Subject: Next Board Meeting

The next meeting of the Whiteplains Plantation Board of Directors will be on Monday, April 2, 2007, at 7 PM in my hangar. All residents and/or property owners are invited to attend.

Ken

AOPA Final Exam

Question: With daylight-saving time starting earlier in the year than it has in previous years, I plan to take advantage of the additional daylight to schedule my lessons after work. If by chance I have a flight that doesn't end until after dark, how do I determine how much of my flight time can be considered night when logging my time?

Answer: FAR 1.1 defines "night" as the time between the end of evening civil twilight and the beginning of morning civil twilight as published in the American Almanac converted to local time. For the purposes of logging time, you will need to determine when evening civil twilight has ended in your specific geographical area. The U.S. Naval Observatory has a helpful sunrise/sunset calculator that calculates the exact civil twilight starting time for any location in the country. For additional information on this subject, see "Pilot Counsel: Night Flying and the FARs" in the October 2005 AOPA Pilot.

Pilots Meeting Photoshow 3-19-2007

Beware of this Pilot!

It's Offical......

See PhotoShow












Click on link below to see the Pilots Meeting Photoshow.

http://www.photoshow.net/watch/eW5ks8jR

Mondays Pilots Meeting

Pilot meeting will be in my hangar monday at 7pm. Bring an apitite, will be serving pizza.

Eric Demaray

Whiteplains Calendar March 2007

Happy Bithrday to the following members:

March 03 - Micah Froese
March 04 - Doug Mackay
March 05 - Rich Mochak
March 14 - Julie Lucas
March 26 - Denise Perry
March 28 - Posie Cook
March 29 - Dennis Ramsey
March 31 - Dough Sowder & Nancy Bonacum

SCBC Dates:

March 11 - Georgetown (GGE)
March 25 - Alan Smoak (SC07)

Other Dates:

March 11 - Daylight Savings Begins - (Forward 1 hour)
March 17 - St. Patrick's Day
March 19 - Pilots Association Mtg. 7 PM
March 22 - AOPA Meeting 7 PM

If you have a special date for the calendar, send email to duckey123@hotmail.com

Runway Lights Update

As you can seen by the pictures, we had to do some digging to find the problem with the runway lights popping the circuit breaker. Turned out to be located in a junction box that got filled with water, and also one leg running from that box to a single light. Box has been replaced, but still need to replace a short run of wire to the one light.

Workers: Ken, Jim, Bill and Don.

AOPA Safety Program - Say It Right!

AOPA is coming to Columbia on Thursday March 22, 2007 from 7:00-9:00 pm at Midlands Technical College - Airport Campus - Academic Center Auditorium - Room 116 - 1260 Lexington Drive, SC. This is a FREE seminar that well sharpen your communication skills.

Be sure to print out the card below and bring it with you to have a chance of winning a free NAV/COM radio.

To print card, first click on card. Window well open. Right click on it and click print picture.

FOR SALE!

1/4 Share in N5535Q. Mooney M20C, 180 HP Lycoming, three-bladed constant speed propeller. Low time engine and prop. Newly redone panel including Garmin GNS-530.

TT airframe 5524.9
TT SMOH 297.9
TTSN prop 297.9


Contact Micah at 803.397.4923
Whiteplains Plantation (SC99)

Subject: Lee has passed

Yesterday, Monday, February 26th, at 9:26 A.M. Lee died in my arms after a nine month battle with cancer. Services will be at the Caughman-Harmon Funeral Home in Lexington. Visitation will be on Friday, March 2nd from 7 - 9 P.M. There will be a one hour visitation on Saturday from 3-4 P.M. before the Memorial Service which will be from 4 - 5 P.M. After the service there will be a Missing Man Fly-Over at Whiteplains at 6 P.M. followed by a social gathering at the Gardner's hangar. My heartfelt thanks to the incredible outpouring of love and support to me and Lee during this most difficult journey. You have touched my heart.
Fondly,
Nancy Van Wormer

