrations of crash positions, emergency equipment, factors in survival, statistics, and a quiz. After lunch, we got to try out the Crash in the inpool cockpit simulator: first in an easy scenario, with smoke and fire (real in both cases) and then to getting our feet wet, getting in to the life raft and a discussion of its equipment and some scenarios. But finally it was a full-on, inverted, water-up-your nose and hold your breath, find the emergency exit handle and DON'T PANIC run. I'm an experienced swimmer, but I surfaced the first time coughing every way I knew how, barely treading water in a soggy flight suit (unless you fly in a bikini, this is what you'd be up against) and really grateful for a five-foot tow to the pool's edge by one of the supervising divers. Fortunately for everyone, practice made the following runs easier. As another diver explained, "Once your nose gets soaked with chlorinated water it can't get any worse." After a while the cross-cockpit exit, where the first exit is "jammed" and you have to get out of your seat, maneuver around to a row of seats, slide down it and work a different exit, was not, well, enjoyable, but doable. We finished the day with a few helicopter rescuebasket "rides" provided by the winch operator. Compared to being trapped in a sinking, inverted aircraft, being towed by your armpits was a lot of fun. Plus how many flight lessons end with a nice hot shower? "What's new at South County Airport?" Topic: Airport Facilities On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 at 7:00 PM Location: Wings of History Museum, South County Airport Murphy Ave San Martin, CA Runway extension, new AWOS transmitter, repaved taxiway and ramps, improved fuel island, new security fencing and gate, new additional hangars. These are improvements completed or in the works under the able direction of Carl Honaker, the Director of Santa Clara County Airports. Carl will gives us an update on what's been completed and what the next scheduled items are. For more information, call Dick Chang at (408)

6 The Watsonville Regional Airport Promotional PAC Presents "Saving Your Airport." Saturday, November 4, 2006 Green Valley Bar & Grill, Watsonville, CA No Host Bar 6:00 PM Buffet Dinner served at 7:00 PM Ed Rosiak, President of the California Pilots Association (CPA), will be the speaker at the Watsonville Region Airport Promotion (WRAP-PAC) dinner this year. The Q & A at the end gives will give you chance to get some specific questions discussed. 6 Reservations for this PAC fund-raiser dinner can be secured by your $50.00 per dinner contribution. Checks should made out to: "WRAP" and sent to: Dan Chauvet, 147 Mesa Verde Drive, Watsonville, CA Reservations required by November 1, 2006.

7 Chapter dues are $15. Make check payable to Monterey Bay 99s and send to Theresa Levandoski-Byers, P.O. Box 924, Freedom CA If you don t see your name here, you haven t paid for the year (beginning July 06) Gabrielle Adelman Earline Arnold Laura Barnett Sarah Chauvet Donna Crane-Bailey Geneva Cranford Kryss Crocker Carolgene Dierolf Mary Doherty Carolyn Dugger Kay Harmon Jeanne Hendrickson Carol Hill Dell Hinn Mona Kendrick Theresa Levandoski-Byers Theresa Mantz Joanne Nissen Zoe Dell Nutter Kendra Pugmire Jody Roberts Mary Saylor Michaele Serasio Jill Smith Alice Talnack Dena Taylor Pat York Member Activities Sarah Chauvet Kryss Crocker Mary Doherty Stefanie Gates Kay Harmon Amber Howard Theresa L-Byers Jody Roberts Michaele Serasio Dena Taylor Checked out in Mooney HAF, PRB Flight in Stinson Completed IOE at SkyWest Airlines; passed FE written! Started PPLI SOPA Airport Commission CJI Recurrent, charter trips; started PPLI Reno Air Races Studying for checkride; started PPLI Taxi at SNS, no fly Lessons, WVI; Wings seminar on Night Flying Get your wings from AOPA! Go to asf/online_courses/ 7

8 Monterey Bay Chapter 99s c/o Dena Taylor Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Dr. Aptos CA Mailing Address Goes Here Oct. 18, MB99s Chapter Meeting, 7pm, WVI See page 1 October 28, 2006 WVI Open House November 9-11, 2006 AOPA, Palm Springs February 24, 2007 Flying Companion Seminar, WVI May 18-19, 2007 Spring Section Meeting, Santa Maria September 7, 2007 International 99s Convention, Denver CO Fall, Fall Section Meeting, Santa Clara Spring, Spring Section Meeting, Palm Springs