Mr. Richard Carlson

By: Richard Carlson - SSF Chairman
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Rich Carlson

Central Pennsylvania is one of the premier soaring sites in the world because the Allegheny Mountains provide ideal conditions for long-distance flights, said Richard Carlson at the Soaring Safety Foundation.Carlson said in the past five years, there have been eight fatal glider crashes in Pennsylvania.
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Carlson said there are about 12,000 U.S. glider pilots registered with the foundation.Glider pilots are required to be licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration, meaning they must be trained professionally and pass a rigorous test before they can fly.

Carlson said there is no way to compare the number of crashes to the number of flights that have been successful, but Maughmer and Striedieck said from their experience the ratio of crashes is minimal.

Richard Carlson indicated that he was confused inasmuch as when something goes into Chapter 11 there is a trustee appointed and wanted to know why Community Corp. got involved when it should be directing any questions to that trustee when appointed, without getting the Township involved. He asked Mayor Barbagallo to read the first paragraph of the earlier-referenced letter again, and commented that the letter should not have been approved.

The instructors were Bob Wander, whom I got to meet, Dean Carswell, and Rich Carlson from the Soaring Safety Foundation who I met the previous weekend at the ChicagoLand Glider Council Safety Meeting.
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Rich Carlson, Chairman of the Soaring Safety Foundation, covered "Collision Avoidance", "Flight Maneuvers and Procedures", "Recurrency/Transition Training", "Weather Analysis", and has actually come up with a way to organize teaching the "National Airspace System". Rich lives in Illinois and flies with the Chicago Glider Club. He is currently working in Michigan and we hope he will be able to visit our club and fly with us this summer. Rich maintains the Soaring Safety Foundation's Web site, which contains a great deal of safety-related information available for free download.

Appearing on behalf of the applicant was his attorney, David Wallace, Esq., the applicant, Richard Carlson, and Kenneth Cosier, Administrator of the Community Corporation of Highpoint, Inc.
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Mr. Carlson and Mr. Cosier were sworn in by the board attorney.
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Mr. Carlson indicated that he is the owner of the property in question which is a basement area with two overhead garage doors in a multi-unit condominium building which he pays maintenance towards the common grounds. He further stated that the entire basement is a single unit.

Mr. Wallace questioned Mr. Carlson if there are any restrictions in the master deed with respect to this unit.
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Mr. Carlson indicated that the restriction is that it was not to be used as a residential unit.

Mr. Wallace questioned Mr. Carlson if he was the President of the Community Corporation of High Point and how the corporation came to be. Mr. Carlson indicated that he was the President and the corporation was formed by Judge Stanton's Ruling. He further indicated that Judge Stanton ruled that the purpose of the corporation was to maintain the common areas and anything that they needed to do to accomplish these areas.

Mr. Wallace questioned Mr. Carlson if there is an agreement between himself and the Community Corporation to purchase the subject property.
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Mr. Haggerty questioned Mr. Carlson as to what properties are owned by the Community Corporation.
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Mr. Carlson indicated the beach area, the roads, part of the entrance, the baseball field were the sewage treatment plant is located and some wetland areas. He further stated that they are under a 99 year lease for the pool and tennis court, which they have to maintain.

Mr. Wallace questioned Mr. Carlson if the beach house is heated and suitable for record storage.
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Mr. Carlson indicated that it was not heated and not suitable for record storage. He further indicated that record storage is also one of the uses they intend to use the subject property for.

Mr. Carlson stated that when the golf course was sold, they were asked to leave the basement unit at 203 Old Chimney Ridge Road, where they were for a number of years and which is exactly the same use they are proposing to the board this evening. The building at 203 Old Chimney Ridge is the same building as the subject unit this evening with apartments above and the garage unit below, which they occupied. At the present time, they had closed in part of the beach pavilion for storage. However, the pavilion is not big enough for the equipment and a lot of the equipment is sitting outside on trailers, which is not only an eyesore, but a hazard with the children in that area.

Ms. Crawford questioned Mr. Carlson if the Community Corporation owns any land that they could erect a steel building for the use they are proposing.
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Mr. Carlson indicated that they would have to take away some other amenities and the cost would be too great. The amount of money the community corporation is paying for this unit will be far less than the cost of the construction of a building, site plan, wetland issues, etc.

Mr. Wallace questioned Mr. Carlson as to what the Community Corporation maintains.
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Mr. Carlson indicated that they maintain the roads, the drainage area as far as cleaning out the drainage, the sides of the road constantly, black topping, crack filling constantly on the roads, repair signs, just like the road department of the township. They also maintain the pool, tennis courts, the baseball field, and the front entrance.

Mr. Wallace questioned Mr. Carlson as to what vehicles and equipment the corporation owns and what material they store.
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Mr. Carlson indicated that they have one pick up truck, 3 lawn mowers (2 larger ones and one regular home use type) which they use to cut grass in the beach areas, the sides of the roads, and the pool area, snow plows, brush hog, weed whacker, rakes, shovels.
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Mr. Carlson indicated that they will be repairing their equipment and general maintenance on the vehicle, i.e. oil changes, etc. He further questioned Mr. Carlson if there will be gasoline stored in this building. Mr. Carlson indicated that no more than you would have in your personal garage.
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Mr. Carlson indicated that the employees will not be their after hours unless there is some kind of emergency situation that needs to be addressed.
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Mr. Carlson indicated that they do not intend to store bulk amounts of fuel for the lawn mowers, weed whackers and backhoe. They will have a 5 gallon pal of gasoline just like a regular homeowner would have in their own garage. He further stated that there is a bathroom facility already in this building.

Chairman Rich Carlson - Accomplished Jan 1, 06 Instructor: Gary Reuter

Trustee: Richard Carlson Chairman

By Richard Carlson, SSF Chairman

Safety Foundation - Rich Carlson Site Surveys. Safety Seminars. Need invitations to SSF. FIRCs still popular. Better than AOPA's FIRC from customer feedback. Web Site Utilization Growing, wants to add Search engine. Carlson - thanks Hines for interface on the Minden accident response. Need local support.

Soaring Safety Foundation - Rich Carlson Contacted COBM Committee for CFI training list. No need for national CFI training camp.
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Absent Sunday were Short, Starr, Hines, Attending were: Carswell, Minner, Nixon, Smith, Johnson, Garner, Tyler, Zimmerman, Mockler, Newill, Herzog, Welles, Northcraft, Sheppe, Reid, Spratt, Kellett, Sorenson, Carlson, Fitzpatrick, Easton, Skydell, Brickner, Layton, Wright.