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 […]
A rather amazing day with huge climbs to 4400m to the Cu in the convergence allowing us to fly back to the peaks of the Gredos mountains. This is only the second time we have flown back to the peaks and returned with a group. Amazing scenery, though the photo below is from the last […]
Today we set the goal at 125km, however, things were real slow. By laterafternoon before Avila we were getting as high as 3800m, but the with mainly blue conditons it was trick to spot the hoped for convergence shown in RASP. After Bert, we had Helen , Ian, David and myself around the 75km mark […]
An excellent day with perhaps the strongest and smoothest climbs I have experienced this year. a 7.5m/s on the averager in the Avila Valley on one climb. A good cloud street to Avila, after which many of us headed north towards Penaranda. Iain, Neil, Sofia (a PB), Richard and myself landed in the same field […]
Sunday was rather stable, so I considered that with the similar forecast, although lighter wind, we might struggle. We set the Goal at Avila, expecting some convergence across the Avila valley at Munogalindo and a probably N wind at Avila. The convergence was there, and the conditions much better than anticipated with climbs to over […]
Quite a scratchy day to start and with a NW wind initially in the Avila valley. Only 7 over the Pass with Philip, Tim and I reaching Avila, where at last the condtions turned on to give climbs over 3000m. Rather than landing there in the convergence we started flying back into the headwind to […]
The fourth successive 100km+ goal achieved by our group this week. A convergence day, mainly blue but some Cu marking the line of lift. Helen took a northerly route after Avila, and although not quite reaching goal made her first 100km+ flight. Most of the group landed around the 50 to 80km mark, with only […]