Skyhaven
Flying Club Skyhawk Comes Home
5-20-19: The skyhaven
Flying Club Skyhawk Project has been completed and the plane is scheduled
to be back at the airport this weekend. In the days of analogue instruments
basically all airplanes were the same. The famous "Six Pack" became the
defacto standard. Even the com/nav radios had a standard layout that all
manufacturers followed. You could jump in almost any aircraft and a quick
glance of the instrument panel you were ready to begin your check list
for a startup. Today, it's a whole different story. With the advent of
multifunction electronic instruments understanding all the options, screens,
menus and functions requires a considerable amount of time and effort.
For example: A knob may also double as a button. When you turn the knob
many different things may happen depending upon what screen you have and
the settings on the screen. Turning it clockwise or counterclockwise may
change a frequency, or move a cursor, or scroll down a menu, or change
something in an unintended way. Oh, don't worry, just press the "home"
button for 5 seconds and it will close the current screen and go back to
the home screen. But, did you change something from where you just came
from? Let's see, is the ADS-B traffic screen overlaid on the map screen?
And, what's the difference between a solid diamond and a solid circle?
And... ATC has just given me a new frequency. Do I dial it in with the
knobs, or bring up the keyboard and punch in the numbers, or... is there
a "nearest" list that I can easily access that will automatically enter
the frequency? How do you get back to the home screen again? "Cessna 305,
traffic at 2 o'clock at 3,000 feet, south bound." Hey look, there's a diamond
on the map screen in my 2 o'clock position, but you can't confirm seeing
the traffic until you look out the window and make visual contact.
..
NY
TFR's Are Back! 5-15-19:
NEW YORK, NY BEGINNING THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2019. A NOTAM has been published
(FDC 9/7302) that will affect flight in the area during President Trump's
planned visit.
...
EAA
225 May 2019 Newsletter 5-12-19:
Hello Everyone, We will be holding our first of the season BBQ at the Chapter
Clubhouse for the May 2019 meeting. Hope to see you there and please
check out the rest of the pages in this month’s newsletter. Regards, Gerry
Skyhaven
Flying Club Skyhawk Project 5-8-19:
50 pilots at the airport are getting very excited about the final stages
of
the new
instrument panel make-over being done on the Cessna Skyhawk 172m model.
It's been out of service since March 1st and the Skyhawk flying members
have had to take a hiatus for a few months. But all that patience is about
to pay off the end of this week. Their 1975 Cessna 172M will go from a
$50,000 airplane to a state-of-the-art $120,000 airplane. Check out the
impressive equipment list which includes autopilot.
..
Roger
Targett and the Electroflight P1e mock-up
5-1-19: Another
electric airplane in the news. This plane is not heading for the light
sport market. This plane is looking to break the speed record and maybe
perform in the Red bull competition. One of the things that caught my eye
is the contra-rotating propellers each driven by their own electric motor.
"Electroflight say the aim is to build the world’s fastest high-performance,
full electric sport aircraft. Key to Electroflight’s plan is a lightweight,
electric motor that promises a better than a 1:1 power-to-weight ratio,
giving the P1e the kind of face-melting acceleration usually experienced
by jet fighter pilots or F1 drivers. (Indeed, this is already being exploited
in the motor industry by Elon Musk’s electric car company Tesla – its Model
S P100D hit 0-60mph in 2.275 seconds recently in ‘Ludicrous Mode’ – making
it the fastest accelerating production car in the world.)"
..
EAA 225
Young Eagle Flight Rally on May 11, 2019
4-28-19: Hello
Everyone, Yes, it’s about that time of the year, again. Our first
EAA Young
Eagle Flight Rally is scheduled for Saturday, May 11, 2019, at Southern
Maine Aviation in Sanford, Maine. We’re looking for volunteer pilots along
with ground and registration helpers. We are scheduled to hold the event
from 9 am to 12 noon and are planning our
pancake breakfast fundraiser with breakfast opening around 8:30-45 am.
I would like to get to SMA around 8 am to set everything up so flights
can start shortly after 9 am. I will be sending out a poster to everyone
who gets this email. I would appreciate if you could print a copy and put
them up where you can.Thank you in advance for that! I would also
appreciate a reply if you are able to help out to fly kids or with registration
and dispatching of the kids, etc. I can be reached at (603) 512-2356 or
reply to this email. Thanks again. Regards, Gerry Young Eagle Coordinator
..
