Too windy during the day for a task, but most pilots did a nice evening flight. Over 100 pilots registered.

We tried Chia in the morning and Lastra in the afternoon, but too strong. Lots of Pilots arriving for registration for the XC Open.

Some great thermalling with Griffon vultures in Chia, though limted XC options due to threatening Cbs. An afternoon trip to Salamanca, and on return the village filling with XC open competitors.

Some interesting thermal flying at Chia, though stopped short by over development.   During the afternoon I went with Hans and Gaynor to remove a bee colony from somebodies bathroom near the square, but when we got there they had already made a massacre of bees with insecticide. Very sad.

Burkhart Martens (of the XC conditions book) was flying with us and was first off, getting the last thermal of take off to 3400m and allowing him to fly back to Piedrahita. The rest did a little soaring, landing at the bottom

A great day for our first XC with the new group. Star performers were Rene, Hans and Horst who all crossed the pass. Hans landed at Muñogalindo, and Horst a little before Muñana. Rene and I took 3hr45min, but we did spend a lot of time on the west of the pass trying to fly […]

This week we have Germans, French, and an Israeli pilot. No Brits at all!. We all managed a great evening flight getting down through the lift just before dark. We flew over the bull fight in progress. Another band on in the square tonight as the town is in full fiesta mode.

There was a small risk of storms so we were away early, finding easy nice climbs from 12pm. Colin made off towards the Red Roof at Santa Maria de Berrocal, and somewhat later the rest of us followed. Strengthening winds on the ground made us decide to land, but later by mid afternoon they had […]

Some good conditions cut short this morning by the growing clouds. In the Avila valley some big storms with hail stones up to 2cm. An evening flight 30 Minutes before dark, the evening restitution almost taking Colin on a longer trip than he wanted.

Light NW with climbs to 3300m.  On the second XC flight most of us fizzled out at the Long Bar, but Mike took a mega climb to 3300m and crossed the pass, but landed at the same spot after the pass as on Monday.  An evening flight with some unusual cloud formations……..looking much like mamattus, […]