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Archive: NOTAMS2009
| Plane found
Wed, 16 Jun 2010 An RC plane was picked out of the Willamette River on Wednesday, June 16. No name or telephone number appeared on the plane. I checked with Eugene Toy & Hobby. A salesperson said he may know the owner but doesn't know that person's name. Meanwhile, I wondered whether anyone in your organization has reported a missing plane? If so, have that person get in touch with me. Dean Rea (a former ERCA member) Email: deanrea@comcast.net |
Super Dri aviation smoke oil - group buy? If we can get 10 guys to buy a 55 gallon drum, it will cut the cost down to $8.80/gal. Otherwise, it will be $14.54/gal directly from MDW. Khoi kmtranmd@hotmail.com 6-8-10
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6-6-10
NOAA2
(This is a new link added to weather page. Much more detailed
info. Thanks for suggesting it Don)This site offers a lot more detailed information than the NOAA site you have linked….and I think to any other weax site. Take a peek, I think you will agree….Don Hansen |
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5-30-10
Jim, please distribute this to as many people in the club as possible.-Pat --- Friends, It is not a time to panic, but it is a time to plan. Before the rumors start to spread and get our of control, here is what happened: I spoke with Mike Burgess today and he has been offered a great sum of money for 70 of his 80 acres of property. The Federal Government would like to convert those 70 acres to wetlands and pay Mike $250,000 to do so. Mike would still own the property and could hunt on it. The affected area would not be able to be improved on or farmed. Mike said he does not plan to use our leased 2 acres as part of that plan; however, it is possible that if he goes through with it, the Feds will close down our field to avoid having our hobby activities disturb the wildlife. One of Mike's neighbors apparently does not like the noise of the airplanes, even though he is quite a ways away, but he may try and influence the Feds in that direction. If they decide to leave us be, the wetland area will receive a lot of new trees, possibly some rather large ones. As you can imagine, after a few years, our flying site would become much less desirable. So, our worst case scenario is that Mike sells the land and we get shut down. This could happen within two years. Mike would then buy us out of the contract we have with him. If we were allowed to stay, we would have only a few more years before the trees would start to create problems for us. We don't know how close they would end up being to our runway, but I imagine they could plant them wherever they want and we could have trees near our borders. The best case scenario, of course, is that the deal won't happen and we can continue flying through the end of our lease, (five more years) and then hopefully renew it. I see this as unlikely given that it is a pretty large sum of money that is being offered to Mike. This is not a time to be upset with Mike. He has to look out for his livelihood and his family's future, which is, and should be, a higher priority to him than our flying field. If we can make it sweeter to keep us and keep us untouched in our current location, that would be ideal. Now, my friends, is the time to start taking some action. I have some recommendations: 1 - We freeze all spending on field improvements and unnecessary expenses, effective immediately. 2 - We all need to start looking for possible new flying sites in preparation for the worst case scenario. 3 - We need to contact the AMA to see what their ideas are in this area since they have a whole division devoted to saving existing flying sites from this type of issue. 4 - We all need to put our heads together and start coming up with solutions. We like this hobby way too much to abandon it altogether. 5 - Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. If you want to discuss this with me, please give me a call or email me. I'm as upset about this as you are, but I'm sure we can all put our heads together and keep this club going. We always have, and we always will. Patrick Willis p-willis@msn.com --- 5-31-10
Please refrain from talking to Mike individually and get him upset.The club officers will dicuss with him the details of his offering and communicate the information to the membership at the next meeting. Khoi --- MARK GIESSEN wrote: For what it's worth, the short mountain flying site was considered a wet land as well. There were a few Environmentalists trying to cause the club a little grief and there also was a distant neighbor who complained about the noise. As I recall none of these caused the loss of the short mountain flying site. We angered the county when they expanded there land fill cells and endangered their employees with poor flying practices (mainly by flying toward operating machinery). We can be a good steward near a wet land, we have done it before. A little out reach to government and neighbors may go along way. --- |
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