I will still be attending our annual conference, which is being hosted by Tom Brelsford. Tom has been working on this year’s meeting for over a year and with all this effort and planning it will be a great meeting. He has good presentations and interesting field trips scheduled and I hope many of you can attend.

Not all of our members can attend the annual meeting. But anyone who does will be pleased that they did. Natural Resource flying involves a relatively small pool of people and the annual meeting is a chance to receive a wealth of information that you could not get anywhere else. The meeting also provides an attendee a chance to meet members from many areas and types of resource flying and personally I have been able to use the contact I have had with the members to learn techniques, and principles and safety aspects of many types of survey flights.

Aerial surveys are an expensive operation in the cost of flight hours, personal time, and who could calculate costs if an operator is unsafe and leads to an accident and injuries. A little knowledge, a little less time spent reinventing what someone has already done can equal a big savings.

The cost of attendance can quickly be recouped. Well I hope to see many of you in Mystic, Connecticut and I am looking foreword to learning more this year.