This is at a service station on the way back from Madrid. Just pop your doggy or pussy in and technology does the rest.
High pressure moving in with light N winds in the boundary layer and light NW above. Looks like it should be pleasant thermal soaring day with good opportunity for modest XCs, probably towards Barco. I have included 2 skew T s below, and will try to give a brief description at the briefing of the […]
Rubbish today of course, but tomorrow looking good and for next week. Salamanca trip today anybody?
The two windy days have given me time to finish the Ad for XCshop.com. It is a shame Alan did not have one on Wednesday, or he might have taken his 130km to over 200. Ah well!
High pressure n the Azores and a heat low over Spain and more instability today at high levels with a trough forming right across the centre of Spain which could lead to some storms in some areas. A cold front will pass through on Saturday which will give us good conditions from Perhaps Sunday evening […]
Here is Mikes last video from last week. The first day in a set of 5 epic conditions days. Since then the conditions have ramped up . Thanks Mike, wish you could have had the rest of the set of days
Yesterdays light wind and amazing thermals gave us a crop of big flights and some PBs. With climbs to over 4000m, and a track away from the Madrid Airspace we had pilots scattered across the North of Castilla. Conditions at Lastra were paraticulary good with easy take offs and quick and easy to get without […]
Update. at 10am the wind still seems 20kmhr+ at take off and has swung more west. It is difficult to accurately gauge the windspeed with the large windsock, since it is opened with a metal bar at the front and inflates with little wind. However, it is bouncing around a fair bit. West at Lastra […]
It is going to be very hot on the ground today, however, if you get to cloud base, around 3ºC like yesterday. An inversion at 3800 will give us mainly blue thermals. The winds is a bit stronger than yesterday and more S. It is likely that we will go to Lastra, which gives us […]
A classic situation with SW and a heat low formed over central Spain. top temperatures in the 30s . These are the ideal conditions for formation of the SW NE convergence (there is an article about this no the website if you are interested) and very large open distance flights without the problem of NE […]