Local Àger News

02 August 2008 - Gunni has a go on his new Nova Mentor. Such a nice day that Winston could not resist to also fly. Gunni has 2 flights, 2hrs45 with a nice little XC over the back to Tremp. Happy pilots! Evening flying still to come... yehaa! Last pilots landed at 21:00. Wow. Loads of local pilots and 2 Hot air balloons (Not in our way at all). Sweet, easy smooth flying!

01 August 2008 Welcome back to Gunnstein. Nice weekend break. Its really quite a party as all our little towns have their Fiesta´s or big party! No sleep when they get going! Holiday month now for Spain and Catalunya.

28th July 2008 - Every day has been flyable so Winston and Alan have been putting in some serious hours. Good flights and they even took a look at another site called CastellonRoy. Not too far away and has great views and huge flatland flying infront. Welcome to Paul(HG pilot) and Lynne from the UK. Loads of visitors and locals make the weekends special.

23rd July 2008 - Another 50km flight for Winston! Alan and Winston prepped for launch. Winston´s vario failed before launch. Quick battery change. Winston took off with his Genie Race harness with the air inflation system (AIF) attached... A HG pilot asked Alan if Winston was flying a canoe!!! Winston specked out vertically in 5/6ms ups. The race was on. Winston went to Corca, then the Port de Ager then over La Regola he picked up a screamer to take him back to the end of the Ager Montsec ridge. He raced back to take off. Climbed out hugely over the Sant Alis. Screamed over to take off to close his triange and then raced to Ager town and ended up landing safely near his house. Really Happy! Alan has a great flight into wind after an amazing low save and ends up landing out near Les Avellanes 20km away.

New video of Jamie flying in a great thermic flight in the Àger valley. This is what he had to say: here's a short video of me getting to cloudbase.... I'm still buzzing

20th July - cooler start with a bit of rain last night. Decent day but the best was saved to last with wonderful soaring.

19th July 2008 - After a good rest Winston and Alan Davies(GBR) flew today. What started out as an average day soon changed... We had mostly 3 to 5 ups. Winston got one screamer at 6m/s up. Winston ended up doing 55Km in the valley with a triangle and some more. Alan also flew really well and clocked at least 30km. Happy pilots!

13th Great flying to end a great week! Thanks Steve, Jamie, Hamish and Gunnstein see you soon! 

10th - Day out to Organya. Brilliant conditions. Big easy elevator flying! The place is famed for not being able to come down. World champion acro pilots dropping out of the sky all around us. Fantastic day out.

9th July- Brilliant day! Cheers Byron see you soon in August. Jamie, Steve and Her-Hsin (aka Hamish) Spec out and all do over 2hrs in big sky. Evening flying was too good... 1hr30 in smooth conditions. Some pilots have all the luck!

7th and 8th July - Awesome flying. Her-Hsin (aka Hamish) flys 3 times and clocks 6 hours today!!! He made it to Montenissel (50K) on his Axis Vega2. All the boys (Jamie, Steve and Byron) go down the ridge and have good flights. All now having a beer and talking about the great flying and wonderful thermals...dont start me on the great restitution flying... happy flights! New photos and .kml files soon.

5th and 6th July lots of great flying. Gunnstein does 5hrs over the weekend. A nice 25k xc for Byron over the back towards Tremp.

4th July good flying. Looks like a Great day tommorrow is forcast so many pilots here. Very busy now with lots of visitors!

29th June - Great day again. 20:53 and its 29 degrees... summer is good. Spain WIN the Euro Cup Final 2008. Busy night ahead!

27 and 28th Great weather continues with good flying. Winston really enjoyed flying with Klaudia a PWC pilot from Poland (ranked 4th Women World Cup 2007) Read more on her blog here

24 and 25th - Great flying, Welcome to the big group from Japan including Kaoru Ogisawa ("Ogi") who has worked closely alongside designer Gin Seok Song for several years. Ogi is an extreme maneuvers specialist, and plays a vital role in the development and testing of GIN gliders

23rd June - The great flying has continued and Winston had a great flight yesterday evening after finally sorting his insurance out...

19th June - Sun and medium sized cumulus in the sky... another perfect flying day! Looks good for the next week. Summer is here!

18th June = Stunning Summers Day! Wonderful flying.

14th June - Brilliant conditions had by visiting pilot Gunnstein Lye from Norway... YEHAA!

8th June - Great flying today and nice and warm too. Summer is almost here and I look forward to getting some really big flying in.

Thanks to Nigel, Simone and Howard for visiting us. See you again soon.

Inbetween the rain (which we need) Keith has managed to get some great flying. Thanks to Peter and Linda for visiting! 

2nd till 4th May Brilliant conditions again. Welcome to Keith, Graham and Helen.

Thanks to Peter Jennings for the kind words on his blog

1st May EPIC day! Catalan League visit us. 54km task set. Pictures in our gallery.

Byron does 62km in our valley(2hr10) with a lovely 2nd flight of 1hr20 ending in classic smooth conditions. Brilliant!

26 and 27th April - Brilliant conditions again! Peter Jennings does 2nd 65km in 5 days... Well Done! Byron arrives and does 1hr45 :)

22nd till 25th April - Awesome thermic flights had by Fred and Mike from Norfolk UK. Thanks guys for visiting our little bit of flying heaven. Summer is well on its way! More please! 

15th and 16th April - Great flights - lovely but a little cold at altitude. Bring on Summer! 

5th April - Great flight 1hr45 but very cold. Nice to have Nicky Moss, Geoff and Judith visit.

29th March 2008 - Great flying had by Àger "weekend warrior" pilots again. Thanks to Steve and Max for visiting us.

2nd March 2008 - Great flying had by Àger pilots again. Summer is on the way!

23rd Feb 2008 - We now have the use of a great new landing zone! Its huge and easy to get to from both our main launches. It also has a bar... with great food and coffee. Nice!

16 Feb 2008 - Nicky Moss, Matic Hrovat, Nan Lapanje and Sandi Krc (3 Slovenian Pilots) and Winston have a great day flying. Winston flew 2hrs and got to try the Axis Vega2 with race lines and its awesome! Photos here

09/10 Feb 2008 - Great days flying with locals out and in force. A great start.

Winston wants to break some records! Do you want to be part of it!

We have already taken bookings for spring 2008. Book early and get a discount!

We had awesome flying trips in 2007 including a great group from Scotland in Sept.

We will be working closely in 2008 with local schools, Nicky Moss and Àger Camping.

A big welcome to all SkyWings members!