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We are trying a new schedule this year and making a hotel adjustment, so please read carefully!
Our annual pilgrimage to Winter Haven is on once again this year, with a slight
adjustment in schedule. Two factors have led to this change.
First, the alternate program has become entertaining and interesting enough to
tempt many of you beyond the spouses... several pilots have expressed a desire
to be part of that alternate event.
Secondly, we've heard from several Florida Flyers that it's difficult to come
to a Monday flyin.
So, as a test this year, we're moving the CFO flyin to Sunday. The Monday local
trip will be expanded to include a larger number of attendees. We will still
be having a pre-event icebreaker at Faye and Palmer's house, on Saturday night.
Your experience with this new schedule will be of great interest. We will adjust
for the future based on how things work out this year.
The event starts on Saturday evening with a reception at the home of our gracious
hosts, Faye and Palmer Gehring. They will again open their home for us to enjoy
in the company of our CFO friends. From there we will carpool to the hotel where
we have a block of rooms reserved.
The airport event starts promptly the next morning (Sunday.) The agenda includes
a group review of the many dozens of Cardinals on the field, as late arrivals
trickle in. We will look for unique details, impressive paint, clever solutions
and outstanding panels. The walkaround will be followed by a delicious BBQ lunch
and after-lunch discussion in the grove.
Sunday evening dinner is at the Sea Flame restaurant, where we have had a pleasant
time with excellent food in past years. We will have a room to ourselves. We will have
a choice of a 9 oz.
sirloin strip, chicken breast with mushrooms or Boston Scrod, with baked potato,
salad bar, and soup. The beef and fish will cost $12.95, the chicken $11.95, plus
drinks and tip.
The dinner is Dutch Treat, although we will be collecting reservations during
your online registration and verifying the count when you arrive at the flyin.
Directions to the restaurant can be found below. If you don't have a car, ask
around, usually there are plenty of cars and we'll work something out.
Monday we will gather for a group field trip to Lakeridge Winery
and lunch at the Mission Inn Resort. We expect to have a bus and
pick up at the hotel first, then the airport. That should let us interact as
a group and also enjoy our wine tasting without concern. There will be a charge
for the Monday event, currently being finalized.
Through the rest of the week we'll all hang with the CFO group at the hotel,
local restaurants and at Sun 'n Fun. Winter Haven is a great base for seeing
Sun 'n Fun, with far smaller crowds and better prices in exchange for a short
drive. Keep your rental car or pair up with other CFO members and see the show
with your Cardinal friends!
Throughout the event there will be plenty of opportunities to ogle over Cardinals
and talk with their owners in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, some tech talk
and generally good fun in the Florida sun. Read on for the detailed logistics
and agenda.
Preflight Checklist:
- 1) Register Now. Make sure you register for the event so we can have food for you!
The price goes up the week before the event, as our costs go up for
late reservations.
- 2) Hotel. We are moving across the parking lot
to the new Holiday Inn, owned by the same owners as the Hampton we
have used in the past. Call the Winter Haven Holiday Inn on Cypress
at 1-863-292-2100 and reserve your room from the Cardinal Flyers room block. There
is more hotel information at this page.
- 3) Rental Car. Reserve your car from Hertz at 863-298-0651
during business hours in Florida (8:00-6:00 Eastern). Again be sure
to ask for the CFO rate, we're getting a good rate this year. More
rental car info on this page.
- 4) Be Patient, prepare your airplane and wait until April 5 to fly to Winter Haven.
- 5) Walk or drive over to Palmer's house from the airport for the evening social event, which starts at 6:30.
- 4) Enjoy! We'll be glad to see you!
