From the Left Seat

From the bugling of the elk to the honking of the geese training in formation flight, it appears the summer season is drawing to a close. But the fall weather still offers great flying conditions with cooler temperature, lower density altitudes, and beautiful scenery. We live in a beautiful place and seeing it from above is just spectacular.

We just finished our Young Eagles season and I’m proud to report that we flew 131 young people.

Here’s a shout out to Gordon Tubesing for most kids flown (26), and to Bud Davies and me who tied for most kids flown in a single place airplane (13). We also were the only two pilots who flew all three events! And of course, thanks to our pilots from other chapters who showed up to help. Brian Funk from Auburn only attended one event for us this year, but he gets top billing for flying 17 kids at a single event! We’re also busy helping two youths attend the Air Academy in OSH in 2025. Richard Howell is organizing “Build and Fly” this fall and working with the Boys and Girls Club to involve them with aviation.

Barry and Tracy did a fantastic job organizing our annual poker run. The scholarship fund received $430.00, and our new Private Pilot Aiden Lara won the grand prize of 2 rounds of golf at the Cedars of Dungeness and 1 night at the 7 Cedars Hotel. A big thanks goes out to the donations from the Jamestown Tribe, A-1 Auto, Tedescos, and Ace Hardware.

The building committee is diligently working on a design and cost estimate for our new meeting place. They have decided on a location and are now working on all the details involved with constructing a building. It is hoped that a proposal to the membership will be forthcoming in the next few months.

The Gathering on September 28th will be the last one of the year at Bud’s hangar. After that we will go back to the Fairchild International Airport Conference Room for the winter-where it’s warm! Thanks, Bud, for generously offering the use of your hangar all these years.