Flying Journal

 

Bart the Victorious. 90.47km PB. Saturday 9th July

July 11th, 2016 - Posted by Steve Ham

Saturday gave us great flying conditions to finish the week with generally light climbs and light wind to a base around 3200m with good Cumulus.  We took a more NNE rout after the Pass following the predicted convergence in that direction.  The Daves and Stuart also had good flights around the 50km mark, but it […]

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Flights to the West

July 9th, 2016 - Posted by Steve Ham

A return of excellent XC conditions yesterday with a nice Cu filled sky and light winds.  Flights towards the Jerte Valley with max distance around 70km+

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Some Local flying and one over the Pass before storms

July 6th, 2016 - Posted by Steve Ham

Yesterday we were able to get some reasonable flying in for an hour before the  large build up clouds and storms.  Only Fredi ventured over the Pass to a very active Ambles Valley landing around the bend in the road.

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Some local flying.

July 5th, 2016 - Posted by Steve Ham

Yesterday, despite the terrible forecast we were able to do a short local flight during the morning around 11.30am and a reasonable evening flight.

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170km for Fredi. A classic day

July 2nd, 2016 - Posted by Steve Ham

The forecast turned out to be spot on yesterday and the proposed goal would have been nice for the competition.  Fredi flew beyond Arcones using the ridge of finish off just after the Somosierra Gap.  Only Mike and Dave made it over the pass from our group, though the rest had a good evening flight […]

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170km goal for some

June 30th, 2016 - Posted by Steve Ham

Yesterdays conditions were going to always be rough and problematic so, having seen the big build ups and rain in the Avila valley we mostly flew in the Piedrahita valley locally.  The competition however had a successful. day keeping well north to avoid conditions in Ambles , which in fact turned good by 3pm.  4 […]

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2 X 100km PBs yesterday

June 29th, 2016 - Posted by Steve Ham

an excellent day with great conditions and an a number of excellent flights topped by Mike and Stu, both for their first time over 100km.

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100km to the North and some PBs

June 22nd, 2016 - Posted by Steve Ham

A  remarkable day yesterday with a perfect Cu filled sky stressing along the convergence to the North.  Best of the day for Pete, with also Sonya and Dave going well to the NNE.  Matias, on his second flight from Peña Negra (first flights from Chia made a good distance to near Salamanca.

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A few trips to the West.

June 21st, 2016 - Posted by Steve Ham

A very pleasant day yesterday with good climbs to 2600m and a light NE drift.  to the Tornavacas Pass at 30km for the first  XC and an evening goal flight down to Barco .

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Some flying in defiance of the strong winds.

June 14th, 2016 - Posted by Steve Ham

Yesterday we had some decent soaring in the early afternoon but keeping to the valley and a way from the Pass.  The evening was too strong for flying.  

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