Perfect day with light N winds and convergence in the Avila Valley Base around 2800 to 2900 and good Cu.  Best of the day by Matthiew, landing just short of Avila, followed by Peter. Classic evening restitution flying after the retrieve till near dark.

Good morning, looks more like a typical XC day. Winds are reasonably light and NW in our valley, but likely to be North in the Avila Valley, Probable climbs to 2600, and maybe reaching around 3000m at end of the day. A good day for pushing towards Avila as far as possible, and maybe getting […]

Warmer weather but a bit stable.  On the first flight we set Barco as goal to get down before forecast stronger winds.  8 of us there and more nearabouts.  For the evening we set the same goal and once again had roughly the same number there or abouts, the XC done pretty much in restitution […]

It seemed that this year Spain was locked in a perpetual winter.  Finally, this week summer seems to have arrived.  Although Monday gave us nothing but a fly down at the end of a rainy day, things have now been warming up with a nice bit of XC activity.  Including perhaps the first flight to […]

Today we have moderate winds from the west with a risk of storms, more so to the north.  An inversion will probably keep us safe from overdevelopment here, but a layer of cumulostatus is likely to keep the sun away for much of the day.

Today we start things here at Flypiedrahita.  Unfortunately, not starting with the best weather for the next few days though. Below a selection of our tracking equipment.  The larger units on the right are an experiment with Airwhere.  Each is a stand alone unit with batter, GPS and radio reciever which works independently of internet […]