A Killdeer made a nest right in front of the trailer garage.  These are ground nesting birds and have a nest with four eggs.  The eggs look just like the surrounding rock.  The hen pretends to be injured in order to lure you away from her eggs.  This gave me some time to take some pretty good pictures of her.  

She didn't do too much flying, but the rest of us had some pretty good times!  Dave and Pete were both up for almost four hours.  There was an inversion layer around 3,100' for most of the day, so they topped out pretty low.  Lots of thermal work to stay up.  

Greg, Stephan, and Vince all had a few flights; Vince had a good two plus hour flight in the '26 making one of two such flights required for the bronze badge.  Speedy showed us all what it means to bring the glider in to the end of the runway; landing such that we turned the glider around, swapped passengers and sent him back in the air.  Nice work, Speedy! Between Speedy taking up his family members and some tough thermal finding conditions on this blue day, we kept Wally pretty busy in the 150.  I don't know what our final tow tally was, but it had to be pretty close to ten or more tows!

Hopefully the field will dry up quickly and the rain from this week won't shut us out this weekend!

JD

We always take good care of our ships; last weekend we brought them all out and gave them a good bath.  JD is shown cleaning up the winter's dust from the 2-33; Greg and Co. did the same for the Lark.  They are ready for action!  

Which we saw plenty of!  JD completed his post solo training phase receiving sign off in his log book to register for his check ride.  Dave, Eric, Greg, Stephan, and Holly all got in the air last weekend.  We had a visit from Will who was in for a FAST flight.  He spent much of the day with us and was great help to have around.  Check out our OLC trace page (link to the right) and see some of the logged flights.  We had a number of power planes around as well; David flew his Luscombe to the field, as did Wally in his SR22, and we had a visit from Pat Riley in his old open cockpit warbird.  

We also had a visit from a skunk.  It was sitting in the middle of the taxiway as we were bringing the 2-33 up for a wash.  Good thing we didn't get too close!  He wandered through the hangers and (hopefully) back out to the fields and home.  We didn't see him again and are just fine if it stays that way!

JD and Holly took a number of pictures last weekend, we'll be getting those up on our pictures page as well.

Looks like good flying weather for the next couple of weekends, check out our Facebook page for more current ops updates.