Beginning on Saturday, March 27th, EFA is beginning a series of seminars on a variety of interesting and frequently requested subjects. All seminars are held at Hanscom Field unless otherwise noted (Maintenance Seminar, Aircraft Purchase Session and FAA Seminar at Lawrence Airport).

Price for each two-hour seminar is $39, the 2.5-hour seminars are $49; a minimum of three attendees is necessary for any. Sign up and pay for three or more seminars at a rate of $34 each! Call 1-781-274-7227 to sign up today!

IFR Flight Planning: Guided Discussion & Shared Techniques

• Filing an IFR flight plan
• Route selection
• How to evaluate the weather forecasts, and what keeps you on the ground
• Alternate considerations
• Equipment considerations
• Go and no-go considerations
• Obstacle clearance minimums
• Lost com/nav/equipment problems
• Diversions
• In-Flight weather updates
• Precision, non-precision, circling, visual and contact approaches
• Approach minimums and other considerations

C-172 & 182 Equipment Use & Advanced Techniques – Get More Out Of Your Avionics

• KLN 94 GPS (VNAV, calculating W/V, radio freq loading, MSA/ESA, DME arcs, etc.)
• KAP 140 A/P (Alt alerter, preselected altitudes, arming altitude, nav and approach modes)
• KX 155A NAV/COM (Chan and Mode buttons, timer, reading radials)
• KN 55A HSI (slaved and unslaved, capturing courses, scaling, etc)
• KMA 28 Comm panel

G1000 Advanced Techniques: VFR Operations

• Loading and storing flight plans (waypoints, airways, inverting)
• Creating user waypoints and track offsets
• Setting fuel and range ring
• Establishing individual preset favorites
• Advanced PFD operations
• Advanced MFD operations
• Joystick functions
• Optimizing Topo, terrain, weather, obstacle settings
• Understanding the Comm panel
• Integrated autopilot and KAP 140 use

Flight Test/Check Ride Preparation

• Making sure everything is in order (including IACRA)
• Understanding the PTS
• Filling your “clue box”
• Check ride jitters
• How to prepare
• Using SRM to your advantage
• Common errors (what not to do and guaranteed bust items)
• Correcting your errors

G1000 (C-172/C182 NAVIII) Introduction and Overview

• Systems differences
• Primary Flight Display (PFD)
• Multi Function Display (MFD)
• Communications panel
• Reversionary mode
• Standby instruments
• Main functions available

X-Country Flight Planning

• Route selections considerations
• Checkpoint selection criteria
• Weight & Balance considerations
• Cruise performance and wind effects
• Radar advisories vs. FSS flight plan
• Airspace considerations
• Maximizing use of pilotage, DR, VOR & GPS
• Course lines vs. speed lines
• VOR fixes
• Diverting
• Destination airport procedures

Advanced G1000 – IFR Operations

• Entering filed route and changing flight plans
• Instrument, RAIM and VOR checks
• Pre departure setup (DP and emergency return)
• Checking weather before departing
• Enroute operations
• Full or vectored approach setup
• Course reversals (P/T or hold)
• Use of GPS in lieu of DME
• GPS approach criteria for LPV, LNAV, and LNAV/VNAV
• Missed approach and holds
• Timers and DA/MDA settings
• Integrated autopilot and KAP 140 use

Maintenance Seminar
at EFA’s Maintenance Hangar at Lawrence Airport

• Look at the aircraft you fly from “under the hood”
• Learn the whys and wherefores of the parts and systems
• Understand what the preflight checks tell you – and why to do then
• Find out what to do when something doesn’t look/sound/feel right
• Learn the techniques of cold and hot starting, and why we do what we do
• Discuss in flight abnormalities and how to write them up
• Develop the systems understanding you need to diagnose abnormalities and actions to take