AOPA
Visits Weatherby's in Maine 4-25-19:
AOPA
recently visited Weatherby's Sportsman's Resort in Grand Lake Stream Maine.
Have you ever heardof
Weatherby's? I haven't, but I have flown over it a long time ago when I
flew to Prince Edward Island. The trip included a leg from Bangor to Fredericton
New Brunswick where I stopped for customs. I remember saying to myself
how there is nothing but wilderness between Bangor and Fredericton. There's
an small airport 20 miles from Grand Lake Stream but airports in that area
are pretty limited in their services so the AOPA people played it safe
and landed at Bangor so they could get a rent-a-car. The drive from Skyhaven
is around 5 hours. Or, you could fly a Skyhawk there from Skyhaven in 1
hr 34 min according to SkyVector. Now this is the kind of trip that makes
the Skyhawk a time machine. You could leave in the morning, do some fishing
and get a ride back to the Princeton airport and be home in Rochester in
time for supper. Or, you could take your fishing gear down to the Salmon
falls river with the Great Bay Fly Fishing Association.
...
Alice
to Start Electric Powered Flights by 2021
4-20-19: Is there
an explosion in the sales of electric airplanes in the near future? According
to Assembly Magazine a company called Eviation Aircraft Ltd is getting
ready to compete with the Cessna Caravan with an all electric plane called
the "Alice." "Alice is one of more than 100 different electric-powered
aircraft flying or being developed at the moment, according to research
into electric powered airplane technology published by German consultancy
firm Roland Berger last year." Eviation is currently conducting research
and development on the performance of Alice as part of a partnership with
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at their new Arizona facility.
..
The all-electric
Sun Flyer 2 airplane 4-19-19:
"AOPA reported in October 2018 that Bye estimated the cost of flying a
Sun Flyer 2 at about $14 per hour—a figure he compared to a Cessna 172’s
$88.31-per-hour cost. The price of the Sun Flyer 2 was set at $289,000.
The $389,000 Sun Flyer 4 will have a max cruise speed of 165 knots and
a 1,250 foot-per-minute climb rate and fly an 800-pound payload for 4.2
hours. On a trip of 225 nautical miles, it would have an operating cost
of $30, while a similar trip in a Cessna 182 would cost $215, and $188
in a Cirrus SR20."
Let me see if I
get this. The Sun Flyer 4 is a 4 place all electric plane that can cruise
140 mph for around 4 hours for almost 1/3 the cost of a Skyhawk? I must
fly this airplane. Maybe Southern Maine Aviation will buy one to replace
the Gobosh they used to have.
.c
The 'Pink
Moon' Rises This Friday 4-18-19:
According to an article at space.com, on Friday the moon will be pink.
A little while ago we had a blood red moon, now we're in for a pink moon.
"For observers on the U.S. East Coast, the Pink Moon will rise at about
8 p.m. the evening of April 19 and set at around 7 a.m. the next morning,
according to the U.S. Naval Observatory." Unfortunately the weather doesn't
look like any of us grounded pilots will be able to observe. Maybe someone
will make an ifr flight and take some pictures.
.c..
AOPA
Super Cub Sweepstakes Prize 4-12-19:
Who's going to win the AOPA airplane give-away prize this year. Will it
be someone from New Hampshire? Maybe someone from Rochester... maybe a
pilot who flies out of Skyhaven. I'm getting excited. I won a 50" tv from
a raffle this year, maybe this year I'll get to shake the hand of the AOPA
president Mark Baker as he explains the reason I was called to the airport
was to receive the newly renovated Piper Super Cub. Calling it a Super
Cub seems to be an understatement. Just look at the instrument panel. The
aircraft will come with hydraulic skis in addition to tundra tires and
amphibious floats, not to mention "air bag seat belts?" If you could go
back in time to the 50's and tell a piper cub pilot that one day they will
invent air bag seat belts for the plane, I wonder what they would say?
.c..
EAA
225 April 2019 Newsletter 4-7-19:
Hello Everyone, Here is the Meeting notice with a message from Pres. Todd
Scruton and a few other items for April. Regards, Gerry
Wings
& Wheels at Skyhaven Airport 4-04-19:
Did you see the recent article in the Rochester Radar?
