Sun-N-Fun 2008; BAC Type Club Tent Table, Dinner, Etc.!!!!!

Rellihan

Touring the Galaxy
BAC expects to be represented at Sun-N-Fun from Monday April 7 (Rellihan on-site), through Monday April 14 (when the place folds up shop). The actual show begins on Tuesday April 8. Just for reference, Easter 2008 falls on Sunday, March 23.

Once again I am requesting volunteers for the BAC table in the Type Club Tent. Doug Muse will probably be putting out a volunteer schedule for us, as he did last year. We will need folks who can man the BAC table for at least one two-hour shift, on one or more days. Once again, I am hoping to be able to get a free SnF day ticket for anyone working a two-hour shift. If you can volunteer for a shift on each of three days, I hope to be able to get you a pass for each of those days. I know I can pick up the passes on Tuesday morning, though I will attempt to get them on Monday. I will also attempt to leave them in envelopes bearing names, at the Volunteer window of the Camping Entrance on Drane Field Road. If that doesn't work out, I'll get them to folks via cellphone hook-up and meets.

Doug is planning another BAC Dinner, tentatively for Friday night April 11. Probably at the same steak house as last year, if any of us can remember the name (new place). I know where it is, but....

The lawn chairs will be cabled to the big Live Oak tree at the NW corner of Hangar D (Garmin Hangar). This is very close to the Nature Trail route to the camping area. We had no banner on display last year (after having one up in 2005 and 2006). I would love to get something like a 30" x 60" vinyl banner that I could stake out next to the chairs. Alternatively, something like a 24" wide by 40" high vinyl banner with vertical layout, that I could bungee around the tree right above the chairs, would work great. The BAC name could be displayed in a vertical format (horizontal lettering). Even if there was insufficient room to show everything else on our standard banners, it would help identify the chair location from a distance.

I will be contacting Rick Koch about some copies of the latest BAC Talk for table hand-outs (and one I can place in a binder), plus whatever other trinkets the Board might wish to authorize for this year's BAC table. I still have the copies of early BAC Talk issues in the binders, and will have them on display as well. If there was any way possible to get the 2008 BAC Fest poster done, and available on 8x11 for handouts, that would be great, too. I think I still have some of the original batch of BAC post cards, but they have all begun to curl, etc.

Hope to meet a bunch of BAC members there, again this year! Get notes to me and to Doug Muse as soon as you can, if you can help man the BAC table. I'll have to get the roster back to the organizers within a week, in order to obtain the free tickets.
 
My wife & I will be there Thurs (4/10) & Fri (4/11) - I'm sure I can fit a 2 hr shift in one of those days.

Peter Donofrio
N1945L
 
I enjoyed this time at the type club tent last year. If my plans work out that I will be at Sun n Fun I will sign up again.
 
Re: Sun-N-Fun 2008; BAC Type Club Tent Table, Dinner, Etc.!!

I'd like to volunteer for BAC tent stuff also, I will be attending LAL 11-12 April. and have brought a one day ticket On-line already. If you need me for both days I'm available if you can get me in. Derek [3841Y Skipper]
 
Updated April 7, 2008:

BAC will be putting a table up this year in the type club tent.
Please let me know when you can work. The event is from April 8 to April 13. Please help the club out by giving of your time.

All those that helped last year, we need you. I know who you are. :D

You can reply to a post here or send me an email to doug.muse at gmail.com and I will update.

8th - Tue
9 AM - 11 AM - Mike Rellihan
11 AM - 1 PM -
1 PM - 3 PM -
3 PM - 5 PM -

9th - Wed
9 AM - 11 AM -
11 AM - 1 PM - Rick Lehman
1 PM - 3 PM - Mike Dawson
3 PM - 5 PM - Steve Hatten

10th - Thu
9 AM - 11 AM - Mike Rellihan
11 AM - 1 PM - Doug Muse
1 PM - 3 PM - Peter Donofrio
3 PM - 5 PM - John Woods

11th - Fri
9 AM - 11 AM - Doug Muse
11 AM - 1 PM - Tim Hill & Rick Gaffney
1 PM - 3 PM - Derek Povah
3 PM - 5 PM - Steven Bobby

12th - Sat
9 AM - 11 AM - Mike Rellihan
11 AM - 1 PM - Derek Povah
1 PM - 3 PM - Steven Bobby
3 PM - 5 PM -


Please plan on being at the tent and table at least 10 minutes before your time. My cell phone is 706-317-3227.

The Type Club Tent is located on the East end of the display/vendor ramp, almost right at the exit to the flight line. It is set back a bit from the line, so it is easy to miss. It should be shown on the site map you receive with your tickets, in the Program.
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BAC will be hosting dinner at Sam Seltzer's in Lakeland again on Friday the 11th. Please reply to this thread if you can work the table and if you will be attending dinner. More details will be posted soon on time.

