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COPAMA 2006 THE YEARS EVENTS IN REVIEW. JANUARY MEETING Many thanks go to Landmark Aviation for sponsoring our meeting and providing the presentation by Mr. Scott Brooks on Precision RNAV Operations and WAAS. Proposed changes to the By-Laws of the COPAMA organization were presented and a formal vote will be held at next months meeting. COPAMA awarded 16 testing scholarships to students of CSCC. See the Scholarships link for more information! FEBRUARY MEETING The meeting started with a report by Jeff Gruber on COPAMA's involvement in the Great Lakes Regional PAMA Olympic held in Lansing, Michigan, January 20th and 21st. The Chapter then conducted a short business meeting to vote on the adoption of proposed changes to the COPAMA By-Laws. The changes which were emailed to the membership and presented at last month's meeting were unanimously approved. Then, Doug Stewart from AircraftLogs.com, based at Lane Aviation, gave an informative presentation titled "Using Computers In Record Keeping" covering the electronic storage of documents, electronic signatures and FAA requirements for those procedures. COPAMA would like to thank AircraftLogs and Doug for his presentation and AircraftLogs and Gulfstream Aerospace for Co-Sponsoring the meeting. MARCH MEETING AT JP'S BBQ GREAT SUCCESS! Our March meeting, held on Wednesday, March 15 at JP's BBQ at Bolton Field was a fun-filled event for all who attended. This was our first attempt to coincide the meeting with the Ohio Aviation Maintenance Symposium with a program that was both informational and entertaining. There was a short meeting with two students receiving academic Scholarships and PAMA President Brian Finnegan discussing the National AMT Day Resolution above, the exciting new affiliation between PAMA and SAE followed by a great, sponsor funded dinner. Guest Speaker Jim Miller from Aircraft Technical Support gave a spirited and lively talk on his adventures while recovering a Falcon 10 aircraft from the Amazon River area of Brazil. We thank Brian and Jim for helping make this meeting one to remember for a long time and Dale Forton our Director of PAMA's Great Lake Region for attending.
Dondi and Jim Miller
Brian talks about National AMT Day and PAMA/SAE
Clockwise from foreground Symposium visitor Ben Ladd from S.E. Ohio, Cliff Marr (CET Awardee), Claire Kosbab (CET Awardee) , Earl Redmond and Cliff Kelling Special thanks go to Jeff Gruber and Gene Sprang of Columbus State Community College for coming up with and organizing the first of a probable annual event. Louie Fura also played a big part of its success by gathering support from the vendors below to fund the meeting. Thanks Jeff, Gene, Louie, JP's BBQ and staff and all the others behind the scene that helped! All of this would have been impossible without our Sponsors for the meeting, NetJets, Bizjet, SISU Services, RAPCO, Stevens Aviation, AirNet, API, Raytheon, Elliott Aviation, CRS Jet Spares, Inc., Midcoast, Champion Aerospace and Goodyear. Please remember to thank all of them for providing dinner, the raffle prizes and helping make this meeting possible! COPAMA SPONSORS AWARDS AT DISTRICT SCIENCE DAY ON SATURDAY MARCH 18TH
COPAMA has again sponsored awards at the District Science Day held at the
Columbus State Main Campus (off of I-670 at Cleveland Avenue). Details of the event and winners
are posted on our Scholarship page. Congratulations to all who competed
and our members who judged the event!
COPAMA RECEIVES PAMA "CHAPTER OF THE YEAR 2005" AWARD! Central Ohio PAMA Chapter received the prestigious "Chapter of the Year 2005 award at last month's PAMA Maintenance Symposium is Las Vegas. The presentation was part of the Annual Awards Breakfast held on Thursday, March 30th. COPAMA Vice President Jeff Gruber and Treasurer Donna Bricker were there to accept the award on behalf of the chapter. In light of the many fine Chapters in PAMA, it is an honor for us to receive this distinguished award and national recognition. Thanks to all who have spent long hours to help organize, establish and support the COPAMA Chapter, making it the national award winner!
(L to R) Dave Orcutt, Director of PAMA, Jeff and Donna.
