A MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF THE ALBUQUERQUE AEROSTAT ASCENSION ASSOCIATION & EDUCATION
ALBUQUERQUE INTERNATIONAL BALLOON FIESTA. KIRTLAND FEDERAL CREDIT UNION.
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GENERAL MEETING 26TH JUNE 6/630PM
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AAAA Board of Directors PRESIDENT Caryn Welz Phone: 505 948 1111 President@hotairballooning.org
SECRETARY Sue Oldenburg Phone: Secretary@Hotairballooning.org
FLYING EVENTS Zerek Welz Phone: 505 948 1112 Flying-events@hotairballooning.org
VICE PRESIDENT Frank Mezzancello Phone: 505 980 1945 Vice-president@hotairballooning.org
TREASURER Dick Rice Phone: 505 239 0200 Treasurer@hotairballooning.org
COMMUNITY RELATIONS Jason Burns Phone: Community-relations@hotairballooning.org
SPECIAL EVENTS Board of Directors Page Charity Blanchard
EDUCATION Don Boyer Phone: 505 249 7661 Education@hotairballooning.org
Phone:505 235 4799 Special-events@hotairballooning.org
CREW DEVELOPMENT Tom Kious Phone: 505 453 6606 crew-dev@hotairballooning.org
WAYS & MEANS Rachel Zimmer Phone: 505 250 7039 Ph: Ways-means@hotairballooning.org
AAAA Official Website: www.hotairballooning.org Cloudbouncer Editor Zerek Welz Editor@hotairballooning.org
Photographs by: Assorted
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Please submit your photographs for possible addition to the Coudbouncer Editor@hotairballooning.org Include when and where the photo was taken.
The Cloudbouncer is a monthly publication of the AAAA Education Foundation. PO Box 90160, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87199-0160 The AAAA Education Foundation strives to provide the most valuable forum. Editorials are solely the opinions of the authors and do not express the official view of AAAA. We authorize the reprinting of any content for the free exchange of information within AAAA with credit to the author and AAAA Cloudbouncer as the source. Acceptance of advertising cannot imply endorsement of products or services by AAAA nor the Cloudbouncer Editor, Publisher or Staff Please send articles and photos to www.hotairballooning.org. Deadline for all submissions is the Friday after the General Meeting. Articles, photographs and advertisements received after the deadline will be published in a future issue, if they are still relevant.
(Dick) – Treasurer’s Report is attached. Richard did a quick presentation on how reports are filed to give the Board and and other committee members a better understanding of how to turn in their individual reports.
Secretary (Sue) – Report given by Elisa - New Member
AAAA Board of Directors Meeting Minutes April AAAA Board Minutes Recorded by: Charity B. AAAA Board Meeting Minutes 5/14/2018 Called to order @ 5:31 PM Present: Caryn Welz Dick Rick Frank Mezzancello Rachel Zimmer Don Boyer Tom Kious Charity Blanchard Jason Burns Zerek Welz The last meeting minutes were reviewed and accepted. Committee Reports were presented and will be in the Cloudbouncer New Members: Jim Snelson Dean Klassy, Sr. Becky Curling Mike, Jen, and Tristan Garcia All new members were approved by the board.
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(Frank) – Frank stated that our presenters for the April General Meeting would be: Brad Rice presenting on his trip to the Orient Paul Gabber from the Balloon Museum.
Treasurer
Applications were reviewed. Motion to approve members was made by Frank and 2nd by Jason. All approved. Please welcome: Brandon Griego of Belen, NM Melanie Kimbull of Albuquerque, NM John and Jennifer Kugler of McCook, NE Roger MacKechnie of Tucson, AZ Karen Martin of Tucson, AZ Committee reports were presented. Following discussion, all reports were approved for the Cloudbouncer. New Business: Points of discussion during the meeting: 1. Membership cards will be printed in the order applications were received. 2. For publication in the Cloudbouncer, the submitting photographer must be a member of AAAA 3. 4 Scholarships for Balloon Camp were approved 4. Top Gun requested their yearly sponsorship of $500. In order to help with additional costs for the Rio Grande Classic a one time sponsorship of $1,000 was approved. The board requests that next year the Top Gun president attend the AAAA Board Meeting the sponsorship will be discussed during. 5. The Social Club budget was discussed and approved 6. The Education Foundation budget was discussed and approved. Next Meeting: June , 2018 at the Balloon Fiesta Office Meeting Adjourned: 7:25pm Motion made by Zerek, 2nd by Tom
Flying Events Flying Event was canceled this month due to uncooperative winds. Thank you to Barbara Fricke for volunteering to be a hare balloon and Dave Tennis for presenting weather. Thank you also to our score meister, Dave Bagley and Sam Bradshaw for handling our NOTAM.