Subject: Open Letter to Whiteplains

I want to let you know about the new gazebo at Whiteplains. Last May, during the week that Lee was diagnosed with cancer, he and I purchased the strip of vacant land overlooking the pond that stretches from Frank Skenes hangar to the hangar lot near the flag pole. Lee has wanted to put a gazebo there but his disease progressed at such a rate that he was unable to complete his dream. I decided to act quickly in the hope that Lee would see the gazebo in place before he died. Dennis Ramsey and the ARB acted with lightning speed. With the incredible help of Rick Miller of Eastpointe Development, Jack Fastnaught, Alan Sisler, Don Cook, Hal Clark, our son-in-law, Mark Andy, Jim Causey, Micah Froese and Arnold's Lawn Furnishings, the gazebo went from idea to actuality in four days! Unheard of !! On the day it went into place, Lee was able to sit looking out the window and he was aware on some level of what had happened. He commented over and over again at what a beautiful sight it was.

While the gazebo is privately owned, Lee and I want everyone at Whiteplains to use it for picnics, coffee , reading, visiting, or just sitting overlooking the lake taking a moment of leisure. It is our way of saying THANK YOU to all of you who have been so incredibly supportive during our year of cancer.

This evening I met Gerry and Kathy Bean who own the beautiful lake. They loved the look of the gazebo. Kathy's 92 year old dad owns the lake property and plans to build a three bedroom ranch on the clearing below the gazebo to the right. I assured them that there would be no loud parties to disrupt the peace.

Thanks to all of you for your support.
Enjoy the gazebo,

Nancy and Lee Van Wormer

Project is revealed.....

O.K. how many people guessed what the project was? Click below for the Photoshow to see if your right.


http://www.photoshow.net/watch/RV4Jr2hU

Message to Whiteplains

February 17, 2007

In May of this year Nancy and Lee purchased the strip of land between Frank Skenes hangar and the flag pole. Nancy wanted to build a memorial to Lee that would be fitting to the airpark and where people could rest awhile, picnic or simply enjoy the lake. While the gazebo belongs to the Van Wormers, they invite all Whiteplains residents to enjoy it once the deck railing is installed. Lee loves Whiteplains with all his heart and he and Nancy want to thank Whiteplains residents for their limitless acts of kindness, meals, prayers, trips to the store, but most of all, true friendship.

Nancy Van Wormer

Construction Day Two

Come check out the consturction..... See if you can figure out what it is.


http://www.photoshow.net/watch/QW7iX6py

Mystery Construction Going on @ Whiteplains.....

New construction was spotted this morning between the hangars and hangar row. What could it be? Check out the enclosed photoshow.

Check back tomorrow for more pictures. Maybe we can guess what it is.

http://www.photoshow.net/watch/Ac2qT8XG

Saturday Clean- Up

All,

This Saturday Feb. 17th is the date for our Whiteplains clean-up. There will be a kick-off beakfast on the rear deck of the Fastnaught's at 8:30 AM. Clean-up should take no more than 1 1/2 hours.

Thanks for your help.

The Fastnaught's

Whiteplains UNICOM #12: Getting started in 2007

The Whiteplains community began the year in fine style, with 65 property owners attending the Annual Meeting, catered by Shealy’s Bar-B-Que, on January 16. Immediately after the Annual Meeting, the newly-elected Board of Directors met to select officers for 2007. They will be: Ken Plesser, President; Micah Froese, Vice-president; Terry Yon, Treasurer, and Todd Falstad, Secretary. Please feel free to contact any Board member (listed above plus Michael Branning) about any issues pertaining to Whiteplains.

The first regularly-scheduled meeting of the 2007 Board was held on January 26, and was attended by eight additional property owners. A budget was adopted that provides for routine operating expenses, pays off the existing commercial loan on the new lawn tractor, deposits no less than $9,000 in the paving reserve, purchases replacements for weather-beaten signage around the neighborhood, and acquires both General Liability and Directors & Officers insurance policies. This last item has been the topic of much discussion over the past year, so some amplification is in order.

