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The Newsletter of PAPA At Chicago Executive

PAPA SEZ Volume 23 Number 10 October 2009

SAVE THE DATE—OCTOBER 6

SCHOLARSHIP FUND RAISER AT BIG SHOTS

Tickets are still available for last minute attendees. Join in the fun at Big Shots Piano Bar in Arlington Heights 7-10 pm. For last minute reservations contact Jim at [email protected] or Ken at [email protected]. And of course, we will still accept donations payable to PAPA 1005 S Wolf Road Suite 106 Wheeling, IL 60090 SAVE THE DATE—NOVEMBER 18

GENERAL MEETING AND ELECTION

Our annual general meeting of the membership will be held on Wednesday, November 18th, location to be announced. This meeting will provide a safety meeting with a speaker on pilot proficiency, our annual election of officers, and an up-date on PAPA’s activities at PWK airport. SAVE THE DATE—DECEMBER 9

HOLIDAY DINNER PLANNED

Once again PAPA At Chicago Executive members will be celebrating the holiday season together at a gala dinner set for Wednesday, December 9, 2009 beginning at 6:00 p.m. Reservation Chairman Howard Levinson (847-480-1118) assisted by Marty Kramer (847-823-0671) has arranged for a special event this year, at Allgauers Restaurant in the Northbrook Hilton, 2855 N. Milwaukee Ave, Northbrook, IL, with dinner and our collection for underprivileged children and their moms primary in our event plans. Tickets will go on sale at $35.00 per person, payable to PAPA. Reservation forms will be printed in the next issue of PAPA Sez. Watch for them, but mark your calendar now to save the date. This will be a sit down dinner with your choice of selected beef, chicken or fish entrees. You can look forward to a very festive and enjoyable evening with your old and new friends from PAPA At Chicago Executive. Why not plan on

bringing a guest. Whatever holiday you celebrate—we would love to have you celebrate it with PAPA. See article page 3 for toy and gift col-lection information.

WHAT HAS PAPA DONE IN SEPTEMBER?

PAPA members attended the September meeting of the Chicago Executive Airport Board and spoke in support of new T Hangar construction in the North East Quadrant. T Hangar Committee members John Doerner, Jeff Bell and Ed Chrzastowski along with Airport Support Network Rep Howard Levinson have continued to work on this project actively in hopes that if and when new construc-tion is begun, rental rates will be comparable with those at other airports and will entice our based aircraft to re-main here at PWK.

Rusty Stevens, Public Relations Co-Chair for PAPA at-tended this meeting as well, in addition to his attendance at the Prospect Heights City Council meeting last month. Rusty is working to build a good relationship with Mayor Vole, in hopes of improving community support for PAPA’s goals at the airport. PAPA is actively seeking a Wheeling resident who is a PWK user interested in re-porting at the Village of Wheeling meetings.

PAPA reps met with a reporter from TribLocal and ar-ranged a familiarization flight so that he could take pic-tures for the article. Jeff Danna had attended our annual member appreciation picnic and interviewed several members regarding their use of the airport.

PAPA held a public meeting highlighting Light Sport Air-craft and explaining the different types and the different pilot certification involved with LSA flying. Good atten-dance for this first meeting of the fall season encourages us to continue our safety and information meetings for the benefit of members and the public.

PAPA had a booth at the airport’s Aviation Career Expo on September 19 and did explanations and education for those attending.

Minutes of the September meeting of the PAPA Board can be viewed on page 3.

And of course—we flew! PAPA members fly for their businesses, give flight instruction, take flight instruction for recurrent training and for new ratings, fly for breakfast, lunch and/or dinner, and………….just fly for fun.

Did you fly this month?

