"I still have goose bumps," says Reinhard Schramme. He said he had never seen such great weather at the beginning of the season.
On 25.10.23, Reinhard Schramme and Elmar Erik Fischer took off for the first flight of the Bitterwasser season around 12 noon. After initial blue thermals, clouds appeared after 1 hour in the north until shortly before Rehoboth. Promising thermals!
With an average of 200 km/h at times, the two of them managed a grandiose 973 km in the end.
But that was not enough!
The following day the team flew 898 km.
This is how the season should start!
A stay at the Bitterwasser Lodge is usually beyond the financial means of young pilots. At the same time, the next generation is the key to the future of our wonderful sport—and of the lodge as well. That is why supporting young pilots is a core part of the Bitterwasser Flying Center’s mission.
Early October is the ideal time to prepare the runways for flight operations. You can land at the Bitterwasser Flying Lodge in every which direction—depending on how you look at it, on 8 runways (plus one emergency runway), each in two directions. Jeremias carefully levels the landing area over the course of several weeks.