PMLAA
Pine Mountain Lake Aviation Association
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Please book your dinner and see the fliers by clicking here. Pictures courtesy of heidielliott Flickr Creative Common LicenseMarch 6 Presentation at the Buchner Hangar, 6 PM “Obsession” A film by Ken Codeglia
It's a Wrap
14 th Annual Toy Drive For Needy Children All are welcome!Bring a toy, a game or two. You’ll feel good through & through.
Saturday, December 12th, Graciously hosted by Kay Meermans in her beautiful hangar at 20850 Elderberry Way This year, the event will be an appetizer and dessert Pot
Luck with a chili feed! Happy Holidays to all ! November 7th: Next Meeting Our next meeting is Nov. 7th, and will be held at the McGowans’ hangar, with guest speaker Dennis Wisely.
Dennis was a naval aviator and served our country for 33 years. He flew over 350 combat missions in Viet Nam, commanded the Blue Angels, and was captain of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy. “America the Beautiful” is the theme of the potluck dinner. See you there! October 17th: Upcoming Safety Seminar In-flight Emergencies Joe DeNunzio has organized another safety seminar to be held in a hangar on the Pine Mountain Lake Airport public ramp on October 17th from 9 AM until 1 PM. The subject will be "Handling In-Flight Emergencies". It will discuss real life emergencies that have been experienced by our local pilots. Guest speakers will include the representatives from the CHP, Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Department, the Civil Air Patrol and the GCSD Fire Department. FAA Safety representative Harlow Vorhees will also attend. Lunch will be hosted Greg & Dora from Dora’s Tea Garden; a donation of $5 would be appreciated. This will be both a Historic Aircraft Display Day and a FAA Wings Program providing another good reason to attend this worthwhile event. We hope to see a lot of fly-in attendees along with many local PML pilots. For more information, contact Joe DeNunzio at joe@e45flyers.us October 3rd: Young Eagles Rally
We need your help to make this event a success, please volunteer to fly the Young Eagles or help put on the event. Please contact Ed Sunday, (our Young Eagles Coordinator) who will organize and run the event, he can be reached at home, 533-1405 or on his Cell at 743-6350 or by email esunday@sbcglobal.net. October 3rd: Next Meeting The Pine Mountain Lake Aviation Association will be hosting its Annual Airport Day/Open House October 3rd from Noon to 3 PM at the Pine Mountain Lake County Airport. You will be able to look at vintage planes, private aviation aircraft up close and personal. There will be fly bys, flour bombing and spot landing contests. There will also be a radio controlled model aviation demonstration that will provide some thrills as well for the day. This is a great opportunity to check out your county airport, observe dozens of aircraft on display and meets many of our local pilots that make up our community. PMLAA will be selling hot dogs and soft drinks for your convenience.
The official Airport Day begins at 12-noon and runs to 3:00 pm. We will have aircraft on display, which will tie into the monthly Aircraft of Historical Significance display dates, Ken Helling (962-7597) coordinator. We will have a display and flying of remote control model airplanes, John Andrews (962-7264) coordinator. We have scheduled Flour bombing and Spot landing contests and we are looking for some brave pilots to fly these missions. Mike Lella (962-1822) is coordinator for bombing. Joe De Nunzio (962-4425) is coordinating the spot landing contest. Call them to sign-up. During the afternoon we hope to have several fly-bys a various aircraft types including a Jet, Beech 18, Porter, and maybe a Tiger Cat. Formation fly-bys are also a possibility. Wayne Handley (962-7868) will be the air boss for the flying events and is the overall coordinator for Airport Day. Please give him your support and hel make this a great day for the community. PMLAA will be selling hot dogs and drinks (Patty Peebles coordinator); and it is recommended that you bring a folding chair, hat and sun block. Parking will be on Elderberry Way. Please do not block any drive ways or park on private property. The Blankenburg museum will not be open this year, they are moving and we will miss them. Remember this event runs on volunteers; we need you to please sign up and volunteer. Call 962-1990 or any of the team above. Tentative Schedule 8:00 am....................................... Airport set up 18:00 - Regular PMLAA meeting with a guest speaker and a potluck dinner. It will be held at Kay Meermans’ hangar at 6:00pm, 20850 Elderberry Way. Our guest speaker will be our own Ken Orloff. Ken is a very knowledgeable and entertaining speaker and has many interesting stories about aircraft mishaps and what went wrong. The dinner theme will be Oktoberfest and there will be some BBQ brats available. Hope to see you there. September Meeting September 5th at 6:00pm at Alan & Yuni Gaudenti’s hangar. Our speakers will be Carol Foy and CarolAnn Garratt who flew a single engine Mooney around the world.
