Morocco 26 Oct - 2 Nov

What with these strong winds and the cold rain pelting down, I suppose everyone like me will be dreaming of those last autumn flights and longing for spring to come. So, I thought I'd give an account of my recent PG holiday in the sun!

I booked on one of the High Atlas safaris in Morocco from the 26 Oct to 2 Nov which are run by Toby Colombé's Passion Paragliding. Our group of 11 pilots from a few to a few hundred hrs were flying on various sites on the N edge of the Atlas range but mostly based at Aggregour, one hr S of Marrakesh.

A couple of GPS track logs are attached:

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Saturday 7^th November - Butser West – PG

 

A very pleasant flying day at Butser. Shared a couple of tweets, drove up, met Neil, phoned the farmer and up I went. Blue skies with light scattered clouds. An easy 10/16mph westerly made for a simple flight plan along the full ridge and unexpected thermal bubbled enabled to climb a couple of hundred feet above takeoff. Soon the conditions became a little trickier, with sudden and lasting lulls and with the wind swinging though south west without warning. Neil was unfortunately caught out by the first swing and found himself in the leeside of southern bowl. The sudden pitching was very well handled and he immediately flew clear of trouble to a safe bottom landing. Two more pilots arrived and we few short and high flights for the reminder of the morning and early afternoon. At midday we were waved at by a light aircraft flown by, we suspect, our very own Tips. By 2pm the wind had settled down to a steady SW so we called it a day.

 

Very enjoyable all in all.

 

Jason Smith