@ Hangar 41 |
June, 2021
RAA-TR June 2021, COVID Newsletter.
AN ACTUAL NEAR-MISS
See story inside.
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Next RAA-TR General Meetings June 7th via ZOOM. Speaker to be announced. In-person meetings restart? Yet TBD.
Recreational Aircraft Association – Toronto Region is twinning with:
TR Club’s Computer links
To go to the club’s website use the URL: www.raa-tr.ca
When sending an email to the whole club (group), use the email address: “raatoronto@googlegroup.com” (hint: there is “group” in the address)
To send to either Boubah or Ian use: “raatoronto@gmail.com”
URL for E-Transfer of payments to club: RAACToronto@gmail.com.
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Attention!
Your 2020/21 membership is due. Consider your dues as a very inexpensive cost of a course in aircraft operation & maintenance. Where else but in our club, do you have such a collection of knowledgeable people on all things aviation!
Basic Membership is $50.00 for members of our national organization RAAC. If you are NOT a member of RAAC, please add $15.00.
Be sure to make cheques payable to:
Recreational Aircraft Association Toronto.
Send cash or cheque to the Treasurer Brian Heinmiller, 37 McClure Court, Georgetown, ON L7G5X6
905-877-7947
Members can enter the email address (RAACToronto@gmail.com ) into their banking application and any club payments (dues, ticket prices etc.) can automatically be made to the club.
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RAA-TR General Zoom Meeting, May. 3rd, 2021, via I-net.
Meeting opened at 7:36 by President Fred Grootarz with 24 present.
Tonight’s speaker is Fred Grootarz on Things to Remember.
Visitors? None. New Members? None. First Flights? None. New Projects? None. Completions? None. Everyone get the newsletter? Yes.
Treasurer’s report by Brian Heinmiller: ≈$7500 in the bank and ≈$7500 in the rainy-day fund. Detailed printouts of the accounting are available to any member upon request. Heading into the summer we will need some fund-raising events since this is a major source of our income.
Bernie’s M4M tonight is on Range. What determines how far you can fly with the gas on board? Major determinants are parasitic drag and induced drag which combine into total drag curve which intersects with the rate of climb line. Choice of engine setting then becomes the determining factor (see Friction HP vs. RPM in Newsletter). Other parameters include amount of fuel, weight, CofG, Density, temp., altitude etc. Optimizing all parameters allows Bernie to take his RV to the Manitoba/Saskatchewan board without a stop. Mind you, he has rigorously documented how his plane responds to all of the range parameters.
Have your say: Art Kitching reported the scales are not in the box. Who has them? Domenico is in need of them.
COPA has a letter for members to fill out and send to you MP re the proposed tax on aircraft. Go to their website and locate the form.
Fred gave his ‘Things to Remember’ talk.
Note: NavCanada will soon delete AWWS forcing use of CFPS which has been up and running for a while. The CFPS is a combination of weather and NOTAM systems and provides flight information along your flight corridor. Check it out at: https//plan.navcanada.ca.
Meeting adjourned at 8:44. Next meeting will be June 7th.
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On the Tower Frequency.
The following exchange occurred between my student, the tower, and me at KLVK...
Cessna N1234 (Student): Livermore tower Cessna 1234 at Sierra ready to taxi 25R with India.
Tower: Roger N1234 taxi to India.
[Student gives me the "Huh? You read it back," look.]
Cessna N1234 (Instructor): Tower N1234 confirm you want us to taxi to 25R. We don't have enough fuel to get to India.
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Membership Renewals
How to renew
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On the Tower Frequency.
Some years ago at Des Moines, Iowa, I was holding in the run-up area when I heard the tower call an airliner:
Tower: "Airliner 1234, cleared for takeoff. Runway 30 right."
Airliner: "Tower, we're still waiting for our numbers."
Tower: "Roger, Airliner 1234. Cancel departure clearance; hold short of the runway."
Airliner: "Airliner 1234, holding short."/p>
Several seconds later, the pilot's voice came over the frequency, sounding both apologetic and put out:
Airliner Captain: "Ladies and gentlemen, we're experiencing an air traffic control delay, but we should be on our way shortly, as soon as the tower releases us."
[pause]
Tower: "Nice speech, Captain, but ATC is not delaying you. Suggest you misinform the passengers on the PA, not my frequency."
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NOTICE:
RAA-TR has signed up for the Aircraft Spruce Dealer Discount program. Paid-up RAA-TR card-carrying members will now receive discounts on their orders effective immediately. In addition, ordering on-line receives free shipping on orders of $250 CAD or more (subject to the same restrictions as their standard free shipping policy, some exceptions apply). You must use our Dealer ID and our User ID. Aircraft spruce has seen our members racking up greater than 55,000$ in purchases last year with a savings of $6000. Be sure to use the account with a number to get the discount.
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2021 RAA-TR Directors | |||
Position | Name | Phone Number(s) | |
President | Fred Grootarz | 905 821-0504 O, 647 290-9170 C | |
Vice-President | Alain Ouellet | 416 709-2020 C, 905 458-5424 H | |
Treasurer | Brian Heinmiller | 905 877-7947 | |
Secretary/Newsletter | Ian Parson | 905 693-0298 H, 647 972-1948 C | |
Safety Officer | Alain Ouellet | 416 709-2020, 905 458-5424 | |
Facilities & Tools Director | Per Lindstrom | 647 228-2292 | |
Director | Armando Facchini | 416 606-5438 | |
Membership Director | Art Kitching | 647 981 0044 | |
Director at large | Bing Storey | dumasdenise@gmail.com | |
Director at large | Tony Majkut | 416 762-5257 | |
Director at large | Brian Cross | ||
Communications Director | Ken Yates | 905 857-3218 | |
Education Director | Fred Grootarz | 905 212-9333 | |
Webmaster/I-net Issues | Paul Yardy | 905 843-0983 | |
BFC Liaison | Neil Mont | 647 290-0479 C, 905 854-0479 H | |
Director at large | Murray Meadows | Kaye.meadows@sympatico.ca | |
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A good show if you can get it: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/great-electric-airplane-race/
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METROLINER PILOT AFTER MIDAIR:
'I'M GOOD, THOUGH'
May 12, 2021By Jim Moore, As reported in AOPA On Line.
