EAA CHAPTER 119 FLIGHTLINE www.eaa119.org EAA Chapter 119, 60 Aviation Way, Watsonville Airport, Watsonville CA 95076 May 2007 Day In the Sky 2007 Just a few statistics and notes, it appears we flew more than 200 certified Young Eagles, over 30 pilots were flying, and the organization was very smooth this year. Thanks to the 99s, EAA chapter 119, and all the rest of the volunteers for their hard work. There were quite a few displays from other programs that help provide services for the children and adults here Saturday. It was great to see all of these people come together to make Saturday a great day. And the weather held up.
EAA CHAPTER 119, 60 AVIATION WAY, WATSONVILLE AIRPORT President s Corner Hello Everyone, Here we are in busy time. By the time this is published Day In The Sky will have come and gone and very likely we will be in the midst of working the B-17. Neil Brooks is working every Saturday the hangar is available with the model building group. Our first regular Young Eagle Rally for the year will be May 5th, we have a fly out scheduled for May 12th and the very next week end after that we begin our regular schedule of the monthly hamburger lunch at Tom Hoyt Park. Oh yes. We will be doing the Air Show breakfast and hot dog stand as well. This is indeed a busy time and it will require a lot of volunteer time. Sometimes I fret over having enough help but in reality we always have enough. I know that when it s needed, our members will step up. Next meeting will be of interest to you all I m sure. Bill McBride has once again managed to get Alan Brown to present. You all know Alan and know also that he is a very interesting speaker. As of now we don t have anything scheduled for the June meeting. Perhaps we could ask Brian Moffet to bring some of his poetry and do a reading. Actually there is a new Light Sport sales company opening at the Salinas Airport and they may well bring some of the airplanes and attend an upcoming meeting. Speaking of this new company, they are having an open house and fly in on April 28th. They expect to have a fleet of ten new aircraft there doing demo rides and will be serving a buffet lunch. Their general manager assured me you would all be welcome. For more information you may call Katie Mason at 831-372-2259. More on the May 12th fly out. Thanks to Dan White and Jeremy MacDonald, we know there is a new restaurant and a new museum at Pasa Robles Airport. The Santa Cruz Flying Club and the Watsonville Pilots Association are joining us for the day so it should be quite a show. Ask Dan where not to put your finger in the display jet engine. So. As previously stated, here we are in busy time. It will be busy but with a little effort, by a lot people, it 2007 Chapter 119 Officers and Position Holders President Dennis Thomas 831-479-7986 VP & Program Chairman Secretary and Membership Chairman Treasurer Director & Hangar Boss Director Director Director and Young Eagles Coordinator Young Eagles Ground Instructors Flight Advisor/ Technical Counselor Fly-In and Air Show Reps Chapter Webmaster PVAviation Academy Reps Newsletter Editor Copy Editor Jerry Olsen Neil Brooks 831-338-3543 Mary Doherty Jack Hill 831-426-3979 John Davi Dan White Bob Sliter <rasliter@cruzio.com> Russ Moody Bill Normandin 831-724-6904 831-475-9374 831-462-1194 Jack Hill 831-426-3979 Hank Wempe Dan White Ron Shannon rshannon@cruzcom.com John Davi Bob Sliter Dan White Brian Moffet <editor@eaa119.org> 831-724-5591 831-688-9260 831-688-2809 831-724-6904 831-688-9260 831-459-9294 Naomi Brokaw WordsTakeWing@skyhighway.com PAGE should be a fun time. I m hoping so and looking forward to seeing many of you out there. In the meantime, please Fly Safe. Dennis
