Huge congratulations to SQ2 member and SJSU students Reena Ilao and Sofia Goodwin for being the proud recipients of the SCAPA Scholarship due to their academic accomplishments and flight training experience. Reena is working on her Instrument Rating and Sofia is working on her Commercial Certificate.
Author: Jason Hernandez
October 2023 Accomplishments – CFI Addition
The club had three different CFI checkrides passed this month!
10/4: Douglas Yeung – First Solo – CFI Sam Soltani
10/5: Jonathan Chen – Private Pilot – CFI JJ Jimenez – DPE Robert Frankovich
10/13: Hanna O’Connor Rigby – CFI Initial – CFI Ales Janhar – DPE Robert Frankovich
10/17: Steve Canby – Multi-Engine Instructor – MEI Ales Janhar – DPE Jim Brannan
10/23: Jason Hernandez – CFI Initial – CFI Clayton Conrad – DPE Dr. James Duvall
September 2023 Accomplishments!
9/2: Pieter Van Santvliet – First Solo – CFI Steve Canby
9/5: Justin Kim – First Solo – CFI Ian ONeal
9/12: Ariel Conrad – CFII – CFII Her Proud Father Clayton Conrad – DPE Dr. James Duvall
9/14: Andrew Duff – CFI Initial – CFI Bob Ethcell – DPE Rob Davids
9/16: Lucas K – Instrument – CFII’s Joon Song and Emily Tram – DPE Ken Cobb
August 2023 Accomplishments
8/1: Colin Zhao – Private ASEL – CFI German Reyes – DPE Ken Cobb
8/4: Tram Do – Private ASEL – CFI Ariel Conrad – DPE Jon Thornton
8/9: Sam Soltani – CFI Initial – CFI Steve Canby – DPE Rich Batchelder
8/17: Frank Torres, Jr. – First Solo – CFI Ian ONeal
8/22: Kim Kyunghe – First Solo – CFI Joon Song
July 2023 Accomplishments
7/4: Sofia Goodwin – Instrument – CFII Emily Tram & CFII Joon Song – DPE Ken Cobb
7/6: Aaron Tjin – Instrument – CFII Antonio Gonzalez & CFII JJ Jimenez – DPE Jon Thornton
7/9: Arya Raghavan – First Solo – CFI Vijay Raghavan
7/9: Reena “44” Ilao – Private ASEL – CFI Ian ONeal & CFI Clayton Conrad – DPE Jon Thornton
7/9: Hanna O’Connor Rigby – Advanced Ground Instructor – CFI Clayton Conrad – DPE Scott Rohlfing
7/17: Yoka Namiki – First Solo – CFI Joon Song & CFI Ariel Conrad
7/21: Kim Hansun – CFI Initial – CFI Joon Song – DPE Robert Frankovich
7/24: Julia Sutter – Instrument – CFII Antonio Gonzalez & CFII Ales Janhar – DPE Ken Cobb
7/24: Noah S. – Private ASEL – CFI’s Emily, Ian, German, & Joon – DPE Ken Cobb
7/31: Aiden Adair – First Solo – CFI JJ Jimenez
June 2023 Accomplishments
6/4: Neeray Khatwani – CFI Initial – CFI Bob Etchell – DPE Tom Hornak
6/5: Jung Jaehoon – Commercial ASEL – CFI Joon Song – DPE Ken Cobb
6/9: Athar V. – First Solo – CFI Eric Zhang
6/15: Christian Lapera – First Solo – CFI Henry Choi
6/22: Arun Rao – Private ASEL – CFI Joon Song – DPE Ken Cobb
April 2023 Accomplishments
4/4: Emily Tram – Commercial ME – MEI Joon Song – DPE Ken Cobb
4/6: Reza Pirouz- First Solo – CFI Ariel Conrad
4/6: Chunyang Zhou – Instrument – CFII Steve Canby – DPE Ken Cobb
4/12: Loay Turki – Multi-Engine Instructor – MEI Clayton Conrad – DPE Dr. James Duvall
4/13: Peng Yang – First Solo – CFI Eric Zhang
4/14: Ariel Conrad – Commercial ME – MEI Clayton Conrad – DPE Dr. James Duvall
4/16: Jason Hernandez – Advanced Ground Instructor – CFI Clayton Conrad – DPE Scott Rohlfing
4/20: German Reyes – Commercial ME – MEI Ales Janhar – DPE Ken Cobb
4/24: Aiden Lacap – First Solo – CFI Ian ONeal
4/24: Noah Sucharczuk – XC Solo – CFI Emily Tram
4/26: Angel Sandoval – Private SE – CFI Ariel Conrad – DPE Jon Thornton
Automated Schedule Policies and Cancellation Fees
EXPIRED RESERVATION/SCHEDULE CANCELLATION FEE
If you allow an aircraft reservation to expire without checkout or cancelling the reservation you will be charged a $20 cancellation fee. You can cancel the schedule up to the start time without any fee and for any reason. But if you allow the schedule to expire you will be charged. You will get an email that states “Expired Schedule/Reservation, No Checkout” when this happens.
