Vermont Aviation

Holiday Pancake Breakfast—Sunday, December 15th!

Please join us for our Annual Chapter 613 Holiday Pancake Breakfast.
Where: EAA Chapter 613 Aviation Center, Franklin County State Airport (KFSO)
When: Sunday, December 15th, 9:00—11:00 AM
Who: Chapter 613 members and guests are warmly invited to join us
What: Pancakes (with or without blueberries), sausage, bacon, maple syrup, scrambled eggs,
coffee, orange juice.
Prices: Breakfast: $8.00,
Breakfast with Three 50/50 Raffle Tickets: $10.00.
Raffle Tickets only: $1.00 each or Six for $5.00.
We look forward to seeing you there!!!

Tickets are available HERE

I really like the Around the Mountain in 80 Days idea! Here are some more suggestions for your consideration around this event.
  1. Consider two levels of participation - one for only paved airports and the other is paved airports PLUS a number of Vermont's wonderful grass strips.
  2. Consider rewarding every participant who completes either level with a really cool t-shirt, like the last one!
  3. The concept of a single winner who is the FIRST to complete either level might incentivize one to fly in less than safe conditions. Not what we want. Therefore let's reward everyone who completes the task within the allotted timeframe (80 days?) with a cool t-shirt and come up with a special prize for some other criteria. I have some ideas for those criteria (see below). The prize could be a special trophy that the winner gets to keep at their home airport FBO for the year.
  4. Special prize winner ideas.
      a. We can stick with a prize for the one who finishes it first, but I think that might be incentivizing questionable decisions.
      b. How about if the winner is the home airport of a team of winners. The winner could be the airport with the most aircraft that complete the larger list of ALL Vermont airports, including grass. That way, it would incentivize teams to include taildraggers / grass capable aircraft as well as fancy fast flyers. Obviously airports with more airplanes based there are favored in this competition, so we need a way of equalizing that. What about calculating participation factor, i.e., number of planes from a home airport that complete the task divided by the total number of airplanes based at that home airport? That way, an airport with 100 planes based there and 10 complete the task, (10/100 = .1 or 10%), is on an even footing with a small airport with 10 airplanes based there and 1 that completes the task (1/10=.1 or 10%). The airport with the highest percentage of planes completing the task wins the right to keep the trophy for the year at their FBO.
      c. Some other ideas?

The proposed agenda is as follows:
1. Introduction of attendees
2. Select officers for 2025
3. Update on statewide grassroots aviation / aeronautics organization efforts
4. Any changes at VTrans? - implications, next steps, other
5. News about proposed new terminal and next steps
6. Next up - re-imagining the VAAC
7. Update on Supreme Court decision re: lease rate increase
8. Set date for future meetings to follow up on agenda outcome & goals.

Optional
9. VFR Club: Planning a +200nm VFR cross-country trip (Speaker tbd, 20 min plus discussion)

There’s plenty of room in the old hangar building next to the current FBO if you can fit this late-afternoon meeting into your schedule.
If it is a smaller group, we’ll revert to the Lakeview FBO building. Bring your questions, your enthusiasm for the region and our airport. Looking forward to seeing you there. 

There is a VAAC meeting we can join on line (go to VTrans web site) Nov.26 1300 - 1500

VERMONT AVIATION ADVISORY COUNCIL
AOT – Dill Building A, 2178 Airport Road, Barre, VT 05461
Large Conference room (room 135)
Meeting will also be held VIRTUALLY on Microsoft TEAMS (see link below)
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
1:00 – 3:00 P.M.
AGENDA
1) Call to Order and Introductions – Joe Flynn, Secretary / Dan Delabruere, Rail & Aviation Bureau Director, VT Agency
of Transportation
2) Approval of Previous Minutes – May 21, 2024, February 20, 2024 and November 14, 2023
3) Statewide Hangar Master Permitting update– Rob Luchini
4) Project Updates – Paul Libby/Kyle Wells
a) Franklin County runway project update.
b) Morrisville/Stowe fuel farm update
c) Rutland runway rehab project
d) NEK Terminal project
e) Springfield – runway reconstruction
5) Maintenance Updates - Rollin Tebbetts
a) Summer activities completed
b) Winter readiness maintenance activities.
c) Wildlife reporting
6) Public Input – The audience is welcomed to inquire, comment, and ask questions of items not listed on the agenda.
(Please Note: Input requires recognition by the Chairperson. All comments are to be brief, courteous, and relevant.)
7) Adjournment, 3:00 P.M. (next meeting Tuesday, November 26, 2024)
Here is the link to Join the Meeting: Click here to join the meeting
Link to the draft and approved minutes of the Aviation Council on the AOT web site: