JWGC 2017, Pociūnai, Lithuania

10/09/2017

Find all the videos related to championships on our Youtube chanel JWGC 2017. All the best moments of those two weeks in Pociūnai airport, Lithuania were captured and put to the final video. Watch below.
Video made by Vismante Ruzgaite.

70 glider pilots from 18 different countries, 2 weeks of competition, 8 days of gliding, one Pociūnai Airport. That was JWGC 2017, Pociūnai, Lithuania. Best ...

03/09/2017

70 glider pilots from 18 different countries, 2 weeks of competition, 8 days of gliding, one Pociūnai Airport. That was JWGC 2017, Lithuania. Best moments of this memorable event in video below.
Video made by Vismante Ruzgaite.
Drone operators: Stefan Langer and Paulius Vėželis (Greitas dronas).
Also, thanks to Martynas Liutkevičius.

28/08/2017

Small aviation project LaikasKi.lt - official communication organizer of championships. Project seeks to promote small aviation and to develop strong relations among public and small aviation community in Lithuania. To achieve their goals they created website: http://laikaski.lt/
Let's share the sky!

27/08/2017

Championships ended up two weeks ago. We would like to thank all the sponsors who made this whole event possible:
1. Organizers of JWGC 2017: FAI, Lithuanian Gliding Sport Federation (LSSF), Aero Club of Lithuania (LAK), Pociūnai - Gliding Club of Kaunas county;
2. Communication organizer LaikasKi.lt project;
3. Main media partner LRT, other media partners magazine "Aviation world" („Aviacijos pasaulis"), kvitrina.com, Laikraštis „Gyvenimas“, Naujasis Gėlupis Media, ETERIS TV;
4. All the sponsors: "Regitra", Panevėžio keliai, HPstore.LT, Termikas, Peugeot, LXNAV, "Ekofrisa", "Schindler", "LAK", VĮ "Oro navigacija", Prienų rajono savivaldybė, Birštono rajono savivaldybė, Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Department of Physical Education and Sports under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, Ministry of National Defence Republic of Lithuania.

24/08/2017

All the interviews of championships you can find on our Youtube channel JWGC 2017. 1st place winner in standard class Sjoerd van Empelen talks about his experience in Lithuania just a day before winning the competition.

Leader in standard class (11th August) Dutch glider pilot Sjoerd van Empelen talks about his experience in championships that was quite challenging, but he m...

19/08/2017

Italian glider pilot Giacomo Dall'olio was the only italian in the competition. To be alone is not always very easy. Giacomo, you did a great job. Congrads :)

18/08/2017

This Junior world gliding championships was different from others because of the new system onglide that you could have watched live glider pilots fly every day. System was created by Martynas Bykovas and Melissa Andersson. They did such an important job and made all the experience of the competition much more exciting for everybody. Thank you, Martynas and Melissa!

The system: http://jwgc.onglide.com

18/08/2017

British glider pilot Finn Sleigh shares his ideas about the competition and how it felt to fly over Vilnius.

18/08/2017

We would like to thank all the tug pilots who did an important job during the competition. Without you there would not be any flights! You were super proffesional, thank you guys :)

Photos by Vismante Ruzgaite

17/08/2017

Glider pilot from Czech Republic Klára Teichmannová explains how it feels to be one of three girls in competition. Good job, Klára!

17/08/2017

Danish glider pilot Emil Dalboe has a another passion besides gliding. It is photography. We share his captured moments from the championships. Emil, thank you for sharing!

17/08/2017

2nd place winner in a standard class Lithuanian Ignas Bitinaitis excelled his goals in this competition. See how he managed to do that. Congradulations to Ignas!