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99s Meetings99s Meetings
AUG 12
Annual Chapter
Picnic
Fly’n B Park in
Highlands Ranch
AUG 21
Solar Eclipse
Don't Miss It!
SEP 9
Poker Run
Terminus: Greeley
(GXY)
OCT 14
Chapter Meeting
Geremy Kornreich
Rocky Mountain
Metro (BJC)
Newsletter of the Colorado Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots
AugustAugust 20172017
Monthly Meeting Schedule AUG 12Monthly Meeting Schedule AUG 12
Business meeting Pavilion at Fly'n B Park
10:00 AM
Chapter Picnic 11:00 AM
Cleanup 2:00 PM
Colorado
Ninety-Nines
The Annual Chapter Picnic is August 12 and will be held the at Fly'n B Park in Highlands Ranch. This is a potluck, so bring a dish to share with the others.
A map to the location is on page 6. Members must RSVP for this event to Lydia
Baldwin and tell her what you are bringing. There will be a $5 do-nation for supplies and the main course.
The Fly'n B has quite a history in Colorado. John G. and Marie Bowen bought 260 acres at County Line Rd. and what is now Lu-cent Boulevard in 1924 for a dairy farm. Land was traded by the Bowens and Gates Rubber. After the trade, the Bowens built an airstrip, complete with landing lights. A book by Susan K. Apple-by, History of the Fly’n B Ranch, is a good resource for learning about the area.
Getting to the Fly'n B Park is pretty simple. It's on Plaza Drive, that parallels the south side of C-470 near Santa Fe.
Upcoming Events,Upcoming Events, Activities and ProgramsActivities and Programs
AUG 12
Annual Chapter Picnic Fly’n B Park
Highlands Ranch 2910 W. Plaza Dr.
Highlands Ranch, CO 80129 11 AM-2 PM
AUG 21 Don't Miss the Eclipse!
SEP 2 Wild West Air Fest
Bob Adams Field Steamboat Springs (SBS)
SEP 9 Poker Run
Centennial (APA), Rocky Mountain Metro (BJC), Front Range (FTG), Fort Collins-Loveland (FNL) and
terminus Greeley (GXY)
SEP 16 Fremont County Air Show Canon City (1V6)
SEP 23 Women in Aviation
3rd Annual International Girls in Aviation Day
OCT 14 Chapter Meeting Geremy Kornreich
Rocky Mountain Metro (BJC)
NOV 11 Brian Carlson State Patrol
Aspen Flying Club (APA)
There is nothing like The Ninety-Nines!
Welcome New Member: Amanda Jane Higley!
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Chairman Terry Fiala [email protected] (650)-307-2304
Vice Chairman
Jane Link [email protected] (303) 660-9138
Secretary Jenny Kauffman [email protected] (303) 906-0524
Treasurer Theresa Monroe [email protected] (719) 210-0890
Crosswind Chatter Editor Margot Plummer [email protected] (303)-279-0246
Have you moved or changed your e-mail address? To update your info, please contact: June Stewart [email protected]
Chapter ContactsChapter Contacts
by Penny Hamilton
Chapter member Stephanie Wells participated in the
Emily Warner Field (GNB) annual celebration of avia-
tion on July 1. The flying and pancake weather was
GRAND to raise funds for aviation scholarships for
local students. 48 aircraft flew in for this community
event and volunteers served about 700 breakfasts to
eager supporters. (Photo: Colorado 99 Penny Hamil-
ton, Emily Warner Field Aviation Museum Team Lead-
er).
Stephanie Wells
The Colorado Chapter signed up
for its very own free conference
call number! (515) 604-9791, Ac-
cess Code: 843312#. The service
is available for all chapter mem-
bers to use, 24 x 7, no reserva-
tions needed. You are welcome to
use the number if you need to co-
ordinate a chapter event and want three or more peo-
ple to be on a phone call at the same time.
Additional features permit sharing a computer screen
(for real time collaboration), or recording a call (for lat-
er playback). Go to the Free Conference Call website
https://www.freeconferencecall.com/, and log in with
username [email protected], password colora-
do99s, and online meeting ID colorado99s. See the
Free Conference Call website for a tutorial, further in-
structions on how to use the advanced features, or
contact June Stewart or Gretchen Jahn for assistance.
Always be yourself unless you can be a pilot, then always be a pilot.
Pueblo terminal, tower and Pete's Landing
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Mark your calendar for the Poker Run - Saturday, September 9th! Our annual Poker Run raises money for the Colorado 99s Future Woman Pilot Scholarship Fund.