First responders to a midair collision near Centennial Airport in Denver were pleasantly surprised to find two occupants of a Cirrus SR22 unhurt in a state park after their single-engine piston deployed its airframe parachute to good effect.
Bruce Graham was flying a Piper Cub in the traffic pattern for Runway 10 at Centennial Airport in Denver when two aircraft approaching the longer parallel runways collided. Graham watched the damaged Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner land. After landing himself, Graham sought a closer look and took this photograph. Photo courtesy of Bruce Graham.
First alerted by the tower, firefighters and police also fielded calls from many eyewitnesses who saw the two aircraft collide around 10:25 a.m. Mountain time on May 12. Their reports, along with radio traffic recorded by LiveATC.net, and many photographs and videos posted on social media provide an unusually detailed early account of the collision that badly damaged a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner operated by Key Lime Air, ripping several feet off the top of the turboprop’s fuselage. The resulting damage reminded Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Deputy John Bartmann of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, which landed safely on April 28, 1988, after decompression and structural failure in flight tore off much of the upper fuselage. Flight attendant Clarabelle Lansing was killed in the Aloha Airlines incident, but the Key Lime Air Metroliner was hauling cargo and landed with nobody hurt, or even apparently fully aware that the aircraft had been struck by a Cirrus SR22 about 30 seconds after the flight was cleared to land on Runway 17L.
“Tower, Key Lime 970 declaring an emergency. We had, looks like the right engine failed, so I’m going to continue my landing, here,” the pilot said, according to the air traffic control audio recording. Other pilots on the frequency reported seeing the Cirrus parachute deploy.
“Tower, that was a definite midair on short final,” another pilot reported as the Metroliner was landing, shortly after which the tower controller inquired if Key Lime 970 required assistance.
“I’m gonna taxi off here, and I think I’ll just park over at Signature,” the pilot responded. “I’m good, though.”
Traffic for the shorter, parallel Runway 17R was being handled by a different controller on another frequency. That controller was also handling several aircraft, and advised the Cirrus about two aircraft to watch for, a Cessna and the Metroliner. The acknowledgement “traffic in sight” was the last transmission from the Cirrus, and it is not clear if he was referring to the Cessna, the Metroliner, or both.
“Cirrus 6 Delta Juliet do not overshoot the final,” the controller advised, and followed almost in the same breath by: “Cirrus 6 Delta Juliet, do you require assistance?” After a brief pause: “Cirrus 6 Delta Juliet, if you hear this transmission, we have emergency vehicles your direction.”
Among the responders was Eric Hurst, a public information officer for South Metro Fire Rescue, who said in a telephone interview that the rescue crews arrived to find two occupants already out of the Cirrus under their own power, and both of them declined medical attention. According to local media accounts, the Cirrus belongs to Independence Aviation, a flight school and Cirrus Training Center.
The collision occurred over Cherry Creek State Park, Hurst said, which includes an 880-acre reservoir that is a popular boating destination, along with various hiking and bicycle trails from which witnesses had a clear view of both the violent collision and the surprisingly uneventful aftermath.
“We’re all really happy that it wasn’t worse,” Hurst said. While fire-and-rescue services were not required, Hurst and fellow responders did visit the airport after securing wreckage found in the park on behalf of the FAA and the NTSB. From the point of collision to the runway, the Metroliner overflew many buildings and people, including one South Metro Fire Rescue station, Hurst said. He said falling debris or a crash of the damaged turboprop would likely have led to much more disastrous consequences. “Obviously, we’re super grateful that didn’t happen.”
Hurst said examination of the damaged Metroliner made it all the more amazing that nobody was hurt. “Looking at it is a head-scratcher, to see that amount of damage on an aircraft that was able to land without incident.”
Bartmann, the sheriff’s deputy, shared that view: “The fact that that pilot was able to land that aircraft in the condition it was, is shocking,” Bartmann said. “I mean, I’m surprised.”
He said others at the airport had a similar assessment: “We heard things like, ‘that pilot needs to buy a lottery ticket.’”
Bartmann said several cellphone videos of the incident posted online within hours of the event document the SR22 descent under the canopy of its airframe parachute. He said he could not personally confirm reports that one or more witnesses in the state park approached the Cirrus pilot bearing pieces of one or the other aircraft.
A Cirrus SR22 with two people aboard touched down under its airframe parachute after colliding with a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner hauling cargo as both aircraft approached parallel runways at Centennial Airport in Denver on May 12. The badly damaged Metroliner landed without incident or injuries. Photo courtesy of South Metro Fire Rescue.
Editor-Web Jim Moore joined AOPA in 2011 and is an instrument-rated private pilot, as well as a certificated remote pilot, who enjoys competition aerobatics and flying drones.
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Friction Horsepower For various Lycoming Engines.
As requested by the membership at the May 3rd ‘Minute for Maintenance’ presentation by clubmember Bernie Wurster.
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