Winter Projects – Chapter HangarKeeping the Chapter Moving Forward! Even with limited use in recent months our Chapter hangar needs some care and attention to ready it for the new…
Wright Brothers Celebration 2020 with special guest speaker When: Thursday, 17 Dec 2020 7pm, to 8pm Where: Zoom Meeting (call details to follow) |
EVENT DETAILS:Join us for an aviation silent auction and presentation at the annual Wright Brothers Celebration on December 17, 7:00 PM. For this Aviation Event EAA240 has joined with aviation groups from the Delaware Valley: The Aero Club of Pennsylvania, Angel Flight East, EAA Chapter 240 and The Eastern PA Chapter of the Ninety-Nines. The Aero Club will also invite all to participate in an online silent auction to raise funds for aviation scholarships. Finally, we will welcome our exciting speaker for the evening, Martha Lunken. Martha will tell aviation stories until about 8PM, followed by Q&A. Special Guest Speaker: Martha Lunken Aviatrix, Story Teller, Contributing Editor Flying Magazine Martha Lunken learned to fly an Ercoupe in the early 1960s while attending college in Cincinnati. She became a flight instructor and operated a flying school at Cincinnati’s Lunken Airport for seven years. In 1980, she became an Aviation Safety Inspector with FAA’s Flight Standards Division at Chicago’s DuPage Airport. Later, she returned home and ran the FAA’s safety program in southern Ohio. She has an ATP, airplane single and multi-engine land and sea, and a commercial hot air balloon rating. Martha is type rated in the Lockheed 18, DC-3 and SA-227 aircraft. She owns a 1956 Cessna 180 and has 14,000+ hours flight time. She is Contributing Editor at Flying Magazine. In 2016, Sporty’s published a book, Unusual Attitudes, which includes her favorite columns from Flying Magazine.This will be a fun evening of aviation and enables us to gather safely via our homes and computer screens with the Chapter membership and also with fellow aviators from our region. We hope you’ll plan to join this event we have arranged for the Chapter membership. More details to follow, but please get this event on your calendars for next week. Questions? contact communications@eaa240.org here |
| Our airport base of N57 will be impacted as TFR’s are established by the FAA/Secret Service when the new President is at home in Delaware. We need to be aware of the required procedures and processes to fly in our area, while complying with temporary flight restrictions. |
| The following FAASTeam webinar may be of interest to you: “Do not Get Busted on The Wilmington VIP/Security TFR” Topic: Winter is Coming! And So Is the New President! Don’t Get Busted on The Wilmington VIP/Security TFR On Monday, December 14, 2020 at 19:00 Eastern Standard Time (16:00 PST, 17:00 MST, 18:00 CST, 14:00 HST, 15:00 AKST, 17:00 Arizona, 00:00 GMT) Select Number:EA17102979 Description:At this webinar we will look at the current Wilmington TFR and the coming Wilmington TFR. We will explore the dimensions of each TFR, both the horizontal dimension and the vertical dimension. We will also explore the anticipated flight operating procedures as well as the anticipated flight operating prohibitions. We will review the filing, opening, and closing of flight plans as well as task management, TFR avoidance, and intercept procedures. The Appendix will review Airspace and SRM (Single Pilot Resource Management). To view further details and registration information for this webinar, click here.The sponsor for this seminar is: FAASTeamThe following credit(s) are available for the WINGS/AMT Programs:Basic Knowledge 3 – 1 Credit Click here to view the WINGS help page |
| We have three Chapter Membership Meetings arranged for the coming months, each happening over Zoom Video. Please get these dates into your calendar and plan on joining fellow Chapter members for the following sessions we have arranged for you: Thursday, December 17th, 7pm Chapter 240 is co-sponsoring the AeroClub of PA’s Annual Wright Brothers event. More details to follow, but there will be a special speaker joining us for what will be a very entertaining evening of aviation banter! Stay tuned, get this date in your calendar! Monday, January 11th, 7pm We have invited Full Disc Aviation to present to the Chapter Membership on just how they achieve their amazing photography. They cover all the major national and many international aviation events, including our own New Garden Air Shows. We’ll see their work, but also have a workshop/Q&A session where your questions can get answered. You won’t want to miss this! 1hr. More on Full Disc Aviation here. Monday, February 1st, 7pm For a return to our regular 1st Monday Membership Meeting schedule we have invited John Lorenz, CFI to present on ‘Curveballs a Student Pilot will Throw at the Traildragger CFI’. John is the President of Chapter 1306 (New Mexico). His experience in teaching and flying will make this a fascinating topic, plus a chance for learning. 1hr. The sessions above will be held via Zoom Video (easy!) and open to all members. Further details on each session will be communicated in advance but we wanted to get these sessions onto your calendars. Please plan on attending the Chapter events, the external and special speakers we have invited and arranged deserve a good turnout from our Chapter membership. Let’s make sure we make them welcome! Questions or comments here please Tips on using Zoom here |