Geoff writes: the forecast today was for a nice sunny day, but the bad weather we just got the edge of yesterday left it cloudy for today (whilst there was little wind here yesterday, the top wind speed recorded in the west of Spain was 228km). We finished off some work in the morning, then, though it was still cloudy, decided to go anyway to Bellmunt, having first checked with Oriol, who was there, that it wasn’t blown out. He said it was cloudy there too, not many people (though a small friendly competition had been planned) so we set off.

We arrived there just as people were starting to set up. The first one off maintained, and then climbed a little. The next one went down, but the third flew right, not left, and climbed way above launch. It seemed that in spite of the cloud cover, and no sun, it was, in fact, quite thermic. Judith launched, and got a max height ATO of just over 1000′. I got to about 900 ATO. It is a spectacular place to fly, with beautiful scenery. Eventually, we got flushed as the thermals died out. Judith was the last to land, just after me and Roger.

Given the lack of sun, a very good day, followed by dinner with Judith’s parents, and Debi and Willem.

See photos of today.

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