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Pre-takeoff checklist
**** Cross-posted on AOPA and the Purple Board ****
Hello POA Pilots and Friends,
The Cessnas 2 Oshkosh 2008 group will hold a formation training clinic for the Northeast pilots on June 21 at 9:00 AM. (EDT). In case weather causes the cancellation of this clinic, we will hold it on July 12.
The clinic will be held at Sky Manor Airport (N40) in Pittstown, New Jersey. Pittstown is located in central Jersey and is about halfway between Maine and North Carolina, exactly 38 nm west of Newark-Liberty International Airport (KEWR). I will be the lead pilot for the clinic and Craig Johnston, who has been very generous offering his talent and experience will help conduct the clinic. We will meet between 8:00 and 8:45 AM in the Sky Manor Airport Restaurant and then move to Craig's hangar.
The first part of the clinic is a "class" based on a slide presentation that lasts about an hour and 30 minutes. We will then have a ramp exercise followed by pre-flight briefs, practice flights and post-flight briefs. The number of flights will depend on the number of participants. We should be done at around 2:00 pm.
More information about the clinic is available on the Cessnas 2 Oshkosh website at The Pittstown Formation Clinic page. A summary of the slide presentation and other reference material is available on our website's training page.
For anyone that wants to come Friday night and stay over, a few bits of useful information:
The Sky Manor Restaurant is open Friday night until 9 pm for dinner. The buffet is always good.
Neither of the local hotels (Holiday Inn 908-735-5111 or Hampton Inn 908-713-4800) provide transportation. So I will make sure there is transportation to and from the hotels.
I really encourage those of you based within a few hours of Pittstown to make your best effort to attend.
For the mass arrival participants, we need to get this training out of the way and doing this clinic now will provide a safety cushion in case you cannot attend the Juneau Clinic and in the best of circumstances will provide a foundation on which to build further skills at Juneau.
For those of you who have not signed up for the Cessnas 2 Oshkosh 2008 mass arrival and regardless of whether you decide to participate in the mass arrival into Oshkosh or not, this training will sharpen your skills and will help you become a better pilot. Come join us!
Hope to see all of you in Pittstown!
Regards,
Gil (TeenDoc)
Steering Committee
Cessnas 2 Oshkosh 2008
mailto:gil@cessnas2oshkosh.com
https://www.cessnas2oshkosh.com
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