The Summary of DPA

2010 Boulder Fly-In

By Anthony Witcher

Note: This is a long newsletter... Prepare yourself to read it for several 'days'.

All selected photos were taken by DPA members and friends.

They took off from Salt Lake City Municipal and flew around the mountains to maintain 11,500 feet altitude. Flying from west, Kent did not want to fly straight over the mountains to Boulder because 13,000 feet altitude was required fly straight to Boulder over the mountains heading to Boulder from the west.

When they arrived in Boulder on Wednesday, July 7th, Andrew loved the mountains and said in sign language, "They are so beautiful."  They spent their days visiting Denver and Boulder before the 17th Annual DPA Fly-In started on Sunday, July 11th.

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The Start of Sunday:

When Sunday afternoon rolled around, Kent was in the airport lobby and ran into a guy using sign language to call his name. He was surprised and asked him how did he knew his name. He replied, "My name is Anthony Witcher. I'm a writer for DPA newsletter. I have read articles about you." Kent was happy to meet Anthony and he introduced him to his Australian friends. They signed for awhile.

The Australian guys: Andrew Meyers, Kent Power and Tony Rennex.

Joelle and Jessy Georges and their son, Janick.

The Georges, a French couple, stopped for a day's visit. They came to America from France to visit their uncle who lives south of Denver and hung out with deaf pilots all day.

Then came the French men!

Henri Corderoy du Tiers, Jean Luc Madras, and Eric Debieuvre arrived. Henri had checked out a 235 horsepower C182 Turbo Cessna airplane from a different flight school at Boulder airport the day before. As part of Henri's checkout, he and his instructor flew southwest to Leadville-Lake County Airport, Colorado which is the highest elevation airport in North America and third highest in the world.

Jean- Luc enjoying the view

The French men: Henri Cordery du Tiers, President of France Deaf Association of International Deaf Pilots Association

and his friends, Eric Debievure and Jean-Luc Madras.

Anthony, the Australians and the French people hung out at Boulder airport for the rest of the afternoon, learning about each others' cultural sign languages and showing off each others' airplanes.

Noel Riveres, a deaf man from the Boulder area came along with his hearing wife, Kelly Turner and daughter, Marissa. DPA members explained to him the benefits of flying, time and cost involved.

Marissa, Noel and Kelly

Todd Barker, DPA 2010 Boulder Fly-In Coordinator and Director, arrived and happily greeted all visitors.

In  the late afternoon, Todd and Anthony drove to Rocky Mountain Airport ( 15 minute drive, southeast of Boulder Airport) for Todd to pick up his rental C152 airplane. Then he flew alone back to Boulder which was a 5 minute flight.

"All thumbs up," Todd says.

In the evening, they went to Outback Steakhouse for big dinner across the parking lot from Courtyard of Marriott Hotel where they were staying. Many jokes and wild stories were told at dinner! Later, Henri went back out flying to update his nighttime flying requirement.

DPA started their fly-in week with lots of enthusiasm!

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Monday Mountains:

There was no flyout on Monday as scheduled. DPA members spent the day hanging out and hosted a community picnic for the public in the hangar at Boulder Airport. Some local deaf people came.

In the late morning, Kevin Willis flew in from California with Larry Berlin in Larry's 310 horsepower Turbo Saratoga airplane. Larry is a CFI instructor who wants to learn sign language and teach deaf people to fly. When he met deaf pilots, he was happy to use his sign language skills. He was so excited to meet the Australian and French pilots and want to learn their sign language, too.

Larry Berlin

DPA members and guests checked out a WWII trainer airplane parked across from the hangar. It was a 1943 Beechcraft UC-45J, owned by Mile High Wing Commemorative Air Force, based in Aurora, Colorado. They offered rides to passengers for $50 and $75 to sit in the co-pilot's seat.

DPA Ice Sculpture at Community Picnic.

