Eagle Scout project returns painted rose compass to Lansing airport taxiway

Having a rose compass on an airport taxiway can benefit pilots both when they in the air as well as when they are on the ground.

Szewczyk notes there is a variation in the magnetic field throughout the country. In the Lansing area, it is 4 degrees West. In Maine, it is 20 degrees off, she said and in California it’s 25., she had great appreciation when a group of Boy Scouts, led by Naperville’s Alex Steadman, spent Saturday painting a rose compass on Taxiway G.Alex Steadman, of Naperville, shows a photo Saturday of what the completed rose compass project at the Lansing Municipal Airport should look like.

The project was a year in the making but Steadman and Troop 75 of Bolingbrook, some members of the Ninety-Nine club, a Scout from the DeKalb area and others were finally out on Saturday painting.DeKalb sixth grader Jack Wild made the trip to Lansing to paint the rose compass at the Lansing Municipal Airport.

“This is a hot spot,” Szewczyk said. “A lot of people like to fuel up here to make that last leg. It’s a nice, safe, easy place to land. It can be a madhouse here.” Szewczyk said the Ninety-Nines started in 1929 and Amelia Earhart was the first president. There were 99 female pilots who started the organization and there are about 3,000 worldwide in the group today.“This is really cool,” she said. “There are plans for doing a project like this for the Lake in the Hills airport.

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