Guest Speaker: Tony Burton

Tony Burton is a retired CF (and RCAF) officer living in Claresholm since 1980. He has long been active in many sporting and organizational aspects of soaring. He soloed in 1968 and has about 3600 hours in 46 glider types including 480 hours of instructing time. Tony is particularly active in cross-country and contest flying and in making record attempts – it keeps skills sharp and the mind focussed, he says. He has recorded about 87,000 km of cross-country flights (three over 700 km) that include many competitions and 22 national records to date.

While serving as a CF Exchange Officer in the USA in the 70s, he built a glider in which much of the above flying was done. He currently flies one of the smallest sailplanes on the market, the Russia AC4-C, which has a 12.6m wingspan and weighs only 350 lbs.

In the mid-1980s he was the organizer and project pilot for the joint Canada/US "Chinook Project", in which an instrumented 20m sailplane (the Alcor) was flown to gather high altitude atmospheric data. These flights were made from Claresholm and High River.

Organizationally, he has run two national competitions, wrote a manual on contest organization, was the Executive Director of the Alberta Soaring Council for 18 years, has been the editor of the national magazine Free Flight since 1982, and is a member of the international committee that writes the rules governing the sport.

Someplace To Fly To

We are starting a spot on the blog called "Someplace To Fly To". Here is a copy of part of an article I found in EAA Chapter 1410 newsletter. This ought to be a close flight and interesting.

We are challenging YOU to fly over and take a photo and then bring the photo to the next meeting. We will try to do this each month and then there will be a prize for the one with the most photos at the end of the year.

(click on the photo to enlarge and read)

We will have to find a new location each month and maybe it will be only a long/lat. and a unique object to photograph, so if you have any ideas - please e-mail them to lenlou@telus.net

Happy Flying!!!

Midnight Sun Challenge

You'll have to come to our next Flying Club meeting on September 9th to hear all about the adventures of participating in Midnight Sun Challenge to the Yukon!

Doug Murray and Lennard Nichols ready to head out!

Jim & Caroline Alcock on the way to Wetaskiwin the first day.

Midnight Sun Challenge

Four of our Flying Club members took off yesterday to participate in the Midnight Sun Challenge. After staying the night in Wetaskiwin last night, they headed out for Fort Nelson today and will arrive in Whitehorse tomorrow. We will post updates as we receive them!

4th Annual Cardston Fly-In

The morning of June 5th brought beautiful blue skies and a perfect day for a fly-in! After being weathered out the last few years, the members of the Cardston Flying Club were relieved to see good weather! With almost 100 people in attendance and 22 planes to enjoy, the Fly-In was definitely a success. Breakfast was excellent (as usual) - thank you to all those who helped cook, serve and clean up.

We would like to thank our local political representatives for supporting our efforts at the airport. We were happy to see in attendance: Cardston's mayor, Rick Schow; Town counselor, Dave Smith; and a representative of the Wildrose Alliance party, Paul Hinman.

It was gratifying to see planes fly in from all over Alberta including: Airdrie, Fort MacLeod, Glenwood, Hillspring, Calgary, Medicine Hat, Okotoks, and Springbank. The long distance award goes to the pilot from Provo, Utah!

Enjoy some photos from the day!

What's everyone checking out on this plane from Provo, Utah?

Amazing mural!

Watching planes coming in and heading out.

Some of the planes on display.

Another view.

Doug Murray handing out a door prize to Cyril Clarke as Bob Farren and Paul Hinman look on.

Beautiful day... and beautiful 'birds'!

"Double parked"!

Full parking lot too!

FLY-IN

Well - it appears like we may get treated with some good weather this year. Lets all plan to arrive around 0700 on Saturday and see how many people come. Bring your aircraft and let see how many flights we can give. See you all on Saturday.

Reach For The Sky

1) NAVIGATION: If you are flying at 100 knots and travel for 25 minutes, how much distance will you cover? (Use E6B)


2) GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is calibrated altitude?


3) AIR LAW: When overtaking an aircraft in front of you, what must you do?







ANSWERS:

1) You will travel approximately 42 NM.
2) Indicated altitude corrected for instrument and position error.
3) The aircraft that overtakes the other must pass to keep the one being overtaken on the left side. The one being overtaken has the right of way.