2009 0FFICERS & DIRECTORS

PRESIDENT Jim Kwasek 847-322-7117 [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT Sheila Macomber 773-578-1553 [email protected] SECRETARY Bob Hanaford 312-899-9020 [email protected] TREASURER Ken Riesterer 857-456-1791 [email protected] DIRECTORS Len Jablon 847-309-1885 [email protected] Marty Kramer 847-823-0671 [email protected] Howard Levinson 847-480-1118 [email protected] S. Guru Prasad 847-921-3462 [email protected] Jack Sheridan 312-909-2500 [email protected]

COMMITTEE CHAIRS AIRPORT SUPPORT NETWORK REP Howard Levinson 847-480-1118 [email protected] AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIP Donna Turek 847-441-5066 [email protected] BYLAWS/LEGAL Bob Hanaford 312-899-9020 [email protected] MEMBERSHIP Ken Riesterer 847-456-1791 [email protected] SAFETY/PROGRAMS Jack Sheridan 847-909-2500 [email protected] PUBLIC RELATIONS Barry Axelrod 847-217-0707 [email protected] Rusty Stevens 847-910-2789 [email protected] WEBMASTER Jim Kwasek 847-332-7117 [email protected] NEWSLETTER EDITOR Madeleine Monaco 847-358-1747 [email protected]

PAPA SEZ October 2009 page 2

PAPA 2009 EVENT SCHEDULE

All Board Meetings are held at Atlantic Aviation in the Conference Room at 7:00 pm

Location of General Meeting varies

OCTOBER 14 Board meeting NOVEMBER 4 Board Meeting 18 Annual General Meeting & Election of Directors DECEMBER 2 Board Meeting 9 Holiday Dinner 12 Toy Drop

MEMBERSHIP REPORT Welcome our newest member

Donald Wagner Current membership count at 164 as of August 2009

PAPA SEZ is published monthly by PAPA At Chicago Executive. PAPA was formed in 1987 as a forum for the users of Chicago Executive Airport (formerly known as Palwaukee) and a means to act as a conduit for information from the users to the governing body and from the governing body to the users. PAPA’s mission is to promote the safety of operations and continued devel;opement of Chicago Executive Airport in a fraternal environment with the pilots, users and community. Membership in PAPA is open to any user of Chicago Executive Airport. Membership dues are $30.00 annually and include a subscription to PAPA SEZ. Letters to the Editor, Feedback, Concerns and Questions and any articles submitted for publication must be received by the 15th of the month, will be printed on a space available basis, and may be edited for style, length and appropriate content. Send text as a Microsoft Word file attached to an email. Any files not electronically transmitted, please make prior arrangement with the editor. PAPA SEZ 1005 S Wolf Road Suite 106 Wheeling, IL 60090-6408

PAPA FLY MARKET

Classified Ads are FREE TO PAPA MEMBERS For Sale—1978 Centurian Turbo 210: Full IFR, Storm Scope and Northstar LORAN, Gear door mods, recent TBO, less than 50 hours. $119,950.00. Will take part payment in a Note. Can also sell 1/3 interest. Hangared at Midway. Call 847-849-4803

*** For sale—Porsche Boxster “S”, 12,500 miles, full factory warrantee 48,000 miles/end of 2009, Grey metallic, grey top, full leather, Tiptonic auto, Bose sound with CD. Pristine. Howard Levinson 847-480-1118, 847-858-3638

*** 1/4 share partnership 1976 172M, 4800 TT, 1076SMO, hangared PWK, dual Narco 12KD, IFR capable, Garmin 196, Trafficscope Tpas, Tanis heater, recent leather inte-rior, $13,500. Jerry Krandel, 847-347-7423

CLASSIFIED ADS RUN THREE MONTHS UNLESS CANCELLED OR RENEWED

GEARING UP FOR THE HOLIDAY TOY DROP

The annual “Santa Fly In” at Chicago Executive Airport will be held on 12/12/09 from 10AM to Noon with Santa arriving at 10:30. Rob Hillerich of CEAA is chairing this event and will place drop boxes at Signature Flight Sup-port, Future Automotive, and the airport office at the begin-ning of November. We expect that an additional box can be placed at Atlantic Aviation as well.

Gifts should be wrapped and the appropriate gender and age should be written on the outside. Gift certificates to any store are also welcome to give to the mothers.

As in previous years, we are reminded that publicity of the date, location, and groups we are inviting may not be dis-seminated to the public so as to protect the privacy of the families.

