Monday, 10th November 2008
Posted by Judith on 10 Nov 2008 at 06:02 pm | Tagged as: Flying
The forecast was for slightly windier conditions today and Geoff hasn’t flown the hangie for weeks, so we went to El Mont. Originally we thought that I would just drive for him, but we put a message out on the parapente forum and Oriol joined us, so we had a second car to retrieve the one up the mountain. It looked breezy in the landing field and I wasn’t optimistic. On arriving at the top, we found Marti and Pedro already there with their hang gliders. It was indeed too windy for paragliders.
Pedro and Geoff flew but the wind trashed the thermals somewhat. It was warm and sunny in the landing field, so perfect post-aviation beer weather, which we had in Besalu.
Geoff’s comments: about half an hour or so; it was thermic, but they were very broken with the wind, which was also switching to the west, which complicated it a little. And there was an inversion. On the good side, it was hot and sunny, I had a good launch and landing, and it was a lot better than just a top to bottom. I fly the hang glider so rarely in Spain, it’s good to get it out again. I need the practise.
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Geeezz, you’ve got a really tuff life you two!!Surely you must miss the short damp cold misty galy days WE’ve been having lately around here.
AND the forecast is looking good for the spagnols as far as you can check, ours is crappas ;-( not jealous…MUCH!
Hey dudes , Targassonne was good , the track was a bit gooey but still ok. Maybe catch up later in the week.