OF INTEREST TO PILOTS

·          Mogollon Airpark Fly-in – Saturday June 21st.  Pancake Breakfast benefiting the Heber Overgaard Community Charities.  7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.  Courtesy of member Clif Rosch

·          Medications permitted by the FAA – Check this site if you wish to find out if a medication you are taking or one you may be taking is permitted under the FAA Regulations.

·          Freaking on the Frequency – The radio loses much of its lifesaving potential.

·          Jet Fuel From Garbage

A Washington, D.C.-based company is in the preliminary stages of developing a $250 million plant in California to make jet fuel out of garbage, manure and tree bark. According to Biomass Magazine Solena Group hopes to build the plant in Gilroy, Calif., and will use raw material from municipal, agricultural and forestry waste supplied by Norcal Waste Systems, one of California’s largest municipal waste and biomass collectors. The announcement comes on the heels of the successful certification of jet fuel made by a South African company that uses a different raw material but the same basic process as that planned in California.

The South African company Sasol produces the fuel from coal using the Fischer-Tropsch method. The same method can coax petroleum out of just about any carbon-based compound but jet fuel has to withstand major temperature extremes and still keep the hot section hot. Colorado-based Rentech is working with Solena to create the jet fuel from the raw product. Financing is being worked on and the group hopes to be producing Jet-A by 2011.

·          Fuel Prices within a chosen radius of an airport – Use the “Radius Search” and fill in the radius in NM plus the Airport Identifier.

·          Fuel Saving Techniques – Tricks on saving $ on fuel.   Taxi and Cross Country.

GET MORE FROM A GALLON OF AVGAS
With fuel prices on the rise, pilots can use some creative measures to get the most from a tank of avgas. Learn how to take advantage of the winds, use pressure-pattern flying, cut engine idle times, and more with these eight tips from the experts in AOPA's Pilot Information Center.

·          Achieving Balance - Knowing your airplane's center of gravity is about much more than just keeping within the limits.

·           "Vacuum Failure in IMC – Dry vacuum pumps should be replaced every 500 hours.  Story of a failure on an IFR flight.

·           3 Mid-air Collisions –Failure to keep eyes peeled for other aircraft.  Courtesy of member Ruth Pew