Morocco -3: Sorry!

For the last week internet connection has been lousy to non-existent! Sorry, that I couldn't post at all, even now it is very weak, so you'll have to be patient...

Tafraoute - Idikel

Morocco -2: Aguergour

Aguergour is Marrakesh's primary flying site, about 1.5hrs drive from the city. This site had been closed for quite a while (also when I had been here the last time in 2015). And as the weather on the coast further south didn't permit flying (due to high winds), lots of (foreign and local) pilots flocked to this site for the weekend.

'our' fully loaded Landcruiser

Unfortunately a pilot of our group had an accident when he attempted to make an outlanding :-((
Luckily he broke 'only' his left foot (at first it looked much worse, but then in the hospital in RAK they found nothing else; nevertheless he will be repatriated to Switzerland by REGA (Swiss Air rescue guard), where he'll undergo surgery. We wish him all the best and a quick and complete recovery!!

Aguergour

Pano on launch looking East towards the Atlas mountains

For 2 nights we stayed in a nice Riad named 'Dar Zitoune' about halfway between LZ and launch.

The owner's French is flawless, furthermore he is a PG pilot himself; the food has been excellent.
We flew here on Sat, Sun ond Mon. Monday after flying we moved south to Agadir. But it is not decided yet, where exactly we'll be flying tomorrow, as there are different options according to the latest wx fcst.

Morocco -1: Flight, Marrakesh

Pyrenees (looking SE, towards the Mediteranean)

Nice, relaxed flight with 'Edelweiss Air' with excellent inflight service from ZRH to RAK. 'Edelweiss' is the charter branch of 'Swiss', but tends to offer better inflight service than 'Swiss'.

old time just never seem to die ;-)

Before March 2002, the company from with 'Swiss' emerged was called 'Swissair'. I had worked for 'Swissair' from 1982 until it went bancrupt in 2002, (and then for 'Swiss') but here in RAK the message, that now the company is just called 'Swiss' doesn't seem to have arrived yet (after 15 years)...                       ;-)

RAK - new terminal

Dinner on the place 'Jemna el Fna'

Kobo - XCSoar - XCTracer

Last week I could pick up my 'custom-built' Kobo-Touch in Essen. My friend Hartmut had added a bluetooth-module and modified it in such a way, that it is now running XCSoar. The data for XCSoar (v6.8.6) come from my XCTracer, which connects automatically via BT.

Kobo (mini) with BT-module

Actually I would have preferred to use TopHat as software, which has certain advantages over XCSoar, as it is modified for HG-/ PG-use, but Hartmut could not never get it to run properly, especially connecting via BT to my XCTracer.