June 11th, 2026

Urgent Need: It was noted that the club needs a new Secretary/treasurer for 2027. Floyd has served beyond the allowed number of years and cannot/will not serve again in 2027. We need someone to step forward now and work with Floyd to learn what needs to be done for the position for next year. Floyd has served the club very well and now deserves his time away. Please step forward to serve your club. This club needs you now!

Duane
KARCS President


May 30th, 2026

EAA Young Eagles Build: EAA Young Eagle Coordinator Trish Williams gave a talk about the YE program and the club’s involvement with it. She also stated that new volunteers were needed to help with the upcoming build. The build happens two Saturday afternoons a month through the winter build season. Three new volunteers are needed to work with the Young Eagles on this coming year’s build. If interested please contact Club President. To learn more about the Young Eagles program visit this web site: Young Eagles Program. For more information from the YE Cooridinator click this link.Young Eagles Build and Fly Flyer

Duane



May 25th, 2026

On this Memorial Day, we pause to honor and remember the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. Their courage and dedication are forever etched in our hearts. All gave some; but many gave it all. Remember them this Memorial Day. Today and always, we remember the heroes who gave their all for our freedom. Gone, but never forgotten. The Freedom they gave it all for must always be preserved at any cost.

If you meet a service man or woman, shake their hands and be sure to thank them.

Duane



May 3rd, 2026

FAA Aircraft Registraion Requirement

UPDATE (5/3/2026): NOTICE TO ALL: With our latest Airspace Authorization (AA) from the FAA The club has been tasked to collect, record, and maintain for FAA review all pilots FAA aircraft registration numbers. I have included below the paragraph from their AA which dictates this. Failure to have these on hand if FAA asked for it could result in loss of our flying AA from the FAA. This is a formal request for you to send your FAA Aircraft Registration number and expiration date to me for recording. This must be done as soon as possible. If you do not have one you may get it at this web site in a matter of less than 15 minutes. “https://faadronezone-access.faa.gov/#/” DO NOT use any other site for registration, they are scammers. Click the close on the big orange pop up it does not apply to recreational flyers. Then click the “Create Account” button and create your account and get an FAA Registration number. It does cost, but is required for continued flying at our field. I will be creating the database that FAA requires and then our Secretary/Treasurer will maintain it. And before you ask I have already contacted AMA about this new requirement and was told Yes we must do it to maintain our AA with the FAA.

From the AA paragraph:
"The Responsible Person listed on this AA must maintain a current list of pilots by name and the aircraft registration number(s) associated with the AA holder’s operation. This list must be presented for inspection upon request from the Administrator or an authorized representative.” Duane


April 3rd, 2026

Today is “Good Friday”, Sunday is EASTER! Easter is a time of renewal, filled with all the promises of spring’s arrival, the joy of Easter egg hunts for the children and the fun of the Easter bunny. It also has a deeper religious significance for many. It’s a season that celebrates both new beginnings and cherished traditions. I want to wish all of you and your and families a wonderful day filled with love, sunshine, and lots of chocolate Easter eggs! I hope you have an eggs-tra special Easter!, and may your Easter be filled with love, laughter, and moments that make your heart smile! May the miracle of Easter bring you perfect peace and happiness during the coming year.

Duane




December 21th, 2025

END OF YEAR

Good evening all,

I’ve received many cards with beautiful sayings, some religious and some non-denominational. I think that it must be such a great gift to be able to come up with these loving thoughts.

As my tenure as the current President comes to a close, I’d just like to thank all of you for your invaluable support, confidence and friendship. Since I joined this fantastic Club, I’ve learned about it’s history and the endless hours of blood, sweat and tears that It’s taken to develop this site. I took it on my shoulder to protect and preserve this with everything within my being. No effort was too great. I was honored to be able to work beside you all to improve and repair the infrastructure.

It is my intention, health allowing, to continue to be an integral part of club in the future. Our future is looking bright, and with many of the new activities that are being planned. From Nick at night, to our ‘Nitro Fest’, Warbird Fly-in, and the future 3D Huckfest that Nick is in the process of planning. We’ve even received a tentative commitment by Extreme Hobbies to participate in it.

I hope and pray for your safe travels over this Holiday Season. If you’re staying local, I hope you all have a very, very Merry Christmas and a joy-filled and prosperous New Year. Thank you all.

