Aviation Service

The annual Chesapeake Sport Pilot Open House is a celebration at the end of our summer training season and beginning of the winter season. We host Wings seminars for pilots, airplane rides for the neighborhood children, and a picnic for all. I am the primary coordinator for this event, in charge of arranging speakers, organizing the rides, arranging the picnic, and marketing the event. It is a fun day for new and returning customers as well as the neighboring community.

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I have been working with the owners of Havre de Grace seaplane base to develop a docking system for flying boats at the base. The original docks were destroyed by the elements. The new system I helped develop with the E-Z Dock company will be weatherproof and able to be replicated across the Chesapeake Bay.

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I am pleased to announce that in large part due to my hard work, Santa Claus has selected Chesapeake Sport Pilot as his Mid Atlantic reindeer and elf staging ground. I have been appointed Chief Elf for all related activities.

The Holly Run is a 47 year old Mid Atlantic tradition where general aviation pilots from throughout the region deliver boughs of holly and Santa Claus to the isolated people of Tangier Island. Tangier is a small community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. The only access to this island is by boat or small aircraft. Sea level rise has flooded the island with salt water and killed most of the trees on the island so pilots deliver holly to the residents each year for Christmas decorating.

The original organizer Ed Nabb Sr. passed away many years ago and his son Ed Nabb Jr. ran the event for many years after that. When I spoke to Ed Jr. in 2009 he was burned out and ready to retire from the run. I offered to take over for him. I moved the staging of the event up to our airport and added in a morning breakfast with Santa to give us time to stage and brief. Craig Fuller and later Mark Baker kindly accepted the job of sleigh driver with the AOPA Caravan and I arranged the call sign of "Rudolph One" for him through the good folks at Potomac Approach. We have quite a merry time and the tradition continues!

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I am the founder of the Chesapeake Seaplanes group and organize splash-ins for them each year.

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I designed thenew Chesapeake Sport Pilot web site.
www.chesapeakesportpilot.com

I designed and maintain the seaplanedocks.net website.

I also help maintain the Chesapeake Sport Pilot, Chesapeake Searey, and Chesapeake Seaplanes Facebook sites.

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I am the founder and manager of the Chesapeake Seaplanes list serve. MI-3: S15

I am one of two moderators of the Sport Aircraft Yahoo group, a group of more than 2000 pilots and aviation enthusiasts.
Join and you will see me listed as a moderator and contact.

I am also an active participant of several other groups.
See my posts at:
http://forums.aopa.org
http://www.sportpilottalk.com/
http://www.eaaforums.org/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcpilots/

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The finalization of the sport pilot rule inadvertently shut down flight training for ultralight pilots. This has decimated the ultralight industry and dramatically decreased safety. The FAA has their head in the sand about this problem and refuses to issue functional LODA guidance or other work arounds.

With the EAA's help I held a stakeholders meeting at Oshkosh this summer to discuss using the flying club rules as a work around.

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Letter from EAA

When I bought the school this year I decided I wanted to restructure it to include a flying club for rated pilots. Everyone dreams of traveling on trips after they get their rating but it is difficult to support this in a flight school since the planes loose money when sitting on a ramp someplace and they are always needed at home for flight training. I helped a group of our renters set up an independent, equity based flying club and sold them a plane for such. Now students can look forward to graduating, joining the club, and taking trips.

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9/26/2015, 13:00 EDT, EA0764390
Chesapeake Sport Pilot Open House and Safety Seminar
Pilot Proficiency: Going Beyond Currency

9/26/2015, 09:00 EDT, EA0764373
Rusty Pilots Presented by Chesapeake Sport Pilot
How To Get Back Into Flying

4/11/2015, 13:00 EDT, EA0761251
Not the Flight Service Station You Once Knew

2/18/2015, 19:00 EST, EA0759860
CFI Seminar, at Bay Bridge Airport

How To Teach 'Practical' Aerodynamics And Crosswind Landings. Learn The Ways To Becoming, Renewing Or Reinstating Your CFI.

10/11/2014, 13:00 EDT, EA0757690
Maintaining Control
Crosswind Takeoffs and Landings

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Letter from FAA Safety Team Rep

I organized the Chesapeake Sport Pilot team for the 2014 Dulles Plane Pull.  We ran a static display about general aviation and helped pull a cargo plane across the ramp to support the Special Olympics. This event is a fantastic opportunity for our sport pilots to get their Class Bravo endorsements.

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While the EAA lawyers won't allow our flight school to officially co-host Young Eagles with our EAA friends, CSP customers and staff do regularly take off our flight school hats and put on our EAA hats to serve as members of the local EAA chapter and host Young Eagle flights at our airport. I am generally the primary organizer for these events.

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