Some nice soaring at Chia on Tuesday but the day ruined by impressive Cbs in the afternoon. No chance today so an epic 4 hours decent of Tormes in the rafts with good water levels. The photo below is a line of cloud formed by the E wind and gust front colliding just E Piedrahita. […]
This week our group is all Spanish. Something of a rarity. They are all from the Basque club Airean de Getxo and normally fly the costal site of Sopelana near Bilbao. Few of them have any thermalling or XC experience. Yesterday (Sunday) we made an evening flight at Chia which went very well. Today we […]
An early start around 11.15 with the usual perfect Cu filled sky all going wrong by 1pm. Great flying for the short period, though staying local and comming back to the Piedrahita landing.
A great looking day but just too much build up of congestus in the Avila Valley to go over the pass. Every body had an easy time in the house thermal over the Chalet. Simon and I crossed the valley to Malpartida and back, though I landed short of town at the old HG landing […]
A light wind launch at around mid day, with early Cu development and easy climbs and local flying around the mountain and Piedrahita for most. By the time we got back for the second flight there were a number of congestus clouds both to the E, and and N so we decided to drive down. […]
The wind was on and good at Peña Negra when we arrived this morning, though waiting for it to improve was a big mistake as it slackened and went SE. Very frustrating as at this time the sky was looking very good to the West. A drive to Chia and some reasonable soaring had by […]
Wednesday and Thursday gave us excellent thermal conditions with climbs of up to 7m/s and excellent Cu filled skies with less depth than the beginning of the week. Thursday evening we changed sites for the first flying at Lastra this year. However, Untill Sunday things are a bit grim, though next week is looking really […]
A few nice flights today, but always with the threat on the Cus growing to tall. We landed around 4pm with plenty of margin before the storm.
We made an early start as the temp trace indicated that the conditions could deteriorate. Great flying for 2 hours. At the pass the other side looked very good with a clear convergence to Avila. However in the West there was a large Cb at Bejar and conditons were getting too easy (to stay up). […]
A fantastic soaring day to finish the week with our Italians. Far more unstable than yesterday and convergence just behind take off with the light SE geostrophic. No early flight and straight into the XC (Towards Barco). Climbs to 2800m with nice Cus. I did two evening tandems both with great thermal climbs right upto […]