Social Hour. Inside This Issue... MARCH. April. Join us this Wednesday at 6pm (We are trying something new, during the winter months) PREZ SEZ

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1 Volume 30 Issue 3 2nd Place McKillop Award 1996 & 1999 March 2018 PREZ SEZ By Tim Sullivan Another month! With miracle March in full swing most of us are grounded. With this spare time we still work on our planes, plan our next flight adventure, clean the hangar, annuals, condition inspections, hangar flying and other aviation related non-flying activities. My contribution to the non-flying aviation related activities included a trip to Santa Rosa airport with Dick Wampach on March 10th to attend the EAA leadership boot camp (Boot picture below). While there were no push-ups, chin-ups or 5 miles hikes with a ruck sack. We did learn one heck of a lot about what EAA has put together for us leaders that will help the chapter mostly to better run chapter business behind the scenes. One of the recommendations from the boot that we will implement now is to change the content of the general meeting. We will no longer be talking business during the meeting, you can read all about that in our newsletter which has the board meeting minutes. This will free up more time for programs talking about aviation more AND we will start the meetings informally at 6PM for socializing just like we do during picnic season. We may even put on a nice video during that time. So, come up to the airport anytime between 6 and 7pm and chat with your fellow members, the regular meeting as always will start promptly at 7PM. We will dispense with the general meeting break and go right into the program for the day. We hope you enjoy the program change. Your board will be working hard the next month or so with a whole bunch of new assignments to help our chapter grow and prosper. Stay dry! - Tim Social Hour Join us this Wednesday at 6pm (We are trying something new, during the winter months) 6 IMC/VMC Meeting 7:00pm 14 Board Meeting 7:00pm 21 Monthly Meeting 7:00pm April 3 IMC/VMC Meeting 7:00pm 11 Board Meeting 7:00pm 18 Monthly Meeting 7:00pm Social Hour MARCH 6:00pm *All events at the EAA Hangar unless noted Inside This Issue... Calendar of Upcoming Events 1 From the President 1 Membership Meeting Info 2 Leadership 2 BOD Minutes (attached to the bottom Events & Activities 3... Disclaimer: The Hangtown Strobe is the official publication of the Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 512 of Placerville, California for the use, education and enjoyment of chapter members and others to whom it is provided. NO claim is made, NO responsibility and NO liability is assumed, expressed or implied as to the accuracy or safety of material presented. Use of information, ideas, etc. presented here is done so at the risk of the user with recourse to no one.

2 MARCH 2018 The Hangtown Strobe Page Young Eagle & Eagles Save the Dates! June 9th October 13th Sign-ups on our website Chapter Board of Directors: President: Tim Sullivan (530) timpvf@pacbell.net Past Pres: Rob Bulaga (916) rbulaga@sbcglobal.net Vice President: Jim Wilson (916) james.wilson.consulting@gmail.com 1st Tuesday of the Month 7pm 8pm The EAA Hangar Save the Dates... Spread the news for the 2018 Pancake Breakfasts. April to October Thank you to all our volunteers! Secretary: Kim Stein (916) dksfly@comcast.net Treasurer: Al Herron (530) herronpvf@sbcglobal.net General Directors: Dick Wampach: (530) rwampach@att.net John McPherson : (530) jgmcplt@pacbell.net Chapter Committee Chairmen: Membership : Al Herron (530) herronpvf@sbcglobal.net Young Eagles: Kim Stein (916) dksfly@comcast.net Webmaster: Kim Stein (916) dksfly@comcast.net Newsletter Editor: Kim Stein (916) dksfly@comcast.net We Want Your Batteries! Hal is collecting batteries for recycling. Scholarship Chair : New committee EAA Flight Advisors: Hal Stephens (530) , (530) (cell) aerohal@comcast.net EAA Technical Counselor / IMC & VMC / FAASTeam Coordinator: Dick Wampach: (530) rwampach@att.net We are no longer taking metal, please let people know to not drop off metal at the hangar.

