Minutes of Delaware Pilots Association General Meeting - 12 7 2005
Called to Order 19:00 @ DE Air Guard Ops Theater:
Richard Horstmann called the meeting with remembrances of Pearl Harbor
and asked for a moment of silence.
He also reminded us that this was
Delaware Day the anniversary of the day Delaware signed the US
Constitution.
Richard showed a short PowerPoint presentation.
Agenda
- Introduced the board members
- Presentation on Cirrus Aircraft by Regis de Ramel Regional Sales
Manager Mid-Atlantic
- Communications Protocol Talk by Jim Scott
- Discussion of ADIZ protocols by Jim Foss
- Raffel for a demo Ride in a Cirrus A/C with Regis.
Future Plans
- Membership Drive
- Establish the DE Aviation Advisory Group
- Improve Communications Downstate
What's Happening Now
- MD Heliport System Plan
- NJ $10MM/yr to buy up airports in danger of closure
- DE spending considerable $ to upgrade DE Airpark as Dover Air Base
is not available for civilian use.
- PA working to preserve Willow Grove
- Zoning of land near Airport and issue
- Seeking to increase state grant funding
- Studying leakage of air service from state
Future of Aviation
- Proliferation of Very Light Jets (VLJ)
- Less than 3,000 ft runways needed
- Long range high capacity helicopters
- Migration away from large hub airports
Fractional ownership
- Steady growth
- 6500 in 2003
- 5500 in 2002
Demographics of wealth
- 16MM Families have net worth of 1 to 5 million.
- 530,000 Families worth 5 to 25 million
- 70,000 Families worth more than 25 million
- Affluent travelers make 6.8 trips per year.
Next speaker Regis de Ramel
- Cirrus Aviation's goals to use technology to make flying safer
- Cirrus has 2100 plans delivered
- Alan and David Klapmeyer founders of Cirrus
- 75 million to certify first aircraft
- Goal to make aircraft as simple and safe as possible
- Plan to move into personal jets (NOT VLJ) based on Cirrus airframe
- 4 person seating with 300 knot speed at 25-28,000 ft single engine.
Jim Scott on Communications protocols
- Who is being called
- Who is calling
- Where are you
- What do you want
Be organized and brief in communications
"Roger" means "I hear you" not "yes"
Long rambling communications will get you excluded from flight following
through busy airspace
Bob Foss on Washington DC ADIZ
AOPA Course on ADIZ procedures
- MUST FILE ADIZ Flight plan or IFR flight plan to enter
- Must have unique transponder code
- Must be granted permission to enter ADIZ
- ADIZ permission is not Class B permission
Course on FAASAFETY.GOV on ADIZ procedures. Completion gets you Wings
credit and a certificate:
FAA Course Catalog
JIM Conrad spoke on the need to work to keep the ADIZ from becoming
permanent
- 0-18,000 ft coverage
- ADIZ costs estimated 11 million per year to enforce
- Up to 45 minute holds for VFR entry.
Chuck Alsop
Secretary DPA
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