Tue (28.1.) In the morning, the wind for 'la Corona' / 'los Realejos' looked right and alos the webcam didn't show any loe clouds, so we decided to give this site a try. But the drive there takes almost 1.5hrs and by the time we had arrived there, the situation had significantly changed: wind speed had increased (but still launchable) and TO was covered by clouds :-(
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| la Corona / los Realejos |
RMK: this is one of the nicer launches I know: ground is covered by 'Tartan'. The wing in the pix is from a tandem pilot who had wanted to to talk his guest into flying in these conditions. He told his passenger, that it would be only about 30 seconds, before they would be out in the clear, blue sky; but the client declined... While driving down we estimated the cloud-layer to be at least 300m thick and that it would have taken several minutes before being able to see the ground again. Both Hart and I judged the 'attitude' of this pilot completely irresponsible/ non professional - but we assume, that he just wanted to get the 170 EUR for the flight...
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| Playa el Socorro - (LZ for la Corona) |
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| Pico Teide (3715m) seen from near Santiago del Teide |
In the end (like yesterday) we ended up at Taucho, a site we both do not especially like ;-)
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| ...overflying some nice villas... |
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