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Site briefing
Chianocco is a paragliding launch in the Italian Alps. Its recorded elevation is 854 m and its mapped launch aspects are S. Compare the live forecast at launch with winds aloft, gusts, cloud base, rain and daylight before checking current local access and airspace information.
Chianocco is the winter flying site, and also good in summer evenings in stable clear weather and when the walley breeze has decayed but the southface of the mountain still remains heated up. However flying too late in the evening will certainly mean having some tailwing at launchsite. Avoid flying with it.
Takeoff reachable by 2min walk from the road which leads from Chianocco to Pavaglione. Go up the road, pass Frazzione Combette, continue upwards, make 6 curves, tontinue on the more or less 600m straight piece of the road, then make 2 more curves and stop right after the 2nd. You will see a small path going into bushes west from the right-turning curve. Takeoff site is there rechable by a very short walk. Park the car on the side of the road. Coordinates for parking: 45.155169,7.183293 Takeoff is big enough to open 3 gliders simultaneously.
On the field next to the a logistic center (with camyons parked inside). Despite the field is an official landing, some part of it may be cultivated. Avoid a small wirefence in the middle of field. It is highly reccomneded to check the landing site before the flight(s).
1) If coming from Turin on the state highway, take the highway SS25 and reach the landing site in Bruzzolo, or the launch site in Chianocco. 2) If coming on highway either from Turin or Bardonecchia, take the exit 'Chianocco'. Follow the signs to village center of Chianocco, then the road up next to a bridge and church in order to reach the takeoff site. Follow the signs to Bruzzolo in order to reach the landing site.
Absolutely do not fly with foen winds. Check the weather forecasts before. It is also not reccomendedto fly if a foen or westerly wind is forecasted to enter within next 6-12 hrs. You can easly understand it by observing pressure difference between Italy and France on pressure charts.
Usual PG right-of-way rules apply.
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