"Fly, Fly, Fly"

In the early afternoon, Anthony checked out a C172 airplane with 180 horsepower at Rocky Mountain Flight School. He made a reservation to rent the airplane for one week.

Jon Leach drove in from Texas.

Jon Leach smiles for photo.

In the early evening, DPA members and guests listened to a seminar about Mountain Flying. The lecturer, Paul Dickson, said understanding weather is very important because mountain weather can change suddenly.Then he also talked about preparing for survival and understanding crosswind takeoff and landing fundamentals.

Paul Dickson gives Mountain Flying seminar. Kelly Turner interpreting.

While the seminar was still going on, Henri had landed his rental airplane. When he entered into the taxiway, the engine of the airplane quit and the electronic panels display (Garmin 1000) shut down. Henri was stuck on the taxiway because the airport staff had left for the day. Henri and Todd discussed how to get the plane towed.

After Todd gave prizes from shirts to model airplanes for everyone who participated in a game called "Pick a Number", he went to get the tow tractor out of the hangar and help Henri. He and Henri went down to the taxiway, hooked up Henri's plane and towed it across the ramp to the other flight school's ramp.

Kevin wasn't planning to come to this year's fly-in for various reasons. At the last minute, he found a way and was able to attend. Congratulation to Kevin on making it to the fly-in this year.

People ended the evening by relaxing back at the hotel while Anthony brought his plane over to Boulder Airport from Rocky Mountain Airport with Todd's help.

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Two Trips on Tuesday:

One DPA member, John R. Jones of Aurora, Colorado, showed up proudly wearing his IDPA shirt and pin. He joined deaf pilots as a passenger for the day. He used to own and fly a C310 twin Cessna airplane. After he sold it, he retired from active flying, but occasionally flies with friends who offer him rides.

John R. Jones

DPA started their late morning to fly northeast to Greeley Airport, 36.2 nm, to eat lunch at the Barnstorm Restaurant.

Anthony took off first, followed by Larry, Kent and Todd. Flying to Greeley was filled with buildings, houses and tracts of grazing land farm. A major highway leading north and south couild be seen and recognizable on the chart. As they flew beyond the highway, the scenery started to open up with brownish fields followed by a few rivers. Some large white buildings were easily seen as farmers' grain towers. The weather for the trip was warming up with smooth winds.

Andrew, John, Eric, Tony and Kent flying to Greeley.

The trip was short and the airport was easy to find.  All landed safely and they walked into the airport for lunch. Barnstorm Restaurant was right off the lobby. The place was filled with photos of airplanes and airplane models, making the place a pilots' favorite hangout. As they were finishing their lunch and telling jokes, Larry paid for everyone's lunch.

At first, everyone thought Larry was kidding. He was serious and pointed at their lunch saying, "I'm paying for your lunch." Then he added, " Deaf pilots are very good pilots because they can feel the vibrations and see better than hearing pilots."

Lunch at Barnstorm Restaurant

Everyone agreed with him and thanked Larry. The day wasn't done yet. Flying to Greeley was the group's first leg of the day. The next stop was Sidney.

Anthony took off first to fly the second leg of the trip northeast, 85 nm to Sidney. The flight weather was getting hot. Casual strong winds helped to make the flight comfortable. The scenic trip composed of prairie and light reddish praire with some farmland. There were a few small, long roads. They were not helpful to identify flying landmarks. There also were no flying landmarks for miles, too. The sky toward Sidney was filled with hazy clouds.

About 10 - 20 nm heading to Sidney, huge windmills began to show up as expected in the chart. As they were heading to Sidney, a long upland prairie that appeared from northwest heading to southeast was visible. Windmills were standing on top of it.