KC

December 20th, 2025

CHRISTMAS

First I would like to thank those of you who elected me at the December meeting. I hope to serve you well in 2026. Second I would like to wish you all the very merriest of Christmas Holiday however you celebrate it. And please keep safe in whatever you do over the holidays. See you all at the January Club Business meeting Jan. 13th at the Sunnyslope hall. Duane

November 25th, 2025

THANKSGIVING

I’d like to take a few minutes to wish you all a very enjoyable Thanksgiving Holiday. If you’re leaving town, I hope that you have a very safe and uneventful travel to your destination.

I’ve been very thankful to have found this club, it’s members and the opportunity to be able to enjoy this tremendous hobby. I can’t thank all of you enough for your support and help to keep me in the air. It’s a shame that my planes don’t listen. 😊

Take care and I look forward to seeing you all at the field after the Holiday.

KC

December 30th, 2024

TO ALL: As I get ready to change the calendar from 2024 (Where in the heck did it go?) to 2025 I start reflecting on what has happened this last year. Knock on wood, fortunately, there was no major issues or vandalism occurring at the field. The FPV group has made significant progress on completing their airplane systems. Some have been flying FPV a significant amount. This interest has spread to many other members, especially some of the younger flyers. Kesten designed and built his own goggle system that was working just great. Many of the younger flyers have also participated in the Warbird Fly-in and in several of the events. This does my old heart good. The EAA Young Eagle program has formed it’s second group of young builders. They are building ‘The Old School Model Works “Fifty Six”. The New Year will have a change. The old Park Zone T-28 will be upgraded to use the E-Flite 1.1m T-28. As Rick Fuller mentioned, it’s time to retire the old girl. I want to thank everyone for all of their support and participation for this past year. I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas with your families. I look forward to seeing everyone this coming year. I hope and pray you all have a safe, healthy, joy-filled and prosperous New Year.
KC  

September 24nd, 2024

TO ALL, Sunnyslope road is OPEN again! Please be careful when leaving the field as there will once again be traffic on the road  

July 31nd, 2024

TO ALL, especially new members:

ALL UAS (unmanned aircraft systems), This includes fixed wing Radio Controlled model airplanes, must be registered with the FAA and have the assigned FAA number affixed just like your AMA Number to your aircraft. You may register/renew your FAA registration at this site: DroneZone

 

June 25th, 2024

ATTENTION: George Bieda has contacted the Navy Museum and they are willing to pay the fee for a booth during the Bremerton Air Show. This will be a joint effort between the Museum and KARCS. This fee will pay for 4 tickets to the Air Show to man the booth. The only cost will be for the attendees to pay for the vehicle parking. George suggested carpooling to reduce cost. George is confident that he can get 2 Museum members per day to man the booth. We need two KARCS Club members per day to man the booth.

If anyone is interested please contact either me or Duane. We’ll forward your names and contact information to George. KC

January 17th, 2024

Good morning everyone. I guess I should really say – GREAT MORNING everyone! I received this from the Federal FAA. This our ‘OFFICIAL’ Letter of Authorization, allowing us to fly our RC airplanes ‘WITHOUT’ Remote ID at our flying site. Letter of Authorization

I have been in communications with the AMA and they’ve agreed that this isn’t a “FRIA”, but it’s ‘Official’ and thus they also recognize this as a CBO. The AMA stated that most of the clubs that had been denied in the FRIA request received these letters instead. Additionally, I just received the below from the AMA Webcast. The map lists our area as being an ‘officially recognized’ FRIA. Have a GREAT day everyone.
KC

FRIA Map Now Available FAA-Recognized Identification Area (FRIA) status has been extended to more than 1,500 AMA club flying fields. AMA staff continue to work hard on behalf of clubs to process a few hundred more and appeal and reverse those that were not granted FRIA status. The FAA has published a map that identifies FRIA sites throughout the US. FRIA sites

December 6th, 2023

Hello everyone,

I hope that everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving with family and friends. I’ve renewed my membership to the gym 😊.

Just a reminder for those that are planning to attend the December 12th club meeting: If you desire, we’ll be having our ‘White Elephant’ gift exchange. As in previous years, the price ceiling is set at $15. At this meeting, we’ll be voting in the 2024 club officers. Additionally, we’ll be soliciting names for the “Most Crashes” and also Arc of the Year.

