Meeting Minutes

No board meeting this week.

VRCF Board Meeting – November 19, 2019

Labby’s Bar and Grill - members and guests present ~9

Checking - $3,624.51

Savings - $2,287.27

TOTAL - $5,911.78

AGENDA

Holiday party – It was decided to set the event for Sunday Jan. 12, 2020 at Spitfire in West Fargo

–. Mark P will reserve the back room. Club and board meeting included in the event.

Indoor Flying - Metro Rec – could be available for $56/hour, available around noon on Sundays. The board is favorable but want to make sure there are enough participant to make sharing the cost reasonable. Maybe just start with one event and see how it goes. Ron and Dean to check out the facility.

Field Improvements list – We updated the list and discussed priorities. No decisions were made to spend money at this time.

Field property is $14.5 Acres. Farmer is renting and paying for 5 acres at $100/acre. Ken volunteered to talk to farmer about the value of the rent and possibly raise it.

Ryan Jordet got quotes on doing allowing membership to be paid on the web site PayPal. Its about 2.5%. Ryan Johnson want to check out other options like Venmo and Square.

Florence Kingensmith memorial. Maybe build a model of one of her planes, then donate to Air Museum. Air Museum needs plaques for the models they have so people know what they are.

Club Meeting – November 5, 2019

VRCF Field - members and guests present - 12

Checking - $3,643.78

Savings - $2,287.27

TOTAL - $5,931.05

AGENDA

Ideas for indoor flying - Metro rec, Oak Grove gym, …

Holiday Party location – Spitfire and Frying Pan – have a room

Email members for additional ideas Is alcohol availability desired. Yes

Canopy painting techniques

Update projects list

Priority – maintain the field we have

Elections were held for 2020 officers. Ken Littlefield ran the elections in an efficient and fair manner. The results are as follows:

2020 Officers

President – Dean Gary

Vice President – Mark Pueppke

Treasurer – Ryan Johnson

Secretary – Ron Landman

Safety – Kevin Paulson

Members at large – Ken Littlefield, Randy Pitura

Club Meeting – September 3, 2019 

VRCF Field - members and guests present - 10 

Checking - $4,311.00 

Savings - $2,286.69 

TOTAL - $6,597.69 

AGENDA 

• Indoor Fun Fly? Inquiries at NDSU for their indoor track building seem promising. Ron to proceed with looking into available dates for a Sat or Sun in Jan or Feb. Don’t conflict with GF club or Bismarck. Don’t conflict with GF 

• Talked about the visit we had from the Civil Air Patrol (CAP). No question we want to cooperate with them in any way we can. This led to a discussion of the club possible charging entities that want to use the field for learning or practicing drone piloting. This would not be an ongoing business model but just have a plan in place so when opportunities come up we can offer a possible arrangement. Government agencies like CAP or Sheriff’s department would have one price, commercial companies like agricultural equipment companies would be a higher price. The board will discuss this further. 

• Paint the Shelter? We have prices from 3 sources along with recommendations for how to prime and paint the cement shelter. Lots of stores have paint and even “masonry paint”. Hard to tell what will actually work best and last longest. People seem to have a good impression with Sherwin-Williams paint in spite of the fact that it is the most expensive. Ron to make a recommendation to the board for an amount of paint to do just the west, north and south sides of the shelter this fall for a trial. 

• We discussed the field and flight line configuration that we used at the Fun Fly. It was “OK” for the big event but most are not interested or willing to have a permanent fence set up in place of the flight stations. Some discussion was had about moving the safety fence to the east up to 25’ to make more room to park in the center of the field. Also bringing electricity to the center area, maybe even putting it near the safety fence to make it more convenient to charge near the pits. 

• Oct 20 – Spud Valley Toy Show Will talk about this more at the next meeting. 

• Rodney Johnson and Johan Bauson gave a talk and demonstration of a very nice electronic weighing system used for determining the exact CG of an airplane and then adding weight at the appropriate point to get the exact balance desired. The system is from Xicoy CG scale. 

2019 Officers 

President – Ryan Johnson 

Vice President – Dean Gary 

Treasurer – Paul K 

Secretary – Ron Landman 

Safety – Dick V 

Member at large – Ken L, Mark P

VRCF Board Meeting – August 20, 2019 

VRCF field - members and guests present ~8 

Checking - $4,298.70 

Savings - $2,286.69 

TOTAL - $6,585.39 

AGENDA 

Air Sho – no donations this year for anyone. Not enough people attended. 

Quad Squad – planning on Saturday Aug. 24th. Let club know. 

Pop machine is fixed thanks to Bob German. 

Fall Fly - ? If someone wants to spearhead it, just an informal one should be OK. Do it on short notice according to weather. 

Fun Fly – get sanction # soon.  

Winter meetings – replace a club meeting with a Moorhead community course. Negotiate with Air Museum for winter meetings. 

Possibility of recreational flying test in the near future. Not sure how it would be administered. 

Civil Air Patrol – Two members came to our meeting to discuss possible cooperation. They have been asked to start UAS program. Tasked by government to build program, fly drones near critical infrastructure to test defenses, help with search and rescue, disaster assessment. Need Part 107, have DJI Mavik, etc. Fixed wing in future. It is a service related mission. Need place for training. MOU with CAP and AMA coming. Have “go” kits they send to sights that need them. 1 st and 3rd Mondays are CAP meetings. 

Lee G – recognize for working on kitchen doors, etc. 

Misc: 

Indoor Fun Fly - ? deal with venues. 

2019 Officers 

President – Ryan Johnson 

Vice President – Dean Gary 

Treasurer – Paul K 

Secretary – Ron Landman 

Safety – Dick V 

Member at large – Ken L, Mark P