Monterey Bay 99s established August 14, 1965

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1 Monterey Bay 99s established August 14, 1965 Alice Talnack, past chapter chair, Stella Leis, and Theresa Levandoski-Byers at the 99s International Conference in Washington D.C. While reconnecting with old friends, Alice & Theresa had the pleasure of connecting with Stella, one of our past Monterey Bay Chapter members. She is currently a member of the San Antonio Chapter in the South Central Section. Stella was interested in how everyone is doing. She asked about friends, Geneva Cranford, Ann Hale-Sanchez, and Dell Hinn. She would love to hear from anyone in our Chapter. Her contact information is in the current directory or can be accessed through the 99s International website. What s Inside PPT 2 Prop Wash 3 EAA meeting 3 Air Safety course 3 South of the Equator By Gabrielle Adelman 4 Chapter Dues 7 Member Activities 7 Calendar 8 August Chapter Meeting The August meeting will begin at 7pm at the EAA hangar on Wed., Aug. 16. 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 Michaele Serasio, 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 Michaele Serasio 135 Nissen Road Salinas, CA ( )

3 PROP WASH By Sarah Chauvet July s meeting got off to a fun start as we learned something new about each of our members present as part of their introduction. What a talented group we are!! We have an author (5 books); a new medical; a 35 th wedding anniversary; great-grand children; plans to resume flying; fun vacations and more. It was great to have one of our favorite instructors with us. Jill Smith answered many questions during the Fly the Bay Tour presentation. Thanks to Jody Roberts who will be the Hospitality Chair; Alice Talnack is taking on Legislative Chair; Carolyn Dugger is Publicity Chair. Donna Crane-Bailey will remain FWP and Membership Chair. There are some other slots that need to be filled so talk to me about them. Lastly, I want to thank Mary Doherty who, on July 19 th, prior to our regular meeting, spent a couple of HOT, HOT hours helping me get set up for the evening meeting. Mary s expertise with things computer is awesome and so I tend to depend on her more than I should. She never says No and I am most appreciative. Let s go fly and have fun! Sarah Chauvet You are invited to attend the Sept. 5th meeting of the EAA Chapter 119. The speaker that evening is expected to be Officer Randy Pesce of the Watsonville City Police Dept. Officer Pesce was involved in the capture of the criminals who burglarized several hangers at WVI earlier this year. The EAA 119 meets the first Tuesday of each month at 7 P.M. in the EAA hangar. The AOPA Air Safety Foundation offers a free four-minute training course on the Visual Warning System, which uses laser beams to illuminate aircraft that have strayed into the Washington D.C. ADIZ. The course includes video footage of what the light signals look like from a general aviation aircraft. The course also provides clear and straightforward advice for pilots who are illuminated by the beams. The Visual Warning System online minicourse is free and available to all pilots online ( This website offers several other courses that you might be interested in viewing. 3

4 South of the Equator By Gabrielle Adelman In a way you can say our journey to the Galapagos started in August of We had gotten back from our third cruise in Alaska a couple of months before, and had enjoyed the combination of the ability to fly ourselves there (an adventure and a way to avoid the headache of commercial travel), the vastness and health of the wild lands, and the luxury of a small cruise ship with naturalists on board. We wanted to have the experience again, but a fourth trip to the same place? Looking at the other cruises offered by Lindblad, the cruise company we liked best of the three we had used, we saw there was one to the Galapagos. That sounded like a place as wild and interesting as Alaska. One thing we had learned early on is with small ships, is that it's best to book really early; the rooms we like go almost immediately. I asked about a date in The earliest that we could reserve a cruise at this time would be in And in early January 2005 I did, and got the only 2 rooms available in the size I wanted. Score! Now we had to figure out how to get there. A year and a half to do your flight planning is a great luxury. We could ask friends of ours about their experiences flying around Mexico and Central America. We could, during our semiannual trips to FlightSafety, request the actual plates for airports we were likely to use, fly those approaches, and talk to pilots based in South America about the way people really fly down there. The huge amount of time available also helped with a couple of (otherwise) show-stoppers along the way, such as: THERE IS NO RELIABLE FUEL SERVICE IN THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. So you ship it yourself. We had time to find this out, discuss logistics with a friend of ours who flies to Galapagos frequently, set up with a friend of his to ship out the fuel which we had purchased from another friend of his, purchase, test, return, and test again a fuel pump, purchase and test a fuel filter, figure out an appropriate bribe for the people who needed to look the other way for this to happen, and buy those two cartons of cigarettes. THE BALTRA AIRPORT IS CLOSED WHEN OUR SHIP SAILS. This we already had made general provisions for, on Jill's advice. She suggested at least one additional travel day between arriving on the islands and embarking on the ship, and we took the opportunity to set up a couple of days of diving while we were there. So when this was sprung on us with a week's notice, we had no problem working around it. Finally we had it all lined up like a big row of dominos and it just remained to tip the first one over. On Tuesday, May 16th, we made our takeoff from Watsonville for Cozumel, the first turn of which was a wide sweep over the edge of the Pacific. The next time we'd see this ocean would be at the Panama Canal Wednesday. We leave Cozumel. Wilma's marks are still apparent, from the brand-new airport tower to the upsidedown Cessna in the weeds. Panama is a mess of thunder- 4

