The Bluegrass Ultralight Group is proud to announce Kentucky's 8th Annual
2003 BUG ULTRALIGHT SAFETY SEMINAR WEEKEND

All day Saturday, January 25, 2003 - Lexington, KY
More activities:
Friday, Jan 24 - BFI Refresher Course
Saturday, Jan 25 - Catered Dinner (adv. tickets req'd)
Sunday, Jan 26 - Hands-on Engine Seminar

Safety Seminar - BFI Seminar - Catered Dinner - Maintenance Seminar
Prizes - Local Weather - Internet Video

This seminar will enhance the safety of every ultralight pilot in and around Kentucky. Newcomers will discover the smart way to enter a whole new world. Ultralight pilots will expand their safety skills. General Aviation pilots will learn more about a facet of aviation that may be new to them. This seminar is one of many ways Kentucky aviators are working together to produce safe, responsible ultralight pilots.

 

Speakers:

Scheduled to appear:

Master of Ceremones: Frank Beagle - The Voice of Oshkosh!

T.C. Blyth -- TC's Trikes
Trike Design Safety Features

Matt Dautle -- Alliant Destiny Aviation
Airframe construction, repair and inspection.

Reggie DeLoach -- USUA
BFI Refresher Course (Friday)

Bruce Edsten -- Louisville FSDO
Airspace, TFR's

Alan Laymon -- SoLo Aviation
Hands-on Engine Seminar (Sunday)

Chuck Slusarczyk -- CGS Aviation
Fixed Wing Engineering (and Dinner Speaker: Junk Yard Wars!)

Eric Tucker -- Kodiak Research Ltd.
Rotax Engines

Ron Wagner -- EAA
Sport Pilot Update


Where: Kentucky Educational Television     Driving Directions -- Interactive Map

600 Cooper Drive (off Nicholasville Rd.) near the UK Football stadium in Lexington Kentucky. Info: 859-351-2363

Seminar: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Registration: 8:00 - 8:30 AM

Lunch will be available at the KET building for about $5.

Most out of town guests stay at the Campbell House Inn - ask for the Bluegrass Ultralight Group discount. The Campbell House runs a free shuttle from Bluegrass Field Airport to the hotel. The Campbell House is 1.5 miles from the seminar.
Reservations:
(800) 432-9254 (KY)
(800) 354-9235 (Outside KY)

Other Nearby Hotels

This Seminar is free and open to the public but donations are accepted to cover the travel and hotel expenses of the speakers. Another way to support the seminar is by purchasing a lunch ticket when you register. We appreciate your support, it allows us to host this very important event.

The generous support of our sponsors comes in the form of cash and merchandise donations. We raffle off all the great gear they donate, so come prepared to buy plenty of raffle tickets. (You get more tickets when you buy them $10 at a time!)

 

During the seminar weekend we will have three other special events:

Open to renewing and potential BFI's. This course satisfies the refresher training requirements of ASC, EAA, and USUA. Presented by USUA's Reggie DeLoach. The cost has been lowered to $35. The seminar runs from 12:30 to 6:30 at Central Equipment. (See their website for driving directions)

Advance registration is required and the course is nearly full as of Jan 21st.
To register, contact Paul Huber at 859-253-2611.

*** SPECIAL SATURDAY NIGHT DINNER *** - Details

Building on the great feedback we've gotten from the past dinners, we are offering this option again. It gives everyone a relaxed, easy way to spend more time with the speakers and club members in an informal environment. This year the dinner is close to both the seminar and the Campbell House, so please join us to a deluxe dinner at the first-class UK Faculty Club.

Our dinner speaker is the zany Chuck Slusarczyk of CGS Aviation. Chuck will be sharing stories from his appearances on the Junk Yard Wars television show. If you know Chuck and his antics, you know this will be a riot!

Tickets for this catered event must be purchased before January 22. For more information, see the Full Dinner Details.

The agenda is to do a complete top-end tear down, cylinder and piston measurement, decarb, and reassembly. Bring your tools and plan on getting your hands dirty.

Presented by Alan Laymon of Solo Aviation. SoLo Aviation is the only Rotax Authorized Service Center in Kentucky.

Cost - $40.00 per person or $10.00 for BUG members

(BUG membership is $25.00 per year...Join at the seminar!)

Pre-register for Sunday's Maintenance Seminar - Alan Laymon 859-336-8494 or alan@soloaviation.net
If you are bringing your own engine, you must register in advance. This will ensure that we will have enough workbenches, gasket sets etc.

Prizes From Our Sponsors
Every year, we have sent every single attendee home with a prize of some sort. It is the generosity of these companies that allows us to attract more pilots and wannabe's each year. Pilots may think they are coming for the free goodies, but the real prize they win is learning to fly, build and maintain their dreams safely.

These select organizations have made substantial contributions to ensure the success of this and previous safety seminars. Without the patronage of community-minded companies like these, our sport would surely suffer. These generous raffle prizes are ultimately what make our seminar financially possible.

When you deal with these vendors and organizations, please be sure to thank them for allowing pilots to become safer at seminars like ours. We could not provide this service without them.

For information on becoming a sponsor this year or next, please contact Gerald Gilpin at 502-839-3702 or ggilpin@dcr.net

Standing Sponsors
The following organizations have each contributed in their own special way over the years. Our continued gratitude goes out to them. Please extend your own gratitude and patronage to them.
  • Aircraft Spruce and Specialty
  • Aerial Adventure
  • Alan Laymon and SoLo Aviation
  • ASC
  • BRS
  • Bing Carburetors
  • Central Equipment
  • Comtronics Engineering
  • CGS Hawk
  • EAA
  • FAA
  • Grand Rapids Technology - EIS
  • Kentucky Aeronautic Board
  • Kentucky Educational Television
  • Kuntzleman Electronics
  • Lockwood Aviation
  • Rollison Airplane Company
  • The New Kolb Aircraft Co.
  • Powerfin, Inc
  • Quad City Challenger
  • Recreational Power Engineering
  • Rollison Airplane Company
  • Sporty's Pilot Shop
  • Tri-State Kites
  • UltraFlight Magazine
  • The Ultralight Store
  • USUA

    • Live Internet Video

    Can't make it this year? We've got you covered! You'll be able to watch and listen to Saturday's seminars on your computer as they happen, and ask the speakers in near-realtime via email. So no matter if you live in New Zealand, Italy or southern California, you can still enhance your flying safety. Check back on this page the day of the seminar for the link to watch the seminar in Real Video.

    Having said that, the sessions we can broadcast on-line account for less than half of the weekend's activities. If you can come in person, don't even think about the on-line video...just come on down and get in on the networking, the sessions that are not broadcast online, the dinners, the BFI seminar, the Engine/Maintenance Seminar, all of the prizes available (online participants will have opportunities to win only a few of the door prizes, not all), the vendor displays and static displays, and the parking lot open-trunk swap meet, not to mention the late nights in the Campbell House Inn's lounge with King Louis.

    If you plan on watching online, please TEST YOUR BROWSER now to make sure you be able to tune in on Saturday. You may need to download software from RealVideo to watch. Please do this now, as you don't want to miss the first speaker while you try to get the software installed.

    On the day of the seminar, come back to this page and there will be a link to the live video. NOTE: You will get an error or a blank screen any time we are not broadcasting. We will be on and off air before the seminar, and expect to be down again during part of lunch. So if you get an error, just try back in a few minutes.

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