9:00 am
EXHIBITS
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Maintenance  Seminar
“Wear It In – Don’t Wear It Out! Engine Break-in and Run-in"
Tim Morland, Director of Product Development and Sale, ECI
Pioneer Room (B)
Tim Morland, Director of Product Development and Sales will make the presentation. With over 20-years in the general aviation business, Tim Morland knows a thing or two about engines. In January 2007 he was the Western Territory Manager for Engine Components, Inc. – overseeing customer orders, sales and warranties. Under his new position as Director of Sales and Product Development, Tim is now responsible for business development with new clients and prospects, as well as overseeing the development of future products and services. Prior to joining the sales staff at ECi, he spent 15-years on the shop floor with various production and management positions.
The course focus is not a how-to guide for the pilot (i.e. power settings and times) but rather a discussion of what is going on internally in the engine. The focus is on ring-to-bore seating and what the pilot can do to ensure break-in and TBO. Attention is paid to lubrication and filtration as well as proper cooling through proper fit and care of the baffling.
Pre-registration required if attending for IA
renewal. General Public is welcome to all maintenance seminars but MUST pre register to receive certification.
9:15 am
Approach & Landing Clinic
Minard Thompson| FAASTeam
Founders Room (C)
Details forthcoming.
GLASS PANEL for EVERYONE!
Robert Hamilton, Dynon Avioics | Bronze Level Sponsor 2010 Event
Heritage (D)
Why spend $100,000 on a Glass Panel when you can buy the best for under $6,000? Experimental and Light Sport Aircraft owners know they have some of the most advanced aircraft flying, and also some of the lowest cost. Find out how they do it. Washington State's own Dynon Avionics will be discussing its industry-leading SkyView Integrated Glass Panel.
Robert Hamilton is the Marketing Manager for Dynon Avionics. A pilot for 36 years, he has been working in local avionics companies for the past seven years. All you really need to know about him is that he learned to fly in a J-3 Cub.
Airport Workshop I :
Airport Investments, How Are They Determined?
FAA and WSDOT
North Foyer (E)
Survival Workshop: What Makes You a Survivor
Emergency Response International (ERI)
South Foyer (A)
This session explores basic concepts and principles of survival through a self-assessment process by examining characteristics of survivors, along with other factors from research that influence survival. Using John Leaches' research at the University of Lancaster, UK, and the research conducted by Lawrence Gonzales as a basis, this module addresses the “will to live”, physiological and psychological reactions to stress, and environmental stressors such as pain, cold, thirst, hunger and fatigue. The session emphasizes how to maintain a Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) and a 98.6 degree body core temperature.
10:15 a.m.
Understanding 406 MHz ELTs & PLBs
Ryan Deck, Avionics Sales Manager | Aircraft Spruce
Pioneer Room (B)
The purpose of this presentation is to explain the differences between 406 MHz and 121.5 ELTs and what is involved and what to look for when buying a new 406 MHz ELT or PLB. This presentation will also quickly review current 406 MHz ELTs & PLBs that are on the market.
 Ryan Deck has been a pilot for 8 years and has his instrument and commercial license and has worked in the aviation industry for about 5 years. He has a degree from Southern Illinois University in aviation management and has specifically worked in avionics. He has worked for Garmin International before being hired by Aircraft Spruce to help run their avionics department. Ryan and his father are aircraft owners, owning a 1975 Blanca Super Viking which he has done most of his flying in.
Pre-registration required if attending for IA
renewal.
General Public is welcome to all maintenance seminars but MUST pre register to receive certification.
10:30
am
Weather Patterns of the Pacific Northwest -West side
Clinton Rockey, National Weather Service
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.
I am Clinton Rockey, a meteorologist from the National Weather Service forecast office in Portland, Oregon. I grew up and lived in Kansas (25 years), experiencing all kinds of weather. After graduation from the University of Kansas, I moved to Boston. After a short four year stint in Boston, I relocated to Eugene, Oregon to start my forecasting career with the National Weather Service as a weather observer. Since 1995, I have been stationed at the forecast office in Portland, where I continue to forecast for marine and aviation, as well as for fire weather. I have been a pilot (VFR only) since 1997.
Register on line for Wings Credit and Weather Certificate.
Mountain/Canyon Flying “Airstrip Observation”
Designing your approaches and departures
Lori MacNichol | McCall Mountain/Canyon Flying Seminars, LLC
Keynote Area
Idaho and Utah offers a wealth of Back country airstrips that are nestled in the deep canyons of the wilderness. However, backcountry flying demands precision, an understanding of aircraft performance, and knowledge of the mountain and canyon environment in which you operate. This seminar will focus on the finer points of airstrip observation and airspeed control that will make specialized approaches and departures delightful possibilities with comfortable outcomes. The speaker Lori MacNichol invites you to treat yourself to the next level of airmanship and experience the Idaho and Utah backcountry through this multimedia presentation which includes digital video of the backcountry.
