In spite of the fact that we still have the requirement of a two way radio in order to fly at LZ53, it has not prevented active flying at this field thanks to the cooperation of a number of our members who have volunteered their time and gas to shuttle the radio equipment back and forth to range Control (at the Air Base). Of course the main credit goes to our Pres. Pete who arranged for the loan of the military radios and he has been supported in the shuffling by Paul Eigsti, Randy Latimer, Bob Rodenas, Eloy Marez, Bob Facto and your Chief Field Marshall.

We have recently run across a question regarding our field operations as related to Helicopter flying. Some time back, we had only a single or at most two helicopter fliers, and at that time a ruling was put into practice which basically grounded all airplane flying while a helicopter was being flown. This was a courtesy to the chopper flier and also a common sense rule since the flight patterns of fixed

wing and of helicopters are not the most compatible.

Today, the number of rotating wing fliers has increased significantly and apt to increase even further thus our old ruling may present a problem. If we ground all fixed wingers while a half dozen choppers whirl about, it will be most unsatisfactory to the fixed wing fliers and vice versa.

The situation has been already brought to the attention of the club directors, and it will be discussed at the next directors meeting. In the meantime, if you have any good ideas or suggestions, I would very much like to hear them so that they may be evaluated at this meeting; You may direct your idea to this Field Marshall at the E-mail address shown in the Corsair or verbally any weekend at Horno.

-Jose Tellez