Please join us Thursday September 9th at 6:30 p.m.

All of the festivities will be located at or around Hangar 60 (see map below) which will include Dinner, updates and plans for the airport with a static aircraft display and flybys over the runway.

Should you like any other information, plese contact the Cris Child, the airport manager.

Thank you again to all those involved with preparing for and putting this show on.

As there has been a number of word of mouth changes to VFR Practice Approach and Practice area procedures, this will be a good chance to hear from all of the local control agencies as well as get our two cents in on what would improve safety and simplicity.

The following is from an FAA e-mail:

KEB 1.00

From FAASafety.gov e-mail

Dear Utah Valley Aviators,
 
The density of air training operations in the Utah Valley area has increased over the past few years.  Utah Valley University (UVU) currently has 26 aircraft in our fleet and will be implementing some new procedures in our program to help increase the safety of flight in the Utah Valley area. The new changes were made after careful consultation with the FAA, ATC, and the FCC. Below is a description of the changes UVU is making within our own program and invite all aviators to participate with us as appropriate. 
 
1.  UVU aircraft will be assigned specific practice areas to disperse our aircraft in the valley. UVU will limit each practice area to two UVU airplanes at any one time to allow space for other aircraft. UVU’s practice area map is located at: www.uvu.edu/aviation/program/resources.html .
 
2.  Since Provo Tower commenced operations, a designated CTAF no longer exists for advisories outside of Class D airspace. After consultation with the FAA and the FCC, it was determined that 122.75 was the only legal air to air frequency for traffic advisories outside the vicinity of an airport. (AIM table 4-1-3) As such, UVU will begin using 122.75 as an air to air frequency for traffic advisories in the Utah Valley Area outside of Provo Class D airspace (see map). The frequency of 123.5 will only be used as Eagle Base, UVU’s discrete frequency for company communications and not for traffic advisories. With the help of other flight schools and organizations, UVU would also like to petition the FAA for an advisory note to be placed on the Sectional Charts, indicating a high volume of flight training participating on 122.75 in Utah Valley. Hopefully, this will help to include transient aircraft in traffic advisories.
 
3.  As specified in the AIM (4-1-9 c.) an airport CTAF should be used within 10 miles of the airport for arriving and departing traffic. Accordingly, UVU aircraft operating in the vicinity of Spanish Fork Airport (U77) will use 122.9 for all traffic advisories. To help reduce frequency congestion, UVU has only designated two UVU practice areas in the vicinity of the Spanish Fork Airport, and will not allow more than two UVU aircraft per practice area. This should allow all the traffic in the vicinity of Spanish Fork Airport to communicate properly without congesting the frequency.
 
4.  In conjunction with Provo Tower, UVU aircraft performing practice IFR approaches will communicate on 122.75 outside of Class D airspace. UVU aircraft will monitor Provo Tower frequency (125.3) or Salt Lake Approach (124.3) as appropriate for other inbound traffic. Provo Tower has requested that communication be established when an aircraft on a practice IFR approach is on a 2 mile base leg prior to establishing on the final course. 
  
UVU is implementing these new procedures as of May 1, 2010 and invite all other aviators in the Utah Valley area to participate as much as possible. We hope that our efforts to disperse UVU aircraft and establish more common frequencies, improves the air safety of Utah Valley. 
 
Thank you,
 
Andrew Loeffler
Chief Instrument Flight Instructor
loefflan@uvu.edu, 801-863-5137

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Issue 364-April 2010

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of Spanish Fork

I saw a movie last weekend at the suggestion of a friend that I found very moving and patriotic. I was moved that I want to share the movie with my friends. I believe it is an experience that will touch you.

Taking Chance is the true story of Lt. Col. Micheal Strobl (Kein Bacon) escorting the body of Marine PFC Chance Phelps back to his home town of Dubois, Wyoming after being killed in action in Iraq.

This is a movie every American should see. To me emotional experience seeing the military protocol and the patriotism this movie presents. This film was the most watched HBO original in five years when it first aired in February 2009 with over two million viewer and on its second airing an estimated 5.5 million people watched it.

Taking Chance will be shown in our hangar #49 at the Spanish Fork Airport at 7 PM. Please bring your own chairs. The movie is 1 hour and 40 minutes in length.

I hope you can join us.

Ed

Ed Helmick

Diamond Flight Center of Spanish Fork

801-471-1304

It is getting cold outside and it seems appropriate to talk about winter flying. The program also qualifies for FAA Wings ground seminar credit.

As usual we will also have a drawing for a nice aviation book give away and some light refreshments. I hope you can join us for another interesting aviation discussion.

This will be the last Safety Meeting for 2009 due to the Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays.

One final note, During the month of October we are offering a 10% discount for FAR 61.56 Biennial Flight Reviews. If you have BFR coming due give us a call for scheduling the ground and flight time.

Ed

Ed Helmick

Diamond Flight Center of Spanish Fork

801-471-1304

The runway at Spanish Fork-Springville Airport will be closed on Monday from noon to 4:00 p.m. for additional Runway Markings to be painted.

Rotary wing aircraft will be allowed to operate from Taxiway Alpha during the closure.  For further information please contact the airport manager, Cris Child either by phone (801-420-8888) or e-mail at manager@u77airport.com.

The short notice was due to the fact we needed to guarantee good weather for the markings to be painted.  We apologize for any who may be inconvenienced by the closure.

Thank you also to All those who helped in making the open house such a success.  The food and setting was wonderful along with Cris' presentation.  It was also fun to see such a varied collection of aircraft with the static display that was set up.

Should you have any qeustions please feel free to contact anyone through this web page or a friend you know from the airport.