Entries by Jon Meis

TopMetSat – reconsidered gliding flight

29. January 2019 in , /by

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.

Around the world in a glider

13. November 2018 in /by

A real option close to Meppen, Emsland, Germany. On 08.07.2018, one day after the successful completion of the Euroglide, I flew from Venlo into the Emsland. North of Meppen, at the old Hüntel power plant,  I was able to circumnavigate the world. Along the equator it was the fastest. With the South Pole, however, no […]