There is a flying tip and an acronym index at the bottom of the report for those not understanding some of the weather jargon. ;)

17 June 2026

Good morning all you super cool Wild2fly people! A pleasant enough flying day yesterday with Sedge delivering some goods during the mid-day time period. Climbs to 1000ft doable. Then Gerrickes bench up sortie produced 5 failed attempts. lol but a pleasant enough flying day. ;) Barberton Champs still ongoing with a tough day yesterday. Notably Cal Dyker making goal on his EN-C glider flying with the top guns! ;) Results here:
https://civlcomps.org/event/barberton-paragliding-open-2026/results  A flight I missed from Sven and Rico on the 11th of this month from Worcester airfield. Have a look here https://www.weglide.org/flight/1116300 A nice 400km plus triangle. :)) Then a huge flight by Veso from Bulgaria flying from Hunsa in Pakistan - 231km out and return climbing to 6738m!  https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:Flytheearth/16.06.2026/02:47 35 flights over 100km on Xcontest. On to our weather for today. A Cut of Low over our neighbour Nam - you can see it clearly on the 10k vertical velocity map - see below. So cold and rain up in the dessert! ;) For us in Wilderness looks like a weak ridge along the southern parts form the SAH so a SE expected by the end of the day however, Skysight says very light easterly winds this morning into midday and only at lunchtime a SSE wind picking up with 10kn bits. Some Q's popping up in the mid to late afternoon too (see the Wilderness cloud base map below) To me it looks like a Sedge session then or you could try PR for a nice into wind flight towards Gerrickes point with an easy return leg around lunchtime today. :)) Lekker! ;) Low tide this morning at 11:09 and high tide is at 17:31. Sunrise was at 7:34 and setting at 17:27. Daylight of 9 hrs and 54 min. Max temps today another cool 17 degrees C in Wilderness! Have a lekker one everybody and as always, remember also to take a moment and reflect on God. :) That’s really what life is all about. (John 10:10. Rom 10:9. Eph 4:31-32.)

Todays flying tip: Pods must be set up before flying - do so! You might be surprised at suddenly finding new comfort levels. ;)

Map top landing Site briefing here: https://wild2fly.co.za/index.php/weather-wilderness/weather-wilderness-history 

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