9:00 am
EXHIBITS
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Propeller Care & Maintenance 
Ken Shisler | NW Propeller
Pioneer Room (B)
Propeller Care and Maintenance; what to look for in inspections. Discussion will cover T.B.O's, lubrication, overhauls/repairs, propeller and blade conditions, annuals, paint, corrosion, rusty hardware, nicks and guages.
Pre-registration required if attending for IA
renewal. General Public is welcome to all maintenance seminars but MUST preregister to receive certification.
ONE-DAY FLYING COMPANION SEMINAR FOR NON-PILOTS : Intro to Flying
(9:00 am - 4:00 pm)
Kathleen Torchia | Greater Seattle Chapter of 99's
South Foyer (A)
Join the 99's for a fun and informative day at the the event. Learn why and how airplanes fly, how to read an aviation chart, who to talk to on the radio, how to navigate and emergency & safety procedures. If you fly as a passenger with a friend or spouse, you need to attend this event. Cost is $49.50 per person (all classroom supplies included) Space is limited and advance registration is required. Click here for info.
9:15 am
 A Systematic Approach to Emergencies
Johnny D. Summers | Bethany Consulting
Heritage Room (D)
This class explores the “more.” From planning a flight, to what to do when it gets quiet in the airplane. We’ll discuss the immediate actions and the not so immediate actions that end with a safe landing. We’ll tie together the FAA’s Practical Test maneuvers that give pilots the basic skills with practical application. These techniques will give each pilot the knowledge to handle the dreaded ASEL engine failure with confidence without constant practice.
Survival Seminar: Clothing Systems & Personal Protective Equipment
Emergency Response International (ERI)
North Foyer (E)
This session includes discussion of ideal clothing combinations and a systems design for maximum benefit in aviation. The first line of defense in any emergency or survival situation is the clothing and personal protective equipment worn by pilots and their passengers.
After an unscheduled off airport landing, that layer of clothing or equipment may be the only defense against fire, cold, moisture, heat, insects, wind or any other environmental factors. The program focuses on: suitable and safe clothing for flight; planning zones of the body for primary and backup protection; the five methods of heat gain and loss to the environment; various types of insulating materials; maximizing the value of clothing and personal protective wear; carriage of additional clothing and gear; and specific considerations for the following conditions: onboard fire, extreme cold, cool and wet, tropics, heat and deserts, plus mountainous regions. Special attention is placed on personal protection of the head, hands and feet.
Garmn Glass Cockpits
Founder
Room | Wayne McGhee, Garmin
Glass cockpits from Garmin. What information they provide, and what is involved in installing them in your aircraft. Wayne will also briefly cover the new 696 Garmin portable.
10:00
am
Welcome Ceremonies
Keynote Area
FAA, WSDOT Awards, welcome opening ceremonies
CORROSION: The Silent Killer
Steve Watt | Corrosion X
Pioneer Room
Corrosion costs are estimated at 4.2% of the Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) or over $300 billion in the United States each year. Of this amount, 35%
or over $100 billion can be classified as avoidable because best practices are
not used.This seminar is a layman’s explanation of how corrosion works
(the electrochemical process) and 9 various forms it takes in airframe deterioration.
We will explore what to look for in making a visual inspection
and what other forms of discovery exist. In addition, we will investigate current
practices for corrosion removal and prevention.
Pre-registration required if attending for IA
renewal. General Public is welcome to all maintenance seminars but MUST preregister to receive certification.
10:30
am
Mastering Takeoffs and Landings
JJ Greenway | AOPA Air Safety Foundation
Keynote Area
Tips and techniques for making, smooth, trouble-free departures and arrivals. Every year takeoffs and landings account for more than half of all pilot-related accidents, and it's not just the new pilots who are having trouble. ASF's seminar gives you tips and techniques for making smooth, trouble-free departures and arrivals.
Weather Patterns of the Pacific Northwest -West side
Clinton Rockey | NWS Portland OR
Founders Room (C)
We will review basic weather patterns of the Pacific Northwest maritime area (west of Cascades) that affect aviation interests. Weather phenomena include unstable shower patterns, marine stratus, fog, high winds, thunderstorms and the Puget Sound Convergence Zone. Emphasis will be on the effect of these phenomena on the aviation community. In addition, we will provide some satellite interpretation tools that pilots can use to better anticipate such events.
