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Palm Harbor Cadet Squadron Aerospace News

W elcome to the Palm Harbor Cadet Squadron’s March Aerospace Newsletter.

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Palm Harbor Cadet Squadron Aerospace News

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  1. Welcome to the Palm Harbor Cadet Squadron’s March Aerospace Newsletter. In this month’s edition, you’ll find a lot of interesting news. Firstly that MacDill AFB is hosting an air show – or should I say AIRFEST 2007 – at the end of March. As in previous years, the US Air Force is looking to Civil Air Patrol – cadets and senior officers – to volunteer for involvement during this important local event. You’ll find contact details in this month’s edition. With the annual Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In event at Lakeland Airport coming up shortly after in April, again CAP will be looking for volunteers to get involved. And if your calendar wasn’t full enough, CAP’s Florida Wing Conference is on the radar for mid-May, so again you should start your planning now if you’re thinking of attending this prestigious event. You’ll need to go to the Wing’s web site for event registration. www.flwg.us/ If you have any digital pictures, interesting stories, cartoons or web site news, just drop me a line at: DOWNINGFL438@AOL.COM and I will be sure to include your submission into the next edition. Remember, this is YOUR Aerospace Newsletter. Editor: Robert Downing, Capt. Aerospace Education Officer Palm Harbor Cadet Squadron Palm Harbor Cadet Squadron Aerospace News March 2007

  2. CONTENTS ACTIVITY CORNER (This month’s project) MACDILL AFB – AIRFEST CAP (FLORIDA WING) CONFERENCE SUN ‘N FUN NEWS EMERGENCY SERVICES AVIATION HUMOR

  3. Learn how to look at the Sun Safely ACTIVITY CORNER

  4. How to look at the sun safely How to look at the Sun Safely

  5. MacDill AFB in Tampa will again host an open house and AIRSHOW at AirFest 2007 on Saturday, March 31st and Sunday, April 1st. The event is the largest military air event on the west coast of Florida. The Blue Angels, who last performed their outstanding show at AirFest 2004, will be on hand again this year to the delight of the thousands of fans who have either seen them in the past or have heard of their flying prowess.   There will be various military and civilian aircraft airborne demonstrations as well as static aircraft displays for public viewing during these two days. The last AirFest, which was held in 2005 and attracted over 350,000 spectators, made the job for the Air Force personnel and the various other support organizations very demanding due to the popularity of the event. MacDill AFB has again asked for the support and assistance of Civil Air Patrol’s Florida Wingduring this outstanding military activity. Group 3 Commander Lt Col Billy Westcott, as well as staff from Groups 3, 5 and 8, are gearing up and taking the lead to ensure Civil Air Patrol’s involvement meets and exceeds the requirements of the Air Force while providing an exciting, enjoyable and safe event for CAP personnel. AirFest 2007 will be open to all Florida Wing Civil Air Patrol members wishing to participate. Cadet and Senior Members should contact their unit commanders if they have an interest in being involved with this outstanding event. Units sending Cadets to AirFest 2007 will need to insure that they send a sufficient number of Senior Members to oversee their own Cadets for the entire event. Further information will be available shortly on the Group 3 Website at group3.flwg.cap.gov. AirFest 2007 Project Officer Lt David Leach may be reached by email at airfest2007@earthlink.net. See you on the Flight Line! NEWS MacDill AFB Airfest 2007

  6. Florida Wing Conference

  7. CAP at Sun 'n Fun 2007 NEWS NOTICE 1: ALCON (All Concerned) Information and volunteer CAP registration forms for Aerospace Education, Recruiting, and Emergency Services Mission volunteers for CAP support at SUNFUN 2007 is located at website: www.capfl310.org/sunfun . Volunteer registration is only through this website. Additional SUNFUN Air show CAP volunteer needs will posted in the next few days on the website, so check back periodically. Jim Bendickson 2Lt CAP FL Wing Group 3 SUNFUN Project Officer

  8. Well, first of all, the 121.5 MHz Emergency Locater Transmitters (or ELT's) - something you find in boats as well as aircraft - represent the bulk of CAP missions; more than 90%. When an orbiting search and rescue satellite – known as SARSAT - detects a 121.5, or 243 MHz transmission after 2 overhead passes (about a 2-3 hour period), the wheels are set in motion for a mission to be issued by the US Air Force to CAP. First, the United States Mission Control Center (or USMCC) is alerted in Maryland. For signals at sea, the US Coast Guard is passed the mission. For probable land-based signals, the US Air Force Rescue Coordination Center (or AFRCC) in Langley, VA, is alerted and then calls CAP’s Florida Wing whenever it's a probable Floridian ELT. The job of the search team: to locate the exact source and location of the signal inside the state, save lives of survivors where possible, and most importantly, shut down the signal. Even if it's just a false alarm the signal needs to be shut-down because – and here’s the important bit - the SARSAT can only track 10 ELT signals nation wide. So as a false alarm may preclude a real emergency from being detected, time is of the essence. SARSAT is generally accurate to within 15 miles of the actual ELT location. It takes trained and practiced air and ground crews to find the exact location of a ‘live’ ELT and Group 8 – an organizational chart is on the next page - will soon be able to rejoin this important and potentially life saving activity provided by Civil Air Patrol. As our squadron develops and grows, there is one aspect of Group 8’s activities that may now be of interest to both cadets and senior officers; that of Emergency Services. (or ES) For some time now, Group 8 has not been able to provide the trained and qualified ES Aircrew needed to respond to a real emergency mission in our area. That’s about to change. At the time of writing, Group 8 was running an exciting and well organized 15 day search and rescue training exercise – or SAREX – out of Albert Whitted Airport with the sole purpose of training and qualifying new ES Aircrew. Your own squadron’s AEO is part of that training process and by the time of the April edition of Aerospace News, I hope to report that Group 8 has an operational ES Aircrew capability and, amongst other things, is ready to hunt down and silence those ELTs. Ok, so what’s an ELT? Emergecy Services

  9. Who? Hey, that’s us! Operations Officer Group 8 Organization Chart

  10. "Houston, we have a problem..."

  11. I hope you have enjoyed this ‘new look’ edition. As stated earlier, this is YOUR Aerospace Newsletter, so if you have something interesting that you would like to share with your squadron colleagues, simply send the item to my E-mail address for inclusion at: DOWNINGFL438@AOL.COM For additional information, don’t forget to check in at our squadron’s web site on a regular basis: WWW.PHCADET.COM

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