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Chapter Officers
President:
Bill Repucci
704-607-4572
Vice President:
Bob Thayer
704-578-9559
Secretary:
Bob Allen
704-892-4095
Treasurer:
Ron & Kandy Murray
704-663-5521
Directors:
Chuck Porter, Tad Sargent, Hal Schwab, Dean Unterreiner, Randy Utsey
Young Eagles
Coordinator: Hal Schwab
Technical Counselors: Kent Ashton, Glenn Babcock, Ronnie Brown, Dale Ensing, Ron Murray, Neil Stewart, and John Wigney Flight Advisors:
Dale Ensing & Ronnie Brown
Newsletter & Web Page Editor:
Ronnie Brown
704.892.5122
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EAA 309 January Dinner Meeting
Our Dinner will be at the Captain's Galley, 11032 E Independence Blvd beginning at 7:00 PM. Hangar talk starts at 6:30.
Our speaker will be Bob Crumley candidate for NC Attorney General. As an aviation buff and fellow pilot, Bob has had great success building a broad coalition of supporters from the GA world. In fact, he has already held his first annual fly-in in Mt. Airy, and plans are in the works to hold even more in 2008. It is vitally important to have a fellow GA member and pilot on the Council of State. If elected, Bob will be North Carolina's top advocate for General Aviation. But, we need your help and help from other GA enthusiasts across the state. If at all possible, we'd like to have Bob come and speak to your chapter, and if possible, maybe even hold another fly-in.
FMI contact Bill Repucci at bill@repucci.com or call him at 704-607-4572. Bill has asked for suggestions for other Charlotte Area restaurants with meeting rooms.
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ties, and finally location. Regardless of where the hangar is eventually located, we will continue with our roving monthly dinner meetings.
John and I have discussed the hangar project at length and one of our goals is to provide a facility that will serve the needs of the chapter for years to come. This includes amenities and access to the majority of our members. We realize not every member of the chapter flies an airplane that can safely operate in and out of a 2,000 foot grass strip, and although we are trying to accommodate everyone. That may OR may not be the case when we announce the location in the coming months. Before you start writing me that Email, we are not looking at any 2,000 foot grass strips for the hangar location.
In the end, the board expects our members will be happy with the final decision.
Foot work:
While flying around with my father-in-law Larry, who is also a pilot, we started discussing flight exercises that would help him learn how to use the rudder peddles. Although Larry has a few hundred hours, he has no tail wheel time. During the course of our last flight together he did five take-offs and landings in my tail wheel RV and
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The major issue we face as a chapter is where in the Charlotte metropolitan area do we locate a hangar that all of us can and will use? If we lived in a small town with only one 2,000 foot grass airport, then no one would think twice about driving 30 miles across town to a chapter hangar located there. But we don't live in that small town; we live in and around Charlotte where there are a number of airports of different sizes and no one is central to our membership. Regardless of where we locate the hangar, we fear we may disenfranchise some of our members.
Editor's Note: As Bill mentions above, there is no airport in a central location. Here are some mileages from the center of Charlotte - Trade and Tryon Streets intersection to:
- Concord Regional- 17 miles
- Goose Creek - 21
- Monroe Airport- 21
- Gastonia Muni - 22
- Lake Norman Airpark - 30
- Lincoln County Airport - 31
With that in mind, the Board has elected to move forward with a hangar at whatever location provides us with the best incentives in terms of costs, facili
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