[Pilots] January CAP Stan/Eval newsletter

[Greg Bestul]

Hello MN Wing pilots,


It has taken a while this year, but it seems that winter has finally
arrived. Flying gets more difficult due to weather and conditions, and we
have to practice the winter operations procedures we reviewed in our winter
ops briefing.


A reminder to plug in ALL the airplanes, even if they are in a heated
hangar. The time and fuel it takes to get an aircraft warmed up into the
green range for takeoff can be lengthy and expensive if the engine is
starting at 50F or below. Plus we know that by keeping the planes plugged
in it helps eliminate moisture in the engine.


Flight instructors – you should have seen the new requirement from CAP NHQ
that to enable you to maintain your CAP instructor status you must now stay
current with TSA security training. Any instructor that has not completed a
TSA security course, entered it into ops quals along with an uploaded
supporting document will have their CAP instructor qualifications drop off
after April 1st of this year.

There are several sites that offer the course (AOPA, King, or FAA’s FAAST
websites)


Winter is a good time to make sure all your operations qualifications are
in order. Check to see if you have your current medical, flight review,
front and back side of your licenses uploaded into your ops quals. Also,
extra one-time uploads like scans of logbook pages showing you have 200/300
hours of PIC time for orientation pilot, or high performance endorsement
for C182 qualification. Having these in order helps out immensely when it
comes to inspection time!!


Another winter project will be a WMIRS review program that should be
completed by each squadron. We are going to try and reduce the number of
computer errors that have been adversely affecting our planes and flight
operations.  I will have the program put together by the end of this month
and sent out to each squadron's Stan/eval and operations officers.


We continue to be doing an excellent job with the flying when the weather
has cooperated. For the first quarter of the fiscal year (Oct – Dec) we did
155 powered orientation flights compared to 61 in 2022, and our total
flight time was also up: 858 hours vs 460 last year. So keep up the good
work.


I have attached the link to this month's edition of the NHQ stan/eval
newsletter.

CAP_StanEval_Jan_2024_623133bbe9482.pdf (gocivilairpatrol.com)
<https://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/media/cms/CAP_StanEval_Jan_2024_623133bbe9482.pdf>


Take care and stay warm,
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*Capt. Greg Bestul, CAP*

DOV, MN Wing

612.251.4786

gbestul at gmail.com

U.S. Air Force Auxiliary

GoCivilAirPatrol.com <http://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/>
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