Two of my hives have been suffering heavily from Chalkbrood, so yesterday I used the Warré Pioneering

This first week after coming back from Pedro Bernardo (the brit nationals on the other side of the mountains) there has been a return of mediocre weather. This week we have number of the British nationals competition marshals, who normally get a few epic days on their weeks here. This week so far that has […]

Strongish northerly winds this morning, which often mean turbulence around the take off areas which protected in the lee. An 64 km task flying south and then two cross wind legs over the north side of Talavera with goal at a large junction to the NE of Talavera. The start gate was 10km from take […]

Quite a strong north east wind, with ourselves nicely protected in the lee of the Gredos range, but with some problems on choosing the right take off to use, as both SE and W launches were crossing. We finally got off late, and after scratch climbs, things soon became easy with climbs to well formed […]

Yesterdays task was cancelled due to over-development at take off although many pilots free flew after cancellation. High pressure has finally arrived and looks set in for some time. A light northerly wind today with an early morning clear sky and a good thermal prediction has the pilots anticipating a long flight.

A great day with a straight line race to the south of 75km. After once again much discussion at take off on a possible task, the original plans were scrapped as the Spanish pilots normal route for such conditions ran through the Madrid airspace. With the help of Alan Davies and his up to date […]

After much task changing and revision, we finally decided to run a task out to the south then west to just north of Talavera de la Reina, then back to the mountains for a final run along them into goal, 72.5km in total. A really fantastic flying day, with quite large Cu but light winds. […]

An enjoyable first task for the British Nationals, but unfortunately invalid. After a long wait at take off for the cloud to rise, and after a number of task changes (possible Cbs on course) we finally opted for a 10km cross wind leg out into the valley then a downwind some 30km. Along the mountains […]

On our last day with the group we went to Pedro Bernardo, it hope of a respite from the rain, and to drop off Khobi and Jan. I did an interview with the local Avila press, hoping to project enthuse the province with paragliding …both for Piedrahita, Pedro Bernardo and are multitude of sites and […]