SX-300 Group Meeting
(Minutes)
Saturday 7 Nov 2009
Williamsburg-Jamestown
Airport (JGG)
The semi-annual
meeting of the SX-300 Group was held at Williamsburg VA 5 thru 8 Nov and was
hosted by President Tuck McAtee with help from
his wife Ann, Daughter Molly and son Patrick. Members attending: Doug Poli,
Bill and Diane Johns, Keith and Linda Phillips, Heinz and Karen Pierre, Jim and
Gwenn Cianci, Tuck and Ann McAtee and Mike Smith. Also attending were Tony and
Brenda Crawford from Spruce Creek Fly-In and Buzz Rich from Williamsburg.
We stayed at the
Williamsburg Hospitality House. Transportation for the entire stay was provided
by the McAtee family. The William and Mary College Campus and Merchants
Square were within walking distance of the hotel.
Tuck planned a full schedule and fortunately we had perfect weather for the
entire time. The Jamestown Museum,
replicas of the settler’s stockade, Indian camp and the boats that brought the
first settlers to America
were of great interest to everyone. The Williamsburg tour with speeches and
live performances that re-enact colonial days during the revolution made you
feel like you were living in that time period….As always we had good fellowship and learned a lot about our
history.
On Saturday
morning we had a 6 ship flying tour of the area with Tuck leading and giving us
a running commentary of the historical land marks. Afterwards we flew 3 Young
Eagles in a 3 ship formation.
Our business
meeting was held in the PM at the local FBO. The following are
decisions/subjects discussed:
- Harry
Hinkley was voted Vice President
- Our
next meeting will be at Spruce Creek just before Sun-N-Fun.
- We
agreed that some of our landing gear problems are self imposed and as a
group we need better understanding of the system, therefore we will
attempt to have a class on the gear system complete with schematics at our
next meeting.
- The
nose gear steering is another area that needs better understanding. It can
be easily broken with improper towing.
- Engine
out landing procedures have been tested and practiced by some but not
every one in the group is familiar with the procedure and techniques. This
procedure needs to be incorporated in the POH. Tuck agreed to do this.
- We had
a discussion on fuel leaning procedures which is an area that needs better
understanding by our members.
- The
landing gear trunions initiative has finally come to fruition and over
half of the fleet has been fitted with the new ones. All of us that got
new trunions owe Bill Johns $15 for
shipping….Although some of the early ones may have been shipped by air, in
which case you owe him considerably more.
- Jim
Cianci has agreed to take over the web site from Bea Rempe, also
we need to provide current information to Jim so he can update the Site.
2010 dues are now payable to our
treasurer, Jim Vitale. We have approximately $200 on hand.
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