AOPA Pilot Magazine - June 2014 - 35

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FLYING CLUBS

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TEST PILOT
ANSWERS from page 33
1. The Link Trainer (aka the "Blue Box") was
the forerunner of today's sophisticated simulators. A number of trainers were sold to
amusement parks before the Army Air Corps
and civilian flight schools began ordering
them in 1934.
2. VMU, which is the minimum unstick speed.
VMU can be determined in a small airplane
using a procedure similar to that for a softfield takeoff.
3. False. The Lockheed P-38 Lightning had
a control wheel.
4. (b) Because warm air is less dense than
cold air, it takes a greater gain in altitude
to experience a given decrease in pressure
when climbing in warm air than when climbing in cold air.

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5. True. Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name
was Marion Moon. Aldrin was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 11 and second to walk on
the lunar surface.

B Y B E N É T J. W I L S O N

6. False. There is no minimum fuel reserve
required at the time of landing on a VFR
flight. Federal Aviation Regulation 91.151 is
a planning requirement, which means that
the minimum required fuel reserve must
be aboard only at the beginning of a flight.
Although imprudent, the calculated fuel
reserve may be consumed en route.
7. One. (Sorry about that.)
8. Circuits and bumps.

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Low training and flying costs fuel East Hill Flying Club
LOW-COST flight training, a fleet of
nine aircraft, flexible memberships,
and social interaction are among the
reasons to join the Ithaca, New Yorkbased East Hill Flying Club. The club
also operates a Part 141 flight training school that won an AOPA Flight
Training Excellence award in 2012.
The club was formed in 1952 by
mechanics working for Robinson
Airlines, a predecessor carrier to US
Airways based in Ithaca. In 1959 East
Hill started accepting members from
the general public.
East Hill, which operates as a
not-for-profit 501(c)(7) club, has 258
members and three Cessna Skyhawks,
two C-152s, a Mooney M20J, and a
Citabria 7ECA. "We have a Flight
Design CT/LSA on lease for our exclusive use and share a Seneca II with
another flight school for our multitraining," said David St. George, club
manager and chief instructor.
The club offers active and inactive
memberships, family memberships, and
owner-member privileges, along with
heavily discounted junior memberships
for younger folks who only want to fly
once a month, said St. George.
New members pay a $700 refundable deposit and $400 initiation fee

that makes them a part-owner of the
club aircraft and fully covered by insurance. Dues are $50 a month for full
flying members and $20 a month for
social and owner-members. The club
has its own mobile app in the iTunes
and Google Play stores that includes
information on East Hill, local weather,
flight scheduling and tracking, news,
and links to its website, Facebook page,
and Twitter account.
East Hill's flight school offers
training in everything from sport to
multiengine ATP, said St. George.
Social events held by the club
include weekend member meetings
with a show-and-tell presentation
of interesting aircraft, a mid-week
open tutorial with a topic focus, and a
monthly FAA Wings seminar.
St. George credits East Hill's success to having a club with like-minded
aviation nuts as a core that has been
built up around good aircraft. "As
you grow, find out what people want
and build. You cannot keep everyone
happy, but you try to maintain civility and friendships. Aviation is a small
world and you need all the friends you
can find," he said.
EMAIL benet.wilson@aopa.org

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