Next Meeting April 13 th at 10:00 AM at Hartford Airport Pilot s Lounge Next Newsletter Submission Deadline: April 30 th

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1 April 2013 EAA Ultralight Chapter 1 Issue (Garmin) 396 Ice flying in spring is great fun! As long as you don t fall through the ice like John Heller, that is... See inside for more info. Photos by Tom McCarthy Microlite Flyers President Treasurer / Membership Steve Magdic Tom Corso N71 W27015 Meadow Wood Ln N Lovers Lane Rd #16 Sussex, WI Milwaukee, WI (262) (262) stevemagdic@wi.rr.com tom@tcorso.net Vice-President James Hoeppner 9911 N. McCord Rd Whitewater, WI (262) james@hoeppner.net Secretary Lee Taylor 9911 N. McCord Rd Whitewater, WI (262) d_lee_taylor@yahoo.com Director At Large Bob Sullivan 7376 Bay St. Lannon, WI (262) bsully1927@aol.com Newsle er Editor Corey Cassavant 4171 S. 1st St. Milwaukee, WI (414) cassavac@gmail.com Safety / Ops Jerry LaBlanc (262) Young Eagles Chairperson Geri Zaretzke 4720 Martha Lane Pewaukee WI (414) Web Master Herb Benton (414) herbbenton@gmail.com Website! Merchandise themicrolitestore Next Meeting April 13 th at 10:00 AM at Hartford Airport Pilot s Lounge Next Newsletter Submission Deadline: April 30 th

2 President s Perspective Hello all. This update comes to you at the end of March and brings with it more cold and snow. I can no longer wait to get started on my aviation projects. These include the Chapter s simulator, my Super and several other smaller ones I have in the works. Cold or not, I m forging ahead. I will need to set a date and time to get some volunteer Chapter members together to evaluate the damage to our Chapter plane. We will review options to strengthen the wooden airframe, replace broken or missing parts and re -paint. These all need to be completed by our AirVenture work day. Since our next meeting is scheduled for SATURDAY APRIL 13 th at the Hartford Municipal Airport, we can plan to take a drive to my hanger after that meeting to initiate a game plan to move forward. Please attend if you d like to be involved. Work continues on creating more opportunities for our Chapter members through local resources for first flights, primary flight training, transition training and type specific training. I have struck a conversation with Dana Osmanski with Cub Air Flight. Cub Air operates out of Hartford Municipal and provides all of the aforementioned opportunities and much more. We will work to put together more details of these resources and share them in an upcoming issue of our newsletter and website. I look forward to helping providing Chapter 1 members with more local options for discovery flights, ground and flight training in LSA or GA categories and beyond. I d like to thank all of the Chapter 1 members that were able to attend the 20 th anniversary of the Wisconsin Light Aviation Safety Seminar up in Oshkosh last month. We had a great turnout in spite of some bad weather the night before. Our speaker line up and topics kept everyone s attention and interest focused. The door prizes and big ticket items were also a big hit as usual. Next year s seminar isslated to be even better thanks to the hard work of the Seminar Board members and our awesome sponsors! Please plan to join us next year in Oshkosh. You will not be disappointed. Work continues on the revised Ultralight grounds layout for AirVenture A new 10 foot fence, paved service road and drainage ditch will be installed around the airport perimeter by this year s event date. This will cut off some Ultralight campground space and aircraft parking if we don t rearrange our current grounds layout. A preliminary drawing has been submitted and we ll gain access to the grounds early this spring to measure and mark the new plan. There are many other grounds changes coming this year as well. Some of these apply to the types and cost of food and beverages available on the grounds, relocation of a few key landmark buildings and added attractions. I just read last week that EAA is adding a second night air show this year due to its immense popularity. Stay tuned for more updates as time ticks by. Warmer weather is coming. Soon it ll be time to do those springtime pre-flights. You should start with doing one on yourself. Once you are sure that YOU are ready to fly, do a thorough pre-flight on your aircraft. Replace that old gas in the tank. Squeeze those fuel lines. Pull on the brackets, pulleys, knobs, levers, wires and wings. Make sure that you didn t leave off on some unfinished business on the airplane when that cold winter weather set in last year. Get out there and fly but do it the smart, safe way. Here is the list of proposed FAA Contract Tower Closures set to start on April 7th due to the recent Sequester cuts to the budget: CWA - CENTRAL WISCONSIN- MOSINEE WI EAU - CHIPPEWA VALLEY RGNL - EAU CLAIRE ENW - KENOSHA RGNL - KENOSHA WI JVL - SOUTHERN WI RGNL - JANESVILLE WI LSE - LA CROSSE MUNI - LA CROSSE WI MWC - TIMMERMAN - MILWAUKEE WI OSH - WITTMAN RGNL - OSHKOSH WI UES - WAUKESHA COUNTY - WAUKESHA WI If you currently fly out of any one of these airports, please keep up on the status of your Control Tower. You will be flying and communication via CTAF only in class E airspace once that tower closes. I doubt any of these closures will be permanent but we won t know for sure for some time to come. Here are a few upcoming local events you may wish to attend to get your fly juices flowing: Saturday, April 6 th EAA Chapter 1158 Pancake Breakfast (7 10AM) West Bend WI. See the EAA Calendar of Events web page for more info. Saturday, April 13 th Steve Wittman Birthday Fly- In Breakfast (7:30 11AM) Wittman Airport Terminal All you can eat pancakes! Go to for more info. Hope to see you at the next meeting! Steve M. President - EAA Ultralight Chapter #1 Page 2

