So after a few days rest and relax, meet the relatives and friends, the return date approaches. We decide to fly to San Teodoro and spend a couple days there, meet with Gianni and his neighbours. Nuria will catch a flight from Olbia, thenearby airport, to go back to Switzerland, i will fly Bettyboop to Novara with Gianni.
The high pressure stationing on the mediterranean is slowly running out of life, and some bad weather arrives. We have some rain, and we check carefully the forecast to find a window of opportunity. We finally decide to try to take off early the morning after. Forecast shows the weather will be good, and will get worse in the next evening. We get up early and go to the aifield. Forecast is good, air is still, only a few clouds in sight. Visibility was not good the day before. But things look good, Federico suggest a quick getaway till weather is good, we saddle up, a quick check, tank is full. Federico suggests to climb to 5 or 6 thousands feet and take a straight route north, then follow the Nuoro valley till the sea.
So we are airborne again. Weather is really good, no turbulence whatsoever, air is perfectly still with just a slight morning mist, and Bettyboop flies hands off. Nuria flies Bettyboop almost all the trip. Some snapshots, showing the sardinian summer dry inland.
From above Nuoro we can already see the sea
we arrive on the coast and there is a little turbulence, so i take the controls
and direct towards san teodoro
We reach the San Teodoro airstrip and land uneventfully
We are greeted by Roberto, Stefani and their kids. I know Stefani wanted to take a ride. The husband is an airline pilot, ex-military, and she never had a ride on a small plane!! i strap her to the seat, brief her, and off we go. we have a 15 minutes flight and she fearlessly greatly enjoys it. so do i. Stefani is a great girl.
We will spend the next days relaxing and watching the forecast. Weather locally is good, but was worse just 50 km south. Some morning fog worries us, because due to the vicinity of Olbia airport we dont have much room for climbing above it. We will have to fly low for some km, going north towards Corsica, and to avoid Olbia would take a long diversion.
Here what we see (or better, what we don't see) the day before departure. Not good.
