Our Mission
The Lake Hood Pilots Association was formed to promote safe and secure general aviation operations at Lake Hood in Anchorage, Alaska. We exist to promote and encourage the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities to conduct fair and equable management of airport land use including permit and lease aircraft parking, to provide a measured, constructive, and focused voice for the general aviation pilots of Lake Hood, and to promote a sense of community among the aircraft users of Lake Hood.
JUNE 2021 UPDATE:
Please see the "About & Membership" page (link in above header) for your membership status and to join or renew.
We have planned a service project at Goose Bay Airport (Z40) on June 9th (weather alternate June 23rd) to paint marks for short field landing practice similar to the Palmer and Fairbanks gravel strips. DOT and FAA have tentatively approved our plan. We have also received the support of the Alaska Airmen’s Association, which has offered to co-host a work party. This is already an annual project at FAI gravel strip which enjoys widespread support in that community. Over the past few months we have been working out details with DOT and it appears we are on track to make this a recurring annual local event! Volunteers are needed to help measure and locate markers, move stencils, and run the paint sprayer. Contact Galen, galen.m.pospisil@gmail.com or 907-312-4720,
if you'd like to help:
Volunteers arrive by air or ground prior to 3:00 pm.
Airport NOTAM'd closed at 3:30 pm - work party begins.
BBQ picnic dinner 7:30 pm.
Airport NOTAM'd open at 8:00 pm.
February 24, 2021: LPHA held an ad-hoc meeting to discuss the Goose Bay Airport project and other issues. Link to draft meeting minutes.
December 5, 2020: LHPA held an annual meeting via Zoom. Links to minutes, agenda, and proposed bylaws. Subsequently, the following officers and board members were elected:
July 31, 2020: Erin White, Volunteer Coordinator with TheRAF.org, provided the following information regarding fly-in cabins that are in danger of being decommissioned: https://theraf.org/your-input-could-save-a-tongass-fly-in-cabin/
July 22, 2020: Amanda Reimann with Lake Hood Air Traffic Control provided the following information:
Most pilot outreach efforts have been suspended since the onset of the pandemic, so I wanted to share the slideshow we normally use adapted in a, hopefully, self-explanatory format. We've experienced a lot of "possible pilot deviations" so far this summer and I want to make sure we're educating all the operators on the practices here to hopefully prevent some of those from occurring. The two most frequently occurring errors are: entering a controlled/active waterlane without a clearance and not flying the published routes properly or at the published altitudes. We've had many pilots drifting away from using their call signs with their transmissions or readbacks as well.
Please share this presentation by any means necessary with your contacts and if anyone has any questions my contact info is listed on the last slide. Feel free to post this to your websites for informational purposes. We encourage anyone with questions to reach out for clarification.
Thanks for your time, hope you're all staying healthy.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kwDiGKWDTiDQH1SUtSwBGfi85RbdBrEGcxU9JQ-bI_o/edit?usp=sharing
PowerPoint File
Amanda Reimann
ANC/LHD Pilot Outreach
ancpilotoutreach@mail.com
907-884-3262
The general membership meeting planned for March 2020 was canceled due to the pandemic.
The Lake Hood Pilots Association held a board meeting on December 13, 2019.
The Lake Hood Pilots Association held a membership meeting at 10 AM on December 7, 2019, at the Fishback hangar, 3720 Bellanca Way, Unit B. The organization "regrouped" after the tragic loss of long-time association president Scott Christy and his wife, Jean Tam, in an aircraft accident on July 28, 2019. Link to ADN article. The focus of the meeting was to elect a new board and discuss the direction the association will take in the future. Link to meeting minutes.
THE LAKE HOOD PILOTS ASSOCIATION HELD A WINTER MEETING AT 10 AM ON Saturday, December 8, 2018 at Steve Fishback's hangar, 3720 Bellanca Way, Unit C. Links to map, agenda, and meeting minutes.
JUNE 2021 UPDATE:
Please see the "About & Membership" page (link in above header) for your membership status and to join or renew.
We have planned a service project at Goose Bay Airport (Z40) on June 9th (weather alternate June 23rd) to paint marks for short field landing practice similar to the Palmer and Fairbanks gravel strips. DOT and FAA have tentatively approved our plan. We have also received the support of the Alaska Airmen’s Association, which has offered to co-host a work party. This is already an annual project at FAI gravel strip which enjoys widespread support in that community. Over the past few months we have been working out details with DOT and it appears we are on track to make this a recurring annual local event! Volunteers are needed to help measure and locate markers, move stencils, and run the paint sprayer. Contact Galen, galen.m.pospisil@gmail.com or 907-312-4720,
if you'd like to help:
Volunteers arrive by air or ground prior to 3:00 pm.
Airport NOTAM'd closed at 3:30 pm - work party begins.
BBQ picnic dinner 7:30 pm.
Airport NOTAM'd open at 8:00 pm.
February 24, 2021: LPHA held an ad-hoc meeting to discuss the Goose Bay Airport project and other issues. Link to draft meeting minutes.
December 5, 2020: LHPA held an annual meeting via Zoom. Links to minutes, agenda, and proposed bylaws. Subsequently, the following officers and board members were elected:
- Al Clayton - President and Director
- Kristina Votaw – Vice President and Director
- Petra Illig - Secretary
- Jim Curtis - Treasurer
- Terry Cartee - Director
- Jim Seely - Director
- Jan Fishback - Director
July 31, 2020: Erin White, Volunteer Coordinator with TheRAF.org, provided the following information regarding fly-in cabins that are in danger of being decommissioned: https://theraf.org/your-input-could-save-a-tongass-fly-in-cabin/
July 22, 2020: Amanda Reimann with Lake Hood Air Traffic Control provided the following information:
Most pilot outreach efforts have been suspended since the onset of the pandemic, so I wanted to share the slideshow we normally use adapted in a, hopefully, self-explanatory format. We've experienced a lot of "possible pilot deviations" so far this summer and I want to make sure we're educating all the operators on the practices here to hopefully prevent some of those from occurring. The two most frequently occurring errors are: entering a controlled/active waterlane without a clearance and not flying the published routes properly or at the published altitudes. We've had many pilots drifting away from using their call signs with their transmissions or readbacks as well.
Please share this presentation by any means necessary with your contacts and if anyone has any questions my contact info is listed on the last slide. Feel free to post this to your websites for informational purposes. We encourage anyone with questions to reach out for clarification.
Thanks for your time, hope you're all staying healthy.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kwDiGKWDTiDQH1SUtSwBGfi85RbdBrEGcxU9JQ-bI_o/edit?usp=sharing
PowerPoint File
Amanda Reimann
ANC/LHD Pilot Outreach
ancpilotoutreach@mail.com
907-884-3262
The general membership meeting planned for March 2020 was canceled due to the pandemic.
The Lake Hood Pilots Association held a board meeting on December 13, 2019.
The Lake Hood Pilots Association held a membership meeting at 10 AM on December 7, 2019, at the Fishback hangar, 3720 Bellanca Way, Unit B. The organization "regrouped" after the tragic loss of long-time association president Scott Christy and his wife, Jean Tam, in an aircraft accident on July 28, 2019. Link to ADN article. The focus of the meeting was to elect a new board and discuss the direction the association will take in the future. Link to meeting minutes.
THE LAKE HOOD PILOTS ASSOCIATION HELD A WINTER MEETING AT 10 AM ON Saturday, December 8, 2018 at Steve Fishback's hangar, 3720 Bellanca Way, Unit C. Links to map, agenda, and meeting minutes.
