Geoff writes: OK, forecast north 100kmph + in the mountains nearby, 8 – 10 on the Beaufort scale at the coast and very strong winds here – shaking the glass on the top floor – so what happens? An epic day at Santa Brigida. In fact, because it wasn’t a true tramontana (mistral), just a north wind, we thought it probably wouldn’t work even there, and wrote off the day, until Marc phoned to say he was walking up and it seemed OK. So we got in the van and rushed off. We still weren’t that confident, it was north almost until we got there. We met up with Dirk and Eva, on holiday from Germany, who had phoned us a few days ago to ask about flying. On top, it was more or less on, i.e south, and we flew. In fact, the day just got better and better, and towards the end some wave kicked in, with the result that Judith and I were able to fly well out beyond the ridge in front. It was super smooth. Dirk also had a couple of nice flights.

The Niviuk guys, Xiliu and Dominique, were also there, flying the new Artik 2, which looks pretty good. No doubt I’ll try it out soon.

A really excellent day!

Judith writes: It was a fantastic day. Stunning visibility and just a real unexpected bonus flight. What was also amazing was that Dirk and Eva had phoned us out of the blue after getting our number from a contact on a web site. Once we got chatting, it turned out they live 20km from where I grew up, Eva works in the school I went to and we have (non-flying) friends/acquaintances in common. What a small world!

See photos of today.