{"id":18915,"date":"2020-07-14T08:56:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T06:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dg-flugzeugbau.de\/en\/?p=18701"},"modified":"2021-02-08T19:03:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T18:03:17","slug":"mit-ls8-bundesliga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dg-aviation.de\/en\/dg-aircraft-news\/mit-ls8-bundesliga\/18915","title":{"rendered":"Catching the Bundesliga Day Victory with a LS8-e neo"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>With an average speed of more than 141km\/h Holger Back<\/a> catched the daily victory in German Gliding Bundesliga on Sunday. This high speed impressively shows that the LS8-e neo’s<\/a> performace remains excellent despite of the FES propeller folded to the fuselage.<\/p>\n On Saturday the weather was already good allowing a couple of 1000km flights to be performed above Germany. But Sunday was predicted to have better weather in a larger area. A cloud base of more than 2600m and climb rates above 5m\/s made the day the best of the year so far.<\/p>\n Taking-off very late, Holger decides to go for a good rank in the German Bundesliga. A good ranking requires a high average speed in a window of 2,5 hours. The task started at Bruchsal airfield. With his LS8-e neo “71” Holger flew to Bamberg in the North of Nuernberg. Despite of the head wind, he was able to set a high speed due to wonderful cloud streets and high average climb rates. The next turn-point was close to Pirmasens in the very West of Germany. Back in Bruchsal Holger closed the flight with an average speed of 141km\/h. What a day!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A last trip to Wallduern allowed completing a 830km OLC-Plus flight with 130km\/h average speed! What if he had taken-off earlier!?\u00a0<\/p>\n With Stefan Goeldner<\/a> and Dirk Stroebl<\/a> two more DG employees were able to fly more than 120km\/h with their LS8 neo.<\/p>\n 71 flights above 1000km and countless flight close to this distance show how really good this day was. Alexander Mueller marked the top of the ranking with his EB-29 and more than 1.300km. But the second rank is maybe even more impressive. Eric Schneider from Hammelburg flew 1.116km with an LS8 neo!<\/p>\n