Mon/ Tue (7./8.9.) Flying at Gioia dei Marsi, 1, respectively 2 flights with a top-landing.
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| Cobra-briefing by Igor |
Wed (9.9.) Rain and wind, so I used the time to look for a coin laundery, which turned out to be more difficult than anticipated: 1) Gioia: closed for vacation; 2) Venere: closed ufn; 3) San Benedetto: no time; 4) Avezzano: didn't exist anymore and finally 5) Avezzano: working... and of course a stop at the gelateria ;-)
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| Gelateria del Duomo (Avezzano) |
Thr (11.9.) Boville Ernica: a nice little site about 1.5hrs driving from Gioia. Unfortunately I had forgotten my instruments and camera in my car when I changed to the bus; luckily Michael could lend me his vario-prototype - many thanks! For once I have been the first to launch (!) and I could right away climb to about 1000m over launch, whereby a vulture showed me the thermal and flew with me for quite a while. I landed after about an hour. Getting back up to launch, the wind speed had increased beyond the skills of most and we headed back to Gioia for a very nice late afternoon/ sunset flight.
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| Boville Ernica |
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| Gioia dei Marsi |
Fri(12.9.) last day of iCamp: Calascio (Panettone). Heading north (homeward bound), we stopped (again) at Calascio, where all could make 1 or more flights. I stayed near the LZ, as I had had a very lousy night and didn't fell 'fit' to ride the partly rough thermals... After saying goodby we (Gudrun&Michael, I) continued towards Castelluccio, stopping for the night at Roio (near Aquila) in a very nicely renovate palace (Palazzo Palitti).
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| Calascio (Panettone) looking South |
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| looking North: Gran Sasso, Campo Imperatore |
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| ULM-LZ (along the track in the middle of pix) |
Conclusion: flying every day (except one) :-)) No really great flights, but not due to conditions but I concentrated in this iCamp more on my reverse- and Cobra- launches (there have been a couple of good ones). As usual: great guides and nice participants - thanks to ALL of you! And even a new flying site: Boville Ernica...
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