Women Flying With A Passion
Hello Chapter Chairs!
I would like to extend an invitation to you and your members to join Bay Cities for our 80th anniversary luncheon.
It will be held on March 3, 2012 from 11:30 am – 3:00 pm at Asena restaurant in Alameda, CA. …
I hope to see some of you there as we celebrate our 80 years of flying, fun, and fellowship.
Blue Skies and Kind Regards,
Erika Amir
Chapter Chair
Bay Cities 99s
Gnoss Field – Tuskegee Airmen – Feb.11 9:00AM-12:00PM
Gnoss Field Community Association is hosting an exciting event honoring several of the Tuskegee Airmen (and some family members). This should be a great morning, and an opportunity to hear directly from them and participate in a QA about their experiences.
We’ll have several wonderful vintage aircraft on static display, weather permitting: P-51, Stearman, and T-6 trainers. We’ll also have the “Redstar Formation Team” of CJ6 aircraft conducting a multi-pass formation flying and actually taking some of the TA up for the fly-bys.
WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012.
WHERE: Gnoss Field, Scanlon Aviation Hangar
REQUEST: We’d appreciate it if you’d distribute this information and attached invitation to your membership and email list.
RESERVATIONS: We have limited seating (190 seats), so we need to have anyone wishing to attend, send us an email with: name, # of seats, and phone number. Reservations will be on a first come first serve basis.
Space limited – make reservations via e-mail at
redtail@scanlonaviation.com w/ name, # in party & tel. #
DONATION: In addition to breakfast, we’ll be renting chairs, stage, etc.. We’ll have the static display and the flyover as well. Recommended DONATION for this event is $10 for adults and $5 for kids.
More info:
Captain Leslie Williams, Lt. LeRoy Gilliad, and James Goodwin of Santa Rosa will be present. We’ll also Dave Cunningham, President of the Bill Campbell Chapter (son of TA), and Jay Richardson, V.P. of Bill Campbell Chapter.
Initially, we’ll take reservations for 190 people. We are setting aside some seats for EAA. At the beginning of the week of Feb. 6, we’ll see if we can get more hangar space and increase the number of seats available. We’ll keep you updated.
Continental Breakfast: We’ll have a “continental breakfast” with coffee, tea, juice, coffee cake, croissant, and fruit and the venue will be set up for chairs only (no round tables).
Steve Knecht
415-893-9941 (office)
redtail@scanlonaviation.com
Visions From Above Aerial Photography Exhibit and Lagunitas IPA, Sat. October 29.
Visions From Above, a one day exhibit and sale of prints created by aerial photographers from around the world takes place in front of the offices of Aerial Archives, 561 Sky Ranch Rd, Suite E (in the 29ner Building), Saturday, October 29, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This free event, organized by Airport Muse, is sponsored by the Lagunitas Brewing Company, which is providing its renowned India Pale Ale for event attendees, by the Professional Aerial Photographers Association and the Petaluma Arts Center. Airport Muse is a firm dedicated to bringing fine art events to airport venues, has created several events in Petaluma and currently manages exhibits in Miami and Nashville.
Airport Muse curator and award-winning aerial photographer, Herb Lingl notes that “we are fortunate to have this extensive collection of high quality aerial photography created by over 20 different aerial photographers on display and for sale in one place.” Included in the exhibit are prints of David Bryne’s award winning aerial self portrait and David Tunge’s stunning aerial winter landscape which has also received several awards.
Numerous northern California businesses have donated prizes for the raffle which takes place toward the conclusion of the event. Raffle proceeds benefit the Petaluma Arts Center and the Western Horizon Flying Museum, dedicated to keeping historical aircraft flying. The Western Horizon Flying Museum is unique among aviation museums since it provides no static aircraft displays, visitors can only visit the museum as flight students, flight instructors or passengers unless they are mechanics working on the aircraft.
Work on display includes night time aerials, air to air aerial photography and some beautiful fine art prints. Herb has made a special arrangement with the Professional Aerial Photographers Association to make these prints available for sale at a fraction of their normal retail price. The sale will include several prints that have been previously exhibited elsewhere, with slight damage, available at a substantial discount. If you are looking for a unique gift for a pilot friend for the upcoming holidays, you may want to check out this work.
PetalumaPilotSupplies.com, which shares space with Aerial Archives in Suite E of the building will also be open and be contributing pilot related products to the raffle.
Prints not sold at this event will be donated to an educational institution for kids with the hope of inspiring the next generation of aerial photographers and pilots. If you have any suggestions on worthy recipients, please contact Herb.
For additional information about the company or the opening event on Saturday, October 29, 2011, please visit www.airportmuse.com or call 707.769.0800.
Have you heard about the Green Flight Challenge? It’s very exciting and the future of aviation. Planes are here from all over the world to compete for a $1.3 million prize. Sponsored by Google and NASA.
Go to www.cafefoundation.org to check it out. The CAFE Foundation is doing the testing at the Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County airport this week.
The planes will be on display for the public to view Saturday, October 1st from 9 am to 4 pm. If you fly in the Sonoma Jet Center will give you a ride to the event. It is on the back side of the airport near the EAA hangar.
If you are in the bay area, the planes will also be on display at Moffett Field on Monday, October 3rd. You have to go to the website to register for the Moffett display. I was out there over the weekend, and seeing the planes was very exciting.
Sept. 14th the Petaluma Area Pilots Association had a very informative speaker at their monthly meeting. The AME (aviation medical examiner) gave a good description of his side of the equation on obtaining and keeping our medicals. The subject is especially germain since none of us are getting any younger and loosing one’s medical must be a very sad event.
Basically the doc can pass, suspend or defer our medicals when health issues or medications get in the way of what the FAA will accept. The very best place to look up medications and or health issues is on the AOPA web site. They define what meds can fly and which can’t. If something comes up (like a cataract) and you do not pass your medical your medical will be suspended. After surgery you will need a letter from your eye doctor stating what your new vision is and that you are able to go back to flying. You must obtain these papers. The papers will be sent to Oklahoma where they will give the seal of approval.
If something comes up between medicals and you voluntarily suspend your flying, get treat- ment/cure, you still must obtain papers from your medical provider stating what happened, how it was treated and that you are safe to fly. Take these papers to your AME to back up any questions.
AGAIN- if something comes up, check the AOPA web site for medication questions. You can go back to your medical provider and insist on a different (acceptable) med to keep you airborne.
IF the unfortunate happens you can still fly ‘light sport aircraft’ as long as you don’t fail a medical. (meaning you never go back to fail a medical) ‘Light sport’ aviating only requires a drivers license. But in saying that it is all our responsibility fly safely. Options are having another pilot fly as ‘pic’ with you or flying with an instructor. The very best option, of course, is staying healthy!
Watch out for long flights, do some isometrics or stretch! Pulmonary edema is so common in long cross country flights.
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