Almost 600km at 232 kph Olc speed
Bernd Goretzki and Reinhard Schramme flew almost 600km at 232 kph OLC speed! It must be one of the fastest flights in thermal.
Precipitation and Soaring Climatology in Germany 2019
The amount of precipitation is a good placeholder for getting information about the soaring conditions in a specific region.
Bernd GoretzkiThe seventh 1,000 km flight in 2019
In an earlier article, we had Bernd Goretzki tell us how he approaches the planning of the 1,000 km and 1,000 point flights. Here you can read how the flights and the interview continue!
Convective Line in the Weather Radar
On 07.08.2019 a cold front crossed the south of Germany at noon. Within the compact, closed clouds of this front there was a linear development of precipitation.
Weather for six flights over 1.000 km
This year TopMeteo co-founder Bernd Goretzki (PhD in meteorology) is again on the hunt for long distance flights. From Locktow (southwest of Berlin) he has already managed six flights over the magic 1,000 km and 1,000 points limits in 2019 (see OLC).
We check our predictions ourselves
Already some days in advance the very good gliding conditions for the Tuesday, 2019-05-07, were predicted…
GAFOR of the DWD
Sometimes the weather is really tricky. In order to give pilots more security in flight planning, we have included the GAFOR of the German National Weather Service (DWD) as a second opinion on our website.
AERO 2019 VFR flight conditions
VFR Weather forecast for flights to the Aero 2019. From the middle of the week – just in time for the start of the fair – the approach flight conditions improve significantly. Twice a day (morning and evening) the TopMeteo team will keep you up to date meteorologically …
The structure of the thermals
From my diploma thesis (1996)
In my diploma thesis I examined the logger data of the German Championship in Lüsse. At that time, loggers were still brand new and had just supplanted the barographer and the camera.
TopMetSat – reconsidered gliding flight
On 19.08.2018 I took off for a tourist glider flight . This led me from Jena finally to Regensburg. While I was still digging in the warm air in the Vogtland TopMetSat showed me that it was much better developed south of the border to Bavaria. At the Fichtelgebirge I discovered a great Cumulus line in the satellite image at the northern edge of the Danube valley – nothing but there.
The seventh 1,000 km flight in 2019
Convective Line in the Weather Radar
Weather for six flights over 1.000 km
We check our predictions ourselves
GAFOR of the DWD
AERO 2019 VFR flight conditions
The structure of the thermals
In my diploma thesis I examined the logger data of the German Championship in Lüsse. At that time, loggers were still brand new and had just supplanted the barographer and the camera.
TopMetSat – reconsidered gliding flight
Trip to the AirRace, Budapest 2017