Crew D The Mother's Day event was another no fly day. We still received 2 photos for the Mother's Day photo contest. Both Mike Voorhees' and Craig Pendleton's crew will receive equal points. There was no event scheduled for June. The July event is the Tailgate Cookoff. This will happen July 8th at Fiesta Field. Official rules will be posted on the web site. This year there will be a secret ingredient that you will need to incorporate into your dishes. Stay tuned for more details. The Crew D team is also preparing for the Navigator crew seminar in September. If you want to help, let someone on the committee know.
Community Relations Community Relations has no current request for this month.
Education The Commercial Pilot Ground School was held on April 27-29. We 19 students attending including students from TX, MO, NV and NE, and the rest from NM. The second Private Pilot Ground School for 2018 was held June 1-3. We had 24 students attending including students from CO, VA, CA, AZ, OR, MI, MO, and 13 from our local NM ballooning community. We would like to thank all the instructors who participated in these schools: Beth Wright-Smith, JD Huss, Chris Kenworthy, Tom Fisher, Dave Tennis, Don Boyer, Barbara Fricke, Ray Bair, Fred Lete, Clark O’Byrne, Peg Billson, Neal Smith, Ken Beebe and Gary Medina from the FAA. Also, all the other members of the Education Committee who help in support roles. We especially appreciate the AIBF for the use of their classroom facilities.
Video Recording: We have video recorded the Effective Instructing Seminar , Commercial and Private Ground Schools. Our plan is to eventually record all our classes and seminars and make them available online. Ken Tuley has created a YouTube channel for us. There are also a few other AAAA channels lurking on YouTube but we don’t know who set them up nor who are the admins. The current channel is “Albuquerque Aerostat Ascension Association (AAAA)” and the direct link is: http://bit.ly/AAAAvideo . Please hit the subscribe button on the page. Access to the videos and a fee structure is still being discussed. Youth Committee: Planning for the BFA Rio Grande Balloon Camp is going well. The camp will be July 7-12. The camp is full with a majority being first time campers.
Ways & Means This year’s annual AAAA Roster are in the works. We will let you know when these items become available. Sponsor banners have been printed for this year's sponsors. We will need volunteers to fly the banners at each AAAA Flying event. Each pilot will sign the banner after flying and return it. At the end of the year the sponsors will receive their banner at the AAAA Awards Banquet as a gift. All pilots that fly a banner during the year will be entered into a drawing for an BIG prize at the banquet too! We are working on a fun but secret fundraiser for this summer. The fundraiser will be held around mid summer at Westside and Unser during tailgate. We are looking for some daring individuals who would be willing to participate! Each month we will reveal a little more information. This is not something your going to want to miss!!! Please contact me if your interested. Stay tuned for more info! Looking to join a fun and exciting committee? Look no further than Ways and Means. Our next committee meeting is May 9th at 5:30pm outside at Steel Bender Brewpub. See you there!
