Your Chance to Design a Fly-In

("Ross Richardson" wrote)
[snip]
Let me rain on your parade a minute to be sure you have considered
insurance.


Don't forget to ask yourself - "What will happed if we get two straight days
of 45 degrees and drizzle?"

That happened two years ago for our (May 20th) Discover Aviation Days at
(ANE) Anoka County-Blaine, MN

It was a financial disaster! Car parking had supported about 50% of the
event costs over the years ($2 per car). No cars to park in 2004 - I know
this because I was out in the field for those two days, getting wet and not
parking any cars.

On top of that, a few key supporters pulled out so D.A.D suspended
operations. Last year we had a loosely organized open house instead of
Discover Aviation Days. 2005 was a dud.


Montblack

Don't forget to ask yourself - "What will happed if we get two straight
days of 45 degrees and drizzle?"

There is NO admission charge to our show. It is 100% sponsor-funded, with
NO charge to the general public.

Except, of course, for the food. The pancake breakfasts could be a real
disaster with two days of cold rain... But we'd still make money for the
Children's Museum.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:jOcef.544744$_o.315625@attbi_s71...
There is NO admission charge to our show. It is 100% sponsor-funded,
with NO charge to the general public.

Except, of course, for the food. The pancake breakfasts could be a real
disaster with two days of cold rain... But we'd still make money for the
Children's Museum.

Make sure that PIC's get free breakfasts! Around here during the fly-in
season, the local pilots look through the listings of fly-ins and pick the
ones that are free to the PIC. A few fly-ins also offer free breakfast for
the co-pilot. ;-) They usually have a sign in sheet for the pilot for their
aircraft type, N-number and where they flew in from. It's a great way to
tell how many planes have flown in and from where. Helps for advertising for
the next year.

I see you're already listed on http://www.iawings.com/calender/yearly.htm.
You may want to get listed on
http://www.dot.state.mn.us/aero/avof...s/fly-ins.html. Illinois,
Wisconsin, Missouri, etc., should also have similar sites.

One poster suggested setting up temporary air/ground traffic control. Unless
you expect to be the size of Air-Adventure, I don't see that it's needed.
I've been to local fly-ins with 120+ planes flying in and out of smaller
airports (MKT, 0K7, SPW, etc.) within a few hours without need for temporary
traffic control.

I've got your fly-in penciled in! I hope to fly into IOW sometime before
that also.

-Greg B.

I see you're already listed on http://www.iawings.com/calender/yearly.htm.
You may want to get listed on
http://www.dot.state.mn.us/aero/avof...s/fly-ins.html. Illinois,
Wisconsin, Missouri, etc., should also have similar sites.

Thanks, Greg.

Yeah, I had started to announce the event on the internet about a month ago.
Then, the organizing committee darned near fell apart, so I backed off.
(Lots of political crap, as always with these kinds of things. Funny how
that is!)

We're now back on track, with a reconstituted and committed team. I'll be
getting back to sending out announcements soon.

I've got your fly-in penciled in! I hope to fly into IOW sometime before
that also.

Sounds great!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

N93332 wrote:

One poster suggested setting up temporary air/ground traffic control. Unless
you expect to be the size of Air-Adventure, I don't see that it's needed.
I've been to local fly-ins with 120+ planes flying in and out of smaller
airports (MKT, 0K7, SPW, etc.) within a few hours without need for temporary
traffic control.

I agree, and I'd further add that you shouldn't do it unless you have a
professional air traffic controller. I've been to fly-ins where well-intentioned
non-professionals on the unicom just couldn't stop talking and arriving aircraft
couldn't get a word in to announce themselves.

Dave

Let me rain on your parade a minute to be sure you have considered
insurance. We have tried to do things and run into insurance problems.
The city wants to be named on all policies. Everybody want to me named
on each others policy. It just seems to go on and on. There never seems
to be a blanket solution.

Just be sure you consider this. It may be a full time position for someone.

Luckily, this will be the SECOND annual event. I'm fairly confident
that the original organizers (some of whom are still with us) crossed
the insurance bridge last year, and all we've got to do is sign the
paperwork.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay, With all due respect to last year's organizers, make sure someone
knowledgable in such matters reviews those insurance contracts before
they are signed. Since last year was the *first* year, there is no
telling what may have been overlooked. Plus this year sounds to be
shaping up to be bigger/ better than the last, so there are likely
things being planned that last year's insurance didn't cover, let alone
think about.

Just playing devil's advocate. Better to bring up stuff now, and find
out its a non-issue than to have it pop up later and find out it is.
Kinda like a thunderstorm, if you know its there and account for it in
planning, the flight goes well. If you never looked, or just assumed it
wouldn't be a problem, it can ruin your day.

Randy

Just playing devil's advocate. Better to bring up stuff now, and find
out its a non-issue than to have it pop up later and find out it is.

Did you happen to notice that one of our board members is an attorney?

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Be sure to get someone professional (like an experienced AT Controller)
on a good radio with good signal strength etc to monitor and sequence
of all incoming and departing traffic. A temporary tower is good but
be sure he knows the field and any runway limitations. Have someone
monitoring any more normal Unicom frequencies to steer everyone to the
right CTAF.

At the annual SSQ flyin we have a spare CTAF receiver connected to the
PA system at low levels so the public can hear what's happening. Have
a PA system so pilots can be paged if necessary.

Use wing walkers on all A/C taxiing around general public areas. A
separate (and posted) ground frequency is good too.

Touche' Missed that.