The following features are available to help you avoid the cancellation fee:
- If you have a reservation for the next day you will receive a reminder email around 7PM with your reservation(s). The email title will be “Reminders for your Flights at SQUADRON2 on” and the date.
- We are testing a system that will text you roughly one to two hours before your scheduled flight to remind you the schedule is pending. **This will only work for you if you have set up SMS Texting in the schedule system. See below for instructions on how to set this up.**
- You can download and sync your schedules to various popular calendar software and set up any reminders you like there.
10 SCHEDULE LIMIT
To reduce the excessive scheduling everyone is now limited to a maximum of 10 schedules in the system at a time. Most people will not even notice this change. However, if you had more than 10 schedules set you will notice all schedules after the 10th schedule for you have been removed.
Hopefully these system changes will help everyone have more access to our planes and, as a result, be able to fly more and make better progress on their certificates/ratings.
HOW TO SET UP SMS In SQUADRON2’s SCHEDULING SYSTEM
- Go to https://scheduler.squadron2.com/
- Login using your user ID and password
- Click on Contact Update
- Put the SMS E-mail address for your phone in the SMS E-Mail Address field
- Click on Update Information
Check with your cellular service vendor for the email address to use.
The following are some common carriers SMS email addresses:
- AT&T – [your 10 digit number]@txt.att.net
- Sprint – [your 10 digit number]@messaging.sprintpcs.com
- T-Mobile – [your 10 digit number]@tmomail.net
- US Cellular – [your 10 digit number]@email.uscc.net
- Verizon – [your 10 digit number]@vtext.net
July – August 2018 Accomplishments!
Congratulations to the following member pilots and their CFIs for their recent accomplishments!
CONGRATULATIONS TO…
– Alexander Paulet – 1st Solo!! 7/13 CFI Bhawani Singh
– Abhishek Karpuram – 1st Solo!! 7/14 CFI Alex Cho
– Peter Learmonth – Instrument Written! 7/16 CFI Anissa Mohler
– Julia Bradley – 1st Solol XC! 7/21 CFI Carlo Espinosa
– Abhijith Neelamruju – ATP Written 7/21 CFI Abhi
– Steve Canby – Flight Instructor Airplane Written 7/26 CFI Scott Rohlfing
– Devendra Joshi – 1st Solo XC! 7/30 CFI Abhi
– Riah Lim – Commercial Single Engine Land! CFI Alex
– Luke Beck-Fridell – Commercial Single Engine Land! 8/2 CFI Abhi
– Baba Ross – Private Pilot Written! 8/2 CFI Abhi
– Joydeep Mukherjee – Private Pilot Written! 8/6 CFI Ricky
– Rick Ator – Private Pilot!! 8/6 CFI Anton Sabev
– Joon Song – Commercial Multi Engine Land! 8/7 CFI Abhi
– Orhan Baser – Flight Instructor Airplane!!! 8/14 CFI Clayton Conrad
– Jordi Sim – ASEL Instrument Rating! 8/18 CFI Ron V.
– Kelly Dang – Private Pilot! 8/19 CFI Bhavani
– Kyuyool(sp?) Park – Instrument Rating! 8/22 CFII Joon
– Guangyuan Ye – Private Pilot! 8/23 CFI Joon
– Kim Seyoun – Commercial SEL! 8/29 CFI Joon
– Choi Hanel – Instrument Rating! 8/30 CFII Joon
Planned Runway Closures – RHV and E16 July 16th – July 24th
We received notice today that the county plans on shutting down the runways and taxiways at RHV and E16 on various dates to complete the paving project at both airports. The schedule is as follows:
Monday July 16th – Friday July 20th – RHV
Survey crews and contractors will be operating on runways and taxiways to mark the surface and then do the final coat of paint on all surface markings.
- Monday July 16th – Surveys at RHV, all runways and taxiways will be impacted at various times.
- Tuesday July 17th – Friday July 20th – rolling closures of runways and taxiways using the same order that was used during the original project. Closures will start with Runway 31L, Taxiway Y, Runway 31R, Taxiway Z, Taxilane G and Taxilane F.
Pattern work will not be available at RHV during these dates/times.
Monday July 23rd – Tuesday July 24th – E16
San Martin will be closed to ALL traffic on these two dates.
As always CHECK NOTAMS for specific dates/times/changes in schedule before you fly.