Once again we should have a good flying day, though the head low forming will give us a little more instability and greater Cu development.  Avila XC direction   What happened Well, some nice soaring ealy on but the onset of big congestus and later storms put us on the ground by 1pm.  Only Mick […]

      Another reasonable looking day with the predominance of high pressure.  Today more of a flow from the west, so an Open XC towards Avila is more realistic as we won’t come up against the changes in wind we found yesterday.  At 24 ºC we may find some of the Cu starting to […]

        Much lighter winds than we have been having with a W influence above and light E below.   Blue thermal tops rising to over 3000m during the afternoon.  A good circuit flight day. What Happened A good day   as forecast.  Plenty of flying, 3 soaring flights and probably over 3 […]

Slightly less wind forecast than yesterday with a more  easterly direction.  Less Cu and a lower thermal tops  at around 2600m.  Foehn wind cloud early this morning on the ridge.  We may have a look at the Chia take off.  Around 10.30 isn

We now have more influence of the Azores high and the upper level instability has moved Eastwards.  Winds still may be a little strong mid afternoon,  but we should get some decent flying out of the day.  thermal tops around 2600m.         What Happened: Not so bad.  Nice early soaring and then […]

Temperatures continue to be low, with snow level around 1800m level.  The moderate NW will make it unlikely to be safely flyable during much of the day.  Perhaps at the end of the day.  Brighter and lighter tomorrow.

A cold front going through this morning, hence the rain falling, and if we could see through that dense rain, then there is likely to be snow on the top 100m at take off.  It should clear by the end of the day and the winds may moderate sufficiently for an evening flight.   What […]

  We had a reasonable day with 3 flights and good thermal climbs.  A bit breezy at the end of the day but with an interesting convergence setting up in the valley at the end of the day.

All looks good, though we need to go above 18 ºC to get climbs and an inversion around 3000m.  Estimated top temperature not so high and indicates stability, though yesterdays top of  30ºC in the afternoon went well above the estimated 16ºC.   So, it should  be good and if the wind direction is correct […]