EVERGREEN SOARING

 

Minutes of a Meeting of the

Board of Directors

 

January 12, 2002

 

 

Evergreen Soaring President Keith Turner called the meeting to order at 9:30AM.  The meeting was held at the Gateway Café at Arlington Airport.

 

Those present were Keith Turner, President; Mike Delaney, Treasurer; Keith McLean, Operations Director; Mark Nyberg, Secretary; Howard Glover, Scheduler; Roy Parzyk, Equipment Director; Christoper Hodges, 2414J Plane Captain; Brooks Johnson, 1-36 Plane Captain; Brad Hill, Russia Plane Captain; Gary Thayer, GlidePath Editor; Dennis Eckert, Meteorologist and Member at Large; Willian Burhen; Mary Blonski; Fred Harmanspann; Angus McKinnon; and Jonathon Hodges.

 

Mike Delaney presented the Treasurer’s Report and announced that in terms of profit and loss, Evergreen had a net loss of about $2,500.00 for the calendar year of 2001.  This is remarkable considering we paid out over $20,000 in maintenance and repair fees (including repairing the Russia fuselage/tail for $8,900.20 and repairing the belly skin on 14J for $6,798.53) during that time.  Total income was $47,289.26 and total expense was $49,788.88.  The complete profit and loss statement will be published in the next version of the newsletter.  Mike Delaney made a motion that the quarterly surcharge be waived for the fourth quarter of 2001.  The motion was seconded and approved unanimously.

 

Christian Becker was not available to present the instructor’s report, but provided the minutes of the instructor’s meeting.  These minutes will be made available in the next issue of GlidePath.  We currently have two club members working on becoming instructors: John Gilbert and Doug Kyllo.

 

Angus McKinnon described a recent incident at Arlington where a simulated rope break exercise resulted in a glider turning into the power traffic.  The pilot of a power plane was surprised and angered by the appearance of the glider coming toward him and has reported the incident to the FAA.  Evergreen equipment was not involved.

 

Angus also announced that ProAir has a Grob 109 motorglider available for checkout flights with instructor (Angus) for $115.00 per hour.

 

Currently there are only 4 people signed up for ground school for 2002.  The current plan is to hold one ground school session on the first Saturday of each month -- immediately after the board meeting board meeting.

 

Keith McLean presented the Operations Calendar for the year.  This calendar will be put onto the website within the next week and will appear in the next GlidePath.  Keith McLean is accepting comments and suggestions.  The first comment was that we need “more Darrington and less Concrete.”

 

Keith McLean announced that he is working on guidelines for events that involve moving Evergreen gliders from Arlington as part of encampments.  All such events will require advance monetary commitment plus advance commitments to get the gliders back to Arlington when the event is over.  The guidelines will be available for publication soon.

 

So far the Landing Clinic scheduled for February 16th is a “go.”

 

Fred Hermanspann is looking for interest in entering a team in the regional contest this coming summer.  There is no objection to club members using club equipment in the contest.  Fred submitted an action item to the board to get our parachute(s) repacked soon.

 

The club banquet has been scheduled for Saturday Evening, March 2nd 2002 at the Puget Sound Yacht Club.  This will coincide with the Soaring Exposition at the Museum of Flight.  Everyone is invited.  Members of other soaring organizations are encouraged to attend. Food is expected to cost $15 to $16 per person.

 

With regard to aircraft maintenance, Blanik 029 is currently grounded pending rudder repair and the Lark is grounded for elevator repair.  The decision was made to begin removing the rudder today to inspect it for damage and begin getting it recovered.  Club members will do as much work as possible so as to keep maintenance costs down.  The goal is to get it airworthy in time for the Landing Clinic.

 

The Lark needs to have the elevator covering rejuvenated and repainted to make it airworthy.  Cosmetically it also is in need of having the top surfaces of the wings filled and repainted.  It also needs to have the canopy replaced.  The board decided to concentrate on making the Lark flyable for the summer and then take it out of service after the Ephrata Encampment to have the cosmetic work done.  Keith Turner volunteered to fit the new canopy.

 

Mike Delaney suggested that we consider selling the 1-36 and the Russia.  We would replace them with a Blanik L-33 Solo.  This was met with considerable interest and will be discussed again at the next board meeting.  Club members are invited to comment.

 

There was no further business and the meeting was adjourned at 11:30 AM.

 

Respectfully,

 

 

Mark Nyberg-

Secretary