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DOPE SHEET

FOR 62 YEARS — THE NEWSLETTER OF

CHAPTER 13 OF THE EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION

SERVING SPORT AVIATION IN THE DETROIT AREA

Volume 62 Number 2 website: EAACHAPTER13.ORG February 2017

February Presentation Flight to the Florida Keys

Brian Wezensky

Travel log presentations to distant locations, by Chap-ter #13 members, are al-ways of interest to the rest of us. Who of us does not think about traversing the country in our own aircraft?

Well, there is one amongst us who has just accom-plished that feat. Brian Wezensky will share with us his adventure to the Flor-ida Keys in his V-tail Beech-

craft Bonanza. Be sure to be with us at the regular February meeting to greet him and to get the story

first hand. Ed

January Presentation FAAST Team Manager Gary Knaggs

Submitted by Bill Appleberry

This January our Chapter was paid a return visit by Gary Knaggs and Pat Ryan. Gary and Pat are FAASTeam Program Managers working out of the Willow Run Flight Standards District Office or FSDO. FAAST is an acro-nym for the FAA Safety Team. The topic of Gary's p r e s e n t a t i o n w a s

"Compliance Philosophy and Remedial Training". Compliance Philosophy is a new way the FAA is dealing with rule violations and other types of issues that compromise safety. The FAA, in its efforts to further reduce accidents in the airspace system, has reevaluated its procedures in dealing with events that build or construct the accident chain. Most acci-dents, being the result of more than one contributing factor or link, may be averted by successfully resolv-ing one or more of the failure points. According to Gary the new compliance philosophy is intended to foster an atmosphere of cooperation with the avia-tion community by encouraging voluntary information flow back and forth between the FAA and the people the FAA oversees. Links in the accident chain in-clude human factors, faulty procedures (maintenance, cockpit resource management, equip-ment operation, etc.). The goal of the new compli-ance philosophy is remove the fear of adverse action to an FAA or airspace rule infraction. If a pilot or an aviation mechanic or inspector encounters an issue that adversely affects safety they will be able to re-port it to the local FSDO without fear of punishment

REGULAR MEETINGS

1ST

Thursday of Each Month

Our regular meeting place is Ray Community Airport, in the Chapter #13 hangar (#304) lo-cated on the Northeast corner of the field. The address is 59819 Indian Trail. Meeting time is 7:30pm to 10pm. Burgers and dogs are avail-able for a donation between 6:30 and 7:30pm.

Our Hangar, No. 304

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EAA Chapter #13 Officers President Rex Phelps

586 918 3838 [email protected]

Vice President Mike Fisher


Treasurer Steve Greene


Secretary Cliff Durand


Newsletter Editor Tom Vukonich


Asst News Editor Bill Appleberry


Tech Counselor Bob Hunt


Tech Counselor Ron Walters


Tech Counselor Chuck Valade


Young Eagles Coord Dennis Glaeser


Building and Grounds Pete Dugdale


Chapter Calendar 2017

Feb 2 Regular Meeting* 7:30-10 pm

9 Officers’ Meeting** 7:30 pm

Mar 2 Regular Meeting* 7:30-10 pm


Apr 6 Regular Meeting* 7:30-10 pm


*All Regular Meetings (not all are listed) will have a pre-meeting Bar-B-Q/Setup that starts at 6:30 pm. **Officers’ Meetings are normally held the 2nd Thursday of each month, in President Rex Phelps’s hangar, 420C.

Speaker Review (Cont)