If anyone would like to volunteer to be an Elf for that day, call Rob—Head Elf at 847-867-0544 or 847-272-8034 Share your blessings with those who have less. Bring toys and gifts anytime during November and December ending with the Holiday Dinner event at

REPORT OF THE PAPA A.C.E. BOARD MEETING September 9, 2009 There was no quorum and therefore no official meeting. The following Officers were present: Jim Kwasek, Ken Riesterer and Marty Kramer. Notes follow on the discus-sion that took place. SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION:

President Kwasek has appointed Donna Turek to chair the scholarship committee and will assign others to assist Donna. A Treasurers report of account balances and cur-rent activity was presented by Treasurer Riesterer. PAPA A.C.E. Director Levinson sent a report that new T Hangars are to be built but has received no information on how or when construction would begin. Jim Loerzel reported that he forwarded to the CEA Board Chairman a newspaper clipping regarding tax issues in Chicago that were resolved by issuing licenses instead of leases to businesses on public land. Chairman Englehart responded that the email had been deleted. Loerzel will resend the information to the Airport Board. Newsletter - a volunteer will take over both parts of this position beginning immediately Safety and Programs – Director Sheridan sent his report noting that he is prepared for the September 23rd LSA meeting. Public Relations Co-Chair, Rusty Stevens reported that our annual member appreciation picnic was announced on Comcast and was also submitted to the Daily Herald. Also, TribLocal reporter, Jeff Danna, was here for the event and


took pictures. He will follow up this week or next with an article for his website and newspaper. PAPA A.C.E.President Jim Kwasek will send a letter to Rob Hillerich indicating that we will support his Santa Toy event and will solicit donations and have members deposit them in the collection boxes on the airport. OLD BUSINESS: Picnic RECAP 86 members and guests were present. The details—food, seating, sound— were discussed. Nominating Committee Director/Past President Prasad will not be continuing on the Board. He will assist in soliciting names for consideration to the Nominating Committee. Badal Scholarship Fund-raiser Madeleine Monaco to sell tickets in advance and work with Big Shots to set details for event to be held October 6th from 7-10 pm. PAPA T-Hangar Committee actions discussed. Rusty Stevens will attend CEA BOD meeting next Wednesday to ask in public session about new Tees NEW BUSINESS: Aviation Career Expo to be held on 9/19/09 President Kwasek will call people to staff booth Holiday Party Directors Levinson and Kramer have plans for the 2009 Holiday Party in the works. Details to be announced shortly. NOTE: If Board members would please make every attempt to notify the Chair of their absence prior to the day of the meeting, the other Board members could be notified that there will be no quorum Several absences were reported well in advance – others were not. We need 5 to make a quorum. Thanks.

Badal Memorial Scholarship Fund Raiser

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 7pm to 10 pm

Big Shots (a piano bar) 2 S. Vail Arlington Heights,IL

The piano player is talented The appetizers are exceptional The drinks are plentiful The fellowship will be outstanding.

Your ticket purchase will help to supplement our existing fund. We will choose a deserving pilot who wants to get a Commercial Certificate, Multi Engine rating, or CFI and provide the necessary funds to accomplish his or her goal.

Big Shots and Chicago Executive Flyers have partnered with PAPA for this worthy project—in special memory of Gene Badal, who believed so strongly in aviation education. See Madeleine Monaco for tickets $37.50 per person includes your charitable donation as well as appetizers and musical entertainment 847-358-1747 [email protected]

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE MEMBERSHIP As required by our ByLaws, the PAPA annual meeting will take place in the month of November. This year that meeting will take place on November 18th. Article V Section I: Nomination of Officers and Directors At least six weeks prior to the annual membership meet-ing, the Board of Directors will appoint a nominating com-mittee, of no less than three Regular Pilot Members, no one of whom shall be a member of the Board of Directors. The nominating committee shall present to the Secretary no later than three weeks before the annual meeting, a slate of candidates who have agreed to serve as Direc-tors if elected…….. The list of nominees shall be distributed to the members together with the meeting notice provided for in Article II Section 5. During the Annual meeting the Chair shall call for additional nominations….. from the floor.

