WMAA Safety Notes for February 2006

Hi everyone how about this weather. I was at the field a couple of days last week. The field was pretty crowded, some fliers and just some watchers, right Leo? One thing I did notice on a safety note, some of the new people who I don’t believe have joined us yet, are not announcing their intentions. You know, take off from the right or landing from the right or touch and go or dead stick. Most of these are not written in the AMA rules but we have adopted this procedure to be courteous to the other pilots flying at the same time as you. Another thing and this is really important, YOU MUST HAVE AN AMA CARD TO FLY AT OUR FIELD….. [Period]. I don’t know weather one of the pilots was just proud of his bank card so that is why it was prominently displayed on the frequency board or it may have been there for other pilots to take to Capstone to buy a new plane. This we must stop no card no fly, I don’t care what your credit limit is. Our field was hard to get and harder to build and not worth loosing to someone abusing our rule. We all must police this abuse, it is easy you are not the bad guy just the rule abiding person who wants to protect a valuable club asset, probably the most valuable other than Lenny. I know there are new people flying all of the time and some may not be aware although I find it hard to believe. So look at it this way you are turning in a poacher or stopping a poacher. We have a good relationship with the Corps of engineers and this rule is part of our lease agreement we must abide by the rule.