Argentina 09 - 10
Come back and visit this page to know what's going on in the Andes. The Nimbus 4DM is flying nearly every day.
By cliking on the link below, you will be able to follow the flights live. The trak points are regulary sent ( every half hour) by a Spot beacon which Klaus brings onboard his glider.
The gliders are now back in the box, on the way to Europa. We hope to see you back on this page in november 2010 for new adventures.
See the flights live and all the previous one
Click on this link and you'll be able to follow Klaus' flights on a Google map. Unfortunately, we had to leave all the flights on the same map and it will be rapidly difficult to understand. You'll just have to tick on the date you want to see and it will appear.
Enjoy the flight!
We thank the company Sierra Echo for installing this link. The tracking points are sent by a Spot beacon from the cockpit.
Five world records !!!
2511km around 3 declared points
13/12/2009
Copilot: Cristoph Ritter
Take off from San Martin de los Andes at 5h40, landing in San Martin at 21h20. 15h39 flight time
1st point: Laguna Diamante
2nd point: Nord east Bariloche
3rd point: Nord Domullo
Read Klaus' "Pilot report"
OLC igc file
Speed of 198,31 Km/h on an O/R of 1500km
13/12/2009
Copilot: Cristoph Ritter
Take off from San Martin de los Andes at 5h40, landing in San Martin at 21h20. 15h39 flight time
Start point: Nord east Bariloche
Turning point : Laguna Diamante
Read Klaus' "Pilot report"
Speed of 213km/h on an O/R of 1000km
26/12/2009
Copilot Sidonie Ohlmann
Take off at 7h34 from San Martin de los andes, Landing at 19h in San Martin. 11h26 flight time
Start point: Las Coloradas (Wave from Catanlil mountains) at 5300m
Turning point: Nord west of Malargue
Read Klaus' "Pilot report"
OLC igc file
2643 km around 3 declared points
28/12/2009
Copilot: Sidonie Ohlmann
Take off at 5h55 AM from San Martin de los Andes, Landing at 21h15 in Zapala. 15h20 flight time
1st point: 30km in the sud of Esquel
2nd point: Nord west of Malargue
3rd point: Esquel
Read Klaus' "pilot report"
OLC igc file
2200 km free distance strait ahead (to be checked)
12/01/2010
Copilot: Wendelin Hug
Take off from El Calafate. A lot of wind and moisture during the first part of the flight. Blue wave in the north. A very difficult task. Bad visibility forced Klaus to land in San Juan instead of Chilecito. A 2450 km flight was possible.
Just back from three weeks flying with Klaus, Christoph Ritter, owner of the Nimbus 4, sent us this link. I let you guess looking at the pictures, how enthousiatic he was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tQaCeGTjpo