Similar to yesterday with reasonable potential to fly Westwards.  A marked inversion around 2200m, but likely climbs to around 2500m later in the afternoon.  Nice gentle N winds starting NW and moving more to NE

Yesterday we finally had some nice conditions for the Avon club with an early XC down to Barco , then an evening flight to the same.  Airtime record for Richard Harding, who spent 5 .5 hours in the air, staying up after we did an early morning flight down until arrival in Barco.

Wind acceptable at PN at 8.30, and forecast to drop more.  So finally, a day with some sort of promise!.  A North flow with climbs not much over 2600m, and an inversion around 2200m.  Decent enough for XC towards Barco de Avila.

Once again we have difficult uncoperative conditions with a strong WNW flow and a significant depth of stratocumulus.  However, Cbs unlikely.  Dynamic lift on the main ridge and NW facing hills will of course be good, but the wind strength may not allow us to fly until late afternoon again.

Conditions finally abated yesterday for some fairly decent evening flying at PN taking off from the lower launch.  

Not such an easy day as we could have hoped for.  The wind is on at PN, but very strong.  This should drop over the next hours, but the cloud base looks set to stay low for much of the day.  We have options of taking off lower down on the main mountain, or can […]

A trip to Salamanca for sightseeing!  

Saturday gave us a great day to finish with the Malverns group with good thermic conditions and probably the best flights by Nigel and Byan toward the Pass and Back and Simon with a flight to Barco and then back to Santa Maria de los Caballeros.   A nice thermic flight on the tandem with […]

Not disimilar to the previous 2 days with good thermal quality once things get going.  Once again inverted, but climbs to 2600m by mid afternoon .  Likely convergence across the valley at Muñogalindo.  Once gain, flights to Avila, or Perhaps Barco direction.  A bit more north today, but also lighter.  Maybe a circuit around the […]

Yesterday gave good strong thermic climbs after a slow start with Graham first over the Pass and to Avila followed by Brian and Gavin.  Others stayed in the valley, with Simon making it home from the Pass.  I did a thermic flight with Kobus. The evening soar was spectacular with a major restitution giving smooth […]