<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello MN wing pilots,<div><br></div><div>I hope everyone has enjoyed a happy thanksgiving holiday weekend.</div><div><br></div><div>A couple of items to point out this month. </div><div><br></div><div>First is the NHQ proficiency flight mission. This mission ends at the end of December, so we have about a month to take advantage of this funded flying. To be eligible for the 1.5 hours of flying you must first complete the preflight briefing which can be found at:</div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Ff8Y66QsI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Ff8Y66QsI</a><br></div><div>It's about an hour review of basic flight maneuvers. Once you complete this just grab an instructor and go practice the basic flight maneuvers. This is flown as an A12 mission with a profile 7. That way NHQ can track how many flights are being completed.</div><div><br></div><div>The second funded flying option that is currently open is the winter operations flying mission. If you have attended a winter operations briefing you are eligible to go fly 1.0 hours to get used to flying in winter conditions again.</div><div><br></div><div>We need to collectively make an effort to increase our flying this year. We were down over 775 hours of flight time in 2022 vs 2021. We lost two planes to transfers this last year and N9799E is scheduled to be retired shortly, so we need to show NHQ that we can keep airplanes busy or we won't be a candidate for new or replacement airplanes. This will make scheduling airplanes to fly even more difficult.</div><div><br></div><div>For those of you that don't normally operate out of tower controlled fields, a good FAA wings webinar is coming up for you to be able to learn more about tower operations from the ATC people at the flying cloud tower.</div><div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">"KFCM Tower Talk</b><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">Topic: What's Going On At Our Tower</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">On </span><u style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">Saturday, December 10, 2022</u><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"> at </span><u style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">09:00 Central Standard Time (07:00 PST; 08:00 MST; 10:00 EST; 05:00 HST; 06:00 AKST; 08:00 Arizona; 15:00 GMT)</u><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><b>Select Number:</b><br>GL15117527</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><b>Description:</b><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">Join us for A VIRTUAL cup of coffee, a donut, and a LIVE WEBINAR as Jason Wheeler talks with us about the latest happenings at the Flying Cloud Tower.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">Click on this link to register:</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><a href="https://www.faasafety.gov/SPANS/event_details.aspx?eid=117527">Activities, Courses, Seminars & Webinars - Event Details and Registration - FAA - FAASTeam - FAASafety.gov</a><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">This month's NHQ stan/eval newsletter can be found attached to this email.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">Take Care and Fly Safe,</p><img src="cid:ii_lazun2tq1" alt="image.png" width="177" height="42" style="margin-right: 0px;"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Capt. 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