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 […]
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 […]
That is it for us at Flypiedrahita for 2017. Many thanks to all who visited us this year. We normally stop at this time of year as the chances of decent XCs is reduced. However, it does seem that things are getting even better this week with higher temps and still with light winds. […]
Yesterday and today, flights to Barco for some. A light wind week, though with relatively low climbs yesterday and today and an easterly drift. Only Alister made Barco today, though many of the group managed it yesterday. A change to NW tomorrow, so hopefully a better XC day.
A decent day yesterday with many doing good XCs between the Pass and Barco. Our group arrived too late for the XC flight by enjoyed a good evening soaring, may doing the full ridge run and Valley flying in the restitution.
A reasonable forecast, but gusty strong winds from quite early on. Only Hans decided to fly, where he found reasonable conditions, though the rest of us decided to leave it until the evening. Once again, like many evenings this week, a fantastic restitution flight with abundant lift on hill and out in the valley til […]
A poor forecast today with strong SE early on. However, Peña Negra worked its magic and the wind came on by 1pm. An early bomb out of me (Steve) near Santiago, but much of the rest of the group flew down to Barco. Still too cool and stable for it to be decent and interesting […]
Another big conditions day with very strong climbs to 4000m and light winds allowing a variety of XC options. Jorg probably the best with a flight to near Sotalvo castle south of Avila and back to Villafranca. Tin Tin and Stu in Avila and others spread around the Avila and Piedrahita Valley. I had one […]