Matthias Arnold Eva Senne | A successful Newcomer Between Eva's first 500km and her 1000km flight, there is not even a year. In this interview, Eva reveals details about her success.
Matthias Arnold Tilo Holighaus | Sailplane Manufacturer and Grand-Prix Champion Time and again, Tilo Holighaus lets us in on his flying adventures in exciting flight stories. In this interview, he tells us a little more about himself and his flights.
Moritz Althaus User Messages, Tasks in XCSoar and 3058 km in the US The gliding summer is in full swing. High temperatures, fast speeds and many special flights. Find out what happened in the past weeks and which new feature you should not miss.
Moritz Althaus Matthias Arnold | Welcome to the Team We chat with Matthias about in-flight decisions, his favorite glider, and why he is joining WeGlide as an editor.
Moritz Althaus WeGlide Tasks in XCSoar Almost ten thousand tasks are declared and successfully circumnavigated with WeGlide each season. Now we have some exciting updates for you.
Moritz Althaus User Messages We are thrilled to announce an exciting new feature on WeGlide, allowing you to connect with fellow glider pilots. Our platform now offers a messaging feature that allows you to communicate seamlessly with other pilots via email.
Joshua Rieger Gliding at Night | The Comeback After Over Half a Century Let's recap Gordon Boettger's awesome journey to break the 3000km mark in gliding. What an achievement!
Joshua Rieger Experience Gliding in Romania A chat with Iulian Sorin Chisu-M about this year's 1000 km wave flight and the gliding culture in Romania. Moreover, the big "Ohlmann" question: are there also missing links in Eastern Europa?
Joshua Rieger Exploring the Southern Alps | WeCoach Puimoisson The WeCoach winners Lukas Brune and Jannis Däuble report on their time in Puimoisson. Many impressions were made, and even a jump into the Massif Central was possible.
Karol Müller Gliding the redline | WeCoach Worcester, 2022 15.000 km and 130 hours of air time were the results of WeCoach 2022 in South Africa. Karol Müller talks about his adventure in Worcester.
Joshua Rieger Soaring the Ligurian Sea Baptiste Innocent has done it again. Flying from the French Alps to Corsica and Sardinia. We were interested to hear what he had to share with us afterward.
Samuel Leihkamm Badges, Notifications and 2000 km in Europe WeGlide Badges, Push Notifications and custom waypoints. We have added many new features for your perfect start into the season.
Matthias Arnold Eva Senne | A successful Newcomer Between Eva's first 500km and her 1000km flight, there is not even a year. In this interview, Eva reveals details about her success.
Matthias Arnold Tilo Holighaus | Sailplane Manufacturer and Grand-Prix Champion Time and again, Tilo Holighaus lets us in on his flying adventures in exciting flight stories. In this interview, he tells us a little more about himself and his flights.
Moritz Althaus Matthias Arnold | Welcome to the Team We chat with Matthias about in-flight decisions, his favorite glider, and why he is joining WeGlide as an editor.
Joshua Rieger Gliding at Night | The Comeback After Over Half a Century Let's recap Gordon Boettger's awesome journey to break the 3000km mark in gliding. What an achievement!
Joshua Rieger Experience Gliding in Romania A chat with Iulian Sorin Chisu-M about this year's 1000 km wave flight and the gliding culture in Romania. Moreover, the big "Ohlmann" question: are there also missing links in Eastern Europa?
Joshua Rieger Soaring the Ligurian Sea Baptiste Innocent has done it again. Flying from the French Alps to Corsica and Sardinia. We were interested to hear what he had to share with us afterward.
Joshua Rieger 2022 - A Gliding Recap Even if the 2023 season is already active in the ratings, we like to look back on the past season at the end of the year.
Joshua Rieger 1400km of Thermal Gliding | Alexander Müller On July 5th of this year, Alexander Müller flies the longest route of his life flown in Germany. Over 500 people follow the final hours in WeGlide Live. A long conversation about a long flight and far beyond.
Joshua Rieger Vive la Fayence - A New Dimension of Gliding 23 times over 1000 km and three times more than 1100 km, all in just seven days. The result of the seven-day Youngster Camp 2022!
Joshua Rieger Welcome to 15m Class, Uwe Wahlig A conversation with Uwe Wahlig about the past German 15m-Nationals in which he scored an astonishing fourth place with his LS3.
Joshua Rieger Pushing Limits with Baptiste Innocent Baptiste is famous for his fantastic long-haul flights in the last years. After the declared 1500km flight from the 9th of June 2022, we had a lot of questions to ask him.
Joshua Rieger Davide Giovanelli | The 2000km weekend Davide Giovanelli covered an impressive 1300km in his Discus 2b last Saturday. Here he gives us some insights.
Moritz Althaus WeGlide Tasks in XCSoar Almost ten thousand tasks are declared and successfully circumnavigated with WeGlide each season. Now we have some exciting updates for you.
Samuel Leihkamm Push-Notifications Brand new: With push notifications from WeGlide, you'll never miss flights and comments from your friends again.
Samuel Leihkamm New: Custom waypoint files Keyboard support for the task planner, your own waypoint collections and a cleaner task overview page.
Samuel Leihkamm 3D Flight View WeGlide flights can now be viewed in 3D with all subscriptions. The feature is mature and works performant on mobile devices.
