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A nice forecast with good Cus. Our early morning task was a flight to the Long Bar (achieved only by Jan), then over the pass on the XC flight, crossing on the plateau to the north of the pass (Jan with best distance to Amavida (25km). The evening flight gave some gentle soaring, but not the powerful restitution of two days ago. A dinner for the group of Spinach with bechamel and pine nuts and then Pork. The next few days are holidays throughout Spain, so a number of Spanish pilots are arriving (and some Austrian) and the town is filling up with vacationers.

With a forecast of high westerlies we still managed to fly before it came through, with good thermals and wind still below 15km when we landed. During the afternoon, Roel and myself checked out the progress of my Bee hives, most importantly my Warré style hives in Tortoles. The Warré method is a move back to more simple and natural beekeeping Read the rest of this entry »

A nice looking day with good Cu streeting, but too much wind until the evening flight. Our Dutch groups spent the afternoon sightseeing in Salamanca. Taking off from the curve, we found huge smooth restitution lift and were easy able to fly to the corrals and back. (see evening flight tutorial).

Nice conditions for the morning flight, being able to stay up from 11.30am. On the XC flight we headed off towards Read the rest of this entry »

A good day, starting with light winds and good Cu development with base around 2500m. I spend an hour flying around, before the group got off, but unfortunately the majority of them went down. As it looked such a good day we decided to risk flying again, so Read the rest of this entry »

The animal lovers among you will be relieved to know that ‘Frankie the Fox’ is still around. He was Read the rest of this entry »

We had some very good news yesterday. The planning permission for our new home (just below the big spine) has finally come through after almost two years of waiting. The excavations have now started and I have taken a photo on my glide back from the pass. Read the rest of this entry »

Our flying season is now well under way, yesterday our group of 8 Dutch pilots arrived from the airport in time for an evening flight, and today we have had excellent light wind conditions with a fantastic Read the rest of this entry »

We have added an informal news area or ‘blog’ to the news section to keep you up to date with the day to day news from Piedrahita. Read the rest of this entry »