Today we see this picture from our window: We take a rest day to have a long lecture session devoted to technical aspects of hang gliding. Apart from that since we happen to be in basically cradle of Prosciutto, we are planning to spend some time on checking out nice restaurants in our vicinity 🙂 We have to get ready for tomorrow, which is promising to be a day in western corner of Dolomites!     We devote our … Read More

  After a short briefing today morning we drove from Meduno to Vittorio Veneto. Our plan is to fly from Pizzoc take off today. This high point of the Italian Southern Alpine ridge faces SW and allows to get up straight to the cloud base as the spot appears to be a local “thermal kitchen”. The cloudbase is predicted to be quite high for this area — 2000 m and the W-SW wind will support our task to fly from … Read More

  Today we are leaving our base in Greifenburg and heading to south. In our region the cloudbase is not going to be high throughout all southern part of Austrian and Italian Alps. However, what is not high enough for a decent flight in Greifenburg can sometimes be more than good in Italy. The next two days promise to be suitable for flying in the areas of Vittorio Venetto, Meduno and Gemona. Most of our pilots have never flown in Meduno, … Read More

  Fresh morning in Greifenburg but we are already about to leave to Südtirol, to the place called Kronplatz, which is a famous takeoff in Pustertal.   Coming to the take off, which can be reached by the cable car:The weather looks promising, we have decent NE on the take off, some paragliders are already floating on the level of Kronplatz top (2275 m). This take off is not an early start for cross county flights. As our plan is … Read More

  Today we start our tour with 7 Norwegian Pilots who came over to the Alps for mountain flying. We are planning to have a warming up flight at Radsberg (Austria). The previews days were affected by a cold front passing through the Alpes. Yesterday we had intensive showers with lots of cloud cover. These factors together with a North flow expected today will surely govern the flying conditions during our task. We hope that the air is going to dry … Read More