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Thought you might be interested in reading the form letter 'response' rec'd from my state Senator... more than 4 months after I emailed her office. And, no, she was not one of the 28 Senators signed a letter and sent it to FAA Administrator Huerta.

Not surprisingly then, her canned response appears fabricated to spark outrage at Sequestration rather than answer the REAL question... why the FAA is allowed to ignore a Congressional directive against user fees and demand additional payments for items that have already been budgeted for (FAA sends 64-80 controllers to AirVenture each year, selected by FAA management at the Central Service Area. These are all full-time FAA  controllers/supervisors, so the selected employees would be paid anyway, if they were not temporarily reassigned to AirVenture. Thus, the $500K FAA demanded from EAA was not for controller salaries, but for the added expenses related to working at AirVenture, such as lodging, per diem, and overtime.).

No response from my House Reps to date. Curious if anyone else who took the time to send their protest letter rec'd a response from their elected Congressional representatives?

 

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

To Me

 

Oct 22 at 3:44 PM

 

 

 

 

October 22, 2013

 

 

Dear Friend,

 

Thank you for contacting me regarding the decision by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to change a fee for air traffic control services for major aviation events around the country.  I understand your concerns.

 

As you may know, the FAA's policy change was a result of budget sequestration.  This law has forced federal agencies to make significant cuts, in addition to the FAA budget, reducing services across the nation.  Sequestration put in place draconian cuts to numerous programs including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Head Start, and the Women Infant and Children programs.  I voted against this unbalanced approach.  While I agree that we need to return to a path of fiscal responsibility, I do not believe this is the way to do it.

 

Safe and efficient air travel is critical to New York's economy, providing an essential mode of transportation for hundreds of thousands of people every day.  We need a well-balanced approach to our budget to ensure that that our skies are safe without placing the costs on the backs of American families.  

 

Thank you again for writing to express your concerns, and I hope you keep in touch with my office regarding future federal legislation. For more information on this and other important issues, please visit my website at http://gillibrand.senate.gov and sign up for my e-newsletter.

 

 

Sincerely,

Kirsten E. Gillibrand
United States Senator

2nd Annual Boonville Salute To Veterans Fly In

Willits EAA Chapter 1027 and the Boonville Wing of EAA 1027 announce the second annual Salute To Veterans fly-in. This is our time to honor all of our veterans that fought for the freedoms we enjoy which include our freedom to fly. The event is to be held at Boonville airport, D83, on Sunday, November 10th from 11 AM to 3 PM.

http://eaa1027.org/

I'm looking for an Enclosed Trailer for my Mark IV Speedwing.

I plan to trailer it long distances to fly out of various airstrips around the West.

The minimum folded width is 7 ft. 10 in.  I've already discoverd that the 8 1/2 ft wide trailers which have an 8 ft wide interior have a rear door opening that's less than 7 ft. 10 in.

  Any information here would be helpful.

I averaged out all your suggestions and went with a 140 max.  Found the best price at  from Gulf Coast Avionics.

I have over 8000 messages in my Yahoo account The email search function actually works pretty well. Any topics that you guys can think of off the top of your head that might contain some good tech info that I can so searching for? I went over a year without even logging in over there so I'm a bit behind.

today I was cruising airspeed 115 ..gps said 117 ,,pretty calm for the most part but weather was saying 5 mph winds ( tail wind at the time) so my ASI is off 2 mph

Amen to that.

I do not know how many use the enmail option at yahoo. I never have. I log on to the web and look at the posts I am interested in, just like I do on this site. I personally have no use for an email option. It would just further plug up my already over-spammed email account!

Check out the Spruce catalog for more info - some 120 to 160 mph ASI have lower markings than others - Think my 150 I got from Spruce is marked at 10 or 20 - in storage with panel right now.

EDMO

Anything over 100 and I don't wanna know how fast it's going

I would go atleast 120.. VNE on some of these is 135, and I routinely have it hitting 115-120 in a decent.. Well, that is 120 on the dream-o-meter anyway   The GPS rarely shows over 100 unless I have a big tail wind.

