 Regular monthly meetings are free and usually feature a social half hour with refreshments, two informative presentations, and a 50/50 raffle to benefit the annual CAPA scholarship fund raising effort. Please review our Meeting Archive page to review some of our recent events. Upcoming meetings are outlined below. Our regular monthly meetings are currently held at Cape Cod Community College on the first Wednesday of the month. Located on Iyanough Road (Route 132) right off Route 6, it is significantly closer to more people than our old location and offers full handicap access.
CAPE PILOT'S SPRING DINNER
Mark your calendar for a festive evening of socializing with your fellow members of the Cape flying community Tuesday, May 4th at the Hyannis Golf Club. This annual event has become extremely popular, and we invite you to bring your friends and family. Dinner speaker will be Arlo Gambell, Senior Aviation Meteorologist with WSI, the private metorological organization which provides XM satellite weather information for aircraft.
MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS
CAPA membership cards for 2011 will be in the mail next week. We have a really nice gift for you once your dues are received...it's a desk clock/photo stand with digital calendar and thermometer emblazoned of course with the proud CAPA wings. Click here to see.
Griffin Avionics has arranged a special Garmin presentation at the next Cape Area Pilot's Association ("CAPA") meeting Wednesday, April 6th at Cape Cod Community College. Griffen is an authorized dealer and service center for Garmin Electronics and with Griffin Aviation is the longest operating FBO at Hyannis Airport.
The Garmin 430 and 530 GPS/Comm models are being replaced with new 21st century designs. Now Garmin has just introduced the new state-of-the-art next you'll be able to see, touch, and watch a full demonstration of the GTN 650 and GTN 750 at CAPA this Wednesday evening. These are totally redesigned units, with touchscreens and built-in audio and transponder controls. Your aircraft will no longer need a seperate transponder and audio panel, and the screens are larger, crisper, and brighter.
Preview the new Garmin gear to be presented at CAPA through the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssUuO3BeRpw&feature=player_embedded
There will be a question and answer period with Garmin representative
Michael Kerrigan (brother of Nancy Kerrigan), and both Kerrigan and Griffen technicians will be available for questions following the meeting.
PAVE PAWS SPACE COMMAND BRIEFING
Learn about the amazing PAVE PAWS at the April CAPA meeting as facility commander Colonal Shawn Smith and his team outline the mission of the Cape PAVE PAWS space tracking facility. In addition, Commander Shawn Smith will detail the GPS system, how it works and PAVE PAWS functions in the operation of the 32 satellites which make up the GPS constellation.
The Air Force will be videotaping the event to use in future staff training.
The PAVE PAWS transmitter is in the middle of the restricted area just East of the North end of the Cape Cod Canal, and contains one of three powerful antenna arrays known as PAVE PAWS, which permits the tracking of objects in space and over the horizen to a distance of 3,000 nautical miles. It is connected directly to NORAD headquarters inside Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs.
Link: http://www.norad.mil/about/cmoc.html
GARMIN SEMINAR ADDED TO APRIL CAPA
Griffin Avionics has arranged a special Garmin presentation at the next Cape Area Pilot's Association ("CAPA") meeting, Wednesday April 6th at Cape Cod Community College. Griffen is an authorized dealer and service center for Garmin Electronics.
The Garmin 430 GPS was first released in 1998. Do you remember what your computer looked like in 1998?
Now Garmin has just introduced the new state-of-the-art next generation of GPS, audio and transponder equipment and you'll be able to see it, touch it, and have a full demonstration of the GTN 650 and GTN 750 with touchscreens, along with built-in audio and transponder capability. It is a radical upgrade from the Garmin 430 & 530 equipment which completely dominates General Aviation today.
Garmin was founded by Gary Burrell and Min Kao in 1991 (thus the name Garmin, "Gar"&"Min"). Burrell earned a degree in Electrical Engineering from Wichita State University and a graduate degree from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He went to work for King Radio, in 1963 just six years after it was started by Edward King, Jr. in a farmhouse in Olathe, Kansas. Burrell led the development team which created most of the now-legendary King products, and is where he hired Kao. The two went on to lead the team which developed the first certificated GPS navigation system for airplanes.
Around 1990 Kao hooked up with an old school friend from Taiwan who had become an investment banker> He offered to provide investment money for Kao and Burrell to start what became Garmin. Each of the founders now has a net worth estimated to be over a billion dollars.
The new generation of Garmin gear to be presented at the CAPA meeting can be previewed through the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssUuO3BeRpw&feature=player_embedded
There will be a question and answer period with Garmin representative Michael Kerrigan (brother of Nancy Kerrigan), and both Kerrigan and Griffen technicians will be available following the meeting.
THIS WEDNESDAY!
CAPA meets tomorrow, April 6th and on the first Wednesday of each month at Cape Cod Community College, Route 132, Barnstable, 500 yeard North of Route 6 Exit 6. Park in lots 2 & 3 and come to the Media Center in the basement of Wilkins Library. Complimentary Pizza from Scotties of Hyannis wil be served with friends and conversation starting at 6:30, business meeting begins at 7:00 PM.
Griffen Avionics is expecting fly-ins and will provide van transportation from Hyannis Airport to the College until 6:30 PM. If you plan to fly in, contact Griffen to reserve a spot.
We expect a packed house, so arrive early to assure a seat.
See you there!
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