Special Events
Hello! The Special Events year (as we on the committee like to call it) has started up and this is the final year I will be the Board Liaison. If you are interested in running for the position next March, please consider becoming a part of the committee now and see how Special Events make the magic happen! Spending a year seeing the inner workings and learning the ropes would be a huge advantage to whomever runs and wins next March! The first event will be the ice cream social! This will take place at the June Flying Event in Rio Rancho. Special Events will be scooping and serving until the ice cream runs out!!!! The scooping will start as soon as people return from flying … if the event is cancelled due to weather we will be serving dessert at the July Tailgate Cookoff! The AAAA Picnic is scheduled for August 4 at the Elena Gallegos Double Shelter Picnic Area. (This is the same place it was last year.) Steve Mezzancello will be making his final appearance as Grill Master. Times will be announced closer to the event. Upcoming Events: June 9th -- Ice Cream Social August 4th -- AAAA Picnic December 8-9 -- Jingle Bell Feb 8-10, 2019 -- Friends and Lovers
Safety Corner FAA TO END DUATS SERVICE MAY 16 PHONE BRIEFINGS, FSS WEBSITE WON’T BE AFFECTED
In response to pilot inquiries, AOPA is advising pilots that they will still have access to internet-based services including weather and aeronautical information, flight plan filing, and automated services at no charge at the flight service website. AOPA urges pilots to register for the website and use its services. The FAA also made that recommendation in a March 13 announcement of the
discontinuation of DUATS, which was introduced in 1989 and is credited with introducing many pilots to automated flightinformation services. Between now and May 16, the FAA is working with the two current DUATS II providers, Leidos and CSRA Inc., “conducting pilot outreach, establishing commercial interfaces, and providing user migration assistance,” it said. Leidos and CSRA Inc., have posted banners on their websites alerting pilots to the change, and detailing options available for receiving online weather briefings. Another option available to pilots is the AOPA Flight Planner, which offers a free preflight briefing service through Leidos. FSS website, phone briefings remain available Pilots should note that the flight service website, operated by Leidos, will function as usual after the end of DUATS II, said Rune Duke, AOPA senior director of government affairs for airspace, air traffic, and security. The FAA contract with Leidos extends to the year 2020, during which time the FAA is preparing for its Future Flights Services program—a contract it expects to award in the next year. AOPA has been an active participant with the FAA in crafting the Future Flight Service Program's (FFSP) services and requirements to address the needs of GA. “We think it is important, and the FAA agreed, that having the customer’s voice in the room is critical to this process resulting in a successful Future Flights Services program,” Duke said.
“We understand the importance to pilots of being able to call flight service and ask questions and receive flight critical information. This service is critical to safety and we believe it is important the FAA maintain this service for the foreseeable future,” he added. The critical nature of “unencumbered access to speak to a flight service specialist” for pilots was a point of emphasis in an April 10 letter from AOPA Vice President of Government Affairs Melissa Rudinger to the FAA’s the Future Flight Services Program’s managers. “Many barriers prevent the realization of a fully automated preflight and inflight service, but we propose that working together we can promote the utilization of online selfassisted services and see the migration of many more General Aviation pilots to automated services,” she wrote.
Community Requests GREETINGS! I am a member of the AIBF Heritage Committee. Jewel Cutter and I are working on an article for the 2018 Fiesta program and could use some help. We are writing about the Balloon Fiesta Queens. We have some information, but many blanks. Is there a way to ask the AAAA members whether they have information on Balloon Fiesta Queens? We are also interested in the Fiesta Parades. We appreciate any help you can provide. Information can be sent to me at mnason@cabq.gov Regards, Marilee ************************************************** Marilee Schmit Nason, Ph.D., Curator of Collections Anderson – Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum
General Meeting Highlight of Minutes from Tuesday May 22, 2018 Caryn, our President, welcomed our members and guests that were in attendance. No new certificates or balloons were announced. Paul Garver presented on the Balloon Museum and what it offers for the community. The Board was convened at this time. Members present: President (Caryn); Vice President (Frank); Treasurer (Dick); Crew Development (Tom); Special Events (Charity); Education (Don); Flying Events (Zerek); Community Relations (Jason). Members absent: Secretary (Sue). Vice President (Frank) – If anyone is interested in joining the Program Committee, please contact Frank at vicepresident@hotairballooning.org. Secretary (given by Caryn) – A welcome and Thank You to our new members! Treasurer (Dick) – Look for the Pie Charts in the Cloudbouncer and as always if anyone has any questions, please contact Dick at treasurer@hotairballooning.org. Committee reports were presented at this time. Committee reports will be in the Cloudbouncer. Safety Corner – Don Boyer, Duncan Hernandez and Zerek Welz presented on flying in thermals. The evening finished with a final raffle drawing. Next meeting: Tuesday, June, 26th
We need your help! Several of our committees are in need of a few more volunteers. If you would like to join our Flying Events, our Ways and Means, our Community Relations or Crew Development please email Caryn Welz at president@hotairballooning.org. We are also looking for someone to manage our online presence. If you are good with technology or willing to learn please email Zerek Welz at flyingevents@hotairballooning.org.
