A flyable day today, though if you took a snapshot of the sky you would have thought not. A classic wave forecast day with an inversion sitting around the tops of the higher mountains (2400m) and a SW flow at all altitudes, though very weak below the convective layer. Although the sky was covered in […]
After 2 days of non flying due to storms today finally came good. We started at launch with base only just above take off. The plan was to hang around on the big spine untill things improved, but we were too impatient and were soon gliding off the end at Corrals with not much more […]
A nice looking day, but uncomfortably breezy at launch. We took off below the Peña Negra and soon found it was just a strong early anabatic. Most of us soon pushed upwind to the small hills to the NW. Dougie and myself went cross headwind towards El Puente de Congosto on the river Tormes then […]
Yeserday (Monday) our first day with 6 Belgians and 2 Devonians and no flying. A nice run down the river on the rafts and kayaks, though Julie came out at the top of a big rapid banging her knee and putting her out of action today. Her other half, Dougal, had a craking flight to […]
Yesterday Pete went back to Madrid after spending too long looking at forecasts on the computer and convincing himself it would not be flyable. The thing with these days with rain and storm warnings is that things can actually take a long time for it to actually happen and allow us to have a fair […]
Two days with light winds but storms and rain. Was not even worth trying to sneak in an evening or morning flight. Tomorrow looks a bit brighter, but no decent flying acording to the forecast untill Monday then from Tuesday on looking very nice indeed. Today some animal stress. Bitel, our Pyrenean Mountain dog got […]
Finally the upper level instability has reduced in our area. An early start (around 11.30) at Lastra. Initially easy to climb out then slightly increased wind and less thermal. Normally Lastra beams me out within minutes of launch, but today there was a lot of searching to be done. The photo below is of Pete […]
Another nice day going rapidly bad due to upper level instability. I had a pleasant 1hr and 15 mins in very gentle climbs around the town and on Cerro la Cruz. The weak thermals seemed not to the fit the sky at that time which went from Classic to full Cb by around 3pm.
Great smooth climbs but with a slowly building sky. After the Cbs we managed an evening flight too In the photo below taken this morning you can clearly see the advance in the work on Take Off. the concrete drainage channels are now in place so I imagine this week we may see the grass […]
A great looking day but conditions just a bit top end for our coastal flyers. Near 3000m base with a good 4/8 Cu sky. Some late afternoon thermalling at Chia then a fly down at Peña Negra.