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Wednesday, July 20, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters Middle School
Honor Roll
(Editor’s note: Due to a
formatting glitch, a previous
version of the Sisters Middle
School Honor Roll dropped a
significant number of names.
Here is the honor roll in full).
Fifth Grade — 4.0
Benson, Ryan; Duey,
Brody; Fernandez, Allan;
Heuberger, Clayten; Jones,
Danny; Louvar, Grey; Mad-
dox-Castle, Adam; Mansfield,
Elana; Mayes, Ellie; Mccrys-
tal, Lizzie; Moffat, Ashlynn;
Newton, Olivia; Patton, Gus;
Patton, Josie; Schutte, Isa-
belle; Smith, Soren; Steffen,
Adriene; Thorsett, Ella.
3.5 and above
Chapman, Catalina; Fen-
dall, Hannah; Hongel, Grace;
Kissinger, Ryan; Larrabee,
Reece; Montacinos, Daisy;
Murillo, Jessey; Parkins,
Cooper; Riehle, Matthew;
Wood, Silas; Pappe, Coral;
Craig, Clayton; Dachler,
Bodie; Gonzalez, Toni; Hart-
for, Skyelar; Ortega, Zenas;
Porsche, Madeline; Quero,
Norma; Torres; Avilez, Laura;
Wing, Emily; Chladek, Bela;
Frazee, Chloe; Kacmarek,
Tate; Kunz, Hayden; Rincon,
Claudia; Smith, Mackenzie;
Wentzel, Carter; Alvarez,
Stacey; Keeton, Isaac; Roth,
Hayden; Schar, Hadley.
Sixth Grade — 4.0
Christian, Gavin; Davis,
Greta; Fennimore, Maxwell;
Henry, Gaven; Kelm, Shawn;
Kizziar, Jenna; Lewis, Hollie;
Liddell, Brooklyn; Mannhal-
ter, Kailey; Mansfield, Kai-
tlin; Myhre, Sydney; Patter-
son, Payden; Rullman, Sage;
Scholl, Andrew; Shields,
Braelyn; Staudenmaier,
Ryker; Thorson, Olivia; Wes-
sel, Chloe; Wilkins, Sydney;
Winter, Chloe.
3.5 and; above
King, Ashton; Leaver,
Cambrian; Rychard, Olivia;
Foley, Taylor; Henderson,
Audrey; Hicks, Christopher;
Jeffrey, Marieke; Pollard,
Madison; Weston, Jack;
Wood, Laela; Barry, Jaxon;
Ekern, Austin; Miller, Jared;
Palanuk, Maxwell; Went-
worth, Alessandra; Brinkman,
Mckenna; Johnson, Elijah;
Maffey, Wyatt; Sharp, Sadie;
Symond, Madison; Harwell,
Reese; Hass, Teegan.
Seventh Grade — 4.0
Diez, Iris; Gregg, Pearl;
Jones, Robert; Kissinger,
Sarah; Larson, Shelby; Luck-
man, Jadyn; Root, Mary;
Thorsett, William; Wilkins,
Skylar.
3.5 and; above
Bloking, Juliet; Kennedy,
Hailee; Silva, Sophia;
Sitz, Tatum; Springer,
Katherine; Young, Hayden;
Christman, Haley; Springer,
Maxwell; Cash, Ian; Lea-
hey, Felix; Lucas, Sahara;
Lundgren, Christopher; Mar-
ion, Joshua; Parkins, Jack-
son; Powell, Madeline; Ryan,
Samantha; Sitz, Natalie; Wen-
tzel, Paige; Birkland, Kay-
dance; Ogan, Jack; Robert-
son, Shea; Bertagna, Olivia;
Debari, Hannelore.
Eighth Grade — 4.0
Anderson, Maddison;
Asson, Joelle; Bartlett, Lydia;
Collins; Burke, Drew; Fer-
nandez, Mariana; Godfrey,
Olivia; Green, Lola; Griffin,
Mitchell; Jeffrey, Lexi; Marti-
nez, Evan; Mccrystal, Delsie;
Myhre, Adelyn; Nicklous,
Samuel; Salisbury, Rheanna;
Schmidt, Daniel; Thorsett,
Samuel.
3.5 and above
Ehrlich, Amanda; Ezell,
Hannah; Huber, Kaylee;
Owens, Charmayne; Silva,
Samantha; Werts, Holly; Pet-
terson, Brogan; Calavan,
Maren; Geisen, Aspen; Gil;
Barrios, Margaret; Mosca,
Hailey; Palmer, Evan; Schar,
Ramsey; Sundstrom, Gra-
cen; Johnson, Aaron; Komar,
Sasha.
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Safety determines flight pattern
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
Some local residents
continue to feel their tran-
quility disturbed by aircraft
operations at Sisters Eagle
Airport; some clarification
has been made about the
nature of the flight pattern
of the Skydive Awesome
aircraft.
Airport manager David
Campbell previously indi-
cated that the plane is
“required” to operate within
a five-mile “cylinder” around
the airport. The use of the
term “required” was not quite
accurate. There is no regula-
tory or statutory requirement
governing the flight pattern
of the skydiving plane — but
there is a protocol.
Jason Lawver, avia-
tion safety inspector
with the Federal Aviation
A d m i n i s t r a t i o n ( FA A ) ,
responded to Sisters-area
resident John Mapes’ inquiry
on the subject:
“The FAA does not
require that the airplanes
remain within five miles of
the airport, but that is the
radius of a notification that
is published to other pilots,”
Lawver wrote. “The opera-
tor asks the FAA to issue a
‘Notice to Airmen’ referred
to as a NOTAM. The purpose
of the NOTAM is to notify
other pilots who fly through
the area that skydiving
activities take place at that
location. Parachutes are not
something a pilot would gen-
erally expect, so the extra
notification helps increase
safety.
“The standard radius of
a NOTAM is five miles, but
most operators do not want
to go that far out. It is gen-
erally considered good prac-
tice to stay near an airport
in case of any emergency.
Generally they fly to an
unpopulated area and slowly
circle up. Their biggest con-
cern is where to go in case
of emergency and remaining
within gliding distance to an
airport.”
Safety concerns are the
determining factor in the
flight pattern of the orange-
and-white Cessna 182 that is
used to take skydivers up.
Pilot James Butler takes
off heading “downhill” on the
runway to the northeast, then
turns left along the drainage
of Indian Ford Creek as the
plane gains altitude.
The plane then heads west
toward Black Butte, which
the pilot uses to gain lift for
the aircraft so that it can gain
altitude as quickly as possi-
ble. The pilot sets up to move
into the wind (almost always
coming out of the west aloft)
and drops the skydivers at an
altitude of 10,000 feet above
ground.
The pilot varies his
flight pattern once he hits
500 feet on takeoff to avoid
repeatedly flying over one
area.
The key considerations
in the flight pattern, besides
gaining altitude and setting
up for the drop, are having
options to set the plane down
or to dump the skydivers
safely if the plane were to run
into trouble. That requires
open areas, and Butler notes
that he avoids flying over
downtown Sisters as much as
possible.
Skydive Awesome’s oper-
ations are heavily weather-
dependent; cloud-cover
and wind can ground the
operation.
Noise from the climbing
and circling plane continues
to be an issue for some local
residents, though person-
nel at the airport note that
some complaints about the
skydiving operation come
in when the skydiving plane
has not flown. An orange-
and-white smokejumper air-
craft out of Redmond also
occasionally flies in the
area, and there are other air-
craft in the skies over Sisters
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