Mike Parry

FAA Safety Team – Drone Presentation

Following the Chapter Pancake Breakfast of Saturday June 18th, the Chapter Meeting Room will be used at noon to host a FAA Safety Team presentation on the topic of Drones (see the details below). Members are invited to register and attend, the meeting is open to the public and we will potentially have a large group of participants. Octavian is coordinating the session with the FAA and with our Pancake Breakfast team, led by Chuck Shipman.

The FAA Registration form and more information about the event can be found here, and is summarized below:

Title: Introduction to Safe and Legal Recreational Drone Flying
Topic: Introduction to Safe and Legal Recreational Drone Flying, and required Recreational Drone TRUST Certification.
Date and Time: Saturday, June 18, 2022, starting at 12:00 Eastern Daylight Time Download Calendar File
Speaker(s): Joseph Michael Lamonaca, Esquire, ATP
Brief Description:
Welcome to this years FAA National Drone Safety Day 2022. This program will introduce the recreation drone pilot to background laws, regulations, resources, and mandatory testing to fly your drone safe and legal.

You will be introduced to the primary Recreation Drone Law 49 USC 44809, AC 91-57B, The Recreational UAS Safety Test (TRUST), FAA Drone Registration Requirements, LAANC, B4UFLY, NASA/ASRS, and a look at Part 107, Remote Drone Pilot Commercial Operations.

Since all drone operators must be trained or Certificated (TRUST or Part 107), this program is a must to attend for all Drone Operators to identify between the two.

Thank you for attending, have fun, and always fly your drone safe and legal.

Select Number: EA17112993
Location of Seminar: EAA Chapter 240 Hanger, (Upstairs Meeting Room)
1235 Newark Road
EAA Hanger
Toughkenamon, PA 19374
Directions to Venue:
The EAA Chapter 240 Hanger is located at New Garden Airport, Toughkenamon, Pennsylvania 19374. Upon entering the airport grounds, follow signs for the EAA Hanger which will be on your right adjacent to the airport main facility, at the top of the hill.

Please Note that this is listed as a FLY-In Event, but a VIP-TFR may be in effect on the day of the event. If a VIP-TFR is in effect on June 18, 2022, aircraft will not be able to fly into or out of N57, or in the vicinity of N57 that day, but the event will still be held. Please check tfr.faa.gov for details.

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Fly-in Seminar?: Yes N57
Seating: 80 seats at the facility, 75 remaining for online registration.
Registration Information:
Click here to register online now!
Sponsoring Division: FAASTeam
Contact Information: JOSEPH MICHAEL LAMONACA
Phone: (302) 388-2621
jlamonaca@faasafety.us
Additional Event Information & Acknowledgement of Industry Sponsor(s):
The FAASafety Team wishes to thank EAA Chapter 240 for hosting and sponsoring this event.

Further, EAA Chapter 240 will be having a pancake breakfast on the day of the event from 8:00 am until 11:30 am. For more details on the EAA 240 pancake breakfast visit http;//eaa240.org/eaa-chapter-240/pancake-breakfasts/

Prior to attending a safety seminar please review and abide by current CDC, State and Local health guidelines

Mike Parry

Chapter Fly-Out – Sunday, June 5th

Hudson Valley – Chapter Fly-Out!

Join us this Sunday for a trip to Lincoln Park Airport N07, on the outskirts of NYC’s class B airspace. Between the Class B airspace and a couple of Class D airports, there will be plenty of airspace to keep track of. Make sure you bring with you a current copy of the New York TAC chat.
We’ll be having lunch at the Sunset Pub & Grill, in a nice outdoor setting with a great view of the runway. Good chance of having a live band as well.

On the way back, we’ll plan to take the scenic route through either the Hudson River SFRA (below 1300ft MSL) or the Skyline Route (between 1300 and 2000ft MSL). It is a great way to enjoy The Big Apple for you and your passengers.

Please register for the trip as a pilot/plane-owner or passenger here, mention Lincoln Flight and include your contact information.

NOTE: we’ll be monitoring weather and may switch to Saturday if needed. Be sure to supply your contact information so we can reach you!

If planning on flying over the Hudson, please familiarize yourselves with the requirements for the airspace. The FAA Safety Team has a course for navigating the SFRA (located here: https://www.faasafety.gov/gslac/ALC/course_content.aspx?pf=1&preview=true&cID=79) and they also offer a little kneeboard cheat sheet: (https://www.faasafety.gov/files/gslac/courses/content/79/775/kneeboard.pdf).

Additionally, it is highly recommended to have the SFRA: (http://www.docsteve.com/SchodackAviation/airspace_files/SFRA_VFR.pdf) and Skyline (http://www.docsteve.com/SchodackAviation/airspace_files/Skyline_VFR.pdf) charts available before departure.

As always, pilots should perform their own detailed self-briefings and flight planning.

