Octavian Codreanu

Date Change (Saturday) – Chapter Fly-Out to GED

Chapter Fly-Out – Invitation

With the changing weather conditions, it looks like Saturday, May 3rd is the better day for this fly-out.

We’re going back to a favorite destination – Delaware Coastal Airport in Georgetown, DE. About 45 minutes south of New Garden, the airport is home to the Delaware Aviation Museum (owners of B-25 Panchito, a regular presence in the airshow circuit) and Arena’s at the Airport, a popular lunch destination. The plan is to have lunch, followed by a visit to the museum, before heading back to New Garden.

We’ll meet at the chapter hangar Saturday at 9:30am for flight briefing and seat assignments, with a scheduled departure time of 10am. We will continue to monitor the weather conditions in case the forecast changes again.

Please let the Flight Leader know if you’ll be piloting a plane (open seats and max weight please), or coming along as a passenger (weight estimate please). Everyone, please include your phone number and watch your email for last minute notifications since weather looks a bit iffy and the departure time might change.  
REGISTER HERE

We need pilots, planes, and healthy appetites!

Questions or more information?

Octavian Codreanu

Saturday’s Young Eagles – Canceled

Sadly, weather conditions on Saturday morning (May 26th) are forecast to be low cloud ceilings and rain, unsuitable for Young Eagles flights. Reviewing the weather we have opted to cancel our flights for this Saturday.

Instead, visit the airport and our Chapter and enjoy a delicious Breakfast with us! We serve our increasingly famous Pancake Breakfast from 8:30am to around noon, and would be happy to see you! More information here

For further information regarding Young Eagle future flights contact us at youngeagles@eaa240.org.

Octavian Codreanu

VMC/IMC Club Meeting – Thursday, Apr 24th

EAA240 VMC/IMC Club Meeting
Thursday, April 24th, 6pm
EAA240 Chapter Hangar

Sharing ideas, concepts and experiences in better flying

Join us Thursday, April 24th for another IMC & VMC Club session, starting at 6pm. We’ll discus a few scenarios related to both VMC and IMC flying. All Chapter members – pilots and non-pilots – are invited to attend this session led by Robert Huxster. We’ll go through the scenarios and share flight experiences, with the goal being for all of us to learn something new. The session includes the use of EAA National-provided scenarios and videos.

For the VMC presentation the topic will be “Lost and Unlucky”, and we will focus will be on risk management and basic flying skills.

For the IMC presentation the topic will be “When it Rains, it Pours”, and we will focus on risk management and aeronautic decision making.

This presentation is sponsored by the FAA Safety Team and WINGs credit will be awarded to the participants:

Basic Knowledge 3 – 1 Credit
Advanced Knowledge 1 – 1 Credit

http://www.faasafety.gov/SPANS/event_details.aspx?eid=136391

Questions?: imcvmcclub@eaa240.org

More information about the EAA240 IMC/VMC Group is here

Octavian Codreanu

Help Needed – Pancake Breakfast prep

It’s almost time for pancakes!

Our first Pancake Breakfast of 2025 is scheduled for Saturday, April 26th. But before that can happen, we’ll need some help cleaning up the grills and making sure everything else in the hangar is in good working order.
If you could stop by and give us a hand Saturday, April 19th at 9am we would appreciate it!

Cheers,

Brian Wheeler
EAA240 Hangar Manager 
hangarmanager@eaa240.org

Octavian Codreanu

Chapter Fly-Out to KRVL – CANCELED!

Unfortunately, the weather forecast for Saturday is not good for flying, so we are forced to cancel the breakfast fly-out to RVL. Depending on pilot availability and the weather forecast, we may consider adding an additional fly-out date before our next scheduled fly-out on May 3rd. Stay tuned for more information.

Octavian Codreanu

It was a full house! April membership meeting report.

We had a great chapter meeting last night! After plenty of hangar flying, we gathered in the freshly recarpeted meeting room and started the evening with the FAA Safety Team presenting Captain Robert Newman with the FAA Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award for over 50 years of safe flying.

Following that, we introduced our newest flight scholarship recipients to the membership.
Nicolas Guzman has been selected by the EAA 240 scholarship committee as our 2025 applicant for EAA National’s Ray Aviation Scholarship, which will grant him up to $12000 to obtain his private pilot certificate.

The scholarship committee also awarded Carrigan Taggart $3000 from EAA240 funds (thank you to all of our members for your renewal dues and your donations to the scholarship fund) to finish her flight training.

Following that, Jon Martin, New Garden’s airport manager, gave a presentation on upcoming airport construction projects, his trip to Sun ‘n Fun and his aircraft restoration projects.

We wrapped up the evening with a quick VMC/IMC club session, where we discussed a couple of flight scenarios, sharing ideas and discussing what would be the best way to recover from electrical or autopilot failures in flight. Participants received Wings credit from the FAA Safety Team. Thank you to Bob Huxter for organizing these sessions.

Thank you all for joining us. See you at our next meeting, scheduled for Monday, May 5th.
And if you haven’t renewed your membership for 2025 yet, please use the link below to do so:
2025 EAA 240 Membership Renewal