MAKE CHAPTER 288 YOUR AVIATION HOME! E-AB, TYPE CERTIFIED, VINTAGE, WARBIRD, ETC.
EAA 288 recognized for 30 years of YOUNG EAGLE support
EAA FOUNDER PAUL POBEREZNY & SON TOM -- May They RIP
MEETING INFORMATION
REMINDER: Dues for 2025 are due before Jan 1 and they remain at $25. Please pay them soon! Our scholarship program funds are dependent on official, dues paying memberships
You may pay by credit card by clicking the link here:
https://eaa-chapter-288.square.site - OR -
You may pay by cash, just talk with Andi, our outstanding treasurer, at the meeting.
Our next meeting will be held on November 21, at 7 PM in Keith Phillips hangar
Our October 17 meeting had Taylor Foster thanking the Chapter for the award she received for helping her obtain her newly acquired Private Pilot License.
Our guest speaker, Dave Buckwalter, whose company has installed the lates in avionics in new airplanes presented an outstanding and informative lecture on many aspects of aircraft wiring and the proper tools needed to do the job correctly.
Our September 17 meeting had Dr. John Blevins, NASA Chief Engineer for the Space Launch Systems Program/Artemis Project, as our speaker. (John is also a RV-10 builder.)
John's presentation on the SLS and Artemis - and beyond - was absolutely outstanding! We're so very sorry if you missed it. The photos while nice, could never do justice to his presentation.
Saturday, September 21 a Young Eagle Flight Day was held at 8:30AM and started outside the POA Office on Cessna Blvd.
Our August 15, meeting convened at 7 PM in Keith Phillips hangar.
Our guests speaker was going to be our own Bill Stockman. He was going to speak about a recent adventure in his beautiful T-34 Mentor, but unfortunately, Bill was unable to be with us tonight.
Carl Kretzer, USAF, (Lt Col retired) received his Quilt of Valor for his service to our nation while deployed to SE Asia. Please read his bio down below.
Jay discussed our Chapter's Mission focus on Young Eagles, Scholarships, our Simulator, and Chapter knowledge.
EAA National Awards were presented to Chapter officers and included: Jay for President, Carl Kretzer for Vice-President, Doug Yu for Secretary, Andi Morey for Treasurer and Rick Weiss as Webmaster.
Also, Flight Advisors Keith, Rick & Mike Kelly as well as Tech Counselors Keith, Rick, Mike and Russ Faller received awards. Jim Clark for his Young Eagle work and Eileen Weingram and Lynn O'Donnell for their outstanding Scholarship work also received awards.
Jay noted that Young Eagle flights were on summer recess, but added that anyone who was YE qualified and wanted to do independent YE flights to please do so.
Our July 19th meeting was held in Keith's hangar at 7 PM.
In recognition of the emerging hurricane season our Speakers were Will Ulrich and Austin Green from the National Weather Service. They taught the Chapter about the National Weather Service's SKYWARN program. This EXCELLENT PRESENTATION included discussions about weather formation, conditions, how to recognize different significant meteorological events and how to report them to the NWS. He also discussed hurricane development from east Africa to the US. He also presented the 2024 Hurricane outlook and noted that August, September and October pose the most risk for major storm development.
Our June 20th meeting was held in Keith's hangar at 7 PM.
The guest speaker was our own, Captain Tim Plunket. Tim has a wealth of aviation experience and also building and flying vintage airplanes. His presentation on the beginnings of flight, early air warfare and antique aircraft was outstanding!!! We apologize, but due to space constraints we are unable to publish the presentation.
Our May 16th meeting was held in Keith's hangar, 222 Cessna Blvd, Port Orange.
Boston Butters received the Quilt of Valor for military service as an Air Force Guard pilot flying F-16’s during 4 deployments in South West Asia & the Iraqi War.
Our main presentation was done by member Ray Jenkins who works as an FAA liaison with NASA/ Boeing & other private companies creating the Commercial Space Program Flights through various spacecraft types—amazing concepts using different technologies to launch private individuals into space & also astronauts to the ISS, low earth orbit—-very cool indeed! Who’da thought about all that 20 years ago or more?