3 MARCH 2018 The Hangtown Strobe Page 3 Monthly Board of Directors Meeting Minutes are now located at the end of the newsletter. RECAP By Kim Stein UPGRADE TRAINING / DOWNGRADE TRAINING By Dick Wompach From time to time we have the opportunity to move up in the world of aviation. It s only natural to want to fly in something different than what we are used to doing and share with friends. As kids we did it. We went from the Red Rider wagon to a Tricycle, on to a Bicycle, and perhaps even on to a powered Scooter or Motorcycle. At age 15 I bought my first car for $35 bucks, a 1939 Chevy---Oh no, I couldn t drive it till I turned 16, but hey I was moving on up! I started flying in 66, a Cessna 140 at Santa Monica (SMO) and occasionally in the clubs 170, (a mighty big difference). After the check ride I moved up to even bigger and better a With a full panel and gyros. Two modern transceivers. You didn t even have to pull out the whistle stop button and crank the receiver get the tone to be on frequency-great modern stuff! For the next few years I built time. As VA monies became available, I got my Commercial, Instrument, Multiengine and Flight Instructor Airplane and Instrument ratings along with flying a number of other make and model planes, (Pipers, Beech, bigger Cessna s all the way up to a late 60 s 210). Due to cut backs in the industry I changed jobs from airlines to general aviation in 1979, starting out as Service Manager for a small Cessna dealer, and got some factory maintenance schooling on the fleet. Dang, I am getting pretty good at this general aviation stuff! Or so I thought! On the downwind the tower called me with a strong authoritative voice (in my words) HEY DUMMY UP THERE IN THE P-210 ARE YOU ALL RIGHT? YOU LOOK AWFULLY LOW! HAVING ANY PROBLENS? I was busy looking for a power setting that would hold pattern altitude in this big old hunk of iron and did not realize that the 600 feet I had dropped to was not leaving either one of us comfortable. With his persuasive hint, I pushed the throttle up to The rest went well and I landed with no problem. As I was climbing back to pattern altitude, I saw the burned-out area where another pilot had not been so lucky a few months earlier, and thus the reason for the controller s concern. Back home I asked the chief instructor (& charter pilot) for some time with him and upgrade training. He gave me some numbers to fly by. We visited quite often, I even got a check out in a 421C. The next 360+ different Cessna 210 s that I flew went a lot smoother for me. So many kinds of radios, auto pilots and new gadgets. I found these frequent mini upgrade seminars were very helpful. Recently I listened to a pilot tell our group about a first flight in a Cessna 150 that she had just bought. Whistle awaiting its delivery, and having not flown for a long time, she got 5 hours of dual in a Continued on page 3 One day the new boss said to me, can you take that P-210 over to Orange County airport and return it to the owner. He was very busy. Sure, why not, I had been there many times before in my 172 when I got my SEL ATP rating in it, and that s just another airplane, isn t it!!

4 MARCH 2018 The Hangtown Strobe Page 4 UPGRADE TRAINING / DOWNGRADE TRAINING Continued from page 2 instructors are up to flying with steam gages. As a new group of instructors coming up about every five years or so some experience is lost. Back to the 150. She flew the airplane first and then dealt with the emergency. She put the flap knob up but they did not move. It did climb out at about 100 feet per minute, a pretty impressive rate for that 100 hp O-200. After the second go-around most of the electrical load was turned off, and she discovered the flaps had come back to the up position on their own and a safe landing was made. I will bet that the alternator would have reset if the master switch had been cycled to off and on, as per the emergency check list, but perhaps she was a bit busy to find it and read it in the dark! 152. We all know is a very similar airplane, isn t it! Just a minor engine change from the Continental O -200 to a Lycoming O-235. Just 8 more hp. I applaud her for her getting back in the air with a very positive attitude about aviation safety. Perhaps the instructor did not even know the subtle differences of the two aircraft: The 12-volt electrical system with a HI voltage trip warning light, instead of the 24-volt low voltage warning light, A flap toggle switch instead of a pre-select system as on all later Cessna singles. Her first flight turned out to be a night flight, but she was current. Entering the traffic pattern at the destination, an unfamiliar airport, with hills around, then the loss of electrical power just after the first notch of flaps was put in (which placed them at 40*). (First difference, the flap system is not the familiar pre-select system just learned, but an electric toggle switch with a knob that feels similar to that of the 152). And then the radios and lights went dead. If that wasn t enough, the airport lighting quit which had been remotely actuated by clicking the mic a few minutes earlier. We all talk about up-grading to the latest and greatest, the newer systems and the airplanes themselves, we don t often look back at older technology. I have to say 99% of the time the newer improved technology is better. So, I now offer my opinion here. Going back to something from the past, it is just as important to know the way it was back then and have a though check out when you do DOWNGRADE TRAINING. Ask your check out pilot if he/she is knowledgeable about all those subtle little differences. I have to wonder if many of our new Dick Wampach is a pilot SEL-ATP, COMM-MEL, SES, CFII, A/P Mechanic with IA, EAA Tech Councilor, FAASTeam rep & hosts IMC- VMC meetings. rwampach@att.net Prace1st Tuesday of the Month 7pm 8pm We have added the VMC Club, for non -instrument rated pilots who want to improve their proficiency. This is an excellent new resource all pilots should take advantage of. You will get Wings credits for attend either or both programs.