should it be due to some error on their part. Ac-cording to Gary, if an airman gets the dreaded "please call the tower" after landing, it would be best to do so and cooperate with those personnel in any way you can. An atmosphere of cooperation will result in a constructive remedial plan of action that will not go on your record. To adopt an adver-sarial attitude could result in an enforcement action against your pilot’s certificate. A key element in the compliance philosophy is risk based decision mak-ing or RBDM. The idea of RBDM is to reduce as much as possible the odds of having an accident by analyzing all the various aspects of an impending flight using checklists and other tools made avail-able at the FAAs website. One common tool we are all familiar with is the IMSAFE acronym. An-other tool is the Flight Risk Assessment Tool or FRAT. FRAT tools are customizable question-naires that assist a pilot on identifying and assign-ing values to potential hazards to a given proposed flight. More on FRAT's can be found at; http://www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing/2015/media/SE_Topic_15-08.pdf Another tool is the personal minimums checklist. This document reviews a pilot’s personal mini-mums, external pressures, pilot factors, environ-mental factors, and aircraft issues. (See Page 10) G a r y a n d P a t ' s presen-t a t i o n was an e x c e l -l e n t rev iew of pre-f l i g h t p repa-rations and an earnest briefing on a kinder, gentler FAA. More information on FAA safety topics can be found at: h t t p s : / / w w w . f a a s a f e t y . g o v / g s l a c / A L C /lib_tableofcontents.aspx, and https://www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing/2017/media/SE_Topic_17_01.pdf Thanks guys for an informative evening.

Gary receives Speaker’s Plaque from President

Phelps

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My Journey in Aviation Submitted by Gerry Bryce

My fascination with air-planes began early in life and as soon as I could I joined the CAP as a cadet at age 14. My first flight was in a J3 Cub at New Hudson airport, the craft being flown by a former B-24 pilot and WW II prisoner of war. My parents were not as crazy about aviation and declined firmly my desire to fly until I was an adult and could choose for myself!

After high school I was accepted by GMI and co-op studied engi-neering, the only way I could get that done. Fly-ing then was fi-nancially out of the question.

After graduation and while starting the engineer-ing career I began the enlistment process as an Aircraft Main-tenance Offi-cer-Pilot Can-didate in the Air Force. Unfortunately the Air Force botched my e n l i s t m e n t and I was drafted into the Army in 1969. After the Army, I went to Florida and began to fly at Embry Riddle with the notion of earning a

commercial ticket. My i n s t r u c t o r was a 5,000 hour pilot that couldn’t get a job with the airlines because of all the mili-tary aviators

coming back from Vietnam. I came back to De-troit and the auto industry. In the late 70’s

I decided to get back into the active reserves and enlisted in the Naval Air Reserve as an Aviation Machinist Mate (ADR2). The Navy was happy to have me and let me OJT using my tech-nical knowledge and experience and I worked on R-2800 18-Cylinder P&W engines mounted on C-118 aircraft, lung shakers on run-up! All the VR squadrons in the Navy were reserve squadrons then, like Total Force today. I loved

the Navy and w o u l d h a v e gladly retired from it but that BRAC (BRAC was the Penta-gon's base re-alignment policy/procedure, i.e. base consolida-

tions/closings) caused the Navy to leave Selfridge and I took my second honorable discharge.

Life goes on and so did mine in pursuit of a career and family. I started flying again in the early 1990’s, after a divorce, flying C-172’s and Chero-kees. The Cherokees were more fun to land but the Cessnas were more fun to fly! I like to look around! For ten years I was very active in the Yankee Air Museum in restoration, part of the original restoration team of the B-17 Yankee Lady and work on other air-craft as well. During that time I also attended

A&P school at Ben Davis High School (through the M a c o m b County Com-munity Col-l eg e ) and Michigan Insti-tute of Aviation at Willow Run.

I never wrote the tests for the licenses for liability reasons and a busy professional career.

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My Journey (Cont) My second wife went home to the Lord in 2012 after four cancer battles. During our marriage I stopped flying; Kitt was a very nervous flyer, even in an airliner! I joined Chapter 13 the year before she died. For the next year and a half I went upside down; I worked and lived but in a state of numbness, unsure of why or where I was. I retired in April, 2014 and got active in Chapter 13 again.

I started look-ing at kits and selected the Zenith Ch750 STOL (Short Take off and Landing). The cockpit is very roomy, it has great visibility,

great short field capability and I prefer high wing airplanes, I like to look around while aviating! I built the Rudder assembly later that year but then talked myself out of building. I think I was still grieving and did-n’t understand that at the time. I came through the fog and started building again in mid-2015. It has been pure therapy for me. My work for the Lord

in Bible study l e a d e r s h i p and other tasks and aviation are now what moves me every day, along with, of course, my adult children and grand-

son. Since that fateful decision I have completed the Horizontal Stabilizer and Elevator, and the

Wings, and am almost complete with the Rear Fuselage Assembly. I will start the Front Fuse-lage Assembly in January.

