Volume 7 Issue 12
December 2001

Soaring in December...
OSC was able to fly three weekends this very warm December

Flight Operations Corner
12/16/01
We have a busy winter agenda.  Here are some details on what is coming.  Pay attention and mark your calendars!
Annual Safety Seminar:
This year's seminar will be on Sat. January 26.  That's correct, January 26, the last Saturday in January.  the time is 10AM.  the place is Bob Moser's office.   Now once again, pay attention because this is a different palce than we have used before.  It is the same Bob Moser but a different location.  the name of the business is Bellevue Data Communications.  directions are Highway 75 in Bellevue to Cornhusker Rd.  East on Cornhusker to Herman Drive (this is about a mile from the Cornhusker exit off 75, and a quarter mile after crossing Ft. Crook Rd.)  Turn right (South) onto Herman Drive.  Again make the first right turn onto Harvel Drive.   Bellevue Data Communications is the second building on the right.  It is a new building with parking in the rear.
Once again I ask for everyone's cooperation and attendance if at all possible.   Remember that this is part of our annual safety requirements.  The main theme will be covering the safety and operational features of our new (proposed) by-laws.   The Flight Rules section is entirely new and different from the old document.   Such things as local flying and cross country requirements will be of interest to everyone.  If you picked up a printed copy of the by-laws at the annual meeting, please bring it with you.
Again I solicit help from you on making the video tape of the seminar.  If you have the equipment and can record the seminar please contact me.
Remember, this seminar is at 10AM on Saturday January 26.

By-laws proposal update:
I briefly discussed the by-laws proposal at the annual meeting December 15th.  This started the required notification period with the vote to adopt being scheduled for our regular meeting in March.  Some of you picked up a copy at the annual meeting.   Since then several people have proof read the document and suggested some minor editing.  Those changes are aavailable in an errata sheet.  If you are recieving this message via email the errata sheet is an attachment.  I have also made an attachment of the entire by-laws proposal.  Again if you are recieving this as an email you can print out the entire document.  The editing corrections have already been made in the whole document attachment.  The attachments are in Word.  As I mentioned above in the Annual Safety Seminar announcement, this by-laws proposal will be the major topic of the Safety Seminar.

Ground School is forming:
As I mentioned a the annual meeting, I will conduct a ground school if there is sufficient interest.  My thinking has changed a little from what I expressed at the annual meeting.  I will offer the ground school starting in Feb. on every Saturday afternoon that we are not flying (I however reserve the right to be out of town and we would either skip a session or have another instructor that day).  Since the new by-laws emphasize the SSA A,B,C,Bronze program, I will select material which relates to this.  Those wanting to obtain the Bronze written exam can do so at the end of the sessions.  The material will be of interest to every level and suitable for students, transition pilots, and those wanting to obtain the Bronze, as well as o fgeneral interest to all members.  I expect we willuse the Bellevue Data Communications facility for this (see info above in the safety seminar notice).  These sessions will be at 1PM.   The decision to fly or do ground school will be put on the phone message in the morning.  If you could have flown then you certainly can do ground school at the same time!
Suggested materials for the ground school:

• Soaring Flight Manual (all members should already have this)
• FAR/AIM (not too far out of date is fine for ground school)
• Omaha Sectional Chart (ditto on the not too far out of date!)

If you are needing to take a FAA knowlege test I urge the following:

• For Private: Private Pilot Test Prep with answers and explanations by ASA (Sporty's M290A @ 14.95)
• For Commercial: Commercial Test Prep with answers and explanations by ASA (Sporty's M314A @ 16.95)

Sporty's phone is 1-800-liftoff
These may also be available from a local airport.  You want the 2002 version.
Seeya
Jaime

Goin' Silver?
It has been mentioned that there is an interest in some club members to start making some cross-country flights.  How many are interested?  Why do you want to fly to another airport?  Sense of Accomplishment? Bored of just flying circles near the Blairport?
How about setting some goals?
How about the FAI Silver Badge?
Here's what's required by the FAI:

1. A flight of 5 hours duration.
2. A flight of 50 km in a straight line (that's 31.07 statute or 23.5 nautical miles)
3. A height gain of 1000 m (3281 ft)

All of these requirements can be accomplished on the same flight, but you need a barograph for numbers 1 and 3 and an observer for all three.  Detailed rules are available at the SSA website.  But where to go?

Here are airports that are far enough away to qualify for a silver badge flight.   I've kept the list down to those public use airports closer than 60 statute miles away.

• Harlan, IA (HNR), which is just over 41 miles away, to the east,
• Woodbine, IA (3Y4), which is 32 miles away, to the northeast,
• Denison, IA (DNS), also to the northeast, is a little over 54 miles away,
• Whiteing Memorial, (MEY), is almost straight north, and is 55 miles away,
• Onawa, IA (K36), is 40 miles north,
• Pender, NE (0C4), 57 miles to he northwest,
• David City, NE (93Y), is to the west, and is just shy of 54 miles,
• Browns in Weeping Water, NE (EPG), is 38 miles due south,

There is something else you have to do, by the way.

In order to fly the club airplanes cross country, you have to arrange for a ground crew (or tow home) and get your Bronze from the SSA (club rules), which means you need to get with one of our excellent instructors for some training.  Hey, we need to do that anyway, don't we?
See you at the Blairport!
Terry