A huge "THANK YOU" to Barbara and Jack Moore for a wonderful day of conviviality at their home. Nancy called a brief meeting.Our next meeting will be at Kay and Jim Renfrow's home October 14, 10:30 AM. The directions for fly-in and drive-in are attached. We'll have a business meeting and a presentation by Marty Goppert. Kay has selected a local restaurant for lunch afterwards. We're expecting some student pilots who are interested in joining the 99s, so ya'll come and give them a big welcome! Please let Kay know if you are going to lunch - email at nvstg8r@attglobal.net or call 830-420-3578.
Our Christmas party will be in Sherry Walker's home on December 16th. We plan to start around 4:00 PM. Details will be forthcoming, but you might start looking for a gift for our exchange (I use that term loosely - "pick or steal" is the better definition). I promise you will have a great time, so put that date on your calendar now. Bring your hubby, friends, family members. Just be sure to let Sherry know how many are going in your group.
The TXAA (Texas Aviation Association) publishes a real nice newsletter quarterly and sponsors the Weekend Wings, which has moved from Galveston to TSTC Airport in Waco - 2007 will be April 27-28 (open to everyone). The dues to join are only $20 a year and you'll receive the newsletter and be a supporter of general aviation in Texas.
Sherry Walker has been reminding us to pay our chapter dues. Unless we can come up with some good money-making projects, our expenses are paid out of our dues. If we don't have the money, then the burden falls on a few who just don't ask for reimbursement for their expenses. Our chapter members feel strongly about the student pilot scholarship which we would like to award annually. There are some 99 Chapters who have no dues. They raise enough money throughout he year to cover their needs. Sherry is working on a southwestern cookbook to sell, but in the meantime, please send her your dues for June 1, 2006 - May 31, 2007 in the amount of $12. Add an extra $2 for the Section "Approach" (total $14). The address is: 2060 Silver Hills, Boerne, TX 78006. Also, send or bring your ideas for making money! Thanks! The following have paid their dues: Jo Agee, Anne Ault, Nancy Aldrich, Gloria Blank, Cheryl Casillas, Winnie Clements, Margaret Cosby, Pam Crane, Lena Cronk, Alice Foeh, Marty Goppert, Karen Greesen, Elizabeth Jordan, Stella Leis, Carol Levine, Reni Mocgyzemba, Kay Renfrow, Laura Richter, Patty Taylor, Sherry Walker, Marcia Weser.
We four (Nancy, Kay, Laura and Gloria) had a wonderful time in Odessa at the Section Meeting. And it was probably the least expensive one we've attended in a long time. Well, one reason is because we drove (no airfares). Then the hotel provided a full breakfast and generous happy hour (5:30 - 7:00 PM) every day. What the registration didn't cover (which was ample), the hotel did. And it's no one's fault that I had a flat just 40 miles south of Odessa and ultimately bought four new tires. I hope it's a trend now, but instead of a speaker during the banquet, we had a show. Sure Nancy will report the Section business during our meeting in October.
A note from Sherry:
"Ah, the cookbook is cooking! It is enough to make me want to start cooking and trying out recipes. The sections are beginning to take shape, and so far I have collected 25 recipes from 8 different people. We will definitely have the following sections: Progressive Taxi page (table of contents), Pre-flight (appetizers & hor d'oeuvres), Straight & Level (entr`ee section), Right Rudder (side dishes of rice or potatoes), Left Rudder (vegetables), Wings & Things (poultry & meat section), Weight & Balance (diet and light food section), Final Approach (dessert section). Depending on what recipes I get we could have other sections as well. If we collect enough breakfast recipes we could have a Dawn Patrol section, for example.
Keep sending those recipes in. However, I don't want to hear from the same 8 people again; I want to hear from the rest of you. I know, even if we don't like to cook, we all eat. There must be a recipe lurking around some place in your brain. It doesn't have to be elaborate or fancy. In fact, it would be better if it weren't. I know as pilots cooking is probably not our first love, but we all eat, and simplicity is good. Send your recipes to me via email, sdw519@gtvtc.com or snail mail, 2060 Silver Hills Dr. Boerne, TX. 78006."
2007 International Conference will be in Denver/Boulder September 12-16 at the Omni Interlocken Resort hotel in Boulder. Room rate will be $125.00 a night. Registration will be $300.00. Registration includes: Continental breakfast Friday AM, AE Banquet Friday evening, Saturday night Awards Banquet, seminars and hospitality. All tours, etc. are optional. The business meeting will be Friday morning; seminars Saturday 9-5:00.
2008 International Conference - Alaska
2009 International Conference - Chicago
Spring Section Meeting - Lincoln, Nebraska April 26-29, 2007. This will be a joint meeting with North Central Section.
NIFA -
I received a call from Jeff Taylor yesterday. He is with the University of Louisiana in Monroe and is looking for judges for NIFA (college flying competition), Region 4. The SAFECON will be November 5th through 11th in Monroe. There will be a judges briefing on Tuesday, the 7th, so we would be expected to be there for that.Speaking from experience, this is a lot of fun - also a lot of long hours and also at your own expense. NIFA just doesn't generally have enough money to even help with the hotel bills. I'm certainly not trying to dissuade you, because it IS fun to watch these kids compete.
The 99s have had this job for many years and they do need us. Let me know ASAP if you have even a spark of interest. I told him I would get back with him soon. NIFA's website is: www.nifa.us
October birthdays: Virginia "Ginny" McDaniel (3rd), Pam Crane (24th)
October 99s Anniversaries: Jo Agee-Housler (18 years), Ginny McDaniel (17 years), Mary Rohrer (3 years). Thank you, thank you for your dedication and support.
- Gloria
DRIVING DIRECTIONS TO KAY'S HOUSE
Take IH10 East toward Houston, outside the 1604 loop
Exit Trainer Hale/FM2538 (Exit 593)
Take a Right onto Trainer Hale.
Go 7.7 miles to the end of Trainer Hale. The road T's into FM775
Take a right onto FM 775
Go 1.4 miles to Zuehl Crossing Road
Take a right onto Zuehl Crossing.
Go 0.4 miles to Heritage Airpark. There are two gates to Heritage. The first gate is a ranch rail gate. Take the second gate (pretty limestone rock gate). I am the second house on the right (225). The first house is a house under construction.FLYING DIRECTIONS TO HERITAGE AIRPARK (TE86)
Runways 17/35. Right traffic for 35.
Field Elevation: 550 MSL
Traffic Pattern elevation 800-1000 AGL
Multicom frequency: 122.9
Runway length 3100 ft
Trees on approach to Runway 17
Second house from the south end of runway