Foggia was selected as fuel stop for its location and reputation. There are very few airfields in southern Italy\u00a0which have Avgas, offer customs and are close enough to the final destination of the day, Kerkira.
\nThe lack of proper (fuel available) alternates\u00a0for Kerkira, practically require the fuel stop to be close enough\u00a0to allow for\u00a0a return to the departure airfield even when over the final destination.
\nUnfortunately, Foggia did not live up to its good GA reputation (eddh.de, other sources). We lost more than an hour on fueling expensive at 3\u20ac\/l (approx 16$\/gal!!!) Avgas and watching an airport rep\u00a0taking forever to\u00a0print a paper slip to\u00a0enable us\u00a0to pay the landing fees\u00a0of\u00a0another twentyish Euros. To top it off, despite emails and phone calls ahead of time, customs was not organized as it should have been. We were lucky that this didn’t delay us any further.<\/p>\n
While Greece took a lot of effort for flight planning and then the actual operation turned out to be very easy, Italy was quite the opposite. At first sight,\u00a0Italy is pretty easy flight planning wise, but then turns out to be quite a pain for operation. Controllers tend to have a VFR-averse attitude and\u00a0airspace structure is set to mainly keep you below 2000ft AGL. Despite this, I managed to get a decent economic\u00a0cruising level of FL115 for the better part of the flight, but it required hints and suggestive communication\u00a0all the time.
\nAlso, the scenery along the Italian Adriatic coast is quite boring.<\/p>\n
So based on our experience and the excellent reports out of Croatia (which we will fly through on the way back)\u00a0I would advise against taking the Italian route unless necessary for weather or other reasons.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n
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\n<\/strong><\/em>Planned Distance: 404 NM
\nActually Flown Distance (TO to LDG):\u00a0424 NM
\nTop Ground Speed: 182 kts
\nAverage Ground Speed: 153.5 kts
\nTrue Flight Time: 02:46
\nBlock Time: 02:57<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"