Glider Flying in Germany
 

Hey Folks!

I thought I'd add a few pictures I took today while flying. Weather was awesome and I stayed up for an hour. Could've stayed longer, but I was called down so that others could fly. ;-)

I was flying a Schleicher ASK21.

This is an air-to-air shot with a KA6:
http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/543/cimg0501yl2.jpg

And a cockpit shot. Remember, the airspeed indicator is in km/h, not knots.
http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/4231/cimg0510en6.jpg

And a little pic of myself while flying! Sorry for the very concentrated face! ;-)
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/913/cimg0529pf0.jpg

And three more:

Diiiiivvvvveee!!! :-D
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/4122/cimg0523wx8.jpg


The turn into the dive above:
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/6973/cimg0522qs4.jpg


And a view of the river Elbe.
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/2067/cimg0530wu9.jpg

I hope you liked them a little. No fancy airline stuff, but it's certainly fun flying! And you can pull some Gs too! ;-)

Was this near Schönebeck? My brother visited there a few weeks ago and said he loved it. I'm thinking about going there next year.

Jakob - No need to apologize for "no fancy airline stuff" - I thought these were great! Thanks for sharing, and please post more - really great shots, particularly for someone busy flying the glider.

This was at Uetersen, EDHE. That's just to the west of Hamburg. We'd love to welcome you here anyway! :-)

Thanks for the kind words! I'll try to make some more fotos in future! I don't have many other interesting ones of today. Most of them are very similar to those I already posted as I tried to get a new profile-pic for facebook and took lots of shots of myself. :D Maybe this one: You can see the -0.5Gs and 3Gs I had pulled before! My record was 5.5 though... :D
http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/8049/cimg0511gb8.jpg


Oh yeah, and just as an explanation why I am flying so inefficiently (100+km/h) at 900m (~3000ft) - our airspace ends there because of the D-CTR of Hamburg (EDDH) so unfortunatly we can't go any higher. Sometimes they give us 4000ft... So sometimes you have to push over and fly faster in order not to climb any further.

That looks like way too much fun! ;)

Bet your stick and Rudder skills are superb! Danke fur Ihren foto. Ich war geborn in Tubingen.

It is! :)

Thank you - I hope so! ;) Nice to hear you were born here. I was born in the States but live here for quite a while now. I plan on moving back in about a year though...

I really enjoyed these pictures as I am sure the others did - you now have an obligation to post more :)