PEM Follow-up

On the weekend of 16-17 June, 1st Pipistrel European Meeting took place at Valdera airfield in Tuscany Italy. Field report inside!

First and foremost, we would like to thank everybody who attended the first Pipistrel European Meeting; every owner who flew in with their Sinus, Virus and/or Taurus from near and far, everybody who drived a long way, everybody who contributed to flawless organisation of the event and everybody from team Pipistrel who participated the event. Our special thanks go to Aeroclub of Pisa, Max Pinucci, Fabrizzio Cherbonesci and team Pipistrel Italia for hosting the vent. Your efforts truly made the weekend special and will never be forgotten!

On Saturday and Sunday, despite the not-perfect weather conditions (low couds over mountain ranges, strong winds and turbulence) more than 30 Pipistrel aircraft attented the event. Team Pipistrel, wearing distinctive bright orange shirts prepared a mobile service centre and consulted every owner about the condition and maintenence of their aircraft. The team worked faster than robots on two aircraft simultaneusly!

Also, Pipistrel Factory Pilots flew with owners who were interested in upset and unusual attitude recovery training on both days. As a special surprise, Pipistrel Demoteam flew two sorties with a 3-ship formation and solo display.

Needless to say that everybody enjoyed the beauty of Tuscany both on the ground and in flight. On Saturday evening, a dinner-party in the hangar of Pipistrel Italia was arrange. Great food, live music and numerous awards made the evening really special. Atendees found out about the secret musical talents of Max Pinucci, Matevz Lenarcic's new project and more and more. The highlight of the evening was the fireworks display which concluded the official part of the dinner.

Pictures will tell the rest of the story.

Left: 1 -Pipistrel, 2 -Pipistrel, 3 -Pipistrel, 4...
Right: Pipistrel Demoteam after formation low pass

Mobile service centre

A lot of atendees at PEM

Left: Award to AeroClub Pisa
Right: Ivo Boscarol and Matevz Lenarcic presenting his new,
unprecedented round-the-world flight

Left: Thank you team Pipistrel Italia (Fabrizzio, Carlo, Barbara, Max et all)
Right: Pipistrel Dealers (Michail Anastasiou, Antonio Alvez, Robert Schneglberger)

Awards to atendees travelling and flying longest distance to attend PEM:
Mr. Narcis (travelled from Finland)
Mr Fonseca (flew with Sinus from Santa Cruz, Portugal)

Party time!

Team Pipistrel Slovenia

Here we will publish photos from owners who flew to PEM with their Pipistrel aircraft. Please send photos to:

1. Michail Anastasiou, PIC of 2 Sinus arriving from Greece.

"We had a great trip on the way back. Good weather, high ground speeds and no problems with ATC. 500ft no contact with Brindisi and then at the FIR climbed to 5500ft with the Greek ATC treating us like GA and with good comments on our ground speed 110kts!" Thank you for coming, Pipistrel Hellas!

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