5 MARCH 2018 The Hangtown Strobe Page 5 Where is Waldo? This past month Tim and Dick took time out of their busy schedules to attend the EAA Boot Camp...Can you find them in the photo above??? I bet not both, but I have it on a reliable source they were both there...don t ask me why Waldo can t be found. Why did they go you ask???? They did it for US!!! EAA s Chapter Leadership Boot Camps are one day courses focused on making you a better chapter leader so that you can have a better chapter. These one day, interactive sessions are focused on topics important to you as chapter leaders. Some of the topics they cover are: Recruiting and retaining members; Marketing; Tax exempt status; Fundraising; Media & public relations; Young Eagles; Insurance and risk management; EAA chapter resources. The boot camp also provides an excellent opportunity to network with other chapter leaders as well as interact with EAA chapter office staff. UAS Airspace Integration: Friend or Foe? March 14, As technology involved in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), commonly known as drones, continues to speed forward, one of most important questions for the FAA, general aviation, and even commercial air travel involves what effect it will have on the national airspace system. Last week s UAS Symposium in Baltimore, Maryland, brought news that FAA is drafting a four-tier approach to remote identification for drones, in an attempt to handle the multitude of sizes and uses of drones in use now and in the future. This proposal could cause headaches for model aircraft enthusiasts and be a potential harbinger of how the FAA would handle drone integration with low-altitude manned aircraft. One such example is a proposal that would require nearly all remotely operated UAS devices to have the electronic equivalent of an N-number. Such remote identification would also potentially encompass radio-control aircraft that have been operating safely for decades in designated flight areas and under Academy of Model Aeronautics safety guidelines. Click here to continue reading

6 MARCH 2018 The Hangtown Strobe Page Ground School Students Kudos to chapter member Rolf Konstad, CFI, the ground school instructor again this year. We enrolled a near record 32 students from seventeen to seventy something, new pilots to rusty pilots. Students come with great enthusiasm as they pursue their flying journey. Chapter members are encouraged to come at the beginning of class for coffee and donuts and introduce yourself to students and potential chapter recruits. Meeting starts Saturday at 9 AM. Hay You Can Always Go AROUND...Some tricky flying her, I chose the lower quality video vs. the one with tragic ending. Click here

7 Upcoming Events: Other Local and National Aviation Events Lincoln Airport Display Days, monthly every 3rdSaturday. Placerville Arprt EAA 512 Pancake Breakfast, 1st Saturday each month, April thru October Visit their website calendar for other Cameron Park Display Days, 2nd Saturday each month, for historic tax exempt aircraft. Call Jeff Robertson for sign-ups. Sun & Fun Int l Fly-In April 10-15, 2018 AirVenture (Oshkosh) July 23-29, 2018

8 Meeting called to order at: 6:30 PM by: Tim Sullivan EAA Chapter 512 Monthly Board of Directors March 14, 2018 Minutes Board Members Present: Tim sullivan, President Present Jim Wilson, Vice President Present Al Herron, Treasurer Present Kim Stein, Secretary Dick Wampach, General Director John McPherson, General Director Business from the Floor No business CHAPTER BUSINESS (Old & New) Board Member & Committee Reports Tim Sullivan President To do s from leadership boot camp Update pancake breakfast cards with correct website URL. Kim (wait for new EAA phone number) Update general chapter cards with correct website URL remove STEM, CAP reference and new phone number. Kim (wait for new EAA phone number) Old website appears to have been hijacked, Tim will work with George to see if we can redirected to new website. Kim was not able to get into old site to do this when she took over. -George & Tim Update website (new phone number see below) - Tim Set up EAA generic phone number and address. Tim Update Facebook page with correct website. Jason & Tim Sign up for Flight Squid beta: membership, YE registration. Tim & Al EAA recommends the following path - YE to Student membership to sporty learn to fly to first flight lesson programs by EAA. - Kim Order 50 membership tags with labels. Can print on the spot when new members sign up. -Al Canvas membership to see if Wednesday night is still the best night to meet. EAA says Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are the most common. Survey Monkey. (towards end of the year) Add social hour before regular meeting 6-7PM, maybe some video as available, possibly add food to social hour rather than snacks at mid break. Already do this with the picnic, but we will implement during the winter months. We will start in April 2018 Add once a month, a Saturday BBQ, will implement this summer. Connect with Mt. Democrat on regular aviation articles and ads. John M. Check EAA main website for current info on 512 eaa.org chapter sources - Tim Chapter handbook. Tim will look for it Review bylaws. We can propose a draft and EAA will review before voting at general meeting. - Tim, Jim, Al and Kim Have EAA make chapter posters for event posting at airports. To be used for events. Coordinators will do as needed. EAA prints special event large banner for about $22. Chapter blasts for events. EAA can send out an event announcement within our specified areas inviting all EAA members in the area to an event (30 day notice if possible). Statistically there are many more people who belong to EAA and not our chapter in the area. We get x3 per year. Board needs to approve use. Kim made a motion for Pancake Breakfast to be submitted for one of the three EAA press releases to a wide spread area, 2nd, passed. Kim & Jim (end of March) Every ground school student to get EAA Membership 6-month trial and we should extend that to our chapter as well. Jim. Al made motion if someone signs up for a new member free 6month trial National membership, we will extend a free membership for the remainder of that year. 2 nd, motion approved. If you see someone outside the fence invite them inside and talk/walk them around. They maybe have never been given the chance to see planes up close. Future members can be captured. -All Jacket Donated by Jerry Manthy. Starting bid $100. Picture taken with model. To be silent actioned off at a future general meeting. No bids at this time. Movie night: Glenn is leading the effort. Tim sent an to Glenn asking for details (2/19). Waiting on Glenn to get back to him. Internet at hangar Tim will purchase a unit as approved by the board. $150 including a cable. Tim presented costs for Calnet per their website. See below for pricing. Kim will look into hot spot.

