Location TBD

From the press release:

The ATIS frequency change scheduled for May 1, 2009, has been moved up. The new frequency will become effective Wednesday, March 11, 2009.

The ATIS frequency at PTK will change from 125.45 to 125.025. The change will be reflected in the 2010 Michigan Airport Directory.

In addition, the ATIS phone line 248-666-2621 is no longer in service. ASOS is available by calling 248-666-1818.

Red Bull Air Race just announced that the third race of their 2009 World Championship series will be held on the Detroit / Windsor riverfront on June 13-14. The city of Windsor is sponsoring the event this year, so we can expect that the ops base will be at YQG. Four rookies will be joining the expanded roster of 15 pilots, and the organizers have made format changes they promise will make the race even more exciting than last year's.

Official announcement

Photos from last year's race

In our efforts to be more of a family club, we are trying to have our meetings at member's residences or other socially attractive places and we have re-scheduled our monthly meetings to the second monday of the month, which usually has fewer conflicts. Bring your significant other to the monthly meeting!

Howard

http://www.greatlakesaviationconference.com/

Due to unavailability of several members of the Executive Board, the November meeting has been postponed until Monday, November 17. Venue is still Pat G's house.

They've removed the displaced threshold for runway 9, so 9-27 is now 3550' both ways. Henceforth, feel free to have that second helping when winds are out of the east.

Oakland-Troy will be closed mid-week for runway maintenance. From the official notice:

"This will confirm reports that you may have heard concerning the [threshold relocation] airport safety project. The project is anticipated to start on or about September 30 and to be concluded by October 2, 2008, weather permitting.

The extensive nature of the project will necessitate complete closure of the airfield during the time construction equipment is actively working."

This supersedes previous reports that the runway would have limited availability by arrangement with airport management. Not so - VLL is shutting down completely Tue-Thu. If you want to use 90B those days, we'd appreciate a volunteer to move it to the DET ramp on Monday. Contact any of the Club officers to make arrangements.

Beginning November 5 at 18:00Z, 32 major airports in USA (including DTW and CLE) will be issuing 30-hour Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts (TAFs). Obviously, the TAF format must change to accommodate the extended forecasts. What isn't so obvious is that the format of all TAFs will change at that time, regardless of whether the issuing airport is providing 30-hour forecasts. Details, examples, and so forth at http://aviationweather.gov/notice/taf30.php. Take a look at the last two pages of the .doc link (http://aviationweather.gov/static/docs/30-Hour_TAF.doc) for a list of airports which will be doing 30-hour forecasting, and a good side-by-side comparison of the old and new formats.

Thanks to Art M. for the information!

At DET, rain or shine. Come one, come all!

Hey, if it's raining, we won't have to rinse off the planes. :)