Solenzara (LFKS) - june 2009

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lappie
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Solenzara (LFKS) - june 2009

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This month I took a vacation to Corsica.
I visited Solenzara twice this month, 2jun and 10jun.

Spotting conditions are good south of the base. There is a parking when you pass the base south, right at the sea. You cannot be seen from the base here. In the morning the sun is good to take pictures here with the mountains as backdrop (400mm). In the afternoon I stood at the road passing the runway (200mm). Here you are in sight of the base, and 10jun Jean and Darmy sent me away after having to delete my afternoon pictures one by one until i reached non-aviation pictures. I did have my morning pictures though.

2jun there was an live-firing excercise going on with F-16's from belgium, F/A-18's from Switserland, and Mirages from Dijon. (and the alpha jet as target tow)
10jun there was a lot of Mirage 2000C/5F's from Dijon, Cambrai, and Orange also for live-firing.

We stayed in Corsica for 2 weeks 30may-13jun in the south (Santa Giulia) and during this 2 weeks there was a lot of lowflying above sea going. The second week also evening sorties.

See for the numbers Solenzara (LFKS) - 2009

Here some impressions (al Mir2000s are code updates to scramble DB):
2 june
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10 june
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Re: Solenzara (LFKS) - june 2009

Post by falcon »

Woow, nice to see pics from Corsica! never saw them on the board. Good pics and very good lighting on it too!!

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Re: Solenzara (LFKS) - june 2009

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Yes, interesting catch!
Thanks for sharing, I like the Mirage with the mountains in the background.
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Re: Solenzara (LFKS) - june 2009

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Don't worry, there are various shareware programs to retrieve the deleted images from your card.

Nice shots at a nice base!
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Re: Solenzara (LFKS) - june 2009

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hmm, strange to see my pictures are resized by photobucket. originals are 1200px. It makes them a bit unsharp now.

The ones I had to delete, where also in the morning sortie, so no worries.

thanks for your comments.
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Re: Solenzara (LFKS) - june 2009

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lappie wrote:hmm, strange to see my pictures are resized by photobucket. originals are 1200px. It makes them a bit unsharp now.

The ones I had to delete, where also in the morning sortie, so no worries.

thanks for your comments.
the max is 1024 x but you can upgrade (for free) if you click some options as more thans 1 g... or something like that. Sorry I do not remember anymore and now I can't see it.

btw, nice pics

ciao gp
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