The location of Sidney Airport took more effort to be found. The town was small and easily bended into surrounding background prairie. As Anthony and Jon were looking for the airport before the town about 5 miles ahead, the scene was filled with lots of yellowish flatlands. Finally when they found it, the airport had a few buildings that seemed to bend into the yellowish ground. The landing pavement looked well worn with dull grayish color that looked like another long road. A moving semi-trailer truck on nearby road confirmed Anthony that the 'road' next to the truck was the landing pavement.

Finally, Anthony landed at Sidney followed by Larry and Kent who came in the same order. Then Todd came in last in his lumbering C152 plane.

They parked their planes and rode in a shuttle van to visit Caleba's store. On the way to the store, they saw one mobile home that was partially torn away and laid on its side. The shuttle driver said a tornado destroyed it. They found that the driver wore two hearing aids. He said he is not deaf, just hard of hearing.

When they entered the store, the store's staff was in awe when they found out that there were Australian and French pilots and deaf friends visiting their store. Andrew bought clothes. Jon bought few snacks. Others bought sodas.

When they returned to SIdney Airport, they ran into an aviation army group in the lobby and had a nice conversation. Then they went to look at one of the two helicopters parked nearby. The army pilots offered to show the deaf pilots to look around the helicopters.

The flight directly back to Boulder was bumpy and hot. Everyone landed safely.

Larry flew his airplane so fast back to Boulder that he landed first.  When he landed and parked his airplane for the day, he was eating ice cream while waiting for us to arrive! During the trip back to Boulder, Larry discovered that his airplane needed engine attention. He made phone calls and decided to take his airplane to Rocky Mountain Airport for a maintenance checkup on the next day.

After Anthony landed at Boulder in the early afternoon, Jon took off to go indoor tunnel diving at Sky Venture in south of Denver.

That was the beginning of interesting week. First, Henri had airplane troubles. Now, Todd was beginning to deal with his airplane. Todd and Larry flew in Todd's C152 airplane to Rocky Mountain to see a mechanic. When they started their flight back to Boulder, the starter of Todd's airplane had QUIT! Todd decided to rent a C172 with 160 horsepower to fly back to Boulder, with Larry tagging along. He was able to reserved the airplane for the rest of the week.

In the evening, some DPA members and friends attended the local Deaf's beer night in Boulder while others left to go eat at Old Chicago restaurant.

Before they ended the evening, all the pilots gathered in the hotel lobby to discuss the next fly out destination. They decided to fly to Fremont County Airport, near Canon City, southwest of Colorado Springs.

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Wednesday's Weather:

In the morning, pilots started their day reviewing the weather and sorting out which passengers to carry. When they found out that Kent was not feeling well, and Larry's airplane was in maintenance shop, it was a chaotic morning.

Henri got his airplane back from maintenance that morning.  He explained that there was nothing wrong with his airplane, the mechanic had explained because the mixture wasn't leaned properly for hot weather in the high altitude that day. As a result, the engine shut down and the electrical system automatically shut down to prevent overheating the panels display. The mechanic gave Henri instructions about leaning the mixture in his rental airplane.

Larry said he had not been feeling well and decided to spend the rest of the day resting in his hotel room. Kent decided not to fly and had his airplane tied down for the day. The group decided to use three airplanes: Anthony's, Todd's and Henri's.

Todd was the lead pilot followed by Anthony, then Henri, flying 96.8 nm south to Fremont County. They flew over beautiful downtown Denver with lots of tall buildings. Some football stadiums were easily seen from the air and the mountains were seen on the far right side.

Overlooking east of downtown Denver. The mountains in background.

This picture shows a scenic view northwest of Colorado Springs.

As they continued their flight past east of Denver, two went over one low valley of the mountain, and one flew around east of Colorado Springs

airspace where the land was mostly flat with occasional green farmland.  Fremont County airport was easy to find because the runway was black and some uprising surrounding lands were easily identified from the air. As a result, all landed safely. The flight weather for Wednesday was partially windy and the temperature was comfortably warm.

