AOPA Pilot Magazine - September 2019 - 100

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9,790

The number of attendees
at LVK, making it among
the top-five attended
fly-ins to date.

News & Notes
MEMBERSHIP

Living it up

AOPA Livermore Fly-In delivers
BY MIKE COLLINS
ASK ANY VISITOR TO AOPA's Livermore
Fly-In what was most memorable, there's
a good chance the answer would be short.
Short field, that is. Many will remember
watching Jimmy Gist, the "wrangler" for the
AOPA STOL Invitational short takeoff and
landing demonstration, coordinate masterful performances by 11 participating pilots
just before the California sun set on June 21,
and again at noon on June 22. Others might
remember the weather, which was fantastic
both days. Or the incredible opportunities
for education and networking.
Then again, any one of thousands of
memories could make the list. With 9,790
people attending the two-day event, there
are bound to be a range of answers-none
of them wrong. The Livermore air traffic
control tower and volunteer marshalers
handled 431 aircraft during the event.
Nearly one in three visitors attended a
seminar or workshop. Presenters included
Barry Schiff, a longtime AOPA Pilot columnist and contributor, who shared his
"Nifty Tips for Safe Flying" with an audience almost filling the Main Stage tent on
Saturday morning. Schiff, who has contributed to the magazine for 56 years, suggests
that every pilot keep a second logbook. "In
the second logbook I write down the mistakes I made on the flight I just took," he
said. "Nobody reads that logbook but me.
Believe me, you can learn a lot from that."
Marc Miller of Tiburon, California, was
among the large crowd watching Saturday's
noon STOL demonstration. "It's like a
rocket ship," he said as Draco, Mike Patey's
extensively modified-and Pratt & Whitney
PT6-powered-Wilga climbed steeply. The
Cessna 182 he flies doesn't perform like
that, Miller said. "It looks like a lot of fun.
It puts the fun in flying."
Friday night's scheduled drone show
was canceled because of software issues
experienced by Great Lakes Drone

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THE FUN CONTINUES: Join us in Tullahoma, Tennessee, September 13
and 14, for the final AOPA Fly-In of 2019 aopa.org/fly-ins

Company. The issue resulted in a safety stand down by the drone operator. The night
performance remains on the schedule for AOPA's third and final 2019 Fly-In, which will
take place in Tullahoma, Tennessee, September 13 and 14.
EMAIL mike.collins@aopa.org

NEWS FROM HQ
"It's a great Saturday when you can
spend it at the airport," AOPA President
Mark Baker said in opening his Pilot
Town Hall on Saturday morning. Baker
and other members of AOPA's leadership team updated the audience about
the association's activities.
Pilot certification numbers have
been declining since World War II-a
trend AOPA seeks to reverse with its
You Can Fly initiatives, funded by donations to the AOPA Foundation.
"We're starting to see a turnaround,"
Baker said, with student starts up 18
percent and private pilot certificate
numbers up 17 percent. "What we're
starting to see now is real growth in
aviation."
Matt Johnson, president of
California Aeronautical University, introduced Kimberly Rodriguez Gaona, a

Bakersfield, California, high school student who was awarded CAU's $151,650
Dreams Take Flight Scholarship that
covers tuition, fees, and flight training. "My passion for aviation started
when I was younger, but I didn't realize
I wanted a career in aviation," she said.
An introductory flight opened her eyes,
and she enrolled in an aviation class
at her high school. "I'm really grateful
and blessed," she said. "No matter how
big your dream is, pursue it-nothing is
impossible."
David Lewis of Venice, Florida, was
recognized for flying the longest distance to the Livermore Fly-In and
received a Lightspeed Zulu III headset. His straight-line distance of 2,082
nautical miles edged out a pilot from
Manassas, Virginia, 2,075 nm away. "I'm
retired; I figured I would make these flyins a habit," Lewis said. "These things
are great."


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