Last June, we assumed ownership of the runway parcel from the developer. This made your Association potentially liable in any lawsuit that might arise as a result of an accident on our runway (or on any of our common property, for that matter). In the absence of General Liability insurance, an enterprising plaintiff’s attorney could choose to sue each property owner in the Association individually. Our liability policy provides coverage in the event of any judgment up to $1,000,000, plus it provides for attorney’s fees for any legal defense. In the absence of Directors and Officers insurance, any of the many volunteers who devote their time and energy to Whiteplains could be held personally liable in the event of a lawsuit directed at them as a result of the execution of their duties. Your Board believes that it has a responsibility to protect the property owners and the community volunteers from any such exposures, hence the new budget item this year for insurance. The aviation attorney who we retained to review the policies and offer advice called the decision “a no-brainer.” The combined premium is $4400, or about $44 per property…. a modest price for a lot of peace of mind.

A number of people have been involved during the course of this past year in researching the entire insurance issue to ensure that we obtained the proper coverage through a broker that understood the unique issues that face communities with aviation amenities. These folks include Ray Chaplin, Melissa Black, John Gardner and Ray Ackerman, along with all of the 2006 and 2007 Board members. Thanks to all for a job well done.

A big item that is yet to be dealt with is the capital equipment and labor needed to maintain our common areas. In 2006, we purchased a suitable mower, and financed it (in part) by providing additional manual labor in the form of selling mowing contracts on unimproved lots. However, our community simply cannot expect free manual labor from its residents forever; hence we must develop a plan to transition to contract labor over the next several years. We already pay a firm to maintain the Phase I and Phase II entrance areas; paying to maintain the runway environment and other common areas in the future is inevitable.

Your Board is doing its utmost to be good stewards of the Association’s money, and increases in regime fees (such as this past year’s) are taken only when absolutely necessary. To place it all in context though, the Living With Your Plane Association, a loose affiliation of the 450+ airparks in the US (and of which we are a member), has compiled demographic data on residential airparks around the country. They found that the most common level of annual regime fees was the $250-500 bracket… so we’re right in line with our like-minded brethren around the country.

Ken Plesser, President
Whiteplains Plantation Association

Let it Snow....Let it Snow!

This morning, Feburary 1, 2007, we awoke to see snow falling in Whiteplains. As you know, this is not the norm for South Carolina. I managed to get a few pictures before it all melted away.

Click on picture to see full size.

Nellis AFB Airshow 2006

Check out the link below for some really great Air Shots from the airshow.


http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Nellis2006/Highlights/index.html

Whiteplains Calendar February 2007

Happy Birthday 2007!



February 1 Melissa Black
February 4 Sam Padgett
February 6 Beth Bridgers
February 8 Lauri Ackerman
February 9 Elaine Chatham
February 10 Judy Hitt & Kevin Lee Hogan
February 12 Linda Demaray
February 16 Hal Clark
February 21 Leah Crocker
February 23 Niel Bonacum & James Keisler

SC/SB Dates:



Febuary 11 Sumter (SMS)
Febuary 25 Columbia (CAE)



Special Dates:


February 14 Valentine's Day
February 17 Whiteplains Clean Up Day! Kick-off beakfast rear deck of the Fastnaught's @ 8:30
February 19 President's Day

Monday night Pilot's Association Meeting 1/23/2007

James and Joann Keisler, and Ray Hill, Acting President of the Whiteplains Pilot's Association, served a delicious spaghetti dinner in the Keisler's hangar for the January meeting of the WPPA.

At this meeting, Lee Van Wormer thanked Ray Hill for taking over his duties as President and new officers were elected. For the upcoming year Eric Demaray will be president, Jack Fastnaught will be vice-president and Todd Falstad will continue for another year as safety officer.

Notes from meeting to be posted when released.

Reported by:

Nancy Van Wormer