Looking at the thermal index for Thursday, it beckoned lots of soaring with lift to 7000ft possible. As I left work and headed to the airport at noon, cumulus clouds building to the east seemed to confirm the forecast. However, approaching Blair airport, it was...
Hi All of OSCI, I arrived a bit before the 1:00 start time and found the hangar doors opened with Whitt and Steve D. talking to visitors Darcy McAbee and her dad Dal McAbee. Darcy had contacted me several days ago to try and get her dad an intro flight this...
Heading out to the field after an historic rainfall, I expected the field to be too wet. But Blair was north of the heaviest rain so the field was useable though damp. At the field were Steve Stevens pre-flighting the Pawnee. Mike Boska, Anders Backlund, and Jerry...
HI All of OSCI, I arrived a bit before noon and found Whitt and Pat G. already on hand. I had received two last minute regrets just prior to heading out to the field so knew Anders was the last listed hope for having a workable number of 4 members on hand. ...
Submitted by Bob Craig: I had to work till 1230, so I didn’t get out until 130pm. The sounding looked good up to 8000ft ( -3 lifted index) but clouds were predicted at 6000ft and this verified very well. The operation was in full swing with Anders Backlund, Whitt...
Hi All of OSCI, The day turned out far better than forecasted. There was no close threat of showers and some flights had good climbs. Some had bad sink. Flight (1) :23, Jay and I on his safety flight, was off at 12:28 which was pretty good for a noon start and...
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