EAA Chapter 430 General Meeting Minutes

Date: September 29, 2018 Meeting called to order at 10:06 by President Mike Radford at W28 #20 with the Pledge of Allegiance.

• Introduction of Guests: Paul Kuntz introduced his guests: Patrick Trainor and his son Aidan, who is working at Kenmore, has Air Force Academy dreams, and wants to be Paul Allen’s personal pilot. You go boy!
• Approve Minutes:
• There were no revisions/corrections to the minutes published in the newsletter and were approved.
• Correspondence:

Bob Hicks received communication from the Port of Port Angeles that they are planning a flyin at Fairchild Intl on June 22, 2019. The Chapter has been asked to participate, and there was discussion of holding the Young Eagle (YE) rally at the same time.

• Reports:
• Treasurer: Harry Cook provided the report that Mike read:

Scholarship $2722.94 Checking $1295.73 Savings $1183.47 Total $5282.14

• Membership: Bob Hicks said we have 99 members today.
• Programs: Lee Runion announced the Christmas Party will be December 1, 2018 with social hour at 5:00 pm and dinner at 6:00 pm. There will be a Toys for Tots drive again. Lee will put out an Evite for everyone to RSVP and select their meal.
• Scholarship: Dave Miller was not present.
• Young Eagle: John Meyer reviewed the 2018 YE effort of 3 rallies flying about 63 eaglets at each rally. Kudos to those volunteers who helped.
• Tech Advisor and Newsletter: Dan Masys said there have been no new project inspections recently; he also said he would continue to publish the newsletter the week before the general meeting until the end of the year (as he and Linda are moving to CA).
• Project Reports: (members open forum)
• Paul Kuntz said that on his fourth annual trip to Oshkosh this year, he installed oxygen.

He said that it gave him the ability to fly at 16,500 feet over the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Paul offered to provide a presentation of his installation.

Old Business:

• Air Affaire 2018 was successful. The additional tent was very helpful, and it was good to have handouts for visitors. We had many volunteers which made it quite enjoyable. We need to work on better weather next year.
• The VMC club had its first meeting on September 12 with 10 people attending. There was a scenario of high cross winds provided which caused discussion, and there were also discussions about non-tower airport operations. The next meeting is Wednesday, October 10th 7:00 pm at the Mariner’s café.

New Business:

• The nominating committee of Barry Halsted, Jim Bettcher, and Ray Ballantyne was formed to recommend individuals for the November election of officers. All Chapter \Officers and Board of Directors serve a 1 year term.
• Mike discussed the future meeting location. He said that the chapter can continue to use his hangar (#10) through the winter, but should pursue other options for a meeting place.

Comments from the Membership:

• Donna Wilson-Sommer showed her 2018 National EAA award for Major Contributor of the Year. She went on to describe the wonderful time she had traveling and receiving the award at AirVenture in OSH.

Raffle: A 50/50 raffle was held for the scholarship fund. The big winner was Lee Runion, and he returned his half of the $74.00 for the fund.

The next Chapter meeting will be October 27th, 2018 at 10:00am at W28 hanger at 10am. Next Board meeting will be at the Mariner’s Café October 19, 2018 at 9am Meeting was closed at 10:38 am Presentation: Dan Masys presented “What I learned from building airplanes for 10 years and 3 airplanes”. Dan presented the “Top Ten” things he learned while building an airplane. #7 said “Behind every successful man is a woman…..with a rivet gun!” He went on to tell what he learned from flying them. The presentation ended at 12:00 pm Respectfully Submitted, Ray Ballantyne, Secretary General Membership meeting minutes are now included in the monthly Newsletter. Minutes of the monthly Board meeting are also available to chapter members via login at the Members only page of the chapter website: http://www.eaa430.org If you are a chapter member and do not yet have a login to the Members page, you can register with your email address to create a login at the website.