Warmer weather is upon once again, at least for the time being. I’m sure we have colder temperatures in store for us but hopefully not for prolonged periods. The C-120 is in for the annual, so I haven’t been doing much flying lately. I took it up to Red Deer on January 17th for a quick little annual (wishful thinking) … it’s still there and will be for another couple of weeks. We decided that it was a good time to fix an annoying little oil leak. While investigating the cause of the leak, we discovered some things didn’t quite look right so the digging kept going deeper until the engine was totally dismantled. Looks like I’ll be doing an unexpected major overhaul on the C90 engine! There were some entries made in the logbooks that didn’t quite add up and, after some detective work and a few phone calls, it was discovered that work wasn’t completed as it should have been. However, that will be the subject of future discussions at one of our meetings as there is a lesson to be learned here (as with many of you the lessons come fast, furious and expensive once ownership finally arrives).

If you missed the last meeting, you now belong to “The Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club” as voted on by you and your fellow members. The Calgary Ultralight Flying Club will go down in history as one of the best flying clubs in Canada.

Get your tickets for the annual raffle coming up at the end of March. There are some great prizes up for grabs that will be on display at the next meeting. Also, the annual banquet will be held on Feb 28th… see Dave Procysen for tickets and information.

The Rust Remover has been scheduled for April 4th from 0900 to 1200 so mark that on your calendar and plan to attend. The City of Airdrie has scheduled an airshow for Wednesday July 22nd with an appearance from the Canadian Forces Snowbirds among other attractions.

If you are interested in having your plane in a static display for the airshow, please let me know. If there is a enough interest I will pursue getting a spot for our club to display some of its fine aircraft.

If you haven’t already done so, please pay your membership dues as soon as possible.

Clark Seaborn will be our guest speaker at the Feb.12th meeting. He is planning to show us a short video on the history of Yukon aviation featuring, in places, the old Fokker airplane that he had a hand in restoring among other things. For those that have heard Clark speak before you know what an interesting evening we are in for!

See you soon!