What to do on the way to Andorra? We decided to go and try to fly on the way. Nicky was up for going flying and we decided that Berga would be worth a go – although no guarantees. As we left home, we could see medium-sized wave bars forming. Hmmm. As we got closer to Ripoll, the wave bars had become massive. Seven layer blob wave mixed in with traditional lenticulars, it all looked very impressive, but not very flyable. Nicky phoned to say that the wave as in Berga as well, according to the webcam, but we decided to go anyway, as you never know and it’s always nice to catch up with Nicky.

When we got there the wind was west and the clouds were scooting over the launch from the NE. We waited around and chatted in the landing field, when we heard loud shouting and music from above. A local pilot, Jordi, had waited for a cycle and got off. We went up with him again, but the wind was north at the 2nd Maria. We went to the 1st Maria and it was on, but light, so Jordi flew home and Geoff got ready. He’s tried, but failed, to fly Berga so many times because of bad weather/wrong wind direction, that even a top-to-bottom seemed a good idea, just to break his bad luck streak for the place. As he was on launch the wind dropped and went east, so he tried a running reverse launch. He got the wing up, ran to the edge and literally jumped in the air. He landed on a shelf two meters below. Nicky and I nearly wet ourselves laughing.

That was it for flying. I suppose you could argue that he has now popped his Berga cherry… 0.5 seconds flying and a TTB of 2 meters. Stick that in your logbook, Geoff!

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