Rio Grande Classic 1st place - Rhett Heartsill 2nd place - Bruce Wood 3rd place - Neil Jackson NM State Championship 1st place - Neil Jackson 2nd place - Jason Buckner 3rd place - Ray Bair To get all daily scores for each pilot visit our website at www.riograndeclassic.org June Top Gun flying event Sunday, June 17th Registration: 5:15am Pilot Briefing 5:45am Meeting at AIBF offices
Other Ballooning Organizations: Other Ballooning Organizations: BFA () – No representation VFRS (Kelli Ballengee) – No updates. Top Gun (Will Fitzpatrick) – Rio Grande Classic Fiesta – No representation
TOP GUN:
May's Top Gun flying event was better known as 2018 Rio Grande Classic (RGC) Special Thank You to all the staff, scorers, volunteers and pilots. Big shout out to Harold "Bubba" Cliver for being the Event Director Super Big shout out to Elisa Trillanes for being our Scoring Officer A great event that had 34 participating pilots. Congatulations to the winners.
Balloon Museum/Foundation (Paul Garver) – Presented on museum facilities Balloon Explorium () – No updates
CAMERON BALLOON SALES Need consultation, information or quotes on a new balloon. Call Beth Wright-Smith at 604-2865. pilotschool@lobo.net. Website: www.airborneheat.com and on Facebook
WELCOME TO CREW CHIEF’S CORNER! Its Wildfire Season
Since we are often flying around with an open flame be cautious with the many dry areas we fly in and around. Here is some info from weather.gov
Classifieds BALLOON FOR SALE-Envelope: 2005 Firefly 8B (90K cu ft) Red, White, Blue w/Nomex skirt & Instruments and travel bag. Basket: 4x5 wicker Galaxy tall, plumbed for 6-10 gal tanks w/ heater covers. Burner: T3 w/fire 2. System comes with inflator has low hours, clean, excellent condition...a great starter system. Call Becky 970-946-1406 or Email RCurlingNM@msn.com
Albuquerque Aerostat Ascension Association AAAA Education Foundation Treasurer’s Report April 30, 2018
COMMENTS: Well here we are 11 months down and one to go. Both entities have operated within the approved budget for the year. The Education Committee had four successful seminars with one more slated for June and the Special Events Committee put on two fun flying Events. Our Vice President has changed things up with his Toast & Roast’s and excellent programs and The Safety Corner. All in all it has been a successful year and your Board is already planning next years events. Why don’t you invite yourself to a committee meeting and get in on the fun. CASH: Cash on hand at the end of April in the Education Foundation was $54,103, a decrease of approximately 11% from the same period last year, and The AAAA Club cash was $21,344, an approximate 9% increase from the same period last year. INCOME STATEMENT: At the end of April we were showing an excess of revenue over disbursements of $6,764 in the Education Foundation compared to $11,022 for the same period last year. Excess disbursements over revenue in the AAAA Club were $637 compared to $-1,732 for the same period last year.
