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2024 Short Wing Piper Convention
June 17-21
LINKS TO REGISTRATION FORMS ARE AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE AND ON THE WEBSITE
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We are excited to be hosting the 2024 Short Wing Piper Club Annual Conven-
tion in Madras OR on June 17 through June 21 (departure date). We are working on presenters with experience and knowledge about our Short Wing aircraft with ideas and products to keep us flying and improving. We have an entertaining and knowledgeable WINGS
program presenter coming to help us pilots keep flying and improving.
The plan is to have an instructor or two at the Madras airport for flight re- views in conjunction
with the WINGS program. We also have a presenter on fire fighting TFRs, which are very common in the west now, with some incredible pictures.
The Madras airport is home to the Erickson Aircraft Collection. Most of these vintage aircraft are kept in flying condition and they are looking forward to our visit.
We are planning a poker run or fly out as well as some fun activities for those attendees who would like to see a little more of Central Oregon besides Short Wings.
Our motel will be the Inn at Cross Keys Station in Madras, about three miles from the airport. This beautiful motel has a very nice convention area where most of the presentations will be, as well as a great area for us to gather all week.
As we get all our ducks in a row and the calendar solidified, we’ll send out more information.
Thank you to the board of the SWPC for giving us the opportunity to welcome you all to our part of the country.
Tim and Julie Wilson
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The following is the current convention schedule.
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Monday June 17: 9:30 am – 4:00 pm Registration at The Inn at Cross Keys, Conference room
Meet and greet social @ 5:30 pm at airport
After Pizza and drinks, tour of attending airplanes
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Tuesday June 18: Conference Room at Cross Keys
8:00 am Local history, with maps of local area
9:30 am Board of Directors meeting
10:30 am General Membership meeting
Lunch 11:30 am $15.00 each
1:00 pm Tour Erickson’s Aircraft Museum $7.00 each
3:30 pm Wings Program at Hotel (Basic Med., Pattern work, Do the right thing)
Dinner, on your own
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Wednesday June 19:
8:00 am Poker Run; Leave Madras (S33), Prineville (S39), Sunriver (S21), Redmond
(KRDM) (class Charlie), return to Madras
8:00 am -Meet for Guided Fishing Trip
Lunch on your own, recommended New Basin Distilling, next to airport
1:30 pm Seminar Tom Anderson, Windows
2:30 pm uAvionix presentation and question and Answer
Alternative is Stained Glass class and winery for appetizers
Dinner, on your own
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Thursday June 20: Conference room at hotel
8:00 am Doug Stewart fabric covering and repairs, questions, and answers
10:00 am Steve Carruthers Piper Rudder NPRM
Lunch, on your own
1:00 pm Tom Anderson, Where do you find????
2:00 pm Mary, Fire TFRs, what’s going on in there?
4:30 pm, Social hour
5:30 Closing Banquet with Keynote speaker, Aerial Fire Suppression with pictures!
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Convention Uptate
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By the time you read this, the convention will just over a month away. If you have not registered, please register soon. As you can see, we are going to the Pacific northwest this year. You will find the registration form elsewhere in this issue and soon available
of the website and we will be posting on Facebook as well.
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This year we are going to be spending more time on our airplanes and how to maintain them. If you have a topic in particular that you want covered, please contact us ASAP and we will do everything possible to cover these topics. We will have presentations from
uAvionix and we are still working on other manufactures to present to us as well. Power flow exhaust initially committed to attending, then had a conflict and they cannot attend, but they did provide an awesome prize for someone!
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We will be discussing the NPRM in detail and answering questions so everyone knows as much as we know. Your club has done so much for you on this topic and if you know anyone with a fabric covered Piper that is not a member of this club, please encourage them
to become a member! We will have seminars about fabric covering and repairing your fabric. Also, about flying in the mountains and more backwoods operations. We will also have a presentation about the Fighting Tri-pacer by Doug Kulick. Yes, it truly is a warbird!
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Also available if we can get enough people to sign up for this event. We will need 5 additional people to sign up, but a guided fishing experience. We could get 3 people to a boat with a guide with rods furnished, but flies are at your expense. So, here is
how it would break down.
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$250 per person, includes waders, rods, lunch & drinks in a raft with a guide.
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$23 Oregon daily fishing license
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$45 per person tip for the guide
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$25 per person for fly’s and miscellaneous
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$345 Total per person based on a group of 6. Fewer than 6 the price goes to $450 per person
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Doug will provide at no cost one of his bamboo Kane Klassics fly rods per boat, as a comparison to the graphite rods used today. If interested please let me know ASAP so we can get this arranged!
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This is promising to be a great time for everyone. We have a stained-glass workshop arranged and I am still working on something else for the ladies.
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See you in Oregon! Steve Carruthers
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