1. THE FLY PAPER
MAY 2011
SHOWALTER FLYING SERVICE
The Orlando Executive Airport (KORL)
400 Herndon Avenue
Orlando, FL 32803
Based
It’s
Customer
Special points
almost
of interest:
Based Customer here! Event
Event May 7th Join us for an afternoon of food, fun and
flying! This is our chance to thank you for
choosing Showalter as your FBO. If you
are participating in the spot landing or
FOOD-O’Boy’s BBQ- flour drop contest, please let us know by
Sponsored in part by: emailing jenny@showalter.com.
Inside this issue:
Airport 5K Run/ 2
Walk Recap FUN-Kid games &
Bahamas Vacation 2
airport fellowship
Home FLYING-Spot landing &
Lightning Policy 2 flour drop competitions
Organization Name
Lodi’s Lowdown 2
Saturday,
May 7th
1-4 PM
Contact us:
Location: Showalter’s large
Phone: 407-894-7331
Fax: 407-894-5094
meeting room at the east
E-mail: end of the terminal building.
jenny@showalter.com
Web:
www.showalter.com
Tel: 407-894-7331
Email: events@showalter.com
2. The Fly Paper Page 2
First Annual Airport 5K Run/Walk
The first running of the Or-
lando Executive Airport 5K
was April 29th, 2011 at
6PM. The weather was pic-
ture perfect and our turn-
out was great! We had
nearly 50 runners and walk-
ers participate in the race.
Participants started at the
East Ramp and ran up Taxi-
way Bravo to Runway 13/31. From there they toured the Sheltair ramp, then
moved onto the Showalter ramp before returning to Taxiway Bravo and the
Own a Piece of the Bahamas- East Ramp. The top male finisher was Pendleton Thomas with a time of
Fly into MYAM 21:19. The top female finisher
was our very own Kim Showalter
Share a large vacation home with exclu- with a time of 24:34. Way to go
sive dock in Marsh Harbour, Abaco. Kim! The best part of the night
marshharbourhouse.com was raising $650 for Angel Flight
Southeast.
Established beautiful estate on the West-
ern shore/entry point into Marsh Har- Special thanks to the folks at Shel-
bour. Private dock with two lifts. Flexible tair, GOAA and the FAA for joining
financing for a partnership share. forces with Showalter and making
this race possible. Thanks also to
Weekly Rentals Available!
the EAA for their support and volunteerism. We’d also like to take a minute
Contact: Dan Drummond
407 404-3470 to thank Rusty Fleming of Showalter for his enthusiasm and commitment to
dandrummond@mac.com this race. Rusty also served as the evenings’ MC...who knew he had so
much to say!
Plans are already underway to make this race a new airport tradition. Keep
checking The Fly Paper for future events.
Lightning Policy
Thunderstorm season is quickly ap-
proaching. We wanted to take a moment
to review our lightning policy. It is up to
the Line Service Supervisor on duty to
suspend ramp service and also to give
the all-clear. Lightning within 5 miles of
the airport means we will suspend ramp Lodi’s Lowdown
service and require all of our employees
Lodi’s Lowdown for the month of April was correctly answered by Nicholas
to seek immediate shelter. Outstanding
Musashe, Michael Marzano, Mike Gorham, and Dan McCArthy. The Sky
service requests will not be completed
Crane can haul 25,000 pounds of cargo. Thanks for answering!
until the lightning has passed. Please be
aware that we get very busy just before The question for May:
and after the ramp service suspensions. Name the six commercial airports named after
Keep an eye on the weather and time
U.S. Presidents.
your requests accordingly. Help us keep
Please email your answers to jenny@showalter.com.
our people and your aircraft safe!
