WeGlide Weekly Podcast about pilots and their flight stories
Flying Endless Cloud Streets - 1247km with Frerk Frommholz in North Germany
Yes, we are a bit late - but it was worth waiting... (explanation at the beginning of the podcast) My guest this week is none other than Frerk Frommholz himself. If you have been active on WeGlide, you know him - he has published a nice blog, and is generally not unknown in the gliding world. Frerk has done an incredible flight on 25th April 2021 which he presents in the #5 episode of Flight Club. The flight: 1.247 km, 10 hours 15 Min, 123km/h - insane! Here you can see it: Flight https://weglide.org/flight/51820His profile on WeGlide: https://weglide.org/user/156Topics: - Early start- His motivation to fly- Experience over result- North Germany flying techniques- Some Namibia stuff- the Ventus 3M 😍- Blockspeed- and many other interesting topics Thank you for your feedback so far - we really appreciate it and that is what we do it for. As always, if you have questions --> send them to podcast@weglide.org or comment on Instagram @weglide Thanks for tuning in and listening to us babblers
5/12/2021 • 1 hour, 47 seconds
Cruising through snow showers - Arne Röpling's 1000km from Germany
Arne Röpling, commercial pilot and a very talented glider pilot from Germany is my guest in episode #3. We are good friends, for Flight Club we switched to English to make the flight and Arne's story accessible for everybody interested in gliding and cross country flying. Will it be the flight of the month? Arne's flight: https://weglide.org/flight/48083, 1030km, 119,86 km/h We start at 26:00 to talk about the flight. WeGlide is a new online portal for gliding that has been online since January 2021 and uses state-of-the-art technologies to provide an interactive and social platform that offers pilots unimagined opportunities and will accompany the sport of gliding into the future.