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The Weather Gods threw a (hopefully) last tantrum on Saturday May 16 with near freezing conditions, wind and low ceilings. Still, enough brave souls showed up to keep the flight line humming with activity. Some activities included towing the towplane.

Two-seaters were doing instructional flights, some checkouts were happening and couple of private owners pulled out a club’s Junior to get back into a single seat flying after a long winter break. Most surprising of all was the decent lift under almost complete overcast that made flight durations close to an hour possible.
But that was not the end of Saturday as club held a social/ meeting event later in the evening to discuss where we were and where we would like to be in terms of membership, growth, fun and safety. I am sure there would be a separate report on that, but many thanks to those who organized the salads and other tasty snacks. Garlic bread and brownies were certainly well received.

The Gods then took pity on the gliding population and Sunday morning arrived with glorious blue skies and almost unlimited visibility. And that was really good news for club's aerobatic program as we were officially up and running. Scott opened the hangar doors just before 8am so the first acro flight could take off at 9am. Poul and Vlada showed up right at 8am and DI’ed the Puchacz and ASK-21 and James Stang and Paul Fish joined later. All acro instructors were on hand too. Andrea did the towing for the acro program in a separate Pawnee, so that we won’t infringe on the non-acro flights that were towed by another Pawnee. Since this was the first acro flight of the season for most of us, the stomachs had to get used to G’s again and we could only do one flight each. However Scott and Joe had to do a couple of flights each. Apparently, Scott did not have enough acro for one day as he later took off in a One Design and we were treated to some incredible power aerobatics display.

As acro program was winding down for the day, the Cu started popping all over the airfield and strong lift was reported. A decent soaring day then ensued and lasted for a while until the East wind brought in the high overcast and cut the lift off.
But that was not all that happened this weekend. Mark Thompson paid us a visit in his RV-4 which looked awesome. Finally, a few SOSA pilots and our Citabria towplane were at Toronto Soaring, participating in a soaring contest. They had good Sunday too – for the results check the Sailplane Racing website and the scores from May 16.
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