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Latest News | as of February 22, 2012
Time for the Annual Tower Survey
For those who frequent the Collin County McKinney airport, TKI tower wants to know how they are doing. They would like those interested to fill out their survey form.
Spring Private Pilot Ground School coming up
Our Spring Ground School starts on March 8th. Contact our class organizer, Dick Stephens (Dick@stephens-family.net), or our Communications Officer, Darren O'Rourke (communications@tfcschedule.org)......more
 The Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) continue to monitor reports on potential terrorist threats in the United States. While there is no specific or credible intelligence that al-Qa'ida or its affiliates are plotting attacks in the United States to coincide with the ten year anniversary of 9/11 , we remain at a heightened state of vigilance and security measures are in place to detect and prevent plots against the United States should they emerge. Read the entire text of this message at this link.
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--- Local Places to Get Lunch (or Dinner) --- North Texas Regional Airport (Grayson County), Denison, TX (KGYI) -- Area 51 Grill, Outstanding burgers and fries. Located at the south end of the field. The friendly ATC personnel will gladly provide taxi instructions. Closed on weekends. Hicks Field Ft. Worth, TX (T67) -- Rio Concho Cafe. Open Tuesday - Saturday, 11AM - 2PM, and Sundays 8AM - 3PM. Cedar Mills Airport, on Lake Texoma (3T0) -- Pelican's Landing Waterfront Restaurant. Land on the beautiful grass strip and walk a short distance to the restaurant and marina. Check out http://www.cedarmills.com/pelicansLanding.htm for more info. Lancaster Airport, Lancaster, TX (KLNC) -- Runway Cafe. Great burgers, friendly staff, and nice little airport. Check out http://therunwaycafe.com/ for hours and menu. Clark Field, Stephenville, TX (KSEP) -- Hard 8 BBQ. Really good BBQ, good airport. Park at one of the tie-downs and look for the golf cart provided by the restaurant to give you a ride over there. Tyler-Pounds Regional Airport, Tyler, TX (KTYR) -- Skyline Cafe. Nice little restaurant, good food. Open for breakfast and lunch daily. http://www.skylinecafe.org/ Also, check out the aircraft on static display. Sulpher Springs Airport, Sulphur Springs, TX (KSLR) -- Red Barn Cafe. Great food, go on Sundays after 11AM if you want to avoid cigarette smoke. Don't forget to bring cash, they don't take credit cards there. Meacham Airport, Ft. Worth, TX (KFTW) -- Stockyards Restaurants. Land at Meacham, park at TexasJet, get a crew car, and it's less than 2 miles to eat anywhere in the stockyards or go a little further and have some great mexican food at Joe T. Garcia's.
--- Refuel Offsite and Save Money ---
Local Fuel Rates (as of 12/18/2011) via http://100ll.com/
| Sherman Municipal (KSWI) 30NM @ 0° | $4.26/gallon | | Majors Airport (KGVT) 31NM @ 104° | $4.37/gallon | | Grayson County (KGYI) 37NM @ 352° | $4.49/gallon | | Gainesville Municipal (KGLE) 47NM @ 313° | $4.50/gallon | | Denton Municipal (KDTO) 35NM @ 272° | $4.52/gallon | | Rockwall Municipal (F46) 19NM @ 152° | $4.65/gallon | | Mesquite Metro (KHQZ) 29NM @ 173° | $4.65/gallon |
Our current reimbursement rate at KTKI is $6.19/gallon. If you refuel offsite and provide the receipt from your fuel purchase, we reimburse you at the McKinney fuel rate. Generally speaking, you will SAVE beetween 10% and 20% on your flight. It's simple to get reimbursed. - When you re-fuel offsite, make sure not to forget your receipt.
- When you land at McKinney, use a pen to write your club number on the receipt. Also, write the number of gallons purchased in the tach log.
- When you return the aircraft key, drop the fuel receipt in the slot of the coinbox sitting in the TFC keybox.
- THAT'S IT. Look for the credit on your next TFC invoice!
--- Aircraft Scheduling Guidelines --- Just a reminder of some things to keep in mind when reserving aircraft with the TFC. - Members are only allowed to reserve a single aircraft for the same date and time.
- Only one aircraft reservation is allowed to be scheduled beyond 10 days in the future.
- Designated trainer aircraft cannot be scheduled for overnight cross-country flights without prior approval by the Board.
- We will restrict your access to the scheduling system if our records indicate:
- you have not entered the membership information (including emergency contact info) and changed the password
- your medical has expired
- your yearly club check-out has expired
- your bi-annual FAA check-out has expired
- your financial account with the club is 60 days in arrears.
- No shows are extremely frustrating to the rest of the membership. PLEASE cancel if you can't use the time you have scheduled. Club rules state the penalties for no shows, but if everyone is courteous we will not have to use them.
- If you are grounded due to weather, cancel ASAP so that an IFR pilot may be able to use the aircraft.
- If weather or a maintenance problem keeps you from returning on time, call the Operations VP (or any Board member) so we can inform other members who might be affected.
Thank you for your cooperation on this matter. Suggestions, questions, comments, concerns, and constructive criticism are always welcome. Please do not hesitate to email or call (214.282.6573). If you have an aviation story to share or suggestion for a topic for the newsletter please do not hesitate to contact me. |
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