The Skydog Report

Wallaby Ranch

Friday February 25 rd 2022 and here we go again. Tommy and Rick get airborne first and I get in line about 5th. Wow, towing showed no lift but suddenly at 1,800 feet Bang Bobby McFee puts me into a good one and we swirl up to 2,500 feet and I release. This was the big one and I keep turning up to 4,000 feet where the clouds were too close. I played for a while in this beauty and then go searching but with no luck and land with a 43 minute flight. The stories later in the day are splendid with flights of 4 hours and Tommy did 80 miles. Wow, what a day. We are homeward Bound Sunday morning and Biking Saturday so that it for me this time. Hope to get back with Oded in March/ April. See Y'all then.

Wednesday February 23rd 2022 and after a week of going to the beach, biking and joining my Ukulele friends in Dunedin on the west coast of Florida we are back at Wallaby and today was great. I flew for 2 hours and 27 minutes up to 4,860 feet ATO. Mitch Keebler and Tim Thompson from Lookout Mt. joined us today. Mitch and Tim completed their goal of flying to Paradise Air Sports ( formally Quest Air). Congrats guys. Rick Bremer and Tyson Richmond had four hour flights landing at sunset and Tommy Nejame flew to Bok Tower and back for a 42 mile flight. Really nice day with very light winds.

Saturday February 12th 2022 and we are taking off by the Oak tree and I am last to launch at 2:50 pm. We had a nice bike ride earlier. Tim puts me into a great thermal and I take it up to 4,800 feet ato. There are more than twenty pilots all over the sky and I cruise north of the Ranch for twenty minutes getting up to five grand. I notice four other pilots flying east past Hyw. 27 maybe close to The Omni Center so I cruise over there and thermal up to them easily. Lots of lift and I top out at 6,256 feet ATO. Smooth lift today. I later talked to Brian and he mentioned that he headed toward the cloverleaf and got up to 7 grand and flew to the hospital and back with lots of lift everywhere. My flight time was 1 hour and 16 minutes of pure delight.

Friday February 11th 2022, and we line up at the soccer field around 2pm. Tommy Nejame and Rick Mullen get off first and then Bob McFee tows me up into a nice thermal but I finally loose it and land after 21 minutes. I get in line and go again and this time Tim puts me into a great thermal and I take it up to 4,600 feet. The thermals were rough at first but later on they smoothed out some. Lots of pilots flying today. I flew north for three miles and came back over the warehouses finally getting up to 5,141 feet ato. My flight time was 2 hours and 30 minutes. What a great day to be in the air.