KC

December 23rd, 2023

I just finished wrapping a 12’ gymnastic balance beam for my granddaughters. It looks more like Dolly Parton’s coat of many colors. How can you disguise this? Do you think that the kids will know what it is? 😊 By the time I completed it, it looked more like one of my models that I tried to Monocote. But I’m also aware of how happy they’ll be.

I hope and pray that all of you are able to spend Christmas with the family and friends. If you’re traveling out of town, I hope you have safe and uneventful travels. I’ll be looking forward to seeing all of you out at the field soon.

KC

November 9th, 2023

I just received communications from the AMA Government Relations Representative. This provides more clarity to my previous announcements.

“The email from Ms. Stewart is correct in that your FRIA application was likely automatically denied due to location in a 0’ grid. This denial will not affect your LOA or future 7711 AA. Even if the FRIA status is never given to the site, you would still be able to operate under the LOA or AA with a broadcast module added to aircraft. However, we will do everything we can to get you FRIA status at your site. Ilona Maine is our staff member working on your FRIA application and she has already resubmitted your application to the FAA.”

This means that we’re back to our original stance in that we’re waiting for the results of the FRIA application to determine whether or not we’ll need the ‘Remote ID’ modules installed into our aircraft.

I apologize for any confusion or anxiety that I may have caused. I’m simply passing along to you what the respective agencies are telling me.

KC

November 2nd, 2023

I’m actively attempting to answer all questions with regards to our recent FAA Airspace Authorization. With the recent emails and phone calls that I’ve been on, much of the information has been positive, while some of it has put a damper on the optimism that I had.

I’ve had many club members express concern with the wording and the omission of some ‘key terms’. A tremendous shout out to those members that are attempting to keep me on the correct path. I can’t thank you enough. I’m attempting to be the mouth piece primarily for our members.

I finally received this below email from the AMA Director of Government Relations:

“The AA is meant to replace the previous LOA but does not provide any exemptions for Remote ID. You would still need to apply for FRIA status for your site.

“We are aware and agree with the issues that your club member has with the AA. All clubs are receiving AAs with very similar language that does not fit our operations. We have already had meetings with the FAA group leading this process and provided them with a list of needed changes. They agreed in our meeting that the content of the cookie-cutter AAs they were providing to clubs did not apply to our operations and were willing to make changes. I am currently in DC meeting with congressional offices about FRIA issues but will follow up with the AA team regarding this issue and get an update as to where they are in the changes they agreed to make when I return to the office next week.

“Please let me know if you have additional questions.

“Best regards,
Chrystal Pearson, Director of Government Relations”

KC

November 1st, 2023

CHRISTMAS has come early!!!! We have just received an Airspace Authorization from FAA Seattle TRACON. This authorization is effective immediately and valid for the next 2 years. This document replaces our FAA Letter of Authorization and essentially takes the place of the FAA FRIA. This means, that we don’t need to have a Remote ID in our aircraft. We are mandated to ensure that everyone flying at our site complies with all of the requirements that were in our original FAA Letter of Authorization.

This is a tremendous relief and an answer that we were all hoping for,
KC

September 5th, 2023

Here’s the latest on the Club’s FAA-Recognized Identification Area (FRIA) request.

On August 24th, I received two simultaneous emails, one from the Drone Zone and the other from the AMA. The email from the Drone Zone was the FAA’s response informing the club that our FRIA was denied due to our close proximity to the Bremerton Airport. This was about two weeks after the Shelton Flyers received a similar denial for the same reason. I sent an immediate response to the AMA including a copy of the current FAA Letter of Agreement (LOA) between the Kitsap ARCS and the FAA Seattle Terminal Radar Approach Control (S46). I received a response back from the AMA stating that they were going to resubmit our FRIA request along with our FAA LOA.

I also sent a copy of our FRIA denial to the FAA official(s) that signed our LOA. I’m attempting to keep both the AMA and the LOA signatories informed of our appeal.

The following weekend I received a phone call from Paul Fleming. He was at the Wenatchee Scale Flying competition. There were some AMA representatives there and Paul gave them an earful. Based on the response from the representatives, it appears that any RC club that was within five miles of an airport received a denial of their FRIA request. It’s like they sent all applications through a filter and any application that failed to meet the 5-mile restriction was automatically denied, regardless of the club’s safety record or how many years that they had been flying from that site.

