RC Flying Field Runway Temporary Closure Information is contained in this following email letter.
Thanks to everyone for their understanding and support of this unique situation.
Mark J. Sullivan
P.S. I will post a notice at the entrance to the field of the Temporary Runway Closure and also I'll leave a copy of this following letter on the Info Kiosk at the field and also inside the Impound building too.
Hello everyone,
I just got out of the final planning meeting at the Fremont County airport
in regards to the upcoming EAA/Fremont County Airport Fly-In on Monday morning
at 8 AM.
There were 9 different individuals involved in this morning planning
meeting, and it appears that there will be a tremendous amount of both static
displayed, and live transient air traffic aircraft during this coming Saturday
September 29th, 2012 event. We will be given a walkie-talkie type of hand-held
radio to monitor inbound and outbound air traffic at the airport during the
event for both ours and everyone else's safety involved in this event. We are
tentatively scheduled to perform an RC Flight demonstration for the public
between the times of 09:30-10:00 AM with our RC aircraft on the West parallel
taxiway area West of the Main Ramp parking and tie-down area using the East-West
taxiway as our runway for our use. We will also monitor the airport
aircraft traffic throughout the entire event, and will be able to perform other
flights during other times, with considerations of weather, wind and airport
fly-in traffic dictating when we are able to fly at other times.
In addition to the RC flying demonstrations including both helicopters and
airplanes, we will also have a reserved area in front of the airport main
terminal building where almost all of the public foot traffic will be
concentrated at for viewing our displays. We were given permission also to put
out a donation jar for our charitable fundraising activities for the Sangre
DeCristo Hospice and the Fremont County Boys and Girls Club charities at our
static display area. Dependent upon the amount of air traffic in the vicinity of
the airport we may not be able to conduct any free buddy-box flying with
prospective students at that time at the flight demonstration area, so we will
just simply have to play that one by ear for now. I will pre-stage my open
trailer in front of the airport terminal either late Friday evening or very
early on Saturday morning, before the event gets underway. The event people that
I had to meet with this morning asked that we try to have all of our displays
set up by 08:00-08:30 AM Saturday morning at the very latest. I will have the
flatbed ready long before then for fellow pilots to bring their various types of
aircraft for display, and we will need some members to stay near the display
area to answer questions from the public and to keep an eye on our models on
display, in case any winds start blowing them around also. I'd appreciate seeing
several members of our club in attendance at both the static display area and
also the flight demonstration line to the West of the ramp. We may need someone
to escort students over to the flight demonstration area for buddy box flights,
and then back over to the general viewing area also, as needed. Please bring
chairs and such with you to attend the display and flight areas during our clubs
involvement with this event. I will have my shade canopy available if needed
also during this event too.
As the meeting progressed and all the different aspects of the day's busy
activities were being discussed around the table, it became quite clear that
there would be a significant amount of airport traffic, both inside the normal
flight patterns, taking off and landing, as well as air traffic not following
the normal flight patterns around the airport during fly overs and
demonstrations, along with skydiving demonstrations landing at the airport ramp
area, as well as helicopter rides being given all day long throughout the day
coming and going across the pattern possibly, rather than in the usual East and
West patterns, and for this reason of safety concerns being first and
foremost, it was decided to ask our club to restrict any and all use of our own
runway and club areas for our RC flying use, between the hours of 08:30 AM until
12:00 PM noon MST on Saturday October 29th, 2012 upon the request of Dick Baker
and the Fremont County Airport Board in attendance during this mornings meeting.
Anytime before or after those times is perfectly ok to use our facility for
flying on that day, unless some other unexpected event occurs that day, and if
so, there will be notice given then at that time to the members of our club
wishing to fly then at the club field after the scheduled flight restriction
time.
I will have a schedule of events with me for everyone to see what all is
scheduled throughout the event, so please contact me anytime to see the final
schedule if needed. I was also given a top-view type of a map overlooking the
airport and the planned layout of all of the various parts of the event going on
that day, so please let me know if you need to see either the schedule of events
or the top view map layouts.
I hope to see a tremendous turnout of club members, and also their
families and friends with them, participating in and enjoying the entire event,
and assisting fellow club members with this event, the same that I've had the
pleasure of witnessing in conjunction with other past club events. Bring lots of
planes, helicopters and flight equipment and such for display to the public, and
also we can be there to answer the publics questions about our club and various
types of aircraft and equipment on display.
Please pass this letter on to anyone that you can think of that may need to
know about our club field temporary flight restrictions and also about our clubs
participation during the EAA/Fremont County Airport Fly-In event that I may not
have any other way of contacting those individuals.
Thanks in advance to everyone for their participation during the upcoming
event, and also for their understanding in the upcoming temporary flight
restrictions at our club field.
If anyone has questions or comments please contact me anytime on my cell
phone at 719-240-6805 and also to let us know when you can volunteer to assist
us during the event.
Regards,
Mark J. Sullivan
CC to FCRCC club email members; Dick Baker airport manager; John Marietta
airport board member; Hans Miesler RV-4 Renegades flight captain and coordinator
and others
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