I'm looking forward to pattern flying surging again here in Omaha. Two Omahawks pilots finished 1st and 2nd in the Advanced category down in Tulsa last weekend; I'll give a shout out to Robert and Ron for representing Omaha in such a fine fashion.

We have several newer pilots who are working their way through sport planes and learning the basics of aerobatics that are interested in giving pattern a try. I don't really know of any other clubs in the area that are all that active with regard to pattern flying, though.

I guess as long as the Omahawks keep adding new members and introducing new pilots to pattern flying, we'll have a good chance of growing our own ranks of pattern flyers once again. I need to get off my arse and finish building my practice pattern plane. I've got a Thunder Tiger Imagine 50 with a Saito .72 half-finished that has been sitting around my house for so long I'm embarrassed to think about it.

I'm nowhere near ready to compete at even the sportsman level, but I'm not going to get there until I've got a decent plane set up and I can practice flying regularly with something a little crisper than my trusty old sport planes.