A member sent me an announcement from Horizon Hobby, offering a Remote ID module for “pre-order”. The announcement further referred to the deadline for installation of these modules for all UAS not operating in a FRIA was to be September 16, 2023. Although there have been a couple of companies that are offering their Remote ID modules on a “pre-order” basis, it is extremely doubtful that the manufacturers will have sufficient quantities of these modules available by the September 16th deadline.

On Sunday, September 3rd, we sent the following inquery to the FAA UAS Support Center:
Has the Sept. 16th date been paused since Remote ID units still haven't shipped??
On Monday, September 4th, we received the following response:
"As of this moment, the RID compliance date remains 16 Sep 2023. We are considering options with respect to relief from the 16 Sep compliance date. We will have more to share with you in the near future on FAA websites and social media."

I am waiting from further correspondence from the AMA and the FAA. When I have more information, I’ll keep you informed.

Thanks,
KC

July 24th, 2023

To everyone that normally volunteers to assist with the field mowing/trimming, I’m extremely sorry about the short notice Saturday about the cancellation. I saw the forecast last night, but with what we’ve experienced over the last couple of years, you can’t always rely on the ‘weather guessers’ 😊. I was able to call Duane and go to Mike’s before they left their houses. I tried to call everyone at 8am to catch you before you left.

I was sincerely hoping that we’d get in an hour or so of mowing. That’s all we needed to catch up on all of the areas that we’d missed over the last month due to my mechanical breakdowns. However, the weather guessers were correct and Mother Nature gave us some much needed rain.

I can’t express how much I appreciate everyone coming out to help keep the field in as good of a condition as it is. We hear so many compliments from visitor, KCPD personnel, and the airport Director. The first words out of their mouths are "WOW! This place looks great."  It’s all because of you and your efforts.

I am taking a golfing vacation for the next two weeks. I’m looking to have the next field mowing/trimming on August 14th. Thank you all again for your help and I’m extremely sorry for any inconvenience I may have caused.

KC

July 9th, 2023

The local chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association has a special Young Eagles program for children of ages eight through seventeen. In the next couple of weeks, two airports will have YE rallies, one with 200+ kids at Auburn and one with 400+ kids at Bremerton. The rallies will help to assist with getting kids into the air.

The Bremerton Young Eagles Rally will be on July 15th. Amelia’s Hanger restaurant (Bremerton Airport Diner) will be donating their net proceeds to the EAA 406 Young Eagles. This is where some of the funds will come to pay for the YE Build and Fly kits and scholarships to send kids to Osh Kosh’s weekly aviation camps for kids.

This is a great opportunity to try the food at the new restaurant and to also support the EAA Young Eagles.

July 3rd, 2023

Happy Fourth of July everyone! I hope you are all able to enjoy this Holiday with family, BBQs and are able to share the fireworks.

But I hope and pray that you all take just a moment out of your celebration to remember the efforts and sacrifices by those early great men. Even though the Declaration of Independence was written on July 4, 1776, it was formally delivered to the Great Britain about 1 month later. There wasn’t the fast means of communications that we all enjoy today.

The Revolutionary War actually spanned from April 1775 with the ‘Shot Heard Around the World’ at Lexington and Concord and even though the British surrendered in Yorktown in 1781, the war would not formally end until 1783. Their fight was perilous, and many times in doubt.

KC

May 27th, 2023

This Memorial Day, I was looking to send the membership a “message from the president”. I was thinking of the words to convey how I feel. However, I just ran across the below message that says it far greater than I ever could.

In his 1983 message on Memorial Day, President Ronald Reagan, a veteran of the Army and then a Captain in the Army Air Force during World War II at age 30, offered this simple tribute:

"Memorial Day is a time to take stock of the present, reflect on the past, and renew our commitment to the future of America.

Today, as in the past, there are problems that must be solved and challenges that must be met. We can tackle them with our full strength and creativity only because we are free to work them out in our own way. We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time of need. In particular, we are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.

"I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

"This Memorial Day of 1983, we honor those brave Americans who died in the service of their country. I think an ancient scholar put it well when he wrote: 'Let us now praise famous men ... All these were honored in their generation, and were the glory of their times. Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.' As a tribute to their sacrifice, let us renew our resolve to remain strong enough to deter aggression, wise enough to preserve and protect our freedom, and thoughtful enough to promote lasting peace throughout the world."

Message on the Observance of Memorial Day, May 26, 1983
(National Archives, Ronald Regan Presidential Library & Museum)

Please, if you see a veteran, shake their hand and thank them.
KC

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