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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.
Moritz Althaus WeGlide Badges We are excited to finally announce WeGlide Badges, opening up new horizons for beginners and experienced pilots.
Matthew Scutter SkySight Update Matthew Scutter explains how better modeling of soil moisture helps SkySight to improve their soaring forecasts.
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.
Moritz Althaus Newsletter #11 Schnelle Flüge auf der Südhalbkugeln, neue Listen bei WeGlide und Flüge in 3D. Im Newsletter erfährst du alles Wichtige der letzten Monate. Fast flights in the southern hemisphere, new list design on WeGlide and flights in 3D. Read the most important events in the Newsletter.
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.
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 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 Soaring New Zealand Some spectacular flights were done in New Zealand on Monday, 20th of Dezember. Michael Oakley takes us along on his flight.
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 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.