President's Message:
Hello everyone,
As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, winter has officially settled over the skies we love. This is the season that tests our resilience and reminds us why we fly.
While the fair-weather pilots hangar their wings, we know winter flying is some of the most rewarding of the year with crystal-clear visibility and stable cold air. Additionally, cold starts, ice, snow, and slush are now part of every flight.
Here are few reminders as we embrace the season:
- Give yourself extra time for thorough pre-heats and pre-flights—your engine (and your fingers) will thank you.
- Brush up on cold-weather procedures, pitot heat discipline, and those sometimes-forgotten carb ice recognition skills.
- Cabin heat is nice but without CO, so please check your detectors.
- And of course, keep an extra thermos of something warm in the flight bag—because nothing beats landing after a winter sortie and wrapping cold hands around a hot cup.
For those wishing to enjoy a nice winter gathering spot, the clubhouse is a great location with a nice cozy fire burning in the wood stove. Feel free to call a meet-up when you get the urge to talk shop.
Let’s make this another safe and satisfying period. Blue skies (or star-filled winter nights) to you all.
See you at the field!
Best regards,
Nick Papadopoli, President
EAA Chapter 245 Ottawa
Farwell Irving, we will all miss you.
It is with much regret that I announce the passing of Irvin Slone, one of our oldest members. Our condolences to all of his family members.
- Born March 29, 1927 98 years young and Passed away December 3, 2025.
- Resided in Ottawa Ontario, his whole life. Irving was the child of Nathan and Bessie Slone from Lithuania and Ukraine respectively.
- Irving’s daughter Anne Smith predeceased him by five years.
- Irving leaves wife Harriet, son Eric and Laurel, granddaughter Isabel, Grandson Jason Smith and great granddaughter, Emma.
- Irving was a valued member of regional Realty Limited of Ottawa.
- He spent most of his working career selling real estate and property management as well.
- Original, innovative, resourceful, logical, and always acutely aware of the most efficient way to achieve something of quality.
- He attended Ottawa technical high school. He was a pilot. He was a craftsman. He was a husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather. He will be missed deeply by all that knew him.
- Irving was also a valued member of EAA245 where he built a Pietenpol Air Camper. Work commenced in 1972, on Pietenpol C-GFCU, with 29 EAA Chapter 245 members at Carp every Monday night.
- Irving Slone was a Life Member of Chapter 245.
Tail Winds and Blue Skies Irving
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November 2025 general meeting.
The meeting will be held on 15th November 2025 at 10:00AM and at 9 Huisson Rd. (See red balloon in image below) where Jarred will be giving a presentation on ADSB and ELT 406.
Note: this will not be held at the chapter hangar.
There will be Coffee and Donuts for all attendees.
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Breaking News!
The elections have brought new members to join the executive:
Hello everyone.
A big Thank You to all the members who chose to take on roles in the executive!
A huge Thank You to those who served throughout the many years which has led to making the Chapter so successful!
The election had 21 members which is less than the 25% required. However, I (as President) determined that there was a sufficient cross-section of participants which was representative of the entire group. Consequently, I chose to go ahead with the elections.
After a brief interaction with the outgoing executive members and the nominees, the voting proceeded. Here are the results of the elections based on a unanimous show of hands:
1. Vice-President: Dwayne Price (Vice.President@eaa245.org)
2. Secretary: Russel Holmes (Secretary@eaa245.org)
3. Membership: Christian Indra (Membership@eaa245.org)
4. Young Eagles: Tom Weichert (No change) (YoungEagles@eaa245.org)
5. Newsletter: Adam Januszkiewicz (Newsletter@eaa245.org)
Congratulations to the winners! I look forward to serving alongside you all!
Regards,
Nick Papadopoli, President
September 20th Fly-In breakfast: by Ken Potter.
I want to thank all of the EAA 245 members who came out yesterday to volunteer for setup and today for the Fly-In.
Wow, what a great day we had today. The WX was perfect. We sold approx. 220 meals. We had an interesting cross section of planes attending including a King Air from Lachute ($4,000 breakfast) and, on top of that the local community came out with many families with kids eager to learn about airplanes and of course have a great breakfast.
There are too many volunteers to list, but I'll call out a few. In the Canuck hangar running the food prep, Scott Miller... you Rock!!!!! On marshalling duty our stalwart keeping it safe, Phil Johnson, running Carp UNICOM for what is the most professional day of the year Carp experiences was of course Dwyane Price. And lastly, and not least, the volunteers who greeted all our guests, the servers; coordinated by my bride of 41 years Judy Potter.
To quote Forest Gump... "I'm really tired now"....
Check out the two links below for pictures of the Fly-In
Carp EAA Chapter 245 Fall Fly-in - Part 1
https://eflyer.barnstormers.com/2025/967/featured-article/967-eFLYER-FA01.html
Carp EAA Chapter 245 Fall Fly-in - Part 2
https://eflyer.barnstormers.com/2025/968/featured-article/968-eFLYER-FA02.html
VMC Club Meeting
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