Worcester Magic!
An amazing visual wrap-up of the incredible conditions here in Worcester. In the pilots own words, “the most surreal adventure in South Africa’s landscapes”.
His outings included, ridges, oceans, wave, thermals and mountains.
Glider: Schempp-Hirth Arcus T / D-KNRW
What Gliding means? Only Pilots understand …those who get it, get it, those who don’t, don’t.
Escape winter depression with me by flying gliders in Worcester, South Africa.
A perfect post frontal day – the accent was more on thermals than ridge. It was great fun this early in the season. It was difficult to reduce 8h45m of flying to 9mins of video.
In real life Avatar Ikran Gliding Pandora in Real Life – Wave in Worcester.
Amazing look at our visitors and how they get their fantastic flying machines to our shores.
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In short, it is a year long informal soaring competition for members of South African Gliding Clubs. The aim of the competition is to promote gilding in South Africa and to inspire you to fly more and to be more adventurous. Soaring is mostly an individual sport, but by connecting with others, we can gain inspiration from each other. The Bateleur Cup is hosted on the WeGlide online platform, they were gracious enough to create and run the competition for us. WeGlide is a new style flight ladder, where you can upload your flights, create flight stories and see the flights of your friends. Everything is nicely organised for easy access, by pilot, aircraft, class, club and even airfield. It is possible to see a heat map of all the flights in a certain area over a specified time period, thereby clearly highlighting exceptional voyages that were off the beaten track. It is also possible to do some basic flight analysis, see weather overlays and pre-declare tasks which will earn you more points. In the end we compete against each other, mainly for the kudos involved with doing a specific flight or the combination of flights over the season. There will be prizes for the winners of each competition class and for the most inspiring flight of the year. The inter-club rivalry will hopefully also give us a boost and inspire you to go that extra mile. The season runs from the beginning of October to the end of September every year. The rules of the contest are on the WeGlide platform. Go to https://www.weglide.org , register, and take your part in the future of South African Soaring. Support the Bateleur Cup, support South African Gliding