VFR Flying: Guided Discussion & Shared Techniques

• Scenario based training (SBT) discussion
• Considerations for fuel
• Destination airport facilities and services
• Changing weather conditions
• Equipment failure/engine failure
• Diversions
• Night flight considerations

Aircraft Purchase Considerations
at EFA’s Maintenance Hangar at Lawrence Airport
What to consider when purchasing an aircraft including pre-purchase inspection, fees associated with owning an a/c: tie-down/hangar/insurance/mx

FAA Safety Seminar at the EFA Hangar at Lawrence Airport

• TBD in June – FREE!
• Registarion thru FAAST (FAA Safety Team)
• Understanding the revised Wings Program
• Keeping current and proficient VFR and IFR
• More information to come.

Short and-soft field TOL clinic

• To be held at a non-towered airport – TBD
• Ground review of Airplane Flying Handbook, POH recommendations and general techniques
• Dual instruction and practice
• *$39.00 for the seminar; dual instructional rates will apply

If these seminars look like something you would like to attend, let us know!

You can also comment with days and times available on our Facebook page under the March 2nd post about ground seminars.
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This year’s program will include an expanded 30-minute review of local accidents, followed by lead speaker Bruce Landsberg, President of the AOPA Air Safety Foundation. Free admission; free parking; cash bar; no reservations required.

EFA will have its own table during the event – please remember to stop by and see our special offers for Crash Course participants only!

2009 Super Decathlon 8KCAB -N50YY. Click here for more information!

Sport Aerobatics is published by the International Aerobatic Club (IAC) – which is governed by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA).  If you would like to read the articles, please click on the links below to download the PDFs:

Akro Artist (article about her transformation into an aerobatic pilot and the ‘art of aerobatics’) – Sport Aerobatics, December 2009

Training Notes (article about using part of the Doug Yost Scholarship money to train at EFA for an aerobatic contest) – Sport Aerobatics, January 2010

2/50 Impressions (article about the aerobatic competition Lise competed in) – Sport Aerobatics, February 2010

Thank you Lise and Sport Aerobatics for allowing us to reprint these articles for our readers!

EFA will offer both Private Pilot and Sport Pilot training in this aircraft.

We hear about many aircraft with a ‘history’, but we don’t always see one. Owner and Mass resident, Steve Sides, brought his Cessna to us for maintenance early January. When we heard about it’s history, we were floored. As a proponent for aviation and the pilot of the famed “Spirit of St. Louis”, Charles Lindbergh’s legacy lives on in this aircraft. His legacy also lives on with his grandson, Erik Lindbergh, who also flew same transatlantic flight in 2002 to revisit the historic flight of his grandfather 75 years later.

To earn the designation, EFA was required to meet Lycoming specified equipment and facility requirements, maintain required staff training levels, meet or exceed required levels of quality and professionalism, and be capable of handling fly-in customers.

“These standards were set to identify only the best-trained, best-operated service centers,” said Mike Everhart, Lycoming director of Distribution Management & Customer Service. “By identifying and working with shops that meet or exceed our standards, we are building a quality customer support network of dependable, honest, competent and professional service providers that will be known for their technical capabilities and the highest standards associated with the Lycoming brand.”

EFA was established in 1964 and provides pilots and owners services that include: flight training and aircraft rental, sales and maintenance.

Lycoming supports its Authorized Service Centers with online training programs and by designating the centers as the exclusive source for service and support of Lycoming’s soon-to-be available advanced technology – the new iE2 (integrated electronic engine) and the new IO-233-LSA Light Sport Engine.

Lycoming Authorized Service Centers are also the primary source of Lycoming Echelon STCs, Lycoming’s own supplemental type certificate program to upgrade legacy aircraft with modern power plants.

For more information, contact Matt Goulian, Director of Maintenance at (781) 274-7477.

Click here to download a PDF of the complete spec sheet.

Price reduced to $275,000!

2006 Cessna T182T N776YB Click here for more information!

2005 Cessna 182T N1220R Click here for more information!