CarolAnn Garratt is a former manager with a Fortune 500 company. After her mother suffered and died from ALS, she flew around the world in 2003 to raise awareness and donations for ALS. CarolAnn spent 18 months planning for her world record attempt and with co-pilot Carol Foy, set out from Orlando International on December 2nd, 2008. Crossing over 20,780 nautical miles at an average speed of 115 mph, Garratt and Foy broke the 20 years old world record of 54.6 mph.June Meeting - What you may not know about GPS June 6th at 6:00pm The June meeting speaker is Keith Thomassen, who has combined his 50-year passion for flying with experience from his career as a scientist and teacher to develop a GPS training business in his retirement. Keith learned to fly in the summer of 1958. Along the way he earned Commercial Certificates in airplanes and gliders, and Instructor Ratings in Airplanes, Instruments, Gliders, and Advanced Ground. He owns a Cessna 210 and a Lancair ES operated out of the Grass Valley Airport. Since 2002 he has been teaching GPS courses on the Chelton EFIS and Garmin 430/530 and 480 IFR panel mounts, and has written full color training manuals for each of them, which have been widely used around the world. His talk is intended to give some insights into GPS devices, how they work and what they can do, along with some very fascinating information on the GPS system not generally known. The meeting will be held at Camp Tuolumne Trails Great Hall on Saturday, June 6th at 6:00pm. The address is 22988 Ferretti road. It’s about 3 miles East of the airport on the left side, look for the sign. e-Mail:
info@tuolumnetrails.org It will be pot luck as usual and the theme is Summer Fun. Hope to see you there. May Meeting May 2nd Meeting - Norm & Patty Peebles’ hangar at 6:00pm. The theme will be Cinco de Mayo and there will be Margaritas! The speaker will be Rico Sharqawi who is producing a film called “A Pilot’s Story.” The film’s purpose is to educate, motivate and inspire a new generation of pilots and future astronauts. The film will bridge the gap between pilots and the public to entice members of the public to take a role in general aviation. This documentary film will illustrate how and why pilots began their passion with flying or pursued careers in aviation. Many interviews with pilots with various backgrounds will unearth the common threads between them and their love for aviation and what it means to them. Please come and enjoy this talk with us. There will be a special setup and teardown time for this meeting. We will set up on Friday May 1st at 4:00 pm. We will tear down on Sunday at noon and we will clean the tables and chairs between noon and 2:00 pm. Your help will be appreciated, thanks in advance. April 4th Next Meeting. April 4th is at Antonella & Silvano Gai's hangar at 6:00 pm. Rehearsal Dinner for Luca and Anthinula
You are all invited!
The groom will also be the speaker: He will speak about flying in Europe.
Dinner at 6 PM, Speaker at 7 PM with the 10 piece swing band the “Flashback Band” Don’t miss it! Please wear elegant attire. This will be a pot-luck dinner: Dessert will be provided. 2009 March Next Meeting. March 7th will be our first meeting in 2009 at Antonella & Silvano Gais’ hangar at 6:00 pm.