PAGE Chapter News EAA Chapter Minutes MINUTES OF MEETING, CHAPTER 119 4/3/2007 President Dennis Thomas called the meeting to order. 38 members present. Guest: Chip Wills- his interest is in Ultra Lights. Announcements: 1. The EAA Workshop was successful and they left some gifts: Flashlights, Aircraft Spruce Catalogs and Kit Planes directory book. 2. Bob Sliter and Bill McBride performed the Airport Blvd. cleanup on 3/24. Also the barbecue at Tom Hoyt Park was held on the same day. 73 meals were sold, many to the Workshop participants. 3. B-17 ride ticket sales were discussed. 100 are to be sold @$10 ea. 4. Motion: Minutes of the previous meeting to be approved. Jim Doherty, 2nd Richard Thomas Thomas. Passed. 5. Treasurer report was given by Mary Doherty. Old Business: 1. The Day In The Sky event was discussed. It is to be held on Sat. the 21st of April. Volunteers are always needed. Dan White and Rick Regan will conduct the Young Eagle ground school prior to the flight. Bob Frisbey is to be a docent; the 99s will conduct the ramp security. Picture takers are needed. A digital camera will be provided. Pilot check in at 0800 at the WAEC. A briefing will be at 0830 and flights to start at 0900. So far 26 pilots have registered. (4 from 119) This year the EAA has set a goal of flying 10 YE s. Those doing so will receive a patch. Foster Anderson, Day in the Sky person, gave a talk. 2. B-17, Jack Hill - Eleven people have signed up to help. We need another eleven to cover all the functions. (Booth sales and escorts to the B-17. April 24 and 25 are the dates.) 3. Fly-In and Air Show - Bob Sliter introduced Leslie EAA CHAPTER 119, 60 AVIATION WAY, WATSONVILLE AIRPORT Grate who will assume the job of Judging Chairman. A long discussion was held about the awarding of various categories and if there is a need to add a few more. 4. Mary Doherty - She gave an overview of the preliminary information about the Air Show. The 99s will provide the registration, the EAA Chapter 119 will do a pancake breakfast and Hot Dog stand. The Spaghetti Dinner will be held on Friday night at the Pacific Air Care Hangar. There will be an air show on Friday night as well as fireworks. Two car clubs will have their cars on Sat. and Sun. There will be a Barbecue at the Pacific Air Care Hangar on Sat. 5. Jeff Roper - Air Show talk- there will be a good line up of performers. The Delphines, a Jet team of four planes. A F-18 flyby and hopefully the Marine Harriers. The B-17, Sentimental Journey, will be giving rides. A Cobra Helicopter demonstration, a parachute demonstration and the Three Amigos aerobatic team. 6. Jim Doherty - The rolling Boneyard is about finished. It will be at hangar Y-1. 7. Newsletter Editor - Brian Moffet said the deadline for article is April 18 8. The Watsonville Parajonian Photographer would like to fly with one of our pilots on occasion when he has a story and needs an aerial photograph. Volunteers are to contact Bob Sliter. 9. 99s Mary Doherty - The 99s will be conducting a scholarship fund raising event on Mothers Day weekend. All donations from the 10k walk will go to the scholarship fund. Mary will accept the donations. 10. PVAA - Dan Chauvet announced that they have awarded $12,000 in scholarships to five people: Laura Campbell, Elsie Hartman, Tony Fernandez, Dallas Jarvis and Zack Lutner. There was a break in the meeting followed by a talk by Larry Baker on Formation Flying. Larry and Jerry Olsen recently finished Larry s RV-10 and it is flying. The meeting was adjourned at 2100. Submitted by Neil Brooks/ Sec.
