Airport shuttle day for me but the day looked very good with high convergence Cu inthe Ambles valley. Nice evening flight and comercial tandem for me.
The approach of a cold front associated with the depression over the UK will increase the westerly flow and instability. Potentially an excellent Open XC day for the brave, with mainy blue thermals to above 3000m and with winds at 50km/hr at this level. Windsock showing a fair bit of wind from early on and […]
The UK continues with the depression maintaining a westerly flow over the Iberian Peninsula. Early morning Cu and wind cross on at Peña Negra. later blue thermals to around 3000m with a 15km/hr flow from the W at around t.o altitude. around 20km/hr at top of lift. South of west flow so convergence very likely […]
The depression continues to move very slowly across the UK. W flow in altitude contines here as it has done for some time now. Early morning Stratocumulus which should break down by midday with mainly blue thermals later in the afternoon. Bear in mind tha this extra cloud cover during the morning will give us […]
I guess we did not really do justice to yesterdays conditions – maybe I oversold, or perhaps the shadowing redued the potential. Today we start with 8/8 cover of statocumulus which since around 8.30am has been cycliclly breaking down then reforming near the hill. This is unlikely to lift and clear full untill after mid […]
Overview Todays weather is wholly charecteristic of a typical 200km+ day. Heat low forming and previous to arrival of a weak front tomorrow. Winds are SW, reasonably strong at the top of the convection (20km/hr), and light enough low down for safe take off and landing (15km/hr). Cloud base potemntial to 4000m, though 3200-3600m more […]
We now have a vacancy for these weeks (30 -31). Week 33, previously posted this morning now seems to be filled by Hyun Kim.
Due to a drop out we now have a space for this week. This is the only vacany untill week 39 at the end of september.
We now have a new vehicle added to our fleet of 9 seater vans. It is a Renault Traffice long wheel base 9 seater which gives us a little more space than the Mercedes Vito which was a bit tight when packing 9 gliders. The white Transit is also still with us as a third […]
High pressure at surface level with with forecast temperature to 26ºC in Piedrahita. The approach of a warm front which will only skim the N of the Peninsula will give us a thickening of Cirrus towards late afternoon. Good quality thermals to 3100m and winds light westerly. If they keep SW at altitude and […]