Women Flying With A Passion
Marin 99s is supporting the STEM – Pegasus program at San Marin High where the seniors are building an RV-12. We contributed $1,000 towards the program and also took some of the seniors flying at the end of the school year. Val Westen and Sue Royce enjoyed taking the girls up for a flight around the Bay Area. For more information about the STEM – Pegasus program, check out their website at https://stemmarinplane.weebly.com/
On April 26, 2019, Alyssa Abbey passed her check ride!!
“Hi everyone! Yesterday I passed my check ride and at last I’m a qualified private pilot. I feel so relieved and happy, and I’d recommend to anyone looking for a DPE to travel to Lincoln and go with Ashley Snider. She really put me at ease. AND – anyone looking for someone to fly right seat/be 2nd pair of eyes/navigator for $100 hamburgers or further afield – I’m very willing :)
Cheers,
Alyssa
Purpose: To provide funding to be used for a specific rating or certification to further the recipient’s pursuit of a career in aviation.
Eligibility: Any women at least 17 years of age, holding at minimum a current private license, a current medical, and a current flight review. Must reside within 150 miles of the Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport, be eligible for the rating being applied for (i.e.: number of flight hours required, rating required, medical required), and have completed any written requirements for the rating before funds are dispersed.
For additional applications see our website at www.santarosa99s.org
Marin 99s has another Girl Scout Aviation Badge Day at Gnoss Field. Barbara O’Grady does a wonderful job explaining the principals of aerodynamics, flight sectional, parts of an airplane, traffic patterns and more to a local Mill Valley Girl Scout troop on March 30. We hope we have planted the aviation seed in these young ladies.
We had 12 aviatrices in attendance to re-elect Sue Royce as Chair, Val Westen as Vice Chair, Cindy Pickett as Treasurer and Meaghan Bertram as Secretary. Cindy gave us a treasurer’s report and suggested we donate some of our funds to a worthy local recipient. It was suggested, voted and approved to donate $1,000 to the STEM Marin/Pegasus project, where Gnoss Field Community Association is sponsoring the construction of an RV 12 with the seniors at San Marin High School.
We discussed our upcoming Girl Scout Badge Class scheduled for March 30.
Barbara O’Grady and Sue Royce will be holding the class at the Civil Air
Patrol room at Gnoss from 10 a.m. – noon with lunch following. This will be our third Girl Scout Badge class in the last year, where we cover aerodynamics, parts of an airplane, understanding a flight sectional and do
a pre-flight on Sue’s Cherokee 180. We then take them up on the Observation Deck at Gnoss where we review the runways, taxiways, airport traffic patterns and radio calls.
The Southwest Section Spring meeting will be held on April 4 – 7. Sue Royce will be there to represent our Marin Chapter. Diane Root and Micki Jones represented our chapter at the Women in Aviation conference in Long Beach last week and gave us a full report on events/speakers.
Several of our Marin 99s will be volunteering for upcoming EAA/Young Eagle fly days scheduled for April 20 and May 18.
In photo from left: Barbara O’Grady, Rita Merker, Vicki Martinez, Val Westen, Diane Root, Marielle Coeytaux, Micki Jones, Sue Sarmir, Margy Boyle, Gretchen Kah, Cindy Pickett and Sue Royce
