Even though the winds were forecast to be fairly strong out of the Northwest, the sounding still indicated the possibility of thermals up to 5000ft.  Whitt Bonifant, Steve Stevens, Tom Schaap, Paul Jelinek, and Mike Boska were already there with the L-23, tow plane, and Mike’s Russia already staged for 31 operations.  Paul and…

Hi All, My day started with ground school attended by Steve Davis, Tom Schaap, and Steve Stevens.  A bit after 11:00 a young lady, Katelyn, came in with one of our gift certificates and asked if she could fly today.  We wrapped up GS about 11:15 and headed for the hangars.  When I got…

The soaring forecast for today was better than Dr. Jacks page had been forecasting for a while.  The sounding this morning was also good with lift indicated up to 6000ft with a high temperature of 58.  The high temperature got to 59 and lift was good to 5500ft.  Whitt Bonifant, Jerry Adams, Tom Schaap,…

The morning clouds cleared and it turned out to be a fine day for up and down flying. Jim Clark got there early and had the trailer and canopy up and ready. Bob Dyer got his Russia back and was assembling it. Mike B. took his Dad up in the L-23 for one last…

It looked like the day was going to be a bust with Mike B. cancelling out because his Dad  not feeling well. That only left Whit and Steve S. for such a beautiful day. I had a ride coming and a new member student so Steve and I began to get out the equipment…

Hi OSCI Members,   What a beautiful day form start to finish!  Soaring Forecast showed good possibilities if it warmed to expectations. After GS we proceeded to set up for 31 departures  with light winds allowing 13 land backs.   Well there was an initial glitch when we found the Pawnee hangar door locked…

Turned out to be a great day for gliding, not much soaring though even though it looked like the lift might develop, but then a high cirrus layer moved in and killed it and it also looked like we had a temperature inversion. Had 7 folks show up and first on the agenda was…

It was  a beautiful Sat. morning for a 9:00 start. We need to do that more often. Got in the air by 10:00 and completed 6 flights and the equipment put away by 1:00. Started off with a couple of potential new members John Pineda and his son Chris. Both flew their first flight…

Was a beautiful day with pleasant temps and moderate lift. Five of us showed up and we got the equipment out and set up for a 31 operation. Winds were pretty much calm so we landed back on 13. Pat greenwood was up first and managed a 45 minute flight after a 3000’ release…