.cc
The Last
And Oldest KC-135 3-28-19:
Mondays edition of the Foster's had a large article about a gathering of
current and
retired Air National Guard Members attending a special good-bye ceremony
of the last KC-135 that departed with all the pomp and circumstance to
celebrate the departure of the last KC-135. Now Pease will be waiting for
the new replacement tanker the KC-46 that will start arriving in November.
Sounds like they have 8 months for final preparation for the new tanker.
Will the skies be darkened next winter by practice flights of the new tanker.
Tanker KC-46 on final cleared for the option behind small Cessna on final
Here's a video of the last tanker taking off by Brian Lonto... thanks
Brian!
..cc
AOPA
Seminar Peaks To Pavement 3-21-19:
Did you get your AOPA invitation for their Peaks to Pavement seminar? They
refer to pilots as "backcountry flyers" and "flatlanders." Around here
in New England if you fly more than 50 miles from the coast you may not
be a "backcountry flyer" but you will certainly get a taste for mountain
flying. Taking a flight to Vermont makes you really pay attention to the
weather, not to mention the landscape.
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Skyhaven
Flying Club Visits Boston Center
3-14-19: Skyhaven Flying Club located here at Skyhaven Airport has two
aircraft for its members to fly. Club meetings are usually held here at
Skyhaven but on occasion they go on field trips to learn more about flying
and the ATC system. This April they will be visiting the inside of Boston
Center which is known as Boston Consolidated TRACON. Back around 2004 the
air traffic controllers at Manchester, Boston and other locations all moved
into one location. The Merrimack facility opened in 2004 after 8
years of development. This sounds like a very interesting field trip. No
cameras or electronic devices are allowed inside but Wiki has this picture
of the control room.
defacto standard. Even the com/nav radios had a standard layout that all
manufacturers followed. You could jump in almost any aircraft and a quick
glance of the instrument panel you were ready to begin your check list
for a startup. Today, it's a whole different story. With the advent of
multifunction electronic instruments understanding all the options, screens,
menus and functions requires a considerable amount of time and effort.
For example: A knob may also double as a button. When you turn the knob
many different things may happen depending upon what screen you have and
the settings on the screen. Turning it clockwise or counterclockwise may
change a frequency, or move a cursor, or scroll down a menu, or change
something in an unintended way. Oh, don't worry, just press the "home"
button for 5 seconds and it will close the current screen and go back to
the home screen. But, did you change something from where you just came
from? Let's see, is the ADS-B traffic screen overlaid on the map screen?
And, what's the difference between a solid diamond and a solid circle?
And... ATC has just given me a new frequency. Do I dial it in with the
knobs, or bring up the keyboard and punch in the numbers, or... is there
a "nearest" list that I can easily access that will automatically enter
the frequency? How do you get back to the home screen again? "Cessna 305,
traffic at 2 o'clock at 3,000 feet, south bound." Hey look, there's a diamond
on the map screen in my 2 o'clock position, but you can't confirm seeing
the traffic until you look out the window and make visual contact.
new
instrument panel make-over being done on the Cessna Skyhawk 172m model.
It's been out of service since March 1st and the Skyhawk flying members
have had to take a hiatus for a few months. But all that patience is about
to pay off the end of this week. Their 1975 Cessna 172M will go from a
$50,000 airplane to a state-of-the-art $120,000 airplane. Check out the
impressive equipment list which includes autopilot.
our
pancake breakfast fundraiser with breakfast opening around 8:30-45 am.
I would like to get to SMA around 8 am to set everything up so flights
can start shortly after 9 am. I will be sending out a poster to everyone
who gets this email. I would appreciate if you could print a copy and put
them up where you can.Thank you in advance for that! I would also
appreciate a reply if you are able to help out to fly kids or with registration
and dispatching of the kids, etc. I can be reached at (603) 512-2356 or
reply to this email. Thanks again. Regards, Gerry Young Eagle Coordinator
retired Air National Guard Members attending a special good-bye ceremony
of the last KC-135 that departed with all the pomp and circumstance to
celebrate the departure of the last KC-135. Now Pease will be waiting for
the new replacement tanker the KC-46 that will start arriving in November.
Sounds like they have 8 months for final preparation for the new tanker.
Will the skies be darkened next winter by practice flights of the new tanker.
Tanker KC-46 on final cleared for the option behind small Cessna on final
