X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 15:01:29 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from mail-qa0-f42.google.com ([209.85.216.42] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.0.8) with ESMTPS id 6695125 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:28:47 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.85.216.42; envelope-from=mwsletten@gmail.com Received: by mail-qa0-f42.google.com with SMTP id k4so5910747qaq.29 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:28:13 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.3.10 with SMTP id 10mr30597758qal.58.1390242492869; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:28:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.125.20 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:28:12 -0800 (PST) X-Original-Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:28:12 -0600 X-Original-Message-ID: Subject: LOBO eNews -- January 2014 From: Mark Sletten X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c35acaf0727504f06b0dd4 --001a11c35acaf0727504f06b0dd4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *IN THIS EDITION: From the President <#143b0e6c3e9338d5_President>* *2014 Membership * <#143b0e6c3e9338d5_Registration>*Registration <#143b0e6c3e9338d5_Registration>* *Google Map Member Locator <#143b0e6c3e9338d5_Map> Reusing Self-Locking Nuts <#143b0e6c3e9338d5_Nuts> 2014 Mx Clinic Update <#143b0e6c3e9338d5_MXClinic>* *Communication Breakdown* <#143b0e6c3e9338d5_Communication> *Airport Markings for Dummies <#143b0e6c3e9338d5_AirportMarkings>* Andy & Sam Werback's Grand Champion Legacy at AirVenture 2012 FROM THE PRESIDENT by jeff edwards Happy New Year and welcome! And thanks for reading the January 2014 issue of LOBO eNews. We are kicking off the year with some changes our members asked for, and a few the LOBO Board has been planning for some time. A New Look First, you may notice the format of our newsletter has changed. Instead of a pdf document transmitted to you with the look of a published magazine we have elected to go with a more modern ezine-style, web-based design. This is the second edition of LOBO eNews, and the LOBO Board is very happy with the time savings it represents for the volunteers who publish it for you. Now that we've decided to increase our use of the website you won't see entire articles in the newsletter any longer. Instead, you'll see a brief intro, and a link to the full article on the site. This should be a familiar format to anyone who is on an email newsletter list. Please let us know what you think! There are some advantages to doing things this way. One is that we can publish and post articles as we get them without waiting for a newsletter deadline. Also, we don=92t have to invest tons of time formatting the pdf document you are familiar with. Bottom line: same great stuff, lower cost and faster service. I like fast! Thanks to Mark Sletten, our volunteer editor, for his help in this project. Site Upgrades Another change we have made is in the membership arena. We are victims of our own success. We are now approaching 400 members. Success is good but it comes with a cost. The cost to us as volunteer Board members is we have to manage the information of some 400 members. When we were smaller it was not a huge time investment; Jennifer Ashley, our Membership VP, was easily able to keep our membership data sorted. But as we've grown, and especially as we began organizing more events like Oshkosh AirVenture and the annual LOBO/Lancair Landings, the workload has increased exponentially. We now must accurately manage hundreds of separate registrations and financial transactions, not only for membership tracking, but also for each event. We simply don=92t have the volunteer manpower or other resources to manage things as we have in the past. So, based on recommendations from a few smart people who know what they're doing, we have made some significant upgrades to the website. They include some new features you've asked for that will only be available to members, and an online membership management system. In addition to making it much easier for you find information about LOBO, our new online tools will significantly reduce the workload on