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 […]
Warmer weather but a bit stable. On the first flight we set Barco as goal to get down before forecast stronger winds. 8 of us there and more nearabouts. For the evening we set the same goal and once again had roughly the same number there or abouts, the XC done pretty much in restitution […]
It seemed that this year Spain was locked in a perpetual winter. Finally, this week summer seems to have arrived. Although Monday gave us nothing but a fly down at the end of a rainy day, things have now been warming up with a nice bit of XC activity. Including perhaps the first flight to […]
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. […]
Almost to Avila yesterday for Russell, and today a superb Cu filled day with climbs to near 3000m. Russell and Chris crossed the Pass ( I bombed at the Villafranca junction with Phil). A nice 55km to Avila and a PB for Chris.
Easy flying with nice climbs, but not much more that 2300m. Only Phil ventured towards Barco, the rest of us flying around the Big Spine. Things picked up around 4pm, so we went down then went back up for the evening soar.
A light SW day with remarkable convergence in the Avila Valley. However, we stayed put as it is the last day and we have an early start tomorrow morning so did not fancy a 6 hour epic retrieve. The boys did some good triangles around the valley, the Swiss landing back on take off.
A great forecast with big potential but some risk of big Cus and Cbs more to the east. I was the first out of Lastra, and from take off I went directly to near cloud base at 3300m in a 4+m/s climb. After waiting for John, Nico and Lucas we set off along an amazing cloud […]
A windier day with some bigger Cus about today. A bit crossed on launch so we launched from the Bees spine. Only Nico and Simon went over the Pass, Simon nailed in the sink from more than 3000m but Nico going about 10km beyond Avila then coming back to land at Avila.