Cessna Pilots Asso
 

For everyones info CPA has a tentative training session for Skymasters scheduled for April 8 thru 10 in New Orleans. This will only happen if they have enough registrations to justify the meeting.

REGISTRATION: Course registration and more details are available at: Cost: $630 members $675 non-members
http://www.cessna.org/class/courses/course_sign_up.html or call 800/343-
6416 or 805/922-2580 or contact Seminar Coordinator Glenda Gamble
mailto:glenda.gamble@cessna.org for further information.

I attended their meeting several years ago after having owned and flown N212PM for approx 15 years. I learned that I did not know nearly everything there was to know about Skymasters ---what a shock! I also saved enough dollars implementing changes they recommended to more than pay for the meeting over the next year or two.

While they may not be the final authority on all skymaster issues, this is the best place I have found in 25 years of Skymaster ownership to get an intense couse in our airplane. I still refer back to my notes occasionally when issues arise.

IF 212PM were not for sale I would be going back for a refresher and with my new list of questions (yeah - they just keep coming). I endorse and recommend this course highly if you haven't attended. I believe it will be time well spent and money saved!

Peyton!

What do you mean, 'for sale'? What's up?

I took the course several years ago and really found it to be helpful. Also, CPA has been a great resource for me after I got the chance to meet them face to face. I highly recommend the course. I hope to go back for the New Orleans session since it is so close.

Hmmm.
 

New Orleans . . . in April. I'm gonna need a "good" lawyer.

Hickman, you able to make it?

Keven
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Whats Up?
 

Jim/Jenny ...my 17 year old daughter has 40 hours towards her private and takes the written next week. Decided I needed something we could get insurance for and afford for her to fly in my lifetime.

Just bought a Cerokee Six...sooo...212PM is now officially for sale. Gonna be very hard to watch here taxi off for the last time. I've had her (or she's had me) longer than I've had my wife or daughter....27 years in October!!!

Maybe you guys will allow me to remain a Skymaster Asso member emeritus??

See you in Key West!

Thats good and bad news. Glad to hear your daughter is progressing well. Sorry to hear you are giving up 212PM.

Jenny says the Skymaster is easier to fly than the Cherokee 6. I agree, but I guess it's really what the insurance companies say that counts.

I think that anyone who owns or has ever owned a Skymaster is eligible for lifetime membership in SOAP.

(Does this mean I have to create an engine cluster for a Cherokee?)

Keven,

I don't know any "good" lawyers. Present company excepted, of course. Currently plan on being in New Orleans on March 1 and again on March 25 so doubt I'll fly back there in April. While the meeting may be a good thing, the tuition cost would cover the gas bill to Key West and I'd rather do that if I can work out the schedule/wife thing.

I just clicked on the link to the CPA site on this Home page concerning the seminar and didn't see the 337 April 8-10 seminar listed. Was there a change or was I looking at the wrong link?

Keven
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How embarrassing. I hate it when people actually READ the site... :-)

I don't know why it is not listed Keven. I took the info from Peyton's message (except that I used a slightly different link than his). But it is not listed on Peyton's link either.

I have emailed CPA to ask about this, but meanwhile, Peyton, where did you get the info that the seminar was being scheduled?

Thanks for pointing this out Keven.

Kevin

CPA Seminar
 

Guys - it came from their email newsletter and has been shown in the newsletters for several months. It is noted as tentative depending upon sign up response so maybe that is why it is not listed on the site (which might also impact the number sign ups)!

Copied from CPA ATIS Vol 8, Issue 04, Dated 27 Jan 2005:

2005 CPA SEMINAR SCHEDULE
DATES COURSES/SEMINARS LOCATION MEM/NONMEM
*Feb 12-13 Mike Busch's CPA Santa Maria, CA $495/540
Savvy Owner Course
**Feb 26-27 1956-1986 182 Skylane Santa Maria, CA $495/540
#Mar 11-13 182 Systems & Procedures Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
#Mar 15-17 Engineer's Rigging Class Horsham, Australia
%Apr 2-3 1956-1986 182 S&P Course New Orleans, LA $530/575
%Apr 8-10 337 Skymaster S&P Course New Orleans, LA $630/675
Apr 21-22 Owner Performed Maint. Santa Maria, CA $600/645
Apr 29-May 1 210 Flight Proficiency Santa Maria, CA $895/940
May 20-22 210 Flight Proficiency Santa Maria, CA $895/940
*May 21-22 Mike Busch's CPA Dallas, TX $530/575
Savvy Owner Course
%Jun 4-5 T182, 182S, 182T & T182T Manassas, VA $530/575
%Jun 10-12 210 Centurion S&P Course Manassas, VA $630/675
Jun 24-26 210 Flight Proficiency Santa Maria, CA $895/940
Jul 6-8 Flight Control Rigging Santa Maria, CA $700/745
Aug 19-21 206 Systems & Procedures Santa Maria, CA $595/640
Sep 10-11 1968 & up 172 Skyhawk Cincinnati, OH $530/575
Sep 17-18 R/TR 182 & 172RG Cincinnati, OH $530/575
Oct 6-7 Landing Gear Service Class Santa Maria, CA $600/645
Nov 18-20 310/320/340 Santa Maria, CA $595/640