This year's route is: Centennial (APA), Rocky Mountain Metro (BJC), Front Range (FTG), Fort Collins-Loveland (FNL), and terminus Greeley (GXY).
This event is our primary fundraiser for the scholarship fund, and many volunteers are needed to ensure its success. If you don't plan to participate by flying, please consider helping out on the ground in one of the following ways:
handing out cards at one of the airports tallying final scores at the terminus in Greeley
contributing or securing a prize for the awards ceremony at the terminus marketing assistance - getting the word out to pilots and local aviation organizations
We always have a great time with this event! Please contact Terry Fiala at [email protected] or 650-307-2304 to contribute your time and expertise.
By Gretchen Jahn
Congratulations to the Colorado Chapter mem-bers who competed in the 2017 Air Race Classic. Lydia Baldwin finished 4th!!! She and her mother, Caroline Baldwin, are veteran racers flying their Cherokee 180 as Team 29 “Baldwin Family Fly-ers”. With a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico disrupting the normal wind patterns in the Mid-west, Lydia and Caroline did a magnificent job of identifying when tailwinds were likely (rather than the headwinds most teams found). This is the second year in a row in the Top Ten for this moth-er/daughter team – way to go!
Gretchen Jahn and Jan McKenzie, Team 3 “Misplaced Mooney Girls”, finished 18th out of 52 teams who started the race. The team collected three leg prizes, including first place and fastest team on the leg from Bemidji, MN to Spencer, IA. While Gretchen has raced many times, this was Jan’s first race and she had a great time. They
plan to be back next year – with the goal of a first place finish …
For the third year in a row the Air Race Classic website showed each team on the race route map as they flew each leg of the race. It was mesmerizing to watch each race number inch along the route – or in some cases veer off the direct route to go around weather. Every night there were postings of which teams stayed overnight at which race stop. To enter next year – or watch the race – go to the Air Race Classic website www.airraceclassic.org for more information.
Gretchen Jahn and Jan McKenzie Caroline Baldwin and Lydia Baldwin
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Come to Steamboat, CO on September 2 for the Annual Steamboat Wild West Air Fest. The Colorado 99s Chapter will have a "booth" (actually, probably just the wing of an airplane) to display and hand out in-formation about our chapter and the 99s. Stephanie Wells will be flying her plane there, and would love to have company! Here is information about the event.
Five airplanes made the flyout to Pueblo for breakfast in July. Pete's Landing was where the Chapter con-vened. Pete came out and met us and took our pic-ture. It was a blast!
Members and guests attending were Karlen Krall, Babette Andre, Jan McKenzie, Marty Brophy, Kate Kennedy, Donna Miller, Laura Schulz, Jenny Kauff-man, Romona Stueckrad, Terry Fiala, Gretchen Jahn, Theresa Monroe, Alaina Bravo, Stephanie Wells, June Stewart and Margot Plummer.
Designated Pilot Examiner Jean Tucker, Bekki Manville
and CFI Bobby Hosmer
Is anyone looking for a flying job? New Mexico may be the place!
This position will work with resource divi-sion biologists and law enforcement oper-ations division to conduct aerial surveys
of wildlife populations to assess population status and to fly special operations documenting illegal activi-ties. This will be accomplished by operating fixed-wing aircraft in a safe manner and maintaining aircraft in airworthy condition. In addition, this position will coor-dinate statewide aerial telemetry and perform winter waterfowl surveys within a required limited time frame to include identification and scheduling of experienced observers and programming/maintaining aerial teleme-try equipment.
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/newmexico?keywords=DGF%20%2380209
June Stewart with her CFI, Jackie Burant, earned her private license!
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Back: Romona Stueckrad, Marty Brophy, Kate Kennedy, Terry Fiala,
June Stewart, Theresa Monroe, Alaina Bravo, Gretchen Jahn, Babette
Andre, Karlen Krall and Margot Plummer
Front: Donna Miller, Jenny Kauffman, Jan McKenzie, Laura Schulz and
Stephanie Wells
By Terry Fiala
Six Delegates from the Colorado Chapter attended the International Conference and Annual Business Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, July 10-16, 2017: Terry Fia-la, Linda Horn, Gretchen Jahn, Jan McKenzie, Donna Miller, and Sue Osborne. They attended the Annual Business Meeting to hear the latest reports from Inter-national and to vote on policy changes. They also participated in several working sessions to share ideas on how better to involve our Chapter members in support of the overall mission. Of particular interest was learning about International's new-est marketing campaigns and social media best practices.
