In November John Somheil set up a Chapter 100 forum type web site or “Group” as Yahoo calls it. This is a site where Chapter 100 members can ask and answer questions about building and flying airplanes. Such as, a builder might post the fact that he plans to do some riveting tonight and could really use some help. Or a pilot is looking for a safety pilot to do some hood work tomorrow. Or a builder is looking for a special tool or part.

He used Yahoo, so to be a part of the conversations; you have to have a Yahoo account.  If you don’t yet, you can get one from http://yahoo.com and in the upper right corner there is a Sign In part where you select “New here? Sign Up”:  Make sure you look at all the default setup boxes as it will default to put some things on your computer you may not want.  It will give you a yahoo email account, but you won’t have to check that email account because you can also indicate you want all the announcements go to your normal email account.

Once you have a Yahoo account, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eaa100/.  Only Chapter 100 members will be allowed in, so John will have to approve your application.  That means when you click the “Join This Group!” it will send a message to John for his approval – that keeps the riff-raff out.  Once you are approved, you will have access whenever you click: “Join This Group!”  Clicking “Join This Group!” once you are approved is how you read or write messages to the group.  It isn’t to ask to become a member of the group.  Another nice thing about the Yahoo system is that when you sign up for access to the Chapter’s forum, you can choose if you want an email every time someone posts something, or if you want one e-mail per day with the posts for the day, or if you don’t want any emails and you will check the site on your own time. 

If at any time a member places something on the forum that doesn’t directly relate to aviation or is felt by others to be inappropriate for our forum, that person will be expelled from our forum.