The Nominating Committee includes Rusty Stevens, Barry Axelrod and Madeleine Monaco. We were charged this year with finding candidates to serve your organization as Directors for the

coming 2010 term. Adding new ideas and energy to our organization is a primary goal. To that end, we have searched out and found one new Director to place before you for a vote—Jared Kosoglad. In addition, current Directors Howard Levinson, Jack Sheridan, Martin Kramer and Len Jablon have agreed to continue as PAPA Directors for one more year. The current Officers—President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer—will continue to serve their 2 year terms until the end of 2010. The ballot will be mailed to all members along with the official notice of the annual meeting. Watch your mailbox. PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE IN GEAR Our Public Relations Co-Chair Rusty Stevens has been working hard to educate the community about PAPA and its good works. He spent time in the PAPA booth at the September 18th Aviation Career Expo and collected contact information for all of the aviation schools that were present. He has attended government meetings and made contact with reporters. Our name is back in the local press—Thank you Rusty. Good job.

If you know of an opportunity to spread the good word about what we do to improve aviation in the community, please get in touch with Rusty and he will get the pertinent information to the press. Our efforts should not be a well kept secret. We need to be visible. We need to be known.

Contact Rusty Stevens at [email protected].

CHICAGO EXECUTIVE AIRPORT UPDATE

FROM: Jamie Abbott, Assistant Airport Manager

DATE: Wednesday, September 24, 2009

SUBJECT: Taxiway Closure, Lima 3

CEAU#: 09-019 UPDATE

In association with the taxiway Lima construction project, taxiway Lima 3, from Runway 16/34 to taxiway Lima and Yankee will be closed beginning at 0600 local time Mon-day September 28th until further notice. This closure is to allow the contractor to remove concrete panels and re-place them with panels to match the new taxiway Lima extension grade.

The taxiway Lima construction project will extend taxiway Lima from Lima 3 south to intersect Runway 6/24. Thank you for your patience and understanding during this project.

The above information is shared with you as distributed by KPWK Chicago Executive Airport on the date shown. If the work is completed and the restriction is lifted by the time you read this newsletter—well that’s a good thing.

PAPA SEZ October 2009

IS AIRMANSHIP A THING OF THE PAST? By Ray Klaus Recently, I viewed a video featuring an airliner being piloted by an air-inflated balloon figure of a captain. When-ever the balloon began to lose air pressure, the steward-ess would simply re-inflate it by blowing air into the tube attached. I couldn’t help getting a giggle out of the com-edy. The idea was so far fetched. But was it? The age of remote control flying isn’t coming—it is here. The number of unmanned aircraft missions has more than tripled in the past two years, and the Air Force can’t train people fast enough to keep up with the demand. Remotely controlled spy planes have generated an “insatiable” de-mand among ground commanders in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. These armed drones can circle miles above in-surgents for up to 24 hours, watching everything in real time, with a resolution sharp enough to read a license plate. And the UAV pilot is sitting comfortably in a window-less room 7.500 miles away. According to a recent magazine article, the immediate goal is to create a cadre of 1,100 drone pilots, up from the exist-ing ranks of about 400. It hinges on a radical new program to train non-aviators for the job. The Air Force will train more drone pilots than fighter and bomber pilots combined this year. The solution to future threats is not something that has a pilot in it. Sending people directly to unmanned aircraft flight school would seem to rob them of full foundation airmanship train-ing and the skills associated with situational awareness and that seat-of-the-pants feeling. But should that matter? With drones, all the information you need is dislayed right in front of you numerically and visually. The same informa-tion a cockpit pilot would use to fly at night or in instrument weather conditions. If the undergraduate pilot program proves to be expend-able, it is not hard to imagine a distinct set of characteris-tics that recruiters might look for in the UAV pilots of tomor-row. Maybe a little less barnstormer and a little more geek—computer savvy kids. Perhaps, in the not too distant future, airliners will be pi-loted by someone on the ground with an inflated balloon-figure of a captain sitting in the pilot’s seat for appear-ances. But for us General Aviation pilots, airmanship is still the reason we love to fly the sky.

