www.PSFmagazine.com | November-December 2019 | 9 8 | November-December 2019 | Powered Sport Flying Press Pass Leap into Aviation on February 29th, 2020 Southwestern Illinois College Sam Wolf Granite City Campus We are getting closer to the 40th Annual Ultralight & Light Sport Aircraft Symposium and there is much to be done. We appreciate the great hospitality provided in recent years by Greenville’s American Farm Heritage Museum, but feel our new venue, with its college aviation mission, will help us continue to grow our event. We achieved our first major milestone by visiting and locking in our new venue. Southwestern Illinois College (swic) will be our new host at their SamWolf Granite City Campus, conveniently located a half-mile south of I-270 at 4950 Maryville Road, Granite City, Illinois. The campus is home to their Aviation Maintenance Technology program and has plenty of room for all our activities, including the inside display of ultralight aircraft. Our next steps are to reconfirm past sponsors and exhibitors, recruit new ones, and line up our slate of speakers and exhibitors. We’ll also be looking for door prizes, raffle prizes and giveaways. If you have ideas or leads for good sources for those, please let me or Vickie Betts know. The facility will be accessible Friday, February 28th, for exhibitor set-up. The doors will open at 0730 on ‘Leap Day,’ February 29th, for coffee and scrambled eggs and pancakes, and time to meet and greet old friends and exhibitors. Registration begins at 0800, with opening remarks and the first session beginning at 0830. A lunch of pulled pork and turkey will be available on premises for $7, and our host will provide guided tours of the A&P and Industrial Technology labs. We’ll have door prizes and drawings throughout the day and plan to finish up around 1530. Our current sponsors include swic, Illinois Division of Aeronautics, Illinois Ultralight Advisory Council, Powered Sport Flying Magazine, Wicks Aircraft and Motorsports, the faa, and Experimental Aircraft Association Chapters 64 and 331 (The Gateway Ultralight Association Chapter). I look forward to working with everyone to ensure success of this year’s program. My contact information is: Bob McDaniel at dusterpilot@charter.net. In addition to a new location, there are some leadership changes, as well. I’m picking up the leadership reins to organize this year’s Symposium along with help from past organizers and some energetic new ones. Although Roy Beisswenger will not be available to participate in the symposium, he will continue to maintain and update our website, www.safety-seminar.com. Vickie Betts will continue to provide her great organizational and administrative skills. 40th Annual Ultralight & Light Sport Aircraft Symposium The United States Ultralight Association (usua) would like to remind members that with the change in insurance carriers from First Flight Insurance Group to O2 Sports Insurance that notices for renewals are no longer being sent by First Flight. If you would like to take advantage of usua’s 3rd Party Liability Insurance Policy, you will need to contact O2 Sports Insurance to begin being insured through them. Our representative there is Kandace Kalin. You can reach her toll-free at 1-855-351-0202 or email her at kk@o2sportsinsurance.com. To be eligible for the insurance program, the aircraft owner must be a current usua member and the aircraft must either be N-numbered or (if an ultralight) have a usua registration number. You can download the registration application at www.usua.org/PDF/VehicleApplication2016.pdf. In addition, each aircraft operator needs to be a current usua member and be able to show that he/she can competently fly the aircraft. The insurance program covers ultralights and most light sport aircraft (slsa, Experimental Light Sport and Experimental Amateur Built). Categories include airplanes, seaplanes, powered parachutes, weight shift control trikes, ultralights, and powered paragliders. Learn more about the usua at usua.org. Is Your Insurance Current?
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