3 Safety Seminar Review. It was another interes ng Saturday at the Safety Seminar. I am not sure why I s ll have a lot of interest in the Safety Seminar, being that I have pre y much hung up being a pilot due to old age and medical condi ons. This is about as good of an excuse that I can muster up at this me. Being that I have loved avia on all my life, whether as a pilot or just being around airplanes, provokes me to a end these mee ngs in trying to keep up with some of the changes in avia on safety. Hey, if there is no other reason for me to a end these safety events, selling ckets with Suzy Brown has been fun. Suzy always seems to out sell me by adver sing free hugs to those who buy ckets from her. I try to convince prospec ve raffle cket buyers to buy from me by claiming I have the winning ckets. Well my claims that I have the winning ckets were proven when I won the raffle for a free 3,000 glider flight. WOW!! I am looking forward to that, but I want to wait un l the weather is a lot warmer to fully enjoy the ride. Rumor has it that the heaters in those gliders really don't produce much heat, except when you re taking lessons and errors by the student pilot causes more warmth in the cockpit while listening to the screams of his instructor I am not taking any lessons, so I will wait for the warmer natural weather rather then an over heated cockpit by my taking lessons. Think Summer. - by Ed Haberl Flying the frozen lakes in spring (from cover). Every year I look forward to that late spring me when the snow is melted off the lakes leaving unlimited landing areas for our li le planes. On Thursday 3/28/13, I met up with John Heller and his famous "Di lefutz" for some low flying, thrilling, frozen lake scenery in Jefferson County. We landed on several lakes together to compare notes, and laugh at the ice fisherman. The weather was perfect and the ice was OK for landing most anywhere, except where springs were present or snow had piled up, we just kept our eyes open for where the lakes were heaving and the drilled holes le by the fisherman. My favorite me is when the lakes are like glass and no snow is on top, it makes for some thrilling landings in even the lightest winds. - by Tom McCarthy Page 3

