Greetings KRAM,
Is it really almost September?! How the flying season...ummm, flies! Does everyone have their winter build list ready? Danny organized a nice casual fun-fly for us a few weekends ago. About 8 of us competed for bragging rights and a small prize on a beautiful Saturday morning. Timed flight, spot landings, limbo, cut the ribbon and of course the deadly doughnut drop were all attempted. For once, the doughnut drop didn't claim any planes! Unlike the week prior when 6 planes met the corn, all planes from the fun-fly went home in-tact! Yours truly won the day with my foamy bipe, and Danny and Johnathan Covington flying his Sensei trainer tied for 2nd. Johnathan chose a prop-balancer from the box as his prize. Thanks to Danny for organizing it!
As most of you know, our field location has been of some discussion at the last few meetings. Lee Frederickson and I got a chance to talk with Fred Oesch at the Wingeier Breakfast Fly-In this last Saturday. He was happy to see us and generally said, if we're happy, he's happy! We also informed him of the unanimous vote at the last meeting to not even consider moving the field. He was busy cooking for the visitors, so we didn't take up much of his time but we will go over what was discussed with him at the next meeting.
And finally as a quick reminder, our Veterans Fly-In is coming up on Sept 8th! The bus-load of vets has been confirmed, so lets get a bunch of us out there and show them a good time! Warbirds aren't required, so just bring something that flies! Our club meeting on the 4th will go over final details for the fly-in. Until then...
Keep your wings level and altitude positive,
Nik
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Minutes of the August 7, 2012 Meeting
Called to order at 7:05 pm by President Nikolei Zinsli
Members present: 22
Guests present: George Pavey and wife (new administrator at the WMAA charter school at the airport), Brian Thomas, Roger Heileman
Review of the Minutes of the July meeting produced no revisions or corrections.
Motion to approve by: Allen Simpson
Seconded by: Lee Frederickson
Vote: carried
Financial Report was given by Dan McLaren. Current membership consists of 64 regular members, 5 lifetime, 4 associate, 5 junior for a total membership of 78. No questions or discussion.
Motion to accept by: Mark Schmaltz
Seconded by: Dave Kingma
Vote: carried
New Member Brian Thomas was introduced and voted into the club. Brian is new to the hobby so help him whenever possible.
Meeting Minutes – August 2012
KRAMs Jase Dussia got a very nice mention with 2 pictures in the October 2012 Model Airplane News, in an article on this years Extreme Flight Championships on page 29. If you recall, Jase placed 5th out of 15 of the top pilots around!
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KRAM Member Jase Dussia featured in Model Airplane News
| Checking | $3,282.31 |
| Money Market | $2,166.31 |
| CD | $2,830.72 |
| Total Cash on Hand | $8,279.34 |
| Less | |
| Encumbered Funds | |
| CD | $2,830.72 |
| Net Cash Available | $5,448.62 |
| 2012 Membership @ 6/30/12 | 76 |
| Regular | 62 |
| Associate | 4 |
| Lifetime | 5 |
| Junior | 4 |
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Club Financials – July 2012
Called to order at 7:00 pm by President Nikolei Zinsli
Members present: 14
Guests present: Matt Werdon and sons
Review of the Minutes of the June meeting – no corrections, additions, or deletions.
Motion to approve by: Mark Schmaltz
Seconded by: Danny Osborn
Vote: carried
Financial Report presented by Nikolei Zinsli.
No questions. Total membership as of 6/30/12 is 76.
Meeting Minutes – July 2012
Greetings KRAM!
Well our first fly-in of the year is successfully in the books and we had a great showing! There were approx 30 pilots registered and a good handful of family and friends out watching the action. The West Michigan Radio Flyers came to visit as well with a good handful of pilots; thanks for coming! It was a warm one, but the winds behaved and I think everyone had a good time. If you didn't make it, several pilot prizes were given out through the day including 3 t-shirts from RC Pilot Magazine that said "I'm all thumbs, what's your point? RC Airplane Pilot" on the back. Ed Bradley won one of them, which I thought that was appropriate! We also raffled off a West Michigan Park Flyers McFoamy that was donated by WMPF (Big thanks to WMPF!). The McFoamy was won by Ed Bradley (we think he rigged the tickets), but later decided he didn't want to get into electrics. So, we now have a McFoamy to raffle off at the club picnic next month! If you want a chance to win one, and honestly..who doesn't want to win a plane, I suggest you attend!!
Lee Frederickson *may* be awarded the first "poopy plane" trophy, as his AJ Slick(I think?) had a battery ejection mid-flight which ended with his plane nearly unharmed by the swamp, and the canopy floated into the poo. A rescue was successful with a rope lasso. Lets hope he gives it a good bath! The authorities are still on the fence if the entire plane must go in the pond to be awarded the trophy, news at 11.
We had a decent crew in the morning to help setup, but would've liked to see more! Setup takes nearly an hour, and more hands would make that quicker and easier. Those that helped setup got an extra pilot prize ticket as a thank you, and I will do similar things in the future to reward those that participate and help with club functions. A big thanks to the group that helped setup in the morning, and I hope to see more of you next time! Also a special thank you goes out to Mark and George for cooking in that HOT sun! Mark spent most of the day setting up, prepping and tearing down the dining area while the rest of us were flying. Make sure you give him your thanks next time you see him!
Your homework for the next meeting (which is July 3rd), is to think of one little thing that we could do to get more pilots and spectators at our events. This is your club, and I want to make our events fun for everyone. So bring your idea(s) to the next meeting! Also if you were at the Memorial Fly-In, I'd like to hear your comments and suggestions on how you think it went!
Keep your wings level and altitude positive,
Nik
PreSez – June 2012
| Checking | $3,363.90 |
| Money Market | $2,166.25 |
| CD | $2,830.65 |
| Total Cash on Hand | $8,360.80 |
| Less | |
| Encumbered Funds | |
| CD | $2,830.65 |
| Net Cash Available | $5,530.15 |
| 2012 Membership @ 4/30/12 | 70 |
| Regular | 58 |
| Associate | 3 |
| Lifetime | 5 |
| Junior | 4 |
*Note: This page is only viewable by KRAM members and therefore should not be discussed publicly on the forum or elsewhere.
Club Financials – June 2012
Called to order at 7:00 pm by President Nikolei Zinsli
Members present: 20
Guests present: Mr. & Mrs. Van Heulen
Fred and Roger Heileman
Review of the Minutes of the May meeting – no corrections, additions, or deletions.
Motion to approve by: George Orphan
Seconded by: Mark Schmaltz
Vote: carried
Financial Report presented by Dan McLaren.
No questions. Total membership as of 6/1/12 is 70.
Motion to accept by: Mark Schmaltz
Seconded by: Allen Simpson
Vote: carried
New members offered for admission to the club with all paperwork and dues paid are: Steven Gutschow, William Van Heulen, Sean Van Heulen (Youth), Frank Passorelli, Mark Shaughnessy and Jonathan Covington.
Motion to approve membership by: Danny Osborn
Seconded by: Ed Buck
Vote: Carried
Meeting Minutes – June 2012
Our very own Jase Dussia headed to Muncie last weekend to compete in the Extreme Flight Championship (XFC) with 18 other top pilots from all over North America! He finished with a very impressive 5th place. Way to go Jase!!
Go here for more information on the XFC.
Check out his round 1 flight!
