Great first day / The weather for the following week looks tricky... I bought maps for Germany, western Poland, Czech, Slovakia and Austria. I will go wherever the weather window tries to hide :-) ... for the next days Czech and Slovakia seem to fit. Hence I decided to go to Vrchlabi.
OLC-Flight-Route
... but first packing needed to be done....

Our new sting is towing at Riesa Canitz airport, piloted by Wolfgang

Ready!!!

my heart beats for "traveling by glider"


22km into that direction lies Vrchlabi... but how to get there?

.. finally at the mountains...

... after two hours I arrived in Vrchlabi... very easy with 35km/h tail wind... weather was still good ... so here is the cloud street against the wind... 50km with no circle.... but got washed down at the end... so had to find a way to cross the Riesengebirge for the second time

home for the first night: Vrchlabi airport



Very friendly.... it feels like being home very quickly :-)

In the restaurant next to the flight school where I will sleep, there a group from the Netherlands is playing "Always look on the bright side of life" ... I do....

Vrchlabi is a great place for gliding camps.... thermals start early and end late... plenty of beds at flight school... fair prices, two restaurants and very friendly people..

Last day.... going home to Riesa - 400km for the day

fully packed and ready to go...

First clouds over the hills

First clouds in flat land right after Chiemsee... too far away for the the Jantar... so engine usage for 10 minutes

...east of Munich...

Crossing the Isar River (looking towards Munich)

after 200km high clouds coming in....

.... above glide path... the clouds still looked nice... after checking the kite surfing forcast for next day for the baltic sea, I decided to land without extending the flight in order to reach the night train to the coast... after 12 days of flying every day, I am looking forward to do kite surfing again...

Home of the Jantar... D-KAZF did good, really enjoyed flying it...

Great flying day again. In the morning I checked the weather forecast, it said that for the following day the german-austrian boarder will be one of the few (two) areas for flying in Germany. Looking to the map of travelbyglider.eu it seemed like Unterwoessen would be the right place to land today. I also needed a place in a hangar, because light rain was forcasted for the night. The entry of Unterwoessen showed, that a place in the hangar for a 15m gider can be arranged in most cases... so I called the given number and got conformation... no problem they said.

After "Schwaebisch Breakfast" with Uli and his friends I started at noon towards Unterwoessen.

Here is the Bodensee. The flight later was a bit difficult between Friedrichshafen and Memmingen airspace... at that time only every 3rd cloud worked...

... but when arriving on the first hills of the alps it got better.

Forggensee

Walchensee

Tegernsee

Inn River

The athmosphere in Unterwoessen is very nice, could join the flight school for delicious dinner and got offered a room by local club.... also washed clothes... here is also a travel by glider group from Bremen...

First many thanks to the very friendly and helpful Straubing gliding club.

The conditions today have been difficult, first low cloud base and weak thermals. The head wind was 20km/h. Later much better conditions, but sometimes larger distances between the clouds... used the engine to reach next clould. Hopefully I got far enough north to have flyable conditions tmr.

Along the Donau

Regensburg

Burg Feuerstein ... final destiantion for today