FLYING INTO A MINI TORNADO | VLOG 15

Posted by Stefan
On 7. September 2017

My first flight after the Junior Worlds and German Nationals. It should be a chill flight, but at the end it was one of my most exciting and eventful flights of the year. The mini tornado had vertical gusts with more than 12 m/s and at the beginning my glider was nearly turned into an […]

GERMAN CLUB CLASS RECORD?! GLIDING | 768 KM | VLOG 8

Posted by Stefan
On 7. Juni 2017

On Thursday the 1st of June I declared my second-biggest flight with 755 km flown with a Std. Libelle. This flight should be a German club class record over 3 declared waypoints (768 km). The weather conditions were moderate at the first half of the flight, but improved radical short before the second waypoint. With […]

Nothing is impossible | 717 km declared triangle

Posted by Stefan
On 7. Juni 2017

On Tuesday the 16th of May I flew my first DMSt (German decentral championships) flight for this season. The weather forecast was good, but at the end of the day it was very hard to finish the task. Half an hour circling in a 0,3 m/s climb was the only possiblity to get back to […]