Register on line for Wings Credit and Weather Certificate.
Why Airborne Law Enforcement & Border Regulations have got Stricter & Tougher Since 9/11
Brian R. Webb, Aviation Operations Analyst/Training | U. S. Department of Homeland Security
Heritage Room (D)
Law Enforcement for General Aviation pilots has changed since 9/11, especially here in the Northwest and crucially, not just for flights that cross the border. Brain Webb, a Bellingham-based Homeland Security Pilot will talk of the threats we in the WA aviation community face, the regulations you must know when flying across or even near the border, and what could happen if you don’t check the latest list of TFR’s before taking off. This information could prevent you from making a mistake, losing your license or worse.
11:00 am
Cylinder Anatomy - What's in There? Materials, Processes and Maintenance
Tim Morland | Engine Components, Inc
Pioneer Room (B)
This presentation illustrates what occurs inside a cylinder during each crankshaft stroke. Particular attention is paid to materials and processes as well as care and maintenance of cylinders.
Pre-registration required if attending for IA
renewal. General Public is welcome to all maintenance seminars but MUST preregister to receive certification.
11:45 am
178 Seconds to Live (the deadliest risk in aviation)
Fred Abrams | Abrams Aviation
Heritage Room (D)
According to the 2007 NALL REPORT on Accident Trends and Factors for 2006, published by the AOPA Air Safety Foundation, continued VFR flight into IMC (instrument meteorological conditions) remains the major cause of fatal weather accidents in single-engine aircraft. While statistics show an overall improvement in general aviation safety over the years, the NALL REPORT concludes “the long-term trend for weather related accidents is increasing.”
This problem has been around for a long time. In fact a study was done in the early 50s in an attempt to determine why pilots continue to put themselves in harms way and once there, could a reliable solution be taught that would save the day. The study began by simulating an IMC encounter in aircraft piloted by private pilots untrained in instrument flight. If the encounters had been real instead of simulated every flight would have ended tragically. Some pilots lost control of their aircraft within 2 or 3 seconds after loosing the natural horizon. Others were able to postpone the inevitable for as much as 7 minutes. The average amount of time before the inevitable loss of control was 178 seconds.
In spite of this research, its conclusions, and training curriculums developed as a result…
There’s no reason to believe those figures have changed in the past half century.”
(Quoted from: Business & Commercial Aviation Magazine, March 2008, page 63
“--- Illusions: Spatial Disorientation and Loss of Control” by Dick McKinney.)
Continued VFR into IMC continues to plague General Aviation. Perhaps a new approach is called for since traditional training methods continue to fail.
Satellite and Radar Interpretation of Inland Northwest Weather Patterns
Greg Koch | NWS Spokane WA
Founders Room (C)
Meteorologists use a variety of tools to track and forecast the weather. Satellite and radar can be especially useful tools, if you know how to use them. Learn how to use these valuable these tools to analyze clouds, fog, thunderstorms, precipitation and other weather phenomena.
Register on line for Wings Credit and Weather Certificate.
Washington Pilots Association (WPA) Meeting & Lucheon
North Foyer (E)
Details TBA
The Basics of WAAS and the Transformation of IFR Flying
Bruce Williams | BruceAir
Keynote Speaker Area
Learn about how WAAS is transforming IFR flying and bringing new capabilities and flexibility to pilots of light GA aircraft. For example, the number of WAAS LPV approaches now exceeds the total number ILS procedures in the U.S. This presentation reviews the basics of WAAS technology and the rules governing its use. To illustrate the new approaches, GPS-only MEAs, and other features available with GPS—especially WAAS—the presentation focuses on procedures that are rapidly being implemented around the U.S., with an emphasis on recent additions and changes to IAPs and terminal routes in the Pacific Northwest.
