Runway Safety Action Team (RSAT) Team is having a meeting for a detailed analysis of Runway Safety at ABE.  Meeting starts at 7pm.  The Lehigh Vally Flying Club is the host if you arrive at 6pm please join us for a hot dog and some refreshments.  Here is a link to the FAA Safety website that gives all the details to the event.  Please go to this link and register as it saves time when you sign in at the actual event.  ...  [Full Article]

On Sunday, June 27th, from 4 to 6 PM at Hangar 5, the Lehigh Valley Flying Club will be co-hosting a meet-n-greet with the Keystone Chapter of the Ninety-Nines. This event is designed to give our club members the opportunity to bring female guests to meet other women in aviation. If your wife, daughter, friend, etc. is interested in becoming a pilot; finding out how to be more involved in flight planning, navigation, or radio work; or would like to meet other women who fly from the left or right seat, pleas...  [Full Article]

Hangar 5, LVIA, 8am Saturday morning, there will be a Pancake Breakfast for a $5.00 donation, followed at 10am by a FAA Safety Seminar.  FAASTeam Rep Bill VanArtsdalen will present 'Reach Out and Ask Someone!'  Crew Resource Management (CRM) adapted for single pilot operations (SPM) will help reduce the most common factors in general aviation accidents and incidents, poor judgement and poor decision making.  This event will teach you how to use (SRM) to effectively manage all available resour...  [Full Article]

Many hands make light work! It is time for our annual Hangar and Plane cleaning! We are meeting at the Hangar at 9am.  Coffee, Bagels and Donuts will be served to keep everybody energitic and and smiling!Wanted List:Volunteers (of course)Power Washers.  Leaf BlowersBroomsGlass and Surface Cleanera good vacuum that can get into cornersPlease send and email or call sean.gornell @ lvfc.org / 973-487-7302 a note if you are attending and if you can bring any of the items on our wanted list....  [Full Article]

Our Safety Seminar "What's up with WAAS?" by John Pallante was very informative and time well spent. Everyone that attended the Safety Seminar seemed to enjoy it from the questions asked and their comments. John was very knowledgeable and cordial enough to answer questions for 1/2 an hour after the seminar ended. He explained WAAS and LAAS, and detailed the VOLPE format of the current Approach Plates. If you use the Volpe method of reading a plate, once done, you should be able to put it down and not have...  [Full Article]

Title:  'What's Up With WAAS, Tango & Quebec?' Topic:  How Familiar are you with the Approach Plates, Tango & Quebec Airways, Volpe Briefing and WAAS Approaches? Time:  10:00am Speaker(s):  John Pallante, CFII; Jim Sankey, CFI Brief Description:  Do you fly on instruments? If so, this meeting is for you! This will be an interactive discussion about the Approach Plate Format and how to prepare for a single pilot IFR Approach (Volpe Briefing), Tango & Q...  [Full Article]

Breakfast fly-out the destination is Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire (B18).  This is the frozen lake/ice runway featured in January 2010 AOPA magazine (page 84).  We plan for wheels off ABE 0845-0900.  Details to follow (Friday) on landing conditions and flight planning.  Schedule an aircraft or contact a member who is scheduled and join the flight.  Any questions contact David Rice via cell phone 610-730-5850. ...  [Full Article]

You must replace them with plastic certificates. FAR 61.19(h) reads: Duration of pilot certificates. Except for a temporary certificate issued under §61.17 or a student pilot certificate issued under paragraph (b) of this section, the holder of a paper pilot certificate issued under this part may not exercise the privileges of that certificate after March 31, 2010. REMOVING YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AS YOUR CERTIFICATE NUMBER: If your Social Security number is your pilot certificate number you can ...  [Full Article]

The ABE Tower/ATC Facility tour will take place on Tuesday 17 November at 1300hrs and Friday 20 November at 0900hrs.If you are interested, please email or phone Dave Rice at 610-730-5850 by 0900 Friday 13 November and indicate the day you would like to attend.    ...  [Full Article]