9 Tim to ask Doug Delapp about his service Chapter EAA Administration March: File Statement of Information with Secretary of State, Al to get with Tim and complete. Apr File 501c3 forms with IRS, FTB, & Attorney General (Al/Tim) Jul Appoint auditor/reviewer (Al) Sep Select nominating committee Oct Hold Officer s election Dec File Chapter Membership and Insurance Renewal (Tim) Jim Wilson - Vice President Meeting Programs Rob knows of a guy (Jerry Manthey) that may be willing to speak. Tim to work on ADSB presentation and Mike Melville (May, June or July) Will show Chapter videos as time allows Judi and Glenn Gordon potential on report of airplane issues Month March Program Janet Denton ATP, with Sky West Fix or replace the heaters, and fix the fluorescent, balance the ceiling fans Dick purchased new lights and are installed, need a new ballast for one. Jim to purchase new ballast for broken fixtures. Need to work on east side. Jim and Bob have secured kitchen by installing wire mesh on back side of cabinet. They are in the wall too. No Styrofoam or food in cabinets. Anything they can eat will go into Totes. Dale replaced broken line (froze). Heater on west side needs to be replaced. Dick will look into cost to purchase forced air unit and installation. Tim to work with Jim on balancing the fans. Ground School students attending as of the 5th week. Jerry will speak at noon. Conflict with April pancake breakfast. Jim will make alternate arrangements Discussing Financial incentive for students. Dick to look into EAA National. Jim will do a sign up for Eagle Flights to all ground school students on April 21 & April 28. Jim to contact County to get.25 off gas on our Pancake breakfast days. Pancake breakfast Kim/Dan Stein Secretary Begins Saturday, April 7 th (Ground school meets in Hal s hangar) Farmers Brothers will deliver 6 bags of pancake mix. Jim will place for Cash & Carry. Minimum order $ hour turn around. Tim and Kim can pick up items as needed. Looking for outside contacts (Colleges etc for ) Web Site: YE page has been updated. Strobe Newsletter scheduled to be released on Saturday 3/17/18 Eagle Flights: June 9 and Oct 13, will advertise for staff in the next months Chapter Gear working on a March custom order to be handed out at next general meeting if information is received from vendor in time. Al Herron Treasurer Membership: 2017 end 44; right now 38 membership have renewed Accounts: As of 3/14/18 General Checking (Nonprofit Checking) $10, General Savings (Business Savings - *9961) $ 2, Airport Vandalism Fund (Business Savings - *5504) $ 3,221.99

10 Scholarship CD (Time Deposit) $ 4, Scholarship/Award Chking (Business Basics Chking) $ April - Al needs coverage for Treasurer. Tim or Kim have volunteered. Jim needs cash box for pancake breakfast and will try to get online banking set up before he leaves. Dick Wampach - General Director IMC/VMC Club First Tues of month: 7pm VMC & 8pm IMC at the hanger FAASTeam: Wings Credit at these events John McPherson - General Director: taking on Mt. Democrat liaison Board Actions: Kim made a motion for Pancake Breakfast to be submitted for one of the three EAA press releases to a wide spread area, 2 nd, passed. Kim & Jim (end of March) Al made motion, if someone signs up for a new member free 6month trial National membership, we will extend a free membership for the remainder of that year. 2 nd, motion approved. Meeting adjourned at 8:35 PM by: Tim Sullivan