Angel Flight General Meeting & Lucheon
North Foyer (E)
Details TBA
1:00 pm
The State of General Aviation
Keynote Area | Craig Fuller, AOPA President
SAR System: Things That Go Beep in the Night
Emergency Response International (ERI)
Heritage (D)
Knowledge of the methods, procedures, and policies used in search assists downed pilots and passengers to aid in their own rescue. This knowledge also provides reassurance, in turn, building morale and mental stability for downed aviators. This session includes tips for leaving a traceable trail; federal, state and local responsibilities for search and rescue; sequence of search phases; pros and cons of the Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs), Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs), Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRBs) their differences, similarities and the 121.5 frequency changeover; the Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking (SARSAT) program; and what can be expected from the Global Positioning System. Also a review of rescue pickup devices that may be encountered with specific protocols for pickup by helicopter in both water and land based situations.
ERI regularly provides SAR training around the world to law enforcement agencies and training academies, volunteer search and rescue groups, land management agencies, university students and government agencies on basic, intermediate and advanced level field skills and search management. Regardless of how remote the probabilities of making a forced emergency landing in a general aviation aircraft may seem, the possibility does exist. Every day, hundreds of pilots and their families, friends and co-workers climb into small general aviation aircraft with no thought about preparedness or the consequences of emergency landing in an isolated area. ERI courses were developed in concert with the Washington State and Montana Divisions of Aeronautics as a preventive search effort to curb the growing SAR problems in those states. The program is full of vitally important and interesting facts that every pilot and his passengers should know. While many survival courses concentrate on primitive living skills, this program utilizes the lessons learned from hundreds of actual case histories to emphasize what the real priorities are during a survival situation.
Please visit ERI website.
1:30 pm
Vortex Generator Installation and Paperwork
Charles White | Micro AeroDynamics
Pioneer Room (B)
A VG Kit will be on display and Charles White will tell about the installation process. Anni Brogan, the Flight Test Director at Micro Aero, will describe the FAA documentation and paperwork relating to the Micro VG Kit and about how Vortex Generators are flight tested and approved. Come to the seminar and hear about the conceptions and the miss-conceptions about Vortex Generators and what they do to make aircraft fly safer, improve performance and how they improved controllability at slow speeds.
Pre-registration required if attending for IA
renewal. General Public is welcome to all maintenance seminars but MUST preregister to receive certification.
2:15 pm
Wintertime Icing Conditions in the Pacific Northwest
John Werth | NWS Auburn WA
Founders Room (C)
All about aircraft icing. Understanding the effects of icing on aircraft performance, what causes icing, how icing forms and where it occurs, the different types of icing, and the potential type of icing based on cloud type.
Register on line for Wings Credit and Weather Certificate.
Equipping Yourself to Survive: Personal Survival Gear for Pilots
Doug Ritter | Equipped to Survive
Keynote Area
When your flight's gone about as bad as it possibly could, your survival may well depend upon what survival gear you have with you. Even with modern communications and distress signaling, you could easily end up stuck in the wilderness overnight. If rescue is delayed, it's probably because of difficult weather or other circumstances that would add to your troubles. Aviation survival equipment authority Doug Ritter, founder of Equipped To Survive (www.equipped.org ), will explain what you should never be without and, just as important, what gear is worth betting your life on and what isn't. You don't have to spend a fortune to be equipped to survive. Attendees will be eligible to win valuable survival equipment door prizes.
Residential Airparks - The Good, The Bad and The
Ugly
Founders Room | Dave Sclair, Living With Your Plane, General
Aviation News
Heritage Room (D)
CWU Alumni Meet and Greet
North Foyer
2:30 pm
Major Alterations and the IA
Terry Butler-Stoddard, Seattle FSDO
Pioneer Room (B)
Discussion regarding forms, guidance and rules to help IAs properly...evaluate and document major alterations. The presentation will help IAs to understand requirements, concerns and considerations pertinent to most alterations. It will also help IAs evaluate adequacy of documentation to support alterations and options available to obtain approved data.
Pre-registration required if attending for IA
renewal. General Public is welcome to all maintenance seminars but MUST preregister to receive certification.
3:30 pm
Vacuum Pumps & Pneumatic Systems
John Herman | Tempest
Pioneer Room (B)
Introduction to pneumatic systems with an overview of: vacuum pump design including the new tornado design; vacuum pump maintenance and recommended Inspection and replacement intervals; vacuum systems design and troubleshooting; pressure systems design and troubleshooting; de-ice systems design and troubleshooting as well as preventative maintenance. Seminar will conclude with an open discussion.