Dinner List: (if there is a ? next to your name please confirm)
Location: Sam Seltzer's Steakhouse @ 4820 South Florida Ave, Lakeland, FL 33813 (863)701-9414
Tenative time: 7pm(ish) - will confirm later in the week

Confirmed:
Doug Muse
Steve Hatten plus Kim
Derek Povah
Mike Rellihan plus Paula
3 guests of Mike Rellihan (Al, Rob, Sabrina)
Jeff Ryndak
Tim Hill
Rick Gaffney

Maybe for dinner:
Paul Shuch - ?
John Woods - ?
Steven Bobby - ?
Jack Brawley - ?



For those working the table and those attending dinner - please email me your cell phone number so I can have on the list. The sign-up sheet for dinner will also be at the type club table and at the oak tree. We need to KNOW 100% for dinner by Thursday at 12 noon.

Thanks,
Doug
 
time is good for me -- and I'd like to attend dinner. IF you can obtain a ticket for entry 12 I can be available. Cell via private e-mail. Derek 3841Y

[11th - Fri
9 AM - 11 AM -
11 AM - 1 PM -
1 PM - 3 PM - Derek Povah
3 PM - 5 PM -

12th - Sat
9 AM - 11 AM -
11 AM - 1 PM -
1 PM - 3 PM -
3 PM - 5 PM -
 
Doug, I wish I could. It looks like this will be the first Sun n Fun I miss in a long time. Unless something changes at work I will have to wait till next year.
 
Sun-N- Fun Table Volunteer

RE: Sun-n-Fun table- Tim Hill and Rick Gaffney can work the table on Fri 11AM-1PM. And no, we still will not be flying down! Jim please put us down for Friday dinner also. thank.
 
Table coverage volunteers, please check with me via cell (864-981-0673) during the show, when you have a known arrival time-date for Sun-N-Fun. If I am fortunate enough to wind up with tickets for you, I will meet up with you outside the show boundaries, at the ticket booths, camping entrance, fly-in arrivals, wherever, to get your ticket to you. I won't know what I will actually get, until I get by the window on the morning of opening day. Unfortunately they won't release Type Club Tent show passes in advance.
 
Free food for dinner Friday and now free tickets for table volunteers! WHAT A CLUB!!! We still have plenty of slots available to volunteer. Please let me know so we can have full coverage for the main days of the show. If you have not emailed me your cell phone number for dinner please do so.

We will most likely try for 7pm (ish) time for dinner on Friday. Please call Mike at 864-981-0673 or Doug at 706-317-3227 to confirm your table chair.
 
Please make sure either Mike or I have your cell phone number, if you are volunteering for the table or coming to dinner, before you leave for Sun-n-Fun.

Thanks,
Doug
 
The five lawn chairs have once again been cabled beneath the big OAK tree, on the NW corner of Hangar D (Garmin Hangar). They are gonna be wet, though.

I flew at 8,000', through various stages of rain from the time I passed Brunswick. ATC even put me 20 miles offshore of Daytona Beach to get me around the worst of the Central Florida weather that was coming out of the Gulf. Flew through countless rain showers; but no bangers until I was going into Winter Haven (KGIF). Landed just in front of one, and got soaked getting into the FBO. Couldn't even get the car and unload the plane, for more than two hours; the water was ankle deep outside, it was coming down so hard. I finally just went for it; figured the bottom might as well match the top. Great fellow members John and Jonathan Amundsen said they would put Sunny Beech to bed in a safe place, if he didn't drown first. Glad it will be a long flight home at altitude, to get him all dried out again.

The Amundsen repair and flight training business is booming, in this recession. John said they flew 700 training hours last month. In addition to Cessnas and Pipers, they have three Sundowners; and a Skipper that they use for a natural gas pipeline patrol contract. I think John said they have sixteen training planes, with twelve in service. Since they have a maintenance business there, they buy basket cases and rebuild them for training use; since they will be running up huge hour counts anyway.

Major changes in the SnF camping entrance this year; no entrance from Drane Field Road anymore. Camping traffic will have to slog in on the same main drag with all the other traffic. Long story involving the sale of some key land parcels. Or so I think the window cutie said; I was staring instead of listening. No old codger like me in there this year....
 
Mike,

Welcome to Sunny FL. I will see you for dinner on Friday and during the week.

Jeff Ryndak
N2008T
 
Slowly making our way throgh the clouds to "Sunny" Fl. Will definetly not be at SNF until Wednesday. Need to reschedule my Tuesday stint at the type club table.

John Woods
 
John,

Just come to the table when you see an empty slot. Most of the time we have members dropping by throughout the day so you will not be alone for long. Fly safely.

Doug
 
No longer stuck in NC - made it to GIF at 1830. Good thing I brought an IFR rated flybuddy with me!!! Will man the table tomorrow afternoon after all.

If FL is supposed to be the Sunshine state how come they got all these damn clouds??

John Woods
 
Mike R.

Does Paula know about you and the gate cutie? I won't tell her but I expect you'll fess up. Will stop by the type club tent upon arrival at LAL to say hello. Got some goodies I'd like to pass along to the BHM. I probably won't make it there next weekend - spent all my Spring flying avgas funds on Manassas and SNF. Need to keep a reserve to get my instrument rating - would have been REAL nice to have on this trip down!

John Woods
 
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