The loneliness of an instructor
Another superb sunrise here in
Algodonales and the team were still managing ti get up at a sensible
time despite a few late nights for some..............
Mearcats on Levante launch
We decided to give the main hill a look
in the thought that there maybe a chance of a flight in the morning
convection before the forecast light Northerly took over. On the
main launch it was indeed launchable but all the indications were
that things were on the change and it would be a straight downer and
with their new found skills eyes were set on higher things.
Moving back to the north side of the
hill we stopped by the NW launch and watched some eastern european
types do some very impressive bush munching (whilst we munched on our
pack lunches) one after the other until in the end there were no
bushes left to land in as they were all occupied!
Bush muncher launch
Whilst other groups opted to go to the
“new” north launch we opted for a drive to Montellano where we
hoped to get some good flying in and experience the evening lift. On
arrival we met a large group of Germans walking back to their cars so
I guess they must have heard we were on the way, or maybe things were
not as good as we hoped??
On launch it was fine and whilst a few
gliders bobbed around it was not yet working to well. By the time the
guys had got the gliders out of the bags it was getting better and by
the time Kaz launched with the view to flying down to guide pilots in
it was bouncing and she went straight up into orbit followed by
Michel and Chrissy in quick succession. With the others launching
Kaz finally managed to get down after an hour and a half in time to
check out the landing field conditions in plenty of time for the
first arrivals.
The lower airtime boys had a ball
getting in plenty of airtime and thermalling and enjoying flying with
each other all over the sky. Launches were fine but ground handling
skills were the key and we saw some pretty exciting alternative
techniques it has to be said, but that's Algo'.
Phil stayed up a little longer than
most and comfortably finished off his Pilot rating tasks before
spending the rest of the afternoon scoring the landings.
With the guys back on top and
conditions mellowing towards the evening magic those that wanted to
got set to go again and one by one we slipped them in between the
queuing pilots to get them up there and pretty soon we had them all
safely away. A classic evenings flying ensued with conditions
smoothing out nicely. As the sun set and the shadows spread out
cross the landscape team Cloud 9 came in to land one after the other
to beat the rush.
Line astern as the evening lift cuts in
and here it is
It was a tired but happy group that
headed south to Algo' for yet another fun night in JJ's and yet more
43's and sugary puddings, yummy.
the 43'ers
Quote of the day “stop fannying about
and b88gger off!”
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