{"id":365,"date":"2009-02-26T20:13:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T19:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2009-02-27T09:15:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T08:15:54","slug":"thursday-26th-february-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 26th February 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Marc, Geoff, Mike and Nicky chew the fat after a good days flying.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/260209.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>Geoff writes:<\/strong> An excellent day&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=41.962954&amp;mylong=2.594093&amp;mytext=Puig d'Afrou launch. Puig d'Afrou is a hill near La Cellera. 900m high (approximately). Click on the maximise button to see a video of me flying at Puig d'Afrou in 2007.&amp;myvideo=judith_puig.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Puig d&#8217;Afrou<\/a>. In the end, 11 pilots turned up (and flew) &#8211; an unprecedented number for mid-week in February! Even Xiliu came over to say hello, though he couldn&#8217;t fly &#8211; he had to go back to make the gliders most of us fly here.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8242; 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.021700&amp;mylong=2.612554&amp;mytext=Santa Brigida Launch\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Brigida<\/a>.\u00a0Judith top landed there, and flew again for the rest of the afternoon. First time she&#8217;s made it all the way across, so she was really pleased.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; which took most of the rest of the afternoon. We got back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.021700&amp;mylong=2.612554&amp;mytext=Santa Brigida Launch\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Brigida<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/260209\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> See photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff writes: An excellent day&#8217;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&#8217;Afrou. In the end, 11 pilots turned up (and flew) &#8211; an unprecedented number for mid-week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}