Cold Weather Procedures
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Our planes need special care and attention when the temperatures start heading below 40 degrees. When the temperature is below freezing the club requires members to preheat the engines before starting them. When the temperature is below 20 degrees these engines can suffer significant damage without properly pre-heating the engine components and the oil. We have put together a presentation with information on our policies and procedures if you plan to be flying in cold weather, please review it and contact an instructor or a club officer if you have any questions. We encourage any member who does not fly frequently or is not familiar with operations during cold weather to please get with your instructor for a refresher session.
Here is the presentation for cold weather procedures: https://texinsflyingclub.box.com/s/kowycswl2n0w5153wp2htl2lob4ejsb7
Please note we also have a short instructional video and information on using the engine warmer in N4135W. Please follow this link for more information: Archer N4135W pre-heat instructions
Member Orientation and Policy Reminder
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New members should be familiar with our club policies and procedures before using our planes. Instructors can help you with questions about those procedures. The new member orientation guide should get you started with some basic history of the club and a tour of the planes and procedures we use. This guide is meant to foster questions and help reinforce the policies in our flying regulations. Ask questions and read those regulations and policies too.
You can find a copy of the regulations here: https://texinsflyingclub.box.com/s/2clctnapemexzeqo2xiinzjldratizce
The member orientation guide is a power point presentation here: https://texinsflyingclub.box.com/s/y9zvedu1pa36v11conea1b8gcsvml5r6
Post flight procedures
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A reminder to all that after each flight it is the member's responsibility to:
- Check the plane back in on FlightCircle
- Post engine-shutdown complete: including turning off electrical equipment and the master switches
- Clean the leading edges of the airplane to remove bugs
- Remove trash from the airplane
- Install gust locks and pitot covers
- Install sunscreens
- Ensure that the aircraft is secured with tie-down chains or wheel chocks
- Post flight walkaround to inspect for any new problems
- Squawk any problems you find
- Personal items removed
- Key returned to the keybox
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