Col James H.

Kasler Senior Squadron

GLR-IN-069

Meeting reCAP and News

April 2, 2009

In this edition: Next Meeting date & topics Upcoming Events Past Meeting highlights and minutes Editor's note: Please send any content for future editions to 2d Lt Jim Buist at jimbuist@yahoo.com

Next Meeting: Planned Topics for Saturday, April 18, 2009

Please join us for our next scheduled meeting on April 18, 2009. We look forward to working and learning with you. We already have two planned topics of importance, listed below. At our next meeting, we will continue our Garmin G-1000 training started at the March meeting. These planned training sessions will include both classroom training and in airplane, hands-on practice of various G-1000 operations. The training will be above and beyond what is learned in the MO training, but necessary for the practical use of the G-1000 in our C-182. We also plan to have a Basic Communicators User Training (BCUT) class during our next meeting, conducted by 1st Lt Carl Dole. This was originally scheduled for the March meeting, but was rescheduled.

Upcoming Events
Tuesday, April 7, 2009: FAA Safety Seminar on Maneuvering. Greenwood Airport conference room starting at 1900 Saturday, April 18, 2009: Next Kasler Squadron meeting, starting at 0830, in the Greenwood Airport conference room. Saturday, April 25, 2009: Indiana Wing Conference and Awards Banquet Tuesday, April 28, 2009: FAA Safety Event: Navigating On An Airport, at Vincennse University, 2175 South Hoffman Road, Indianapolis starting at 1900. More information at: http://www.faasafety.gov/SPANS/event_details.aspx?eid=24160

Wednesday, April 29, 2009: AOPA Air Safety Foundation Seminar GPS From The Ground Up in West Lafayette, IN This seminar was recently presented in Indianapolis and is another great one from AOPA. More information is available at www.aopa.org/asf/seminars/ May 3, 2009: CAP Day at Richmond Airport Tuesday, May 5, 2009: FAA Safety Seminar on Take-Off and Landing. Greenwood Airport conference room starting at 1900 May 8 9, 2009: Corporate Learning Course (CLC) at Wing Headquarters May 9, 2009: National Check Pilots Standardization Course in Columbus, IN starting at 0900 put on by the Indiana Wing Tuesday, May 12, 2009: FAA Safety Seminar on getting ready for the summer flying season. Anderson, IN Municipal Airport starting at 1900. More information at www.faasafety.gov/SPANS/event_details.aspx?eid=23963 June 5 7, 2009: 13th Annual Indianapolis Air Show at Mt. Comfort Airport. CAP members will be assisting throughout the weekend. More information about the air show at http://www.indyairshow.com/

Past Meeting: Highlights from Saturday, March 21, 2009

If you were absent from our last meeting, here are a few items that you missed. Scroll down to see more details of these and the rest of the meeting minutes. Numerous Announcements G-1000 training Aerospace Education BCUT basic items review Meeting Minutes/Topics from Saturday, March 21, 2009 1. Call to Order Capt Aaron Pietras 2. Pledge of Allegiance 2d Lt Jim Buist 3. Invocation Lt Col Larry Lopshire 4. Introduction of members and guests 5. Announcements Capt Aaron Pietras a) b) Indiana Wing Newsletter passed around, available on-line Squadron Newsletter recap of past meeting, next meeting topics

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A Corporate Learning Course (CLC) will be offered May 8 9, 2009 at Wing Headquarters Lt Col Larry Lopshire told us about the Indiana Wing Headquarters Order: IN803 Orientation Flight Activity 237 Cadets of Anderson Preparatory Academy Scheduled for March 30 31 & April 1, 2009 This is a Wing wide event with 5 of our 8 planes being used

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O-Ride pilots are also needed for Saturday, March 28, 2009. Please contact Lt Col Larry Lopshire if you can volunteer Lt Col Tony Cecere is our new O-Ride Coordinator. Tony will be the contact person for future O-Ride events TSA Airport Security Program This new program, introduced by the TSA, is being fought by AOPA on behalf of CAP. The current deadline for implementation is June 1 SAR Evaluation: Assistance is needed. Contact Maj Brian W. Schmuck, CAP Director of Emergency Services home: (812) 626-0253 - cell: (812) 598-8520 CAP Day, an open house for a new CAP unit at the Richmond Airport has been changed to May 3, 2009. Cadet O-Rides are planned along with an EAA Young Eagles event. CAP members in the Richmond area are trying to start a new unit in Richmond, which will initially start as a Flight, eventually becoming a Composite Squadron. CAP Day is to promote CAP in general. Two planes will be used for the event, one on static display, the other being used for O-Rides. 1st Lt Carl Dole is the pint of contact if interested in participating. Indiana Wing Conference is the last weekend of April 2009. Lt Col Tony Cecere presented ICS-300 completion certificates to Capt Aaron Pietras, Lt Col Larry Lopshire, and Capt Brett Striegel

