Monte Belpo

Thur: MteBaldo was supposed to remain in clouds, so we had 2 options: Levico or Mte.Belpo at the South end of Lake Garda. The majority wanted to see a new flight area, so we headed for Pesina, the LZ for Mte.Belpo. Here Tiziana, a friend of Michael and Gudrun was waiting for us and showed the way to the parking and then to launch. I was told it would be about '10 minutes', but in the end it turned out to be something close to 45' (for me!) and a bit more than 100meters uphill...

Mte.Belpo (top) Pano looking SW (lake Garda)

LZ in Pesina (the whole field between the 2 roads) (looking West)

Conditions for this first flight: good on launch, but just a tad to weak to be good ;-) Andy flew 'my' Leeloo3, but also feels more comfortable on the 'normal' Leeloo..

We drove up again, but only some pilots climbed again to the top of Mte.Belpo, the rest descended in about 20' to another launch called 'Gas'. Here we had to wait until the West wind increased, but then conditions became really good. Unfortunately I had made an error while 'hooking in', as I twisted the accelerator in such a way that it became completely blocked/ unusable. This made me land prematurely :-(

'Gas' - looking SW-W

Waiting for all the pilots to land, a few uf us visited a nice Gelateria nearby; later the whole group had dinner at a local restaurant.