Long meeting this morning and it was cloudy (again!). We finished at 1.30pm and headed out because we could really do with a day out. When we got to Santa Brigida, it was still cloudy and most of the surrounding higher hills were clagged in. When we got up the hill it seemed fine, but then dropped to nothing. Geoff did an extended top to bottom and I picked him up. In the meantime the sun came out and as soon as it did, it got very thermic.

On our third flight the clouds had separated into two layers and in the lower layer the clouds kept coming and they just kept working. If they had been higher than 2800′ AMSL it would have been an epic XC day. It did get a little rough at times though.

The Niviuk HQ is only 10 minutes down the road and they had a window put into the side of their building, so they can see Santa Brigida. Seeing us flying, Xiliu came out to test a Peak II. Shame he didn’t have long, because it just got better and better. We actually had trouble getting down to top land.

We had a break and then decided that we should probably not spin it out to the very end, since we are off to Ager tomorrow, so we could do with a few more hours of work, but it seemed daft both of us driving down. Geoff took the evening flight honours. Lovely buoyant conditions.

See photos of today.

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