January 2004 Newsletter
	EAA CHAPTER 1232 January 24, 2004 MEETING NOTES On January 24 we had our first meeting for 2004. This was held at the Civil Air Patrol trailer at Gnoss with 18 folks in attendance. President Phil Simon summarized the activities from last year which included a workshop on operation of milling machines in March, a talk on aviation charts in April, a tour to the Nike site at the GGNRA in May, a fly out to the Golden West Air show in June, a very successful Young eagles Day in July where 65 kids were given rides. A very popular tour of AeroCrafters at the Santa Rosa airport where we saw W.W.II planes being restored, and the always interesting tour of the Castle AFB museum in Sept. The calendar of events for 2004 was discussed. We have many interesting events/speakers lined up for this year. The calendar is available to all at the “Calendar” tab of the Chapter website. Prior to each month’s event, Ron Jagels will send a more detailed description to those on our mailing list. We discussed name tags for members and Bruce Walters took the action to investigate source/cost of nametags. Phil also recapped the aircraft flying/projects in the Chapter. We will be updating the photo section on the website to show more of the projects and members were also encouraged to update their member profiles to show projects underway. The list of aircraft includes: Bill Bastida Moni motorglider, Curtis Pusher Jerry Bassler Sonex, Falcon Tim Blofeld British Bulldog military trainer Ray Brice Twin Bonanza Dan Barnett Kit Fox Gordon Danielson C-310, machine shop Geoff Evans RV-8 Blitz Fox Nanchang Herman Frentzel Kit Fox Ron Jagels RV-8A John Long Star Duster Ken Mercer Sonex Ton Schiff GlassStar, C-150 Phil Simon Sonex Aaron Singer Great Lakes, Piper Malibu Phil Smith RV-8 Al Sonntag Sparrow Hawk Dave Ward Breezy, Citabria Bruce Walters Sparrow Hawk Walt Wester GlassStar on floats Ron Jagels presented the Treasure’s Report and discussed the 2003 financials. The Chapter’s bank balance on 12/31/2003 was $697.38. The balance at the beginning of 2003 was $569.75 and major expenditures during the year were the Chapter’s liability insurance, website and tax exempt application. An annual Chapter status report was filed with EAA National in December 2003. This report reflected 20 dues paying members last year. The application also includes insurance for the Chapter. Young Eagles and other public events require advance notice to EAA National to affect proper insurance coverage for the event. The IRS has approved our 501(c)(3) tax exempt application with effective date of July 14, 2003. Dues are tax deductible. We will now pursue the similar tax exempt status with California. The 501(c)(3) approval is an important step for the Chapter and reinforces our efforts/vision on “public benefit” aspects of the Chapter. Ray Brice briefly discussed the review underway to expand the education/outreach efforts of the Chapter. He has requested information from Western Michigan University and other sources and will report in more detail at a future meeting. Several members expressed interest in collaborating with others on a project or in expanding the training offered via the Chapter. Members were encouraged to pay 2004 dues before the end of the month. To date we have 27 folks on the mailing list who have paid 2004 dues. Library and tool resources in the Chapter were discussed. Members who have books or tools available for others to use should forward information to Ron Jagels who will post this information on the website. This “virtual” library will rely on the honor system for items to make their way back to the owner. The business part of the meeting closed and then Phil Simon (retired UAL Capt. B-737, B-757, B-767, and B-777) discussed unique aspects of International IFR flying and differences between ICAO and FAA approach charts. He showed several examples of approaches which include step-down/stabilized approaches, steep missed approach climb due to terrain, cloud break procedures, 2-fix holding patterns, wind limitation approaches and ILS – alpha, bravo, Charlie approaches. This was quite interesting and highlighted the things one might expect when flying ICAO areas.
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