Please plan on meeting at the hangar no later than 10:30 for Chapter briefing/seat assignments. Wheels up at 11:00.

We need planes, pilots and healthy appetites!

Thanks!

Questions? Email the Events Team

Mike Parry

Fly-Out to Cambridge – June 11

Saturday, June 11th we have a Chapter fly-out to Cambridge-Dorchester KCGE
for breakfast at Kay’s Airport Restaurant.

KCGE is a 78nm beautiful southerly flight, with views of the Chesapeake Bay. The town of Cambridge is worth a tour too, short taxi ride into the town center (optional).

Meet at the EAA240 hanger at 8:30am, for wheels-up at 9am.

Pilots, Planes, and hearty appetites all welcome !

Please let the EAA240 Flight Leader know via email (events@eaa240.org) if you’ll be piloting a plane (open seats and max weight please) or coming along as a passenger (weight estimate please).

Questions? Email the Events Team

Mike Parry

Lincoln Park Fly-Out Postponed

Chapter Fly-Out – Postponed

The Secret Service have once again imposed flight restrictions related the Presidents plans to be in our area (and his home) for the weekend.

We’ll look to reschedule this trip for another time.



Check the Chapter Events Calendar for upcoming trips and Chapter happenings.

We’ll have Coffee brewing Saturday morning at the Chapter Hangar. Stop by?


Questions?  Email the Events Team

Mike Parry

Chapter Visit to DANG – C-130H Tour

Chapter Visit to Delaware Air National Guard – Tour of the versatile Lockheed C-130H

Monday, May 23rd 2022: At the invitation of Sarah Gault and Thorne Harkin of DANG, Chapter members were treated to a visit to the base at New Castle Airport KILG and a detailed tour of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules that they operate.

‘The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built originally by Lockheed. Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 was originally designed as a troop, medevac, and cargo transport aircraft. The versatile airframe has found uses in a variety of other roles, including as a gunship (AC-130), for airborne assault, search and rescue, scientific research support, weather reconnaissance, aerial refueling, maritime patrol, and aerial firefighting. It is now the main tactical airlifter for many military forces worldwide. More than 40 variants of the Hercules, including civilian versions marketed as the Lockheed L-100, operate in more than 60 nations’. Eight aircraft are based at KILG.

Thorne (co-pilot) and Sarah (navigator) outlined recent international flight missions they had undertaken demonstrating the versatility of the aircraft and its value to the US services.

Chapter members were encouraged to occupy the cockpit seats and to make aircraft noises….and they did. The flight controls and nav equipment were described, payload arrangements, safety and defensive capabilities and much more was shared with the visiting EAA240 team.

It was a fascinating visit and Sarah & Thorne will try to repeat for a further group of Chapter members later in the year.

Our thanks to Sarah & Thorne for arranging and hosting the visit, and for spending so much time with us. Very much appreciated.

We all took lots of photo’s (with approval), and we’ve loaded a bunch to the Chapter Photo Albums area of the Chapter web site here, samples below. Full album here.

Mike Parry
President, EAA Chapter 240

More photographs – click here

Mike Parry

A Fun Day! PB & YE’s – May 21st

EAA240 Volunteers shine!

No flight restrictions, a beautiful day, a great breakfast, hungry breakfasters, kids and families looking for their first plane ride……a magical combination.

EAA240 volunteers made all this happen for our local kids, and our family breakfasters who have returned for our breakfasts in large numbers, plus several fly-in’s who all joined us yesterday. We fed, we flew and we provided a great GA and local-airport experience for a lot of folks.

Our ‘Increasingly Famous’ Pancake Breakfast was complemented by a beautiful day and no flight restrictions-yeh! Young Eagle Flights finally happened, resulting in 22 smiling faces! Many of those future aviators left excitedly telling mom and dad how they piloted the airplane, spoke on the radio and more. New Garden Flying Field was really busy with aircraft operations happening on both sides of the runway, with Brandywine Soaring Association offering Young Eagle glider rides on one side, and EAA Chapter 240 flew on the other. A great team effort.

Meanwhile, Pancake Breakfasts were being served at a fast rate up at the Chapter hangar, where we heard tales of kids flight experiences and received the thanks of grateful parents. We served 166 breakfasts, got a lot of compliments for our food and service, and it generated generous donations for our Chapter operations.

Congratulations to our many volunteers who planned, prepared and executed the range of event activities; to the pilots, ground crew, food preparers, cooks, washer-uppers and hangar space restorers – all who contributed to the success of the day. Well done all! It was a fun day, with EAA240 at its best.

Our next Pancake Breakfast and Young Eagles Event is Saturday, June 18. Come join in! More pilots, planes, ground crew, food preparers, cooks etc are most welcome to join the team and the fun, supporting our future aviators and our local and loyal followers.

Chapter Events Team 2022