COPAMA THANKS CHAMPION AEROSPACE FOR SPONSORING APRIL MEETING! The April meeting was sponsored by Champion Aerospace. We want to thank Rick Busch for his presentation on "Ignition Leads & Spark Plug Clinic" and Champion for providing the meal. Champion has long been a manufacturer of aircraft ignition and other support components and we thank them for their continued support. COPAMA'S MAY 9TH MEETING FINISHES SPRING PROGRAM AND STARTS SUMMER BREAK! The May meeting was sponsored by CRS Jet Spares and featured presentations by John Iverson about CRS Jet Spares and Henry Toby of Securaplane Technologies on Securaplane Main-ship Batteries. Many thanks to John and Henry for the food and presentations and Lane Aviation for the use of their facility. This starts the summer break with the first meeting in the fall scheduled for September 12th. Be sure to sign up for the golf outing at the link below and have a safe and fun filled summer! SUMMER BREAK : JUNE - AUGUST TRI-ARC MANUFACTURING SPONSORS OUR FIRST MEETING OF THE FALL! Our September meeting was held at Lane Aviation with the Custom Solutions division of Tri-Arc giving a presentation on their specialized products for aviation maintenance. Our many thanks to Tim Zenchak and Tim Resciniti for the dinner and presentation on Tri-Arc's products! Please visit their Custom Solutions link at http://www.tri-arc.com/customsolutions/.Central Ohio Aviation Golf Outing Big Success! September 15, 2006 There was plenty of fun and prizes for all who attended our Annual Golf Outing presented in cooperation with the Professional Pilots Association. As we collect the photos and build the webpage we'd like to initially start by thanking Jeff Gruber and his Golf Committee, Donna Bricker our Treasurer, The Landings at Rickenbacker Golf Course, the many Sponsors, Volunteers and 126 Players that made this fund raiser for the COPAMA Scholarship Fund a Hugh Success. Click on the Logo below to view this years Golf Outing webpage. Photos of the event will be added as they become available, so check back often!
OCTOBER MEETING SPONSORED BY HONEYWELL WITH A PRESENTATION ON THEIR NEW HTF-7000 (AS907) ENGINE! The October meeting was sponsored by
Honeywell and held at Lane Aviation's at Port Columbus Facility
Joe Hough gave the presentation on their HTF-7000 engine with its innovative and ease of maintenance technology.
This was one of the first presentations on this
powerplant for the Bombardier Challenger 300 aircraft.
Click Here to visit their website for more information about the
HTF-7000. PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA SPONSORS COPAMA
NOVEMBER MEETING! Many thanks to Bill Chapell and Sean McGee of
Pratt & Whitney Canada
for their presentation and sponsoring our November 14th meeting sponsored by .
The
program was informative and provided techniques and photo examples on Engine
Borescope inspections. \
COPAMA ELECTS 4
BOARD MEMBERS TO 2 YEAR TERM! The November meeting also included the election of 4 or our members to
the Board of Directors for a two year term. We thank all the candidates for
their willingness to serve. Those chosen to serve on the Board were... HOLIDAY DINNER AND DANCE
HELD TUESDAY DECEMBER 12TH.
This years event on Tuesday December 12th featured Dinner to the music of
David Rousselle of Roadrunner Music and a Dance
to raise funds for the COPAMA Scholarship Fund. Lane Aviation at Port
Columbus provided space for this annual event and many attended
with their spouses and friends!
This Years Sponsors were... The COPAMA presentation included the introduction of our newly elected
Board Members and the announcement of Officers. Donna Bricker will continue
as treasurer, Marie Brown will assume the duties of Secretary, Irv
Schumacher will serve as our new Vice-President and Lowell Dowler will
continue as President for 2007. We said thank you to our "Stepping Down"
Board Members, Cliff Kelling, Jeff Gruber and Louie Fura. We also said good
luck to Jim Huntoon of Gulfstream as he moves to Florida to take on a
different territory for GA. Raffle prizes provided by our many supporting
vendors were distributed throughout the evening and the 50/50 raffle was won
by Roy Cottrill who graciously donated his half back to the Scholarship
Fund. For those who attended, we'd like to hear your feedback on the format
of the event, your likes and dislikes so we may make the dinner more
enjoyable next year. We thank all who bought tickets and otherwise
contributed to this fund raising event. This page was last updated on
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