Flyin Schedule and Agenda:
| Saturday 4:00-6:00 |
Registration at airport |
| Saturday 6:30-9:00 |
Social mixer at Faye & Palmer Gehring's (with hors d'oeuvres) |
| Sunday 8:30 AM |
Registration and arrivals at airport |
| 9:30-10:00 AM | Airport walkaround starts |
| 11:30 / Noonish |
Lunch in the grove: we will announce when ready. |
| 1:00 PM | Discussion and program in the grove |
| around 3:00 PM | Wander and ponder, possible deeper inspections |
| around 4:45 PM |
End of airport activities. Return to hotel and clean up for dinner |
| 6:30 PM |
Dinner at the Sea Flame Restaurant |
| Monday 9:00 AM |
CFO Field Trip departs the Holiday Inn Hotel. |
| 9:30 AM |
CFO Field Trip departs the airport. |
| 4:30 PM |
CFO Field Trip Returns to the airport. |
| 5:00 PM |
CFO Field Trip Returns to the Holiday Inn Hotel. |
Please plan to volunteer to help! Please sign up below to handle a task for a short while so everyone will be able to enjoy the day. Poor Palmer always spends the whole time handling all the little things, and is amazed to look up and find the day over. Let's pitch in and let Faye and Palmer relax a little more this year.
We especially need people to handle parking airplanes. This is a lot of fun but only for an hour or so... please sign up for an hour and help carry the load.
We also need someone to take pictures of each airplane, and hopefully a
few overall shots. We've had some excellent photographers step up in the
past, anyone up to the task this year?
We have had a table at the type club tent at Sun 'n Fun which has become
increasingly popular since we started in 2000. People drop by for a short
rest, a little chat and to compare notes on what we've been seeing. Keith
and Paul will have a schedule so you can catch them at the table, and we
hope several of you will volunteer to 'hold down the chairs' for a two hour
block so we in CFO can see the show too. Please add your name to the list
and we'll work out a schedule.
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We are also doing another Cardinal forum presentation, scheduled again this year for Wednesday morning. We always enjoy a good showing at that forum, and they do take attendance to see if anyone is interested in the subject of Cardinals and Cardinal maintenance.
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Please stand by for registrations, we wish to get pricing and details set before you register as our agenda is different this year. We will let you know in the digest when regiatration is open.
More details:
To help you find things here are a few maps:
The flyin costs are being determined.
Similar to prior years there will be a lasting artifact from the event for
each registered guest.
There is plenty of airplane parking at the airport. On flyin day a CFO follow-me cart will meet you as you turn off the runway, or we'll talk to you on the radio. Worst case it will be hard to miss 50-plus Cardinals on the grounds.
Palmer hopes to work out a discount on fuel for CFO members at Winter Haven.
The price will be updated when the time gets closer.
We had a great time in past years, check out reports from the
2007,
2006,
2005,
2004,
2002,
2001
or 2000 events
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The following people have registered their plans to attend this CFO Fly-in:
| Name | Departing
From | Aircraft
Year/Type | Registration
Number | Comments |
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| Bruce Hutchings | Lancaster, NH (HIE) | 1977 177 RG | N52061 | I am sick of winter! I just hope New England weather doesn't hold up my departure. |
| Bruce Post | West Bend, WI (ETB) | 1968 177 | N3405F | |
| Dick Dagle | Lewisburg, PA (N79) | 1973 177B | N34542 | |