Sounds like a challenge! I challenge each and every one of you to get on the Yahoo site and do a search a for a topic that helped you out along the way. Copy and paste the relevant information into a thread on here and I will sort through it and post it where it needs to go. I've already moved most of the Files into our files section but I can't do this alone guys. The info is out there it just needs people to take the time to find it and post it. Hell just tell me what info you think would be useful and I will put in my own time to extract it.

If you buy one get the Zero to 100mph gauge. I can't tell you now many Avids and Kitfoxs I've seen with 180mph ASI in them. The first tick mark on your indicator in a 100mph airplane should not be 40! That's like having a speedo that goes to 200 in a Pinto. Makes no sense.

Chris,

Just so ya know, it was not meant to be a hack on the guys trying to run it or the mods, its just the site itself and yahoo's new found interest in making everything more difficult to use.  I know I have had hell the last few weeks and for most of this year dealing with hackers and server issues so I know how quickly you can go from a hero to a zero when the site is down, running slow, or in someway not meeting someones expectations.  I know you have contributed alot of awesome ideas and tech info to this site and it is appreciated!  But at the end of the day, the majority sees that a forum based site is alot easier to search and navigate than the old YH groups or email list.

I am working on an email option for this site so that, if you wanted, you can get a daily digest of the site activity.  A few of the guys that mod the forum software have been working on it and hope to have it up and running soon.

I am a moderator on the Avid Yahoo group. I used to like it a lot and spent a great deal of time learning and contributing. The format was simple and a ton of good people and information are there. Recently they changed the format and now when I post, they don't show up half the time. It's also tons slower and a buttload of advertising clogs the whole thing up. I love the people there, but the site sucks now. I wish there were a way to move all the files, knowledge and history away from there.

But I am not the creator of the site, just a moderator. One of several moderators the original creator of the site asked to do the job when he sold his plane. it would be tragic to lose all the info there, because while difficult, you can search by topic and find every conversation that was ever had and there is a lot of accumulated information and knowledge there.

But I too think the yahoo site is going the way of the Dodo if yahoo doesn't do something to clean it up and speed it up.

Chris

Western Antique Aero and Auto Museum, yeah baby!

Yhaaa, but the grumpyolmen part...really

DA..that was 3 1/8, asw wants 2 /14

I have a whole panel of 2 1/4 I'm sure i am not going to use

but I'll be in San Diego till the 31 ft.

I tried like hell to get Steve W. to join up over here years ago.  Seems some people don't like the site because it is not all strictly business and you all are free to talk about damn near anything you want to here as well as the Avid's or Kitfox's   Steve is one of the more knowledgeable guys in respect to those who know the idiosyncrasies of the various models etc.  John would be an awesome resource to tap into as well.

I always thought it was a bad idea to spend all that money training people to be soldiers and then basically firing them by downsizing the armed forces, Lets see Weapons training that a police force never gets, people used to pulling triggers and people who have sworn an oath to protect the country against all threats foreign or domestic, bad idea to piss them off.

Speaks volumes for the basic principles and thought process for the imposter in chief.

ahhhh, I remember now grasshopper.. Well at least I know I am not totally losing my mind hahahaha I knew I had one at one point

Leni, you did have an asi, you gave it to me for the mod 3

I always thought it was a bad idea to spend all that money training people to be soldiers and then basically firing them by downsizing the armed forces, Lets see Weapons training that a police force never gets, people used to pulling triggers and people who have sworn an oath to protect the country against all threats foreign or domestic, bad idea to piss them off.

Some body need to move all of the good information that Steve Winters put on the Yahoo group over here, When I first got my Avid I read that group from beginning to end and he had all of the tubing diameters and thicknesses plus a lot of the lengths for building the different models. I used them when I rebuilt my fuselageand took everything up to MarkIV specs, I know the wings weren't the only thing involved in the weight increase, so I changed spar carry throughs and strut carry throughs the only thing I didn't change was the rudder, although I have always thought that I could make the change later if I need it.

I hope PT goes well, I just got cleared to do PT from my last back surgery, I still work on my planes on good days I am welding on bad days I do math and drawings, I have to keep busy or I go nuts.