Saturday, August 28 2021
A busy day of soaring and glider flights at Marion. Student flights started mid-morning and continued into…
Sunday, August 22nd 2021
A few club members braved the oppressive heat at Marion Airport for training flights and soaring.—there were…
Saturday, August 21st 2021
Amazing soaring today at Marion Airport with most of the club gliders flying. Lift developed by mid-day and was…
On this day…
On this day, six years ago, August 16, 2015 John Stefanick solo’d and recorded his thoughts…
Sunday, August 15th 2021
It was a breezy, clear sky day today at Marion Municipal. We had five flights; two in the 1-26, two in the 1-34, and one…
Saturday, August 14th 2021
After a long stretch of hot weekends at Marion airport, finally a nice cool day for soaring. We operated mostly on the hard surface as…
Sunday, August 8th 2021
Beautiful skies over Marion Airport as gliders took to the air. Things got going a little before noon and it was a busy Sunday with 14 flights, including…
Saturday, August 7th 2021
Glider operations started early today in Marion with 3 sailplanes and both tow ships. It was an exciting morning with…
Tuesday, August 3rd 2021
Excellent soaring today at Marion Airport. Three flights, two were private ships (Mark Martin and Dave Stevenson) that departed before 1pm and one was…
Sunday, August 1st 2021
The day started out with 4 student flights, but on the 5th flight Mark noticed a fast moving…
Saturday, July 31st 2021
Gliders and sailplanes filled the sky Saturday as both COSA and the Civil Air Patrol ran operations at Marion Municipal Airport. The day started with
July 24th, 25th, 26th 2021
Busy day of soaring in Marion Saturday. We had 25 flights with the SGS 2-33s, SGS 1-26, and SGS 1-34 all flying. Milt had the longest flight of about…
Sunday, July 18th
After a no-fly day due to weather yesterday, COSA was hopping today with a lot of glider flights and intro flights—all with…
Saturday, July 10th 2021
We had 21 flights today all in sugar. John Stefanick did 13 tows with Mike Cerrato, Bill Rettig and Chris Varvarosky splitting the rest…
Monday, July 5th 2021
It was hot Monday, but with a 10 knot breeze that made it somewhat bearable. We had 4 tow pilots and 3 instructors…
Saturday, July 3rd 2021
Beautiful day of soaring today in central Ohio. Gliders flights started a little later in the morning than usual, and it got busier and busier as…
Saturday, June 26th 2021
No soaring in central Ohio today as winds were blowing a little too strong for glider flights with gusts well over 20 knots…
Sunday, June 20th 2021
We had 4 students of which 1 was a solo. There were 10 glider flights, all with Sugar (Schweizer 2-33 sailplane). Not much lift until about 3pm. Chris Ovdiyenko was still in the air when…
Saturday, June 12th 2021
It was a busy day of soaring in central Ohio with plenty of glider students in the morning instructed by Mike and Mark, plenty of member flights, and a lot of guest rides. It was a hot day with…
Saturday, June 5th 2021
Busy and beautiful day of soaring at Marion Airport today. Andrew Lester solo’d for the first time (see video below). Phaedra Ovdiyenko took off for the first time with Mike Cerrato instructing, and also performed her first landing…