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Wj at the cable station with the 12 Apostles in the back ground yesterday. pic pic! ;)

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The weather and safety outlook for 15 October 2026.

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

14 October 2026

Good morning all you amazing Wild2fly people! :) And another sweet day of flying around Wilderness. Everywhere worked eventually though Sedge never delivered the high climbs we expected. ;) CT peninsula had some good flights - Armin with an unusual one from Kom to Vish Hoek. Wj got a climb to TM and some guys manage some XC at DK. :) https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:Jedimindtricks/13.10.2026/10:55Those pilots in Brazil with 5 flights over 400km yesterday Leszek the longest with 489 on his X1 https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:Lester-XcJunkies/13.10.2026/10:21  3 flights over 300km, 7 flights over 200km - all except one from Brazil. :)) Crazy place! lol Back to our SA weather. Another CF moving in towards the WC - some good wave formations over the WC mountains - look at the beautiful system over the Hex river valley blow (6m/s all the way up!) lol Some CB on the interior east of the trough line. Som nice high bases out there and to the west some good flying is to be had. Nice. :)) Back in Wilderness it looks like some high cloud causing the OD stuff again, so things looked dampened. Some wind in the morning with a possible session on the coastline. By midday this has dropped off with light winds all over. Sedge showing the most promise with the light wind and thermals possibly producing some up stuff. ;) lol It actually looks quite pleasant. Then later in the day more low clouds moving in from the ocean side. It could get even better then. ;) lol Lekker! Low tide is at 11:01 and high tide around 6 hrs either side of that. Sunrise was at 5:50 and setting at 18:42. Daylight of 12 hrs and 53 min! :). Max temps today a cool 19 degrees C in Wilderness! Have a lekker one everybody and as always, remember 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. Phil 4:8).

Todays flying tip: When flying in a pod, cultivate a habit to drop your knees when you hit bad turbulence. ;)

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

Did you know, we do CAA approved Mustache/Parakite introductions and conversions. :)

SA synoptic at 14:00. :)

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SA rain. ;)

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Cloud base for SA at 14:00. :)

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Vertical velocity and wind at 10k. :)

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Hexriver valley wave system today. :)

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Freezing level today :)

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Sedge SkewT :)

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Sedge 3 day Overview. ;)

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Wilderness wind early ;)

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Do you like reading flying related stuff? ;) Check out my old blog for some interesting fun and musings on life and flying around the tropical islands of Seychelles. http://wingsandwhalesharks.blogspot.com/

Wild2Fly weather report Acronym sheet


IOH – Indian Ocean High Pressure System
SAH – Southern Atlantic High Pressure system
LSH - Lesotho High Pressure System
B/S - Boyancy Shear ration
CB - Charlie Bravo, Aviation term for Thunderstorms
CT – Cape Town
CP – Cape Point (or Car Park)
CF - Cold Front
CATS - Clear Air Turbulence
CoL - Cut of Low
GR - Garden Route
EL - East London
GE - Great Escarpment
LR – Lapse Rate
LH – Lions Head
SH – Signal Hill
SLP – Sir Lowries Pass
FB – False Bay
FH - Franschoek
RB - Rondebossie
PV – Porterville
PB - Picketberg
SB - Swartberg Pass
CP – CarPark
BH – Beach Hotel
GP - Gerrickes Point
GCP - Gerrickes Car Park
WC – Western Cape
PE – Port Elizabeth
PA – Port Alfred
WWB - Wrong Way Bob
W – West
OD - Over development
Q's - Cumulous clouds
SW – South West
WSW – West South West etc
MIT - Metrology
MET - Meteoroly
VFR - Visual Flight Rules
FVR - For the dislexic - means same as above... :))
WYSIWIG - What You See Is What You Get.
SHPB - Southern High Pressure Belt
PR - Paradise Ridge
If I have missed anything let me know.

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