Wednesday was blown out, and yesterday only good for a short XC. However, today we had strong climbs to well over 3000m, with Florian getting his height record (on a PG..since he flys Jets for a living) of 3650m.  We flew down to the Tornavacas pass at arounf 35km then headed back. (though did not […]

Another excellent day, though the forecast and actual conditions were poor.  A bit windy from the NE and thermal tops only around 2100m: 1000m lower than yesterday.  A blue thermal day.   Flo managed a great flight connecting with the Bejar range.  The evening flight once again allowed the full run of the length  of […]

Certainly not the first flight of the season, since we have been getting some epic flights of late.  However, we have opened a bit earlier to fly with Florian.  Florian came in late this morning after his flight from Dubai (he is an airline pilot based there).  At around 1.30 we took of and within […]

Although we did not have groups during this period, I think it worth making a note of the flying conditons of the week for future reference. The week was almost wholly flyable with decent XC conditions each day except the Wednesday when we suffered storms.  Thursday to Sunday were particularly good, with Climbs to 3000m+. […]

After last week, flying each day except Saturday.  This week we managed to fly both Monday (Navalacruz and PN) and Tuesday (PN), before the clouds got out of control, but just local flying.  Today (Wednesday) with a nice light wind forecast Tim was able to spend much of the day in the air on his […]

Fantastic conditons with a very light NW wind and Cu at around 3300m.  After arriving at Avila, Nigel, Steve Wand Jamie turned aroound for the return (Jonothan, Dolf and myself landing at Avila).  Dominique landed high up in the Sierra de Paramera on the south of the Avila valley…something never done before…and never again I […]

Many of us were put down at the pass in the shade but Dolf coming up behind on the 2nd flight made it over in the sunshine and onto Avila.  Robin did an out and return from near the Pass.  On a second flight many of those bombing first time at the Pass made it […]

This morning a trip to Navalacruz (SE).  Only Jonothat made a decent XC flying 15km to the Chia landing field.  Later we flew at lastra, just a big fo ridge soaring in the light conditons at the end of the day.

Most of us flew down to Baco, with Jamie continueing along the ridge further north to Becedas.  A nice day with good Cu and climbs to around 2600m.  Later int he afternoon the wind wend SE, so we went to Chia for the eveing flight.  Quite along walk up as the condition of the track […]

A moderate SE forecast but  expecting to come onto PN; which it did. However, we tried Lastra early on, arriving just as some Swiss pilots successfully went XC after which the wind went over the back.   Later back at PN, most go off, but not all before it went over the back.  We then […]