Airport Workshop II
State Airport Grants Aren't Free! Newly Proposed State Grant Obligations
John Sibold | WSDOT
North Foyer (E)
Survival Workshop: Egress/ Ditching Basics
Emergency Response International (ERI)
South Foyer (A)
This one hour seminar is a prerequisite for the three (3) hour In Pool Egress Training.
All attendees are welcome to attend the seminar presentation but must pre-register to attend the pool training. Click here for details of pool egress training
11:15 am
Maintenance and repair of Wipline Floats 
Jason Erickson |Wipaire
Jason Erickson has over 21 year’s aviation experience. He attended Winona Technical College and obtained an airframe and power plant certificate. He currently holds an Airframe and power plant, Inspection Authorization, Private Pilot with complex, single engine land and sea and tail wheel endorsement.
This presentation provides basic hydraulic and electric systems operation, troubleshooting inspection highlights. Provides information on equipment for float maintenance and floated aircraft maintenance. Introduction to new Wipaire web site with new information geared for the maintenance provider. Introduction to new 24/7 customer service department aimed at helping not only float customers, but pilots and maintenance professionals.
Pre-registration required if attending for IA
renewal. General Public is welcome to all maintenance seminars but MUST pre register to receive certification and breakfast.
NO ACCESS to TRADE SHOW UNTIL 9:00 AM!
11:45 am
Your Medical Certificate & Your Health
Dr. Chris Taylor | FAA
Founders Room (C)
Flying for the Vice President—and other interesting stories
Dan Hargrove | Director of Aviation at Rocky Mountain College
Heritage (D)
Dan Hargrove was a commander and pilot at Andrews Air Force Base for seven years, and commanded flights for the Vice President, the First Lady, the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense, and he was flying for the President on Sept 11, 2001. He tells some interesting insider stories about being in the air with Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, among others. He is now the Director of Aviation at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana.
10 Things Other Pilots Do Wrong
JJ Greenway | AOPA Air Safety Foundation
Keynote Area
Let's be honest: When it comes to our fellow pilots, we've all got our pet-peeves. Maybe it's the "helpful" right-seater who can't keep his hands off the controls. The chatterbox who treats the CTAF like a party line. Or the genius whose prop blast creates a hurricane in your hangar every time he taxis by.
Well, here's your chance to air those grievances, learn a thing or two about safety, and - just maybe - get a new perspective on your own (undoubtedly minor) imperfections. Join us for an entertaining, educational look at the things you told us drive you nuts about "other pilots."
Survival Workshop
Emergency Response International (ERI)
North Foyer (A)
Details forthcoming.
Washington Pilots Association (WPA) Annual Meeting & Luncheon
North Foyer (E)
Details TBA
12:45
FAA and State Awards
Keynote Area
1:00 pm
The State of General Aviation: Challenges and Opportunities
Karen Gebhart, President AOPA Foundation
Keynote Area
User fees. Aviation security. Airport preservation. The perception of GA. Find out how these and other issues will affect your flying, what AOPA is doing to protect your interests, and learn what you can do to help.
Interpreting Weather Charts on the Internet
Michael Petrucelli, National Weather Service
Founders Room (C)
How to interpret weather forecast charts found on the Internet. A quick look at common aviation weather forecast charts and a deeper look at the computer model weather charts used by National Weather Service meteorologists. Includes a look at satellite imagery and how to find fronts and low pressure systems.
Born and raised in Upstate N.Y. (near Syracuse). Graduated at S.UN.Y. At Oswego in upstate N.Y. in 1996. Worked for Northwest Weathernet in Seattle for 6 years. Have been with the NWS for 4 years in Medford. Aviation focal point since April 2007.
Hearts of Courage: Surviving the Gilliam Crash
John Tippets
Colleyville, TX
Hearts of Courage is a story of John’s father (Joseph Tippets) who was with the CAA in Alaska in the 1940s. In January, 1943 Joseph was a passenger on a flight piloted by the famed Harold Gillam which crashed in the mountains southeast of Ketchikan. Hearts of Courage is the account of the experiences of Joseph Tippets over the next month…it is a story of perseverance and survival, of faith and of love, as Joseph’s wife in Anchorage, awaits news of Joseph’s fate. This is one of Alaska’s great aviation stories.
1:30 pm
Human Factors & Failure to Follow Procedures
Dr. Jean Francois Mpouli,
Northwest Mountain Region FAASTeam
Pioneer Room (B)
Dr. Jean Francois Mpouli Anathema Manager, responsible for Western Washington, Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. With 22-years of aviation experience (7 years in repair stations and 15 years with the FAA locally and Internationally).
