Giving rides to the antique aircraft assoc had been scheduled for months so a bad weather forecast was disappointing. A call to the group representative said they were still coming despite the wet forecast. The weather radar showed a break in precip so there...
Hi All of OSCI, My urging to come a bit early, push out at noon, fly, and get out of the heat, resonated. I arrived about 11:40 to find the ships ready to move up to the far end for a 13 operation. We did nine flights with the first off at 12:39 and the hangar...
A check of the sounding held out hope for some weak thermals with cloud bases around 5000ft. Winds were out of the south and light so we elected to takeoff on 13. We started a little later than normal with the first launch at 1330 and that was Steve Davis with Whitt...
Hi All of OSCI, A half dozen showed up at Skywerx for the ground session I proposed: Don Meyer, Paul Jelinek, Steve Davis, Bob Arant, Tom Schaap, Tom Ostlund. We mostly talked about basic glider flying stuff wherein each commented on their impressions of how they...
Hi All of OSCI, Tuesday’s flying was primarily arranged because of Ken Costello’s email that he would be in town for one day and asking if we could do his Flight Review. I’m glad we could! Ken handed me his Safety quiz and we were good to go. Again we set up...
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