Soaring Report 24 Oct 2015

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,...

10-17-15 Saturday Soaring Report

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...

Soaring Report 16 Oct 2015

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...

Soaring report for 10/7

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 flight...

Soaring report for 10/3

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 as best...