Quixada - Day 4 -Madalena

Interesrting wx: during the night it had rained and therefore lots of moisture was looming in the morning, so departure for TO was postponed till after 0900. All pilots (except me) launched rather quickly and then departed direction "Madalena". Whle I still waited, the first ones already had to land... I finally launched at 1130 and found cloudbase to be alreday above 1500m, so I also started (slowly) heading West. It was slow going for me, as it was not alsways evident to me from where the thermals were coming and I wanted always to stay high. After 2.5hrs I reached "Madalena" with about 1000m altitude to spare, so I spiralled down. Our bus was already waiting here with other pilots, so I just had to pack up and then we departed back to Quixada: great flight!!

Monastery (Santuary) and launch (Rampa)

the "chicken" (la galinha)

...midway (looking back)...

on glide to "Madalena"

Results (OLC-distance):
Burki: > 148km
Andreas: > 118km
Gregi: > 98km
Taggi: > 78km