| Mike & Rosie DeGroot | San Diego, CA (KSEE) | 1971 177B | N177CF | Rosie and I are trying to combine a wedding in Tennesee on the 5th; the Winter haven CFO events on the 6th&7th; a seven day Ramada Resort trip to Orlando; Ft. Laud.; Bahma boat ride on the 8th through the 15th. Ramada will provide a rental car Starting on the 8th from Orlando International airport. We will need a ride there. And we would like to tie down our Cardinal at W.H. during that time. Will all that be possible? We hope so. |
| Marc Wiese | Shady Shores, TX (5TX0) | 1976 177 RG | N34807 | May or may not fly the plane in this year. Logistics to work out..... |
| Dick Almay | Holland, MI (BIV) | 1975 177 RG | | |
| hal allman sr | concord, NC (ruq) | 1973 177B | n34620 | |
| Al Van Lengen | GA04, GA (GA04) | 1974 177 RG | 912GM | Looking forward to another great fly-in! |
| Guy Maher | Salisbury, NC (KRUQ) | 1973 177B | N34620 | I will conducting a detailed examination of Al Van Lengen's RG; my former RG; to make sure it's receiving proper care. :) |
| Jimmy & Sandy Honeycutt | Mallards Landing, GA (GA04) | 1976 177 RG | N177BS | Always a great event. Looking forward to seeing everyone! |
| mike sullivan | Manassas, VA (KHEF) | 1974 177 RG | N2056Q | Looking forward to seeing the CFO gang again |
| Russ & Lorraine Boteilho | Green Valley, (RYN) | 1977 177 RG | N177LR | |
| Russ & Lorraine Boteilho | Green Valley, AZ (RYN) | 1977 177 RG | N177LR | |
| Jack Vandeventer | Zionsville; IN or Indianapolis; IN, IN (TYQ) | 1977 177 RG | | |
| Michael Craren | Mansfield, MA (1B9) | 1978 177 RG | N52894 | Had a great time last year. Looking forward to this year's event. |
| John Palmer | OXFORD, ME (81B) | 1973 177 RG | | |
| johnb brier | Lakeland, FL (LAL) | 1968 177 | | |
| Tom Benenson | Columbiaville, NY (1B1) | 1976 177 RG | N828JT | Unfortunately; arriving on the airlines and not getting in; in time for Saturday evening reception at Faye and Palmers--always a wonderful evening. My loss! |
| David Knight | Shrewsbury; UK, FL (UK) | | N8225Y | Looking forward to a great event. travelling from the UK again! |
| Winn Brown | Horn Lake, MS (AWM) | 1968 177 | N29563 | |
| Winn Brown | Horn Lake, MS (AWM) | 1968 177 | N29563 | I hope to be joined in our Cardinal by Davis & his bride; Yueh Ching; but as they are not yet in the US; I will register them later. Phil plans to arrive with our granddaughter Hannah; age 5; by airline sometime on Sunday. I hope she and Hannah will arrive in time to join us at the Sea Flame. |
| Ian Rattray | Ft Lauderdale, FL (FXE) | 1976 177B | N13061 | |
| Edward Gasper | Pensacola, FL (2R4) | 1977 177B | N19758 | |
| Steve Meyer | Temple, TX (KTPL) | 1974 177B | N34833 | This will be my first CFO event; and am looking forward to it. |
| Joe Winkler | Oviedo, FL (SFB) | 1973 177 RG | N1887Q | |
| Roy Sobchuk | Brandon; Manitoba, () | | | |
| Robert Hanson | Leonardtown, MD (2W6) | 1976 177 RG | N34565 | I'm sure it's going to be another great Winter Haven fly-in. Really looking forward to it! |
| Roger & Dee Frechette | Kissimmee, FL (ism) | 1968 177 | N3498T | |
| Ray & Pat Hoctor | Webster, TX (LVJ) | 1973 177 RG | N690TS | Looking forward to another great fly-in. New schedule looks good. |
| Patrick Clyne | Neptune Beach, FL (CRG) | 1975 177 RG | N2657V | |
| frank yow | Ormond Beach, FL (OMN) | 1976 177B | N10346 | |
| Bill & Lily Butler | Mundelein, IL (KENW) | 1969 177A | N 30571 | We may not be able to fly in this year. but we will be there for another wonderful CFO event. |
| Alan Powell | LHR, () | | | |
| Phyllis & Roy Sobchuk | , () | | | Not sure if you Got Phyllis on the list and preregistration; Just notice my Name Roy |
| Dick Verdier | Oriental, NC (EWN) | 1975 177B | N35114 | |
