Mike Parry

Cancelling Fly-Out

Fly-Out Cancelled – Saturday June 1st to Gettysburg

With no sign-ups from N57-based pilots for the trip the Events Team has cancelled the Fly-Out to Gettysburg planned for tomorrow, Saturday June 1st.

We’re aware several members are driving to Gettysburg to take advantage of the arrangements the Events Team has put in place. Have a fun trip!

Don’t forget our June Membership Meeting Monday, starting with a Cook-Out at 5:30, with the meeting starting at 7pm…..all happening at the Chapter Hangar and Meeting Room.

Events Team 2024

Mike Parry

Fly-Out to Gettysburg

Chapter Fly-Out – Invitation

Join us Saturday, June 1st for a trip to Gettysburg Regional Airport (W05), located ~70 miles west of N57! This fly out has a ½ day itinerary with an optional itinerary that follows.

The plan is to kick off our visit by attending the local EAA1041 chapter’s pancake breakfast. Breakfast will be followed by a relatively short courtesy car ride to visit the Gettysburg Museum of History.

After the museum tour, pilots & passengers will all need to decide if they want to extend the day by having lunch at Dobbin House Tavern, followed by a walk through the Gettysburg National Cemetery just across the street. For this extended itinerary, again, all pilots & passengers will need to work out how much of the day’s itinerary they will partake in. Pilots & passengers departing after the museum tour or lunch will be driven to the airport.

The courtesy car at W05 has been reserved.. Be sure to bring cash and to plan for multiple expenses. And as always, please be sure to include assisting pilots with the day’s expenses, thank you!

Register with us for this flight please. And, pilots, please let us know if you have open seats to accommodate fellow members.

Meet at the EAA240 hangar at 8:00am.
Plan A: Wheels-Up 8:30am assuming NO TFR or NO bad weather.
Plan B: Depart 8:30am BY CAR if there’s a TFR or if flying is weathered-out. We may likely need drivers for the 2-hour drive!!

The Chapter Events Team works hard to prepare, organize and execute on Fly-Outs. Your support and engagement is appreciated.

Thanks, Jay Jacobs, Flight Lead

Questions or more information?

Mike Parry

Membership Meeting – June 3rd

Membership Monthly Meeting – Monday, June 3rd, 2024

Monday’s weather permitting, we’ll enjoy a traditional Chapter Cook-Out starting at 5:30. Bring a side dish or dessert or make a HUGE contribution to Chapter funds – they all work!

Our Monthly Meeting commences promptly at 7pm in the Chapter Meeting Room.

Guest Speaker and topic this month:

Rob Newman – Flying Angel Flights
Angel Flight East is one of over 80 Public Benefit Flying Organisations in the US whose Mission is to provide free air transportation to qualified patients and their families by arranging flights to distant medical facilities, delivering supplies to disaster areas, and reuniting families during desperate times. We provide angelflighteast.org

After talking with several Angel Flight Pilots Rob enthusiastically joined the group. These missions provide a huge variety of flight experiences. The diversity of weather, airfields, flying ‘in the system’, instrument approaches and coordination with other pilots from Ohio, to the Carolinas and beyond makes each mission a challenge to plan and complete. AND a lot of fun. It’s been a great way to take a skill developed at great pain and government expense, and turn it into a fantastic opportunity for Service to Others. Rob will describe his experiences with such flights.

Visitors & guests welcomed. We’ll be complete around 9pm.

Mike Parry

Challenging but Fun Event!

Well, it rained, low ceilings forced the cancellation of our planned Young Eagles flights and we were competing with the Dover AFB Air Show and, as a result, our breakfasters numbers were down. We served just 80 breakfasts. Our volunteer numbers were down also, making it a challenging morning as we moved the project planes out of the hangar when it looked like we might be a dry-ish morning only to promptly move them back into the hangar as the heavy rain started just as we commenced serving. The team scrambled and worked to position the planes and tables as the breakfast early-birds line formed. Preparatory work that had been completed Friday afternoon by volunteers paid-off handsomely and we were soon in full flight, with pancakes, eggs, sausage and potatoes flying off the grills.

Huddled on fewer tables, our guests enjoyed their breakfasts, offered positive feedback and bought several shirts and caps, while kids enjoyed the toys and gliders we supplied.

A challenging morning for sure, but overall successful (fun levels and profitability) and we look forward to our Saturday June 22nd event, hoping for additional support from members both as volunteers and/or breakfasters, and for our Young Eagle flights! Volunteer here!

Thanks to those volunteers who helped make it work, both on Friday and Saturday, and at the wrap-up team as we closed early Saturday morning. Teamwork!
Mike Parry

Fly-Out Cancelled – Work Party Instead!

Reedsville Fly- Out Cancelled – Lack of Sign-Ups and Limited Aircraft

Weekends are getting busy for everyone and we’ve had very limited sign-ups for today’s Fly-Out (Saturday, May 11). We’ll cancel today’s plans and look for a new future date for this destination. Those few that signed-up have been notified.

If you have some free time this morning please join and contribute to the volunteer Work Party who are at the Chapter Hangar from 8:30 to noon today. Thanks!

Events Team 2024

Questions, suggestions: events@eaa240.org

Mike Parry

Chasing the Eclipse – Full Disc Aviation

Monday’s Membership Meeting opened with food, as we enjoyed a cook-out at the Chapter hangar. Our Membership Meeting that followed covered two topics – Member Rob Dant and VP Octavian presented on their separate adventures to get the optimum viewing of the recent eclipse – both successful! Maps and images showed their separate planning, changes that were required due to weather and full airport ramps and their eventual success in capturing the full eclipse.

Octavian then introduced our main speakers: Full Disc Aviation photographers Richard Souza and James Woodard presented on their organization, their techniques, their equipment and process to produce the amazing aviation images and accompanying stories that make up their web presence: https://www.fulldiscaviation.com/

Mike Parry

Change of Program – Membership Meeting

Membership Monthly Meeting
Monday, May 6th 2024

We now have 14 new members that have joined the Chapter in 2024, and our Monthly Members Meetings are a great opportunity for those new members to find out just what EAA240 is all about. We’ll look forward to welcoming you on Monday for our first cook-out of the year, followed by a special presentation, described below.

Many new members and several existing members ordered name badges – they have arrived and will be available Monday evening, along with our new Chapter shirts and caps.

Monday’s weather permitting, we’ll enjoy a Cook-Out starting at 5:30. Join us for a chicken dinner! Bring a side dish or dessert or make a HUGE contribution to Chapter funds – they all work.

Our Monthly Meeting commences promptly at 7pm in the Chapter Meeting Room. Visitors & guests most welcome.

Guest Speakers and topic this month:

Richard Souza & James Woodard, Full Disc Aviation – Aviation Photography
Full Disc Aviation are a group of aviation enthusiasts including pilots, mechanics, servicemen, photographers and writers, coming together to share in the magnificent experience of aviation. Richard & James will describe FDA’s goals and ambitions, more recent happenings in the area of aviation photography, their current equipment, projects and aviation photography and post processing tips (including mirrorless camera use plus the comeback of film).

More information on Full Disc Aviation

Visitors & guests welcomed. We’ll be complete around 9pm.