Author Archive: jac

A good airmass, but a 30km/h North wind is expected to establish at 2pm, rising during the afternoon. A short 132km task is set, so as the pilots are back before the flying conditions at Aspres on the lee side…
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After 2 days with no flying due to Mistral, the wind is expected to be weak, and the air mass cold and and unstable, with thermals mostly blue toping 3000m; but a more stable air mass is expected to enter…
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South wind expected to rise to 40km/h from West to East, with blue thermals reaching 3000m at 2pm. Short task, 140km, set in order to have the pilots back at 4pm just before the wind becomes too strong: Start Longeagne…
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Weak westerly wind, with higher cloud bases than yesterday, another good reason to go to the Ecrins again  😀 Task 289km: Start Col de Cabre 5km, Agneaux, Coupe (westerly from St André), Montagne de Queyrel and back to Aspres airfield….
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Weak North wind, but also weak blue thermals; cloud base in the Ecrin is expected high: it’s a day to go there  🙂 Task 208km:Start Col de Cabre 5km, Aujour, Pic de Bure, Agneaux (in the Ecrins), Beaumont, Montagne d’Oule…
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First task tuesday the 2nd of August Of course we hope to launch as many 300km+ tasks as we did last year during the first edition of our “Southern Alps Big Task Open” competition. But this year we are going to offer more:…
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We showed up at the “Fête de l’Air” at Aspres sur Buëch airfield, saturday July the 9th. We made aerotow as well as bungee launched demo flights with the Swiftlight On static display we had both a Swiftlight and a…
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