Executive Flyers October 2003 Newsletter

Congratulations to:

Eric Teilborg for passing his CFI check ride in August (sorry Eric); Jim Fischer for passing his CFI checkride; Neal Davis for passing his private pilot checkride and Weston Kearney and Joe Ryder for winning the monthly drawing of an hour of instruction or a month’s dues.

Aviation Career Seminar

We will be having a free Aviation Career Seminar on Saturday, October 18th in the conference room at Executive Airport. It will start at 9:00 am and run for two to three hours. If you are interested in a career in aviation, or know someone who might be, please call the office to sign up. We will have pilots at various stages of their careers talk about flying for a living. There will be handouts on flying and careers. Several of our past instructors started at these seminars and are now flying for the airlines.

Welcome

Welcome to two new instructors on the Executive Flyers staff: Ryan Callawayand Eric Teilborg. Eric did his training with us and Ryan, after getting his private license with us, did the rest at Flight Safety. They are both excellent pilots and instructors.

New Chevron gas cards

There are Chevron gas cards in all the aircraft books now. They may be used at the fuel pumps at Executive Airport if you enter a PIN number. It is the same as the number on the lock on the after hours box. You may use the cards for fuel from the fuel truck at Executive Airport without a PIN. However, since we get a discount for using the Chevron cards, the difference is now forty-five cents a gallon! If you are unable to use the pump for physical or safety reasons, please use the truck. If you are just in a hurry or just don't want to use the pump, please consider telling us that you got the fuel from the truck and that you are willing to have us put the extra charge on your bill. This is not mandatory now, but will help.

Potpourri

When you are entering the flight time in the black key book, please remember to log the Hobbs time to the highest 1/10 that you can see in the window. Round the Tach time off to the nearest whole number, no decimals. Never, ever allow passengers to exit or board the plane with the engine running! We will not be able to accept more than $1000 on your account in advance of flying from now on. Always leave the tie down spot in the second row closest to the hangars open for the twin.

Instrument Weather

The weather is starting to cool off and clouds are forecast for the coming week. This is a great time to start thinking about getting your instrument rating. We'll be starting an instrument ground school in November, so call the office to sign up for the course. If you are instrument rated, pull out your logbook to see if you have six approaches, holding pattern work and have intercepted and tracked electronic radials in the past six months. If not, get together with a flight instructor or a safety pilot to “get current”. If it has been more than a year since you were current, you'll need to take an instrument proficiency check with at CFI. For those of you who are not instrument rated, it’s time to start checking weather more carefully before each flight. The morning may be clear and crisp, but the fog may come in an hour after you take off. Watch the temperature/ dew point spread in the weather reports for differences of less than 5 degrees Fahrenheit or 3 degrees Celsius. These conditions indicate that fog is likely to form.

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last modified September 30, 2003 by callaway@execflyers.com