Calling all EAA pilots! Please come and help us fly Young Eagles kids at Pearson Field on Saturday, May 27th during the Pearson Field Education Center’s Open Cockpit day. We need your airplane and we need you! Help kids find out what it’s like to experience the magic of flight. Please contact Greg Hughes by emailing youngeagles@eaa105.org for more information and to let him know you’ll help out! Any certificated pilot and any airworthy airplane that’s insured can take part in this fun event. Thank you!

When:  Saturday, May 27th (briefing at 0830)
Where:  Pearson Field, Vancouver WA (KVUO)

Join your aviation friends on May 11th at Van’s Aircraft (on the southeast end of the Aurora State Airport) for food and a tour of the factory!

• Pizza courtesy of Van’s Aircraft beginning at 6:30 PM
• A short business meeting with a couple announcements at 7:00 PM
• 7:15 Staff from Van’s Aircraft will be on hand to answer questions, give tours and host open cockpits of the factory demonstrator aircraft.

The 2017 EAA 105/Bogardus Trust Youth Flight Scholarship Program is now accepting applications for scholarships. Applications may be submitted through April 30, 2017. All the details can be found at the EAA 105 web site: http://eaa105.org/programs/youth-flight-scholarship-program/

February Meeting – Twin Oaks Airpark Hangar G-1
Thursday, Feb. 9 at 6:30 p.m.

• RV-8A and Zenith 601 build project tours
• Safety seminar
• EAA monthly video series

Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1228248240596613/

The June EAA 105 blueberry pancake breakfast will be held at Twin Oaks Airpark on June 4th starting at 8:00am. Bring yourself, the kids, your plane if you’re flying or your car if you’re not! With the weather shaping up we expect we will see a lot of aircraft to look at. See you there!

EAA 105 is sponsoring EAA’s B-17 bomber, Aluminum Overcast, which will be visiting Aurora State Airport (KUAO) June 3-5. They will provide rides and tours inside the airplane (for a fee). The bomber will be located at the Columbia Aviation Association, which is located directly behind the control tower.

Volunteers: Frank Friedman is coordinating the volunteers, please contact him (fzip1369–at–gmail.com or 503-442-1013) if you would like to participate. Note: Complementary positions for volunteers may be available on the plane when it is flown to the next event in Seattle on Monday, June 6. All ground crew volunteers interested in a chance to ride in the repositioning flight should please contact Frank to let him know you are interested.

Join us at the Van’s Aircraft factory location at Aurora State Airport (KUAO) at about 6:30pm on May 12. Van’s will have pizza and drinks for everyone. See how the business is run and the parts are made, and check out the factory demonstrator which will be on display in the hangar.

April 23; Saturday; Deitz Airpark

RV-9A and Bearhawk LSA Aircraft builds

9:00 RV-9A, Philip Groelz; “90% done”

10:00 Bearhawk LSA, Rion Bourgeois, Elliot Bourgeois, Ken Scott, Philip Groelz; scratch build project, wings built, fuselage under construction

When:  Saturday September 26th @10am
Time:  Breakfast begins at 10 AM; Fly-out when you’re ready!
Where:  Starts at Dietz Airpark, for breakfast and registration
Airports:  Dietz Airpark, Lebanon Airport, Seaside Airport, Salem Airport, Stark’s Twin Oaks Airpark
Dessert and Winners/White Elephant Awards:  Starts at 5pm @ Twin Oaks Airpark – Hangar G1
Cost: $20 for EAA 105 members, $25 for non-members to help defray the costs of food and the incredibly awesome event tshirts

Thanks to everyone who made it out to Lightspeed in Lake Oswego on Thursday for the September meeting. It was a great presentation and the Lightspeed folks are awesome!

One of the items discussed – which we promised to follow up on –  was the open-source, do-it-yourself ADS-B receiver system called Stratux, as presented by Spencer Rice, which is made using a few items you can buy on Amazon for about $110.00. It enables subscription-free inflight weather and traffic reception capabilities on your compatible tablet or smartphone app. We said we would provide the information and links – so in the true spirit of experimental aviation, here you are!

Also: If people would be interested in meeting as a group to assemble your own Stratux after acquiring the parts from Amazon, please let us know (by sending email to adsb-learn@eaa105.org) and we can collect a list of names and then set up an evening or some time on a weekend to meet and learn. It would be a fun way to learn more about the technology and build something you can actually to fly and play with — and this is truly something anyone can learn about and do!

The Stratux system is comprised of a small, wi-fi enabled computer, called a Raspberry Pi 2, a special USB receiver and antenna, and a battery pack. You download some free software and copy it to the little computer. It’s also possible to add additional parts such as a second receiver and a special chip that contains a GPS receiver, attitude gyro, and barometric altimeter. The list of required parts is provided below. The little computer runs the Linux operating system (hence the clever name: Stratus+Linux=Stratux), but you don’t need to understand Linux or even what an operating system is in order to use it. So, don’t worry about that too much. There are people who can and will help you with all that, if needed.

What you need:

• An iPad, iPhone or other device running compatible electronic flight software such as Foreflight. Android tablets running Avare (a free aviation software app) can also be used, and a few other common electronic flightbook apps like FlyQ and others have been made to work as well. Those of us running Garmin Pilot are out of luck at least for now.
• The hardware components listed below.
• As needed, a little help from your friendly local computer geeks/pilots. There are a few of us around. Help will freely and gladly given. 🙂

Here is the complete Amazon shopping list of parts for the Stratux:

• http://amzn.com/B00MV6TAJI $69.99 (the Raspberry Pi 2 computer — you need one of these)
• http://amzn.com/B00P2UOU72 $25.95 (the radio receiver — you need one of these, and can optionally buy two if you want a dual-band ADS-B receivers)
• http://amzn.com/B00JM59JPG $13.99 (this is the USB rechargeable battery pack)
• http://amzn.com/B000TGSPV6 $3.97 (velcro tape – you can get some if you don’t already have it in your junk drawer)

Here is the link to the STRATUX page on the web site Reddit. This page contains the two-part description of what’s needed and how to acquire the parts from Amazon as well as how to make it work.

Again, if you want to build the system but need help understanding the parts and how to put it together, let’s get together and assemble and make the run as a group! We could likely meet at the chapter hangar at Twin Oaks, and then make a quick field trip to the park pn Bald Peak, where some of us have gone with this Stratux system to receive ADS-B weather data since we know it works there!

If you’re interested in meeting together to build your own Stratux (or to watch others do it), please send an email to adsb-learn@eaa105.org and we will set something up in the near future!