Meeting Minutes August 20, 2022

EAA Chapter 1167

Old Business:

• Considering combining our November fly-in with the skydive people (Drop Zone) from PA - Doug Floyd

  • the hospitality people could be an advocate to get this pushed in through the county administrators

• Reach out to local business to invite them to become members or at least to know we exist

• Fly-in on October 29th or November 5 depending on Drop Zone people's availability

• Doug talking to the airport for acceptability.

• Discussed teaming with the radio station to run a live broadcast from the fly in

  • Ron will contact his radio contact about live broadcast - he'll also talk to Blacks Tire about what they did for their car show.

New Business:

• None

Main Discussion:

• Oshkosh - over 600k visitors (the first event had ~100 visitors and 20 aircraft visit)

• The dead stick landing of the Nanchang - video from in-cockpit and ground footage

• Discussed the CASA C212-200 co-pilot suicide and mental health concerns

• Discussed maintenance and emergency action/procedures

• Discussed the rocker shaft support failure on the Lycoming engine (head casting sheared off)

Tech Talk:

• Some Tempest spark plugs coming loose in service (4 in the last month) both coming out of the head and the lead backing off - one plug actually ended up laying on the runway.

Attendance:

[x]Ron Heidebrink

[x]Duane Drisko

[x]Jesse Hyman

[x]Jack Singlevich

[x]Carl Knuth

[x]Larry Vaught

[x]Doug Cassel

visitors:

Ed Davis - new member

Theresa & Ron - interested in light sport

Norton and Greg - partners in a LongEZ