The speaker will be our own Colleen Keller, who has recently completed work on the search for Steve Fossett. Colleen is an operations research analyst working for Metron, a small business based in San Diego and Washington DC that does mathematical analysis and consulting for the US Navy and Department of Defense. Metron has worked extensively with the US Coast Guard in developing search planning tools for overwater search; Colleen applied this experience to the inland Search and Rescue (SAR) problem during the Fossett search. She will talk about the original search effort, her investigation and research, and follow-on search efforts to find Fossett across this past summer...and she’ll explain where Fossett’s crash was finally found and what’s being done to improve SAR techniques for future searches.
This will be a pot-luck dinner. 2008 It's a wrap 13th Annual toy drive for needy children
Bring a toy, game or two. You’ll feel
good through & through MENU Hosted beer, wine, champagne, soft drinks & water and a visit from Santa. Make your check, for $26 per person, payable to November Event PMLAA Fund Raiser PURPOSE: To raise funds to help offset the cost of the two prop strikes that took place at the PMLAA air show in June. These pilots volunteered their time and aircraft to help make our show a success. We would like to help out with their expenses and get their planes back into the air. GOAL: To raise $10,000 and donate these funds to Dan Vance for his P-51, and Jason Wondolleck for his Staudacher. Excess funds collected, if any, will go into a PMLAA airport improvement account. Here is the list of all the auction items. WHEN AND WHERE: Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 6:00 pm. The location will be the new and beautiful heated hangar of Suzanne and Mel McGowan, which is located on the north taxiway at PML airport. SUMPTUOUS MENU: Egg Roll, Cashew Chicken, Beef with Broccoli, Fried Rice, Chow Mein, Fortune Cookies & back by popular demand, Cup Cakes. No host bar with the famous margarita machine and music for dancing. Reservations due by October 24th! First Come, First Served • $20 per person Space is Limited to 225 people (Postmark date will determine reservation priorities.) October 4th - TIROS (Television Infrared Observation Satellite) Our next meeting will be the Oktoberfest on October 4th at 6:00 pm. The
association will The October meeting will be held at Kay Meermans’ HEATED hangar on the
South
Next Meeting
Next meeting is scheduled for September 6th with a start time of 6:00 pm
at the PEEBLES’ hangar.
The speaker for our September 6th meeting is Bill Cox.
Bill is a very entertaining writer and speaker. His stories are printed every month in Plane & Pilot and Pilot Journal. sAugust 2nd Speaker In 1996, California engineer Carmelo “Nino” Amarena took on the challenge of building a new generation of rocketpacks that would break the barrier plaguing all previous pack designs and embarked on an investigation of what needed to be done, modified or invented to make longer flight a reality. It was a challenge that required much more than merely copycatting. Amarena was trained and educated at the Buenos Aires University of Engineering, in Argentina where he obtained his masters degree in electro-mechanical engineering and upon immigrating to America in 1979, made his home in California’s Silicon Valley.
There he was able to interact with talents in cybernetics, aerospace and electronics industry, allowing him to acquire a set of skills, which forged his “technical generalist” background. His broad technical knowledge eventually landed him the development of a peroxidebased reciprocating engine for GeorgiaTech Research Institute’s “Entomopter” a biomimetic robot that flies like a “dragon fly” insect, a joint project between NASA and GeorgiaTech planned to be sent with a landing Mars probe mission by the end of the first decade of the 21st century.
June Airshow June 21, 2008 Site: Meermans-Henley Hangar 6:00pm. The Famous Diestal Family Turkey Ranch Barbecue Meet the air show performers. Enjoy music.
Here are just some of the scheduled activities:
PMLAA members and guests only. Reservations and pre-payment required May Meeting Next months meeting will be held at the Peebles hangar on May 3rd at 6:00 pm. The topic will be flying ARMY HELICOPTERS in one of the most inhospitable environments in the world. Heat, humidity, dirt, rain, mud, jungle, water just to mention a few. There were some pyrotechnic devices also that spiced up the mix at times. The place was Vietnam in the late 60’s.
