On the photos, two happy norwegian bunnies, Thor and Nico. Under his Gradient Aspen2, mister mad Mads.

And Ian and Guy flying under their Aerodyne gliders.

We ended up having some good flying under the clouds. By no means we wanted to do an 'Eva', it was safe.

For pilots who don't know the region, they would think the clouds were nasty. But knowing the eastern winds from over the sea hit us yesterday, we know this is not development with a bad side. But mere humidity building up.

And it was good to have some experience with cloudsuck, all controlable by big earing, or baby spirals.

Yesterday a local instructor said, if I read your blog it always has been a good flight. Well, maybe we are easily satisfied. And sometimes a good flying day is a thermalling day with +4 m/s climb, cloudbase way up, sometimes it is scratching at Buenos Aires, a small hill, where skills and technique conquer. Today it was the 'anxiety', the 'nervousness' I sensed on my pilots. The pretty dark clouds forming over take off, making it all doubtfull...

But it was safe, Dudo, Jose Luis, Rafa were already in the air, I took off and the air was not wild and bumpy, but smooth.
Then all visiting pilots up in the air, toplanding, a bit of a new experience, cloudsuck for the first time for some of them, looking left looking right to see what other pilots were doing.

The true spirit of free flying, the one with the biggest smile at the end of the day, having a drink in the old men's bar, etc... etc... . Yes we are easily satisfied, we love it, it was great flying today.

A special hooray for the pilots from Onil. Late in the afternoon, almost 5 pm, they took off from their local hill, Reconco. Some low airtime pilots, got more than 1000 meters above take off. Using the famous convergence lift, later in the afternoon, southeast/west. And some pilots who took off late in Murcia as well, most of them landed 40 km further on the beach, couldn't fly any further.

And other good news is that Ager is open again, we can drive up to take off on weekends, thanks for lobbying up there. Other good news is that Carrascoy is reopened a week before planned.