Website http://co-opa.com	September 2021, Vol. 21, Issue 9

President's Message:

Time for our CO-OPA Monthly Meeting, on September 16th, the Third
Thursday of the month. Be in the Bend Builders Assist hanger 63030
Powell Butte Road on the south west corner of KBDN, at 6pm, or be
square. Bring your own dinner, and we’ll eat right away before food
get cold. After we eat and chat there are always things for us to
discuss.

Once again, many thanks go out to Mike Robertson, and Mike Wissing,
for letting us use their space.

The Weather Underground forcast for Saturday, our Fly-out day, is for
90% chance for ½ inch of rain mid-day. Looking like another Fly-out
breakfast at CJ’s at the Airport. The Sunday forecast to become nice
by 10am. Weather.gov is a bit more pesimistic about Sunday. Maybe we can
do decide Saturday to do something Sunday?

Newsletter Inputs:

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

http://co-opa.com

Please send comments and story ideas to: gem@rellim.com

Fly-out (not):

Our August Fly-out was similar to much of August. It did not happen.
Uncertainty about smoke and an incoming weather system was too much. In
the end, the low clouds won out over the smoke. So instead the Fly-out
became a breakfast at CJ’s at the Airport. I’d have more to say
about it, but due to an alarm clock malfunction, I missed it.

Bend Airport Master Plan:

August saw the 5th meeting of the Planning Advisory Commitee (PAC).
The new plan is starting to be fleshed out. The Plan website is here:

https://www.bendoregon.gov/government/departments/economic-development/bend-municipal-airport/airport-master-plan

Or just google “Bend Airport Master Plan”. On the master plan
page, click on “DRAFT Working Paper #2” to see 209 pages of the
current plan. But no final drawings.

As soon as the plan is accepted, the airport is recommended to start
planning for an Aircraft Control Tower (ATCT), and to have it completed
by 2025. The location will be east of the runway, exact location TBD.
Also TBD is whether it will be a tradition ATCT or a “remote tower”.
A remote tower involes putting up a lot of web cams, and putting the air
traffic controller in a ground floor office on the airport.

In the next few years (2022 or 2023) a roundabout will be added at
the Powell Butte Highway and Butler Market intersection. Depending
on funding, and a lot of negotiations, Powell Butte Highway will be
relocated later to the north, and 1,060 feet will be added to the runway
on the north end. In the very long term, and additional 1,400 would be
added to the south end of the runway.

Calendar:

16 September – Monthly Meeting
18 September – Monthly Fly-out

21 October – Monthly Meeting
23 October – Monthly Fly-out

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