Airport for me today, but Tom may get some flying and it should be on PN for the afternoon.
Not disimilar to yesterday so we will have the same issues with the take off. Once again very high potential for a long XC, but those relatively high winds will make it a bit problematic at launch later on. What Happened Surprising light winds at Lastra, with hinds of N and W. Good climbs […]
This is looking like an epic open distance day. We will go to Lastra both to avoid the HGs and the backwinds. Very high thermal tops to over 4000m What Happened Mmm, well we went to Lastra but it got out of hand (windy) quick. We scuttled of to Candelario, where it also looked […]
Classic conditions for convegence and big open xc beyond Avila. Drier airmass, but still with Cu, though hopefully less build up than yesterday. What Happened An excellent day. A climb to 3400m at the Pass then decision time. Biggish congestus at Avila so Chris, Joaquin and I went quite N to avoid the Avila […]
Light winds and likely wary on to be from the N. This should make launching at PN easier. The section shows to Segovia, but some risk of large congestus. An out and return towards Barco or the NE may be a better option. What Happened A nice day but with very powerful conditions by […]
Most of the upper level instability has moved more north . According to the skew T we should have mainly blue thermal, though some build up in the convergence is likely. Wind from SW will give us the classic convergence for flights towards Segovia. What Happened It did not come onto PN until […]
Relatively light SW winds so it should come onto PN reasonably early. Forecast for storms is mainly for more to our NE however, we should expect congestus build up from quite early. this of course is going to restrict our flying today (and tomorrow). We must stay out of the Ambles valley and […]
For Chris, Bart and Dave who are staying on whilst I go to the airport. Light winds which should come on early at PN. Get of early and land before things get out of hand, staying in the Piedrahita Valley
After yesterdays epic day we have something similar regarding winds, but perhaps greater risk of storms. South wind which is again quite light and probably will come on to PN. However, we may want to get going early like yesterday so may go once again to Lastra. The track below is the same as Nigel’s […]
Forecast and Plan Still under the influence of the heat low with a trough to the N of the Peninsula. The Skew T looks less threatening today with a little more stability from around 3000m which reduced the threat of Cbs. The wind is SW and because of the relative stability of […]