Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Evergreen Soaring Club

Date of Meeting: 10 March, 2010

Location and Time:

The meeting was held at the Seattle Museum of Flight Red Barn classroom, and was called to order by the President Elect at 19:04.

Attendees:

The following were present in person:

Club Officers:

Brian Hood, President-Elect

Marty Gibbins, Treasurer

Stan Kasprzyk, Chief Instructor

Tony Puglisi, Equipment Manager

Dan Tiefke, Member

Howard Glover, Tow Pilot and minute-taker

Others:

John Gilbert, Webmaster

Geoff. Banks, new member applicant

Josef Bamert, new member applicant

The following Club Officers were present by telephone:

Gary Paulin, President

Hans Sendelbach, Operations Director

There was a quorum of voting members of the Board.

New Members:

Prospective new members: Jeff Banks and Josef Bamert introduced themselves and described their reasons for wishing to join the club and their gliding experience.

Motion to accept both prospective members, subject to receipt of their application data and checks, was proposed by the President Elect. Motion was passed unanimously.

Reports:

President:

Gary reported that he is still waiting to hear from Tony Wiederkehr with respect to the prospective lease by the Club of his Grob 103 sailplane. Gary commented that we shall soon need to consider other options.

President Elect:

Brian reported that the FAA continues to discuss the Arlington airport development. Recently the FAA asked how many glider flights are conducted at AWO per year. Brian has informed the FAA that the answer is: approximately 1500 operations.

Treasurer:

Marty offered and explained the current Income and Expense report, Accounts Receivable report, Recent Payments report, Budget report and Towing Summary report. These reports were examined by the Board and accepted.

Marty suggested that the Club might save some money on maintenance if club members were prepared to change the oil in the tow plane engines. He volunteered to talk to the tow plane Manager, Pierre Parent, on this subject.

There was a discussion of cost of glider annuals and possible ways of reducing these costs, but no specific actions were proposed.

Operations Manager:

Hans reported that better organization on the flight line was resulting in improvements in operations: shorter wait times for students, and fewer occasions when the tow plane is waiting with engine idling.

The Club now has more than 20 student glider pilots.

Chief Instructor:

Stan reported that the new instructional syllabus is beginning to be used by instructors and students.

Equipment Manager:

Tony offered a written report (which had previously been sent by email to Board members) on the status of the club equipment. Additionally he stated the following:

· The canopy cover on the L-13 will be repaired

· The variometer in L-23 N355BA will be repaired

· The air vent control cable in L-33 N355BA will be repaired

· All glider trailer Washington state registrations have been renewed.

Chief Tow Pilot:

Howard reported that the club currently has 13 tow pilots with at least a Commercial Airplane Single Engine Land rating.

Old Business:

Variometers:

The varios in both of the L23’s and also the 1-34 need to be repaired. Noel Wade is offering to donate a B400 variometer. Tony will ask Noel if he would be willing to estimate cost of upgrading all 3 gliders.

Soaring Expo. :

Doug Service will not be available to manage the Club presence at the up-coming Exp. at the Museum of Flight on 19-20 March. John Gilbert volunteered to take on the task, and his offer was gratefully accepted by the Board.

New Business:

New Students:

The subject of “freezing” the acceptance new Student members was deleted from the current Agenda. Stan and Hans will consider the subject and report to the Board in two months, or earlier if there is a scheduling crisis.

Student Progress:

There was a discussion on how to motivate pre-solo students to get to solo status, and how to motivate solo students to take the Private Pilot test.

New members:

In the interest of streamlining the process of accepting new members, it was suggested that Mark Nyberg or a Board member (or another appropriate Club member) should interview prospective members face-to-face and pass-on a recommendation to the Board. There was some discussion on how soon a prospective member can fly a club glider.

Double tows:

This subject is being studied outside of the Board by the “Double tow group”. Stan Kasprzyk will join the group.

Luc Dorais:

Luc says that he is a former member of ESI who wishes to be re-instated. It was decided that he should be asked to attend a Board meeting.

Tow planes at contests:

There was much discussion on the allocation of one or more tow planes to up-coming contests.

Motion: The President Elect moved that ESI commit one tow plane to SGC for Region 8 contest. This motion was seconded by Stan, and carried unanimously.

Equipment for Ephrata Encampment:

This subject was Tabled until the next Board meeting.

Tow-by-Time:

John Gilbert has been studying the concept of charging for tows by tow plane tachometer time.

After much discussion of this subject, it was decided that John will perform experiments to determine the effects of changing the billing process.

Next meeting:

The next ESI Board meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 14 2010.

Adjournment:

The President Elect that the meeting be adjourned. The motion was seconded and carried unanimously. The Meeting was adjourned at 21:52.