Website http://co-opa.com                  June 2022, Vol. 22, Issue 6

President's Message:

When is summer going to get started. It is supposed to rain again
this Friday and into Saturday morning. Bring your thoughts to our CO-OPA
Monthly Meeting on the 16th of June,, the usual Third Thursday of the
month. We’ll gather in 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.

The forecast for out Fly-out on Saturday keeps changing, and
different sources disagree. Weather.gov thinks mostly cloudy 30% chance
of showers, light winds. Weather Underground is more optimistic at 15%
chance of showers, but cloudy. We may have to plan a Fly-out, and a Not
Fly-out at the meeting, and decide after looking at the forecasts again
on Friday.

Open House:

Not a lot new at the KBDN Open House, but a lot of details are
getting firmed up. Looks like the first runway closure will start just
after Labor Day weekend, with the runway re-opened before our Fly-out
day. The county is getting serious about a roundabout at Butler Market
and Power Butte highway, details TBD. The KBDN runway numbers will
change to 17/35, but not for several more years. A tower is coming, but
not before 2025.

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Calendar:

16 June – Monthly Meeting
18 June – Monthly Fly-out
18-19 June – Moses Lake Airshow
22 June – Deschutes Flying Club Open House
25 June – Cottage Grove Wings & Wheels
25 June – Klamath Falls A-10 demo

4 July – Sisters Fly-in
8-9 July – Wallowa County Fly-in
21 July – Monthly Meeting
23 July – Monthly Fly-out

18 August – Monthly Meeting
20 August – Monthly Fly-out
27-28 August – Airshow of the Cascades

Deschutes Flying Club:

It finally happened. Bend now has a flying club. They have a hanger,
and a nice Cessna 172 to rent. Anyone interested should attend their
open house on the 22nd at 6pm, in hanger 63290-I8. More details at:

https://deschutesflyingclub.org/

Fly-out:

Finally, nice weather for a Fly-out. 6 fliers decided to head over
the rock pile to Mulino State Airport (4S9). Another gent from Salem
joined us up there. No longer owned by the Port of Portland, 4S9 doing
well under state ownership. Most of those on the trip had never been
there, a real easy airport, except for the constant hail of sky divers
and dealing with the helpful folks on Portland Approach.

On landing, we hiked over the airport grass to the adjacent Vaquero
Express restaurant for a fine meal and fine conversation. During lunch,
clouds had piled up over the Cascades, but the clouds bases also lifted,
so the path home underneath was clear. A good time was had by all.