Todd used the airport's courtesy Ford car to take everyone to lunch at K-Bob's StreakOut Restaurant in Canon City. The car had a red siren light in the front seat that can be put outside on the roof. They joked that they were in the detective's car.

To everyone's surprise, Andrew paid for their lunch because he said he has a BIG heart for everyone and that he was having SO much fun being

with DPA.

On the return flight, all the passengers switched airplanes because some wanted to ride in different airplanes for fun.

The return trip to Boulder turned out to be a challenge for all pilots. All the pilots were planning to fly  at 11 ~ 13,000 MSL feet to fly over Colorado Springs and MOV airspace.  As they climbed to reach their altitude, they found they had to change their flight plan when gloomy clouds were hovering over Colorado Springs.

Cloudy weather overlooking Colorado Springs Airport.

So they flew hard before the isolated thunderstorms and lightening came down northwest of Colorado Springs. Pilots were aware that the weather forecast was for isolated thunderstorms around Colorado Springs in the middle afternoon, thunderstorms had come in earlier than expected. By the time they headed south of Denver, weather was scattered and broken clouds with unstable winds.

As they flew west of Denver and along east of the mountains, the sky was clear with broken clouds. All flew home safely. Larry came back to Boulder Airport in time to watch all the deaf pilots return home safely.

Then Henri had a story to tell.

He bragged about how he tried to climb 13,000 MSL over MOV airspace east of Canon City and then discovered a thunderstorm was on the right side of him. He said when he was over MOV airspace, he diverted his course away from the thunderstorm. Andrew continued the bragging by saying Henri's instrument display showed thunderstorms. He had snapped pictures of the thunderstorm and showed them off to everyone.

Anthony said he red-lined his airplane at 11,00 MSL feet trying to get away from the clouds that were hovering over Colorado Springs on his left side. As he was flying northeast of Colorado Springs, he and his passengers saw ONE, big unexpected lightening bolt that stuck nearby to the right of the airplane. Suddenly, Anthony took the airplane into a steep dive at 1,000 feet per minute. Rain came down over Anthony's plane. As he continued descending, he was heading into a clear broken sky about 3 nm ahead of him. A few minutes later, rain stopped and he leveled off at 9,000 MSL heading southwest of Denver. Anthony's passengers ( Jean-Luc and Tony) siad they loved every minute of Anthony's flying skills. They also showed pictures of the gloomy clouds.

Andrew repeatedly said the mountains were beautiful. Jon came back to the airport and Todd took him up for more touch and go flying.

By the time late afternoon rolled around, everyone disappeared from the airport for the evening.

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Mark your spot on Thursday:

Every morning, driving from the Courtyard of Marriott Hotel to Boulder Airport, the city of Boulder could be seen on right.

There was no flyout on Thursday. In the late morning, six pilots attended a mandatory meeting to participate in the Spot Landing Competition.

They were allowed two attempts to spot their mark.

Jon Leach won the competition by planting 17 feet closer to the imaginary mark line. The 2nd place went to Henri who licked 24 feet. Todd kissed 48 feet to win 3rd place. The rest of participating pilots were Kevin, Larry and Anthony.

In the middle afternoon, five deaf people took a plane ride inthe Beechcraft UC-45J WWII trainer airplane. Andrew paid to sit in co-pilot's seat. He loved every minute of it when the flight took them over the mountains and he snapped tons of mountain pictures. He couldn't contain his excitement and showed tons of his pictures when he got off the airplane at the end of the flight. "Look at this," he said. "Look at that..."

Beechcraft UC-45J WWII trainer airplane.

Larry was happy to pick up his beautiful airplane from Rocky Mountain Airport and flew it back to Boulder in the late afternoon.

DPA held another Bar-B-Que party in the hanger Thursday afternoon. Todd gave out various prizes such as shirts, hats and airplane models in the airport lobby.

