Its not been a great week in terms of weather in Àger for the Britsh Hangdanglers. Only 2 tasks were run with the final task on Saturday cancelled in the air 'cos they found it all a bit bumpy! Bless'em the big jessies ;-) Go on Richard - do your worst :-0
From my perspective (& that of some of the local boys) it was a typical summer Àger day, not for the inexperienced or faint hearted with bullety thermals that you couldn't get round 360 in before you were spat out, but not dangerous conditions. Wendy and I flew again in the evening but just top-to-campsite flights with a distinct lack of lift under the inversion.
Talking of inversions, the fires that are burning near Tarragona have filled the sky under the inversion with enough smoke that it looked like a new mountain range had popped up overnight to the south! Thanks to Wendy for the photo. I have to buy a new camera as mine didn't survive the excitement of Piedrahita :-(
Its become very very hot, very stable and pretty windy now, so not nice flying. Yesterday was rough enough to cause the ktx2 some spontaneos acro on the way to Terradets, its not often you find them drinking in the bar in the late afternoon, but the early flight had convinced them to run bravely away and leave the skies for another day.
We had intended to fly today. Yesterdays forcast told of lessening winds and a stable layer that would keep a lid on overdevelopment, by this morning a different pattern had emerged with a 'molt elevat' risk of storms and 20knots of wind at take-off height. In the increasing humidity I packed up and ran away home for a few days while I get some work done and decide what playground to tackle next!
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