Fort Myers, Florida - FMY - Post 491 Meetings
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Meetings are held the First and
Third Thursdays
of each month at 6:30pm.
New and old members, guests, friends and family are always welcome.
As for dress code if you have an Aviation Exploring shirt wear it if not try to find any aviation shirt if still no luck, just come as you are.
Try your best not to be late we try to get out on time thus we must start at 6:30 promptly.
If your a member and can not attend don't forget to send us an email, text, or let one of your officers know. If you do then your absence will not count against you.
Where to go? see meeting locations
See meeting minutes for:
February 2nd - Intro to the Aircraft Structures
February 16th - Aircraft Structures and Limitations
September 20th 2012 First Nighter of 2012
December 2012 New Officer Elections.
February 2nd - Intro to the Aircraft Structures
10 Members in attendance, Used new attendance sign in sheet with email and phone. Next week we will try to print a sing in with emails and phone numbers for verification purposes.
Discussed again creation of an internal phone list so members can contact other members. Asked for any objections to the phone list and received none again this week.
Still need to collect funds for a few t-shirts form the first order. Will have sign up sheet for new t-shirt order next meeting. Each shirt will cost $10 to purchase payment will need to be received by March 1st.
Garage Sale update.
Young Eagles this Sunday must contact Michael prior to Friday night if you plan to attend. We will leave from Page rehab at 8am. If you come later you will need to go directly to the EAA Hanger.
Sun 'n Fun sign up sheet will be at our next meeting. Each member planning to attend needs to complete permission slip and will receive a list of items to bring. ach participant should bring $25 to cover lodging, food, and gas. for the event. Sun 'n Fun will be two nights camping Friday the March 30th and Sat March 31st return Sunday. Deadline to attend is March 15th after March 15th. You may attend however an additional fee for wristbands and camping may be applied.
Other Fundraising - We talked about yellow bands and a drawing, we talked about Pizza Hut certificates. Everyone liked both Ideas but decided to come back to this after the garage sale.
Encourage everyone to bring a friend and set goal of 30 active members by the end of the school year.
Had class lead by Michael den Hartog on aircraft structures talking about ribs, wing spars, wing loading, and structures as a whole unit.
February 16th - Aircraft Structures and Limitations
Phone list, new shirt order sheet, Sun 'n Fun sign-up
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In attendance we had 10 or 12 members in
attendance. Travis was out looking at colleges and Holly was at Lacrosse
practice.
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Garage Sale update confirmed we have a solid
Date of March 3rd and the flyer was handed out.
Anyone that has contacts or can help us get items to sell please
contact Michael with those items.
We also developed teams to help coordinate garage sale.
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Alex and John S along with Michael D for Item
pick up
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For Marketing we had Jarod S, Dakota S, Corey
Roberts, Alex K
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For Recruitment of Items Kalvin, Mark B,
Charlie
(click here for the flyer for the sale)
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It was announced the trailer is here in SWFL
and Jason and Michael will be empting it out Friday the 17th. So
we can start using it for our purposes.
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Talked about Sun-N-Fun 2012 if you did not
sign up and want to go make sure you contact Michael or Zyon to get added to
the list. You can email Michael
at Michael@ae491.org or zyon at
sec-fmy@ae491.org We must have a firm
number by the 15th to get wrist bands and such.
Cost for the event is $25.00 Please bring funds prior to March 15th
and give to an advisor or officer.
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Currently the following plan to attend
Michael d, Joy d, Jason and Jacob, Brendon C, Kalvin and Brian, Zyon and
Jarod
(click here for a hand out on the event)
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Passed around a sign-up sheet for T-shirts
which will be sponsored by Page Rehabilitation the following people have
ordered their shirts: Michael, Joy, Amelia, Dakota, Josh, Alex, Richie,
Jarod, Zyon, Charles, Lenny, Corey, Brendon, Valerie
Please bring your $10 for your shirt
by March 15th. If you wanted to order a shirt and are not listed
above please contact Michael or Zyon to get added to the list.
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Created Post Committees for future projects
and events. The following committees were established, with the following
chairs. If you have any Ideas or
concerns please bring them to the attention of the appropriate committee and
we will see what we can do to make them happen. If you would like to be
added to any committee please email Michael, Zyon, or the committee head to
be added.
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Transportation – Josh S
trans-fmy@ae491.org
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Logistics/Supply – Kalvin B
logistics-fmy@ae491.org
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Fundraising – Brendon
funds-fmy@ae491.org
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Hospitality – Corey
thanks-fmy@ae491.org
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Safety – Charlie
safety-fmy@ae491.org
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Monthly Trips and Events – Travis
events-fmy@ae491.org
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Talked about $3 a day savings for those that
really want to go to Oshkosh, all fundraisers are designed to lower our
costs. But if you save also then
when a total cost left is announced you will be guaranteed you get to go.
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Went over the plans to Build an RC Airplane
we developed 7 committees to oversee the aircraft build.
