2008 Fly-Ins and events...
January 2008 Meeting
| When: | Saturday January 19th, Noon |
| Where: | Potluck at Joe and Vickie Wesolowski's 344-4673 |
| 11700 Suncrest Circle, Anchorage. It's just east of Victor off of Old Klatt, between Old Klatt and W Klatt Rd. |
February's Fly-In - Noon, Saturday February 16th, 2008
February 12th - Latitude 62 Restaurant in Talkeetna
Between Anchorage and Talkeetna the weather varied from indefinite ceiling, heavy blowing snow with less than a quarter mile visibility on the road to patches of clear blue sky and 30 miles of visibility. Mostly it was low, and it was snowing in Anchorage all day.
There were six of us at the table, including our newest family member. Louise and Andre brought 2 month old Mike! On the other side of the table was Jake, Vivian and Walter.
The business portion of the meeting went quickly. If you weren't there, thank you for volunteering!
March's Fly-In - Noon, Saturday March 15th, 2008
Not a pot-luck. We will order from the menu.
March 15th - Skwentna Roadhouse
Let's show up at high noon. We'll have the new patches and maybe hats if Rick is back from FL.
Call (907) 733-2726 for up to the minute conditions before you depart.
April's Fly-In - Noon, Saturday April 19th, 2008
Where: The other side of Turnagain Arm at Hope
Hosted by Todd and Barb Bureau - Adventure Alaska Tours - (907) 782-3730
Pot-luck.
June 2008
| When: | Sat June 21st 2008Noon Solstice Potluck |
| Host: | Wayne and Carrol Vance 495-7576 |
| Where: | Rustic Wilderness |
Driving Driections: Mile 80 marker of the Parks Hwy, turn left if northbound on Wilderness Rim then the second left at the runway. I am located in the middle of the field. It's the hanger with the red roof.
The runway is good but crowned so stay in the center. It looks short from the air because of the trees, but you can touch down half way down or more and still have plenty of time to stop. Total length is 2,200 feet. We usually use 122.8 the same as Willow because it’s close.
Fly safe. Wayne
November 2008 Meeting
| When: | Saturday November 8th, 11:30 AM |
| Where: | Eddie Trimmer's Hangar - Willow Airport
(907) 495-5724 |
Arrival at your discretion, we will start cooking about 11:30 or so.
Bring a side dish to complement the burgers & dogs.
Eddie's brush with fame:
In the summer of 2008, there was a short article in the Anchorage Daily News about an incident that happened at the Willow Airport. A plane took off, and immediately had a major engine problem that was severe enough that the pilot thought that the best thing to to would be to immediately put the plane down on the road instead of trying to do a 180 and land back at the airport.
The plane landed safely. They were able to push the plane safely off of the roadway. No one got hurt, nothing got bent.
They got in touch with Eddie, who was at lunch. According to the quote in the paper, Eddie said that he would head over to the stranded plane "whenever I get done eating."
The emergency happened up in the air. Once the pilot was on the ground and off of the road, the emergency was completely over, so there was no need to get over to the plane, but it just didn't sound right, so Connie and Dean Rampy had this banner created just for Eddie:
Thanks to Warren Enyeart for the photos.
If you want to see something new posted on the web site, ya gotta send something in, please!
December 2008 Meeting
Saturday Dec 6th at 2:30 PM
Potluck at Joe and Vickie Wesolowski's 344-4673
11700 Suncrest Circle, Anchorage. It's just east of Victor off of Old Klatt, between Old Klatt and W Klatt Rd.
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