Soaring Near Barcelona

[GeneReinecke]

Have a short trip to Barcelona next month. Might have a day to be a soaring tourist. Has anybody gone soaring at any of the glider airports nearby? If so, could you forward contacts, experience, etc. to my e mail: generein at AY Oh EL. thanks.
Gene

[waremark]

http://volavela.es

An outstanding soaring location in the Pyrenees about 90 minutes drive from Barcelona with a well equipped and well organised gliding club. The CFI Serji speaks decent English. Recommended without reservation.

[GARA]

On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 10:23:48 PM UTC-4, GeneReinecke wrote:
> Have a short trip to Barcelona next month. Might have a day to be a soaring tourist. Has anybody gone soaring at any of the glider airports nearby? If so, could you forward contacts, experience, etc. to my e mail: generein at AY Oh EL. thanks.
> Gene


This is the web page of the aerodrome. Spanish and Catalan only, the English link takes you to the wrong page.

http://www.aerodromlacerdanya.cat/aerodromolacerdanya/lacerdanya-introduccion.html

[[email protected]]

El miércoles, 29 de marzo de 2017, 4:23:48 (UTC+2), GeneReinecke escribió:
> Have a short trip to Barcelona next month. Might have a day to be a soaring tourist. Has anybody gone soaring at any of the glider airports nearby? If so, could you forward contacts, experience, etc. to my e mail: generein at AY Oh EL. thanks.
> Gene

There is an aerodrome nearest, just 30min or 40km from barcelona
It's possible go by train

http://www.volavela.com/en

[Jon Gatfield]

At 07:38 04 April 2017, wrote:
>El mi=C3=A9rcoles, 29 de marzo de 2017, 4:23:48 (UTC+2), GeneReinecke
>escr=
>ibi=C3=B3:
>> Have a short trip to Barcelona next month. Might have a day to be a
>soari=
>ng tourist. Has anybody gone soaring at any of the glider airports
nearby?
>=
>If so, could you forward contacts, experience, etc. to my e mail:
generein
>=
>at AY Oh EL. thanks.=20
>> Gene
>
>There is an aerodrome nearest, just 30min or 40km from barcelona
>It's possible go by train
>
>http://www.volavela.com/en
>

If you can hire a car drive out to La Cerdanya, 2 hours North from
Barcelona, and ask for the CFI, Sergi Pujol, who speaks excellent English
and is incredibly helpful. Cerdanya is a bit of a "magic valley" and often
has very favourable soaring conditions: wave. ridge, thermal to over 10'k
in some great scenery.

[GeneReinecke]

Thanks Guys!
Will let you know what I find.
Gene

[FG]

On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 8:23:48 PM UTC-6, GeneReinecke wrote:
> Have a short trip to Barcelona next month. Might have a day to be a soaring tourist. Has anybody gone soaring at any of the glider airports nearby? If so, could you forward contacts, experience, etc. to my e mail: generein at AY Oh EL. thanks.
> Gene

Sorry to pick this up so late. In the 80's I was able to soar at Monflorite, a few miles north of Zaragoza. At that point Monflorite was both the national soaring site and the home of a soaring club whose members were mainly from Zaragoza. Also sorry that my two best English speaking contacts are not current. You might want to check it out. I did a triangle from Monflorite to Pamplona along the Pyrenees to Andorra and back to Monflorite. The vultures (Buitre commune in Spanish, probably misspelled) are great thermal markers.