I have obtained a hangar at Ma-rine City (a real challenge to builders and aircraft owners in general) and will move all the major chunks there soon to give me room to mate the Fuselage halves at home in the garage. In the spring I will metal prep

and base color paint the pieces before final assembly starts in the summer. I have secured the “N” num-ber, N995KJ, which stands for Septem-

ber, 1995 when I married Kathryn Jean. The air-craft will be a pale yellow with a dark blue and grey scallop design on the sides and over the top of the Cowling, the design with the help from a p ro fess iona l d e s i g n e r friend. Within the grey scal-lop will be the name of the a i r c r a f t , “STOLen Mo-ments with KJ”. I will use the Grand Rapids Tech-nology Sport EFIS (Electronic Flight Information System) with AoA (Angle of Attack indicator, basi-cally the glass panel that is now the main stay in

l ieu of s t e a m gages, al-though I will have two for backup; a small di-ameter air-speed indi-cator and

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My Journey (Cont) altimeter and an inclinometer to stay coordinated! I will also use the GRT engine monitor to keep, track of the 912 ULS (the Rotax carbureted en-

gine I will be using) up front and will make it ADS-B out and in capable, still looking at equipment options there, along with the comm.

I will start flying again in 2017, as a Sport Pilot, to be current and safe when the test program starts

in 2018, with CH750 transition training at Zenith before that.

My thanks to Rex Phelps and others in the Chap-

ter that have helped and encouraged me along

the way to not give up on the dream of building

and flying again. I hope you enjoy the images of

the build, the journey continues! I’m starting to

look at plans for the next build; I think a Fly Baby

with the wings folded could co-exist with the Ze-

nith in the same hangar! Hmmm!

Brandon Brice named to re-place Megan Klagstad as the Explorer Post #13 Scouting Ex-ecutive. Over the past few months Megan Klagstad has been working with Marla Smith to establish an Explorer Post in conjunction with EAA Ch #13. She is however being reassigned within the BSA (Boy Scouts of America) organization and will be replaced by Brandon Brice. Megan has sent us a letter about the change, which includes a “Bio” on her replacement. Following is her correspon-dence: Hi Everyone! I hope you all are having a great day! I’ve had the privilege to get to know most of you over the past several months, but un-fortunately I will be switching positions within the council and no longer working with the Explor-ing Program. Please know that you all are do-ing such a great job with your programs and I appreciate everything you do. What you are doing is so important and has such a life-changing, positive impact on the youth you are working with. I’m sad to be leaving the program, but you will be in great hands.

Brandon Brice will be your new Exploring con-tact. Brandon attributes his commitment to ser-vice to his parents who instilled in him the impor-tance of a quality educa-tion, hard work, dedica-tion and service to others first. Brandon has stayed true to these virtues by earning a Bachelor's in Business Administration in Business Management

from Howard University, a Masters of Science in Global Affairs from Rutgers University. Brandon is a recipient of the Henry J. Raimondo Fellowship through the New Jersey Eagleton Institute of

Megan Klagstad

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Chapter #13 Members in Nappanee Submitted by John Kean

Each year the members of EAA Chapter 938 (the Cloud Chasers), Nappanee, Indi-ana put out an invitation for EAA members everywhere to join them for the first Fly-in of the year. Generally it’s pretty cold on January 1st, so only the bravest of souls attend. This year four members of Chapter #13 made the 150 mile one way flight to represent the Chapter.

Braving the cold were Carol Lynn, Laurelle White, Dick Green and John Kean (Photographer). The last time Chapter members attended was 2014, severe weather being the de-ciding factor.

