Day 3: Pula LDPL to Corfu LGKR

Right base for RW 35 at Corfu
Right base for RW 35 at Corfu

After a day’s sight seeing in Pula – there are interesting Roman remains to look at but otherwise the city is quiet on a Sunday in early February, we set off for Corfu, climbing up to FL110 through thin cloud. This cleared quite quickly to give us splendid views of the Adriatic as we travelled southwards through Croatia, Montenegro and Albania before landing in fine weather at Corfu. Having looked at the weather map and seen the forecast for bad weather approaching from the west, we should have refuelled and set off for Rhodes. But we were due to meet Phil here the next day so set off for our hotel in Corfu town instead.

434 nm in a flight time of 2 hours 35 minutes

Day 1: Lydd EGMD to Pula LDPL

Our journey started at Lydd, a day earlier than planned to take advantage of good weather and fly over the Alpes at FL150 directly to Pula in Croatia. We had flown there from Gloucester Airport the night before having collected the aircraft from RGV after a 150 hour check. A longish flight – 800 nm but in good weather and completed in a time of 4 hours 45 minutes.

 

FL150 over the Swiss Alps
FL150 over the Swiss Alps