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Congrats Jason!
Instrument Ground School
ATC Tower Tours
Center/Approach Tours
AAC Meeting
Aviation Advice
Flight Review
Airport Survey and Facebook
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Keene, NH                                             January 14, 2016

Congrats Jason!
 
Congratulations to Jason Horne on a skillful first solo flight!  Jason trains with CFI David Dezendorf and soloed in "Warrior 337". The day could not have been more perfect with clear skies, calm winds, and Jason at the yoke. Well done Jason!
 
Last Call for Instrument Ground School              
Instrument Ground School starts next week. The class will commence on January 21st at 6:00PM at Monadnock Aviation. It will meet Thursday evenings for about two hours and is being taught by CFIs David Dezendorf and Denny Caldwell.  The cost is $250. Please email me if you'd like more information or to be added to the roster.
Tower Tours 
                          

Thank you for all of the interest in the tours of the Manchester and Nashua Air Traffic Control Towers.  We have filled and confirmed the roster with no additional seats available at this time.  We hope to arrange another tour in summer.

Boston Center and Approach Tours
 
We are arranging tours of Boston Center and Approach.  The exact date is yet to be determined but will likely be a Saturday in early March.  Please email me if you'd like to attend.                  
AAC Meeting Friday                             

                              

Keene's Airport Advisory Commission (AAC) will meet Friday (January 15).  This is a public meeting and all are welcome to attend.  The meeting is at 8:30AM in the terminal lobby; click here to see the agenda.

Thoughts by Rick Durden

This compilation of sage aviation advice made me smile.  I hope it does the same for you. 
  • The weather is not going to get better in another five miles.
  • If you are trying to scud-run, the weather will get worse.
  • The chances of making a superb landing are inversely proportional to the number of people watching.
  • Towers and power lines are affected by weather: They get taller and move nearer to highways, railroad tracks and airports when the ceiling gets very low.
  • There is less gas in the tanks than you hope.
  • There is nothing more beautiful than this world when viewed from aloft. 
  • Departing with one component of a redundant system out of service will make the other one fail in flight.
  • An intermittent problem will remain so until you throw nearly enough money at it to replace the entire system involved.
  • The worse the weather, the more likely it is that you will have a vocal passenger insisting that you go.

And my personal favorite is:

  • When making a decision, an effective tool is to ask oneself if this might lead to looking stupid in the NTSB report.
Due for a Flight Review?

If your Flight Review is now lapsing into a triennial, we've got you covered!  CFI Gene Moody has time available on his flight schedule this Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Send me an email and I would be happy to get you scheduled and back in the air.


Airport User Survey
                             
The City of Keene is underway with a Master Planning process for our airport.  As part of that process, a survey of users and stakeholders at the airport is being prepared to identify what works well and what could better serve airport customers. 

If you would like to be included in this brief, email survey please let me know.  I will compile a list of those interested and pass it on to the consultant so that you are included.  Look for the survey in February or March.
 
In the meantime, there is now an official City of Keene Airport Facebook page. Take a look here!  Thanks to Mike Moriarty for all the work on that.
I'll leave you with this reminder to approach every prop with great caution.  Take a look at this short video of the luckiest man alive. (Thanks to Dave Osgood for forwarding this to me.)
 
Thank you,
Beth
Monadnock Aviation

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