My 2nd 100km XC (Almost) to Segovia in 5 hours 35 mins

[@JT-wu3wi]

Your brave sphincter. Well done, Mike.

[@GerrysDiy]

Great video Mike. Well done 👍👍

[@rhunllwyd9175]

🎉 Top flying and video once more!

[@rickford8333]

Well done Mike , glad to know I’m not the only one with sphincter issues 😳

[@MikeJTPG]

@@rickford8333 hehe It at least stopped me cacking myself 😂 It can sometimes be too good out there in July. It was a great week

[@markboyle]

You never go along the Avila valley, it has the sierra Avila one side and the sierra Paramera the other, both ridges generating lift so guess what, the air in the valley is sinking. track the Paramera ridge line and happiness will result. How do I know? I`m a fixed wing sailplane pilot and have made the mistake of flying down the valley, the next times I flew the Sieras Avila and Paramera with great success. Also look up mountain convergence, its really usefull.

[@MikeJTPG]

Hey Mark. It’s great to get the perspective of a sailplane pilot, thanks! When I visit, Steve Ham of flypiedrahita gives a very detailed weather briefing before each flight and part of it is the convergence forecast, so we try to take that line. We rarely take the south side though because the wind is often north at Avila to the west of the reservoir and paragliders just don’t have the penetration of your super efficient sailplanes to get past. The middle of valley actually works really well and it’s a real cauldron of lift as I’ve found in many years of flying there. I would always take a convergence line if possible but on this day it was blue so hard to spot. Paragliders are certainly the snails of the soaring world but this means we can core the smaller stuff that you wouldn’t bother with or even notice I expect. I do like flying them, but am very happy to have FLARM these days.

[@MikeJTPG]

If that url posted ok check out the forecast.