Moritz Althaus What You See Is All There Is This story is about seeing the bigger picture of what is going on in the atmosphere, about understanding how a day is developing.
Patrick McMahon Step 1: Proving Grounds Do you remember the first time you flew beyond final glide of your home gliderport? Did it feel rebellious, liberating, terrifying?
Moritz Althaus The Trick to Flying Faster On every single flight, we make hundreds of small mistakes. Understanding and adapting your flying style will help you increase your cross-country speed.
Moritz Althaus Custom Filters Announcing Custom Filters. See what interests you the most at a glance.
Moritz Althaus Distance Calculation Historically, there have been many different ways to calculate the distance between two points on earth. Which one is used by WeGlide?
Moritz Althaus User Messages We are thrilled to announce an exciting new feature on WeGlide, allowing you to connect with fellow glider pilots. Our platform now offers a messaging feature that allows you to communicate seamlessly with other pilots via email.
Moritz Althaus WeGlide Badges We are excited to finally announce WeGlide Badges, opening up new horizons for beginners and experienced pilots.
Johannes Dibbern XCSoar Update | Download Declared Tasks The newest XCSoar release brings Task Download to your device!
Moritz Althaus Weight & Wing Loading You can now enter your takeoff weight for each flight and let others know the wing loading you were flying at.
Moritz Althaus Compare Any Flight We have launched a long-requested feature: You can now compare a flight to any other flight of the same day, no matter if they have a meeting or not.
Moritz Althaus All new Satellite Images Breathtaking quality and video-like playback. Powered by SkySight, we have launched our all-new, worldwide, satellite images.
Samuel Leihkamm Future Plans Build a website pilots enjoy using. Promote gliding as a sport. Develop tools that help you become a better pilot.
Moritz Althaus New Analysis Features The season in the northern hemisphere is slowly gearing up - check out our newest analysis feature to get ready.
Moritz Althaus Announcing WeGlide Segments A completely new kind of gliding competition. Compare yourself to pilots in your area or chase your shadow.
Moritz Althaus Late Night Soaring - Flight of the month August Tune in this Thursday, 9.9 at 18:30 UTC when the winner will be announced.
Joshua Rieger Zachary Yamauchi | Gliding in South Africa American junior pilot Zachary Yamauchi, one of this year's winners of the JSChallenge gives us some insights about the competition and how he managed to be on top of the scoring lists.
Joshua Rieger Fastest Man on Earth by Glider We have a new fastest man on earth. Not from Jamaica, but from Argentina instead. Let's get to know Juan Pablo Verdura and his wave flying in Argentina.
Joshua Rieger James Nugent | Redefining Club Class James Nugent, from Australia, stirred up the WeGlide ranking by doing an astonishing 1000km flight with his LS 3. We talk with him to find out how he did it!
Moritz Althaus Puimoisson | Gliding in Provence While this is not a classical interview of our winner series, Puimoisson topped the 2021 airfield ranking. We talk with Alfred Spindelberger about mountain flying, how safety has improved over the years, and future plans.
Moritz Althaus Eric Schneider | A Rising Star Eric Schneider will compete for Germany in the coming Junior World Championships. We talk with him about flying electric gliders and how we won the German Juniors.
Moritz Althaus Michael Sommer | Pushing the Limits We talk with Michael Sommer about his Out & Return ambitions and whether he will return to Grand Prix flying someday.
Moritz Althaus Katrin Senne | Escaping the Peloton Katrin has won the Women's Free and Sprint competition on WeGlide. An interview about gliding in South Africa and why Grand Prix flying is similar to a road bike race.
Moritz Althaus Yves Gerster | Never Stop Exploring Yves has shared many interesting flights with us this season. We got the chance to talk to him after he won the WeGlide Sprint competition for Europe.
Moritz Althaus Mathias Schunk | Alpine Adventures Mathias is one of Germany's most famous pilots and this year's winner of the WeGlide Explore cup.
Moritz Althaus Markus Geisen | Ridge Runner We were quite excited to talk to Markus, this year's winner of the WeGlide sprint competition.
Moritz Althaus Bernd Dolba | Under the African Sun Bernd has won the WeGlide Free competition for Africa. An interview about creativity and the right mindset for gliding.
Moritz Althaus LSV Rinteln | German Champion The LSV Rinteln team has won the DMSt Bundesliga. We talk with Reinhard Schramme about league flying and the Weser hills.
Joshua Rieger Exploring the Southern Alps | WeCoach Puimoisson The WeCoach winners Lukas Brune and Jannis Däuble report on their time in Puimoisson. Many impressions were made, and even a jump into the Massif Central was possible.
Karol Müller Gliding the redline | WeCoach Worcester, 2022 15.000 km and 130 hours of air time were the results of WeCoach 2022 in South Africa. Karol Müller talks about his adventure in Worcester.
Joshua Rieger Gliding in South Africa, Are You Excited? In February, we announced the start of the JSChallenge. Two juniors get the opportunity to experience an adventure in South Africa. Now the winners are nominated, let's get to know them.
Joshua Rieger WeCoach | A memorable experience at Puimoisson Eric Schneider and Gerrit Neugebauer had a great time in Puimoisson. Finally, the two wrote down a few impressions.