BAC Day

?? I am talking about 5/5 flying from KLNS to KLHV already 3 members are meeting there. What doesnt qualify in that?

"You can earn a BEECH BUM Tshirt for a short flight. To qualify get in your plane and fly on 5/5 to an airport of your choice, not your home base. If you meet two more BAC members there I will call it a fly-in for all and each pilot gets a BEECH BUM Tshirt." what am I missing?
 
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+ 1 for Eric. Tom, you won't be able to fly on 5/5 - you'll be stuck in your garage trying to finally make up some of those beech bum t-shirts

:)
 
Eric Grill is correct.

He will meet two other BAC members at a Northeast airport on Sunday 5/5.
There are currently three threads of the BAC DAY flying and I got someone else's plan mixed with Eric's plan.
It was kind-of fun to be a little authoritative for a moment but ill advised.

I am grateful that I did not have to make good on dealing with fraud. I don't know what the hell I meant by that so now I don't have to explain.

One last thing... This BAC DAY was all arranged by Tom Robertson of Indiana, Pennsylvania and I thank him for it. Now spread some of the goodness to TOMTERRIFIC and watch him squirm.

Tom Corcoran
 
I will claim First Blood!

VH-HPQ landed at Tyabb @ 00:00:10 Z 05/05 (10:00:10 Local 05/05)

Mark
In Oz
 
Heading out to the airport; made a practice run yesterday; took a couple neighbors for a ride to Orange, VA to watched the skydivers. Maybe go to Front Royal, VA and watch the sailplanes.
 
Looks like flying is scrubbed here today... wind is blowing a steady 15 knots at the house and there are standing lenticulars over Mt. Lemmon.

Maybe this afternoon, we'll see.
 
Flying Reports Are Pouring In.

Send your BAC DAY data to [email protected] within 24 hours for tabulation.

Australians are being noticed... especially for the funny names of where they took off and landed.
 
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4 BAC Members at KLHV I know we had 2 other Musketeers that landed but didnt get to meet who was flying them.
 
Well, I couldn't get the Sierra airborne with the prop off and the airplane in annual. But at 1420 Z I did manage to get airborne in a Beech B55. Nice airplane with the Colemill 300 hp conversion (IO-550s). We flew around and I showed him how to set it up for lean of peak operation and peak EGT operations. At peak EGT we saved 3 gph per engine over his old method of power management. He was so happy to see the low fuel flow with the cylinders running cool, he gave me a old powered tow bar. Just needs a cable and new chain, but all else is there. I did buy breakfast. Although not a Mouse, it was nice to set 22" x 2200 and peak EGT and see 174 KTAS on ~22 gph total fuel flow. It was a bumpy day, but the wind was pretty much down the runway in Tucson Ryan Field. At least I can say I got airborne on Sinko-de-Mayo...... I suppose it doesn't count.
 
Marty-
It counts in my book! Flying in a Beechcraft on the BAC Mass Fly-Off was close enough! I didn't get to fly today due to the unsettled weather and a couple of other things. Plenty of light left today but we have dinner guests coming and I've already poured myself some wine!

Oh well, I was "up there" in spirit. I did fly yesterday but that doesn't count!
 
Couldn't go up today. Lost the alternator leaving the DuPage fly-in yesterday. Made it home on one radio, no GPS and a transponder with no mode C (I think the blind encoder didn't like the lower battery voltage.)

So a purely hypothetical question: If tower told you they were not receiving altitude information from the transponder and you were five miles inside the mode C veil of a class B airspace (But below the class B) and a mile from the airport, would you

A - return to the airport and land
B- get out of the mode C veil ASAP.

Would you fill our a NASA report?
 
Marty, being a beech, I think with two fans it counts twice, and subtract one for not being a baby beech. Of course thats just MHO.
 
My heart was in flying today and I went to the airport, but the day started out at 1/4 mile visibility and never got above 1,000 overcast. Cleaned the interior and went home.

Bob, having suffered through a disappearing blind encoder problem, when my mode C went away, I asked the controller what he want he wanted me to do, he told me to proceed on course and report any altitude changes. - Denis.
 
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NASA Form

rgschmi said:
If tower told you they were not receiving altitude information from the transponder and you were five miles inside the mode C veil of a class B airspace (But below the class B) and a mile from the airport, would you

A - return to the airport and land
B- get out of the mode C veil ASAP.

Would you fill out a NASA report?
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Bob,

Any time you ask yourself if you should submit a NASA form, you probably should submit the form. It doesn't cost anthing, and it helps a lot if ATC decides to file some kind of pilot deviation report. In the good old days, we felt comfortable with not filing the NASA form if ATC didn't seem to have a problem with a slight deviation or problem. Once we switched to the next freq, we felt safe if nothing more was mentioned by ATC. Now days, it's different. The actual controller you talk to on the radio may not notice or care about a broken rule. Later in the day, an ATC supervisor reviewing the day's data may file an operational error on the pilot.

As far as turning back and landing, my answer would depend on how much flying I needed to do inside the mode C veil to get home, although I think you are OK. FAR 91.215 talks about the airspace areas requiring mode C equipment; then in 91.215(d), it talks about requesting an ATC deviation for inoperative mode C equipment. You obviously departed with good equipment. The lawyer sitting on my shoulder tells me you sort of kind of received permission to continue once ATC told you they weren't receiving your altitude info, but didn't tell you to go back.

Just my 2 cents, maybe just worth .01
 
Had a good BAC Day! Before departure, finally found the owner of the Sierra that showed up at the home field about a year ago. I think I recruited a new member! Met another guy possibly looking for a Sundowner. Flew over Skyline Drive to FRR, Front Royal, VA to watch the sailplanes and play with the airport Border Collie. Then down the Shenendoah Valley to buzz the in-laws', then land at Luray, VA, then back over the Blue Ridge Mountains to Warrenton. Mostly blue skies, smooth air. Several extra landings at the end. About 2:00 flight time.

How about making BAC Day the first Sunday of May every year? Next year that would be May 4, and I believe it would never conflict with Mothers' Day.
 
Mark,

Close, but not quite. 1500 local Mountain Daylight Time would be a 6 hour adjustment and that would be 2100 Zulu. On the other hand, I landed in Grand Junction Colorado yesterday about 2030 local which would have been 0230 Zulu. I left today mid-day and flew back to Dallas. Unfortunately, none of this flying was in a Beechcraft, let alone a club aircraft. However, I bet I used more fuel than all of you put together. I figure I was good for about 13,000 lbs. today and just happy I didn't have to buy it.

Congratulations to all those BAC members who got out and flew today. I think it would make a great annual event.
 
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