Flying

I spent four days in Castelluccio di Norcia, a beautiful village nestled in the mountains of Umbria, together with my friends from NoName Fly Zone. Our journey started on Wednesday night. Simone and I left Piacenza right after dark in his green Volkswagen T3 straight out of the 80s. This thing doesn’t like going past 90 km/h, but after a couple of hours on the road, we eventually found ourselves in a parking lot along the highway, our improvised stop for the night....

This was my first time flying at Alpe Giumello. I completed two flights: one in the early afternoon and another around 4pm. During the second flight, I launched westward, passing close to the Big Bench 223. I could see people sitting on it and waved at them. Looking up, I could see the three branches of Lake Como through a light haze before making a U-turn back towards the landing site....