4 more days on TFS - flying on 3 of them: twice at Taucho, once at Arafo.
Thur: Taucho
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| gliding out to la Caleta/ Playa Enramada |
Fri: (Taucho) flying would have been possible, but we didn't like the wind direction. Furthermore cloud base was only at 1000m. So I did some exploring: checking out the site at los Gigantes: 'Tamaimo' and its possible LZs.
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| Tamaimo (Los Gigantes) |
Sat: Taucho: during the night it had rained heavily and parking and launch have been extremely muddy; but nice flying conditions.
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| Parking at Leroy Merlin |
Sun: a very nice looking day with virtually no clouds in the morning. We decided to drive up to NP Teide, hoping to fly from Izana. It seemed that very biker on TFS was heading up to the NP ;-) As today has been our check-out, we left (unfortunately) rather late...
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| Pico del Teide |
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| Izana -South |
Conditions (windwise) would have been perfect for launching towards Güimar, but the cloud layer, which had formed in the mean time, had become too thick to permit a safe flight. To have a reasonable chance for flying from Izana (be it North or South) one has to leave at 0730 or 0800, as around 1000 the cloud layer starts building up. Very rare are the days at this time of the year without clouds later in the day...
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| Izana -North (launch on very left) |
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| Arafo - looking towards Las Caletillas/ Candelaria |
After a guided group had taken off, we had the launch for ourselves :-) Perfect conditions: light winds with nice (sometimes also strong) thermals and a cloud base at around 2000m.
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| Launch |
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| las Caletillas |
We both landed al Las Caletillas. There are several options: at the beach, near the highway or a bit further at Candelaria.
Later we boarded the ferry from Los Cristianos to Valverde (VDE - el Hierro), arriving at 2200 and finally reaching our accommodation at Frontera around 2245. We'll be staying for 5 days, returning to TFS on Friday.
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