Paul Tomassi and Reynald Mumenthaler, the competition leaders, came back from a 6.5 hr flight towards Avila and back to a landing near Tornavacas Pass. Distances were 136km for Paul and 133km for Reynald. A day with not an outstanding cloudbase, but very good and consistent thermal conditions.

A very slow start yesterday, with soarable winds from around 12am, but few thermals and climbs to only a few 100m above take off.  Many pilots chose to to ridge run, using up some of their 3 turnpoints, to get some distance in before conditons improved. Best flight of the day was by Klaus Guenter […]

A day with relatively low cloud base, and plenty of bomb outs around Villafranca and Villatoro.  However, Paul Tomassi (CHE) managed the best flight by reaching the lake north of Avila then following the line of restricted airspace directly south. Today, Thursday looks flyable, but a little more inverted, with less chance of going above […]

A day with around 15-20km WSW at at take off with Cu and high level clouds comming across to weaken the conditions.  Pilots were getting climbs to 3000m but the switch to more NW conditions in Avila made it impossible to push north around the airpace, so most did zig zags in the Ambles Valley […]