The Winter Gala.  Free for all members. The Winter Gala we first told you of in October is upon us.  The LVFC Winter Gala (a dinner, cocktails, entertainment and fellowship). If you would like to go, there's still time!  Please contact Bob Kutzler, Dave Rice, A.S.A.P. via email or telephone (610-730-5850) and let us know your name and total attending.The details:WHEN:  Saturday 16 January 2010.  Dinner is served after 7:15PM.  Please arrive after 6:30PM to enjoy a cash bar an...  [Full Article]

We are having a Club Fly-out to the New England Air Museum (NEAM) at Bradley International Airport (KBDL) in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.If you haven't scheduled an aircraft please do so as a back-up.  There are a/c scheduled and seats available in those a/c, please contact the scheduling member to request a spot(s) in an a/c.We plan for wheels-up at 0900.  The flight to KBDL should take between 1:15 and 1:30 (approx. 154 nm).  KBDL has runways 6/24 and 15/33.  We will park at Signature o...  [Full Article]

All are invited by Lehigh Valley Aviation Services and the Senior Management of the Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority at Hangar 7 for a "tenant mixer" on from 5:00PM to 8:00PM.Stop in at Hangar 7 lobby and meet LVAS staff as well as representatives from the Airport Authority management and enjoy complimentary refreshments.You will be given a chance to preview upcoming improvements in the works at LVIA.  Copies of the updated and always expanding Rules and Regulations for LVIA will be available for y...  [Full Article]

There will be a club dinner fly-out to Hemingway’s restaurant next to Bay Bridge Airport.  Check scheduling system for details....  [Full Article]

2010 Winter Gala is scheduled for Saturday January 16th for club members and their significant others and guest.  It will be held at the Barn House.  Dave Rice is coordinating.  More details to follow....  [Full Article]

If you are interested in getting some basic aerobatics and spin training we have a couple of slots open for this Saturday Morning.  Please contact Chris Waltman or Sean Gornell if your interested.  So far the trainees are Jon Trainor, Sean Gornell, Chris Waltman, Sanjoy Mukerjee, Glen Matz and Sebastain Patino.  We wil meet at Braden Airpark N43 at 8am for the briefing....  [Full Article]

Here is a safety seminar right next to our airport!  What Went Wrong?  This is a free ASF/FAAST Team seminar.  No RSVP Required.  This also qualifies toward the AOPA Accident Forgiveness Program and the FAA WINGS Program.  Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:00-9:00 PM Four Points by Sheraton Allentown Airport 3400 Airport Road Allentown, PA for directions to the seminar location, please visit www.asf.org/seminars    ...  [Full Article]

We will fly out to dinner on Saturday, 10 October at 4pm. The destination is Hemmingways at the marina adjacent to the Bay Bridge [Stevensville] Airport (W29). All Club aircraft are available for this event, just schedule behind the maintenance reservation. Indicate how many seats you have available. RSVP to Dave Rice via email so we can contact the restaurant and have a table reserved. You must be aware of the flight procedures for flying VFR into this zone and follow them or file IFR....  [Full Article]

Pictures are in, check them out. Spring Poker Run 2009 Is Over Sponsored by the Lehigh Valley Flying Club and EAA Chapter 70 Poker Run 2009!  Saturday, June 27, 2009 (Rain Date is Sunday).  All are welcome!!! Start at any Airport (Allentown - ABE(Hangar 5), Reading - RDG(AFS FBO adjacent to the Museum), Blairstown - 1N7, Wings - LOM, Braden's Airpark (N43) $15.00 per hand and you can by more than one! Missed cards for missed airports can be picked at Braden's Airpart N43. Buy extra h...  [Full Article]

Come join the members of the Lehigh Valley Flying Club for a FREE open house! You're Invited! No RSVP Needed! Just show up for food, fun and prizes! Tour the Hangar See the Aircraft and Talk with Our Members August 15, 2009 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM Rain Date is August 16, 2009 KABE / Hangar 5 (off of Race St.) Please drive, we have limited ramp space. Directions Please Note the Safety Seminar has been Changed to : Making the Best Out of a Bad Situation Sponsored by Randy Boone of Aviation Survival T...  [Full Article]