Another airport run and another day looking at epic skies from the centre of Madrid. Didnt get back till 8-30pm, in time to see the fireworks (we are in Fiestas) and to hear the tales of daring do.
A fantastic day with hardly any wind but big easy climbs to 4000m. Fantastic Cu in streets along the Ambles valley, but we turned at the Pass. Paul Russell, veteran of Piedrahita of about 15 years and our very best client, headed along back to the NW along the N side of the valley with […]
A blue day with slow conditions again. We started out going toward the corrals to the E, turning around after 6km then going towards Barco. Never getting more that around 200m above the top we finally got some bigger climbs as we reached the Barco valley. Paul bombed Nr San Lorenzo and I decided to […]
Quite stable conditions with a light N wind and climbs to only around 2200m without Cu. I flew a tandem passenger to Barco, Tim also making Barco and back to La Aldeauela de Santa Cruz. Paul and Adrian bombed after Santiago, the rest landing around Piedrahita. Nice evening conditions again.
Classic post cold frontal day with superb visibility and strong climbs and good Cu development. Very nice flyng in the valley, though we left it till later to go over the pass. I had crossed the valley, enjoying the conditions when I found that some of our group were already down towards Villafranca keen to […]
A trip to Salamanca for the boys today with Pete. Looking good tomorrow and for the rest of the week though. I spent the afternoon with the chainsaw and stacking timber for the winter.
WE got the gliders ready to launch at Lastra but saw sense when the wind started to come in strong. An evening flight almost, but too W, so once again, packed the gliders back into the bags.
A long day in Madrid for me, Taking Martin in at 7am, and collecting at 5pm. Our new arrivals, two groups from Belgium, adding to Adrian, Paul, Jacob from last week. Not flyable today, though if somebody had got away, it looked pretty epic (20lm/hr + from SW with convergence). Looking tricky tomorrow.
The last day of the XC Open and classic conditions. What to do? A short task to have the prize giving and scoring done at a realistic time, or leave it open and allow the pilots to come here to do what they want?. The latter wins out and predictably there are pilots beyond 160km. […]
An intially light day but developing to classic. Today in our little team Adrian has a great day reaching Avila then going south. Also Jocob, having had a few bad days this week, finally gets it together for a trip to Avila. Yet another day on the ground for me, though I do get to […]