JETWHINE

Business & General Aviation: Letters Can’t do it all

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 05:43 PM PDT Even for me, this whole business aviation as the bad guy thing is becoming pretty tiresome. How much longer can most of our industry sit back and take it before we evapo-rate? In last week’s USA Today article about Aviation Trust Fund dollars being rudely sucked away from big airports to keep podunk runways usable, the Air Transport Association again portrayed itself as the White Knight, the vanguard of a movement for truth justice and the American way, all fo-cused on their altruistic need to save the taxpayer from the skullduggery of those non-airline airplane operators … that would be us of course. NBC aired a companion piece. Heck, almost like the stories were well … you know, coor-dinated or something. Where could they have come up with that idea? Oh Paaaleeeze! The response was predicable with Jim Coyne of NATA writing a Letter to the Editor castigating them for a “poorly researched … misleading” story that of course completely ignored how many of those airplanes at smaller airports that often receive grant money from the fund, helps keep those pesky little business and general aviation airplanes away from the big airports. NBAA President Ed Bolen wrote one too. It said the USA Today piece was “one sided … lacking in balance … a gross misrepresentation of the value of general aviation public use airports …” Both leaders are right of course. Obviously too, ATA never read the piece of research from Oxford Economics and released by the U.S. Travel Asso-ciation that points to the value of business aviation. So what’s my beef? Simple. Too many NBAA and NATA members – and plenty of AOPA members too I’ll bet – as-sume that with Jim and Ed on the job, not to mention a dedicated staff of association types, we can all sleep eas-ier while they fight the battle … and it has become a battle in case you haven’t been paying attention. Looking at the USA Today piece now, a week later, I see 721 comments, a tidy little sum for any news story. After reading dozens and dozens of the comments at USA To-day, I didn’t see one letter from the American Association of Airport Executives, or even an airport manager trying to set the record straight. Why not? I’ll tell you why not, be-cause we’re not well organized enough to do battle with an association like ATA … at least not yet. Let’s review.The associations can’t fix our problems. Only we the members can. NBAA and NATA can help, but we need to do the leg work because our associations don’t have the millions ATA gets from the likes of United, Delta and American. And we’d better start right now because business and general aviation are playing way too much defense to suit me. ATA comes after us on user fees and the associations start writing letters. Did that effort change perceptions? Barely. But remember when TSA came after GA earlier in the year with the new large-aircraft security proposal? Some 7000+ comments later, TSA backed off. Continued on page


PWK FUEL

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Jetwhine, continued…….

So I’m sitting here at my desk trying to imagine why asso-ciation members still think staff should handle the dirty work. Then I saw the John and Martha video. While cer-tainly designed to capture an audience for their seminar at NBAA, one everyone thinking about buying a jet SHOULD attend, it is also a succinct political call to action. Why? Be-cause John and Martha are saying the same thing we’ve been saying for years. Members need to make it happen. Although well intentioned, associations don’t have the staff anyway. And besides, folks on the Hill expect the associa-tions. They don’t expect us, pilots, airport managers, busi-ness owners and air traffic controllers. What do we do Next? Check out today’s papers and you’ll see our model for success, the Flyers Rights crowd run by Kate Hanni. While I don’t agree with everything she says philosophically, you can’t knock the fact that Hanni has managed to organize people on the Hill like no one else in this industry in recent memory. The tarmac legisla-tion is just inches from passing. We need to do the same thing Mr and Mrs. airport manager. Grass roots organizations can work if people are motivated. I remember when I interviewed Hanni a few years ago. I was the 15,000th person to sign her petition. Now she has 27,000. Trust me. Twenty seven thousand people focusing on anything gets attention. BTW Mr. May You may have heard that ATA is worried that passing the Flyers Rights legislation will have unin-tended consequences for airline passengers. Wait until more small airports shut down because of this kind of shooting-themselves-in-the-foot ATA strategy. I think I’d call more business airplanes trying to land at MSP, ORD, ATL, DFW, DIA and IAD some unintended consequences too, wouldn’t you. So Mr. May, be careful what you wish for. Perhaps it’s time to start giving the ATA a little taste of busi-ness aviation airport support, Flyers Rights style, as if our industry’s survival really depends on us. Difference might be that I don’t think we need to be offensive to go on the offensive. Bet I can convince John and Martha. Who else?


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