Just landed my #XPlane #flightsim virtual #Cirrus SF50 Vision jet at KOSH (IFR RNAV approach to RWY 18) to bring some virtual #EAA staffers back from a make-believe conference in Wilmington, DE.

Ground told me to park on Boeing Plaza but a Cathay Pacific four-seven was taking up all the space. Get a load of that cool livery! Taxied thru the back streets to park in front of the tower instead.

email just arrived, from european association of archaeologists. the annual meeting was to be in belgrade, but in light of crackdown on student protests, they’re pulling the plug and moving fully online. i applaud the #eaa for having moral clarity here and the courage to do so. #archaeology

Our Tuesday build night made good progress on the Zenith kit. I worked on making the leading edge slat brackets while others worked on getting ribs attached to the wings. It's nice working with clear instructions.

I ordered 100 Young Eagles stickers to give out to the kids we take flying at our next Young Eagles rally. It isn't much but I hope it'll help them remember the experience of flying when they look at it in the future.

The European Accessibility Act (EAA), introduced in 2019, sets EU-wide standards to make digital products and services more accessible for everyone.

With the compliance deadline fast approaching, read @tink's blog post to learn more about what it means, how it impacts you and crucially, what you need to do to comply.

https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/03/19/understanding-the-eaa/

In my efforts to plan a fly-out for my EAA chapter I made a spreadsheet of events with times, dates, distances, and ranked things based on availability, runway type, and so on. I specifically looked up every EAA chapter in Wisconsin to try and see what events they might be having and I think for our first fly-out I am going to propose we go support EAA Chapter 371 for their Pancake Breakfast and Car Show at C47 on May 25th.

If any of you are Wisconsin (or like long XCs) pilots I hope you'll drop in too and we can chat airplanes.

Tuesday build at the EAA hangar. We started by making some slat support backets for the nose ribs while another team identified the ribs for the wing. An encouraging start to our build as we have nice instructions, a nice kit, and nice videos to help us.

The European Accessibility Act (EAA) – Must Haves, Should Haves and Would Haves https://testlio.com/blog/european-accessibility-act/ #eaa #a11y #law #eu

I saw in Jack Pelton's column in latest #EAA Sport Aviation Magazine that he called their annual #aviation family reunion "EAA Airventure Oshkosh 2025".

It got me thinking of all the names we use for the same event.

So, a quick poll. In normal conversation what do you call EAA's annual convention and show?

Is anyone else planning on going to the #EAA #AirVenture in Oshkosh in July? I got my hotel reservation and tickets booked for Thursday and Friday. It's going to be my first time going during the week.

I was looking through my EAA chapter's 3-year plan and I noticed their goal was to do three fly-outs per year and last year we did zero. I'm pretty sure the year prior we also did zero (although I joined right after Air Venture). So, since I'm on the board I should do my best to make sure our goal plans are followed, yeah?

So now here I am drafting up destinations, pilot briefings, figuring out other logistics for passengers / waivers. I'd love for any tips or advice from others that have done fly-outs. One thing I'd like to do is order some "mission patches" for those that come along as a fun little handout. People, of course, don't have to take them if they don't want them.

I was looking to see if the EAA website had any guidance on setting up a fly-out but I didn't find much upon my first scrounging through. I'll probably email someone at HQ just to make sure, but in the absence of guidance I'm not afraid to make my own.

Have any of you gone on fly-outs with a chapter (or wanted to?). I'm reading other Chapter's blogs as well to suss out what makes success (food seems to be the big winner).

This hour's random desktop background image on my #MacbookPro is this cool sunset shot of a DC-3 outside someone's farm. I did not shoot this, not sure who did...but...

I have flown north/south in the Willamette Valley of #Oregon many times, and outside Corvallis I always looked for the farm that had a DC-3 parked outside, clearly visible from my cruising altitude. Not sure if this is the same one, but nice eye candy anyway.

EAA Build Night at the Chapter. While some of us focused on creating an inventory of parts for the Murphy Rebel we are looking to sell the rest of us focused on cleaning the Zenith CH-750 kit from its 10 years of grime and dust. We were careful not to intermingle the parts and moved things around to store them while we processed things. The weather here is being generous and it is getting warmer.

LibreOffice hat in Version 25.2 den Export von barrierefreien PDF-Dokumenten nochmals verbessert.

Das habe ich mir zum Anlass genommen, um im Detail zu zeigen, wie man zu einem gültigen PDF/UA kommt.

Wie muss ein Dokument aufgebaut und eingerichtet sein?
Wie läuft der Export und wie kann ich prüfen?

Steht alles im neuen Blogpost …

#LibreOffice #PDFUA #PDF #Accessibility #accessiblePDF #Barrierefreiheit #BFSG #EAA

https://www.alexandra-oettler.de/2025/tipps-f%C3%BCr-barrierefreie-pdf-dateien-aus-libreoffice

My EAA chapter is trying to come up with ideas for fundraising and community engagement. Would love suggestions or feedback on some ideas I'll write about below.

First though, it's a hard sell to convince people to give you money for hobby aviation and I get it. A bunch of guys messing around with planes? Why should I give money to that. One area I'd like to put more money in is education and we have scholarships and Young Eagles rallies we do our best, as well as our build nights where we mentor people on construction of an airplane kit. Our chapter has also hosted instructors giving intro sessions to flying and we have had STEM events for local schools. I'd love more ideas in education too, I'm a huge fan of education and teaching.

On to ideas about raising funds so we can do these things. We have an annual fly in with raffles and concessions which is our primary fund raise event and it does okay. Even more I'd love to find a corporate sponsor (or a few) but I haven't started that journey. Ideally they would be sponsoring something specific, a blank check is nice but I like transparency. I've considered reaching out to Chambers of commerce in my area and the municipalities and airport authorities to get ideas and build some relationships which brings us to the next point.

Our fly-in is also about helping build community relations in our area. We want the community to know we're here and what we're doing. More still I want to see us get engaged in non-aviation volunteering in our communities (marathons, festivals, etc) to give to our community in ways that supports it. I'd love ideas there too, as I have a few but no harm in considering everything.

All of this is driven by our three year plan. We are in the process of drafting and debating the next three year plan and I'd like to see us be more engaged. Having a social club is nice but having a club making a difference is rewarding.

Of course all this will be considered by the members, as it is my job to serve their interests, not just my own. I'll be in front of the group selling my vision and hopefully parts of it get adopted so we move in a direction I think will be beneficial.

Just my Sunday thoughts #community #eaa

I spent $225 on the #EAA Airventure already and I still need to book a pet sitter.

Was just digging thru my drives and found a few #aviation #photos all you #avgeeks might like. Descriptions in the ALT text.

The Hill Billy Flyer, photographed at AirVenture Oshkosh 2004. #Photography #PhotographyOnMastodon #Aviation #Ornithopter #EAA #AirVenture #Oshkosh