The speakers, all members of PMLAA, will be Norm Peebles, Joe Riley, and Ed Peters. Our stories will be focused toward educating the audience on what it was like to be a crew member on these aircraft. They will also be on the lighter side of war and I feel you will find them informative and entertaining. April Event April 5th at the Benzing's Hangar. Two guest speakers:
UAVsMarch 8th, regular meeting at the Gai's hangar. The speaker will be Tim Just an expert in UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). Read this very interesting description of different types of UAVs.
The meeting is at 5:30 PM, an Italian Potluck. Cinderella's Ball
At the Buchner's hangar,
February 2nd 2008, 6PM. It's a wrap
Saturday December 8th at 6 PM at the Blankenburg Museum. You need to reserve. November Meeting One Six Right: The Story of the Van Nuys Airport The Romance of Flying
Come to thethe Blankenburg Museum., November 3rd at 5:30pm for an entertaining talk by Brian Terwilliger, with scenes from One Six Right. The hangar is on the north taxiway, approximately mid-field. It is a potluck dinner. Safety SeminarThe survival seminar is being hosted by our EAA Chapter and the speaker, Doug Ritter, is a well known authority on pilot survival equipment and methods. The seminar will start at 10:30 AM. Chapter 1337 will also be providing Historic Aircraft Display certificates for those that want to display their aircraft durning the seminar. A "burger burn" lunch will be held after the seminar for those that want to stay for lunch. Donations will be accepted. Jim Thomas President, Chapter 1337 October Meeting Behind the Scenes with BJ Worth, World Champion Skydiver and Hollywood Aerial Stuntman
Come to Carol Simpson’s hangar, October 6th at 5:30pm for Oktoberfest and an entertaining talk by BJ Worth, on skydiving and stunts. The hangar is on the north taxiway, midway between Benzings and Peebles. We’ll bring the beer and brats, you bring a potluck salad, veg or dessert. September Meeting “Flyboys” – the WWI Lafayette Escadrille with David Ellison
Join us at the Buchner’s hangar, September 8th at 5:30pm for a potluck dinner and an entertaining talk by David Ellison on the Lafayette Escadrille and the making of Flyboys. June 2 Airport Day The PMLAA Community Airport Day and Air Show on June 2 will be a spectacular event—even better than last year. PLEASE READ OUR SAFETY PROCEDURES AND CHECK NOTAMS.
Here are just some of the scheduled activities:
Note reservations and pre-payment is required; please use the form in the newsletter.. Cinco de Mayo
How to Save your Airport
May 5th at 5:30 PM at the Gai's hangar. It is Cinco de Mayo, so plan your potluck accordingly. Please bring a Mexican style dish to share (not Chile) or a dessert. Margaritas will be available too! April Events“TINS” Tales Memoirs of
a Naval Aviator
Mark your calendars and come join us at the Peebles hangar on April 7th. March MeetingOur very own Dr. Ken Orloff is our speaker for the March 3rd PMLAA meeting, which will be held at 6:00pm in the Benzings’ hangar.
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Ball
The hootch is being delivered February 3rd and we will celebrate in real roarin’ twenties style. Conni “Crazy Legs” and Alan “Machine Gun” Buchner are opening “Buchners’ PMLAA Speak Easy” for one night only. Flappers are always welcome, men should be dressed to the nines, but please check your violin case at the door. We will be dancing the night away with the always popular Home Grown Band. To keep the heat from ruinin’ our fun, please be sure to knock three times prior to entry- no more no less. Crazy Legs doesn’t want to clean-up after the Tommy Guns blare. Cover charge is $10.00 per person to pay protection (and the band).
Please bring an appetizer or dessert enough for 6 persons. Date: February 3, 2007 Time: 6.30 P.M. Place: Buchners Speak Easy (formerly Buchners Hangar) 20885 Hemlock Street
It's a Wrap 2006December 9th, at 6 PM
Bring a toy, game or two. You’ll feel good through & through. August MeetingAugust 26th is the no-hangar party! We are celebrating the wonderful
area we live in and the great flying we have done this summer by having an
evening fly-about (neither a fly-in nor fly-out!) and BBQ. July Fly-outJuly 8-12th, Fly-out to Idaho, exact dates to be finalized June MeetingJune 3rd, Full Day Flying Fun hosted by Vicky and Jeff Benzing
May MeetingMay 6th, Author Michael Maya Charles, 6:00pm,
April MeetingApril 1st, Great flying destinations with John Kounis, 6:00pm.