Everyone poses for group DPA picture

Todd announced the Spot Landing Competition winners. The prizes were a 45-minute free ride in a brand new Mooney airplane for 1st place finisher, Leather Jacket for 2nd place and $250.00 Gulfstream model airplane for 3rd place finisher.

Henri won Leather jacket as 2nd place finisher in Spot Landing Competition.

Todd held a different prize contest when he decided to give away his 3rd place $250 Gulfstream airplane model. Andrew won the prize and said," I always wanted that model. OH, THANK YOU!"

Andrew proudly shows his Gulfstream airplane model prize. Not to be empty-hand, he holds the wooden propeller in his other hand.

They ended the late afternoon event by an annoucement that Kent Power will step down as President of Australia Deaf Pilots Association of International Deaf Pilots Association after this fly-in and turn his responsibilities over to Andrew, who gladly accepted the role. He thanked DPA for keeping DPA fly-in event going and wants DPA to continue its annual fly-ins. He understood that DPA may switch its annual fly-in event to every 2 years.

After the party, Todd gave more airplane rides to local friends flying in the Boulder airport pattern. Henri also gave airplane rides to local deaf people in his airplane.

In the early evening, Todd gave more airplane rides to visitors. When he took a young boy, in the front seat, up for a ride, he felt so proud to see a smile on the boy's face. Before the day ended, pilots had a short discussion about the next day's flyout in the airport lobby. They decided to fly to Laramie, Wyoming.

Anthony took a 40-minute road trip to Fort Collins to see the deaf jazz singer, Mandy Harvey. She sang so well that hearing people didn't notice that she is deaf. She was born hearing and lost it later in life. She said she loves singing because singing is in her heart and she has been singing all her life. She said she would not let deafness stop her love of singing and found a pianist who supported her love of music.

She can be found in her website; www. mandyharveymusic.com.

Mandy Harvey and Paul Sloniker perform.

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Flightly Friday:

DPA started the beautiful day by flying 88.2 nm northwest of Boulder to Laramie. Kent felt well enough to fly on Friday. Kelly Gibbs joined Todd as his passenger, flying out with the deaf pilots for the day.

Anthony's plane stayed on the ground because there were not enough passengers and he joined the Laramie fly-out in Larry's plane.

Henri took off first followed by Larry, Kent and Todd.

When Henri was flying north 10 nm from Boulder, Larry and Henri saw each other a few hundred feet apart. Henri gunned his 235 horsepower Cessna Turbo airplane to catch up with Larry's airplane, a 310 horsepower Piper Saratoga before they flew over one low highland mountain. Passengers saw each other's planes and took pictures.

The flight weather was bright and sunny with small bumpy winds. The scenery north of Fort Collins was mostly flat and isolated green prairie. Since the flight plan called for flying north halfway before turning west due to the high attitude mountain nearby, there were scenes of low highland mountains that appeared to be rising out of the ground as the pilots started to turn west.

Flying over highland towards Laramie.

By the time they flew over them, the land before them began to descend and it was mostly flat. The airport could be seen miles ahead, two long black cross runways started to appear and it was easy to locate. Beyond the airport was mostly flat grayish land. In the far distance, mountains with snow on the tops could be seen easily.

When pilots and passengers arrived at Laramie Airport, they had the biggest surprise of the day! There was a Sikorsky S-38 airplane, parked on the ramp. No one was expecting a strange looking airplane there! So they hurriedly over to the Skiorsky airplane and took pictures.

Posing in front of the famous Sikorsky S-38 airplane

The airport manager told us that the plane was only of the 2 Sikorsky S-38 in the world. It is owned by Tom Schrade. He said also that the Sikorsky plane was actually used the "The Aviator" movie.

Henri said he had fun 'chasing' Larry's airplane. Then the group piled in the airport's courtesy minivan and drove downtown getting lost under Kelly's direction. They drove around the town until they found the restauarant called The Grand Ave Pizza, had a long lunch and told more wild stories and jokes. Tony surprised everyone by buying their lunches. Everyone thanked Tony for his generosity. Tony smiled and said, "Don't wory about it. Just eat your lunch."

