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Labor Day is one week from today. Attached to this e-mail
you'll find the event flyer in both .pdf and .jpg formats.
Please feel free to make copies of the .pdf and/or post the
.jpg version as a photo on your Face Book account.
Also attached is the preliminary schedule for the air show
broken down into 5 minute intervals. The only thing I know
for sure is that this won't be how things go. We'll have
pilots drop out, we'll have pilots show up unexpectedly.
We'll be moving things around. That is all OK, this is
simply a guideline or a road for us to work from during
the show.
Actual setup work will begin around 8AM or so. We'll need
plenty of volunteers to come out early and help set up the
concessions stations, the PA system, the signs and banners,
and everything else that is part of the Labor Day Air Show.
Pilots are encouraged to unload their stuff and then park
away from the normal parking area to leave room for public
parking.
As always, I want to emphasize that AMA Member pilots
from all clubs are welcome to fly with us. Pete Rosas
from the Twin Cities Eagle Squadron is our headliner and
show closer. Tom Egbert and John Schenck from the Midwest
Performance Flyers generously donate their time every year
to anchor the helicopter segments. We appreciate the help
from other clubs so we can put on the best air-show
possible.
Some of the pilots on the schedule weren't sure they could
make it, and we have plans in place to cover their segments.
I hope they are able to participate, and I set room aside
for them if they can, but we'll be fine if they can't make
it on Monday.
Feel free to bring planes that fit multiple categories. If
you have a P-51 Miss America edition Mustang, for example,
it can fly during the Red, White, and Blue segment, the
Civilian Scale Segment, and participate in the egg drop and
limbo segments. A Great Planes Super Skybolt ARF could fly
in the R, W, & B segment, the multi-wing segment, the sport
plane segment, and do the egg drop and limbo if the owner
wanted to fly in all five.
If you can't find a segment for your plane on the schedule,
consider the Sport Plane segment (2:30PM, Mikey Furrow
segment leader) to be your segment. We want everyone to
fly, and we will create opportunities for as many pilots to
participate as we can.
I normally joke that pilots and volunteers should plan on
anything from brush fires to thunder snow, but the
preliminary weather forecast at
www.Weather.com
is wonderful: 88F degrees and sunny with winds from
6mph out of the SSE. It will be a bit too breezy for
Parkzone Vapors or Blade mCX helicopters, but everything
else should be good to go.
We ran an hour long last year because everybody was having a
blast, the crowd stayed with us, and the pilots wanted to
keep flying. I'd be thrilled if we ran long again this
year. The weather is looking good, and the bit of extra
heat compared to last year will help us sell more pop,
water, and snow cones.
We had some concerns about safety last year. I have
appointed two safety marshals for the event this year, Steve
Earl and E.J. Murphy. These two gentlemen will be
supervising flight line procedures and spectator containment
all day. Please give them your complete cooperation.
A few safety highlights:
A) Please use the frequency board and put your pin up if
you're on 72Mhz. If somebody else is on your frequency and
their pin is up, don't turn on your radio. See Ed Paasch or
Steve Culver if you need your channel but somebody else's
pin is on your channel.
B) Don't talk to the event announcers, Steve Peck and Ward
Neesen. If they need to be told anything or given
information, Steve Culver and Ed Paasch will talk to them.
It's too hard to announce the show effectively to the crowd
when people keep coming up and talking in your ear.
C) Don't fly anything on Labor Day that hasn't been
previously test flown and range checked
D) Don't walk out on the runway while somebody is
performing an inverted high-speed pass with a giant scale
aerobat. If you crash a plane, take the long way around to
get to and from your crash site so you don't endanger
yourself or interfere with the show.
E) Don't hit another club member with your plane. Call out
your take offs and landings, and communicate with your
fellow pilots on the flight line. Use a spotter, and watch
out for each other.
F) Dive bombing volunteers who are trying to fix the limbo
ribbon will get you beaten with a rubber hose
I said it last year, and I'll say it again. Don't do
anything on Labor Day that you wouldn't do on a typical
Tuesday evening at the field. Fly smart, fly safe, and have
fun.
Please contact me with questions, scheduling concerns, or to
get more information. I'll see you on Labor Day!
Ed Paasch
(402) 321-3781
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Metro
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