your all-volunteer LOBO Board. The only drawback for you is you must fill out the new online registration form this year when you renew so we can validate our membership database. We Need Your Help Please take the time to accurately fill out the registration form in its entirety: aircraft data, hours flown, total time, training, etc. It will only take you fifteen minutes to find your logbooks and fill out the information we need to help all of us make improvements in aviation safety. We use this data to show the FAA, NTSB and insurance industry that we are a better risk than non-member pilots. We will safeguard your flight data=97only using aggregate statistical data in our discussions. Our initial look at this over a year ago revealed significant differences with respect to training and hours flown between our members and the pilots involved in accidents. We have begun to bend the Lancair accident rate downwards, and we were rewarded with better insurance coverage this year as announced at the Greenville Landing. But there is still a lot of room to improve. LOBO members have proven their commitment to safety and professionalism, and we'll need that commitment to further improve. Thank you for your help! Join or Renew Today! There is much more information below and on the site about our exciting new membership management system. Please take the time to read through the instructions and join LOBO or renew your membership today. And let us know what you think about the online registration experience. The more you tell us the better we can make it. 2014 LOBO Membership Registration LOBO is converting to a web-based membership management model and we need your help to make it work. The system will save time for everyone: no more paper-based applications, envelopes and snail mail for you, and a largely automated online membership management system for us. Help LOBO join the 21st century today! Click here to read more... Find Fellow LOBO Members! ------------------------------ LOBO has a new service--a Google Map Member Locator! The locator is available in the new Member's area of our website and shows the location and basic contact information for members who gave us permission to post it. If you would like to appear on the Member Locator make sure you opt in on the online registration form. To see the Member Locator you must registe= r or renew today = ! Reusing Self-Locking Nuts--Safe or Stupid? D= o you know when it=92s safe to reuse self-locking nuts with nylon or fiber inserts? The answer is you shouldn't. Not unless, that is, you are following procedures in approved maintenance documents for the aircraft in question or other FAA publications. The NTSB has implicated the improper reuse of self-locking nuts in several fatal accidents. Click here to read more... Continental Motors Engine Maintenance Clinic Update Continental Motors has invited the Lancair Owners and Builders Organization to an engine maintenance clinic and facility tour from 20 to 22 March, 2014. The two-day event will include presentations and hands-on demonstrations of important set-up, maintenance and tuning requirements of Continental aircraft engines at their Fairhope, AL operating area, as well as a tour of their manufacturing facility in Mobile. We need a minimum of 25 pilots/owners to make this feasible. Click here to read more... Communication Breakdown ------------------------------ On February 29, 2012, a Cirrus SR22 plunged to the ground just seconds before what would have been a normal landing at Melbourne, Florida. In this video, AOPA reconnects the links of the accident chain, and searches for lessons in the tragedy. Click here to watch... Airport Markings for Dummies What do the markings in the photo at right mean and what would make two very highly experienced commercial pilots, on two separate occasions, think it was OK to walk across them without asking permission or even talking to anyone? That=92s exactly what happened, twice, within three weeks! 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Reusing Self-Locking Nuts=
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Communication Breakdown
Airport Markings for Dummies
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by jeff edwards

