Happy Holidays!  I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and Santa treated you well.  Maybe a new headset or ADS-B under the tree?

I am giving everyone a quick update on the goings on in the chapter.  The Judges school set for Feb 22-23 is proceeding along nicely.  I have had a few phone calls and emails from people that plan on coming in from out of town to join us.  As a reminder it will be held in the CAF meeting room at IXD and the price is $85 for the full two days and $65 for the Sunday only refresher.  Lunch will be provided both days and we are planning a dinner for Saturday night.

Our contest set for June 5-6 is also coming together.  I have practice waivers in hand for both Ottawa and Coffee County airports that the chapter can use.  There are a couple of typo’s that still need to be fixed but I’m not anticipating that to be any problem.  I would like to hold a Play Day at Ottawa early in the spring to work out any bugs between us and the airport before the contest, and another at Coffee Country mid summer for the same reasons.  Besides, it will give us on opportunity to fly out somewhere.

Also, John Morrissey has confirmed that he will be our Chief Judge and Ellyn Robinson has offered to be our Volunteer Coordinator.  Both of these people bring a lot of experience at Regional and National contest levels and we are lucky that they have offered their time.  In addition our Treasurer Dave Maine will be designing this years shirts.

After the New Year I expect things to progress rapidly for both the Judges School and Contest and will be sending out regular emails to keep everyone up to date.

Finally don’t forget our next meeting will be our annual Holiday Party on Feb 8th, at 6pm and will be hosted once again by John and Beverly Wittenborn.  Please plan on joining us for a meal, drinks and fellowship.

Fly Safe,
John Ostmeyer
Chapter President

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