A very lifty afternoon flight after the low cloud clearing. Almost too lifty, so we did a modest out and return to the West. The evening flight gave classic restitution allowing an easy ridge run and some going to the small hills to the north on the return. A great flight to end the week.
Yesterday, Thursday, the first proper rain for many many months (a day in June). Temperatures have dropped, and the epic summer conditions seem to be at an end. However, with the lower temperatures we have had some good XC flying this week, and even today, with some nasty rain we managed a short fly down […]
An excellent flying day in Avila, though it seems that in most of Spain it was pouring with rain, especially in Andalusia Valencia and Cataluña all with floods that made the news. A good unstable airmass, but the cloud tops kept down by an upper level inversion. Fantastic visibility and really nice thermal climbs, even […]
A bit stormy, but conditions calmed for a flight down for the new group on Sunday evening. Generally cooler Monday, with soarable conditions for our first flight with a light NE winds.
This last week has thrown up some fantastic weather with great oportunities for interesting XCs. Twice we have been over the pass and back, and on Sunday did a fantastic 70km route to the NW. Tobias (DE) flying his Swing Mistral had a great week for distance and airtime. He totalled 25hours and 20 minutes […]
Nice conditions from early on. I did a tandem at 11am and was straight into nice climbs. Once back up we made our way towards the Corrals, but the cloud development over the pass rules out a trip towards Avila. We headed to the Long Bar, where Dermot and Colin landed for Coffee, but Paul […]
Another epic day with perfect soaring conditions with a base near 3500 m and streeting. Light NW to NE winds. A slow start with an inversion around 2200m, though at the pass we finally took a 6m/s climb to over 3000m. Paul and I flew together, with Tobias further back, and Colin having returned to […]
Another classic day with unbeatable soaring conditions. With negligable winds we decided to go over the pass to link up with the cloud street to Avila. Unfortunately Colin and Dermot landed early, but Adrian on the tandem with Sue, Paul, Tobias and myself flew easily over the pass and ran the cloud street at base […]
3 flights today, but the afternoon flight we cut short due to building Congestus clouds. Light winds from N in general. No Cbs, so hoping that the upper levels are stabilising for some bigger flights over the next few days
Another day with very pleasant smooth thermic conditions with easy climb outs. The clouds soon had a depth of some 1000m so Paul and I decided to land for coffee at Barco. Tobias decided to fly around for a little more landing more towards the Tornavacas pass.