This course speaks to the number one national maintenance related error causal/contributing factor in aviation accidents, " Failure to Follow Procedures”. This presentation is directed toward all maintenance personnel (Certificated and Non-Certificated) and will cover failure to follow procedures, causal factors, maintenance errors and introduction to www.faasafety.gov.
The objective is to provide a basic awareness of risk factors associated with failing to follow procedures. Additionally we will discuss prevention of contributing or causal factors so as to reduce maintenance errors.
Pre-registration required if attending for IA renewal. General Public is welcome to all maintenance seminars but MUST pre register to receive certification.
2:15 pm
Center Weather Service Units (CWSU) and Discussion of Aviation Weather Products
Shad Keene, National Weather Service
Founders Room (C)
The presentation's focus will be two-fold. First, I'll discuss the National Weather Service's (NWS) Center Weather Service Units (CWSUs), their structure, and how they support aviation. Then I'll transition to describing various National Weather Service web-based aviation weather support products. I'd like to have some dialogue regarding NWS products--what you like, what you don't, and what you'd like to see in the future.
After graduating from Penn State, Shad joined the Air Force as a weather officer. His first assignment was at Shaw AFB, SC where he supported flying operations in the Southeast United States before moving to the Pacific Northwest. There he was aligned with the Stryker Brigade Combat Teams at Fort Lewis, WA. He spent time forecasting in Western and Eastern Washington, along with Thailand and Iraq. Shad then joined the National Weather Service and spent three years at a Center Weather Service Unit in Fremont, CA supporting Air Traffic Control and regional flying interests. He recently transitioned to the Medford, OR forecast office.
Register on line for Wings Credit and Weather Certificate.
Synthetic Vision Technology
Wayne McGhee | Garmin International Inc.
Heritage Room
SVT transforms the cockpit by accurately displaying synthetic terrain, flight hazards, flight path marker and highway-in-the-sky on the PFD so that the pilot maintains excellent airborne situational awareness even when flying in conditions of reduced visibility or darkness. This results in reduced pilot workload and safer flying.
The foundation of SVT is the depiction of 3D terrain, which is displayed on the PFD(s). Land, water and sky are clearly differentiated with shading and textures that are similar to the topographical colors found on the multi-function display (MFD) moving map. SVT works seamlessly to alert pilots of potential ground hazards by displaying terrain and obstacles which pose a threat to the aircraft with appropriate TAWS alert coloring
Airport Workshop III:
Protecting Your Airport – Engaging in Local Politics
AOPA | North Foyer
Protecting your airport is often a political battle. Join AOPA staff and local advocates on an informative session on how local government decisions affect your airport, and what you can do to influence those policies. You will also learn about valuable resources that can help you in the fight to ensure your airport will be there for years to come.
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association created the Airport Support Network, or ASN program, in 1997 to combat the increasing threats against community airports that culminated in record airport closure rates averaging two per week in the mid-1990s. The ASN program was founded on the premise that the best defense against airport threats is local airport advocates. Today, the AOPA Airport Support Network includes 2,000 AOPA members who volunteer to promote, protect, and defend their community airports. AOPA provides ASN volunteers with direct lines of communication to airport experts and tools to help them learn more about airport advocacy. Visit AOPA’s ASN Web site
2:30 pm
Dynamic Propeller Balance and Engine Vibration Diagnostics
Jim Ramsey | Diagnostic Solutions International, LLC
This is a 2 part seminar. The first part of the course focuses on proper procedures to follow when performing dynamic propeller balancing. Proper mounting of hardware. Obtaining the data. Perform the adustments and then determining the results. The second part then goes into engine vibration problems. How to obtain engine vibration data and how to interpret it. How to use the vibration equipment to troubleshoot annoying vibration problems.
3:30 pm
Back Country Destinations
Tim Clifford, Recreational Aviation Foundation
South Foyer (E)
A pictorial discussion regarding the preservation, maintenance and creation of back country airstrips in the Northwest and around the nation. Learn about great recreational destinations and how you can help assure that they stay open for future use.
Tim Clifford is a Florida based mountain pilot. Residing in a state where the highest elevation is barely above sea level, he and his wife Ann regularly travel great distances to enjoy scenic and recreational flying. A frequent visitor to Montana and Idaho as well as numerous destinations in the European Alps, Tim was the 2008 honored guest of the European Mountain Flying Association Convention held in Asiago, Italy, and is a director of the Montana based Recreational Aviation Foundation.
Maintenance  Seminar
From a Galaxy FAR, FAR away… A review of Maintenance Regulations for Mechanics
Kevin Alexander| University of Alaska Fairbanks, Tanana Valley Campus Aviation Maintenance
Pioneer Room (B)
Kevin is an Assistant Professor with University of Alaska Fairbanks at the Tanana Valley Campus Aviation Program. He has 14 years experience in the field including maintenance management and small business ownership in the aviation maintenance industry from Fairbanks to Florida and a few places in between.
