Yet again the thermals started popping around 12:15. The group agreed to allow Martin Hollowell a longer flight with Andy Aveling in the Duo. They disappeared for five hours to Seo de Urgel (just southwest of Andorra about 200 km away) and back. (I should have said that Andy only did 314km O/R yesterday to Sort.) Andy then got into the K21 to do another two and half hours! Two of the others were allowed mutual flying in the K21 and they also hurtled up to the normal great altitude at a staggering rate. This allowed me to have most of the afternoon off. At first I was quite relaxed about this but the awesome cloudscape had me champing at the bit by the the time that the mutual flight had landed. It was still possible to fly up to 11,000 feet for two and a half hours. Merv did his second flight in two days to Cerdanya.
John McCullagh
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