Website http://co-opa.com                April 2024, Vol. 24, Issue 2

President's Message:

The daffodils are up, the neighbors are doing Spring Cleaning. And
good flying weather is here. Come discuss it at our April meeting on the
18th. the Third Thursday of the month, Head on over to the Bend Builders
Assist hanger, 63030 Powell Butte Road, on the south west corner of
KBDN, at 6pm. Bring your own dinner, and we’ll eat right away before
food get cold. As always, many thanks go out to Mike Robertson, and Mike
Wissing, for letting us use their space.

Madras Airport Day:

Madras Airport )S33) will host an Airport Day, and Yourg Eagles event
on June 1st, from 8am to 1pm.

The event will be open to the public and free for attendees. This
will be an opportunity for pilots, aviation businesses, and flight
schools to highlight what is available in aviation through careers and
education. To make this event a success, aviation business, pilots,
aircraft mechanics along with volunteers will work together to share
aviation with our community. If you are interested in collaborating on
the event, then call Lorraine Martinelly, Madras Airport Manager. at
541-777-4935/

Proposed Rules and Regulations

Another month, still silence from the City of Bend about a red-lined
copy of the Airport Rules and Regulations. No news, is just no news.
Your guess about where the city is at is as good mine. Fingers crossed.

Visit the Friends of Bend Airport (FoBA) website for the latest:

    https://friendsofbendairport.com/

ZSE, DSD, KRDM:

The airpsace around Redmond Airport (KRDM), and its approach and
departure corridors, continues to be problematic. But it is improving.
The current problem area is just Northwest of the Prineville Airport
(S39). Traffic doing a long straight in to runway 33 will be flying
under the approach for KRDM runway 23. Even when you are below the
approach corridor, ZSE must assume nothing about you altitude, unless
they have verified your altitude. So keep it tight.there

Be sure to always listen on 126.15 when you are within about 30 miles
of KRDM. Then, and ONLY then, squawk 1237, to let ZSE know you are
listening. Squawking 1237 when you are not listening on 126.15 may cause
extra confusion.

Calendar:

18 April – Monthly Meeting
20 April – Monthly Fly-out

18 May – Monthly Meeting
20 May – Monthly Fly-out

1 June – Madras Airport Day
8-9 June -- ODART Whale Run
22- June – Monthly Meeting
22 June – Monthly Fly-out

Oooops:

I had a brain fart, and let a domain squatter get control of
co-opa.com. All the old and new content has moved over to co-opa.org.

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