To get on a committee email contact Michael, Zyon or a committee
head. Each committee will be responsible for each part of the build.
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Quality / Supply Chain and Safety – Travis/Kalvin
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Radio and Rigging – Owen N
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Wings – Alex K
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Tail – John P
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Fuselage – Corey
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Power Plant - Dakota
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Covering - Jarod
July 5th Meeting
Call the meeting to
Order (Charles as Highest ranking) (Travis,
Alex, and Zion were not present)
Introduce New Members or Guests
Micah as Kalvin Swartz’s little brother.
In attendance Charles Kozel, Michael den Hartog,
Brooke LeClair, Zach Coulter, then followed by Brendan
Meeting Minutes. (Joy
den Hartog for Zyon)
Discussion on moving the meeting time tabled till next meeting due to low attendance.
Discussed Hours of participation reflected on uniform.
75hours = silver bar and 4 silver = one gold.
Or 300h = gold bar
Brendan C. (acting treasurer) was appointed Treasurer by present
members to complete Holly’s term.
Current balance as of transition was $32.02
i.
Payments for trip from Marsha
ii.
Andrews dues + t-shirt costs were also
collected.
5.
Also discussed was progress on:
New Recruit Competition
i.
Dakota holds one entry for recommending
Brooke
ii.
Brooke holds one entry for recommending
Kalvin S
iii.
Kalvin will obtain one entry if Micah decided
to join and becomes active.
The
prize for the recruitment will be one hour of flight instruction.
This meeting was also
our first meeting broadcasted on the web. Starting this past meeting we will
make available web and or telephone conferencing for parents and or youth
that wish to be present.
Blue bags for OSH
participants were distributed.
(If you did not get yours please contact Michael to pick it up ASAP)
Motion to close and
dismiss.
Proceed to Work shop to
build RC aircraft. (Gary Furdell came and the fuselage base construction was
completed. We are now ready to
start attaching the wings and tail pieces)
September 20, 2012
Base OPS at Page Field
The meeting began with an optional Aviation Trivia portion
from 6:00 to 6:30 pm.
The meeting was called to order at 6:30 pm
by Alex King, Vice President
and Acting President
The attendance roster was passed around and members
introduced themselves. Many new
prospective members and parents were in attendance.
Michael den Hartog announced that he still needs a list of
classes attended at base camp from Zion, Mark, Dakota and Brendan so they can
get reimbursement for expenses from the trip.
Meeting Minutes from the last meeting will be read at the
first meeting in October.
Michael den Hartog gave a great presentation with several
videos and answered many questions from prospective members and parents in the
audience. He also
mentioned the Post Store and the many items that will be available for purchase
with tickets from the trivia games.
Discussion around the rebuilding of Miss Kitty II.
At the next meeting 4 Team
Leaders will be chosen and dates for the airplane build will be announced.
Sign up sheets for future events were placed at the front of
the room for prospective and current members to fill out.
Applications were given out to prospective members to fill
out.
Following a motion to close the meeting, the meeting was
adjourned by Alex King at 7:30 pm.
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1. Call the meeting to order (Called to order by Alex)
2. Introduce New Members, Guests and Speakers ( Mr; Keith/
Taylor( New Member)
3. Meeting Minutes, From 11/15/11 (Secretary,
Communications)
a. Financials were reported as currently 101.00 total all accounts with
No outstanding IOUs or Invoices/bills
4. Discussion of old business was started.
a.
Marsha is Audit mailing list membership roster and paperwork with June to be
turned over to the new secretary
b.
June is working on log books for everyone which were passed out to all members
present
I. be sure to log everything
c. flight training sign-up sheet was passed around again
I. Thursday 2nd and 4th of each month
II. Starting January 3rd
5. Discussion of new business
A.
Post election speeches
( Kalvin. S Pres, ViceP)
(Brooke Pres, ViceP, Tresur, and Secretary)
(Micah Pres, ViceP)
(Charles ViceP, Tresur)
(Mark Treasur)
(Keith Treasur, Sec)
B. New
building location was discussed for the airport
Security/Access protocol was discussed
6. Miss kitty update and intentions
A.
team leaders thoughts
Everyone had good report and thinks we are doing well
B. Advisers thoughts
All is goo but if we cannot make it we need to make sure we recruit a
replacement. It is not good or proper to ask and instructor to come and be
late or not show up.
C. Update team leaders on miss kitty progress
I. Team 2 - Dec 8th Prepare and build frames for practice
II. Team 3- Dec 15th practice fabric covering
III. Team 5- Dec 22nd practice fabric covering
IV. December 29th cancelled
V. Team 1- January 5th install controls
7.Elections via secret ballot per protocol
President-
Brooke
Vice
President- Charles
Treasurer-
Mark
Secretary-
Keith
Marsha and Jason plan to be at Save Allot with our
Bracelets Dec. 7-8-9 and 10th 7 am
8. motion to close and dismiss
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