Flightpaths from Bavaria-Glide / Open Class

Some pilots at the pre-worlds "Bavaria-Glide" were very fast, others needed a lot more time to accomplish the tasks. What role did their route decisions play in this game? What made some pilots fast, what slowed others down? Are there tricky areas in the competition area of the next World Gliding Championships at Bayreuth?

The data from the GNSS-flightrecorders will tell you the secrets. They are now available as IGC files which can be anlaysed with software like Strepla (look at the result monitor for examples), CAL and Flight Planner 4 (screenshot on mainpage of "Site").

The files of every pilot are put together in one ZIP-file for download. Every IGC-file is in the general form "CS-DD.IGC", where CS means the contest and DD the flying day. At average the files are 200 to 400 kB big. The list presents the pilots in the order of the final result after nine contest days.

Rk Pilot Plane Nat. CS Points
1 SCHROEDER/KAR0W/SOMMER NIMBUS 4 GER X 7610
2 SCHWENK, ULI ASW 22BL GER KS 7091
3 LUEBBEN, NATALIE ASW 22BLE GER 22 7029
4 CENTKA ,JANUSZ ASW 22B POL AI 7013
5 KURSTJENS, GERRIT NIMBUS 4 NED IVW 6911
6 BUCHANNAN, E. JOHN NIMBUS 3/25.5 AUS GB 6832
7 BAUMGARTL/GANTENBRINK NIMBUS 4T GER YY 6785
8 WUJCAK/FRACKO ASH 25 POL LOT 6581
9 SOERBYE, ERLEND NIMBUS 4DM NOR 4D 6549
10 KOPSIEKER, CARSTEN NIMBUS 3D GER Y1 6477
11 LHERM/PARIS ASH 25 FRA TP 6459
12 SCHILD, RUEDI NIMBUS 3/25.5 SUI IB 6395
13 HERZOG/RAST ASH 25 SUI HB 6383
14 LODES, HARTMUT ASW 22BL GER KL 6186
15 MAY, ROBIN ASH 25 GBR 13 5974
16 GRUND/BACK ASH 25 GER 25M 5968
17 KREMER, EDGAR ASW 22BL GER AS 5886
18 RABEDER/KRO. ASH 25 AUT T 5810
19 THUT, DANIEL ASH 25 SUI IQ 5805
20 KOCEVAR, UROS NIMBUS 3/25.5 SLO CO 5390
21 BRASHER, GARY NIMBUS 3/25.5 AUS K6 5250
22 REHN, EGON OTTO ASH 25 BRA PC 5029
23 REBENSTOCK/BE ASH 25 GER JP 3908
24 RAKITSKI, DMITRI JANTAR 2B RUS 8 3373
25 JANSEN/AYGAT ASH 25 AUS CE 2506

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Last updated November 27, 1998