Paul's HOOK with personal colours, diablo !

Leeside flying,

three things you have to bear in mind when you fly on lee-side, lee side thermals.

1/ how strong are the thermals, means are you in Norway or Spain in winter or in may ?

2/ how high are you ? The higher the better.

3/ how is the prevailing, meteo wind

Well if one of those three things worry you, forget it, don't do it.

Today we were flying at Palomaret and it was very very rough. I flew out to test the air and each time was asking the visiting pilots to sit it out and relax.

The breeze which usually always overtakes the conditions wasn't overtaking today. Up high you could see the clouds coming from the back. Under these clouds though more and more sea-breeze cloud, more grey, moving straight on the hill.

But till last minute it was not smooth.

Luckily we all had common sense to see, feel what was happening and stayed safe.