BriefingJudith writes: The forecast was for stronger winds today but this wasn’t evident on launch early on, so we went up the hill. By the time everyone was up the wind was picking up. A 55km task was set to Avila, but many pilots were disgruntled about having to go over the pass in strong winds. After some discussion the task was cancelled. Lots of people flew and got very high, but the valley wind was increasing, so people didn’t stay up long, apart from one group who headed off to Avila in orbit.

I’m chilling out today and intend to go to the swimming pool with my book. I have to pass the bar to get there, so we’ll see…

Geoff writes: forecast was for rain in the morning, then clearing, west, with some south. And so it turned out. For hang gliders, it was flyable most of the afternoon and evening, and for paragliders, an hour or two early evening. The HGs had a great time. I flew both, but was out late because I was concentrating on some work, and missed the best of the hang gliding, only getting a few hundred ATO, rather than the cloudbase people had been getting to earlier. Paragliders wanting to submit flights for the league missed nothing! Still, a pleasant evening.

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