Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Fanas -again


What a difference to yesterday! Today the fcst/ regtherm has been too pessimistic, meaning that the actual conditions have been much better than anticipated: better climbs, less cloud cover during the early afternoon, less wind...

crossing towards Stels, Chrüz

Madrisa
It has been pretty easy going towards Klosters with strong but not (too) bumpy climbs.

Klosters, looking back towards Fanas

Davos
Until Davos-Wolfgang -as usually- I had no problems. But here I had to make up my mind about which side of the valley to follow. As I originally had wanted to cross the Strelapass and then fly towards Schanfigg/ Arosa, I choose to head towards Parsenn (right side of pix). But no luck: just some pretty strong tailwind and broken thermals :-(

Davos-Platz
So I decided to land in Davos-Platz, near the railway station, where I could catch a (direct) train back to Schiers, where I had parked my car.
All in all a very nice flight with (for me) a rather high average speed (27kmh).
This has been the last flight for this month, as on Saturday I'll be leaving for Ireland together with Ruth; return is planned for 3dr June.

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