| Zdenek Gavlas | Fairview, NJ (KCDW) | 1970 177B | N30807 | Due to work scheduling issues; we'll be missing the whole CFO event and arriving only on Monday afternoon. But hopefully; we'll see you all in the hotel; at the airport; or the show. |
| Don Johnson | Ophelia, VA (VA99) | 1972 177B | N34108 | |
| Jon Baxter | Hyannis, MA () | 1976 177 RG | N34221 | Arriving by commercial airlines. |
| Bill Sherman | West Hartford, CT (KHFD) | 1976 177B | N13690 | Really looking forward to seeing and spending time with our Cardinal Club friends again this year. It has been wonderful in the past years. Can't wait to see all of you and your beautiful "Cardinals". Bill and Sam |
| Steve Howard | Houston, TX (9X1) | 1972 177B | N34265 | |
| Tom Saxon | Leesburg, VA (JYO) | 1976 177B | N478TC | Cardinal nirvanna... |
| Alan Craig | San Jose; CA, CA () | 1976 177 RG | N2706V | Arriving by commercial flight on Friday. Staying in the area with relatives. Will not have the Cardinal at the event. |
| Phil Brown | Horn Lake, MS (MEM) | 1968 177 | N29563 | Will arrive for Sea Flame. |
| Peter Moncure | Clarkesville, GA (KAJR) | 1975 177B | 177Q | Hoping for VFR weather... |
| Don & Mary Commer | Gainesville, GA (GVL) | 1977 177B | N19103 | Driving to Winter Haven. Partners will follow later in N19103 |
| Keith & Debbie Peterson | Hampshire, IL (68IS) | 1976 177 RG | N177KP | |
| Keith & Debbie Peterson | Hampshire, IL (68IS) | 1976 177 RG | N177KP | Looking forward to sunshine and a great event! |
| John Summerford | Sumter, SC () | 1972 177 RG | N1854Q | This will be our 9th Fly-In. Looking forward to seeing everyone. |
| Thomas Newman | Merritt Island, FL (KCOI) | 1976 177 RG | N7523V | |
| | North Port, FL (VNC) | 1974 177 RG | | My first CFO fly-in. |
| Bruno Luzak | Lindsay Ontario, Canada (CNF4) | 1970 177B | | Looking forward to my first Cardinal flyin from Ontario Canada. Weather permitting will be there for Sunday. |
| Albert Colangelo | Ocala, FL (FD04) | 1976 177B | 55KR | |
| Paul Millner | OAK, CA (OAK) | 1976 177 RG | N177MM | Looking forward to a great time! |
| Davis & Yueh Ching Brown | Taichung; Taiwan, (AWM) | 1968 177 | N29563 | Arriving with Winn Brown |
| Chrles Truthan | Ocala, FL (FD04) | 1976 177 RG | N34458 | |
| Duke Tomlin | Belfast, ME (KBST) | 1976 177 RG | N7522V | |
| William Maynard | Winter Haven, FL (GIF) | 1971 177 RG | | |
| Bob Dell | Bradenton, FL (srq) | 1976 177 RG | | |
| Palmer Gehring | , (GIF) | 1975 177B | N35086 | Faye and I are looking forward to seeing all our CFO friends at this great CFO event. |
| joseph sanfilippo | hollywood, FL (hwo) | 1972 177B | n34289 | |
| Leven Goree | St. Petersburg, FL (SPG) | 1974 177 RG | N2140Q | |
| Bill Brodbeck | Austin, TX (HYI) | 1973 177B | N34465 | VFR only. Hope weather will cooperate may try leaving out of here possibly Wed. and get there early. |
| Bruce Wallen | Hartford, CT (KHFD) | 1976 177 RG | N7555V | |
| Anupam Trivedi | Tampa, FL (KVDF) | 1975 177 RG | N29LK | |
| Keith Baumann | Fairfield, IL (FWC) | 1968 177 | | |
| Phil Elmore | Palm Beach Gardens, FL (F45) | 1974 177B | N34888 | |
| Arthur Vouthouris | Spring Hill , FL (BKV) | 1969 177A | N30615 | |
| Robert Dinda | Daytona Beach, (7FL6) | 1977 177 RG | 50770 | Appear to finally have my Medical secure. |
| Power Flow | Daytona Beach, FL (KDAB) | 1978 177 RG | N53120 | Looking forward to showing off the new Power Flow Tuned exhaust for the C177 RG |
| Bill Cadiz | Eustis, FL (LEE) | 1970 177B | N-30709 | Sunday flyin only unfortunately. Still good. |
| Hank Hiscox | Brooksville, FL (BKV) | 1977 177 RG | N52060 | |
| Michael Gilbert | Key West, FL (keyw) | 1976 177 RG | 34170 | |
| Gene Royal | Stockton, CA (SCK) | 1974 177 RG | 2036Q | |
| Harvey Russell | Booynton Beach, FL (KLNA) | 1976 177 RG | N177RR | |
| Tamra sheffman | , (OPF) | 1975 177B | | |
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