<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello MN Wing pilots,<div><br></div><div>The summer is nearing an end, our cadets will be heading back to school in the next few weeks. This is a good time to try and squeeze in some end of summer orientation flights. We know it gets much harder to schedule flights once the cadets are back in school. We have the second round of the orientation flight bonanza coming up on Aug 19, but we have lots of other days also available to schedule O flights.</div><div>Now that we have corrected our procedure for entering "no fuel" sorties in WMIRS our funding for orientation flights is good.</div><div>We have just over a month until our funded missions will be closing for the fiscal year, make sure to keep an eye on the end dates when you are scheduling your September flying.</div><div>Funding for our Form 5/91 and flight clinic missions are both now under $350, so if you are planning on using one of these missions better to do so soon. </div><div>Funding for our A12 proficiency mission is still good (over $3000) so use this mission when you are able too. We want to show the air force we need, and will use proficiency mission funding.</div><div><br></div><div>A new program that started this year (FY23) is a joint cooperation program between CAP and the Air Force to better monitor operations. This program called OPS EVAL is a process where CAP-USAF observers ride along on CAP flights to evaluate how we are doing, and if any changes need to be made. Since there are lots of CAP wings and only limited observers the program is set up to have Emphasis wings and non emphasis wings. For FY23 MN wing was a non emphasis wing, which means the observers would only join us on a couple of flights. For next year FY24, starting in October of this year, we will become one of the emphasis wings. The observers will try to ride along on 15 sorties to collect data from. With larger wings like ours we may see some of the observers being CAP members from other wings. I have attached the OPS EVAL memorandum that was sent out earlier this month detailing the upcoming years program.</div><div>We will have more details on the program as we get closer to the beginning of the new fiscal year.</div><div><br></div><div>We have a couple of new instructors joining us this last month</div><div>Capt Sean McClain 17th squadron</div><div>SM Dan Malneritch 122nd squadron</div><div>One new check pilot also this last month</div><div>Scott Ikeda 17th squadron</div><div>Thank you for stepping up to help us out.</div><div><br></div><div>I have also attached this month's edition of the NHQ stan/eval newsletter.</div><div><br></div><div>Take Care, Fly Safe,</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_ll83nqx40" alt="image.png" width="177" height="42" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Capt. Greg Bestul, CAP<span></span></span></b></p>
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