Minutes of January 6, 2011 meeting

Meeting held at Charlie’s Restaurant, Clow airport. Called to order by Roger at 7:03pm

Roger welcomed the members and reminded everyone that annual dues needed to be paid

Roger reviewed the mission statement and meeting agenda

BUSINESS

The secretary read the minutes from the Nov. 2010 meeting

Treasurer reported a balance of $2,574

Education Training – Nothing reported

Web-Site – Up to date. Brian need input for the next news letter

Clow report – Kevin noted some individuals tightening their roofs. Vinyl roofs may actually loosen in cold temps.

Cushing – Coyote on skies was flying recently, took off across the field.

EMERGING BUSINESS

Christmas party debrief –

Turn out was held down by bad weather

All said it was a good time and the food was good but the desert was lacking

Discussed ways to make next year better

Thanks to all who helped organize this year’s party

All ideas to improve next year’s event are welcome.

FVFC received a check for $200 from EAA chapter 461 for helping with Cavalcade (thanks again to all the volunteers

Next Meeting at Charlie’s  2/3/11

Club leadership – Time to elect Officers

A request for new volunteers/nominations was greeted with extreme quiet

After some discussion the following people stepped up

Roger Kellogg offered to serve one more year as President

Christine Ward – VP to focus on club membership, ideas to attract new members and retain current members

Don Leonard – VP to focus on organizing club activities (group trips to local fly-ins etc.)

Tom Houghton – Agreed to serve one more year as Treasurer

Dan Gathercoal – Agreed to serve one more year as Secretary (unless someone else volunteers)

A motion passed to set the officers as listed above.

There was an extensive discussion of FVFC, what are we? What do we want to be?

Going forward, how do we attract more membership

It was noted that we are perceived as an ultralight club but we are a Flying Club. How do we change perception. New logo etc.

Matt discussed his feelings that the club has lost its focus on safety and that there is less “looking out for each other” then in the past.

PROJECT UPDATES

Steve V – Kit fox; Some minor progress

Tom H – Kitfox; Slow moving in the cold

Andrew K – Cassult; no progress

Roger K – RV7; Installed 14” screen Dynon Sky View and is getting it wired and working

Flying Reports

Not much. Tom H reported he flew the Sport Curser for the first time and liked it

Pilot Ed

Remember “short cuts lead to short flights”

Good of the Club

Roger noted that the thorps at Cushing were on the ground do to engine cooling issues. Rotec has developed water cooled heads for the 6 cylinder Jabirus, may fix the cooling problem

News And Views

It was noted that when the club was originally formed it was incorporated to rent the airport where they were based so the club at that time had more authority to “police” the members then now

Kent noted that he has been a member since the beginning (25 years) and it took him 15 years to get Phil Bolenbaugh to join

MEETING ADJOURNED 8:45pm

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