A skydiver in freefall under an open canopy above green fields In the air

Fly the plane yourself over the Circeo lakes and dunes

Sabaudia

You sit in the left seat with the instructor beside you, and you fly it: the take-off, the turns over the dunes, and the landing back onto the strip.

How the day goes

  1. Briefing on the ground at the Sabaudia airfield, inside the national park.
  2. You take it off yourself, with the instructor's hands close and not on the controls.
  3. Out over the dunes, the coastal lakes and the Circeo, then back over the strip.
  4. You land it too. That is the whole point of the morning.

It is a flight school, not a joyride operator: expect a lesson wrapped around the view.

Where it is

Sabaudia at its real position from Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.

Sabaudia, and where it is from Rome Sabaudia drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 101 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 101 min Rome Sabaudia

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Strada Provinciale Litoranea, 8258 - 04016 Sabaudia (LT), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 41drive from the middle of Rome
  • 98 kmeach way
  • Rent a car for the day

    The day stays yours: you leave when you want, stop where you want, and come back when the light goes.

    • You pick it up in Rome and drop it back in Rome
    • No timetable to build the day around
    • The stops on the way are the good part, and they need a car

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  • Have a driver take you, door to door

    No parking to find, no wrong turns, and you leave when the day is done.

    • Picked up where you are staying, dropped back there
    • No parking to find and no ZTL to worry about
    • Nobody spends the day driving

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Also around Sabaudia

Sabaudia On the trail

The free sea and coast museum of Sabaudia

Four rooms in the centre of Sabaudia holding palaeontological, prehistoric and Roman finds together with marine organisms, an aquarium and a virtual dive.

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Tandem paragliding over Norma

Fifteen minutes in the air over Norma strapped to a pilot, or ninety if you want.

A sports club — you join them for the day

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Tandem paragliding over the Pontine plain

Tandem paragliding flight from the take-off site at Norma, on the edge of the Lepini mountains, over the Pontine plain and towards the sea.

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Photograph by Ewan Cowie Photography, Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 4.0. Not this place: it shows what the day looks like, and will be replaced with the operator's own photograph or ours from the field.

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