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

20 April 2026

Good morning all you amazing Wild2fly people! Not flying weather yesterday - not in the whole country it seemed. ;) Loads of rain in CT and jus a few drops in Wilderness last night. I huge 288km straight line distance flight from France. Fouret on his Enzo3- all flat lands from Notre-dame-de-la-Mer launch. Not getting above 2000m once on the whole flight. Cool pics too.  ;) A few long ones from here.  https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:RomeoFoxtrot77/19.04.2026/10:17 And then the UK had a good day with a few flights over 100km and a couple passing 200km. This one the longest from Richard also on a Enzo 3 https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:Richardbutty/19.04.2026/10:05 Just 53 flights over 100km yesterday on Xcontest. (compared to the day before at 432!) That’s a crazy number. lol So on to today’s weather. It’s still these CF dominating with strong westerly winds all over. Once again loads of wave formations - see the lift map for 10k below. Wow. Some cool waves over the Berg once more. Mount Fletcher with another 7.5m/s climbs that will take you past 36000ft in no time. ;) lol. Speaking of wave - here's a cool flight from UK pilot Jonathan Hitchman this month - playing in wave lift at Northumbria. ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxeZAYvO-Gk A weak one compared to thee SA waves! lol ;) Still some rain over the CT mountains today and for Wilderness strong NW to west winds all day long. Except for a sudden backing to the SW around 17:00 this afternoon. So looks like we might get a chance to fly people! lol Yup, winds backing to a flyable direction with Sedge and the coast being doable very late in the afternoon. So we can live for that. ;) lol Did you guys see the cloud base height for Sedge today!? Wowser! (See the SkewT graph below) How do we get into that? We might have to do towing for these kind of days... Hhhmm... lol. Next good day still looking like Wednesday. Fingers crossed! Low tide this morning at 11:44 and high tide at 17:42. Sunrise was at 6:56 and setting at 18:01. Daylight of 11 hrs and 5 min! Max temps today a cool 20 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: Youtube has loads of flying material. But beware! Not everything on there is accurate or good. ;)

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

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