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.
ICE CONDITIONS: check out the below link for the latest on ice conditions [below excerpt from this email]:
Please see the "About & Membership" page for your membership status and to join or renew.
DECEMBER 2021 UPDATE rev 1: ONLINE ANNUAL WAS MEETING HELD 12/04/2021.
Agenda here. Zoom recording here, Passcode " URfX8eL. " (without the quotes but WITH the period). We suggest you copy the passcode, click on the recording link, click on the "I am not a robot" checkbox, paste the passcode into the box, then hit enter).
Meeting minutes from 12/5/2020 Annual Meeting here.
Terry Cartee's ANC-LHD airspace PowerPoint presentation here.
Lake Hood Airport Manager Tim Coons' presentation on plans for the airport will be posted when available.
Rick Reuss shared information about a Canadian A185F skiplane inflight breakup accident from 1997 that was very interesting. See pages 11 and 12 of this newsletter.
NOVEMBER 2021 UPDATE: PAYPAL NOW AVAILABLE FOR MEMBERSHIP PAYMENTS ONLINE !
Treasurer Jim Curtis set up a PayPal account for membership payments: PayPal.Me/lakehoodpilotsassn
JUNE 2021 UPDATE: GOOSE BAY AIRPORT SHORT-FIELD PRACTICE RUNWAY MARKINGS PROJECT
Story in Statewide Aviation's newsletter - Plane Talk - available at this link: Plane_Talk_summer2021.pdf (alaska.gov)
Has it been difficult to find a convenient place to practice accurate short field landings in the Anchorage area? The Lake Hood Pilots Association had been thinking so. In June, volunteers painted white short field practice markings on the gravel Goose Bay Airport runway. With support from Rich Sewell of the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, volunteers measured out each end of Runway 26/15. With markings spaced 25 feet apart at 100-foot intervals down the runway for 900 feet at each end, pilots can now train safely to a known standard at Goose Bay for that next great beach adventure or fly-in competition!
With a few buckets of paint, some loaned equipment, and an afternoon work party, Lake Hood Pilots Association created this new opportunity for pilots. Thanks to AOPA Alaska Regional Director Tom George for supporting the project, state operator Kyler Hylton for getting the runway graded and packed ahead of schedule, volunteer David Karalunas for the loan of a paint sprayer and generator, and LHPA President Al Clayton for supporting the project and volunteering his nice red truck at the risk of being covered in white paint. Volunteers celebrated with a post-work BBQ.
Next spring, we plan to touch up the markings, hopefully a little earlier in the season before pilots shift to floats. We look forward to you joining us. Please contact Galen Pospisil for more information: 907-312-4720.
Photos (names on photos are those of the photographer/submitter): https://photos.app.goo.gl/zu4uJCTRerUc12qZ6
Thank you to everyone who made the project a success! Airport marking information
Galen Pospisil, Goose Bay Project Coordinator
MAY 2021 UPDATE: We have planned a service project at Goose Bay Airport (Z40) on June 9th 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, for more information. If you'd like to help on June 9, 2021:
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.
ICE CONDITIONS: check out the below link for the latest on ice conditions [below excerpt from this email]:
- Ice. It’s only a matter of time. When it does arrive, once the ice depth gets past 6 inches, we’ll start getting and posting ice depth readings. Ice Conditions updates and further information about winter ops are available from LHD ATCT (907-271-2700) or Airport Operations (907-266-2600) and will be posted as available at http://dot.state.ak.us/anc/business/generalAviation/iceConditions.shtml
Please see the "About & Membership" page for your membership status and to join or renew.
DECEMBER 2021 UPDATE rev 1: ONLINE ANNUAL WAS MEETING HELD 12/04/2021.
Agenda here. Zoom recording here, Passcode " URfX8eL. " (without the quotes but WITH the period). We suggest you copy the passcode, click on the recording link, click on the "I am not a robot" checkbox, paste the passcode into the box, then hit enter).
Meeting minutes from 12/5/2020 Annual Meeting here.
Terry Cartee's ANC-LHD airspace PowerPoint presentation here.
Lake Hood Airport Manager Tim Coons' presentation on plans for the airport will be posted when available.
Rick Reuss shared information about a Canadian A185F skiplane inflight breakup accident from 1997 that was very interesting. See pages 11 and 12 of this newsletter.
NOVEMBER 2021 UPDATE: PAYPAL NOW AVAILABLE FOR MEMBERSHIP PAYMENTS ONLINE !
Treasurer Jim Curtis set up a PayPal account for membership payments: PayPal.Me/lakehoodpilotsassn
JUNE 2021 UPDATE: GOOSE BAY AIRPORT SHORT-FIELD PRACTICE RUNWAY MARKINGS PROJECT
Story in Statewide Aviation's newsletter - Plane Talk - available at this link: Plane_Talk_summer2021.pdf (alaska.gov)
Has it been difficult to find a convenient place to practice accurate short field landings in the Anchorage area? The Lake Hood Pilots Association had been thinking so. In June, volunteers painted white short field practice markings on the gravel Goose Bay Airport runway. With support from Rich Sewell of the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, volunteers measured out each end of Runway 26/15. With markings spaced 25 feet apart at 100-foot intervals down the runway for 900 feet at each end, pilots can now train safely to a known standard at Goose Bay for that next great beach adventure or fly-in competition!
With a few buckets of paint, some loaned equipment, and an afternoon work party, Lake Hood Pilots Association created this new opportunity for pilots. Thanks to AOPA Alaska Regional Director Tom George for supporting the project, state operator Kyler Hylton for getting the runway graded and packed ahead of schedule, volunteer David Karalunas for the loan of a paint sprayer and generator, and LHPA President Al Clayton for supporting the project and volunteering his nice red truck at the risk of being covered in white paint. Volunteers celebrated with a post-work BBQ.
Next spring, we plan to touch up the markings, hopefully a little earlier in the season before pilots shift to floats. We look forward to you joining us. Please contact Galen Pospisil for more information: 907-312-4720.
Photos (names on photos are those of the photographer/submitter): https://photos.app.goo.gl/zu4uJCTRerUc12qZ6
Thank you to everyone who made the project a success! Airport marking information
Galen Pospisil, Goose Bay Project Coordinator
MAY 2021 UPDATE: We have planned a service project at Goose Bay Airport (Z40) on June 9th 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, for more information. If you'd like to help on June 9, 2021:
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.