He answered a lot of questions, a very interesting program for sure!
Our April meeting was on Thursday the 18th:
Eileen Weingram introduced our new scholarship winners, Gabriel and Dawson. Last year's and this year scholars, Kayla and Zane assembled presentations about their journeys to get their Private License.
Amanda Fallon gave us an idea of some Social Media she has established.
Tim Roehl on the GAMI initiative for unleaded fuel discussed their new product called G1000UL. It replaces 100UL and is lightly heavier (6.3/gal), but offset by higher energy density. Note: It's green tinted. .Fun Fact: A sister company, to GAMI, Tornado Alley Turbos, same owners, that installs their own designed turbocharger retrofit kits just received a USAF contract to provide kits for their USAF Academy SR-20 fleet to compensate for Colorado Springs density altitude.
Unfortunately Dave Buchwaler was not able to join us to speak on Avionics build and installation.
Our March Taxi-in meeting was on SATURDAY, MARCH 30th.
The Taxi In was on March 30. Setup began at 11 AM. All aircraft were in place by 12:30 and members and residents viewed the range of aircraft the members own.
Our February meeting was on the 15th:
The February meeting was held on Thursday, February 15th at 7 PM. We had a special presentation on finding an ELT signal. Our main speaker wa Linda Sollars. She is an Airline pilot who went to South Africa and built a Sling airplane. She then flew the airplane from South Africa to Oshkosh. That beautiful airplane was on display at the meeting. Pictures and Linda's presentation will be available soon.
Our first meeting of 2024 was on January 18th:
Our guest speaker was Arnold Holmes an FAA DAR from Leesburg, FL who made an outstanding presentation about what DARs do and what you can expect when it comes time to get your E-AB aircraft certified for flight. See his presentation in the pictures below.
John Fluerent has offered to sell his canoe for $300 and give the proceeds to our scholarship fund. The canoe is hanging in Keith's hangar. Don't miss the exciting opportunity!!!!
Quilts of Valor Florida state coordinator,Terry Burtchell (also a Spruce Creek resident). The Quilts of Valor Foundation began in 2003 with a dream, literally a dream. Founder Catherine Roberts’ son Nat was deployed in Iraq. According to Catherine: The dream was as vivid as real life. I saw a young man sitting on the side of his bed in the middle of the night, hunched over. The permeating feeling was one of utter despair. I could see his war demons clustered around, dragging him down into an emotional gutter. Then, as if viewing a movie, I saw him in the next scene wrapped in a quilt. His whole demeanor changed from one of despair to one of hope and well-being. The quilt had made this dramatic change. The message of my dream was: Quilts = Healing.
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FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE - EAA has monthly Chapter videos that are very interesting.
In this month’s Chapter Video Magazine, Charlie Becker gets you up to date on EAA happenings:: 1.) Chapter Renewal 2.) Leadership Recognition Certificates and PIns 3.) YE Ground Volunteer Requests 4.) Ray Scholars Program for 2025 5.) Museum Updates 6.) Weeks Hangar Lighting 7.) Tax Exempt Basics Webinar
In addition, there is a feature video collection and Hints for Homebuilders section on the video site, which includes a variety of interest areas. There you can pick which video in each category you want to show that month, and you'll have the ability to download those videos. See this, other and previous Chapter videos by clicking on the button to the right> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Directions to the meeting:
Meetings are held the third Thursday of each month at 7PM in Keith Phillips hangar. or possibly Doris Kennedy's hangar across from Keith's. Check this page for location.
Here are the directions to Keith's Hangar: From I-95...Take the State Road 421 exit west (Taylor Road.) Drive 2 miles to the entrance to Spruce Creek (the entrance will be on your left).
After checking in at the security gate, follow Spruce Creek Blvd ahead to the second stop sign. Turn left onto Country Club Drive. Go past the Country Club then turn left at Seclusion Drive. Go 200 yards to the stop sign at the edge of the Cessna taxiway. Cross the taxiway being sure to give right-of-way to taxiing aircraft. Once across the taxiway, turn right and drive toward the end of Cessna. Hangar 222 will be on your left.
