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Thu 05/25/06


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     1. 10:46 AM - Re: WAM- Sunday-MQI (Larry Bowen)
     2. 07:27 PM - FW: Horace Williams Airport's 80th Birthday - We Can Save It & Make Sure the Birthday Comes!!!  (Larry Bowen)
     3. 09:30 PM - PACE BBQ (N136CH@webtv.net (Charlie Hall))
 
 
 


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    Time: 10:46:36 AM PST US
    Subject: Re: WAM- Sunday-MQI
    From: "Larry Bowen" <Larry@bowenaero.com>
    Cc: Mid-AtlRVwing@yahoogroups.com --> RVSouthEast-List message posted by: "Larry Bowen" <Larry@BowenAero.com> FYI SERVers - Coastal destination opportunities for this Sunday... -- Larry Bowen Larry@BowenAero.com http://BowenAero.com Joseph Czachorowski said: > Guys, > > Jon has a good idea there. However, let me enhance it some. Instead > of landing at FFA (First Flight where there is no transportation), how > about landing at Dare County (MQI). I called the FBO and they have a > courtesy Van and a courtesy car available. Obviously it's first come > first serve. So, we can beat the odds and plan an arrival between 11 > am and 11:30 am. I'll try to secure the VAN early. > > We did this very same WAM about 4 years ago and took the VAN to a local > recommended seafood restaurant. Worked out perfect. > > If you still want to see First Flight, you can do it before or after. I > plan on doing it after lunch. Sunday's weather looks good right now. > > Maybe Don Kugler's guys from NJ and Larry Bowen's SERV group might be > interested? How about ya Scott Jordan? NE RV's up for this? > > Just a stone's throw for you Curtis! > > Can I get a headcount for the transportation? > > Happy Memorial Day weekend everyone! > > Zack > > (Larry and Don...could you guys post to your groups?)