*For more info. contact the Savvy website http://www.savvyaviator.com
#For more info. contact Tanya Richardson mailto:tanyabilyara@a1.com.au
%Tentative
**CLASS FULL--WAITING LIST AVAILABLE

Interest Level
 

Folks:

I was heeding Peyton's advice and was going to sign up on-line to get the numbers up to make sure it would be a "go". But, you guessed it, I couldn't because it wasn't listed. I guess we need to call CPA this week to see what the deal is and to let them know that there is a high level of interest. I think it sounds like a great program at a great location, at a great time of year. A nice warm up for Key West.

On the other hand, I may be speaking out of turn, maybe there is not a high level of interest from anyone but me.

Comments, thoughts?

Keven
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I have no first-hand information, but GMAs seems to feel that it's far too much money for what you get. This is based on a comment he posted on the "other" Skymaster message board, where I was surprised to hear him say that he would rather go to the SOAPA meeting than to the CPA seminar. He went on to say "why not go with a good group of guys and gals... and walk and talk with people who know planes... like the one you fly". FWIW.

Ernie

I don't know if GMAS has ever been to this seminar. However, everyone else I have spoken to who has attended it in the past has nothing but rave reviews for it. I have heard it gets into more depth of each of the systems than we can do in our Fly-ins because of the variety of topics we have.

My thought on it was that it would be a nice supplement, at least for me, to the type of meeting we organize.

Keven
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It is a well-done seminar and was very valuable to me when I attended. The previous owner of my first Skymaster raved about it. If you have owned an 337 for a while, you may not get as much out of it but heck, it is a great excuse to meet and spend time with another group for the greatest folks around, Skymaster/O-2 owners! And I'd go to New Orleans for any excuse at all... :-)

Kevin

I attended the CPA 337 course severasl years ago and it was worth every penny of it. Tom Carr is the 337 guru at CPA and he knows the plane thoroughly and teaches well. Lots of useful tips not available from the usual sources. You'll be able to go tell your mechanic what to do. I have a conflict and can't go or I'd be there. This is the first one they've had in several years. Plan an extra couple of days in New Orleans. You'll be so busy with the seminar that you won't have much time to enjoy the city.

Jim Rainer

My dad and I definitely plan to attend, unless the sky falls in. Any word on whether they are really having it or not?

Ladies and Gents,

FWIW, I attended the CPA seminar in Dallas a few years ago when I bought my first Skymaster... and I had a blast. I learned a heck of a lot about things I had never thought of... got a lot of good info in book form and met a lot of other new (and long-term) owners to swap stories with.

Well worth the money. I would it do again, if schedule permits.

See y'all in Key West (or the Bahamas or Miami).

Jim

I got email from Tom Carr at the CPA this morning.

Here is a quote from Tom's email:

The class is listed in the schedule in the CPA magazine and the hotel logistics are being worked out. Hopefully this detail will be worked out this week. The hotel CPA was planning on using does not have the meeting room available for the 182 class on the previous weekend. There are 13 signed up for the 337 class so it is a go as far as I am concerned. Just trying to work the new location details.

How do you sign up? Phone or email them at the contact information Peyton provided, and I have repeated below.

call 800/343-6416 or 805/922-2580 or contact Seminar Coordinator Glenda Gamble mailto:glenda.gamble@cessna.org for further information.

Kevin

You know, until, and unless, we announce a gathering, they have nothing scheduled for 337's. Now, conveniently, it is being held a month before our event in KEYW. It was the same thing when we tried to get a meeting in the Bahamas. It's the same thing everytime. Ask them to hold their meeting the month AFTER ours. See how receptive they'll be to that.

Sorry
 

Larry - I think this seminar has been in CPA's email to their members since Mid November. Sorry, I just hadn't thought about posting it for SOAPA until last week. Not sure of the exact start date but it has been there for a couple of months.

Sorry, I'm just ranting.