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6. Safety Brief: Presented by 2d Lt Jim Buist Severe Weather plus Flight Emergencies. The Safety Brief will be posted on the squadron website at http://kaslersquadron.org/safety_briefs.htm, including the safety Code Word. Members were also reminded that the Wings of Greenwood pilot organization presents an FAA Safety Seminar each month at the Greenwood Airport FBO, in the conference room. This safety presentation qualifies for the FAA's Wings program and is open to the general public. The next seminar will be on Tuesday, April 7, 2009. More information can be found at http://www.faasafety.gov/SPANS/event_details.aspx?eid=22500 7. ELT Mission: Lt Col Tony Cecere presented the recent mission to northern Indiana, which also involved the Ohio and Michigan wings. Winds had been strong earlier in the day, but had reduced enough at mission time to launch the aircraft. Tony was mission pilot, Capt Aaron Pietras mission observer. Tony and Aaron left Greenwood Airport and picked up a scanner trainee on their way north. Although the Becker DF unit initially pointed northwesterly towards a signal, it became erratic and so the crew turned more northerly, towards Ft. Wayne. During the flight, some erroneous readings were noted on the fuel flow and quantity gages, with the fuel flow reading around 60 gallons per hour. The crew made a precautionary stop at Ft. Wayne to check the actual fuel quantity remaining, found the

quantity gages were correct, refueled, and departed. Tony described the crew coordination between he and Aaron and described how Aaron operated the equipment, maintained communications with the IC,and also made sure the scanner trainee accomplished his checklist items 8. G-1000 Training: Lt Col Tony Cecere and 2d Lt Jim Buist presented their first in a series of planned training sessions. Tony led the training with Jim operating the simulator program, projected on the board for all present to see. Tony began with a review of the various control knobs, buttons, and areas on the MFD. This was followed by instruction on how to go from a present position Direct To another position/waypoint. Handouts were given to the members present and are available on the squadron website at http://kaslersquadron.org/Training_G1000_Page_1.htm 9. Aaron mentioned that the Greenwood airport flying club presents an FAA Safety Seminar on the first Tuesday of each month at the Greenwood Airport FBO. All are welcome and information can be found on www.faasafety.gov 10. Aerospace Education: 1st Lt Ron Cunningham presented a brief review of the following aerospace ed. Topics: Navigation, True Course Line, True Course, Magnetic North, Compas Deviation, G-1000 GPS does everything with Magnetic information, Altimeter, True Airspeed vs Ground Speed, Wind & the Wind Triangle. Ron also showed two videos of a new innovation being worked on called Virtual HUD, which projects a Heads Up Display onto a rotating propeller. These videos and more information are available at www.VirtualHUD.com

11. The full BCUT class was postponed and will be conducted by 1st Lt Carl Dole at the next meeting. This was originally scheduled for today's meeting, but only one present member needed the class with all others already having taken the class. Carl took advantage of the time, though, and reviewed a few basic items including a) b) c) d) e) f) g) Hearing vs Listening (communication & comprehension) Keep communications clear, concise, and brief Use of Phonetic Alphabet Remember that a Redfire number is only to be used for official CAP purposes CAP radios are VHF/FM and can be heard by potentially anyone. Therefore, be careful what you say For long distances, we use Repeater System Make sure you carry extra batteries for the hand held radios. It is common to have your radio operating at the beginning of the mission, but then inop due to low/dead batteries later in the mission. A dead radio is useless. Promotion of James Buist to Second Lieutenant Meeting Adjourned

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March 21, 2009 Meeting Attendees: 2d Lt Jim Buist; Lt Col Tony Cecere; 1st Lt Ron Cunningham; 1st Lt Carl Dole; Capt Chris Homko; 1st Lt Dan Koiro; Lt Col Larry Lopshire; Lt Col Dan McDaniel; Capt Aaron Pietras, CC; Capt Brett Striegel;