Happy New Year and welcome! And thanks for reading the January 2014 i= ssue of LOBO eNews. We are kicking off the year with some changes our membe= rs asked for, and a few the LOBO Board has been planning for some time.
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A New Look

First, you may notice the format of our newsletter has changed. Inste= ad of a pdf document transmitted to you with the look of a published magazi= ne we have elected to go with a more modern ezine-style, web-based design. = This is the second edition of LOBO eNews, and the LOBO Board is very happy = with the time savings it represents for the volunteers who publish it for y= ou. Now that we've decided to increase our use of the website you won&#= 39;t see entire articles in the newsletter any longer. Instead, you'll = see a brief intro, and a link to the full article on the site. This should = be a familiar format to anyone who is on an email newsletter list. Please l= et us know what you think!

There are some advantages to doing things this way. One is that we can publ= ish and post articles as we get them without waiting for a newsletter deadl= ine. Also, we don=92t have to invest tons of time formatting the pdf docume= nt you are familiar with. Bottom line: same great stuff, lower cost and fas= ter service. I like fast! Thanks to Mark Sletten, our volunteer editor, for= his help in this project.
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Site Upgrades

Another change we have made is in the membership arena. We are victim= s of our own success. We are now approaching 400 members. Success is good b= ut it comes with a cost. The cost to us as volunteer Board members is we ha= ve to manage the information of some 400 members. When we were smaller it w= as not a huge time investment; Jennifer Ashley, our Membership VP, was easi= ly able to keep our membership data sorted. But as we've grown, and esp= ecially as we began organizing more events like Oshkosh AirVenture and the = annual LOBO/Lancair Landings, the workload has increased exponentially. We = now must accurately manage hundreds of separate registrations and financial= transactions, not only for membership tracking, but also for each event. W= e simply don=92t have the volunteer manpower or other resources to manage t= hings as we have in the past. So, based on recommendations from a few smart= people who know what they're doing, we have made some significant upgr= ades to the website. They include some new features you've asked for th= at will only be available to members, and an online membership management s= ystem.

In addition to making it much easier for you find information about LOBO, o= ur new online tools will significantly reduce the workload on your all-volu= nteer LOBO Board. The only drawback for you is you must fill out the new on= line registration form this year when you renew so we can validate our memb= ership database.
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We Need Your Help

Please take the time to accurately fill out the registration form in = its entirety: aircraft data, hours flown, total time, training, etc. =A0It = will only take you fifteen minutes to find your logbooks and fill out the i= nformation we need to help all of us make improvements in aviation safety. = We use this data to show the FAA, NTSB and insurance industry that we are a= better risk than non-member pilots. We will safeguard your flight data=97o= nly using aggregate statistical data in our discussions. Our initial look a= t this over a year ago revealed significant differences=A0with respe= ct to training and hours flown between=A0our members and the pilots i= nvolved in accidents.

We have begun to bend the Lancair accident rate downwards, and we we= re rewarded with better insurance coverage this year as announced at the Gr= eenville Landing. But there is still a lot of room to improve. LOBO m= embers have proven their=A0commitment to safety and professionalism, and we= 'll need that commitment to further improve.=A0Thank you for your help!=
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Join or Renew Today!

There is much more information below and on the site about our exciting new= membership management system. Please take the time to read through the ins= tructions and join LOBO or renew your membership today. And let us know wha= t you think about the online registration experience. The more you tell us = the better we can make it.
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LOBO is converting to a web-based membership = management model and we need your help to make it work. The system will sav= e time for everyone: no more paper-based applications, envelopes and snail = mail for you, and a largely automated online membership management system f= or us. Help LOBO join the 21st century today!=A0Click here to read more...
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Find Fellow LOBO Member= s!

LOBO has a new service--a Google Map Member Locator! Th= e locator is available in the new Member's area of our website and show= s the location and basic contact information for members who gave us permis= sion to post it. If you would like to appear on the Member Locator make sur= e you opt in on the online registration form. To see the Member Locator you= must=A0register or renew today!
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Reusing Self-Locking N= uts--Safe or Stupid?
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Continental Motors= Engine Maintenance Clinic Update
Continental Motors has invited = the Lancair Owners and Builders Organization to an engine maintenance clini= c and facility tour from 20 to 22 March, 2014. The two-day event will inclu= de presentations and hands-on demonstrations of important set-up, maintenan= ce and tuning requirements of Continental aircraft engines at their Fairhop= e, AL operating area, as well as a tour of their manufacturing facility in = Mobile.=A0We need a minimu= m of 25 pilots/owners to make this feasible.=A0Click here to read more...
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Communication= Breakdown

On Feb= ruary 29, 2012, a Cirrus SR22 plunged to the ground just seconds before wha= t would have been a normal landing at Melbourne, Florida. In this video, AO= PA reconnects the links of the accident chain, and searches for lessons in = the tragedy.=A0Click here to watch...

Airport Mar= kings for Dummies
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What do the markings in the photo at right me= an and what would make two very highly experienced commercial pilots, on tw= o separate occasions, think it was OK to walk across them without asking pe= rmission or even talking to anyone?=A0That=92s exactly what happened, twice= , within three weeks!=A0Cl= ick here to read more...=A0
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