January
2009 Newsletter
Feature of the Month
Maritime Central
Airways - ‘51 by Allan Lowson
Registration for the GAAR
2009 is open until 2400 UTC 25-January, 2009.
There are
already 71 aircraft registered. Some
pilots are flying multiple aircraft. I
am flying a Beechcraft Twin Bonanza for
The flights
will take place in February and March.
My thanks to Andrew Godden for doing all the
hard work involved in being the Rally Co-Coordinator.
WestcoastATC time for December 2008
Pilot Hours in December
|
Pilot ID |
Pilot |
Location |
Rank |
Hours |
|
BGAD017 |
John Lawler |
- |
ATP Captain |
4.84 |
|
BGAD022 |
Gayngel van den Ing |
- |
ATP Captain |
26.34 |
|
BGAD035 |
Sid Knapp |
|
Captain |
4.25 |
|
BGAD039 |
Laurie Cooper |
|
Senior Captain |
20.45 |
|
BGAD042 |
Don Moore |
|
ATP Captain |
25.64 |
|
BGAD056 |
Darryl Starick |
|
ATP Captain |
22.80 |
|
BGAD061 |
Ian Hedrick |
|
Pilot |
4.33 |
|
BGAD062 |
Bob York |
|
First Officer |
16.83 |
|
BGAK001 |
Brent Brazeel |
Oklahoma-US |
ATP Captain |
60.87 |
|
BGAK011 |
Coleman Green |
Maryland-US |
ATP Captain |
5.69 |
|
BGAK013 |
Edward Brunelle |
Massachussetts-US |
ATP Captain |
149.92 |
|
BGAK015 |
David R. Evans |
Michigan-US |
Senior Captain |
77.88 |
|
BGAK029 |
Patrick Daley |
- |
Senior Captain |
3.38 |
|
BGAK033 |
Tom Burrill |
- |
Senior Captain |
3.80 |
|
BGAK036 |
Paul van den Berg |
- |
Senior Captain |
20.00 |
|
BGAK056 |
Steve Sellmeyer |
Nebraska-US |
Captain |
3.90 |
|
BGAK069 |
John Cox |
|
Pilot |
3.92 |
|
BGAM007 |
Allan Lowson |
|
ATP Captain |
38.94 |
|
BGAN002 |
Joe Weber |
Indiana-US |
Senior Captain |
10.31 |
|
BGAN005 |
Bob Beckelhimer |
New Mexico-US |
ATP Captain |
15.15 |
|
BGAN012 |
George W.S. Adair |
Manitoba-CDN |
Captain |
65.13 |
|
BGAN021 |
Luke |
|
Captain |
8.28 |
|
BGAN023 |
Guy Goddard |
Maryland-US |
Captain |
0.50 |
|
BGAN029 |
John Kolmos |
New York-US |
Captain |
7.67 |
|
BGAN038 |
Meryl Coon |
- |
Captain |
2.88 |
|
BGAN040 |
Dan George |
West Virginia-US |
Captain |
23.08 |
|
BGAN041 |
Bill Cox |
Virginia-US |
Captain |
19.26 |
|
BGAN044 |
Ian Robertson |
|
Senior Captain |
7.30 |
|
BGAN047 |
Paul Mensch |
|
Senior Captain |
24.17 |
|
BGAN058 |
Simon Dix |
|
First Officer |
5.35 |
|
BGAS001 |
Bill Von Sennet |
Pennsylvania-US |
ATP Captain |
64.93 |
|
BGAS003 |
Henrique Wiederspahn |
|
Captain |
6.75 |
|
BGAS006 |
William (Bill) Agee |
Arizona-US |
ATP Captain |
5.86 |
|
BGAS031 |
Gary McCarty |
- |
ATP Captain |
288.15 |
|
BGAS046 |
Bill Hendrix |
Florida-US |
ATP Captain |
6.19 |
|
BGAS051 |
Ruud Heijnen |
|
First Officer |
0.25 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
1054.99 |
Congratulations to Pilots with Promotions
|
Pilot ID |
Pilot |
Location |
New Rank |
|
BGAD062 |
Bob York |
|
First Officer |
Welcome to New Pilots
|
Pilot ID |
Pilot |
Location |
|
BGAD063 |
Martin Pettersson
|
|
|
BGAD064 |
Brendan Friese
|
|
|
BGAK075 |
James Herbert |
|
|
BGAK069 |
John Cox |
|
|
BGAD062 |
Bob York |
|
From the C.E.O.
As 2008 comes to an end, I am reminded of many individuals who have
contributed to the success of Bluegrass Airlines. Some of these friends are no longer with us,
but their contributions live on and we still benefit from their efforts. The list below is not all inclusive. There are many others who I have not
mentioned, mostly due to my lack of memory.
W. Joe Deering and Ray Yarnell, who founded Bluegrass Airlines in March of 1998.
Bob Thompson who headed up the Northern Division.
Art Nichols who was the first pilot to join. He was President and
the Bangor Maine Hub Captain. Art passed away on 8/29/2001.
Bill Odell was a prolific writer and created many adventures for
our pilots. He was a big help to Bob Thompson
in the Northern division, then when I came on board he transferred to the
The Bluegrass Imperial Airways team
Allan Lowson is Vice-President of
Bluegrass Airlines. He was a big help in
processing flight reports, before we got the new auto-pirep
system. Allan is also a contributor of
many of our Features of the Month. In
2008 alone he provided features for 7 months.
A check of the hangar pages will reveal that Allan is also an aircraft
painter.
Bill Hendrix helped out with Screenshots and came up with the idea
to eliminate the work of the staff and let the pilots save their screenshot to
an on-line host.
Coleman Green was the Bush Pilot Division Director, and has also
been a provider of Scenery and Aircraft repaints.
Tom Goodrick has provided flight dynamics
for many aircraft as well as digital panels.
He also was a great help for several GAAR’s by providing the Ftime
gauge, creating the scoring formulas and processing flight reports.
Andy Hatch set us up with the auto-pirep
system saving Allan Lowson and myself considerable
effort in the process.
Brent Brazeel provided a program to
convert the pirep emails into spreadsheet ready
data. I still use that program today
convert emails that the auto-pirep system sends me
into data for the “View Pireps” page. Brent was also
the Bush Pilot Division Director.
DC-3 Airways has been a great friend to us, and several of our
pilots are also DC-3 Airways pilots.
Rob Finn supplied most of the schedules for the Australian
Division.
Brian Wilson was a past Australian Division Director.
Andrew Godden is the Australian Division
Director and adding content to the web-site.
He is also the GAAR 2009 coordinator.
Tom Smith was the SouthEast Hub Captain.
John Williams was a past Bush Pilot Division Director
A visit to our hangar pages, will reveal a host of aircraft
designers and repainters to whom we owe our thanks.
Don’t forget to
check out the forum and add
your 3 cents.
That’s all for
now,
Bill Von Sennet
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