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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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| Subject: | Re: WAM- Sunday-MQI |
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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| 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:
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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
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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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--> 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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