March MeetingMarch 4th, Idaho Backcountry with Bob Hoff and friend, 6:00pm, Benzing Hangar February Meeting
January MeetingOur Own Ken Orloff:
The Pine Mountain Lake Aviation Association is proud to
present the return of Dr. Orloff on December 2005
6:00 p.m. Saturday, December 10, 2005 October 2005October 22, 2005, 6:00 p.m., The Pine Mountain Lake Aviation Association is honored to welcome the National Aviation Hall of Fame inductee Dick Rutan at the Blankenburg Museum. Voyager: One World, One Flight
September 2005September 10, 2005, 6:00 p.m., The Pine Mountain Lake Aviation Association is honored to welcome the remarkable Brian Binnie at the Buchner Hangar. Making History with SpaceShipOne. Brian Binnie Captures the X-Prize with SpaceShipOne.
The event is a regular potluck: bring either a salad, main dish, dessert, or appetizers. Past Guest Speakers The Pine Mountain Lake Aviation Association has had many Great Guest Speakers over the years. We have and continue to record every Guest Speaker so if you are interested in seeing a particular guest speakers presentation then please contact us and we can provide you with a video of the event. August 2005August 13, 2005, 6:00 p.m., The Pine Mountain Lake Aviation Association is honored to welcome Colonel Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson at the Buchner Hangar. Colonel Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson is a WW II Triple Ace fighter pilot and a veteran military experimental test pilot.
June 2005June 4, 2005, at the Buchner Hangar, Guest Speaker Barry Schiff, Award Winning Aviator, Journalist, Author and Educator 26,000 Flight Hours - 5 World Speed Records - 52 Years of Flying. Catered Dinner $25 per person. Reservations are required. Make your check payable to and remit to PMLAA, P.O. Box 131, Groveland, CA 95321. May 2005May 7th, 2005, 6:00 p.m., at the Buchner Hangar, Lane Wallance, Flying Magazine, Aerospace Writer, Editor and Author - hors-d-ouvres, main dish, salad or dessert potluck.
April 2005April 2nd, 2005, 6:00 p.m. The Pine Mountain Lake Aviation Association is excited to welcome the amazing Sean D. Tucker - Aerobatics Master at the Buchner Hangar, Hors D'Oeuvres and Desserts potluck.
March 2005March 8th, 2005 The Women’s Pilot organization known as the 99’s will repaint our runway markings at Pine Mountain Lake to reflect the new CTAF of 122.9. Anyone wishing to help out can contact Jim Thomas office for further details (jthomas@co.tuolumne.ca.us or 209-533-5685). You can also just show up see if any additional help is needed. March 5th, 2005 6:00pm - Hap Halloran: "A WWII POW’s Story: Surviving and Healing" at Buchner Hangar - Potluck Soups/salads/desserts February 2005February 23rd, 2005 from 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM second and final Public Workshop on the Master Plan for Pine Mountain Lake Airport. The workshop will be held at the Groveland Community Hall. This is the last Public Workshop where the public can review and comment on the plan before the preparation of the final draft document, making it an important step in the overall master planning process. If you want to have input on the future development of Pine Mountain Lake Airport, please make plans to attend the workshop. February 19th, 2005 from 9:00am-12:00pm at Dick Collier’s hangar, Lunch available, Hands-on Workshop includes:
February 19th, 2005 from 2:00 to 5:00 Larry Jobe is sponsoring a Wings seminar at his hangar . The Subject is Lessons Learned and it is an audience interactive seminar. The intent is to have pilots verbally share events that have caused them to learn a valuable lesson. The goal is to share these experiences with the group so all may learn and hopefully avoid the same situation. Jim Henry of the FAA has sanctioned this Wings seminar but will not attend so the group will feel free to openly communicate. No Charge. February 19th, 2005 STCHS (Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society) Monthly Programs at the Groveland Community Hall at 7:30 PM: "Rich Lundin: Archeological Digs in Groveland". February 10th, 2005 Pine Mountain Lake Airport (E45) will be changing the Unicom/CTAF frequency to 122.900 MHz February 9th, 2005 Columbia Airport (O22) will be changing the Unicom/CTAF frequency to 122.975 MHz February 5th, 2005, 6:00 p.m., at the Buchner Hangar, Valentine Dance Party - Music by Homegrown, Appetizer and Dessert potluck. Music Charge of $10 per person. Open to non-members as well. January 2005January 8, 2005, 6:00 p.m., at the Buchner Hangar, the return of Dr. Orloff, an aviation accident detective and reconstruction expert. - Soup, Salad, and Dessert potluck. December 2004December 9th from 6:30 PM to 8:30: Pine Mountain Lake Airport Master Plan Public Workshop The development of the PML Airport Master Plan has come to the point where we will be holding our first Public Workshop on Thursday December 9 th from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at the Groveland Community Hall. Those who are interested in learning about the Master Plan process, the forecast data collected, and the airport development alternatives being considered should plan to attend this workshop. This will also be an opportunity for the public to express their desires and concerns regarding the future development of the airport. December 11, 6:00 PM at the Buchner Hangar, It's a Wrap -8th Annual toy drive for needy children - Bring an unwrapped toy, game or two: You’ll feel good through & through. Catered Dinner, reservation required. November 2004November 6th - Colonel Herbert E. Ross - USAF (retired) - Adventures of a P-38 Ace 6:00pm at the Buchner Hangar - This event is a pot luck. October 2004October 2, Saturday, 5:00 p.m Aviation’s Living Legend Bob Hoover. Bob Hoover is the greatest pilot I ever saw. Bob Hoover is the greatest stick & rudder pilot who ever lived. at the Blankenburg Museum. Saturday October 9th, the EAA Chapters 1337 is holding a Young Eagle rally at Columbia Airport from 8 AM to noon. October 30th. Kittytails presents: 1940 ’s Moonlight Swing Costume Ball &Dinner Show at the Blankenburg's Hangar. Reservations: 962-1001. September 2004Our September 4th speaker will be No Kum-Sok a.k.a. Kenneth Rowe. He was the 21 year-old North Korean pilot who defected and delivered the first MiG-15 to the Americans on September 21, 1953. His book, A MiG-15 to Freedom, will be the subject of his talk. The meeting will be held at 6:00 p.m. at the Buchner's Hangar. Please bring your favorite SALAD, BREAD or DESSERT to share. Saturday September 11th, the EAA Chapters 1337 is holding a Young Eagle rally at Pine Mountain Lake Airport from 8 AM to noon. Sept 20th, 1:30 P.M. Airports Committee Meeting. Columbia Airport “Lorick Hangar” 1000 Technology Drive. September 24-26, 2004 Lakeport, California: safety seminars. Coast Guard demonstration, Vertigo Simulator, and more. For more information contact Terry Campbell at NorcalAviation@aol.com or (209) 736-4554 or Steve and Mary McCaughey at www.strangebirds.com or (707) 768-3199. August 2004August 7th, NASA Astronaut Janice Voss, PhD 5:00pm at the Buchner's Hangar - Mapping the Earth in 3-D and Views of the Earth From Space July 2004 July 3rd, Boat Parade. The parade will start at 5:00 PM. July 4th, Fireworks celebration over the lake, just after dusk. June 2004 Mountain Flying in the Sierra Nevada - June 26, Buchner's Hangar - 1:00-3:00pm. This seminar participates in the FAA Wings program. |
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EAA Chapter 1337 and PMLAA are organizing an important fund raising even at the tuolumne Trail Campt on June 5th, 2010, to benefit the Pine Mountain Lake Airport. See the full description at: 
