Website http://co-opa.com	November 2023, Vol. 23, Issue 11

President's Message:

It is November 16th, the Third Thursday of the month, time for our
monthly CO-OPA meeting. Head on over to the Bend Builders Assist hanger,
63030 Powell Butte Road, on the south west corner of KBDN, at 6pm for
our monthly meeting. 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.

Per our usual, there will be no December CO-OPA meeting. Looks like
the EAA Holiday Party has limited capacity and is already sold out. Next
CO-OPA will be in the dark and cold of January.

Airplanes 4 Sale:

Faye Phillips reports that her nice Cherokee is for sale. Gary Miller
is also selling T210F. Anyone want to buy and airplane?

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.

Calendar:

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

December – NO Monthly Meeting
23 December – Monthly Fly-out???

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

Newsletter Inputs:

Current and past CO-OPA newsletters, are on our website at:
https://co-opa.org

Please send comments and story ideas to:

     gem@rellim.com

Proposed Rules and Regulations

Not content with annoying all the ground lease holders, the City
of Bend is now coming for the rest of us. They have proposed numerous
changes to the Airport Rules and Regulations. They essentially ban
independent CFIs, independent A&Ps, independent IAs, all drones, small
ground schools, small commercial operations, non-KBDN based CFIs, etc.
Something to annoy everyone!

The City claims to be doing this to abide by FAA Grant Assurances,
but the FAA people I have talked to said they had never heard of any
rules this wacky. Grant assurances require the city to treat all airport
users fairly and equally, not ban most of them outright. The AOPA is
also examining the document and may have comments for us later.

More info on the city web site:

https://www.bendoregon.gov/government/departments/transportation-mobility/bend-municipal-airport/airport-rules-and-regulations

There will be another open house on the topic on November 29, from
5-7 pm in City Council Chambers.

Public comments, limited to 1,000 characters, can be left on this page:

http://www.bendoregon.gov/government/departments/real-estate/airport-public-comments

Please leave your comments soon. The deadline for comments is
December 8th.

Friends or Bend Airport has taken up the case, holding meetings on
the topic.

 More information on their website:

    https://friendsofbendairport.com/