Your Support
Counts
CABA
Relies on Membership
Participation
Welcome to the
Centennial Airport Business
Association's October Newsletter! It
has been quite a busy summer and our committees
are continuing to push forward thanks to our board
of trustees, but more so thanks to our
membership. Please keep in mind that we are
always looking for people to help us in our
endeavors by participating on committees, writing
newsletter articles, bringing forward important
news and events, and attending our meetings.
Contact us at any time to start becoming a part of
CABA and to join one of our many committees, which
include:
- Colorado Airports
-
Operations, Safety, and Security
- Community
Outreach
-
Education
- Schedulers and
Dispatchers
-
Membership
-
Communications
If anyone is
interested in joining or participating in these
committees please contact Brittany Davies
at bdavies@mycaba.org or David Purvis
at dpurvis@mycaba.org.
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CABA's Q4 Membership Meeting - Save the
date!
November 11th, 4:00pm - Location
TBA
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We are having our 4th
Quarter Membership meeting, and you are invited to
join us. We have an excellent speaker lined up and
will have some exciting developments to discuss
with you as we work to enhance our website and
also grow our association to incorporate more of
the Colorado aviation
community.
Jodie Brown of Summit
Solutions will be speaking. Here is a short
profile of Jodie's background:
Jodie
Brown, M.A.
Jodie is founder and
president of Summit Solutions. She brings over a
decade of business aviation experience and more
than twenty-five years of business consulting,
leadership and managerial training experience with
universities, government and Fortune 100
companies.
With a background in
Management Information Systems, doctoral work in
organization communication, corporate mediation
and business aviation, Jodie brings her expertise
to clients, enabling them to successfully manage
their growth and changing business
needs
Jodie has served as
Associate Dean and Instructor at the University of
Denver, and Director of Professional Development
Programs at the Univ. of Colorado at Boulder. She
has worked with both High Tech firms and business
aviation clients and taught as adjunct faculty at
the University of Colorado Business School's
Division of Continuing
Education.
Please plan to join us
as we wrap up another great year and look towards
next years exciting growth and evolution.
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CABA's 2009-2010 Session Goals
Important Session Goal
Needs Membership
Participation
CABA
has recently sent a comprehensive update to our
membership, summarizing achievements to date and
outlining goals for the remainder of the 2009-2010
session. As a member of CABA, you benefit
from each and every accomplishment we have as an
association, and have the ability to participate
in, and have a direct effect on, those
accomplishments.
One of our most important
and recent developments could directly impact you,
and we are now asking for your participation and
input as we evaluate it.
Many of our active
constituents have asked us to elevate our
organization, and evolve into the Colorado
Aviation Business Association. To evaluate
this, we've created the Colorado Aviation Business
Association Exploratory Committee ("CABAEC"), to
be chaired by Iver Retrum. The committee is
charged with the assessment and evaluation of the
idea and potential implementation of this
evolution. If there is substantial support to move
forward, this committee will be responsible for
holding of a comment period and referendum vote,
developing a formal proposal to be submitted to
the membership, and developing the structure and
formal reorganization of the CABA bylaws.
The first
CABAEC meeting is tentatively scheduled for
Tuesday, October 27th, 1:30 pm at the
SunBorne Companies. If you are interested
in participating in this committee, please contact
Iver at iretrum@mycaba.org or 303.708.8590 to
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Responses to USA
Today and Today Show
Bias
Stories Draw Responses from Local Aviation
Community
Most of us have read or
seen the articles and news stories in USA Today
and on the Today show about the expense of
operating General Aviation Airports in our
communities. As we can all agree, these
stories are misguided, unrealistic, and downright
hurtful to those of us that work, and often live,
within the aviation community and who's livelihood
is dependent on community airfields and the
businesses they support.
The following
links are to responses made to these stories from
within our Colorado aviation community. Thanks to
Kenny Maenpa of Rocky Mountain Metro Airport and
the Colorado Airport Operators Association for
their tireless efforts in combating the negative
media coverage we have all fallen victim to.
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| RMMA
Response to USA Today Article
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NBAA
Accepting Applications for Schedulers &
Dispatchers Scholarship and Training
Awards
Deadline is Approaching
Fast
The NBAA
Schedulers & Dispatchers Committee is
dedicated to promoting education and training as a
means for individuals to increase the
professionalism of their positions.
To
further this objective, NBAA in conjunction with
various sponsors offers a number of educational
scholarship and training award opportunities
annually. Over $40,000 for scholarships and
numerous training opportunities are
available.
