Geoff writes: An excellent day’s flying. Nicky Moss came up from Barcelona, Mike Cluer came over from France. After a bit of thinking, and seeing from the local forum where people were going, we decided to go to Puig d’Afrou. In the end, 11 pilots turned up (and flew) – an unprecedented number for mid-week in February! Even Xiliu came over to say hello, though he couldn’t fly – he had to go back to make the gliders most of us fly here.

We drove up, and on launch it was very light and switchy, no clouds. After a little while, it seemed to get a better, some clear cycles coming through, and haze caps rather than proper clouds. There was also an inversion. I was the first to launch, and went straight up; so everyone else rushed to get ready. Eventually, everyone was in the air. The maximum allowable height there is 1500′ ATO, which was easy to get to. The thermals were very strong, and a bit rough, but not too much. Eventually, eight of us headed off towards Santa Brigida. Judith top landed there, and flew again for the rest of the afternoon. First time she’s made it all the way across, so she was really pleased.

I landed in the valley at Amer, and got a ride back with Xevi for the car, and then took Nicky and Mike back up to retrieve the cars – which took most of the rest of the afternoon. We got back to Santa Brigida, just as it was switching off; I had an extended top to bottom. It was a really good, very enjoyable day, and everybody had excellent flights.

See photos of today.

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