Strong smooth climbs to over 3000m but as the clouds were forecast to become problematic we stayed local in the Piedrahita valley. Storms did happen around 6.30 so no evening soaring.
Yesterday a pleasant flight towards Barco with the whole group landing there or a bit beyond. Some, not in our group made 100km. Today a fantastic day with easy climbs to the cloud base at around 3400m. An easy run to Avila(55km), though a little N there low down. We decide to land (Nigel, […]
It seems we have been kicking most of the last month with an Avila flight on Mondays. Today only Hans and I arrived with initially climbs little above 2500m. many of the group decided not to cross the Pass with the low thermal tops. A very nice evening flight for all. I made a tandem […]
An excellent forecast, but we did not get going untill 3.30 when the wind started to come on correctly. Unfortunaley a number of HG’s were damaged in dust devils( Many HGs rigged for a comp). strong climbs to 3800m and Cu. Raging convergence along the sierra de Avila. After Avila the wind more SW and […]
Good conditions with climbs to 3500m and decent Cu. A convergence running north with a SE curving around the mountains. We went from Lastra, the first time this year, though by 2.30 pm the wind came onto PN. After some quite violent climb outs we set out towards the resovoir, some 30km N of take […]
Post cold frontal with clear and clean air again and nice Cu, though low and with the possibility of the NE picking up. We took of early with the intention of a quick XC to Barco. David and I made it there by 1pm, the others landing en route, though they got back and eventually […]
Today, with a fantastic forecast for a flight beyond 200km we were quite excited, though knowing the take off at PN could be prolematic. Quite strong winds, espeically at altitude, but a convergence line which would put us at 200km+. The wind started to come on at PN and we expected it to improve. However, […]
Quite stable today so a very short XC towards the Pass, with some of the group electing to land at the long bar for lunch. Excellent evening flying with good restitution allowing us to fly most of the mountian range.
An evening flight on arrival yesterday and the first XC today for the new group. A high base forecast with light wind, but looking a bit N at Avila. Myself, Dave and Earl were soon over the Pass in climbs going to 7m/s, but the quickly developing clouds kept us from haning around and we […]
After all the big stuff we have been doing lately, yesterday we made a shorter goal flight towards Barco (20km) as the winds were expected (and did) rise. With the heat wave, although we had remarkable climbs to over 4000m on friday, we also now have very poor visibility. Today with once again expected high […]