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Jeremy Bartels flew with one soul on board an aircraft under his command for the first time on November 15, 2009.   Jeremy flew Wausau Flying Service’s C-172 N5251E.  He has been training with WFS flight Instructor Chris MacAdams.  Congratulations Jeremy!

Self-serve 100LL and MOGAS is now available at the Wausau Downtown Airport!  This means you can purchase fuel here 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.  All you need is a credit card, and to make fueling easier for you, part of our new system includes a bright LED fuel meter.

Our QT Technologies system is pretty common throughout the state, so you may have used it before throughout your flying.  The system is pretty straight-forward, but we will be happy to help you fuel your aircraft the first time, or if you have any questions, feel free to call us as well.

For those of you who use 92 Octane MOGAS, that system is up and running now as well, so you can start fueling your plane after hours!

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Wausau Flying Service has added a Citabria 7KCAB to our rental fleet, replacing our old Citabria 7ECA N8331V.  We will be doing some work on the aircraft over the winter, including switching the wood spar wings on N53726 with the metal spar wings on N8331V.  Look for the aircraft to be available between March and April 2010! 

Our same taildragger rental rules will apply to this aircraft, including a dual only flight requirement.  But don’t think that means you can’t have fun.  Stay tuned for details on possible aerobatic training...

Do you know what any of that means?  Some airports (including ours), use friction meters to determine the precise braking action on a runway or taxiway.  Here’s how to decode the NOTAM above.  First, AUW means this NOTAM is for Wausau Downtown Airport, and RWY 30 lets you know these readings are for Runway 30.  VER is a code for the Vericom friction computer.  Then the NOTAM lists the mu (friction) numbers for the touchdown, midpoint, and rollout portions of the runway.  A range of numbers corresponds to a braking action report. 

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With winter flying season here, slippery runways can become a hazard.  Many airports report braking action simply as fair, poor, or nil (no report assumes good braking action), relying on human judgment to distinguish between these options.  But there's a better way.  Have you ever read or received a NOTAM that looks like this:

AUW RWY 30 VER MU 21/29/27

So in the above example, the touchdown zone of Runway 30 has poor braking action, while the midpoint and rollout portions have a fair braking action.  These types of NOTAMs are usually issued for the runway in use, but the same numbers would apply to Runway 12, just in the reverse order.  Obviously this is a much more precise way to determine braking action, which means better information for you!