Italy -iCamp days 8 / 9: Cassino / Rocca Calascio (Pineta)

Thur / Fri: during both nights there has been some rain, making it a bit difficult to find a flyable site.

Thur: It was decided to go to Cassino once more, as it the moutains it would stay too cloudy: not too windy on launch, but it has been much more difficult to stay up and/ or get high above launch. Most of us made 2 flights. Between flights, we made a stop at a very good gelateria in Cassino ;-)

Monte Cassino

Fri: even more difficult to find a flying site, as the wind in most places has been forecasted to be (too) strong. First we drove to Assergi and had a look at the Monte Christo launch. Michael made a very short flight there, but considered the conditions unsuitable for our group.

Monte Christo

We then drove across Campo Imperatore and Santo Stefano di Sessanio to Rocca Calascio, but this time to the upper launch (aka Pinetina).

Campo Imperatore

As conditions seemed to be worsening (wind/ maybe even rain) Michael urged us to get airborne quickly and not to 'linger' too long in the air. So I just made a 30' flight before landing. Later it turned out that the 'bad wx' approached much slower than anticipated and that we had landed maybe a bit prematurely ;-)

Rocca Calascio: looking SSE towards Pannettone launch

Rocca Calascio: Pinetina launch (center of pix)

As this has been the last day of this iCamp, we had diner together.

It has been a very successful week: flying every day (!), with no major incidents or even accidents :-)) In order to make this happen, on several days quite some driving had been necessary... Last, but not least: I got to know/ fly 5 new flying sites :-)