This time I present a flight area in my opinion poorly understood. Is slightly saturated, as is the case with Abantos. Both are good areas of operation, and if rarely visited due to insurance to be reached on foot. The area in question is called Torrecaballeros, although it is closer to the popular resort of San Ildefonso "The Farm." The takeoff is located at 1,600 m and is about 400m of vertical.
Like Bunkers or Somosierra, its orientation is NW, HOWEVER here the winds are generally weaker than in previous locations, which means that when they are strong, here you can fly. I guess this is because the small saw it fly, no more than about 1600 m. tall and is located just in front of the line of the Central System, which at this point has an average altitude of about 2000 meters. This means that we fly ever in the area of \u200b\u200bmaximum compression and therefore stronger winds, as given in the tops of chests or Somosierra, because in these places, takeoffs are at higher altitudes. It is the same, that when we took off along the hillside at any take-off permits, to ensure that the wind is weaker, only this time a few km. away from the highest peak.
Access is from the road leading from La Granja to Torrecaballeros. After a 3 km long, to the right of the road, leaving few clues that bring us closer to a base station antennas. Before coming to them, leave the car and walk up. Below you can clearly see the tracks to which I refer. In fact, some seem to come even to the summit. Know if you can reach by car up, I suppose not, but next time you try to find out. I put off the coordinates of a luxury, fairly broad and prairie grass. But if you will not walk so much, you can take off at the feet of the antennas (40.938599, -4.006631). Is about 150 m. below the summit and if the wind is strong, it may yield enough to climb up above.
Whenever I've flown here was in dynamic conditions, but they tell me the flyers in the area, in days of light wind and good thermal conditions, may be screwed up a good heat to turn up high and then pulled back to the rope and following it fly Peñalara Regional Park. But I guess this is reserved for good flying.
I also have the usual flying here, there are other departures oriented N and NE, but I have not flown them so I can give no account, only I know they exist.
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