A friend of mine commented the other day that he couldn’t find a decent logging application that could create log entries from IGC files. I have a fair bit of experience with automating Excel spreadsheets using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), and I was bored out of my skull (it’s winter, don’t you know), so…
Today,…weather…. related to sport/ soaring and our soaring mates . I was very much impressed with the devastating conditions one of our soaring mates is dealing with cause of the terrible drought in the Southern part of Queensland in Australia.Sharing what Bruce Taylor and his wife Anita and a lot of other farmers are getting…
Klaus Ohlmann is back in the Himalayas: On January 28th 2014 he and his copilot Jona Keimer found breezy but perfect conditions to cruise along the highest mountain on Earth. Using wave and ridge lift the Stemme S 10 climbed up to 29,000 feet msl and soared into the heart of the Himalayas. Equipped with…
A few days ago, on January 23rd, the Mountain Wave Project (MWP) accomplished a first flight over the Himalayas in one of their Stemme S 10 equipped with a special camera to take high-resolution pictures of the highest mountains and deepest gorges on Earth. The goal is to model 3-D-pictures of remote mountainous regions to…
How to create Public Interest in Soaring On both sides of the Atlantic Ocean most media only pick up negative stories about air sports. I hate to see that in public our beloved hobby has quite a negative image. While living in the United States I regularly found articles about crashed planes in my local…
Fantastic to read that 2 times Female World Champion Susanne Schoedel is the new Secretary General of the FAI. Great choice, great lady. And,..as I read the first lady doing this job. She starts on March 1.Good on her! You surely remember her unselfish behavior during the WGC in Uvalde ,where she was one of…
… and for the first time in history it is a woman! The German record pilot Susanne Schoedel will start her new assignment with the FAI in March. Susanne who just returned from a gliding camp in Bitterwasser, and supplied the world of soaring with good news is currently busy with the German women soaring…
Australia is mostly flat, certainly between Kingaroy in Queensland [ North of Brisbane]and Tocumwal,[300 km. North of Melbourne] so no wave, sheer-wave yes ,no ridge soaring , just you , your glider, the thermals and in this case also the wind. Chris Woolley flew 1. 300 km. from Kingaroy to TocumwaL in his Ventus 2CM/18…
The German glider pilot Susanne Schödel recently returned from another winter escape to Namibia. Back in the mild and wet German winter she is now busy unpacking her bags, and she brought some nice African souvenirs with her luggage: a new continental and a new world record! Susanne has already achieved two world records in…
The overseas season is in full swing and as you know there are pilots who love to fly long distances , whilst others love to fly records, and some prefer to fly comps as Nationals or State Comps and if possible they fly long distance combined with good speed during those comps, as well. Both…