Jan McKenzie, International President and Colorado Chapter member, emceed the Saturday evening awards banquet to close out the conference. The banquet hon-ored scholarship recipients, including Colorado Chapter member Natalie Shemi-gon, who received an Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship for academics this year.
We would like to acknowledge Chapter members Jan McKenzie and Linda Horn for their outstanding work at the Interna-tional Conference. Jan McKenzie, our International President, worked tirelessly both in advance of and during the confer-ence. She presided over many effective and efficient meetings as a diplomatic and engaging leader. Linda Horn played many instrumental roles in the conference, including web master, printed program coordinator, and audio-visual specialist. Thank you, Jan and Linda!
Fly'n B Park
Take South Santa Fe to County Line Rd. Just a teeny bit north of C-470 & Santa Fe intersection. Go east on County Line Road to Erickson Blvd. Go south on Erickson Blvd. to Plaza Dr. Go east approximately one block to parking area driveway. You can also use County Line Road from the east.
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Jan McKenzie, Donna Miller, Linda Horn, Gretchen Jahn, Sue Osborne and Terry Fiala
Thank you, Sue Osborne, for the great, old timey sectional from before C-470 was built.
Parking
Pavilion
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by Lydia Baldwin
In June, I had the opportunity to participate in the 41st Air Race Classic.
Classic Racer #29, a 1973 Piper Cherokee, was our entry in this transcon-tinental competition of 52 women pilot teams. The race route, 2642 statute miles, took us from Frederick, Maryland west and North to Bemidji, Minne-sota, and then south and then west again to the terminus at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Our fellow pilot racers were aged 18 to 88, career professional pilots, college students, engineers, commercial pilots, professors, techni-cians, retirees, business owners and operators, consultants, dietitians, vet-erinarians, designers, teachers, community service and law enforcement professionals, scientists, artists and writers. My partner is my mother, Car-oline. I was inspired to earn my pilot certificate by my mother. This was
our 8th
race together. During the previous five races our team was also comprised of my niece, Caroline’s grand-daughter. Flying the Air Race Classic creates an adventure that we enjoy together, along with about 100 additional aviatrix friends. Many racers have participated in previous events and we enjoy seeing our ARC pilot acquaintances each year as we convene for another ten days of excitement, camaraderie, challenge and thrill. For new racers we encourage and support our fellow pilots in ‘navigating’ the race activities, and we celebrate accomplishments with them.
The race is a VFR event, and we fly during daytime hours only. At the start, planes take off in race number order; lat-er on the teams spread out and sometimes we travel in different packs along the way. We are timed crossing a desig-nated line at each stop. Hundreds of fantastic volunteers along the way welcomed us with friendly words, refresh-ments and cool water! Each plane completed a handicapping flight in the spring, and the competition involves besting ground speeds above the handicapping speed by the greatest margin. So what is the strategy? Team pilots decide when to fly, and within the FARs, also at what altitude/where to fly. Also, we maximize performance of the aircraft with weight and balance, and fuel management. This year much of the course presented us with headwinds (initially!). The first two legs, in a mostly west direction were slow and into the wind. We expected more of the same for the du-ration. To our good fortune, after a front went through, later on the winds shifted and headed west again on the last two legs we had some strong tailwinds. That was a wonderful turn of events and contributed to our 4
th place finish.
We were patient, persevered and maintained a focus on safety. I landed at new airports, and in new states. From Frederick, Maryland, where the ground elevation is at 300’, to Santa Fe, New Mexico where the ground elevation is 6300’ (and the density altitude was >9000’). We crossed rivers, plains, lakes, farms and ranches. Our route took us around Minneapolis class B airspace, near several smaller cities as well as across the more barren North Texas and Eastern New Mexico. Flying across the land is magnificent!
I race to challenge myself to excel, to think about opportunities and potential for success. I race because those who did so before me raced with grace, skill and poise, and I admire their achievements.
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Caroline Baldwin and Lydia Baldwin
Colorado Chapter Ninety-Nines 3379 Mill Vista Rd Unit 4303 Highlands Ranch CO 80129-2421
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SOUTH CENTRAL SECTION MEETINGSSOUTH CENTRAL SECTION MEETINGS
Fall 2017, October 5-8
Shreveport, LA Hosted by the Shreveport Chapter
Spring 2018, May 3-5
Colorado Springs, CO Hosted by the Pikes Peak Chapter
2018 International, July 3-8
Philadelphia, PA
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