Upcoming EAA online seminars

Is your chapter tax exempt? Charitable? 501(c)(3)? Confused? This webinar will cover the basics of tax exempt status for EAA chapters. If your chapter is interested in becoming a recognized charity by the IRS, make sure you attend. Patti Arthur, a tax attorney with many years of experience helping EAA chapters, will help you understand the basic rules of tax exempt and charitable status.

To err is human, but when humans make mistakes working on aircraft, bad things can happen. Maintenance expert Mike Busch discusses the kinds and causes of maintenance errors and what can be done to prevent them. Mike thinks that some piston GA maintenance shops may have more distractions and less quality assurance than do airline and bizjet maintenance facilities, so savvy owners of GA aircraft need to act as final inspectors and take that role very seriously.

The Aviation Weather Center delivers consistent, timely, and accurate weather information for the world airspace system. Declan Cannon from NOAA will provide an overview of the Aviation Weather Center operations and products. This will include a more detailed look at the Graphical Forecast for Aviation (GFA) product, which replaced the FA text product.

IAC member Jim Bourke talks about his approach to freestyle aerobatic competition. He will provide tips for anyone aspiring to fly freestyle aerobatics. Additionally, he will break down and discuss the details of his award-winning freestyle routine.

Aerovie entered the electronic flight bag (EFB) space in July 2015 with a popular app to submit and review pilot reports (PIREPs). Later that year, the company added navigation and sophisticated weather visualization tools and the Aerovie EFB become one of the most powerful EFBs on the market for iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch. As user-friendly as this app is, there is still a lot to learn. Join founder, chief designer, and CFI-I Bryan Heitman, EAA 1120499, as he introduces the new EAA discount and takes you on a tour of Aerovie, including moving maps, terrain, weather, checklists, electronic logbook and track logs, updating charts/plates/diagrams, communications with Dynon, Avidyne, Lynx, a range of ADS-B/GPS devices, and more!

Spark-ignition reciprocating engines require that fuel be mixed with air in the proper proportion to support efficient combustion, a process known as "fuel metering." In this webinar, maintenance expert Mike Busch discusses various methods of accomplishing this — float carburetors, pressure carburetors, throttle-body injection, intake port injection — and explains how each of these metering mechanisms works.

When paging through FAA Practical Test Standards or Airman Certification Standards, most student pilots become overwhelmed by the huge number of skills that must be mastered. Aviation is indeed a multi-disciplinary endeavor! Avoid information overload by breaking flight down to the four most basic maneuvers, as described in this FAA Safety Team WINGS qualifying webinar. If you can execute these four tasks (first individually and then in combination), you can fly.

Discover the No. 1 reason general aviation aircraft are intercepted and how to avoid it. In this action-packed briefing, you'll learn practical steps to avoid temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) and what to do if you are intercepted. Join Douglas Dal Soglio from NORAD in an informative and lively session that will keep you out of trouble, and off the evening news.

The National Weather Service (NWS) has created "gridded fields" of weather for several years but is expanding aviation elements over the continental United States (CONUS) in the next two years. This presentation will discuss information found in terminal area forecasts (TAFs), weather forecast products, and the emerging continuous gridded fields. The presenters will focus on current web pages that display portions of this data and serve as a listening session for what displays of aviation weather are most helpful to the aviation community.

In this webinar, Mike Busch — who has owned both airplanes and automobiles for more than 50 years — explores why planes and cars are so different. Why do aircraft need so much maintenance? Why do aircraft engines need to be overhauled every 2,000 hours while car engines don't? Why do planes cost so much more than cars? Are these fair comparisons, or are they apples and oranges? Tune in for an interesting discussion.