Brandon Brice, Scouting Executive (Cont)

Politics, and has worked with the Heritage Foun-dation and has interned on Capitol Hill while work-ing in the Office of former U.S. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert. Brandon began his career as an Associate with National Urban League’s Eco-nomic Opportunity Institute and later served as the Director of Education Affairs in the Office of New Jersey Governor Chris J. Christie. Bran-don later worked as Director of Strategic Partner-ships and Resource Development for Veterans Empowerment of Georgia and currently serves as an Exploring Executive with the Boy Scouts of America. I will be working with you until the end of January. If you haven’t got your paperwork in for re-chartering, I need it as soon as possible. After January Brandon will be taking over, but if you need anything at all outside of Exploring please feel free to contact me! Best Wishes, Megan Klagstad | Exploring Executive

Be Careful! It’s Still Winter out There.

Radio Control Club of Detroit Names New Ch #13 Liaison

Chapter #13 Officers met our new Chapter/RCCD coordinator Peter VanHeusden at the January Officers’ meeting. He will be replac-ing Noel Hunt who served in that post these past few years.

We look forward to working with him to coordi-n a t e f u t u re Chapter #13/RCCD events, such as the an-nual Chapter Dawn Patrol breakfast, RCCD meetings held in the Chapter han-gar and other events shared by both organi-zations.

Welcome aboard Peter. Ed

Peter VanHeusden

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that would interest young people. Peter VanHeus-den the club’s president says they will have a rep-resentative present at the explorers informational meeting. Brandon Brice will be our scout represen-tative and we have his contact information should we need his input. Many thanks to Marla Smith and Doug Conciatu for taking on this project.

. Bill Appleberry says that our Audio System is up and working fine.

. Dennis Glaeser says that because of the winter weather the Young Eagles activity has been sus-pended until better flying weather in the spring.

. Pete Dugdale reports that all is well with the hangar. He did mention that the hangar that is at-tached to the Chapter Hangar has been undergoing some maintenance, He also said that he did some checking into that hanger’s history and found out that the building originally was part of the Fraser Airport in the 1940’s and is possibly the oldest building on the Airport property. Now there’s a tidbit for your next trivia game.

. Tom Vukonich reports that he is always looking for articles on building projects either at home or at the airport. If you know of any planes under con-struction; let him know, as he would like to continue this feature for the back page of the newsletter.

. Rex says that we need to find a source for name badges. Bill Appleberry volunteered to look into that and he will report back to us on his findings. Rex will also inquire at the place he has the plates done for the speaker plaques. Also in the “Other” category, Bob Mahieu mentioned what a profes-sional job Steve Greene did in presenting the finan-cial health of the Chapter. When you see Steve; thank him for his work as it entails much more time than just the two meetings that he attends. Doug Conciatu also mentioned that one of the scouts from the Racine Explorer Post that Marla was involved with is now an A-10 pilot. He will possibly be a speaker for our post to let the kids know there is a real connection with ca-reer.

. There were no other subjects to be discussed so the meeting was adjourned at 9:02 p.m.

. The next board meeting is scheduled for Febru-ary 9, 2017.

Respectfully submitted:

Cliff Durand-EAA Chapter 13 Secretary

Ray Airport

Officers’ Meeting Minutes for

December 8, 2016 Submitted by Secretary Cliff Durand

Members and guests at-tending the board meet-ing: Rex Phelps, Steve Greene, Tom Vukonich, Bill Appleberry, Dennis Glaeser, Pete Dugdale, Laurelle White, Dick Green, Bob Mahieu, Doug Conciatu, Marla Smith, Megan Klagstad, Brandon Brice, Peter VanHeusden, Dave Nel-

lis and Cliff Durand.

. Tom Vukonich read the meeting minutes for December 8, 2016. The minutes were accepted as read.

New Business

. Steve Greene gave the Treasurer Report as follows: Starting Balance: $14,599.35, Credits: $2,981.00, Debits: $2,445.22, Ending Balance: $15,135.13, CD: $13,170.29, Petty Cash: $200.00, Special Expenses: $1,006.75 for A Movable Feast (caterer) and $1,297.00 to cover chapter renewal and Hangar insurance, Membership for 2017: 81. Steve also reported that he has printed a copy of all treasury activity for 2016, and is open to anyone who wishes to inspect the document. Steve also mentioned that we have four new members that signed up last month. That information will be for-warded to Tom Vukonich for publication.