This hour will cover the most basic maintenance rules for mechanics and aircraft owners from an economic and liability standpoint. The cost of not following these rules will be looked as well as the importance of staying a “compliance oriented individual”.
Pre-registration required if attending for IA
renewal. General Public is welcome to all maintenance seminars but MUST pre register to receive certification.
Pilot Preflights -You Bet Your Life!
A Mechanics perspective on a pilots preflight.
Johnny Rush, FAASTeam
Founders Room (C)
Details forthcoming.
The “Good” Pilot
Johnny Summers | Bethany Consulting,
FAA Designated Pilot Examiner, Seattle FSDO
A look at the things you learned in training and should be applying today. As time goes by, the finer points of flight planning and preparation fade: but their importance has not diminishes.
I have nearly 30 years and over 10,000 hours of aviation experience. Currently, I am a FAA Designated Pilot Examiner in general aviation and a pilot for one of the nation's major airlines. I spent 20 years flying in the U.S. military; over seven years flying helicopters in the Army and over twelve years flying in the Air Force. I have been an instructor pilot in general aviation as well as the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Airport Workshop IV:
"Protect Your Airport from Land Use Encroachment"
WSDOT
North Foyer (E)
Featuring New State Guidebook and Tools
The Future of Northwest Weather Prediction
Cliff Mass | University of Washington
Keynote Area
An overview of technology of weather prediction and how it has changed during the past several decades, and what can be expected during the next decade.
Cliff Mass is a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington and the principal investigator for the Mesoscale Analysis and Forecasting Group. His current research includes the use of high resolution numerical modeling for understanding and predicting West
Coast meteorological phenomena, orographic precipitation, regional data assimilation, mesoscale ensemble prediction, and regional climate modeling. He has published over fifty papers on the weather of the western U.S.
Dr. Mass is chief scientist of the Northwest modeling consortium, which provides real-time high resolution weather predictions for groups throughout the Northwest. He gives a weekly weather forecast on Seattle's public radio station, writes a popular weather blog, and is author of the new book The Weather of the Pacific
Northwest.
"Great progress has been made in understanding the often challenging and always interesting weather of the Pacific Northwest. Cliff Mass has either participated in or directed much of that work. Readers will directly benefit from his knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm in this highly readable, fascinating, and useful book." - Jeff Renner, Chief Meteorologist, KING Television, Seattle
Link to University of Washington page on Mass's The Weather of the Pacific Northwest.
Register on line for Wings Credit and Weather Certificate.
4:30 pm
Pilot Decision Making
Minard Thompson | FAASTeam
Founders Room
A Pilot's Legal Primer on FAA Investigations and NTSB Enforcement Actions
Picking your way through the FAA enforcement swamp
C. Edward Adams & John Callahan, Adams & Associates, PLLC
Heritage Room (D)
What would you do, as a pilot, if you were involved in an incident or aviation accident? Most incidents and accidents are the result of a “cascade” of events and your involvement may be only one of the events. This hour of information may save your licence and aviation career. Questions and answer session as well.
Adams was a pilot for TWA for twenty-five years prior to going into a full time law practice in 1997. Callahan practiced law for the FAA for thirty-three years and held many high level positions within the enforcement section of the FAA. Their firm specializes in aviation-related personal injury or wrongful death and in defense of pilots, mechanics and companies in matters before the FAA, NTSB and the Courts.
Maintenance Seminar
Aircraft Deicer Installation and Maintenance Pneumatic Deice Boot Installation
D ave Vega, Western Regional Sales Manager | B/E Aerospace
Dave has
20-years in the general aviation business. Presently 5 years with B/E Aerospace –SMR Technologies. he travels with distributors and factory tech representative and assistant with deicer installations, and oversee sales for the western region.
This presentation offers the complete installation of pneumatic deice boots for aircraft, along with maintenance and repairs for pneumatic deicers for aircraft mechanics.
Pre-registration required if attending for IA
renewal. General Public is welcome to all maintenance seminars but MUST pre register to receive certification
Stall/Spin Awareness
Bruce Williams, BruceAir
Keynote area
This 60-minute presentation uses videos captured with the Extra 300L's on-board cameras to illustrate a variety of stalls, spins, and recoveries from unusual attitudes.
(To learn more about stall/spin/upset training at BruceAir, visit spin training page.)
Topics covered in this presentation include:
- Purpose of stall/spin training
- Spin certification of aircraft
- Regulations governing aerobatics
- Stall/spin aerodynamics
- Review of stall/spin accidents
- Spin entry and recovery
- Resources for additional information
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