Ritt auf der “Jahrhundertwelle”

View of Landau from 4,000 meters to the north with Lenti, right, the secondary wave

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Last weekend (Feb 5th and Feb 6th 2011) we had the strongest mountain wave ever experienced in the Rhine valley.

Altitudes reached were FL240 – not too shabby for mountains that are only 1.500 ft high in average, isn’t it? :)

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/daily.html?st=olcp&rt=ol…

Climb rates were up to 12 kts (usually we are glad to exceed 2 kts).
Unfortunately we seldom exceed 7.000 ft in this part of Germany, so only a couple of lucky guys were equipped with Transponders and Oxygen that allowed them to climb past FL100.

Publicity-wise this day was hugely successful, too.  We got a couple of huge articles in nationwide newspapers, some of
them one third of a page!

For the German-speaking readers:  http://www.bilderhoster.net/safeforbilder/mt69yv2k.jpg

We got literally hundres of high-quality photos and videos (many of  the air-to-air from close range) – you can find some of the pictures here:
http://www.schwerewelle.de/
http://www.schwerewelle.de/berichte/2011/05.02.2011/pfaelzer-wald-haa…
http://www.schwerewelle.de/berichte/2011/05.02.2011/pfaelzer-wald-haa…
http://www.schwerewelle.de/berichte/2011/05.02.2011/pfaelzer-wald-haa…

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