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    Time: 07:27:57 PM PST US
    From: "Larry Bowen" <Larry@bowenaero.com>
    Subject: FW: Horace Williams Airport's 80th Birthday - We Can
    Save It & Make Sure the Birthday Comes!!! --> RVSouthEast-List message posted by: "Larry Bowen" <Larry@BowenAero.com> Forwarding on Randy's behalf: - Larry Bowen Larry@BowenAero.com http://BowenAero.com ________________________________ From: Randy Utsey [mailto:djdist@bellsouth.net] Hi Larry, could you post this to our readership group? Thank you, Randy Utsey djdist@bellsouth.net www.djdist.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Hudson <mailto:cahudson@cahudson.cnc.net> To: Taylor,Keith <mailto:av8ndds@nc.rr.com> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 4:12 PM Subject: Horace Williams Airport's 80th Birthday - We Can Save It & Make Sure the Birthday Comes!!! To the past and present Friends of Horace Williams (IGX): It's spring again and time again to save one of our favorite - OK, our very favorite - airport. Our state legislature is doing business over in Raleigh and we need to be involved in that business. The easy part of this is that we can and will have a huge effect on their approach to UNC's airport if, as a group, we endup with 10 people who call, fax or email each NC legislator in favor of keeping the airport open. Fact is, NC legislators who hear from this many voters about ANY issue consider it a significant concern. If they hear from 20, it's a Biblical deluge. The ol' groundswell is starting to rise, and we need you to make your opinion known to your lawmakers (House and Senate). If you aren't a resident of NC, please forward this to your friends and contacts who are, as you may be their only link to this issue and make the ultimate difference on this airport threat. If you are a member or manager of a club or association with aviators as members, please share this with your members and ask for their assistance/contact with NC legislators post haste. I attach the full status report on this historic airport in Word with links to the NC General Assembly website so that you can reach YOUR legislators. Copies to Sen. Marc Basnight, Speaker Jim Black and Gov. Mike Easley will mean a great deal too, and these email contacts are included in the attached. Your comments to legislators by Saturday, June 10 will continue to change this issue in favor of airport survival. The legislative leadership will take this up if they hear from enough people concerned with the losses to the state's healthcare and aviation system which would follow closure......and we may have no other way to save this historic airport - 78 years old (1928) this year. Let's help ol' Horace Williams get to 80 and all the way to her centennial a few years out!!! Please holler at me with any questions or feedback. It would be particularly helpful in working with our lawmakers to know what you hear from your representatives - i.e. their position - when you contact them or their staff. It is not dishonorable or impolite to ask them to get back to you with their position on the airport. Remember, all we need is a few comments from constituents per legislator. Yours may be the one it takes to keep IGX open, so let's act before June 10. Thanks sincerely for your past and continuing dedicated efforts toward saving Horace Williams. Chris Hudson Mid-Atlantic Regional Representative Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association PO Box 33877 Charlotte, NC 28233-3877 (704)338-9161 Fax 333-0883 cahudson@concentric.net ===================== ===================== ===================== UNCs Horace Williams Airport (IGX) Issue Points 1)The 2005-2006 NC budget provided for a legislatively-appointed study commission which wouldhear from UNCs own AHEC doctorsto evaluate whathaving to fly from RDU (not Horace Williams) would do to the doctors' practices, ability to see patients,and to health care in NCgenerally. The commission was to be appointed and provide its report to the legislature prior to May 9, whenthe General Assemblyreconvened. Unfortunately, the legislature has chosen not to appoint and allow the commission to do its work. UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees and others favoring the "no-airport" option have so far convinced the legislatorsthat they need not actually appoint the study commission, not to mention actually require it to do its work as authorized in the current budget act. Their PAC has contributed tens of thousands of dollars to state legislators in this election cycle, at the same time asking the legislature for permission to close the airport. 2)UNC physicians and the AHEC programs own figures tell us that its air program produces $95 million annually in billings through UNC Hospitals. Most of these are billed to patients referred to Chapel Hill from the statewide remote clinics where the doctors visit. UNC health care pros treat over 15,000 patients each year through the AHEC air programs. A number of UNC doctors, PhDs and nurses who want to testify to legislators about the impact of an airport closure on their patients say that they will simply be unable to see patients in AHEC clinics and carry their normal Chapel Hill workload as well. UNCs lobbyists and Chancellor James Moeser have been unwilling to allow the public and the legislators to hear from these doctors (and from patients with the most to lose). 3)If such a study commission were to simply never be appointed, thestate lawmakers would have less basis on which to prevent airport closure.The 2005-6 budgetlaw also provided that UNC shall operate the Airport until 30 days after adjournment of the 2005 Regular Session of the General Assembly in 2006. Thats this summer. 4)Legislators advocating for AHEC and the airport when negotiating the 2005-2006 budgetagreed to include the conditional closure provision last year on thecondition that the study would be performed and the legislaturereview it prior to any consideration of closure. This would be a fair safeguard for the interests of all NC citizens, patients and families who benefit from UNCs AHEC program, and for those others of us who benefit from the airport. But the study has to happen first. 5)If no study is performed, the University would then have a more arguable basis to claim they can close IGX. UNCadministrators say they have no plans to close the airport until AHEC could use RDU in 2008. The aviation and medical communities can keep it from getting that far if state legislators throughout the state hear Perform the AHEC impact study! and Dont close Horace Williams! from voters. 6)Loss of the airport would severely damage AHEC, a top-level UNC program, and unfairly limit NC citizens access to UNC Medical Schools expertise statewide. A REAL study commissionwould finally provide an opportunity for doctors and others active in the AHEC program to share their concerns with the legislators and say in detail how the airport closure would hurt their clinic patients. 7)The General Assembly must act once again if the airport is to be saved. Since the legislative short session will be over by the end of July, they and we must act promptly. They could, of course, choose to study the doctors concerns, keep the airport open, allow the University to close it or some combination of the above. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Please contact your legislators of both parties, urging them towork withtheir colleagues and leaders to 1) appoint the AHEC study commission and 2)ensureit performs its statutory task forAHEC patientsand for the transportation system in the Triangle and in NC. The Web link to legislator contacts is in the paragraph after next. All 170 legislators are up for re-election this Fall, so please consider this fact in making your personal decision on what to do to advance the airport issue. This should not becomplicated for the legislators when they consider the potential loss of services through AHECto vast numbers of their constituents throughout NC.Our current AOPA issue brief is at http://www.aopa.org/epilot/redir.cfm?adid=7031. Email and/or fax messages to legislators are most desirableand contact data for legislators is availableat http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/GIS/Representation/Who_Represents_Me/Who_Represe nts_Me.html. If you email, US Mail or fax your legislator, please copy Senators Marc Basnight (marcb@ncleg.net), House Speaker Jim Black (jimb@ncleg.net) and Gov. Mike Easley (http://www.governor.state.nc.us/email.asp?to=1) with your comments. If you would care to copy AOPA on your message or replies from legislators, please CC or BC me at cahudson@concentric.net. This is a critical call to action/comment to your state legislators! Our voice with state legislators aroundthe stateis far more powerful thanwhat local citizens can do with the Chapel Hill/Orange County delegation alone. Please share your thoughts if there are comments/questions on the issue. Should you have any trouble opening the links shown in this document, please advise by email and I will be happy to try and assist. Thanks to all of you who have given of your time and effort toward preserving this GA airport which is crucial to transportation access to the Triangle and State AND to our NC healthcare system. Christopher A. Hudson Mid-Atlantic Regional Representative Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association PO Box 33877 Charlotte, NC 28233 chris.hudson@aopa.org or cahudson@concentric.net (704)338-9161


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    Time: 09:30:50 PM PST US
    From: N136CH@webtv.net (Charlie Hall)
    Subject: PACE BBQ
    --> RVSouthEast-List message posted by: N136CH@webtv.net (Charlie Hall) Pace's (VA02 Ridgeway VA) spring BBQ is this Saturday. They plan to start serving about 12noon. I won't be able to make it as my son-in-law is coming from Atlanta to help me with a project on the roof. Charlie Hall




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