Applications and
additional information are available at: http://web.nbaa.org/public/education/scholarships/
Applications can be
printed and faxed or mailed in, and need to be
signed by the applicant. Applications
must be received by NBAA on or before October 30,
2009. Scholarship
recipients will be announced at theNBAA 20th
Annual S&D Conference, to be held from Jan 27
- 29, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas. http://web.nbaa.org/public/cs/sdc/2010
NBAA wish's a warm
welcome for 2010 to their newest sponsors
and
greatly appreciate the contributions, support and
partnership of their long time sponsors in giving
opportunity to up and coming Schedulers and
Dispatchers.
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New FAA System
Improves Safety in Remote Non-radar
Areas
Wide-Area Multilateration
Improvements in Colorado
A new surveillance system
introduced by the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) in Colorado allows air
traffic controllers to track aircraft not
covered by radar in remote, mountainous regions.
"The new system, called Wide-Area
Multilateration, lets us see aircraft we
couldn't see before due to the rugged terrain,"
said FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt. "It
improves the safety and efficiency of those
flights and saves time and money for passengers
and operators."
The FAA and the Colorado
Department of Transportation are sharing the
cost of Wide-Area Multilateration, which began
initial operations on Sept. 12 at Yampa
Valley-Hayden, Craig-Moffat, Steamboat Springs
and Garfield County Regional-Rifle Airports. The
mountains in those areas are popular ski
destinations but make radar coverage impossible
because radar signals cannot pass through solid
objects.
The resulting flight
limitations are compounded by seasonal bad
weather, which causes flight delays and
cancellations. The Colorado Department of
Transportation estimates an average of 75
aircraft are delayed each day at remote airports
from November to April.
The new system
is comprised of a network of relatively small
sensors deployed in remote areas. The sensors
send out signals that are received and sent back
by aircraft transponders. No other aircraft
equipment is required. System computers are able
to determine the precise location of aircraft by
triangulating the time and distance measurements
of those signals. Controllers are able to see
those aircraft on their screens as if they were
radar targets.
Wide-Area Multilateration
(WAM) is being used in the near term while the
FAA rolls out Automatic Dependent
Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), the
satellite-based surveillance system that will be
fully deployed nationwide by 2013. WAM will then
serve as a backup to ADS-B in the event of a GPS
outage and provide an additional source of
traffic broadcast to properly equipped aircraft.
Under the joint cost-sharing agreement,
the Colorado DOT paid for the equipment,
physical site preparations, power and
telecommunications for the new system. The FAA
will operate and maintain the system, eventually
upgrading it with ADS-B.
The FAA will
monitor how the system works at the four
Colorado airports to determine further
deployment.
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Safe Passage Day
a Success
Inaugural Event
Draws from Community
Participation |
On October 6th, Safe
Passage held its first "Safe Passage Day" at Rocky
Mountain Metropolitan Airport. The event
marks the inauguration of a movement to involve
individuals from the airport, law enforcement,
emergency response, and local community in
day to day aircraft operations, promoting best
practices in Safety, along with Medical and
Security Contingency planning.
"Our
meeting enabled the aircraft operators and the
entire airport community to have face to face
discussions regarding what emergency issues we
might encounter and how best to facilitate each
other in prevention and cooperative responses,"
says Mike Turner of Safe Passage. "We've dispelled
the myth that we can't defend our flight
operations. We discussed and demonstrated how we
as a community are fully capable of preventing and
responding to security incidents. Aircraft
operators were encouraged to apply what they
learned at the event to potential issues at other
destination airports by making flight assessments
and considering appropriate contingency plans for
each destination."
For those who are
interested in seeing the material that was handed
out at the event or if you'd like to learn more
about hosting a Safe Passage day at your airport,
please go to www.4safepassage.com or contact
Mike Turner at mturner@mycaba.org.
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CABA Needs Your
Help
Submit
an Article for our Newsletter
Do you
have something to say? CABA is looking for
some help with the newsletter! We need
people that are willing to aid the communications
committee in compiling the newsletter and
gathering fresh news for our community. If
interested please respond to Brittany Davies at
bdavies@mycaba.org. |
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| CABA Mission
Statement |
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"To
foster and promote aviation and related business
at and near Centennial Airport; to collectively
address and respond to issues impacting Centennial
Airport, including safety and operational
effectiveness; to educate the general public about
all aviation activities at the airport, and to
preserve the airport and related businesses as
valuable economic assets to the community at
large." |
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| CABA Board of
Trustees |
Iver
Retrum
(Chairman)
Dave Purvis
(Vice
Chairman)
Brittany Davies
(Treasurer)
Larry
Ulrich
(Secretary)
Donovan DeVasher
John Furstenberg
Craig
Johnston
Michael
Turner
Michael
McCready
Gene
Langfeldt
Craig Teasdale
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Sponsors
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