EAA493 Mailing List: Re: Minutes of 4-17-18 meeting

[rreece (rreece]

Don, just a small correction. I manned the table on Tuesday morning until about 
1:00P.M.. I got sick and I went into the hospital until Friday evening. Thanks,
Bob




---- Don Smucker via EAA493 <eaa493 [at] fly-web.us> wrote: 
> Attached and set out below are the proposed minutes for the April 17, 2018 
> EAA Ch 493 monthly meeting.  Please let me know if there are any recommended 
> changes.
> 
> Don Smucker, Secretary.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     EAA 493    
>     Minutes of April 17, 2018 Monthly Meeting
> 
> The April 17, 2018 monthly meeting of EAA Chapter 493 was called to order by 
> President Bob Reece at 7pm in the renovated conference room of the Terminal 
> building, Mathis Field, San Angelo, Texas.  17 members, 1 new member and 1 
> guest were present.  Upon voice vote, the Minutes of the March, 2018 meeting 
> of the Chapter were approved as published on the Chapter Reflector.  New 
> member Philip Meredith from San Angelo joined the Chapter and was introduced 
> by Bob Reece and welcomed into the membership.  Philip is a CFI, A&P, and 
> owns a Tripacer based at Ballinger.  Mike Plecenik also rejoined Chapter 493. 
>  Treasurer Andy Spinks gave the Treasurer’s report (current balance of 
> $1,737.73), which was approved by voice vote.
> 
> Old business.  VP Ron Lentz reported on interest and contacts from the public 
> at the EAA Ch 493 table set up at the Collings Foundation/American Heritage 
> Museum sponsored Wings Of Freedom Tour at Skyline Aviation held at Mathis 
> Field on April 2-4.  Ron and Andy Spinks manned the table.  Ron asked that 
> the new contacts be added to the EAA Ch 493 Reflector.  In passing it was 
> noted that several members were having difficulty receiving Reflector 
> notifications.  Don Smucker agreed to test the system and work with those 
> members to make sure they were receiving notifications and emails properly.
> 
> The first New Business item was reported by President Bob Reece.  Bob 
> reported that he was contacted by the Fredericksburg EAA chapter.  They had 
> scheduled a Young Eagles flying session that was rained out, and wanted to 
> know if/when our chapter would be holding our next Young Eagles program and 
> if we would notify them in advance so they could send interested kids to our 
> chapter for the next flying activity.  We do not have any Young Eagles 
> programs currently scheduled.  Bob passed the contact information and notes 
> from the Fredericksburg Chapter call to Don Treadwell, our Chapter’s Young 
> Eagles coordinator.  
> 
> The next new business was from Bob Reece.  Bob mentioned that a 
> Fredericksburg pilot purchased a flight simulator and paced it at the 
> Fredericksburg airport.  She is making the simulator available to anyone 
> wanting simulator time, at $40 per hour.  If interested, contact Gwen 
> Holbrook, 830-456-2623.  (Skyline also has a large Redbird flight simulator 
> available for rent/use).
> 
> The next item was also from Bob Reece, who reported that instrument rated and 
> CFI new member Philip Meredith informed him that the EAA website now has free 
> instrument training videos, training instrument condition scenarios and 
> related blogs and training materials, under the name of the IMC Club.  EAA 
> members (and the public at large) can access that free information at 
> www.EAA.org/imc.  Bob also mentioned that the May program will be a speaker 
> from the FAA Lubbock office.
> 
> There being no further business on motion made, seconded and passed by voice 
> vote, the business portion of the meeting was adjourned.  Vice President Ron 
> Lentz introduced (not that he needed any introduction!) Pat Nuytten, who 
> presented a very informative program on the new FAA Basic Med replacement for 
> 3rd class medicals for most private pilots flying non-commercial 
> applications.    For more information, check out FAA Advisory Circular AC 
> 68-1A, or go to www.FAA.gov/GO/BasicMed  (this website also has a 
> downloadable .pdf version of AC 68-1A).  After the program, the meeting was 
> adjourned for social time, with refreshments provided by Treasurer Andy 
> Spinks.