IT - Castelluccio

Sat (13.9.)  After having had breakfast in a bar along the way from Aquila to Norcia, when we arrived the area had been still covered by fog. Once it had lifted we moved to Forca da Presto for some ground handling and a flight, before conditions became too windy. In the afternoon some more groundhandling at the training hill. We also wanted to make an afternoon flight from Refugio Perugia, but the wind speed was well beyond what any PG could handle and it also didn't decrease later when the sun had set...

I got here just in time to catch the dissipating fog...

Forca di Presto

Rifugio Perugia

Sun (14.9.) Before driving up to Castelluccio, we parked my car at the LZ in San Pellegrino. Gudrun and Michael could make an extended sledder from Rifugio Perugia down to my car - the wind being around 20+kmh (much less than the 40+ of yesterday evening). No more flights have been possible due to increasing winds, but I ground handled for some time. Beside us absolutely no other pilots here...

Rifugio Perugia, looking North-East: Monte Vettore

heading for the LZ (on lh side along the road)

Mon (15.9.)  very promising day...

Michael had organized a ride in Claudio's LandRover to Tabellone, one of the nicest launches in this area. We had to wait for about an hour or so until the conditions turned on nicely.

Tabellone - looking W-NW: Norcia

looking at the LZ in San Pellegrino (below the white PG)

looking back to launch, Castelluccio and Mte Vettore

Parasol in my LZ

Very nice flight, lasting 1+hr. For a moment it looked likeI had to land in San Pellegrino, but as we had no car parked there (contrary to yesterday), I wanted to avoid this and had to fight for a quite a while in order to get high enough so that I could glide towards the main LZ.

Later in the afternoon we headed towards Vetoretto, but I declined, as I would have had to carry my gear too far up the steep hill. I said goodby to Gudrun and Michael (who tried to fly from there) and started my drive North towards NE Italy, where I hoped to fly the next few days. 

short stop at Visso ;-)

For the night I found a B&B NE of Bologna...