5 storms, but it's also our fuel stop. Jill, who learned to fly in the Rockies, takes over this leg and finds the clear path through the three-dimensional maze of violent clouds. The fuel gauges fail on the way to Guayaquil, but fix themselves en route. There must have been some rain in the fuel; it was certainly everywhere else. Thursday. Our third overwater leg, and our last of the journey out. By now we are used to being wished goodbye for an hour without radar or radio contact. It's not like there's anyone out there to hit; other than a couple of aircraft flown by Tame, AeroGal, or Icaro, the three airlines that fly this route every day, we hear almost no other traffic. The isolation of the islands extends for hundreds of miles in every direction. Friday - Saturday. Are we really here? Are we really about to fall backwards off this dive boat and hope that this ragged-looking equipment and rusty air bottle keep working? Too late, we're already in the water, and a marine turtle is looking right at us. Wow. It doesn't ever stop, here. You sit at the fine new hotel with the modern, European design and instead of sparrows or pigeons hopping about there are Darwin finches and iguana. Then the sun sets and a whole new set of constellations is in the sky. After eight years studying astronomy I can finally look at the familiar figure of the Southern Cross and it's not inside, in a book, it's gliding between clouds. Wow. Monday. I swore once I'd never get up before dawn for anything other than a checkride, but climbing to the top of Bartolome before the equatorial heat made it a chore was worth it. Fellow Russell Crowe fans, this is the scene in Master and Commander where the French ship is sighted. Tuesday. We see tortoises as old as San Francisco that weigh more than a Kitfox, and tomatoes growing wild. Plus a lava tube to hike through. Sunday. The Islander may be a ship to humans, but to the sea lion sprawled on the dive platform as we pull up, it's a loud, moving rock. Seeing these animals everywhere, barking on docks, stuffed under tour buses for the shade, zipping around like sport cars underwater, I think the Spanish name of "sea wolf" more appropriate. Fat, lazy lions these aren't. Wednesday. Seeing the flightless cormorants flash by underwater, and seeing penguins do the same two days ago, you see they haven't given anything up, just switched realms. Thursday. We hike around a volcanic crater so new it's still smoking from being brought up from the 5

6 Earth's mantle. Later we take a boardwalk stroll through a shallow swamp that looks and smells like it should only be home to some miserable biting insects but instead boasts gorgeous pink & black flamingos, one of which shows off for us. Friday. We see the tractor-marks the marine turtles make when they haul up on the sand to lay eggs, and their nests, carefully marked off so that 120,000 tourists a year don't break the eggs. We hope the rest of the islands can withstand these latest arrivals. Goat eradication is one of the current campaigns. Saturday. The Galapagos albatross is one of the smallest albatrosses, but from five feet away (the typical distance a Galapagos bird feels comfortable with) you can see why Coleridge chose it as a symbol of the weight of regret and sin. It's a huge bird, built for distance. Sunday - Tuesday. We leave after breakfast, but not before I get a singing birthday-cake sendoff. The northern journey is just the southern done in reverse, but it begins with the "impossible" refueling we had put so much planning into - which turns out to go the smoothest of any of our refueling stops. The only delay was that we couldn't pump any fuel during the arrival of the one daily commercial flight to San Cristobal, but that only stops us for about fifteen minutes. In Ecuador we visit the artisan's market, a tip from a UPS pilot we met on the trip out; in Panama it is still raining without a break; in Cozumel we feel like we're almost home, it being our third time there this year; and Watsonville has hardly changed in two weeks, but we have changed a lot, and take a few days to get used to "reality" again. Or, as Rachel said, "Maybe reality is what we left in Galapagos." 6

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) Laura Barnett Sarah Chauvet Donna Crane-Bailey Geneva Cranford Kryss Crocker Mary Doherty Carolyn Dugger Jeanne Hendrickson Theresa Levandoski-Byers Theresa Mantz Mary Saylor Michaele Serasio Jill Smith Alice Talnack Dena Taylor Pat York Member Activities Sarah Chauvet Kryss Crocker Mary Doherty Jeanne Macchiaverna Teri Mantz Jody Roberts Michaele Serasio Jill Smith Alice Talnack Dena Taylor Fly the Bay Tour Calaveras Co.; local Worked on 99s display at Salinas terminal; EAA meeting Flygirl (solo soon) Two safety seminars (San Carlos & Watsonville); solo cross-country KPRB on 7/7! Getting closer to taking written & checkride for Private Studying for written; preparing for night cross-country SNA Coast WVI SNS Dominican Republic; Orange County 99s Int l conf., Washington D.C.; Washington Tracon Center Lessons, WVI; safety seminar in San Carlos 7

8 Monterey Bay Chapter 99s c/o Dena Taylor Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Dr. Aptos CA Mailing Address Goes Here August 11-13, 2006 Palms to Pines Air Race Aug. 16, MB99s Chapter Meeting, 7pm, WVI See page 1 September 21-23, 2006 Northwest and Southwest Joint Section Meeting Ashland, OR October 28, 2006 WVI Open House November 9-11, 2006 AOPA, Palm Springs 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