Monday: today we have been told to be ready for departure by 0800; driving to Panettone for a morning flight. Light SE-wind permitted an easy launch; just a sledder to the landing at our hotel. Spiraling (with outer Ear closed) from 1050m to 500m in about a minute (max -12.2m/s; 3.4g) :-))
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| View from Panettone (looking SE) |
Second flight then was from Antenne Costalunga and lasted about 1.25hrs in nice thermal conditions.
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| Briefing at Antenne Cosatalunga |
Third flight from Tapetti: unfortunately it started to rain soon after my launch :-( Another spiral (-8.4m/s) brought me back to 'terra firma' after only 13min - but still my wing got a little wet.
We went for a fourth flight (from Tapetti), but most of us did elect not to fly (due to wx cond: strongish E-Wind right after launch).
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| ...checking the wx (on Delta ramp) |
Tuesday: today we had be ready by 0900 and the 'target' has been: Feltre/ Mte.Avena. The only time I have been here before has been in 2008.
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| Mte.Avena, pano looking SW |
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| Launch |
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| Pano looking NE |
Very nice and strong conditions! Some of our group also toplanded...
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| LZ 'Boscherai' -now main LZ for Feltre |
Shortly after 1200 we have been told to head for the LZ, as there was a chance of overdevelopment.
After a visit to the local gelateria, it was decided not to wait here for conditions to improve, but to drive to Panettone, where we could see that the 'worst' had already passed. Once we got there, we started immediately to launch and all could make a nice flight into the evening. In the end I spiralled down almost 700 meters in around 2 minutes (max ROD > 13m/s), followed by a series of wing-overs.
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