Website http://co-opa.com	February 2020, Vol. 20, Issue 2

President's Message:

In like a lion, out like a lamb? The weather for our January meeting
was downright ugly, not so this month! So no reason at all not to come
meet in the Bend Builder’s Assist hanger on the Third Thursday, 20
February. The street address is 63030 Powell Butte Hwy. Many thanks to
Mike Robertson allowing us to use his space. Bring something yummy to
share at our 6:30pm potluck. Then we will finish up a short informal
meeting a 7pm.

Scary how good the weather has been this month. This Saturday, our
Fly-out day continues the trend. Wunderground forecasts mostly sunny,
highs 55F with light and variable winds. At least on our side of the
Cascades. Where should we go?

New Airport Manager:

Bend short listed four very qualified applicants to replace the
retied Gary Judd as Bend Airport Manager. The rumor is that one has been
selected, but I have been unable to confirm that yet. After meeting them
all, I can say that no matter who was selected we will get a good one.

Fly-Out (not):

The January weather did not improve between our Meeting day and
Fly-out day. So we headed to The Pickled Pig on the Bend Airport for our
Fly-Not day.

Calendar:

20 February – Monthly Meeting
22 February – Monthly Fly-out

19 March – Monthly Meeting
20 March – Monthly Fly-out

16 April – Monthly Meeting
18 April – Monthly Flyout

Prineville (S39) Change:

On March 26, Prineville Airport will change their CTAF from 122.8 to
122.7. If we are lucky maybe the charts will change at the same time and
pilots will notice. I plan to tune both 122.8 and 122.7 for a while.

FAA Safety Meeting

The FAA Satety Meeting at Epic Aircraft last month wass well attended
and all that attended had their eyes opened. 45% of all the Resolution
Advisories (Ras) in the entire Seattel Center (ZSE) area are near the
Deschutes (DSD) VOR.

The conflicts are most common when traffic to redmon Airport (KRDM)
are landing on Runway 5. Traffic departing Bend Airport (KBDN) heads
towards the VOR, and crosses diretly though the final approach course to
Runway 5. See the chart on page 2.

There are several things that KBDN pilots can do to avoid the
conflicting airspace.

One: when flying to/from KBDN on the north, fly over the KRDM Class
D, not over the VOR.

Two: Contact, or at least listen, to center on 126.15.

Three: instead of holding over DSD, use one of the other published
holding patterns.

Four: listen to KRDM AWOS on 119.025 to know when they are landing on
Runway 5.

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