4 Secretary s Report Respectfully submitted by Lee Taylor The March 2013 meeting was called to order at 10:15 AM March 9th at Hartford Municipal Airport, Hartford, WI in the pilots lounge. Twelve members were at the meeting. Officers Present: Steve Magdic - President; James Hoeppner - Vice President; Lee Taylor - Secretary; Corey Cassavant - Newsletter Editor. Reports: Secretary: The report was approved as published. Treasurer: Steve reported $100 was donated by the club to the Wisconsin Light Aviation Safety Seminar event. Committees: Membership: Steve reported for Tom that we currently have 39 renewed members with 21 on a grace period. Newsletter: Corey still needs stories and pictures for the newsletter. Young Eagles: Bob Z. was not at the meeting. Director at Large: Bob S. was at the meeting and reported all was quiet. Web Site: Steve and Herb now have the MLF website on line and up to date. Safety Operations: Jerry LaBlanc will continue as a Safety Operation member with help from Ed Haberl. Old Business: The pedal plane project is ongoing. Wooden parts will be completed by Harold B. Steve is working to complete the metal parts. The 2 nd 2012 EAA Air Academy candidate is currently involved in flight training at Wisconsin Aviation in Watertown. Tom M. was not at the meeting. He ll be contacted for an update. The fabric on the MLF Club Training Airplane has been removed and the plane is currently in Steve s hanger. Old fiberglass and paint will be removed this winter. The plane will be restored and stored at the Red Barn at Oshkosh to be used at Air Venture each summer. The fuselage will not be recovered. MORE recipes from chapter members are still needed. Send Toni Heller your aviation related named recipes: toni.avonrep@yahoo.com or 2130 Sherman Road, Jackson, WI Toni discussed needing a minimum of 150 recipes for the cookbook. She will compile the recipes and the club could sell cookbooks as a fundraiser. This is the last call for recipes with a deadline of March 31, No application for the 2013 Air Academy was received and the contest is cancelled for this year. The chapter will ask for nominations earlier for the 2014 session. The calendar is updated through August 2013 on the MLF website. Archived newsletters will soon be available. Saturday March 16 th was the 20 th Annual Wisconsin Light Aviation Safety Seminar at EAA's AirVenture Museum, Founders Wing. Several club members were in attendance and a good time was had by all who were there. The club donated $100 to the Wisconsin Light Aviation Safety Seminar event. New Business: The next event is the Frank Luke Fly-In Saturday May 25 and Sunday May 26 at Hartford Airport. Let Steve know about the event you re hosting for The 2013 event calendar will be posted on the web site. Watch for meeting time and location changes. Corey talked about the MLF club in conjunction with EAA Ch. 18 at Timmerman Airport, hosting a ground school for a Milwaukee based Girl Scout Troop. Locations discussed were Timmerman, Racine, or Hartford Airports. Date to be determined. Incidents and Flying Reports: None. Raffle: None. Meeting adjourned at 10:50 AM The April meeting will be held Saturday April 13 th 10:00 AM at the Hartford Airport in the Pilot s Lounge. Page 4

5 AIRCRAFT WANT ADS AIRCRAFT PARTS / ACCESSORIES 2005 Zipster Biplane. 1 seat part 103 Ultralight. Rotax x28 Tennessee prop. 5 hrs TT. $ Bill Oaf (262) (1-13) Kolb Mark III for sale Rebuilt Engine Stored at Watertown airport More details to follow Asking $16,000 Doug Hardy (920) (8-11) Terra I T-Bird, New Rotax 447, Electric start, Radio, GPS, RPM, Speedometer, Doors, Skis $7600 Alfred Nelson (920) (4-11) 1994 Kolb Firestar II, N4939J Rotax 447, 140 TT, BRS, Radio, WANTED: BRS-900 Recovery Chute - Always hangared. Negotiable terms desired. Open trailer also available. Let's deal, spring s a-comin'! Asking $10,500, Make Offer Steve Magdic (262) Chuck (262) stevemagdic@wi.rr.com (3-11) Lueandchuck@hotmail.com (10-08)(3-11)(3-13) 1984 Pterodactyl Ascender 430 Cuyuna, excellent shape, always hangared, fabric tests great, never wrecked, flown weekly. Tach, EGT, radio, antenna, strobe, extra fuel tank, pure part 103 aircraft. $3200 Pat Kenny (715) (9-09)(3-11) PARTS / ACCESSORIES Rotax 503 Provision 8 engine Pull start, single carb, belt drive w/flex coupler, oiled for storage. $1500 OBO Corey Cassavant (414) (6-12) New 8.5 Gal GT500 fuel tank. 18 NPTF threads $ $11.50 ship Jerry Leslie (262) (4-12) cell (262) Hirth cylinder, fan cooled, 2 cycle, 40hp engine. Includes gearbox and 3 blade Ultraprop (tractor). Engine has less than 5 hours since new. Asking $3,000 Bill Oaf (262) (6-09)(3-11) - Aerovee Engine 1850CC Complete engine with prop hub, rebuilt and assembled - asking $1,000 - Slick 4216 magneto with shielded harness and rear mount for VW asking $400 - Single port intake system with Zenith Carb asking $100 Offers are encouraged Tom Corso (262) tomcorso@ameritech.net (3-11) Page 5

6 SPORT PILOT AND ULTRALIGHT INSTRUCTION Timmerman Airport (KMWC) in Milwaukee N-numbered Quicksilver MXL-II w/503 DCDI Primary Ultralight Training (learning to fly) Transition to Ultralights Biennial Flight Reviews Class D Sport Pilot Endorsements Corey Cassavant CFI-SP KOLB FIREFLY NOW AVAILABLE FOR RENT! $25/hr (dry) UL1 members $50/hr (dry) non-members E85 coming soon S. 1st Street Milwaukee, WI