Vendredi 26 mars E-mail Octavi Dolcet

 Octavi nous fait part du succès de la rencontre grands planeurs qui s'est déroulée comme prévu le week-end dernier à Taragone. François Guiral qui est allé remorquer m'a relaté cette rencontre qui fut un franc succès ! 60 pilotes planeur et de nombreux remorqueurs ! Ambiance chaleureuse et dépaysement pour nos français ! Qu'espérer de mieux ?

Merci à Octavi pour ces bonnes nouvelles et je vais mettre au calendrier leur prochaine rencontre du samedi 17 juillet. Mais pour les français il faudrait les 2 jours ! Vous avez ci-dessous le contact avec Octavi   GR

 Dear friend,

I'm writing in English because it's much easier to me than French. If you don't understand this message just tell me and I'll manage to translate it into your language. I want to tell you about the tow-meeting that was held last weekend in our country, Catalonia, organized by the Club Pla de Vent. The weather was very good, the flying site is excellent and there were about 60 pilots inscribed!Pilots (tugs and gliders) came from all over Spain (Madrid, Saragossa, Valencia), as well as from the Basque Country, Andorra and France, specially from Northern Catalonia (Roussillon), Toulouse and Montpellier. The quality of the towings was quite good, considering that this is a rather new discipline in our country and our experience in such events is quite short. We could see giant gliders (1:3 scale), aerobatic gliders, huge thermical gliders, scale gliders and, what is most important, many beginners with their first small gliders doing their first flights. There was also a brotherhood-dinner on saturday and a typical "calçotada" by the flying site for the lunch of sunday. Everybody enjoyed the meeting very much and we expect to repeat it in the following seasons. I don't have any photos yet, but I can try to get you some if you want.
I want also to announce you the next tow meeting in Catalonia, that will be held in the Aeroclub Gallecs (Barcelona) on saturday july 17th. Just like last year, it's open to all kind of gliders, free flights all day long. Sandwiches and drinks for sale by the site. Tugs are also wellcome. Inscription is free. For further details contact me at dolcet_mones@teleline.es

And remember you can see the Spanish model gliders calendar of events at www.velerosrc.com

Many thanks in advance

Octavi Dolcet