[youtube_thumb align=right alt=”Tandem Flight to Barco”]MButffOXGz8[/youtube_thumb] Yesterday, Sunday, I stayed to do a few tandems and Paul did the Madrid run. Strong climbs and little wind early on, but a bit breezey for the evening flight. Today light N with climbs to around 2800 in the flats and probably 3300m in the hills. I flew […]
A classic day, though with climbs still below 2700m, but light winds and perfect for a circuit. The ciruit for those who did it all was to the Pass, then NW to the Salamanca road, Red roofs (S.Maria de Berrocal), Barco, then home. Somewhere around 70km. Rob, Bob, Paul and myself made it back in […]
A great day with strong climbs to near 2800m with very light winds. After initially going to the Villatoro pass direction we then flew homewards and with the change to N wind Catherine, Ian, Mike and Rob then carried downtowards Barco. Once again superb evening conditions, with perhaps more visiting pilots around than I have […]
Once again a good soaring day with light winds from the N. Climbs not going too high and our group flew towards Barco. A few went down around Santiago and Aldeanuevea. Paul went down after crossing the river at Barco and Mike just before. Bob Ginger and myself got the climb after the river, myself […]
The cold front having gone through very early in the morning left us with some Stratocumulus on the mountain but which cleard by 11am and rose to arond 2600 by mid afternoon. Great conditions both on the mountain and valley. We did some ridge running and then moved out into the valley. Nick and I […]
A bank of Cirrus and strengthening winds cut short the flight yesterday. Cath, Ian and Nick up near the Pass and Bob, Paul and myself going over, but landing in the shade and about 20km/hr of wind not far over the other side. A front and rain has passed during the night, though things are […]
A nice day for arrival with very nice evening flying for our newly arrived group.
An epic day with strong convergence in Ambles. Great Cus and light W winds. Perfect soaring conditions, though it got pretty turbulent in the convergence with 6m/s + climbs. Many made it back. Pepe Maleki apparently went on and was at Segovia at 4pm, and made a little over the 200km. Today is flyable but […]
Yesterday was a bit breezy early on but with superb Cu development . Some pilots flew to the W to the N or Bejar, but most stayed local. Today (Thursday) a very good day with light winds from the N and superb Cus dotted around the sky. Most are trying a training race task around […]
Strong SW and some big Congestus today. On arrival home I noticed a lot of bees around a hole in the soffit above the front door. I should have acted straight away, as they were just explorer bees, and the main swarm had yet to arrive. (I could have set up an alternative bait hive […]