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Stuttgart Akaflieg is performing test flights for their tow plane fs35.
In 2003, the Akaflieg Stuttgart was looking for an efficient and safe towplane for their club. They quickly realised that the available planes were not ….
Klaus Ohlmann hunts for soaring records again!
On 13.12.2019 Klaus Ohlmann flew from Zapala in Argentina with 2.831 km his third largest flight so far. The visible satellite image of the GOES-16 weather satellite shows very nicely the waves …
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.
The 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.
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.
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