Treasurer Report
Closing Comments: You will find in this issue of the CloudBouncer a one page summary of both the Education Foundation and the AAAA Club Statements of Receipts and Disbursements with Budget Comparison along with illustrative Pie Charts, which I hope you will take the time to review. I welcome any questions, comments, or thoughts for improvement. Dick Rice Treasurer Treasurer@hotairballooning.org
AAAA Statement of Receipts & Disbursements with Budget Comparison Eleven Months ended 4/30/2018
Annual Budget 6/1/2017- 6/30/2018
Ordinary Income/Expenses Income Other Types of Income Membership Board & Administration Flying Events Programs Total Income
0.00 15,455.00 18.89 1,863.00 0.00
0.00 17,000.00 20.00 4,300.00 0.00
17,336.89
21,320.00
7,419.72 3,500.00 293.24 0.00 718.46 1,800.00 4,242.11 0.00
8,080.00 4,000.00 800.00 0.00 900.00 1,850.00 5,690.00 0.00
17,973.53
21,320.00
-636.64
0.00
Expenses
Flying Events Special Events Membership Facilities and Equipment Treasurer Report Board and Administration Other Types of Expenses - Insurance Programs Community Relations Total Expenses Net Ordinary Income
Income
Flying Events 11%
Other 11%
Membership 89%
Programs 0% Other Types of Income 0%
Board & Administration 0%
Treasurer Report Expenses
Community Relations 0%
Board and Administration 4%
Programs 24% Flying Events 41%
Other Types of Expenses - Insurance 10%
Membership 2% Special Events 19%
Facilities and Equipment 0%
AAAA Education Foundation
Income & E x p e n s e C o m p a r i s o n with Budget Eleven Months en d ed
Annual Budget
4/30/2018
6/1/2017 - 5/31/2018
Ordinary Income/Expense Income Chase Crew Development Communications Dividends Education Special Events Ways &Means Direct Public Support Other Types of Income Total Income
250.00 667.00 86.57 26,208.75 23,491.00 7,016.31 150.00 111.04
1,350.00 1,400.00 100.00 24,000.00 22,100.00 17,500.00 600.00 100.00
57,980.67
67,150.00
1,185.97 746.24 15,866.94 28,477.57 2,880.17 60.00 0.00 1,999.93
2,200.00 4,000.00 15,500.00 33,550.00 8,450.00 650.00 0.00 2,800.00
51,216.82
67,150.00
6,763.85
0.00
Expense Communications Chase Crew Development Education Special Events Ways &Means Board and Miscellaneous Facilities and Equipment Operations
Treasurer Report
Total Expense Net Income
Income 111.04, 0%
250.00, 1% 86.57, 0%
150.00, 0% 667.00, 1%
Chase Crew Development
7,016.31, 12%
26,208.75, 45%
Communications Dividends Education Special Events Ways & Means Direct Public Support Other Types of Income
23,491.00, 41%
Treasurer Report 1,999.93, 4% 746.24, 1% 0.00, 0%
Expense 1,185.97, 2%
60.00, 0%
2,880.17, 6%
Communications Chase Crew Development 15,866.94, 31%
Education Special Events Ways &Means Board and Miscellaneous Facilities and Equipment Operations
28,477.57, 56%
Debbie Reynolds
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Margie Takach
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Bobby Glover
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Warren Book
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Ruth Lind
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Kurtis Boxberger
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Buzz Biernacki
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Keith Fear
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Keith Takach
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Zoe Conant
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Don Boyer
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Eugene Foxworthy
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Connie Boyer
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Earl Buzzard
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Patricia Mezzancello
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Cyndie Patrick
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John Griffin
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Larry Willetts
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Keri Lee Little
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Thomas McConnell, II
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Alan Zielinski
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Ken Falkenberg
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Malachi Conant
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Paul Wills
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Patricia Candelaria
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Ryan Gunter
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Bryan Mick
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Linda Bonney
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Lori Van Sant
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Ralph Keyser
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Stephanie Mast
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William Barry
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Susan Wood
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David Caffey
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Susan Armstrong
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Catharine Stringfellow
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Jill Lane
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Ken Tuley
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Dale Ruth
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Calling all tailgate Chefs!!
Get ready for the July cook off. Details to come. Sponsored by Crew D
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“All advertisements must be prepaid with a Credit Card. The deadline for advertisements is the third Friday of the month. Email advertisements to Beth Wright-Smith pbtsmith@lobo.net An invoice will then be emailed as well as payment instructions.” EDITORS NOTE:
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