The forecast was about right. A nice days with light winds and buoyant conditions with a max by Tom of 3400m near Avila. Tom Flew back to from Avila to the Pass, Didier landing to he SE of Avila and Pete stumbling to the ground on the way around the bend in the road. […]
We will discuss in a bit more detail in the briefing, but essentially a good soaring forecast with light NW winds and mainly blue thermals to below 3000m. Convergence on the Gredos mountains behind, but not for our take off area. A modest flight to Avila should be feasible.
A potentially interesting day with a very unstable temperature trace once again allowing easy thermal development to over 4000m. Wind at most levels is in the west and light though the surface winds in the Avila valley seem more N. convergence for sure along the mountains. At 9am the wind is light SE but I […]
Potentially very pleasant day with early inversion breaking and allowing decent climbs to over 2700m if the temperature gets high enough on the ground.No Cirrus today so this is likely. Another flight down to Barco or up to the Tornavacas Pass would be the most likely. Wind moving more SE at the end of […]
Not the day I hoped for.. but initially flyable. Wind is more square on the hill than yesterday so less turbulent in that respect. However a relatively low inversion around 2000m is going to spoil the prospects of an easy XC. Unless this is wrong and we get high then the best option for a […]
A good day for a flight to Avila, going beyond maybe difficult due to the N wind. Inversion at around 2600m, but the day should get going well with good climbs by 1.30pm. Convergence to our south and unlikely in the Avila valley except for the area around Muñogalindo.
Once again light winds with a prediction of a bit of E or SE. However, it should come onto PN as it did yesterday. Trigger temp around 22ºC in the valley. Probably decadent climbs by around 1.30pm. A better chance of a flight more to the north today. We will see!. I include the weather […]
At take off at 9am the wind is gently from the SE, however, with the forecast light winds it should come on to PN. If not then we may go initially to Chia the SE site. Conditions may allow a circuit flight, but if the base stays low (there is an inversion around 2600m) then […]
Well, the horrible stuff has gone through and now we are getting the change for the better which looks like it will last well towards the end of next week. The aforementioned “veranillo de San Miguel”, or Saint Michaels little summer. Wind at take off at 9 am is not that strong and cross on. […]
Obviously there is no chance for decent flying today. However, there is the remote chance (forecast on the local) of a drop in the wind after the front passes later in the day. The wind should be on PN at that time so we will keep an eye on the windsock at take off (though […]