. Our Speaker for February will be Brian Wezen-sky who will be presenting his (complete with video) Bonanza flight to the Florida Keys. We also have other speakers planned for March and April but we will wait to reveal them until they are con-firmed as the presenter.

. The Explorer Scout post will be having an Open House on the third Thursday of this month. You will be getting an invitation to attend from Dennis Glaeser coming to your e-mail inbox. Marla Smith has been collecting materials to hand out to the kids who attend. Some of the Chapter members have already stepped up to offer their expertise if needed. If you have a particular subject that you are adept at, think about presenting that subject to our new Explorer Scout post. The Board has al-ready invited our associated club; RCCD for their input to the post as modeling can be an activity

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Aviation Explorer Post #13 First

Meeting Update

A number of Chapter members attended the first meeting of the newly formed Explorer Post. They included Marla Smith, Megan Klagstad, Doug Conciatu, Dave Nellis, Dennis Glaeser, Jim and Lauri McDaniel, Tom Vukonich, Dick Green and Tom Hoover. Thee first members of the new Explorer Post to attend were:

Keegan Gudobba (18) of Romeo. He attends Lutheran North High School.

Nicole Hedges (17) of Mount Clemens. Who also attends Lu-theran North High School

Eli Szypa (18) of Clinton Township. He attends Chippewa Valley High School.

The meeting began with intro-ductions and personal back-grounds. Then the Explorers were briefed on a number of subjects including; Career availabilities and opportunities, Oshkosh Explorer volunteers, Young Eagle support, reading aviation charts, Air-craft construction, Home building aircraft, Modeling with the assistance of RCCD members, EAA Acad-emy, Colleges, Universities, Scholarships, and Field trips. However, the Explorers will dictate what ave-

nues the members themselves would like to investigate.

After the briefing the Explorers were invited to “fly” the Chapter’s ATC-510 simulator.

We’re off to a good

start. Ed

Aircraft Rental Inquiry

With the upcoming closing of Berz Flight Training, I am left without a plane to fly. I am looking for someone to rent a plane from till my RV7-A project is finished. I usually fly about 10-12 hours a year. I have hi-performance and complex endorse-ments. Although I have a tail-wheel endorse-ment, I would prefer a tricycle aircraft. My tail-wheel time is minimal and I am not totally comfortable with it. I have lots of time in 172, 182 and Cardinal RG aircraft. I trained at Berz Airport in Cherokee 140, 180 and Archer 181 aircraft. I have flown a Grumman Cheetah as well with castoring nose-wheel. I am willing to pay comparable Hobbs rates as Berz. Thanks for reading. Dave Nellis 586.322.6131 [email protected]

We’re Looking for a Few Good

Chapter #13 Aircraft Builders

Early in 2016 we began posting the status of air-craft projects by Chapter #13 members. The post-ings include , at a minimum, a photograph of the builder and his/her project on the back page of the Dope Sheet. This month’s listing is the tenth in the series. We should also say that the back page photo doesn’t have to be all that we publish. If you are so inclined, you can put together an ar-

ticle about the project with additional pictures.

Many years ago the Newsletter often carried infor-mation about projects underway or completed. We are off to a good start here renewing that old practice, and would like to carry it further. But we need your help. Please let us know what you are

up to.

Newsletter staff started out with a list of 17 build-ers in the Chapter. But there are more. Make

yourself known to the Newsletter staff.

We will keep working on the information we have. But why wait for us to ferret you out. It’s time

consuming and wears out the staff. Thanks. Ed

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Here is a copy of the revised notice that is going out to Scout Troops and schools etc. to begin to assemble candidates for the EAA Chapter #13

sponsored Aviation Explorers Post.

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248-794-3784

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Tom Vukonich, Editor First Class Mail 2961 Secluded Pines Dr Oxford, Michigan 48371

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Here is the tenth of our series “Who’s Building What” in Chapter #13. Shown here is

Gerry Bryce Working on his Zenith Ch750 STOL. See the article beginning on page 3 of

this issue.

Send us a photo of you and your project and we’ll publish it here.

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