<div dir="ltr">Hello MN wing pilots,<div><br></div><div>The good flying weather we have been hoping for all winter has arrived!</div><div><br></div><div>It's good to see that many of our pilots are taking advantage of the good weather. Our number of proficiency flights are almost double what we did all of last year, and our flight hours are up more that 200 hours over last year at this time. Keep up the good work! For those that haven't taken advantage of this quarter's funded proficiency flight, there are only a couple weeks left. </div><div><br></div><div>We also had a record setting day for orientation flights, with the BIG wing wide orientation flight day we had in May. Over 70 flights in one day! Thank you to everyone that participated in this great event. With such a great response we will definitely want to do this type of event again soon.</div><div><br></div><div>We have had a good turnout for this year's flight clinic. There have been 13 squadrons holding the ground briefing section of the clinic. We hope to see some improvement on how we are filling out WMIRS entries for our missions now that we have had a review of what is needed. For the rest of the fiscal year we can take advantage of the flight portion of the flight clinic and work on some of the "rusty" areas to get prepared for our next form 5 checkride.</div><div><br></div><div>A couple of items to watch for as you're getting ready to fly. Remember to check the inspection records on the front of the white book closely, we are transitioning to a new oil change date that will now be date specific instead of at the end of the month. Also make sure that when you are looking over the book that the fire extinguisher inspection has been signed off for the current month. </div><div><br></div><div>Its also good to see that even with more flying this year we have not had any "hangar rash" issues that plagued us last year. Our additional training, better proficiency and attention to detail is paying off! This keeps our planes available to fly, not in the shop. We want to keep this trend continuing!!</div><div><br></div><div>Our glider operation is in full swing. If you know of cadets that would like the opportunity to get a flight in the glider, make sure to work on getting them on the schedule, as the glider will only be in MN until the end of July.</div><div><br></div><div>We have one more new instructor in May</div><div>SM Kurt Weimer MN30</div><div>and one new check pilot</div><div>Maj David Carlstrom MN104</div><div>Thank you for stepping up to help out our pilot group.</div><div><br></div><div>I have attached this month's issue of the NHQ stan/eval newsletter</div><div><br></div><div>Take Care and fly safe,</div><div><img src="cid:ii_lit08enx0" alt="image.png" width="177" height="42" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Capt. Greg Bestul, CAP</span></b></p>
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