Whilst I was hanging around the airport all day for the new arrivals, Esa managed a great out and return to Avila. Also, Bart made Avila along with Simon and Abbey on the tandem. In the comp event up the road at Candelario, 2 pilots made it over 200km.
Unfortunately, today, Monday, has not been so good, with windy SW conditions and upper-level cover and haze. Things are unlikely to get decent until Wednesday.
A reasonable day with blue thermals going above 3000m. More at briefing at 11.15.
Skew-T Chart
Surface Winds
Another day for a flight to Avila, though only Alan arrived, with 4 other over the Pass downed in the Ambles valley.
Today a shift in the wind direction with a more complex airflow making open distance not a good option but still some good potential for interesting flying. Climbs to maybe 4000m and an interesting convergence line running from near Barco to Gijuelo. More detail at briefing at 11.15am
Q
Quite a tricky day with increasing winds at take off. 5 over the Pass, all landed before Avila except for Ollie who made Villacastin.
Track log Olie
Tough to get up on the other side of the pass yesterday. Many of us went down, but Abbey and Simon on the tandem made it as did Ollie and Mark (nearly)
Sion and Abbey track log
Similar day to yesterday with thermal tops mainly around 2600m with the occasional 3000m probably. More westerly flow. Avila probably, Segovia difficult. More details at briefing at house at 11am
RASP forecast pretty much as announced. Myself and Olli landed at the arranged Avila Goal and Ana, Alan and Mark flew a good deal back towards the pass after making Avila. Mark Senior, whose
Mark’s track
radio was down carried on to 90.2km landing at Navas de San Antonio.
Another good day with a marked inversion near take off a little like yesterday, but with probably climbs to 3000m later in the afternoon and a more westerly component which should today allow us to go over the Pass towards Avila. More detail at 11am briefing.
Things now back to good flying weather with the weekend good and Monday, with our new arrivals quite excellent. Just a flight to the Pass and back (east on the other side), but pleasant flying with little wind and cumulus at around 2600m. Weather for the week looking very nice.