THE CHAPTER VIDEO LINK IS WAY DOWN IN THIS SECTION:
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Our October 17th meeting INFO AND PRESENTATIONS
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024: DR. JOHN BLEVINS NASA's CHIEF ENGINEER FOR THE SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM PRESENTS: NASA'S SLS PROGRAM - FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON AND
It was a rainy and chilly january evening but A wet TJ Shembekar and Brian Boucher braved the elements and came with their XXL beverage DONATIons.
our january 2024 meeting: jim stone-quilt of valor and arnold holmes-and his dar-nold presentation:-)
our 2023 EAA288 holiday social: A Collection of Inspiring Photos
from our june 2023 meetinG-happy birthday keith!! Jim STone, USN (RET) PRESENTS - USNavy CARRIER OPS
IMC CLUB
CHAPTER 288 IMC MEETINGS
NOTE: We will not hold the monthly IMC meetings during the summer at the POA conference room.
When they resume in the fall:
This is a great opportunity to sharpen your Instrument flying. There will be spirited discussions led by David Gall, experience ATC controller. Come and add you expertise to the group discussions.
These meetings will help you be a better instrument pilot. There will be scenarios discussed that challenge your understanding of the IMC processes. Your participation in the group discussions will help you and the rest of the participants improve. If your IMC experience is a bit rusty this will remove some of that rust. Please come and make the meeting a great one. We will make you better IMC pilots, and you can help. Just show up with your experiences. We will publish the date of the next meeting as soon as we determine it.
The event is open to all and will focus on Instrument flying issues. There will be opportunities to discuss scenarios that you may encounter and how to handle them. This is also a great opportunity to polish up your understanding of IFR flying.
IMC BACKGROUND:
The IMC Club’s purpose is to promote instrument flying, proficiency, and safety. The intent is to create a community of pilots willing to share information, provide recognition, foster communications, promote safety, and build proficiency in instrument flying. IMC Club chapters offer monthly meetings in which pilots can network and share knowledge and experiences.
The chapter resources and scenarios are being produced and distributed as a new program by EAA IMC LLC (“EAA IMC”), an Experimental Aircraft Association Inc. subsidiary, under a license from IMC Club International Inc. This will provide resources for new and improved program offerings that will enhance and expand the impact of the IMC concept and to provide continuity, support, direction, and programming,
All instrument pilots are welcome including wannabes and others looking to gain knowledge when the windscreen becomes milky and the vis disappears. We all can learn from the workshop discussions concerning the presented scenarios.
You do not need to be an EAA288 member, but it would be nice and we welcome you to join the EAA. To join; Go the the "more" tab at the top of the website and select "PAY DUES", or click on the link on the HOME PAGE. All pilots are always welcome.
If you have any questions, please contact Barry Dainas at (847) 477-8486 or bdainas@yahoo.com
VMC CLUB INFORMATION
I HAVE AN EMAIL LIST FROM THE LAST MEETING, IF YOU WANT A PERSONAL REMINDER FOR FUTURE MEETINGS PLEASE SEND MY YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO PRESIDENT@EAA288.ORG
Next Meeting: The VMC, designed to help our VFR pilots by discussing situations in a group setting is a key part of the chapter program. The next meeting is TBD. The location will be the POA conference room. Bring a friend and be ready to discuss VMC issues.
BACKGROUND:
Non-instrument rated pilots who want to improve their proficiency now have an excellent new resource through EAA’s VMC Club.
The VMC Club offers monthly meetings in which pilots can network and share knowledge and experience. The meetings use real-world scenarios to engage members, and allow a free exchange of information that improves awareness and skills. The intent is to create a community of pilots willing to share information, provide recognition, foster communications, promote safety, and build proficiency. All Chapter 288 members, in good standing, are automatically eligible to take part in the FREE VMC and IMC Club program.
All pilots are always welcome.
