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Dear gliding enthusiasts,

Dear gliding enthusiasts,

Since late December, we received 93 entries for the 36th World Gliding Championships at Stendal. We are very happy about that, given the current circumstances! We also received many questions on how the Pandemic crisis will influence the competition. So let us give you a quick update on where we are with our preparations for the 36th WGC at Stendal.

So far, we arranged towplanes and facilities, worked on official documents and reached out to various authorities. So all the basic work is in progress and continuing. But we are also working under the assumption that the competition will happen under significant Covid-19 restrictions. The full extent of these restrictions is not fully clear yet, so we delayed the deadline for entry-fee payment until April 30th. The Invitation Bulletin was updated accordingly.

A few restrictions are already known. We expect not to be able to host any visitors beside contest participants. Furthermore, hotels and restaurants are still closed in Germany. So all teams who are hosted outside of the camping ground are encouraged to reach out to their hosts and check if their reservations are still valid. All participants who did not register yet via our registration form are asked to complete this until 7th of March. This helps us in our preparations.

Further alignment with the public health authorities will happen during March. We are planning to give a more precise update on these restrictions in late March / early April.

All the best to you and stay safe!

Henning and Christoph for the whole Organizing Team

Please find the relevant documents to have your license validated in our Downloads section. The general process is described in our License Validation Bulletin. It also outlines which licenses will have to be validated.

We just published the new invitation bulletin for the 36th World Gliding Championships in the Open, 18m and 20m Multi-Seat classes. The document is available in our Download section.

Besides the new schedule, there are two relevant changes compared to 2020:

1. The Covid-19 pandemic forces us to add more facilities than we planned with. Hence we asked the IGC to raise the entry fee from 850€ to 1,000€. This is subject to approval of the IGC Plenary Meeting.
2. In early November, the new international airport of Berlin was opened. The former airport of Berlin Tegel will be closed in early 2021. This goes along with changes in the airspace structure. They are already visible in the map of our contest area on the last page of the bulletin.

As always, feel free to ask any questions via email to info@wgc2021.de.

We are aiming for the same period in mid to late July and will publish the new schedule for the 36th WGC in 2021 on this site within the next days.

Dear competitors and gliding enthusiasts: the recent dynamics in COVID-19 outbreak requires changes in timelines for entry fees and in refund policies. Please refer to our COVID-19-Bulletin for further information.

We just published another bulletin and the related application form in our documents section. It contains relevant information for pilots without EASA-license who want to fly a glider under the registry of Germany or another EASA country.