Website: http://co-opa.com	          March 2014, Vol. 3, Issue 14
President's Message:

The old saying goes that March comes in like a lion and goes our like a
lamb.  That looks to be true this year, although as we know it can snow
in Bend July.  So let us seize the day and enjoy the good weather we
currently have.

Let us meet at the KBDN Flight services building at 6pm for bold tales
of flying, enjoy our infamous potluck at 6:30pm and have a short formal
meeting at 7pm.

The current weather forecast for our flyout is for Sunny and a high
of 53F with winds 5mph or less.  Hood River and Newport have similar
forecasts, so we have lots of options for this month's fly-out.  Come to
our meeting and help us decide.

Calendar:

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

19 April – Monthly Meeting
21 April – Monthly Fly-out

15 May – Monthly Meeting
17 May – Monthly Fly-out

19 June – Monthly Meeting
21 June – Monthly Fly-out

Web doings:

Dues are due!  Both for OPA and for CO-OPA.  CO-OPA dues are $10/yr, and
you can pay them to Gary Miller <gem@rellim.com>.

OPA dues are $25/yr, and you can pay them online on their web site:
www.oregonpilot.org

The OPA and CO-OPA are your best bargain in aviation.  You membership
helps fund local and statewide meetings as well as the many legislative
and community outreach prorgams to help protect GA flying as we know it.

If anyone has any cool links to add to the CO-OPA web page let me know.

Check out current and past CO-OPA newsletters, view our membership list 
and view hot aviation links on our website at: co-opa.com               

To access the members only areas the username is “BDN” and the
password is “123.0”

February Fly-Out:

In yet another fantastic break in the weather, CO-OPA was able to take
two airplanes south to Chiloquin (2S7) for our February Fly-out.

Ken Muinch had battery problems with his one year old Gill G-25.  Ken
claimed the battery never worked as expected.  I have heard this story
of the Gill's repeated a lot recently..

Not wanting to get stuck with a dead battery Ken hopped a ride with Gary
Miller and Maxwell in N6157R.  Also along for the trip were Mike and Ann
Bond in their Cardinal.

As we approached 2S7 all three tie down spaces were occupied, but as
we taxied in all three left and parking was fine.  Good thing the
timing as it did.  2S7 is usually considered a one way strip and two
of the airplanes never used their radios and the third only once. The
pattern could have been very interesting with simultaneous landings and
takeoffs.

As always, lunch at Melitas was fast, good and inexpensive.  Followed by
a nice hike in the woods to the west.  We only got lost once, really.

Ken reports that he installed a new Concorde battery and his plane is
now performing as expected.


Random Thoughts:

In other news, Jay Buning, has a new son, Oliver.  Born March 2nd
at a healthy 7 lbs and 10oz.  As you can see from the photo, Jay is
indoctrinating the poor child to the dark side of aviation already.

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