Bluegrass Airlines
September 2003 Newsletter
Alaska Division.
September Announcements:
Welcome Aboard to Richard Valenta, Cam LeBlanc, and Don Merritt
Congratulations to Ron Jorgensen for being promoted to Sr. Capt.
Congratulations to Don Merritt for being promoted to Capt.
Check out the Alaska Division Adventure page for September:
** Sept ** Lost Plane: by ATP Capt. Bill Odell and Scenery by Sr. Capt. Coleman Green
We have a Beaver overdue at Ambler from Bettles! He took off from Bettles at 12:12 everything normal. His last transmission was at 12:42 reporting he was over a nice little lake and heading toward some low mountains.
** Sept ** FBR– Flying the Mackenzie River: by ATP Capt. Bill Odell
The government agencies in Yellowknife have requested a flight
inspecting the Mackenzie River from end to end looking for erosion,
obstructions, derelicts and the icing conditions. The Alaska Division is
providing an Otter at Hay River for this charter.
From the C.E.O
Starting September 8th, the National Air
Tour will depart from KYIP (Willow Run) and fly a counter clockwise 4,000 mile
journey. Details are at: www.nationalairtour.org
Bluegrass Airlines will create a virtual National
Air Tour at the same time. www.bluegrassairlines.com/nat
I would encourage all of our pilots to join in on
the fun.
August Statistics
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Aug-03 |
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Air Mail
Pilots |
41.55 |
|
Air Mail
Visitors |
52.72 |
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Total
Air Mail Div. Flight Hours |
94.27 |
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Alaska
Pilots |
453.40 |
|
Alaska
Visitors |
67.71 |
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Total
Alaska Div Flight Hours |
521.11 |
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|
|
Australian
Pilots |
195.92 |
|
Australian
Visitors |
21.47 |
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Total
Australian Div Flight Hours |
217.39 |
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|
|
|
Northern
Pilots |
59.48 |
|
Northern
Visitors |
193.15 |
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Total
Northern Div Flight Hours |
252.63 |
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|
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Southern
Pilots |
213.58 |
|
Southern
Visitors |
162.40 |
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Total
Southern Div Flight Hours |
375.98 |
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|
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Turbo
Visitors |
89.52 |
|
Total
Turbo Flight Hours |
89.52 |
Total Hours flown by Bluegrass Pilots was 963.93
Webstats
7,021 Visits
182,162 Hits
The top 5 areas visited
Forum, National Air Tour, Main Page, FS 2002 hangar
and Screenshots
Hangar
The FS2004 Hangar has a Bluegrass DHC-6 Twin
Otter. Paint and Panel by Coleman
Green.
You can try it in FS2002, but two gauges will have
to be moved from the panel folder to the gauges folder.
A repaint for the C-46 will be in the Hangar by the
time you read this. If you have
problems with this aircraft email Capt. Bill I have one report already that it spins after flying 30
minutes, but need to confirm it.
Pireps
Capt. Brent bgak001 has written a program that will
save me one to two hours a week. To
make this work it is important to read the instructions when submitting pireps.
Basically you click the pirep link for your home
division. Then select the location of
the take off point from a drop down division list. There are check boxes at the bottom for Air Mail Flight (usually
Old Time Aircraft from the 1920’s-1930’s) or a Turbo Prop/Jet Aircraft flight.
If you don’t see a drop down box on your pirep
form, click “refresh”. Your isp is
probably sending you the old form from its cache. It’s a good idea to periodically click “refresh” when viewing
pages that change often, such as the roster etc.
My Computer
My hard drive crashed about 3 weeks ago and I lost
a lot of data, including my email address lists.
That’s why you didn’t receive a notification about
the news letter. With all the viruses and
hacker attacks, it might be a good idea to limit non-essential
communications. So look for the
newsletters to come out every month on the about the 2nd or 3rd.
Best Regards to all,
Capt. Bill
Learning to operate the Garmin GPS units
If you go to
the Learning Center in FS9, click on Index, then click on “G” you can
jump to Using the GPS.
The “What Can I Do with a GPS Receiver” section lists what you can do:
There
is also a short video in that section that gives an overview of some of the
controls.
I know they didn’t have GPS units in the
1950’s, but as ATP Captain Bill Odell has pointed out to me, “they didn’t have
interstate highways either!” So if you
are following I-70 across Kansas and Missouri, that is not prototypical
operation either.
In the 1930’s pilots followed the railroads if
they could see them.
Thanks to Capt. Brent for the info above
regarding the FS9 Learning Center.
Capt. Bill
02 September 2003
MEMORANDUM
From:
BGA Northern Division Director
To:
BGA Chief Executive Officer
Subj: NORTHERN DIVISION STATUS REPORT - August 2003
1. In accordance with operational requirements of Bluegrass Airlines Divisions, the following is a summary of flight activity within the Northern Division during the month of August 2003.
BGAN005
Bob Beckelhimer 17.63 hours
(career
total: 762.02 hours)
BGAN007
Brent
Perry
6.40 hours
(career
total: 384.30 hours)
BGAN008
Jay Templeton 16.00 hours
(career
total: 502.51 hours)
BGAN029
John
Kolmos
5.00 hours
(career
total: 211.53 hours)
BGAN033
Don
Hulick
8.05 hours
(career
total: 144.80 hours)
TOTAL TIME BY DIVISION PILOTS IN AUGUST: 53.08 hours
VISITORS
BGAD011
Ed
Burke
26.69 hours
BGAD017
John Lawler
37.02 hours
BGAD022
Gayngel van den Ing 9.74 hours
BGAK001
Brent Brazeel 14.38 hours
BGAK030
Ron Jorgensen 14.20 hours
BGAK031
Ralph Prisel
1.20 hours
BGAK033
Tom Burrill
15.65 hours
BGAK036
Paul van den Berg 4.73 hours
BGAM007
Allan Lowson 15.01
hours
BGAS001
Bill von Sennet 6.56 hours
BGAS006
Bill
Agee
13.35 hours
BGAS031
Gary McCarty 15.87
hours
BGAS038
Tom
McCart
3.30 hours
BGAS039
Charles Wert
8.31 hours
TOTAL TIME BY VISITING PILOTS IN AUGUST: 186.01 hours
TOTAL TIME WITHIN THE NORTHERN DIVISION: 239.09 hours
2.
Weather Calendar: SUMMER is a BUMPER (thermals that is)
FALL is a BALL
WINTER is --- well -- WINTER is WINTER
SPRING is KING!!
R/Sr. Capt. Bob Thompson
Had a very busy weekend so didn't check email from Saturday until today. Got a bunch more reports in that are NOT on my August report. Will include them in September report
Capt. Bob
No reports from the Air Mail and Turbo Div or the
BGX Rail Div. Will add them here if
they come in late.
That’s all for this month. See you at Dearborn
(kyip Willow Run) on Sept. 8th.
I will fly as many legs of the National Air Tour on line as possible.
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