EAA CHAPTER 119, 60 AVIATON WAY, WATSONVILLE AIRPORT Many of my fellow EAA Chapter 119 members have followed the development of my Glass Primary Flight Display from concept to product, and several of you have made helpful suggestions. It is very interesting to look back at my first technical presentation given in July 2004 showing the technical advances that make solid state sensors possible, and the second presentation, in November 2005, when I demonstrated the prototype glass panel. Our RV-10, N939SB, flew in August 2006, and since then I have been making changes that improve the display during the dynamics of flight. At this time, Larry Baker is flying his RV-10 N504LB with the first production version of my glass panel components. The FAA inspector looked over the panel and remarked that it looks like a Boeing 767. Larry responded Yes, It s true and I have flown a 767. Glass Panel Update Bill DeRouchey Our web site is established at www.wtdaviationtechnology.com, and advertising has begun in Sport Aviation. When you read this, Jerry Olsen and I will have returned from Sun N Fun after showcasing all of our good work. Next shows are WVI and OSH. The prototype has matured into a significant product it s now time to grow the business. My wife, Sara, will begin her new roll as marketer so that I can focus on sales and the never ending (and fun) development. Future plans are to upgrade the prototype panel in N939SB to a production panel. Then we ll be ready to travel around to the various EAA Chapters demonstrating the panel and presenting subjects such as Building a Panel to Fit Your Mission, New World of Reliability, Creating Backup Strategies, or How to Calibrate the Glass Panel. Looking back at how well the design has met the original goals, I would give myself high points. Placing all primary flight instrumentation on a single, large, 10.4 display has dramatically reduced my scan time, providing more time to look for traffic and manage the flight. It has been a very natural transition from lots of round instruments to a single color display. Since only primary data is being displayed there are no buttons to push, the display is not cluttered, and it is straightforward and easy to understand. I can glance at the display, triggering on color for a quick health check of the airplane, or I can focus on trend information to better control the pitch or roll. PAGE From writing the very first line of code I have envisioned a design that dramatically enhances the IFR mission. After shooting all approaches in the MRY- SNS-WVI area and constantly making improvements, this goal has also been met, and there are more changes coming in the future. Sometimes one gets so ingrained in a procedure that it is difficult to visualize improvements. The glideslope CDI is a good example. It provides a view looking forward but the lubber lines are aircraft relative when they should be earth relative. The glideslope depiction on an HIS is just silly. Trying to twist your mind to look down at the glideslope is more difficult than flying the plane. The easiest glideslope to visualize (which I implemented) is a view looking forward with lubber lines on the nose of the aircraft and earth relative. It feels natural especially when you are turning and descending to capture the glideslope. Another feature that fell into place like the last piece of a puzzle was adding a marker that shows the vertical rate of descent required to maintain a 3 degree glideslope. It is much like a standard rate turn applied to the vertical and has smoothed out my decent. This marker is constantly calculated using the true airspeed. Thus, the value will properly change as you slow the aircraft for landing. Another improvement that has helped with lateral steering on an approach is a fine scale compass tape near the top of the display. Here you can easily see one degree changes and automatically make smaller changes, once again smoothing out the approach. Two good questions to ask yourself when planning a panel are: What mission is the panel required to support? What is my tolerance for equipment failure? If any of you would like to discuss pros and cons of a particular panel design, I can be reached by email at bill@wtdaviationtechnology.com or phone at 831.345.3440. During the wrap-up of an early presentation to Chapter 119 I said Glass panels are the most significant improvement to General Aviation since 1975. Now I can prove it. Fly safe, fly lots.
PAGE Judging Changes for WVI Airshow Leslie Grate Hello fellow Judges. Yes it is that time of year again when the Watsonville Fly-in takes place. This year it will take place May 25-27 and again EAA 119 is responsible for judging the aircraft. Many of you have done so in the past and we need your help again. This year Bob Sliter (thanks to Bob for his good work) has stepped aside and I am now the Head Judge (gee, thanks a lot Bob!). I hope to see all of last years judges return and hope to welcome some new ones. As you recall, last year was a down year for aircraft attendance. The air show directors were very keen on finding ways to attract more aircraft this year. Couple that with some of the issues we judges have talked about internally over the past few years regarding what awards are given out; and we have made some big changes. What we ve done is to compress