Pre-registration required if attending for IA
renewal. General Public is welcome to all maintenance seminars but MUST preregister to receive certification.
Sport Pilot and Sport Aircraft
Mike Robertson | Principal Maintenance Inspector
Spokane FSDO
Founders Room (C)
A discussion regulations, what a sport aircraft is, sport pilot eligibility and requirements
Around the World... on Floats
Tom Casey
Heritage Room (D)
Illustrated entertaining and adventurous talk on the first circumnavigation by floatplane (Cessna 206) landing exclusively on water by Washington resident, Tom Casey.
Runway Safety Best Practices
Keynote area| Office of Runway Safety, FAA
Runway incursion/surface incident history, definition, statistics and airport signs, markings and procedures.
How many times have you been lost on the taxiways? Have you ever made a mistake on taking the wrong taxiway and had Ground Control ask you where do you think you are going? Ever been a passenger on an airline and the plane makes a 180 degree turn and you wonder what's going on? Yes - airline pilots do the same thing. They get lost, take the wrong taxiway, end up nose-to-nose with another airplane on a one-way taxiway. No matter what your experience level is, we can all use a refresher on how to avoid the common pitfalls of operating an aircraft on the ground. The Runway Safety Office will give you some insights on this growing problem and how to avoid making these same mistakes yourself.
4:30 pm
Survival Skills (Shelter, Fire, Signalling and Water)
Emergency Response International (ERI)
South (A)
This session illustrates essential concepts and skills for a survival incident. The purpose of the skills discussed in this session centers on preparedness, problem solving capability and protection of the body's temperature of 98.6 degrees F.
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Principles of Shelter Construction both with the aircraft and without, plus tips, tricks, knots and strategies for personal protection.
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Firecraft - Alternatives to matches, improvised stoves, heaters, tinders, fuels, etc.
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Signaling - Basic principles and practical advice on pyrotechnics and ground to air signals
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Water Procurement
"Is it the Mag?"
Clifton Orcutt | Aircraft Magneto Service
Pioneer Room (B)
Clifton Orcutt of, Aircraft Magneto Service, will provide an engaging seminar covering magnetos and ignition system basics and troubleshooting. Additional coverage will be given to the recent Slick Service Bulletins SB2-08A, and SB3-08A. Teledyne Continental Impusle Coupling Service Bulletin MSB645 and AD 05-12-06 will be examined. Numerous examples of failed ignition parts will be availabe for inspection and analysis. "Is It The Mag" will be informative for mechanics and pilots.
Pre-registration required if attending for IA
renewal. General Public is welcome to all maintenance seminars but MUST preregister to receive certification.
The Anatomy of an Aviation Claim
Heritage Room | Avemco
This brand new forum from Avemco takes you from the accident to the resolution of a average general aviation claim. In this interesting session you will learn:
1) what is your role as the policyholder/pilot in the claims process
2) what is the insurance company's role in the claims process
3) the importance of the policy contract in claims adjusting
4) how to avoid a claim denial
A history of Boeing Field
Cory Graff | Military Aviation Historian
Even before there were runways, the area south of the city of Seattle was Washington’s aviation hub. Charles Hamilton, a daredevil dubbed “Crazy Man of the Air,” became the first flyer in the state when he coaxed his Curtiss biplane into the sky over Meadows Racetrack in 1910. He promptly crashed. With the help of William Boeing and his growing aviation company, Boeing Field opened in 1928. In those early days, brave air travelers could hitch a ride along with bags of mail in cold, noisy biplanes. Bigger, better aircraft soon followed, but wartime intervened. Thousands of Flying Fortress bombers emerged from Boeing’s Plant 2 at the edge of the airfield and winged off to war. In the years after, Boeing Field served a dazzling array of winged machines—from the smallest Piper Cub to Air Force One.
Seattle resident Cory Graff is the author of several aviation books and is the historian at the Flying Heritage Collection, in Everett, Washington. Using photographs from Seattle-area institutions and companies, Graff tells the fascinating story of one of the nation’s most unusual airports. |
