Hot Air Ballooning School

The Cameron Italia ballooning school has been active since 1983 in Cueno province, Piedmont, north-west Italy, and has trained many pupils from all over the world. We have BBAC and Italian approved instructors and training is only done on a one to one basis.

Most of the flights will be from Cuneo airport and from Mondovi airstrip. The pupil may get all the hours needed here and then go to England for the flight test, or we can arrange a flight check here with a UK examiner. In our region the weather is normally so good that the pupil can log a lot of hours in a few days with very low hotel cost. The average training day has two flights of two or three hours.

Once a pupil has got his ppl and needs to log all the hours for the CPL, he can fly with one of our balloons, under the supervision of one of our pilots.

Giovanni Aimo, who runs the school, is fluent in English and has around 5000 hours as a P1 in hot-air balloons, gas balloons and hot-air airships. He has been Italian champion 4 times and has taken part, since 1982, in most of the world and european ballooning championships.