Goofing off.

Andrew couldn't get enough of the mountains, so he bought a framed mountain picture from the plzza place that also sold pictures. "Beautiful," he said, "Beautiful." The pizza place had it wrapped in a special shipping box. They returned back to the Airport, hopped back in their airplanes and took off to fly back to Boulder in a beautiful blue and clear sky. The winds were noticeable bumpy.

Kelly explained that she enjoyed hanging out with deaf pilots because she is from a flying family. She said some relatives in her family are pilots, but she is not. She said she enjoys riding in airplanes and called herself a "Colorado girl."

Kelly Gibbs and Todd smile for photo shot.

Todd helped Anthony fly his rental airplane back to Rocky Mountain Airport. Andrew came along to see how Todd communicated with the tower throught light signals. They flew in their own planes. After Anthony returned his plane to the flight school, he hopped into Todd's plane and Andrew watched how Todd and the tower communicated. Then he said there should be a light signal system available for deaf pilots in Australia.

Henri returned his C182 airplane to Specialty Flight School a few buildings down the airport. Pilots spent the evening eating out at a Mexican Restaurant near the hotel. Eric and Andrew ended the evening by getting everyone to pool their photos into one DVD, which had over 1,100 photos and a couple of short movies.

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The Smell of Saturday:

Late Saturday morning began by saying farewell to the Australian group. They departed to Las Vegas where Kent met his wife at DeafNation Expo. It was unfortunately that they had to leave on Saturday morning.

Jon went solo skydiving outdoor. He went up in another flight and jump school at the same Boulder Airport. Then he parachuted out of the plane and landed about 3 nm away from the airport. Asked why he went parachuting, he said, "I enjoy being a bird..."

Todd gave more airplane rides to local friends and flew in the pattern.

By the early afternoon, the airport was filled with glider tow planes, gliders, jump planes and visiting planes. One medium-sized twin plane was practicing take offs and landings. Airplane watchers enjoyed watching it taking off and landing,

Henri gave local airplane rides. Jean-Luc and Eric got their chances to rent a local airplane with a Journey Aviation instructor and they flew in the airport pattern.

In the early evening, the group dressed up and spent their last gathering eating out at Red Lobster. Henri presented Todd a Effel tower gift for hosting the fly-in this year and paid for his meal. He made a short speech, saying thanks to Todd for hosting the fly-in and that it was an enjoyable week.

Celebrating DPA's last day of fly-in at Red Lobster Restaurant.

The pilots agreed that landing at Boulder during the Spot Landing Competition was a hard challenge because it was held during the hottest part of the day with strong changing crosswinds. A lake in the front of the runway and tall trees before the lake made it a challenge for all pilots to land precisely on the spot mark. More flying and wild stories were told.

Anthony ended the evening by presenting a song called, "Leave A Smell." The song was about every year when DPA attends a different city, they 'leave a smell' to let other people know that DPA was there. Then he ended the famous DPA lyric with "Fly, Fly, Fly." Everyone cracked up and enjoyed the song.

For thos who didn't understand, "Leave A Smell" is a joke made by Leslie Stayer. He said that DPA has been leaving a smell or scene to let other people know that DPA has been there every time DPA visited different city. Just like a 'cat' wouild leave a smel to let other 'cats' know that he/she was there.

They ended the late evening by relaxing in the jacuzzi at the hotel. Not to be outdone by Henri's generosity, Todd gave Henri a bottle of wine as a gift to take home.

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Saying Good Bye on Sunday:

On Sunday morning, Larry and Kevin flew home in Larry's plane. The French men took a commerical flight from Denver to New York, changed planes and flew to France in an Airbus 380. Anthony drove home to Michigan. Jon stayed another day to go indoor tunnel diving. Todd 'cried' that he couldn't believe that, as the greatest DPA's 2010 Boulder Fly-In Coordinator, his "so much" fun flying week was over! He went to his Facebook and wrote, ' I had an AMAZING week. I put over 20 hours of flying in C152 and C172!"