the awards for the older airplane classes and expand big-time the awards for the experimental classes. The prior experimental ( custom built ) category had only 3 awards: plans, kit, best. Now there are about 14 awards. The experimental category is split into two classes; one for awards to aircraft BUILDERS, the other to the current aircraft OWNER (who could also be the builder). In each of these classes, there are 4 awards for construction type: metal, composite, fabric, mixed. In addition, since there are some very popular aircraft models (such as RV s and Lancairs) there are specific awards for those. The air show directors also think it is likely that the Grand Champion award will be a real trophy. In this scheme, a fabric Kitfox will not be judged against a composite Lancair: they each have their own construction type class, so both can win a construction type award. I also emphasize (especially for the For Sale 1964 C-172E 2927-TTAF, 1560-SMOH, 157-STOH, IFR, new annual, complete logs, Garmin XL300 GPS moving map, 4-place intercom, alternator upgrade, wing tip vortex generators. NEW: battery, mags, tires, new ELT battery. Cont. O-300, good compression, paint-10, interior-10 (leather), $49,995, 831-809-6668. Lance McBride EAA CHAPTER 119, 60 AVIATION WAY, WATSONVILLE AIRPORT builder class, because they will have to convince judges that they are the builder) that it is important for custom built planes to have presentation material for the crowd to view. A prime example would be a builders log. We also will judge rotorcraft (helicopter or autogyro) this year in the hopes that we attract some of those. The awards in Military have also been compressed, so there are fewer trainers, but the years are opened up to allow all years. We hope to have more good military aircraft show up as they tend to attract large crowds. The upper age limit on Neo-classics was 1955. We upped it to 1957 so 50 year-old planes are allowed. The awards will be plaques, given out in person on Saturday evening at the dinner. If the winner is not present to get their plaque, the air show does not want to mail them out- so those people will get mailed certificates. With these changes we hope to attract a lot more experimental aircraft (likely a whole bunch of RV s) and more military aircraft and to entice them to stay through Saturday evening. What this means for us judges is that we ll need expertise in the experimental class. You metal plane builderswe need you. You composite builders- we need you. And I hope like-wise for fabric. The final tallying and deciding on the winners will happen faster and earlier this year. By mid Saturday afternoon we have to have answers. So I need a few more judges who can work both Saturday morning and afternoon. If you are interested in being a judge and have not done so before, contact me (lesliegrate@comcast.net, 831-588-1451) or Dan White. And let s hope for great weather and a huge turnout! I would like to buy a single engine plane or partnership for under 20K. I m a student private pilot and have 40 hours of flight time. My instructor is Don Mc Dowell, if you have any? about my flying. If you are interested or know of someone, please call me or e-mail me. kauaibobby@yahoo.com, cell 831-359-8085, home 831-464-3522 RV-4 w/0-360 A1A engine w/constant speed prop. Wings, fuselage, & tail done; on wheels 85% done, $30,000 Charlie Wood 688-3402
Watsonville Chapter 119 Experimental Aircraft Association Watsonville Municipal Airport 60 Aviation Way Watsonville CA 95076 Upcoming Topics and Events: Date Topics April 28, Light Sport Airplanes West, Grand Opening. Salinas 2007 Airport 2pm - 6pm May 1, 2007 EAA Chapter 119 monthly meeting, 7:30 pm EAA Chapter Hangar. Alan Brown will be presenting. May 5, 2007 EAA Chapter 119 Young Eagles Rally, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm, 60 Aviation Way, Watsonville Airport May 12, EAA 19 Chapter fly out to Paso Robles Airport. Lunch 2007 at Paso Robles airport, Museum later. May 19, EAA Chapter 119 Barbeque. Tom Hoyt Park starting at 2007 11:30. May 25 - Watsonville Fly-In and Air Show. Watsonville CA. See May 27 2007 http://www.watsonvilleflyin.org/ for more information Flying Companion Seminar When: Saturday, May 5, 2007 ALL DAY 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Where: Terminal Building Conference Room Reid-Hillview Airport, San Jose The Flying Companion Seminar is a seminar for non-pilots who would like to be more comfortable in the cockpit. The all-day session addresses how to be an effective cockpit member and helps calm fears about flying. This year's topics include: Aerodynamics: how and why a plane flies Radio procedures: using the radios and emergency frequencies Navigation: read charts and help navigate. Preflight: why and how to do one on an actual airplane. Checklists: what are they; how can you help with them. Medical Facts for Pilots Fun Places to Fly Pre-Registration Required Space is limited Register Today! Donation: $60 in advance; Lunch and snacks provided More info: Email: FCS@SCV99s.org Phone: Candice: (510) 673-4505 Website: http://www.santaclaravalley99s.org/companions Yes! Sign me up for the FLYING COMPANION SEMINAR! Name: Phone Number: Address: Email Address: To register, mail your check (made out to SCV99s) to: Mary Ann Dach 520 Patton Ave San Jose CA 95128