Monthly
Recap. The February Lunch-Bunch gathering was a huge success, with
15 aircraft and 40 attendees. The group was so large that we had to break
into two groups to tour the TRACON. The tour was very interesting, with the
staff there being very accommodating in answering our questions and ensuring
we got to see everything we needed. There were lots of questions from the
visitors and we all learned a significant amount of information that will
make us better able to work within the air traffic control system.
Trip News. Our next
trip is planned for April 28-29 to Cedar Key (KCDK). We have 26 members
signed up and are planning a fun weekend. We will fly into KCDK Saturday
morning, have lunch and take a scenic boat tour late afternoon, with dinner
following the tour. There should be plenty of time for sight-seeing after
lunch. There will be additional information coming soon for those who have
signed up.
We also have several upcoming
trips, including the Bahamas May 24-28, Nashville July 6-8, Destin October
5-7, and Pigeon Forge November 9-11. We will be discussing these further at
the March 11 meeting.
Lunch-Bunch News.
The next Lunch-Bunch outing will be at on Saturday, March 17th
at Mount Air, NC (2NC0). Sherri and Paul will have more details in email
soon. Send your reservation to lunchbunch@platt.org.
Check the Georgia Flyers calendar for more upcoming Lunch-Bunch gatherings
at http://www.georgiaflyers.org/calendar.htm.
Meeting News.
Our next meeting will on Sunday, March 11th, at the EAA 690
hangar at Gwinnett County airport (KLZU). Members are invited to fly in or
drive in. Aircraft parking is available on the ramp in front of the EAA
hangar or just east of the hangar on the ramp. The auto gate we have used in
the past will not be available. Just to the west there is a gate with a
driveway that leads around behind the hangar where we can park autos. We are
planning to start at 12:30 for socializing, with lunch and a dessert
following at 1 pm. We also will be treated a presentation by Roger MacKenzie,
WWII bomber pilot, who will describe his adventures during the war. I hope
you will all come out to enjoy the socializing and program. Lunch will be
hot dogs, baked beans, coleslaw, chips and dessert. We will have games
during the meal. Come dressed in green to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. The
cost will be $9.00 per person.
Driving Directions: EAA 690 is located
at 690 Airport Road, Lawrenceville; check
www.mapquest.com. Driving suggestions: go north on I-85; Take GA-316
East (exit 106) toward Lawrenceville & Athens; Drive 7.8 miles, crossing
Sugarloaf Pky, GA-120, GA-20; turn right at the next traffic light onto
Hurricane Shoals Road, NE (At this intersection, High Hope Road is on the
left and Hurricane Shoals is on the right); Drive 0.1 miles, turn left onto
Airport Road; Look for an entrance trough a fence into a field that leads to
the EAA 690 hangar parking; park on the abandoned taxiway behind the hangar.
Flying Directions: The EAA 690 is in the
northwest corner of the airport at the end of the hangar row closest to the
runway. After landing, exit the runway to the north (toward Hawthorne).
Contact ground control and tell then you are going to the EAA ramp.
They will give you further directions if
needed. Check the LZU taxi diagram available at
http://download.aopa.org/ustprocs/20070215/airport_diagrams/05385AD.PDF.
Reservations:
Call or email Carolyn Deering at 770-321-9380 or
rdeering1@comcast.net with the number of persons attending by Thursday,
March 8th.
New members, John and Sue Tefft
are temporarily residing in Georgia while John in on a three-year assignment
at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations. They reside in Norcross with
their extended family, daughter and son from Russia (now US citizens) Sasha
and Denis Morozov. John, a flight instructor, is giving Denis instrument
flight instruction.
John and Sue call Exeter, New Hampshire
home. Their children, Becky and Jonathan are taking care of the house and
attending the University of New Hampshire (UNH). Becky will be graduating in
May and Jonathan, an oboe performance graduate, has returned to get a degree
in electrical engineering.
Sue has lived in many places around the
world, first as an “Army brat” and then flying more than a million miles as
a flight attendant for TWA. During some of her father’s overseas tours of
duty, Sue returned to Ballston Spa, NY where she was born and where John
grew up. They met there as teenagers and dated off and on for 17 years
before getting married.
Sue received her nursing degree at UNH
and worked as an occupational health nurse but is now retired to take care
of her mother full time.
John learned to fly while stationed at
Ft. Bliss in El Paso, Texas, received his commercial license in upstate NY
(Saratoga County Airport), instrument rating in Atlanta while getting his MS
in Nuclear Engineering at Georgia Tech, CFI, multiengine and seaplane
ratings while in Connecticut and Instrument Flight Instructor rating while
working at a nuclear power plant in Maryland.
John and Sue own a 1969 Cessna Cardinal
that John bought 32 years ago. Besides flying, they love to ski. Sue is an
expert knitter and John has been an amateur radio operator (N1JT) for almost
50 years.
Following the temporary assignment, they
plant to return to New Hampshire where John has worked at the Seabrook
nuclear power plant for 25 years.