Everyone had a memorable week with 3 long distance fly-outs, visiting 3 different states, 3 airplanes being down for various maintenance repairs, 3 free lunches, 3 different nationalities flying together, and Andrew saying, "Mountains are beautiful."

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A list of participating pilots and friends;

Australian group:

Kent Power

Andrew Meyers

Tony Rennex

American group:

Todd Barker

Anthony Witcher

Kevin Willis

Larry Berlin

Jon Leach

French group:

Henri Corderoy du Tiers

Jean-Luc Madras

Eric Debieuvre

Friends who participated in the fly-out trips:

Robert A. Jones - Sidney fly-out only

Kelly Gibbs - Laramie fly-out only

Friends who visited;

Jessy Georges

Joelle Georges

Janick Georges

Noel Riveres

Kelly Turner

Marissa Riveres

Ryan Commerson

Jennifer Peterson

Mary Hardin-Baylor

Greg Bland

Rusty Regan

And many other Boulder area deaf and hearing friends who's name were not obtained.

Many thanks to the following individuals who supported the Fly-In event;

Tim Head        - Boulder Airport Manage for managing the Spot Landing Competition at Boulder.

Traci Spence  - FBO manager at Boulder Airplane for letting DPA use the building past their 5 pm closing time and his assistance in hosting       Bar-B-Que parties in the hanger.

Paul Dickson  - Giving Mountain Flying Seminar

Kelly Turner    - Interpreting for Paul Dickson's Mountain Flying seminar.

Miles Dickinson - Courtyard By Marriott's front desk assistant who used his sign language skills to help the Australian and French men. He said his mother is a sign language interpreter.

The staff of Courtyard By Marriott who gave extra time and energy to accommodate DPA's needs at the hotel.

The staff of Mile High Wing Commemorative Air Force for offering airplane rides.

DPA would like to give many special thanks to Todd Barker, DPA's 2010 Boulder Fly-In Coordinator. He spent two years planning, organizing and hosting DPA's 2010 Fly-In. The 2010 fly-in would have not been possible without his time and generous energy.

Many thanks to Fly-In Sponsors for their support;

Avemco Insurance Company

First Flight Foundation

Harris Communication, Inc.

Diamond Aircraft Industries

Experimental Aircraft Association

Aviation Supplies & Academics

Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation

Jeppesen A Boeing Company

Dazzling Ice Sculptures, LLC.

Journeys Aviation

Flying Magazine

Sporty's Pilot Shop

Moody Airplane Corporation

Cessna Aircraft Company

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Future DPA Fly-Ins

By Anthony Witcher

After a week and several discussions about the next fly-in event in 2011, the general feeling among several people is it may be cancelled. The DPA 2011 fly-in is not 'officially' cancelled. Just be aware that DPA may not have one unless something else comes up. During this 2010 fly-in, no meeting was held and no presentation was given. Todd mentioned that one deaf pilot from Oregon wants to host the 2011 Fly-In event in Oregon. The problem was he couldn't attend this fly-in. Another discussion was Matt would like to host the 2011 cross country flight trip to honor Cal Rodgers' 100th anniversary flight in place of 2011 fly-in event. That issue remains to be unsolved. Not enough board members attended the 2010 Boulder fly-in, therefore according to the DPA rules, no official votes for the 2011 fly-in were taken.

It usually takes two years to plan, prepare, propose and run the fly-in event. The DPA board will discuss options about the 2012 fly-in, including where and when it will be held.

One option is DPA would have a fly-in event every 2 years until the situation improves. That idea is still an open debate because some people think that DPA should continue its annual fly-ins.

The next fly-in event will be posted in future DPA newsletters or this website.