Today the wind went round to a brisk northerly which gave us a decent height on the launch after the lunchtime trigger temperature was reached. The options today were thermals, possible wave, and hoped for convergence, with a freezing level at cloudbase (9000ft msl eventually) - in the event there was possibly a cold mixture of all three, not necessarily helping each other!
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| Waiting for the vultures to get going (Jill Harmer) |
The 10knots sink was reliable though and deterred us from going very far upwind into the mountains or downwind into the plain.
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| Looking up the local valleys with the Madrid TMA on the left (Jill Harmer) |
However the local valleys gave us 4 hours of flying with 217kms OLC, and we landed to a deserted airfield and a locked clubhouse as the French self launchers had gone home and OL was the only glider to take a launch today. - J&P
