Weekend Barbeque

Saturday we met with friends from college for our yearly BBQ event at the Dornach castle. We were lucky and missed the rain. It rained all morning but cleared out in the afternoon and stayed dry the rest of the night. A very enjoyable event - as always.

A couple nice flights

Marcus had a couple of nice flights this past weekend. Saturday was a day that required using the wave lift to cross the southern Black Forest until the connection with the thermals was made near Winzeln. Managed to climb in the wave up to 9.000 feet. Here is the link to the flight file:

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?flightId=-1834576087

And some pictures from the flight:

Heading towards the thermals near Winzeln

View of the Alps near the home airfield

Above the home airfield in 8.700ft

Sunday was another great day with a fantastic run down the Swiss and French Jura to Geneva and back for a total of 563 kilometers. This is the flight file:

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?flightId=-1749801442

And some pictures:

Near Morez in France

Heading towards the turnpoint near St. Claude, France

Pontarlier Airfield, France

Singapore

Just last week Marcus was on a business trip to Singapore. Since it was cheaper to fly home on Sunday instead of Friday or Saturday he could enjoy a weekend running around with his camera :-)

Gliding in the French Alps

Here's a video of Marcus gliding in the French Alps...

Update to our USA Roadtrip 2008

Here is an update to our USA Roadtrip from past fall: We managed to finally get our routing into Google Maps and would like you to join us on the journey: You can follow our route by using this Link here!

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Noch ein Update zu unserer USA Reise: Wir haben die Route mittlerweile im Google Maps abgebildet bekommen. Unter diesem Link könnt ihr die Route nachverfolgen.

Some Photo Art

Gestern habe ich mal wieder auf dem Flugplatz ein paar Winterbilder geschossen. All in all "same same but different". Dennoch gibt es ein paar Bilder, die man posten kann.

Winter in Germany

Well, we're far into 2009 already and so Katrin and I figured we could post some stuff on our blog. For a change we're having quite a winter this year and the higher Black Forest has been under a permanent snow cover since November. The airfield of course, also has been under a constant snow cover so that there has been no flying recently. However, all the snow makes for some great pictures.