9-6-14 Saturday Soaring Report

Hi All of OSCI,   It was just another glorious day to be at BTA.  Well except for not much lift, for most of us.  We did ten flights, eight in the L23 and two flights by Mike and Anders in their Russia.  All flights were in the :16 – :23 range except for...

9-1-14 Labor Day Soaring Report

Hi All of OSCI, Labor Day was a lot like Saturday without the morning low clouds.  The similarities were some puffy clouds, light NW winds, rain the previous night, and no significant lift.  That wasn’t all bad because we  had a good turn out and short flights kept...

8-31-14 Saturday Soaring Report

Hi All of OSCI,   The forecast clear day had fog and lingering low clouds.  We didn’t get the first flight off until 13:47.  We then did get six flights: 1)  Tom Schaap / Whit on a dual flight 2)  Gift Certificate holder Debbie Galusha / Jaime on an Intro 3) ...

Soaring report 26 Aug 2014

  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...

8-23-14 Saturday Soaring Report

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...

Soaring Report 17 Aug 2014

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...