Alberto's site, Carrasqueta near Jijona. Needed a change, another view, another kind of flying.

Carrasqueta is quite different. Take off is at 1100 m ASL, and only 12 km crowflight from the sea, so pretty close to cloudbase on a weather forecast like todays.

When there is a high pressure, an anticyclone, cloudbase is not at its highest. In our region it is easily to be spotted by a thick inversion, and a very peaceful sea.

Then you choose to fly from a lower take off and use the lift which can only bring you a couple of hundred meters above take off, and feel like a pinball. Or you choose for higher hills like Sierra del Carche, Monte Cabrer or Carrasqueta for instance.

And that flying is different. Once in the air, you know you are hitting the ceiling. It is a bit of a game, trying to find that trigger point right above the wooden house on your right, or just outside where the roads get together and vehicles trigger off the thermals.

Hoping and fighting not having to land on the smaaaalll landing field ..... but topland.