Overall, a very pleasant season even though the trends of the meteorological conditions, in line with global warming, in particular in altitude, never permitted us to go for a big flight from dawn to dusk . All pilots enjoyed their expedition and would like to come...
The gliding activity was statistically similar to the previous season but with more flying hours, 30 flying days out of 60 days available and 200 hours against 160 in the past year, an average of 7 hours per flight, the longest being 12h40 January 7th, this was also...
This was our eleventh year entering via Buenos Aires, every year brings a new surprise at the time of the import; until last year it always occurred on the customs side. Even to the extent that one day, the chief of the customs told us in a “friendly” tone:...
Eruption of the volcano Copahué December 22nd décembre The situation was the same and hardly typical of recent years, with however the advantage that the eruption of December 22nd of the volcano Copahué, situated 360 north km of Bariloche, did not affect us apart from...
The last three weeks of December were particularly interesting and the presence of Philippe Athuil, a top French pilot residing in the United States, made it possible to break eleven American records and one world record, the speed on out-and-return 1.000km at nearly...
The world speed record on 1.000 km out-and-return at 214,8 km/h On the eve preceding this flight, the pilots had to anticipate their return to home because of the arrival of a front and strong rain, flying “only” a small flat triangle of 1.200 km in 7 hours. I had a...
This is what happens when one moves far away while knowing that a front will pass in the afternoon. Bruce Cooper replayed precisely the same script as two years ago, the cloud cover over Bariloche at the end of the afternoon being, as foreseen, about 7/8 with heavy...
I shall likely re-launch an expedition but first the most difficult part has to be done: it is necessary to rebuild a complete logistics from a blank sheet of paper. There are two options: either entering Argentina via the port of Zarate, 100 km NW of Buenos Aires on...
