The Wasserkuppe comes to Worcester

The prediction for Friday was not too far out - it turned out to be a light NE, giving good climbs (sometimes 4m/s to 10 000ft) but the thermals were far apart (but when you are high it is not too bad ;-)

I flew in the back seat with the CFI of the Wasserkuppe, Harald Joerges in Hubert's DG500 (thanks to Rudi and Hubert). The flight is on OLC (logger problem, which does not show the low save close to the airfield, courtesy of Harald - who did all the flying, or that we did well in excess of 400km).

Here are some pics taken high over the unlandable terrain of the Groot Winterhoek mountains.

Going north, Citrusdal ahead ...

Looking back South, not often that we see it from this perspective ...

Climbing at 4m/s plus, looking down at the Dasklip PG launchsite

The sun sets (a picture from the Saturday)

Taken from Du Toitskloof pass on the way home ...

the lower cloud will bring some fresh air for Sunday's flying (when Mike Young will be flying in the Taurus with Martin Gruenert, thanks Martin).

EY