I would like to find a place to volunteer my time

I want to know if anyone can help me find a way to volunteer my time at
an air show some where in or around Minneapolis, Minnesota. I know we
are coming to the end of summer and as far as I know October is the
latest we have them in Minnesota. I am also open to any other ideas of
how to volunteer my time within this industry.

Check with the EAA www.eaa.org for local airshows/fly ins,
also the CAP.


"dani" wrote in message
ups.com...
|I want to know if anyone can help me find a way to
volunteer my time at
| an air show some where in or around Minneapolis,
Minnesota. I know we
| are coming to the end of summer and as far as I know
October is the
| latest we have them in Minnesota. I am also open to any
other ideas of
| how to volunteer my time within this industry.
|

As Jim suggested, check with the Civil Air Patrol. We are losing a lot
of our members who were flyers in Korea and 'Nam because of age and
infirmities. I was out for 18 years and went back in a year ago myself
-- the equipment is much better now and there seems to be much more
activity. Being a quasi-military organization, CAP is very much into
procedures and safety, so don't expect to walk in off the street and be
handed the keys to their equipment. Our roles have expanded considerably
from the old SAR and Aerospace Ed to include more responsibilities in
national disaster relief, local, state and federal agency support, organ
and biomedical transport, and other similar tasks.

I have young grandkids now and get significant satisfaction supporting
the local law enforcement agencies in some of their activites. Check out
http://www.cap.gov/ for further information. There are at least 3 units
in the Minneapolis area:
http://cap.findlocation.com/results.aspx?page=default


But I'll be honest, I sure miss those old T-34s and O-1s...


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Macklin [mailto Posted At: Thursday, August 17, 2006 2:28 PM
Posted To: rec.aviation.piloting
Conversation: I would like to find a place to volunteer my time
Subject: I would like to find a place to volunteer my time

Check with the EAA www.eaa.org for local airshows/fly ins,
also the CAP.

Jim Carter wrote:
As Jim suggested, check with the Civil Air Patrol. We are losing a lot
of our members who were flyers in Korea and 'Nam because of age and
infirmities.

Since you mention this, I'll ask....would a 20-something female fit in
at all? I've been thinking about it, and really am not afraid of being
the only woman (I work in the industry, and rarely see women) but I
always got a feeling it was an old boys club. True?

Since you mention this, I'll ask....would a 20-something female fit in
at all?

There are no doubt some male chauvinist units, but in general, women
who are interested in aviation are welcomed.

vince norris

Emily,
You would fit in as long as you are breathing, and are
interested...

Our local unit is (very loosely) commanded by an old Navy Air
Wing Commander from Korea vintage, but about 20 to 30 percent of the
senior members (adults) who attend are female.

Our best observer for photo recon missions is one of our more
experienced ladies. Our youngest female is going to have to curtail some
of her activities with us because college is back in session.

Our Emergency Services Officer is female, as is one of our
ground team leaders, our Personnel Officer, our Admin Officer. One of
our ladies just moved to Texas, but before she left she was responsible
for our IT infrastructure.

There are more male pilots by percentage, but that's typically
because flying typically has more male members.

A composite squadron will have both senior and cadet members,
while a cadet squadron will have very few senior members and usually no
air assets. A senior squadron will have only adults and like the
composite squadron will almost always have air assets.

We are turning in our 172 on the 25th and picking up a 182 T
model. In Arkansas I believe we have 2 182s with G1000 panels, but the
rest are all steam gauges with GX55s or the King equivalent.

It might appear to be an old-boys-club, but the old-boys are all
aviation focused so gender really doesn't have anything to do with it.

Hope you can find time to check out your local units. I'd like
to hear your impression...


-----Original Message-----
From: Emily ]
Posted At: Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:41 PM
Posted To: rec.aviation.piloting
Conversation: I would like to find a place to volunteer my time
Subject: I would like to find a place to volunteer my time

Jim Carter wrote:
As Jim suggested, check with the Civil Air Patrol. We are losing a
lot
of our members who were flyers in Korea and 'Nam because of age and
infirmities.

Since you mention this, I'll ask....would a 20-something female fit in
at all? I've been thinking about it, and really am not afraid of
being
the only woman (I work in the industry, and rarely see women) but I
always got a feeling it was an old boys club. True?

Jim Carter wrote:
snip

Hope you can find time to check out your local units. I'd like
to hear your impression...

It's on the list of things to do if my company would give me one entire
week at home for once. Honestly, I'm not so much interested in finding
units with women (let's face it, I rarely see them at work, so I
interact poorly with most of them and prefer being around men anyway)
but I want to be assured that I won't be treated like a pariah. If that
makes sense.

In my neck of the woods, if you can rassle a 50 pound bag of charcoal and
stand sweating over a hot grill for two hours flipping pancakes, it matters
little what optional equipment you have on board your body.

Jim




"Emily" wrote in message
. ..
Jim Carter wrote:
As Jim suggested, check with the Civil Air Patrol. We are losing a lot
of our members who were flyers in Korea and 'Nam because of age and
infirmities.

Since you mention this, I'll ask....would a 20-something female fit in at
all? I've been thinking about it, and really am not afraid of being the
only woman (I work in the industry, and rarely see women) but I always got
a feeling it was an old boys club. True?

RST Engineering wrote:
In my neck of the woods, if you can rassle a 50 pound bag of charcoal and
stand sweating over a hot grill for two hours flipping pancakes, it matters
little what optional equipment you have on board your body.

Jim

See, that's not aviation related to me and doesn't interest me in the
slightest.

Our squadron had 4 or 5 female adult members out of maybe 15 adult member. As
far as I can tell they have no problems from the men. Some of the women hold
staff positions. I don't see age as being a problem either. We have adult
members from 18 years old's to Korea veterans.



On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:41:09 -0500, Emily wrote:


Since you mention this, I'll ask....would a 20-something female fit in
at all? I've been thinking about it, and really am not afraid of being
the only woman (I work in the industry, and rarely see women) but I
always got a feeling it was an old boys club. True?

GeorgeC