After last weeks dismal weather Saturday turned good with Cu filled post frontal NW conditions. I had a busy weekend with tandems and had one unfortunate customer spend a lot of time vomiting in the air. Things have blued out a little as the week has advanced, but with higher themal tops (getting near now […]
See the gallery for pictures of the flying over the Easter Holiday.
We have started our season off well with an excellent run of weather. Since last Thursday we have been flying with our guests and have managed plenty of flying so far. Highlights have beenb a flight to Barco on Sunday by Paul, Sarah and Pete. On tuesday Pete and myself made the first crossing of […]
After much work, Paul Russell our Web Guru has opened the registration website for this years Pre-World Championships ( www.piedrahita2011.com ). Over the last 3 days over 100 pilots have registered. Our booking calendar is also beginning to fill up. Just like everywhere else it has been a hard winter. This is great news for […]
This last week we have just had Rob Couper from Australia with us. On this the very last week I did much of the driving so that Peter, our driver for the year could get some flying. We had some good flying for most of the week, and Peter (Pedro) managed a few PBs which […]
Our last day of the season gave once again excellent conditions. An epic looking sky but the shadow blocking the thermals at launch made us take a long glide to the valley for the first climb. Myself and Clair (on the tandem), Edward and Rob pulled out a low save form the landing field entabling […]
Another good day with strong climbs though an increasing wind after around 4pm. The first flight was a nice float about with climbs only to around 2300m. On the second almost everyone flew straight into the abundant lift and got near base and went towards Barco. I went a little north and had a mega […]
Wednesday we had quite strong thermic conditions at Chia, but also quite a bit of wind and off to the east. Today, (Thursday), event stronger climbs and a base near 3000m, though due to the gusts at launch many of the group decided not to fly till later in the day. James and Ian got […]
Another superb day, though the wind took its time to go up Peña Negra so we went to Chia. From Chia 6 of us climbed out to around 2500 and went over the back to the Piedrahita valley, following the river in gentle lift and then out past the Red roofs. On the north side […]
This weekend gave some excellent conditions, with Rob making a nice circuit of the valley on Sunday, and the rest of the new group getting an evening flight on arriving from the Airport run. Monday gave us another excellent Cu filled sky with a light NE wind and climbs to around 2600m. Paul Feltham, still […]