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

6 October 2026

Good morning all you super cool Wild2fly people! :) A warm stable day yesterday on the coast (The back mountains were going off!) lol. Only dune foefies for the newbies around Wilderness. Some flights at SLP and Kom yesterday. And then Brazil is at it again with 3 flights over 400km yesterday. Th longest from Simon Penz on his X1 covering 466km https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:pezimo/5.10.2026/10:35 1 flights over 300km, 1 over 200km and then 17 flights over 100km. But day before yesterday new updates popped in and it turns out the longest flight was 498km by Krzysztof Martyna and third for the day and keeping the female pilots name high, Swiss pilot Stephanie Westerhuis at 481km! She was flying a Zeno2. https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:steffeli/4.10.2026/09:57 Incidentaly the woman’s world distance record is 552km by another Swiss lady, Yael Margelisch https://www.instagram.com/yaelmargelisch/?hl=en On to our weather for the day, a big SAH pushing in a strong CF into the southern parts of the country. Some wave activity preceding the front and then later on some good cloud streets developing in the intrior. Base is rather low with around 10k (normally its 14k) lol ;) Nam has a smidgeon of high stuff north of Windhoek - see the cloud base map below. For Wilderness it’s all strong SW winds today with rain moving in around 9:30ish. The rain should stop from lunchtime onwards and maybe maybe w might get a chance to do some PKing on the coast. :)) Late late afternoon there is a bit of hope that the winds will drop enough for this to happen. However, it looks strong all day long. But then tomorrow... Ooooh! Tomorrow is looking good. A Sedge to Map day form the looks of things. Who is in to try that one with me tomorrow? :)) Lekker! High tide is at 12:50 and low tide around 6 hrs either side of that. Sunrise was at 6:00 and setting at 18:36. Daylight of 12 hrs and 36 min! :). Max temps today a cold 17 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.)

Todays flying tip: Pray before, during and after every flight! :)

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

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